Joyful Raven Studios
Class Performance Showcase
In Person at The Marsh Berkeley Theater
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 7:30 pm
Ticket Information
Tickets: $10 – $35 General Seating sliding scale | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
Please do not bring infants to the show
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About The Show & Artists
Six fierce artists are in the midst of developing full-length solo shows (and one multiple person play!) Each evening will showcase three 20-minute excerpts of bold and vibrant new work. Come be part of the birth!
Featuring on December 4th
Robyn DeGuzman (she/they)
Title: Enough Free (excerpt)
Blurb: A Filipina in the New World is stupefied that she has grown weary of October – which is Filipino American History Month! What weird things can she take up to distract herself from her colonial wound?
Liz Fox (she/her)
Title: Reporting from Motherhood
Blurb: This is the story about how Liz Fox, a radical feminist, got duped into becoming a housewife in the Berkeley Hills.
Abbey Glover (she/her)
Title: I’m a Businessman, Man
Blurb: Abbey is on a quest to become the ultimate businessman. There are just a few things she has to change about herself before she can fit in, but how hard can it be?
Featuring on December 11th
Judith Linzer (she/her)
Title: Us and Them: Do I have to hate you in order to love us? Or should I just hate everyone?
Blurb: Can we overcome hatred and get along or should we just keep hating and killing each other? What do you think? Religions are supposed to be about loving each other but it often doesn’t seem to work out that way. Why is that? Oh yes because people are involved. We all have our beliefs and know for sure that we are right, right? Hate and self-righteousness have been going on for a long time. Why stop now?
This is the beginning of a full length show and is top heavy about Christian anti-Semitism showing how much Jews are traumatized. The rest of the show will be about how that trauma is being taken out on the Palestinians. Sometimes what goes around doesn’t come around, sometimes it goes sideways.
Claire Elliott (she/her)
Title: Nice Guy
Blurb: When a recent college grad and theatre major, armed with righteous ideals about social justice, has a chance encounter with Ed Kemper, the “Co-Ed Killer,” her ideas about justice, redemption, and human goodness are thrown into chaos. Does she have more in common with Ed than with his college-aged victims? Why do people hurt each other? And why do sex and intimacy create both deep connection and profound disorder in the human psyche? Years later, after a particularly complicated breakup and as the world itself seems to fracture—amid ongoing stories of sexual and political violence against women in the wake of #MeToo—she finds herself asking: What the Fck Is Going On?* In culture, in society, and in our most intimate relationships. To find answers, she returns to the beginning: the origins of Western culture and entertainment, where women were central as subjects yet barred from the stage, from politics, and from positions of power in arts and society. Through ritual, pop music, dance, and a full Greek chorus (of course), she confronts both the external and internal forces that oppress the feminine—and begins to rewrite the story.
Holly Shaw (she/her)
Title Roar!
Blurb: How well do you truly know someone? After her boyfriend dies, Holly makes an unexpected discovery about his true feelings. With help from all sides of herself she explores the nature of secrets, life beyond death, and what it costs to have someone believe in you.