Fall 2026 Performances

Bennet Caffee
Orange You Glad to be in Miami? (Excerpt)

Show Description: When 21y/o Bennet is admitted to a psych ward they have his name wrong as Dale Bennet, not Bennet Caffee and he’s sure it’s a sign. From now on he’s just “Bennet” and he’s come to enlighten the world.

Artist Biography: Bennet Caffee began solo performance after committing to staying on medication for bipolar disorder. It was obvious his mood swings were no longer tenable, but missed the exhilaration of his bipolar highs. Performing was his way of celebrating the “fun part” of bipolar disorder. As his storytelling delved deeper he began revealing the darker side of his experience as well leading to his first full-length show, “My First Miracle – Adventures in Bipolar Disorder” which he performed to critical acclaim at fringe festivals across the US and Canada. Currently he has performed his latest show “Orange you glad to be in Miami?” at the Nanaimo, Oregon, Rogue, San Diego, Orlando, Tampa and Edmonton fringe festivals. Audience members often remark that Caffee’s shows have given them unique insight into bipolar disorder, while persons in the bipolar community have complemented his shows for their humorous and accurate portrayal of the condition.

November 2 – Special Event
Collaboration with the 
Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project (FIPPP)

About the FIPPP Program
Directed and produced by Mark Kenward, with co-direction by Rebecca Fisher, Wayne Harris, and Mark McGoldrick, FIPPP features formerly incarcerated performers telling stories about their life experiences. Hearing stories from those who have been incarcerated fosters compassion and understanding about the circumstances and choices that led them to incarceration. Their stories give us hope for the human condition and our ability to reform and reinvent ourselves, as well as giving us the opportunity as a society to reconsider the inhumane conditions that prisoners often endure. www.FIPPP.org

Leonard Boone
Remember Your Lessons

Show Description: After being incarcerated for over 20 years, rebuilding a life is already an uphill climb—so when a relentless flea and tick infestation invades Leonard’s apartment, what begins as a frustrating pest battle quickly escalates into a struggle for mental wellness. But amidst the chaos and isolation, an unexpected revelation takes root: the very empathy and compassion he needed to survive the system are the exact principles required to heal his mind, reclaim his space, and find peace in his own skin. This piece offers a powerful look at resilience, transformation, and the challenges of starting over.

Gerald Cypert
Post Release Syndrome

Show Description: You spent years dreaming of the outside world. Nobody warned you about what happens when you actually get there.

Entering the free world isn’t a smooth transition—it’s a head-on collision with Post Release Syndrome. Suddenly, everyday life demands hyper-vigilance, an endless digital matrix sucks you in, and your spouse definitely isn’t a cellmate you can command. Plagued by sensory overload and ADHD flare-ups triggered by endless choices, one question looms: With total freedom at your fingertips, how do you keep from running completely wild?

3rd Performance
TBD – More Info Coming Soon

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.

*Performing November 9 Only*
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.

*Performing November 23 Only*
Susan Evans & Marleen Smith

More information coming soon.

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
Our Silly Secrets

Show Description: Our Silly Secrets is a hopefully comic piece with a bit of quaint melancholy about the silly characters my husband and I have made up who are part of our every day “couple” lives. Our Silly Secrets is told in story format sharing the history of where and how these characters showed up. For example the founding member or character of our story, Spangie Norman appeared first in a Walgreens on the corner of Halsted and Addison in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago, IL. From there, I weave a story bringing in new characters, silly songs we sing to each other, voices of our cats, and some of the crazy lovely folks we’ve met on our journey so far together. Our journey starts in Chicago, takes us to the desert in Arizona and finally to the beautiful Bay Area. In all, over 40 years together we have amassed 200 different characters; some are more robust where we have placed these folks in songs or myths where others are just silly mentions or relatives of other more prominent characters.

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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