Tag: 2026

Albertina Zarazúa Padilla, In The Shadows
Who or what are you living under the shadow of?

Dev Cuny (they/them), Assigned at Birth: My Funeral Part 1 (Excerpt)
What if the original script needed heavy rewrites? Blending humor, faith, pop culture, gender, and a spectacularly awkward ‘80s and ‘90s adolescence, Assigned at Birth is a funny and deeply personal solo show about the exhausting art of performing “normal.”

Maryclare McCauley, Dancing Through The Decades:  From The Jerk to the Dance of Shiva
It was in this child’s nature to move her body.  But the adults in her life were always asking her to stop, which seemed like an impossible request.  This is a story of how music and movement not only provided a young girl with a fun outlet, but through the years gave her a deeper understanding of how her body was meant to move!  “You gotta get up to get down!”

Daisy Crane, Modern Moral Mania
Daisy Crane graduated with a Master’s in Peace and Justice in May of 2020. Bright-eyed and full of wonder, she entered a burning, shelter-in-place world with no jobs, barely any coral reefs, and an onslaught of social upheaval that hasn’t stopped. Now that she’s bid farewell to her 20s, turned 30, and found the ground beneath her feet, she’s got a lot to say. 

Doug McKechnie has been an active participant in the Bay Area’s creative community for over four decades. A pioneer in live performance with the Moog synthesizer, McKechnie began creating scores for film, television and theater, creating soundtracks in 1974 with partner John A. Lewis. Also in the 1980s he created the San Francisco Synthesizer Ensemble creating the Golden Gate Bridge Anniversary Suite in 1987 for the bridge’s 50th Anniversary. Doug can be seen and heard often at the Wednesday Night Marsh Cabaret singing with the Craig and McGregor Band.

Albertina Zarazúa Padilla tells stories and dances to avenge her own silence, invisibility, and erasure as a living, breathing mujer luchadora. Albertina is the Co-founder and Director of Storytelling for MiHistoria and curator for its online story archive and workshop facilitator.

Dev Cuny (they/them) is a writer, performer, facilitator, and former hospice and hospital chaplain whose work explores gender, faith, belonging, and resilience through storytelling and humor. As an openly trans person who previously worked in ministry and spiritual care, Dev’s work bridges trauma-informed systems, restorative justice, and the power of personal narrative to create connection and healing. They have spoken nationally through conferences, media appearances, advocacy with the Born Perfect campaign, and a TEDx talk focused on identity, shame, and healing. Tonight, they share the first act of their solo show, Assigned at Birth.

Maryclare McCauley has written a half dozen one-woman shows that she has presented at festivals in San Francisco, Canada, and New York. Tell It On Tuesday and The Marsh were the first to give her the opportunity to try out and hone her storytelling talents. For this, she is very grateful and very honored to be sharing a new story tonight in celebration of TIOT’s 21st anniversary!

Daisy Crane was born and raised in Columbia, Missouri and now lives in Berkeley, California. Since graduating from college, she has been on an enthralling journey of exploring the connections between peacebuilding and the arts. Daisy is a professional oil painter, a performer, and she currently works for the Jewish Studio Project, a national nonprofit that builds creative capacity across the Jewish community.

Eddie Jen, Top GRRL (excerpt)
As America becomes ever more preoccupied with oppressing the “T” (Trans) in LGBT, San Francisco crossdressing comedy storyteller C.C. asks, “How come no one is talking about the straight men who pursue us carnally? What’s their story?”

Kimberlii Joy, Re-Membering Joy (excerpt)
“Re-membering joy” (with the hyphen) is more than remembering a joyful time in my life. It’s re-membering—putting broken pieces back together, bringing the forgotten pieces forward, and discovering the qualities that serve as the glue. It’s gathering the scattered parts of my journey and finding the cement I need to rebuild a home where I can embody joy again.

Anna Mistele, It’s Three O’Clock In the Morning and My Mom Is Trying to Kill Me
A story about love and also about running for my life.  

Kenji Costantini has appeared on stages all over the Bay Area. Most recently as Josh in Nine To Five at Clayton Theater Company and as Mendel in Fiddler On The Roof at Contra Costa Civic Theater. Kenji has also performed in operas. He played Pooh-Bah in The Mikado at SF State and holds a BA in Theater from Saint Mary’s College.

Eddie Jen is a gender bending writer and performer living in San Francisco. His/her voice is best described as David Sedaris meets Carrie Bradshaw, with a dash of RuPaul’s Drag Race. A storyteller who utilizes the performance of gender to enhance the visual storytelling experience, Eddie first started dressing up as a girl when he was sixteen, but has remained a terrible lip-syncher.

Kimberlli Joy has been weaving truth and humor into stories for as long as she can talk, but didn’t hit the stage until 2022. Now she is a regular on Bay Areas stages like Redwood Nights, Pretty Good Stories, About Last Night, Queen Stories, and Monday Night Marsh. Kimberlli Joy is currently working on her solo show, Re-Membering Joy.

Anna Mistele is a performer, writer, and producer based in San Francisco. These days, you’ll mostly find her doing improv: she teaches a free weekly drop-in improv class for all levels (let her know if you’re interested!) and is a founding member of longform narrative group Improv On Demand, whose formats range from Improvised Shakespeare to Improvised Grand Theft Auto. annamist.com

Irma Herrera, The ICEmen Cometh (excerpt)
The ICEmen Cometh critiques the Trump Regime’s full-frontal attack on immigrants, and how the brutality and cruelty of ICE agents as they catch, detain, disappear, and deport people is eroding the civil rights of everyone in the United States. 

Thomas Paul Wynn, Being Revived
After 39 years of incarceration, Thomas Wynn experiences the world through the five senses in his first 72 hours of freedom. 

Katie Macks, A New Kind of Evangelism
We’re taking a ride from the confines of the patriarchal world culture to the freedom that ensues when one does their own work to get unshackled and then liberated in the most unexpected places.

Jill Rogers is an artist, photographer, educator, songwriter, and musician. She is half of the experimental post-rock duo Ex-Juncos.

Irma Herrera was a civil rights lawyer and journalist for three-plus decades. Her performance pieces challenge the enduring power of xenophobia, racism, sexism, and other forms of prejudice. Her first solo show Why Would I Mispronounce My Own Name? is a personal narrative that explores othering and belonging and who is valued in this country. The play has been performed at theaters, colleges, and universities around the country.

Thomas Wynn was raised in New Jersey. After coming to California, he experienced mental illness at 21 and 22 and he went to prison for 39 years. Today he’s driven towards developing a community investment program that integrates intergenerational youth diversion with elderly returning citizens.

Katie Macks is an activist, life coach and storyteller devoted to justice. She has been working throughout her life to dismantle oppressive systems that marginalize and divide. Through coaching, she brings justice home into the relationship we have with ourselves. Through storytelling, she practices activism as medicine, using narrative to restore connection and collective healing.

Julie Feinstein, Dating Expert
What happens when a dating coach finds herself back in the game? A speed dating match leads to drinks and dinner and….  Come along as our heroine reveals her inner thoughts to his outer ones. How much can knowing what to advise others to do in similar situations help her in her own moments of doubt?

Bill Zarchy, A Chance Encounter
It’s not always obvious when it happens, but sometimes being in the right place at the right time can have life-changing consequences.

Barbara Brady, My Dead Uncle’s Porn Collection (excerpt)
Barbara has to clean out her “funny uncle’s” house. It’s a house full of secrets, and his porn isn’t the strangest one she finds.

A native Parisian, Odile Lavault has been performing accordion music in Europe and The Bay Area for over 40 years. She is co-founder of the legendary Parisian café music combo, Baguette Quartette. She has been featured in many theater and dance projects and has recorded ten albums. 

Julie Feinstein loves to tell true stories, from the stage, and on the page (real or digital). Her love of personal narrative is threaded through all of her work, from journalism to marketing consulting, to dating coaching, and portrait photography. She has an M.A. in Performance Art from San Francisco State University and she has engaged with many forms of improv, puppetry, and storytelling. Motherhood and other adventures took her away from the stage for a long time, and so she is excited to be back at The Marsh—the last time she debuted a solo piece at a Monday Night Marsh in San Francisco was in the ’90s!

Bill Zarchy is a writer, photographer, storyteller, and retired director of photography. His debut novel, Finding George Washington: A Time Travel Tale, has sold over 3000 copies. His memoir, Showdown at Shinagawa: Tales of Filming from Bombay to Brazil, chronicles his film work on six continents. He taught Advanced Cinematography and Lighting at San Francisco State for twelve years, and he is a graduate of the EPIC storytelling program at Stagebridge in Oakland. billzarchy.com

Following a long career in business communication, Barbara Brady discovered solo performance (like so many others) in David Ford’s class at The Marsh. What started as an attempt to blow off steam turned into two solo shows. She is a frequent performer at The Marsh and other Bay Area solo performance venues. She has also performed to laudatory reviews at Orlando International Theater Festival, Cincinnati Fringe, The Rogue Festival, Soaring Solos Stars Series and elsewhere. barbarabrady.com

Catherine Debon is a writer, performer and director who has been involved with the performance art scene since she immigrated from France in the mid 80’s. Originally a dancer, she weaves movement, narrative, and musicality when creating solos from personal stories.

After a long career as a registered nurse, Alma DeLeon has turned her focus to the arts as a poet, writer, comedian, performer, photographer, actor, and impressionist.

Harriett Jernigan is a 6-time winner of The Moth StorySLAM and has been featured on the Moth Radio Hour. She’s told stories at Radium Runway, Bawdy Storytelling, and Simply Said. She’s also the founder of First Person Story, a live storytelling show in Berkeley.

Natacha Ruck is endlessly curious about the world and what nurtures and motivates us. She is a producer at Tell It on Tuesday, has two hour-long shows that explore how family and work shape us. She loves chocolate and a well-told story.

Joshua Raoul Brody has been a regular at all The Marsh venues over its 30+ year history, collaborating with Merle Kessler, The Residents, A Karen Carpenter Xmas, Marga Gomez, Josh Kornbluth, Pulp Playhouse, and countless others, as well as doing his own work. He’s also done a bunch of other stuff. Drop him a line at mail@jraoul.org to be put on his mailing list, or just to say hi.