Tell it on Tuesday celebrates the expression of individual storytelling and solo performance. Coming together as a community to share works crafted by theater artists and storytellers, we provide an East Bay home to the solo performer.

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Producers:
Bridget Frederick, Rebecca Fisher

Advisory Committee: 
Charlie Varon, David Ford, Jeff Raz, Loni Gray

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Workshop Performance
April 15, 2008

STORYTELLERS

• Gigi Bisson “Adult Child of a Junkaholic Comes Home”
• Helen Curran, “The Summoner's Tale”
• Jean Gregory, “The Apple of Nobody’s Eye”
• Sally Holzman “Having The Last Word”
• Eric Larson, “Oh Boy, Oh Man”
• Sharon Noteboom, “And the People Cheered”
• Ann Riley, “MAGIC”
• Kristina Yates, “Snapshots”

A B O U T   T H E   S T O R Y T E L L E R S

Gigi Bisson spins true stories about the flip side of life (often in outrageous costumes) -- bridging the gap between traditional oral storytelling and the new, edgier "radical participatory" culture. Originally a journalist, she has performed with the Renegade Women/Unrepentant Men storytelling troupe, Porchlight, Memoir Spool, Sierra Storytelling Festival, Flambe Lounge and as a featured artist on the main stage at Burning Man Arts Festival in Nevada.

Helen Curran is a bilingual storyteller, who started telling in France, where she usually lives. In the Bay Area she tells traditional tales in her native language, English. She still has a funny accent as she comes from a small European Island not far from France.

Jean Gregory is a retired teacher currently working part time for Patten University monitoring student teachers in the teacher credential program. She has 30 years teaching experience in inner city schools in both Chicago and Oakland.

Sally Holzman started storytelling after retiring from the work world as a means of forestalling Alzheimer’s. She’s busy recommending this cure at Senior centers, on radio, festivals and story swaps. Sally is the founder of the Contra Costa Tale Spinner, member of the improve troop Antic- Wittys and Stagebridge storytellers.

Eric Larson used to be five, then ten, then sixteen, eighteen and twenty-one. These days, he's thirty and still not too sure of anything.

Sharon Noteboom, after teaching in San Francisco for 32 years, is now pursuing her other real interests. She began telling stories in the classroom, both personal and traditional, but thinks that this is much more fun.

Ann Riley enjoys telling stories at the Asian Art Museum, for Stagebridge, and for anyone who will sit still and listen. She is hoping to gather more stories on her '09 trip to Antarctica.

Kristina Yates is a Marriage and Family Therapist in Oakland, California, a storyteller with StageBridge, world traveler, foster mom for many temporarily homeless dogs, person of Pepper the Service, and she calls herself a psychiatric survivor (she survived psychiatry). She comes from proud poor Appalachia roots and received elocution lessons at the tender age of seven.

March 25, 2008

STORYTELLERS

• Selena Polston,“Jackpot”
• Doyle Ott,“Gone: Fishing”
• Elaine Stanley,"Adventure in History"
• Joshua Raoul Brody,"A Brief History Of Music, Paying Particular Attention to the Years 1966-1970, but Covering Everything Before And After”

A B O U T   T H E   S T O R Y T E L L E R S

Joshua Raoul Brody is best known as an accompanist for improvisational theater (BATS Improv, True Fiction Magazine, Three For All), but is also a composer and sound designer (Merle "Ian Shoales Kessler", Word For Word), tango pianist (Tango No. 9), and shameless name-dropper (Tom Waits, Robin Williams, Lily Tomlin, Nina Hagen, and Florence Henderson to name five).

Selena Polston is a social worker, social science researcher and public sector consultant who is newish to performance. Jackpot is her coming-of-age story with an emphasis on the coming. The story centers around a neurotic teenager, her sex therapist mother and a hapless boyfriend. It is too ridiculous to not be true. The piece was developed with W. Kamau Bell in San Francisco.

Doyle Ott has performed with Make A Circus, Lunatique Fantastique, Foolsfury, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and many other Bay Area theatre companies. In addition to performing, he serves as the director of the Fairyland Children's Theatre program and is on the theatre faculty at Sonoma State University. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Clown Conservatory and is a nationally recognized circus scholar.

Elaine Stanley - A Weaver of Stories for Head, Heart & Soul, has been a professional storyteller since 1994. A storyteller for all ages, and a graduate from the Dominican College Storytelling program. She delights in having fun with stories and people, and brings her gifts of story alive with her enthusiasm and energy.

February 26, 2008

Watchword Press partnership performance, curated by Liz Lisle

STORYTELLERS

• Daniel Bruno,“The Organist” By Evan Rehill
• Laley Lippard,“Help Wanted” By Cathy Rose
• Andy Alabran,“Up On The Roof” By Andrew Touhy
• Jessica Kitchens,“One Infinitesimally Small Moment of Time” by Tavia Stewart

A B O U T   T H E   S T O R Y T E L L E R S

Watchword Press is a nonprofit publishing house dedicated to producing, publishing, and disseminating cutting-edge literary works to a wide audience. We seek to publish emerging writers who are generally underrepresented by the larger, market-driven, commercial publishing houses. While we publish a variety of works, our main focuses are on emerging American writers and modern translations. Curator, Liz Lisle

Jessica Kitchens has been in the Bay Area for over two years, making theatre with the Shotgun Players, Elastic Future, foolsFURY, and Woman's Will. Currently, she can be seen in foolsFURY's production of "Monster in the Dark" and up next she will be performing in the world premiere of Kevin Fisher's "Monkey Room" at Magic Theatre.

Dan Bruno is an actor and musician. He is a company member with Shotgun Players, performs with Rough & Tumble, and plays drums for the best band of the decade, Six Eye Columbia. Dan also is a storyteller, working with elementary school kids through an organization called Soulshoppe.

Laley Lippard is a Bay Area director, performer, company member of foolsFURY Theater Company, and co-founder of Brave Trade Narrative. In the Bay Area, she has collaborated with A.C.T., Magic Theater, mugwumpin, Cutting Ball, Shotgun Players, TheaterWorks, Playwright's Foundation, and Z-Space Studios. Outside of the Bay Area, Lippard has worked with SITI Company, Arena Stage Company, Guthrie Theatre, Rorschach Theater, Woolly Mammoth Theater, Olney Center for the Arts, and Seaside Repertory Theater.

Andy Alabran is a writer and performer with the incredible comedy ensemble Killing My Lobster. When not lobstering he's also a company member of the Shotgun Players. Previous acting credits include: "Caucasian Chalk Circle", "The Miser", "The Death of Meyerhold", and "Mother Courage."

This 8-week workshop is for solo performers who have a written story in mind, whether previously performed or brand new. Designed to deepen the performer's relationship to the piece, the workshop will allow us to explore various aspects of the story using improvisation, movement, storyboard and character work. Each evening will consist of structured group and partner exercises, followed by individual time to share works-in-progress. Through our work together, participants will engage new artistic perspectives that inform and shape the story's development.

The workshop will culminate in a final performance on April 15th.

Created and facilitated by Rebecca Fisher and Bridget Frederick. For more information, please contact Rebecca@rebeccamfisher.com

We are limiting this class to 8 participants, so if you're interested, register soon!

Please contact Rebecca@rebeccamfisher.com for questions.

Cost $195
Thursdays, 7:00-10:00
February 7- April 10, 2008
*No Class March 27

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January 29, 2008

STORYTELLERS

• Sonya Wozniak, "One Night in Alameda"
• Leslie Beam,“Favorite Daughter”
• Stevie Lee Saxon,“Korean Badass”
• Enzo Lombard-Quintero,“Love, Humiliation and Karaoke”

A B O U T   T H E   S T O R Y T E L L E R S

Sonya Wozniak is a Bay Area writer, performer and teacher, all of which sounds more impressive than it is. She is an ardent believer in curiosity and compassion as two of the most important human values, even though those traits have led her into sticky (literally!) situations on more than one occasion.

Leslie Beam, active in the San Francisco theatre scene since 2004, wrote and performed the comedy-hit miss-matches.com which ran for eight months in 2006. She debuted her one act play Meeting Makers Make It in September of 2007. Favorite Daughter is one of several original pieces to be included in Leslie's upcoming full-length show. Collaborators include Jayne Wenger, W. Kamau Bell and David Ford.

Stevie Lee Saxton graduated with a degree in Dramatic Arts from The University of Kansas before acting and producing short films in Austin, Texas. He is currently one of only a handful of students who has graduated with a Masters in Fine Arts with emphasis in Acting at San Francisco's Academy of Art University.

Enzo Lombard-Quintero grew up in Baltimore's Little Italy in a very musical and theatrical family. Enzo sang professionally from age 7, appeared on children's television, studied acting in London and New York City, and has been a songwriter, documentary director, and travel columnist over the past 15 years. Enzo is currently producer of SoloHouse in San Francisco.