February 24, 2015

Stories

  • Leslie Scatchard, The Drama Queen excerpt
  • Gillian Summers, Hush
  • Richard Light, Parts and Poems of the Body
  • Gray, Nobody Asked Me

Music

Stuart Rosh, guitar and vocals


About the Performers

Leslie Scatchard has been performing for most of her life and especially loves telling true stories. She and her man, John, run a performance venue in Petaluma called Clear Heart where she directs children’s theater. Next up for Leslie is a new hour-long show called Leap, which is a bit more serious than The Drama Queen, but still shows Leslie’s penchant for finding the humorous in this crazy life.

Gillian Summers grew up in Liverpool, UK. She emigrated to the USA in 2001 from Australia. She developed Hush in collaboration with the Marsh’s David Ford and it is her first full-length solo play. Tonight she will be performing the opening 22 minutes of the play.

Richard Light is a native San Franciscan. He has studied theater, dance, music, Chinese medicine, and bodywork in the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City. This is his first solo theater piece and is grateful to be performing its first part at Tell It On Tuesday.

Gray is on a mission to love Existence (in all of its forms) with such wild abandon that she inspires in you the courage and enthusiasm to do the same.

Stuart Rosh’s music can be heard occasionally on public radio stations and in strange places like Kentucky Fried Chicken stores in England.  Under his legal name, Stuart Rojstaczer, he is mostly known as a novelist, geophysicist, and grade inflation expert. His novel, The Mathematician’s Shiva (Penguin Books), won the 2014 National Jewish Book Award for Outstanding Debut Fiction.

January 27, 2015

Stories

  • Penelope Whitney, Daredevil’s Guide to Parenting
  • Andre Le Mont Wilson, The Stage Crawler
  • Karin Werner, A Day in the Life   
  • Michael O’Brien, Any Questions?
  • Bridget Frederick, Evolution of Anger 

Music

Zendrum Flute Duo, with Laura Wiley and Eric Smith


About the Performers

Penelope Whitney is married to an Italian and has learned the hard way that you’ve got to salt the water before adding the pasta. She often performs at Fireside Storytelling in San Francisco and is delighted to be at Tell it on Tuesday for the first time.  

Andre Le Mont Wilson has performed stories at The Moth, The Shout, Fireside, The Bay Area Storytelling Festival, and Monday Night Marsh. Over the last few years Andre has been published in the online disability literary journal Wordgathering and the Marin Poetry Center Press’s Changing Harm to Harmony.

Karin Werner began a life long love affair with stories when she received her first library card in Cody, Wyoming. Many library cards later, she reaches back into myth and memory to create her personal style. Karin serves as Board Chair for the Storytelling Association of California.  

Michael O’Brien is a San Francisco-based improviser, actor, writer, original member of the National Theatre of the Deranged and co-creator of “Tips on Travel with Karl and Carl.” Michael’s credits include solo and ensemble performances at the Marsh, the Throckmorton Theatre and the Holy City Zoo.

Bridget Frederick is getting ready for the Rogue Festival in Fresno. Evolution of Anger has been spinning its way through her head over the last year, and may continue to spin for some time to come. Bridget is the co-producer of Tell it on Tuesday, and she teaches yoga full time in the East Bay. Website: bridget-yoga.com

Eric Smith is a musician, producer and recording artist with Edgetone Records and has worked with Brian Eno, Madonna, Warren Zevon, Mickey Hart among others. Website: edoctorsmith.comLaura Wiley is a jazz flutist and singer who performs with many different groups in the Bay Area. Website: www.lauraaustinwiley.com.