Stories
- Wynd Kaufmyn, The Betrayal That is Not Divorce
- Ashley Jaye, Channel BPD
- Abe Bernstein, Too Old To Feel This Young
- Marie O’Donnell, Hide the Booze, the Family’s Comin’ Over
Music
Mimi Heft & Joe Christiano, Guitar and Vocals
About the Performers
Wynd Kaufmyn, a Jewish girl from Detroit, moved to the Bay Area in 1979 to do the graduate work at UC Berkeley in Mechanical Engineering. Since then she has become (in this order) a Christian, a mother, faculty at City College of San Francisco, a wife, a non-violent activist, an anti-Zionist, a divorcee, Vice President of her union local. She wants to be an artist when she grows up.
Ashley Jaye is a Social Media Marketer by day, solo performer and actress by night. She hilariously highlights the complex racial, sexual, societal, and cultural intersections of mental illness for Black Women through original works including Dee Pearson is (more than) a Bully and A Spike Lee Joint. theashleyjaye.com
Abe Bernstein is an actor, improviser, solo performer, and storyteller. His most recent stage roles were as Mortimer in The Fantasticks, Herr Schultz in Cabaret, Stevenson in Fahrenheit 451, and Man in Here We Go. For ten years he was in Stagebridge’s Playback Theatre Troupe.
Marie O’Donnell originally hails from Detroit, Michigan and has lived in San Francisco for the past 9 years, performing at various Bay Area theatres. Prior to that, she performed in comedy shows in L.A. and was a regular performer on “Late Night With David Letterman” in NY. She also went to school with Madonna, who would barely talk to her, but they were in separate departments, so it’s very understandable.