Stories
- Mick Renner, Adapt
- Irma Herrera, Tell Me Your Name
- Toni Weingarten, Babe in the Hollywoods
- Bradley Paterson, Lack
- Pearl Louise, Shame the Devil and Pass the Nails
Music
Kadie Kelly (piano) Suzanne Yada (violin) and Ward Spangler (waterphone)
About the Performers
Mick Renner has been a professor of English, a technical writer, and an actor. In the Bay Area, he produced plays for Power Mad Productions; and he performed at the Berkeley Rep, Berkeley Shakes, and Eureka theatres. Adapt, which is set in the future, is the second full-length solo performance he has developed with David Ford. www.mickrenner.com.
Irma Herrera, a social justice activist, has spent three decades as a public interest lawyer, and a handful of years working as a journalist. A native of South Texas, she has resided in the Bay Area since 1980. She is now a playwright and solo performer of her one-woman show, Tell Me Your Name. www.irmaherrera.com
Toni Weingarten has written for TV news and magazine shows, documentaries, corporate videos, interactive CD-ROM, newspapers articles and essays. But these days she’s happiest when she delivers her words in person to real live people, like you!
Bradley Paterson is a writer and solo performer based in San Francisco.
Pearl Louise: What can I say about me?… Well I like to perform and I found Mr. Ford, the best teacher ever, and he helped me with my plays and now I am here. YASSSSSS!
Kadie Kelly is a Bay Area pianist and teacher, inspired by storytellers and the piano music of Bach, Yann Tiersen, Helen Jane Long, Ludovico Einaudi, and Enya. Accompanied by Suzanne Yada (violin) and Ward Spangler (waterphone).