November 9 & 23

Zoe Kat 
Elder Ho vs Medical Sexism…Culmination

Show Description:Elder Ho has lived within a medicalized body and as a result has information to give to the masses. Breast cancer treatments have chipped away at her sexual self but there is hope on the horizon. This multimedia show creates a way for the audience to understand a slippery tale of one woman’s pleasure.

Artist Biography: Zoe Mork, a longtime resident of San Francisco, is a multidisciplinary artist and performer with a career deeply rooted in the Bay Area’s vibrant creative and queer communities. As a writer and performer, Zoe explores complex themes around disability, sexuality, and resilience. She has been a sex worker for over 20 years and shares her insights through published work, with her writing featured in SF MOMA Open Space blog, Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year: Volume 2, and A Whore’s Manifesto. Zoe is also an accomplished visual artist, regularly participating in local artist community initiatives, and she channels her creativity into singing with the Queer Chorus of San Francisco. Her comedic voice shines in open mic arenas around the city, where her humor brings a bold, authentic perspective to audiences.

Max Langert
Technology is Hard

Show Description: Returning to the scene of the crime, Max recounts the night he and his father attended a sold-out show at the Marsh and committed theater’s greatest sin: letting a cellphone ring with zero idea how to turn it off. It’s every audience member’s nightmare (and every performer’s too)—and feels significantly funnier now that it’s behind him.

Artist Biography: Max is a playwright, producer, and storyteller born and raised in Oakland. His plays have been staged in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Dallas, and beyond, and a film adaptation of his play A Million More to Go premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2025. He has shared stories on stages including Risk!, Listen to Your Mother, Testify, and the Vancouver Story Slam. Max is also the founder of elderspark, an initiative bringing live music and storytelling to seniors.

Tony Cyprien
I’m Working on That…

Show Description: From sneaking away from his grandmother as a kid to build custom bikes with neighborhood kids to earning his welding certification behind bars, Tony Cyprien has always possessed a drive to build. But after returning home, he faces a crushing reality: the union doesn’t recognize his prison welding certification. Forced to start back at square one, Tony takes on an unpredictable series of entry-level hustles—from playing handyman for a Nordic sink salesman to directing traffic at the Oakland Coliseum and managing food carts at the airport. I’m Working On That is a funny, sharp, and deeply human look at navigating low-paying jobs, wild customers, and the stubborn determination it takes to rebuild a life and workforce identity one step at a time.

November 16 & 30

Evelyn Jean Pine
The Fold

Show Description: “The Fold: a  well-mannered mom who practices origami, yoga, and “community” is unnerved when she keeps walking by people on the street who are folded, frozen over into what looks like the yoga posture, Uttanasana.  With the help of the audience, she unpacks the history, meaning and impact of “the fentanyl fold.”

Artist Biography: Evelyn Jean Pine is a playwright, librettist, performer and poet. Her one-woman show, _Freeloader in the House of Love_, directed by Charlie Varon, won the “Most Compelling Story” prize at the Boulder Fringe and is published in _Wild Garlic_.  Her play, _Oakland 1982: You, Me and Rickey_ is the first drama published in the baseball journal, _The Twin Bill_. _The Invisible Project_, written with Katja Rivera, launched the Bay Area’s Latinx Mafia’s Staged Reading series. Her short opera, _nada_, written with Norwegian/Finnish composer, Tze Yeung Ho, premiered at Strange Trace Opera’s Stencils Festival. A June Ann Baker Award winner, she is a PlayGround-SF alum.  Her poetry is published in the Gunpowder Press anthology, _Women In A Golden State_, as well as _Pulp_, _Fourth Wave_, _Scrittura_, _Paper Poetry_, _Crow’s Feet_, _The Lark_ and _Ain’t No Crime in Rhymin’_.

Jane Gire
I Hear Voices

Show Description:Everyone has questions for Jane: When will you retire? Where will you live? What’s the plan? In “I Hear Voices,” she answers with honesty and humor, admitting that she doesn’t have a tidy response. Her piece moves from a farewell gathering of high school friends, where talk of retirement travel sent her to the kitchen, to the louder voices that arrive at 3:00 a.m.: regret, worry, and the question of where the money went. Along the way she considers mobile home parks, get-rich-quick videos, and a lottery algorithm that held her attention for twelve minutes. Then come the voices of aging, from hip replacements and hormone therapy to campfire conversations about medications and midnight bathroom trips, and finally the voices that talk about death. Threaded with her father’s dying advice to travel while you can, it is a funny, unguarded look at the anxieties many of us share and rarely say aloud. Part memoir, part confession, it asks what we owe our future selves, and what happens when the future arrives before we’re ready.

Artist Biography: Jane is originally from Michigan where she studied theater at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. After college Jane moved to Chicago to ‘make it big’; in comedy where she was side-tracked by her involvement in Greenpeace and falling in love, and ended up in San Francisco in the early 90’s. Her last performance was a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival for 10 Days at the lovely Caves in the late Summer of 2024. She continues studying solo performance, writing, singing, and increasing her opportunities to share her points of view on life with live audiences.

Jos Eckert
Loneliness & Cigarettes

Show Description: ‘Loneliness & Cigarettes’ is an intimate indie folk song written in the aftermath of a breakup, tracing how loneliness lingers long after someone is gone. Drawing on research that compares loneliness to the effects of smoking, the piece turns that idea inward—using imagery of breath, smoke, and residue to show how absence can feel physical, something that clings to you. As the song unfolds, it moves between memory, imagination, and modern forms of connection, including references to artificial intelligence and the 2013 film ‘Her’, where intimacy exists without presence. At its core, it’s a quiet confrontation with the fear that what we feel might not be real—or worse, that it might be all we have left.

Artist Biography: Portuguese-born, California-based singer-songwriter Jos Eckert writes intimate indie folk/pop songs that blur the line between personal reflection and broader emotional themes. His work is rooted in overthinking—using songwriting as a way to sit with, question, and make sense of feelings that don’t easily resolve.

December 7 & 21

Sean Geary
I Played Barbies with Julie

Show Description: A gay man’s journey of discovery and friendship with a dash of television nostalgia.

Artist Biography: Sean Geary is an improvisor in the Bay Area scene, but this is only the second script he’s ever written. He’s a personal trainer by trade and lives on the peninsula with his husband and two cats.

Allan Pleaner
It’s the Small Things

Show Description:Fifty years resisting authoritarians .. from an ICE vigil at a Home Depot parking lot to the suburbs of Johannesburg .. it’s the small things that really matter !

Artist Biography: Along with story-telling, Allan does woodturning, collage and magic illusions and works as a psychotherapist. He lives in San Francisco and is about to cross the threshold to grandfatherhood.

Andrea Mock
The Black Hole of Capitalism

Show Description: Embryo choreographer Mock fights the Bay Area’s Artist Industrial Complex. Fresh out of the UC Santa Cruz dance department, Mock is ready to bite the capitalistic hand that’s fed her. But when she forms a modern dance company, it’s money vs. her penniless boyfriend vs. her need to create ART. Will love or capitalism win out in this comedic performance?

THE BLACK HOLE OF CAPITALISM is Act 3 of a new full-length play, DELUSIONAL.

Artist Biography: Born and bred in the farming community of Porterville, CA, Mock received four creative grants from the Flora and William Hewlett and Zellerbach Foundations. As playwright-in-residence from 1996 to 2002 at the Speakeasy Theater, Mock had five plays produced: SURVIVAL OF THE WEIRDEST, FIRST TIME, BRAIN_IN_A_BOX, JANE AUSTEN IN BERKELEY, and AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT. In 2015, with funding from an ODC SF grant, she crafted two dances using scriptwriting techniques. The resulting pieces won ODC San Francisco’s “Take 5” choreography competition. “Call Me Ishwhale” became the finale of her fifth play, THE MOBY DICK DIARIES, shown at the Marsh, Exit Theater, and The Garage SF.  Another solo show, RIVER RAT CLUB, was performed at Berkeley’s Waterfront Playhouse. Mock’s sixth solo show, THE AGED OF AQUARIUS, was performed at the 2023 SF Fringe Festival and the Monkey House in Berkeley as a fundraiser for Flip the Vote during the run-up to the 2023 presidential election.

December 14 & 28

*Mini Performance*
Sanjit Sengupta
Ivy and Daddy

Show Description: A single father explains the harsh realities of life to his 8-year-old daughter.

Artist Biography: Playwright Sanjit Sengupta will direct this 15-minute play in collaboration with two local Bay Area actors, Reginald Wilkins, and his granddaughter, Cali Roberts. Sanjit’s short plays, Dance With Me, and Shoeshine Chemistry, were performed live in Monday Night Marsh in September 2025 and February 2026 respectively.

Debi Mason
Porch Songs: Night Blooming Jasmine & Fig Trees

Show Description: Imagine, if you will, growing up poor and black during the depression in the middle of the Arizona desert. Porch Songs are my mama’s stories told to me while I was her caregiver in the final year of her life. She would spend hours bringing to my memory that old, white wood framed house that seemed to hold the stories of the Oby family in every creaking board of the front porch. This meager house was veiled in the petite flowers of night blooming jasmine that had a welcoming fragrance for any weary traveler looking for a cool spot to rest a spell.  Ancient shading fig trees with their twisted trunks and branches kept the family gathering place cool during the hot summer months.

Artist Biography: Playwright, director, storyteller and activist with more than 40 years of experience in the arts campaigning for equity and representation for artists and creatives of color across most genres. She is the founder of Oby House Tellers and a founding former member of the Black Storytellers of San Diego. Her stories include African folktales and original tales for children, spiritual poems and verse for women of color and uses the art of story to bridge gaps among people of color, diverse religions, ethnicities and ages. Debi is also the current president of the Berkeley Branch of the California Writers Club and a member of SAC (Storytelling Association of California).

Reginald Wilkins
An Ideal, Plain

Show Description: A runaway slave runs from the slave patrols, complete with helicopters and dogs barking. What happens when he runs into a modern day young Black man?

Artist Biography: Reginald Wilkins performs on stage. He is a voice-over artist, painter, woodworker, and playwright. He really enjoys creating.

Jenn Castro
Proprioception

Show Description: Lucille does the details: fixes the breakfast, chooses the bathroom tiles, tightens the cabinet door hinges. Meanwhile her husband Mark lives carefree. When Mark has a mishap and lands in a wheelchair, Lucille regrets she’s not living a fantastic life; should she have gone to Thailand? After Mark commits a reckless act, Lucille gets unhinged herself – confronting her wedding vows, revisiting her past life, and questioning her choice to get married at all. What does for better or worse mean, and what will Lucille accept to stay married?

Artist Biography: Jenn Castro is a playwright and fiction writer living in the Bay Area. A reading of Proprioception, her debut play, was produced in May by Greenhouse 2026. Her work has been published in Transfer Magazine and Voices, and she’s the author of MOM-ME a kid picture book. Jenn needs to start submitting her work! She just completed her MFA from SFSU and served there as a fiction editor for Fourteen Hills: SFSU Review. She holds a BA in Women’s Studies from UMass and a teaching credential from SJSU. Jenn writes about aging bodies, aging relationships, and young adults growing up.

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