Stories
- Sheila Stanfield, Connective Tissue
- Kurt Bodden, Craigslist Diaries
- Jan Goodman, The Kiss
- Jill Vice, A Fatal Step
Music
Vanessa Lowe, singer/songwriter/guitarist
About the Performers
Sheila Stanfield is a vocalist, voice teacher, writer and performer living the life of an intrepid optimist in the small town of Sonoma, where many know her name, her singing through life, her disappointments, her hopes and her dreams coming true. She loves to explore the clarity of her voice writing and performing her one-woman shows.
Kurt Bodden’s last solo show, a self-help satire called Steve Seabrook: Better Than You ran for six months at the Marsh. He has performed improv, standup, sketch comedy, and storytelling from the Edinburgh Fringe to the motel bars of Montana. Formerly an industrial designer, he’s now branching into User Experience Design (it’s a thing).
Jan M Goodman retired a year ago after 41 years of service in public education. Finally, she had time to more deeply pursue her interests in the performing arts, particularly storytelling, improvisation, and singing. The Kiss is a tale of obstacles faced on her path to love and romance during the Sixties.
Jill Vice is not only an actress, but a director and acting coach for many new and unusual solo shows (Elaine Magree’s Holding the Edge, Rebecca Fisher’s The Magnificence of the Disaster, Lisa Rothman’s Date Night at Pet Emergency and Marga Gomez’s Pound to name a few). Her previous one-woman show, Tipped & Tipsy was praised by critics and audiences for its performances at the 2013 San Francisco Fringe Festival where it won Best of Fest. Tipped & Tipsy went on to have an extended run at the Marsh in San Francisco and has been touring the United States and Canada ever since. JillVice.com
Vanessa Lowe has released 5 CDs of original music. Aside from being a performing singer/songwriter/guitarist, Lowe is an independent radio producer and mother to Finn, her own personal tree sprite. The East Bay Express pegged Lowe’s music as “dream-pop-meets-indie-folk”, and she doesn’t object to that description. www.vanessalowe.com