Tag: 2016

Stories

• David Caggiano, Gangsters in Freaky Land
• Eliza Gibson, Bravo 25
• Jeanne Haynes, My Mrs. Witte
• Doug Cordell, The Accidental Cop (Part 1)

Music

Randy Craig (Piano) and Wayne Harris (Vocals)

David Caggiano is a playwright and solo performer. David’s plays include: Walk Like A Man (Noh Space) and one-acts: The Arrival, The Tinker, and The Prophet (Soma Theatre). David’s solo show, Jurassic Ark, won Best of San Francisco Fringe 2012, ran for 5 weeks at the EXIT Theater, and sold out shows at the Edmonton Fringe.

Eliza Gibson is a writer and solo performer based in San Francisco. 

Jeanne Haynes celebrates her 20th anniversary as a storyteller with tonight’s performance. Impassioned by a Stagebridge storytelling seminar in November 1996, she abandoned her media relations business for performance venues ranging from Children’s Fairyland to Bay Area and SF Theater Festivals, and SF Brava. A schools resident artist, she has taught some 3,500 youth.  Her adult students number 400+ thru ongoing Stagebridge classes, plus private performance coaching. jeannehaynes.com

Doug Cordell is an Emmy-nominated writer, solo performer and public radio storyteller on Snap Judgment and Marketplace. 

Randy Craig has been around too long and written far too many scores for theater and film, but he still does it despite better judgment. Come see his band at The Marsh Cabaret in Berkeley on Wednesday nights. Randy always finds it a pleasure to work and hang with Wayne Harris, a musician, singer, solo performer and teacher who graces the TIOT stage regularly with stories and music.

Stories

• Albertina Padilla, Me and the Robin
• Sally Holzman, Grandma’s Golem
• Kiran Rana, Early Stories of Krishna, the God Made of Love
• Jeff Byers, Viskovitz, Dung Beetle
• Linda Wright, The Man on Liberty Street
• Harry Santi, Songs Have Been an Important Part of my Life

Music

Karin Sellinger, acoustic guitar

Albertina Padilla hails from the Central Coast of California. She loves long walks and hearing stories. Lots and lots of stories.

A newspaper ad brought Sally Holzman to the Stagebridge storytelling program. The experience of creating personal stories and the challenge of recreating the stories of others has enriched her retirement and hopefully brought joy to a wide range of listeners. 

Kiran Rana is a Sufi teacher and musician who, in the last year, has found great joy in telling stories that bring different parts of the world together.

Jeff Byers tells stories at the Asian Art Museum, on various Bay Area stages, and in classrooms, kindergarten through college. He’s appeared numerous times at Tell It On Tuesday and is happy to be back with colleagues from Stagebridge.

Linda Wright is a passionate and talented storyteller. She tells mesmerizing tales from around the world at museums, libraries, schools and daycare centers. lindadwright.com

Harry Santi has always loved entertaining and telling stories.

Karen Sellinger to is a local classical guitarist who loves to offer her music to add a touch of warmth and elegance to any gathering.
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Stories

• Sheila Stanfield, Connective Tissue
• Kurt Bodden, Craigslist Diaries
• Jan Goodman, The Kiss
• Jill Vice, A Fatal Step

Music

Vanessa Lowe, singer/songwriter/guitarist

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

Stories

• Bruce Pachtman, So When Did You Start Speaking in the 3rd Person?
• Liz Nichols, Spirited Away: Shivery Tales for Hot Summer Nights
• Stacy Andrade, Tee-Vee
• Wayne Harris, Into Palestine (excerpt)

Music

Sandra Wieder (guitar, vocals) with Richard Owen (harmonica): singer/songwriter tunes

Born in the Bronx, Liz Nichols got lost in the Folklore & Mythology section of the public library at age ten and hasn’t found her way out yet! Bringing her teaching and cross-cultural background to storytelling, she’s enchanted audiences of all ages from SF’s Asian Art Museum to the Washington Folklore Festival. She’s a Master Trainer in TimeSlips Creative Storytelling for people with memory loss, and former Director of Storytelling Programs at Stagebridge. www.liznichols.net.

Bruce Pachtman co-wrote So When Did You Start Speaking in the 3rd Person? with W. Kamau Bell, and Kenny Yun provided acting coaching. Bruce’s first solo show, Don’t Make Me Look Too Psychotic, was developed with Club Solo and directed by W. Kamau Bell. It ran for 300 performances in SF, Philadelphia and LA.

Stacy Andrade has been a Bay Area performer for almost thirty years of stand-up, improv, plays, and voice-overs. She’s written a book of short stories, and book two is due out next year. She’s also working on a one-woman show that will preview in 2017, and she wrote and performed a short film that’s available on her website: staceyandrade.yolasite.com.

Wayne Harris is an award winning solo performer, writer, educator, curriculum innovator and musician. A gifted artist with wide ranging interests, he has accumulated an impressive body of work over the years that includes 5 full length plays, presentations for schools, directing and designing for pageantry groups as well as various musical projects. Wayne is also the director of The Marsh Youth Theater.

Sandra Wieder is a prolific writer and performer of original and unique songs that delight and touch audiences with beautiful melodies and heartfelt, poetic lyrics.

Stories

• Jeremy Greco, Keeping Up With the Jorgensons 
• Mark McGoldrick, The Golden Hammer, Wounds, Booze, Forgotten Misconduct
• Patricia Farrell, Hostage
• Ruth Halpern, Grandma Elsie Loves Lists

Music

Boundless Gratitude: guitar and vocals, musical storytelling

Jeremy Greco’s first solo show, With Held, played at the the SF Fringe Festival, as part of the Marsh Rising Series, and at the Marin Fringe Festival, where Greco won a Best Actor award for his portrayal of mail artist John Held, Jr.

For a day job, Mark McGoldrick has worked as a Public Defender in Alameda County for over 20 years, representing poor people enmeshed in the criminal justice system. He has staged two full-length performance pieces at The Marsh: Countercoup (2007) and The Golden Hammer (2005). He is currently re-mounting The Golden Hammer. On the side, he likes to go places and do stuff, eat dinner with his wife and watch his kids grow.

Patricia Farrell is creating a solo musical play called Hostage. She has performed as a clown, singer/songwriter and gamelan musician. She used to create animated musical stories for children. In 2013, she released an album of songs entitled Yes and No.

Ruth Halpern has been a professional spoken word performer for over 20 years. In addition to personal stories, she tells traditional folktales, and improvised stories made up on the spot. She hopes that at the end of her story, you’ll say, “Oh, Ruthie dear, that was so stimulating!”

Boundless Gratitude is a grandfather who used to entertain his children with homespun musical stories. When his children grew up and moved out, he had to learn to tune his guitar so that he could play for other people, which he has been doing for about seventeen years now. He has written about a hundred original pieces and about the same number of interpretations of various standards, mostly ballads, and continues to study music. He is just completing a major creative project that has kept him away from performing for the last three years, and is also in the process of re-interpreting, re-recording and re-issuing a number of his earlier works.

Stories

• Howard Petrick, V.R. Dunne (excerpt)
• Phil Surkis, I’ll Try It For A Year
• Marion Lovinger, To be or not to be, telle est la question!
• Erica Lann-Clark, Grandpa and the Nazis

Music

Stuart Rosh, guitar and vocals

This is Howard Petrick’s third show about his life in the 1960s. His critically acclaimed Breaking Rank and Never Own Anything You Have to Paint or Feed have been performed at twenty-eight theater festivals throughout North America. He has been performing since 2008 and is glad to be back at Tell It On Tuesday.

Phil Surkis is a comedian, solo performer and a producer. He regularly performs in the Solo Sundays series at Stage Werx. He both produces and performs at his comedy showcase, Grey Matter, and he is a producer on W. Kamau Bell’s talk show, Kamau Right Now!

When Marion Lovinger came from Paris to San Francisco 18 years ago, she did not imagine that one day she would be performing her own writing in English. Her background was in theater and she was used to a text provided and partners to rehearse with. Thanks to the Marsh, she discovered what she wanted the most in life: to make people laugh. And that you do not need an extraordinary life to have something to say.

Erica Lann-Clark is a storyteller, solo performer, writer and teacher.  She’s performed across the country from NYC to LA to Jonesborough, Tennessee to right here tonight. She worked as Director of Storytelling for Stagebridge from 2000 to 2006. She’s teaming up tonight with Asaf Ophir, a woodwind player. In Israel, Asaf played in musicals and in klezmer bands. In the Bay Area, Asaf plays in jazz and klezmer bands and accompanies Erica’s Jewish stories.

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.

Stories

• Diane Barnes, My Stroke of Luck
• Tiffany Doesken, Just Like A Woman
• Elaine Magree, Holding the Edge
• Terry Stokes, Bump in the Night

Music

A Few Guys Playing Music: acoustic blues, bluegrass, and Americana

Diane Barnes is an actor and performer of solo work. Meisner trained, she also completed ACT Summer Training Congress, and studied with Anna Deveare Smith. In her first incarnation, she was a physician specializing in diagnostic radiology.

Tiffany Doesken was born and raised in San Francisco into a “non-traditional family”, which taught her to have an acceptance of the unusual. She received an MFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute. Her films have screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival, New York Anthology Film Archives, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and many more both in the US and Internationally. She is currently working on a stop-motion animation film and writing solo-performance work.

Elaine Magree’s work has been seen at The Marsh, The Magic Theatre, The Working Women’s Theatre Festival, Brava, The People’s Theatre Festival, The National Women’s Theatre Festival and the 54th St Theatre in New York. She has taught theatre at community colleges, The East Bay Center for the Performing Arts and in homeless shelters, recovery programs, and women’s prison.

Terry Stokes began storytelling when he told his first alibi. He grew up listening to his father telling stories, and eventually turned in a 30 year career as an Editor in Hollywood—refining the art of cinematic storytelling by splicing bits of film together. He retired, moved to El Cerrito in 2006, and his wife encouraged him to switch to the other side of the lens, get up on his feet, and start telling stories to live audiences. Once again, he’s very pleased and honored to be back at T.I.O.T. in front of one of the best audiences in the Bay Area.

A Few Guys Playing Music is made up of Jared Karol, Sean Dougan, and Scott Underwood. Jared is a fingerstyle blues and bluegrass guitarist, and more recently a bass player in, of all things, a reggae band. He used to play in Sound of Sirens, a Marin-based Americana band, where he met Scott, an outstanding bass player who has been playing in the Bay Area for decades. Sean is a mandolin and guitar player who used to play regularly in the Bay Area and Lake Tahoe music scenes. Jared and Sean have played far and wide together, most notably in Jared’s basement and Sean’s living room.

Stories

• Ron Jones, Naked Zombie
• Rebecca Fisher, The Magnificence of the Disaster
• Bárbara Selfridge, Stalking Grace
• Ellen Kaufman, 1984 

Music

Rachel Efron: singer/songwriter/pianist

Ron Jones lives in San Francisco where he shares his life with wife Deanna, grandchildren, and a basement full of books. He has authored a dozen books three of which have been made into feature film, TV specials, and theatric plays performed internationally. He loves basketball, breakfast at Mel’s with friends, and being with his grandchildren. www.ronjoneswriter.com 

Rebecca Fisher is a director, producer and performer of solo work. She has directed shows at The Exit, SF Fringe Festival and The Marsh. She recently created the Marsh Writing Cabaret which is on the second Tuesday of every month. She is excited about performing at TIOT, a series she co-created and continues to co-produce. 

Bárbara Selfridge will always be a Grace Paley protegée, but she’s left the short story. Now she writes and performs solo pieces, which is a million times harder and not that different. See her this year at Fringe Festivals in Fresno, Winnipeg and Chicago, performing either Stalking Grace or Zero Tolerance: Sex, Math and Seizures.

Ellen Kaufman is now happily “rewired” after spending 40 years working in the health care industry. Although she’s been telling stories for years, she discovered storytelling as an art form in 2014 and finds it thrilling to explore her past through this creative lens.

Rachel Efron is an Oakland-based singer/songwriter/pianist who offers a refreshingly new take on the classic song form. Her melodies captivate, her chord progressions have momentum born from deep-seated sensibilities in both the genres of classical and jazz, and her lyrics offer what we long for in any artist: intimate access to a wildly distinct experience of the world.

Stories

• Beth McLaughlin, Cocky
• Liz Macera, I’ve Accepted Everyone’s Death but My Own
• Andre LeMont Wilson, The Black Dude Dies First
• Scott Sanders, Apophenia, The Donner Party & Me
• Leslie Scatchard, Leap

Music

Captain Heat and the Nightshades: instrumental blend of jazzy blues and country funk

Beth McLaughlin is a writer and performer of two original full-length works, and several smaller pieces, with a background in theater and improvisation.

Liz Macera, drawing on over 40 years of experience as a nurse, explores the heartbreaks, antics, and taboos surrounding the one event waiting for us all. Liz currently works as a palliative care nurse practitioner. With this piece she hopes to open discussion about death and dying.

Andre Le Mont Wilson performs stories at festivals, story swaps, and open mics throughout the Bay Area. In The Black Dude Dies First, Wilson recounts his first performance on stage in a grammar school’s Bicentennial production in which, you know.… He is honored to perform at Tell It On Tuesday.

Scott Sanders is an ex-actor / ex-New Yorker who moved to the left coast 15 years ago and is still wrestling with cross-cultural challenges. Scott introduced graffiti / urban tagging to the Inner Mongolian territories. He’s scored multiple StorySLAM wins at The Moth and told tales for NPR’s Snap Judgement, Fireside, Porchlight, BustingOut Storytelling and LitQuake and multiple Moth Mainstage events. 

Leslie Scatchard grew up in a family where the ability to tell a funny story about your day was a valued asset at the dinner table. She went on to spend twenty years acting on stage, and found a perfect marriage of these two talents in creating and performing solo shows. Leslie is a regular at West Side Stories, a storytelling venue in Petaluma.