Monday Night Marsh & Stream

Program Director: Alexa Almira
House Manager: Arnie Warshaw
Light/Soundboard Operator: Alexa Almira

About Monday Night Marsh

Stephanie Weisman, our theater’s founder and artistic director, started The Marsh because she wanted a place for writers and performers like herself to easily develop their work. IN 1989, she planted a see by starting a Monday night performance series at The Hotel Utah on Bryant Street. Monday Night Marsh is the seed that sprouted into what is now The Marsh Theater: A Breeding Ground for New Performance. The program prides itself in sharing personal stories and unique experiences of all types, with a goal of amplifying the voices of our community. It is crucial, now more than ever, to share your story. Local celebrities like Josh Kornbluth, Marga Gomez, Irma Herrera, Diane Barnes, and so many others got their start on Monday Night Marsh.

Every Monday (unless it’s a holiday), we feature 3 people who perform up to 20 minutes of their (work-in-progress) piece. Each group performs twice in a month. After each show, we do a Q&A with the audience and performers, which allows for the opportunity to give and receive any feedback. You can watch in person, or stream via zoom for free.

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You truly never know what you’re going to see at a MNM.
Join us. Wonderful things can happen.


Mondays at 7pm
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1062 Valencia Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
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Tickets: $13 – $35 General Seating sliding scale
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As of June 10, 2023, face masks are strongly encouraged but no longer required


Submissions Are Closed!

Are you a monologuist, solo performer, movement artist, solo musician, comedian, etc.? Whether you are in the very beginning stages of your piece, or have a polished piece you’re putting the final touches on, MNM wants you! We encourage you to apply whether you’re a first-time or seasoned performer artist.

We are no longer accepting submissions for the Monday Night Marsh spring 2025 series. The submission period for the fall 2025 series will open on April 14. More information on how to submit and what to include in your submission will  be made available at that time. If you have any questions, please email our program director at mondaynight@themarsh.org

Happy writing!


Upcoming MNM 2025 Performances


February 10 & 24

NATACHA RUCK
Confessions of a French Interpreter

Show Description: How do you get your dream job? And once you have it, how do you keep your sanity? French Interpreter Extraordinaire Natacha Ruck takes you behind the scenes at world renowned film festivals to meet your French-film heroes… Whatever the consequences.

Artist Biography: Natacha is a storyteller, media producer and educator. She strives to use text, film and sound to deepen our understanding of the world She currently teaches multimedia storytelling at the University of San Francisco and explores the boundaries between French and English on stage in two solo shows: YOU’RE GOOD FOR NOTHING… I’LL MILK THE COW MYSELF,  and CONFESSIONS OF A FRENCH INTERPRETER, an exploration of multicultural mayhem and gender inequality at film festivals.  Her work is supported by the Theater Bay Area Ca$h Grants.

BETTY PAZMIÑO
Those Who Can…Do Teach!

Show Description: In this work in progress, Betty Pazmiño shares stories from her thirty-five years as a public school educator, as well as from her own Catholic school learning experiences as a Latina born and raised in San Francisco.  This piece is dedicated to all teachers that have devoted themselves to this very valuable and important profession as they keep hope alive every single day for our children.

Artist Biography: Betty Pazmiño, or Betty la Bella, is a homegirl de la Misión.  Now a retired educator, she has over 35 years of teaching experience.  In this performance, this mother of two and the wife of none explores growing up in San Francisco (pre and post gentrification), along with working as a teacher in public schools, with her tell-it-like-it-is humor about life in the Mission and beyond.

DAVID DeRUITER
A Shy Politician

Show Description: David DeRuiter is back onstage with his debut solo show A Shy Politician–a physical comedy about an idiot who can’t stop running for office. Strap in for 20 minutes of political gaffes as our unlikely hero stumbles headlong into a political candidacy.

It’s the day of the city council election, and Ben Porch is throwing his hat in the ring. There’s just one problem: he’ too shy to speak. Determined to win some votes, he makes his case in other ways: a trifold poster board, a set of cue cards, a spiffy wardrobe, and an audience meet-and-greet. The more attention Ben gets, the more he likes the idea of holding public office. But does he have what it takes to get elected? Does he even want to?

Artist Biography: David DeRuiter is a Bay Area-based comedian, writer, vocalist, and puppeteer, and the co-founder of Chekhov’s Gum. He has previously toured as half a rowdy and highly physical comedy Crap Ballet, which was shortlisted for the 2023 Brighton Fringe Award for Excllence. He currently leads an improv group for low-income middle schoolers in San Jose.


March 3 & 17

ELIZHEVA HURVICH
Healing Rivkah

Show Description: As part of her Rabbinical School Capstone Project, Elizheva Hurvich weaves together stories from the Torah (aka the Bible,) medieval and modern commentaries, as well as her own story– including family suicide, drug addictions and neglect. In this 20 minute piece, the artist explores where the ancient text opens her up, diving into existential moments which led her to become a rabbi, something women have only been doing in recent history. She brings to life ancient male voices, countering them with women’s voices, including the imagined voices of the text themselves speaking to us through the centuries!

Artist Biography: Elizheva Hurvich is a Bay Area native, who has traveled and lived around the world. Raised untraditionally by her dad, Elizheva was encouraged to explore and to open as many doors as possible.  In high school she was part of the Ensemble Theater Company, studying with Dan Caldwell, Michelle Swanson, Ray Jivoff, Katya Delakova and Moshe Budmor. Although she has not spent much time formally on the stage, this training– especially the improv– has served her well.  Trying to make meaning of the world, she has kept journals and explored spirituality, dipping mostly into Judaism, meditation and yoga. After years of working as a Jewish educator and service leader, Elizheva was ordained in January 2025 as a Rabbi.  Rabbi Elizheva lives in Oakland with Bob, Max and Chewy.

JESS CLARKE
Riding Red

Show Description: Riding Red is a story about a teenager—displaced from Washington DC into the KKK Maryland countryside— who is isolated, lonely and out of synch with their white, racist, homophobic neighbors. The story takes a turn when the protagonist’s step-sister is gifted a horse she names Red.

This story is part of a sequence of episodes that track the narrator’s evolution from a shy, crewcut Catholic kid into a radical androgynous activist who participates in the social and political changes of the era. Episodes are available on the podcast A Life in Stories at https://radioreimagine.com/show/life-in-stories/

Artist Biograpjy: Jess Clarke is a writer, editor and storyteller from Oakland, California. They co-founded Freedom Voices Press (1989) and Radio Reimagine (2014) and have been printing and publishing books and organizing cultural events for over four decades. They have performed at the Oakland Museum, Oakland Public Library,  Monkey House Theater, Marsh Theaters in SF & Berkeley, Story Slam Oakland,  Berkeley Rep School of Theater, Southern Exposure Art Gallery and other community venues. They have honed their craft under the guidance of Bay Area theater directors and performers including: David Ford, Charlie Varon, Joyful Raven, Nina Wise, Dan Hoyle and David Alger.

Jessie’s work has been widely recognized, including their being part of the inaugural cohort of the Changemakers Writing Program established by the Narrative Initiative in 2022. In 2017, they received a dual residency with the Finnish Hall and Footloose Presents Theater to create a multicultural theater production exploring ancestors and origins. Other residencies include the California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission, Writers-on-Site, Poets & Writers Inc., and the Windcall Residency Program.

Jessie’s current performance works are excerpted adaptations from their autobiographical writing project, A Life in Stories, a book and podcast series. You can find episodes at https://radioreimagine.com/jess-clarke-bio-archives/

VANESSA MCDANIEL
A New Season–Is It Denial or Fear?

Show Description: This monologue is about the inevitable reality of a new season that placed me in a community of the aged, retired, senior citizen events, health quirks, etc. etc. and realizing I’m in a world I’m not ready for!

It is through prayer, deep exploration and reflection of myself that peeled the onion of denial, fear, grief, and pride that humbled and helped me to let go of the life I once lived, to fully embrace the life I now live.

Artist Biography: Vanessa McDaniel has lived in the Bay Area all her life.  As a creative, she is a writer,  actress, and has performed in many productions in the Bay Area, which includes producing and performing her one woman show “Triumph”.  She has done “extra” work for television drama and pilots filmed in the San Francisco Bay Area.  As a writer, Vanessa had the opportunity to write a teleplay for Cable Television – Channel 26, filmed and performed at the Berkeley Community Media.  She also wrote Free Speech messages produced and aired on KTVU, Channel 2.

Vanessa’s passion for writing and acting stems from personal pain and struggles.  Her purpose is to encourage, bring healing, hope, inspiration, peace and joy to the wounded heart and troubled soul.

March 10 & 24

AMY BLONDELL
Rise Up at Liberty Springs

Show Description: Rise Up at Liberty Springs is a new play about feminist and queer activists set in the Mission District of San Francisco at the turn of the century, circa 1990 – 2010. In this fast-moving piece, an innovative Greek chorus introduces dialogues between friends who meet up at the Liberty Springs — a bathhouse in the Valencia Corridor. Here, they entrust one another – opening a window for all of us into the art of survival. They share their deepest concerns, develop new art and cosmologies, strike out to create social visibility, and find ways to survive economically in a city that is increasingly unaffordable. At The Liberty, individuals are fighting to be true to themselves and make a difference for the groups that are their urban kin. The play takes on sexual subjectivity in a playful way, and forges dialogue on gender change in the context of community. Whether installing new images on billboards and walls, protesting unpermitted as celebratory dykes, fighting for housing alongside LGBTQ squatter youth, or targeting the elite men-only Bohemian Cub to demand equal access to reproductive healthcare, the women and trans folk at Liberty Springs are at once restoring themselves, and rising up together.

I am excited for the opportunity to present selected scenes from the play at Monday Night Marsh given the longevity and centrality of the theater to the community.

Artist Biography: As an experienced ethnographer, activist, and urban anthropologist, Amy Blondell brings a performative social history to the stage with insight, humor, love, art, and firebrand politics. She portrays a landscape defined by kinship and activism and informed by feminist destructive and reconstructive principles. Currently completing her MFA in Environmental Art and Social Practice at UC Santa Cruz, Amy focuses on environments that have enabled feminist and queer communities to survive, flourish, and create social change.

Prior to her venture into the dramatic arts, Amy trained in cultural anthropology at the New School for Social Research in New York City and went on to do postdoctoral work at UC Berkeley and UCSF. As a member of the research faculty at UCSF, Amy received support from the National Institutes of Health to collaborate with migrating homeless young people, documenting their artistic work, philosophies, travel, and struggles to secure housing and healthcare. She also co-curated several gallery exhibits of their photo-essays and travelogues. As a fellow at the University of Oxford, Amy published work on youth, labor, and migration. At the core of her research and creative work, Amy uses first-person narratives to defy categories, reshape thinking, and increase visibility and power.

BLAKE SUGARMAN
Cosmic Hiccups and the Crocodile Below

Show Description: Blake was raised on magic tricks. When your dad is a magician, that’s part of a complete breakfast. But seeing so many illusions led him to an unsettling conclusion: you can’t trust your eyes (or any other organ, for that matter). So how do we proceed under such ambiguity? Probably by sweeping things under the rug. Never mind that crocodile-shaped lump over there. Join Blake as he embarks on a spiritual quest. Forecast: slightly silly with a chance of hiccups.

Artist Biography: Blake Sugarman is an Oakland-based artist who works at the intersection of poetry, music, and theater. He is best known for his solo performances which have been described as “spoken word and installation art in a theatrical duet.” Past solo work has been presented by La MaMa, The Brick (Resident Artist Series), The Marsh (Solo Arts Heal), The Living Gallery, Bushwick Open Studios, and NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing. Check out his website blakesugarman.com for production shots and videos.

ZOE KAT
Singing the Songs of Whoredum

Show Description: “Singing the Songs of Whoredum” is a one-woman show offering an unapologetic journey through the life of a seasoned sex worker through Broadway songs. Drawing from her 24 years of experience in BDSM and phone sex, the performer invites the audience into a space of honest reflection and social critique. This thought-provoking piece challenges audiences to rethink stigmas around sex work, encouraging a compassionate understanding of choice, resilience, and community.

Artist Biography: Zoe Kat, 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.


April 7 & 21

MARY ROTHSCHILD
What’s Not to Love? My/Our 70+year Relationship with Screens

Show Description: My 78-year lifespan mirrors the history of visual media in the American home. This piece is a narrative with humor and at least a stab at impartiality weaving pivotal policy and cultural changes with personal experiences as a child, parent, children’s center founder, university teacher, founder/director of a parent education organization, and grandmother.

Artist Biography: Mary, who lives in the East Bay, is the mother of 2 daughters (born in 1978 and 1988), founder of a children’s center dedicated to sensory experience, adjunct faculty teaching courses in Media and Children at Fordham and Adelphi Universities in New York, and for over 20 years, Founder/Director of the parent education organization Healthy Media Choices. She has a 12-year-old granddaughter.

MARK ADAMS
Unravelling the Construct

Show Description: Everyone’s been to the incredibly boring dinner party where someone tries to explain why Burning Man is so different.  Screw it – I don’t explain.  You hop on my bike and experience life on the Playa in real-time.  A fun romp through the craziness of Burning Man complete with a sandstorm, crazy outfits and a chance to participate in the shenanigans.  Not for the squeamish.

Artist Biography: Mark Adams is a story-teller and world traveler, having lived in three continents.  After a career in high tech, where he nurtured visions of world domination, he has focused his story-telling on his personal journey. This is his third piece and by far the most fun.

TOM RIGNEY
How Did I Get Here?
Tom Rigney Finally Tells His Story

Show Description: Tom Rigney has been a professional musician, songwriter, and bandleader for more than half a century. He is one of the premier Roots and Blues violinists on the planet, and has played thousands of concerts, dances, and festivals all over the United States, Canada, and Europe since the 1970s.

“How Did I Get here?” is a solo performance piece that Mr. Rigney wrote, developed, and first performed in 2018 at the Sun Valley Jazz and Music Festival. The piece is a constantly evolving collection of stories from his long and unusual career in the “music business”, and includes strange (and often hilarious) tales from the road, insights into what inspired him to follow the path he has chosen, short musical interludes, and reflections on art, music, and mentors.

Artist Biography: Tom Rigney is a professional musician, electric violinist, composer, songwriter, and bandleader based in Berkeley, California. He has been a fixture of the Bay Area music scene since the 1970s as the leader (and fiddler) of a series of successful bands (Back in the Saddle, The Sundogs, Tom Rigney and Flambeau). He has recorded and toured extensively for more than forty years, playing concerts, festivals, nightclubs, and dances all over the US, Canada, and Europe.

His current band, Tom Rigney and Flambeau, plays a hot mix of American Roots styles—Cajun, Blues, New Orleans R and B, Roots Rock and Roll. Their high-energy live shows feature Rigney’s passionate virtuoso fiddling, his charismatic stage presence, and his range and depth as a songwriter/composer.


April 14 & 28

ANNETTE ROMAN
Nature’s Miracle

Show Description: It’s September 9th, 2020, in the Bay Area. “Orange Skies Day.” Covid lockdown. And there’s a strange smell in Annette’s living room… No, not smoke. Not despair. Something funky. Something mildewy. Something…festering. And she will stop at nothing to get it out of her home! It’s time for a miracle—Nature’sMiracle™!

Artist Biography: Annette Roman is the writer/performer of 3 solo shows—Hitler’s Li’l AbominationAnimal Love, and Inauguration Vacation—which have toured 16 fringe festivals worldwide. All were developed in great part with David Ford at The Marsh, as well as Slater Penney and the late Greg Brown. Her solo shows have toured 16 festivals internationally. Her recent productions of short plays include “Best Served” (Short+Sweet Hollywood and Sydney, Australia), “Red Santa” and “Christmas Unmoored” (Holidays With a Twist, San Francisco). She also wrote the graphic novel 1 World Manga: Passages, which has been translated into several languages. She is currently working on a supernatural historical thriller screenplay, Traders, and the pilot for a limited series, Legacy. She has returned to solo performance after a hiatus so she may once again hear people laugh at her jokes in real time.

BOB FITCH
Why I Stay

Show Description: Living in San Francisco can drive you nuts. I’m staying! Take that FOX News!

Artist Biography: My wife and I have lived in North Beach for 40 years, raised our son here, and we’re here for the long haul.

AMANDA GRUMET
Operagirl 

Show Description: This is a comedic spoken and sung acting, rock, and rap show about my early opera training at the Oberlin and New England Conservatories.  I was an opera singer who morphed into a stand up comic and Equity actor in NYC. The premise of the show is that my dream was to be a rockstar.  To discourage that career path, my parents sent me to the Eastman School of Music where I launched as an opera singer, but even today, I still want to be a rockstar.

Artist Biography: Amanda Grumet was an opera singer for 25 years educated at the Oberlin and New England Conservatories with a DMA from the University of Arizona. Amanda is a professional stand up comic and writes comedy for celebrities and for awards shows. She is a Meisner trained actor with off-Broadway credits and is a member of the unions Actor’s Equity, SAG and AFTRA. She began writing this one-woman show in the acting studio of Wynn Handman in NYC. Every piece of what Amanda has learned as an opera singer, stage actor, musical theater actor, stand up comic, improviser, composer, and lyricist is all mixed into the artistic soup that is becoming this show.


May 12 & 19

BARBARA BRADY
My Dead Uncle’s Porn Collection (excerpt)

Show Description:Once upon a time this was the best house ever. Grandmommy and Grandaddy made it fun. Uncle Jay made it miserable. They all died in this house. Each in their own time, each leaving their stuff for the next person to clean up. Uncle Jay was the last to go. He kept all their stuff and piled a ton of crap on top of it. Ghosts? I’m not afraid of their ghosts. I’m afraid of their stuff.

Artist Biography: Barbara Brady is a writer, performer and visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. My Dead Uncle’s Porn Collection, her second solo play, is in development with David Ford at The Marsh. She has performed her first solo show, Father, Daughter and Holy Toast, at Rogue Performance Festival in Fresno, CA,  Orlando International Theater Festival, and Cincinnati Fringe Festival.  Her work has been featured in Solo Sundays at Stage Werx SF and Tell it on Tuesdays at The Marsh, Berkeley. She will be performing in the Sunset Solos series in February 2024.

ELHE
Samantha & Their Son

Show Description: We often say “congratulations” when our friends or families have a new baby. But Samantha, a single parent, no longer says so. Parenting for the first time in a new country, Samantha found themselves desperate by their teenager’s sudden and dramatic changes—addicting to electronics, emotional outbursts, and even suicidal attempts.

What did they come through? Why did everything happen? Is there hope?

Artist Biography: A first-generation Asian immigrant raising two children as a single parent doing youth work is passionate about promoting positive family relationships.

ABBEY GLOVER
Mothershould

Show Description: I was just starting to live my life the way I wanted, learning how to draw boundaries and state my own needs. Over the past year, any suggestion with the hint of a “should” sent me into a defensive stance – no one can tell me what I should do anymore! I was free! And then I got pregnant and the waterfall of “shoulds” from everyone and their mother began. This humorous and honest piece will explore Abbey’s experiences moving through the world as a pregnant person, preparing for and giving birth, and early motherhood.

Artist Biography: Abbey Glover is a San Francisco-based writer and performer whose work explores themes of self-expression and vulnerability with wry insight that “wouldn’t be out of place in either a Greta Gerwig film or a Peanuts comic strip” (The Scotsman). Her first solo show Abbey’s Box premiered at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, earning multiple 4- and 5-star reviews from publications such as The Scotsman and Broadway World.


SPECIAL MNM ONE-OFF!
June 2

MARLEEN SMITH & SUSAN EVANS
(Mis)adventures at the Pea Ridge Cafe

Show Description: Love roadtrips. Of course you do; they’re so much fun. They open up new, unforeseen experiences and broaden our horizons. But sometimes, we encounter the mismatches and mishaps of cross-cultural, cross-customs communication. It can be a total disaster–or something totally surprising! Please join us at the Pea Ridge Cafe in Pea Ridge Arkansas (population 7,852) and see what we mean.

Artist Biography: Susan Evans & Marleen Smith are mental health professionals, often referred to as the “Dynamic Duo.” They have performed together for many years and their sketches include: Health Care Follies, Modern Grandparenting, The Jet Blues, 100 is the new 80, Cam-pains, AI Meets Psyche.

BILL C. JONES
Memorable Moments of Love

Show Description: This show is about big meaning  moments in a longtime marriage.

Artist Biography: I’ve been acting for 40 years, and as time goes by, I’ve found that the older you are, the less roles there are for you. I have over the years played many roles. I have given birth on stage. have been good men and bad men. I played a sperm cell  that was working so hard to find a cell that I could fertilize. It is now time to move on and write something for me to perform on my own.

EMIL GUILLERMO
Emil Amok: 69

Show Description: More information coming soon.

Artist Biography: Emil Guillermo is a San Francisco native in exile who has taken his award-winning journalistic observations on life and moved them to the stage in his Amok comic monologues. An award winning journalist, Emil was the former host of NPR’s “All Things Considered,” has worked in TV as a reporter and talk host, before moving to writing columns and commentary in print. A collection of his essays won an American Book Award in 2000. Having interviewed Spalding Gray in the 1980s, Emil was inspired to try solo performance in 2014 and studied at the Marsh and Berkeley Rep with Charlie Varon among others. He has toured with three of his Amok Monologues, “All Pucked Up,” “Lost NPR Host,” and “A Phool’s Filipino History,” performing versions at Fringe Festivals since 2017 (San Diego, Baltimore, Orlando (2), Washington DC,  San Francisco, Fresno Rogue, New York (2). He has taught storytelling and memoir, and has also studied with teachers like Seth Barish and Mike Daisey.  In 2023, he appeared in an Off-Off Broadway production of Ishmael Reed’s “The Conductor.”  Emil has added standup comedy, appearing in clubs around the country where he makes fun of having graduated from Harvard, with its illustrious alumni like the Unabomber.


June 9 & 23

ANGELA URATA
Unravelling the Construct

Show Description: With the Trump administration’s threats of mass deportation, it feels more urgent than ever to share the stories of Japanese American incarceration during World War II. This is not only to ensure that history is not repeated but also to honor my family’s legacy. Through this work, I aim to remind us that now, more than ever, we must envision and build a future rooted in love and justice.

Artist Biography: Dance, song, and storytelling are my birthrights, fundamental to my spiritual rites of passage. I call forth my narratives from the borderland — those liminal spaces of imagination and social location. As I move from the margins to the embodied center, I become an agent of change in this world. I emerge from isolation and disenfranchisement to create new myths and celebrate new heroes—the border dwellers. The dance of the shatter reflects the dissonance I experience as I shape meaning from the dross, the discarded, the devalued, and the belittled. Through movement and stories rooted in my body, I reclaim, reconstitute, and restore the parts of myself that have been banished and exiled.

THERESA DONAHOE
All the Great New Things to Come

Show Description: A solo show about being a fourth generation San Francisco Bay Area native.

Artist Biography: Theresa Donahoe is an actor who mainly performed theater in her youth. Deciding to take a break from theater, she started working in movies (such as SCREAM and RENT) while working in television and movie casting for many years as well. After a 17-year hiatus, she returned to the stage and decided to merge her love for writing with her love for acting. Once she discovered the art form of solo performance, she created and debuted her first full length solo show, “Late Bloomer” at the 2017 Rogue Fringe Festival in Fresno, and her second solo show “Born Again in Berkeley” at the 2022 Rogue Fringe Festival.  “All the Great New Things to Come” is her latest work-in-progress solo show.


June 16 & 30

DAVID JACOBSON
Murder on the Mission to Mars!

Show Description: The year is 2045. Kepler RV Industries, famed for its self-flying recreational vehicles, is sponsoring the first mission to Mars helmed by six civilian senior citizens. But en route to the Red Planet things go homicidally awry, leaving the Medicare-eligible crew to solve a locked-room whodunit … before they become the next victims!

Artist Biography: David Jacobson has been doing solo theater since before the Earth fully cooled; back when you had to wade thru molten lava in lead-lined overalls to do everyday errands. He’s honed dozens of pieces at Monday Night Marsh, Tell It On Tuesday, Solo Sundays, Sunset Solos, and Oakland’s fabled High Dive. His full-length shows, “Theme Park” and “Dog’s Misery Swamp,” were developed with the legendary Charlie Varon, directed by the brilliant Mark Kenward, and performed at Fringe festivals in the U.S. and Canada. He is now somehow based in Portland, Oregon.

JEREMY GRECO
Whoa!

Show Description:“Whoa!” follows Jeremy’s journey to become an actor, a dream sparked on his eighth birthday when he first sees James Dean in “Rebel Without a Cause.”  His conviction solidifies when his grandmother, Mamoo, reveals he is James Dean reincarnated. The play charts Jeremy’s path from his hometown of Santa Cruz, where a young Adam Scott (before his rise to fame) becomes his close friend.Together they embark on the challenging world of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena.  There, amidst the intoxicating allure and harsh realities of Hollywood, they grapple with the complexities of ambition, friendship, love, loss, and the search for meaning.From navigating the cutthroat world of auditions to encounters with eccentric acting teachers and brushes with celebrities.  Jeremy’s pursuit of his dream takes him on unexpected detours.Does Jeremy have what it takes to make it?  Whoa!

Artist Biography: Jeremy Julian Greco has written the solo shows, “With Held,” “Keeping Up With the Jorgensons” and “The Big Snap,”  all directed by Mark Kenward.  Jeremy’s solo shows have played at various venues and festivals throughout the Bay Area and the United States,  Jeremy also produces the Monthly Solo Salon, Sunset Solos at Sea Level Gallery located in the Outer Sunset.  “Whoa” is his most recent solo show.  www.jeremygreco.comwww.sunsetsolos.com

DIRK ALPHIN
Dangling Participles

Show Description: DANGLING PARTICIPLES is about verbs in drag and designer shells for divine souls. When an eccentric San Franciscan arrives and disrupts things at a local SF Castro district cafe, most customers attempt to ignore him. But nothing seems to deter his speaking his unedited thoughts and proclaiming his disturbing truths. Rambling in platitudes and corny quotes, he imparts unusual wisdom about sexual hookups, time, life and the importance of shaking each other up now and then. (Note: This piece is part of a longer work titled Urban Archaeology: A Compilation of San Franciscans.)

Artist Biography: Dirk Alphin‘s performance career spans forty plus years during which he has garnered separate resumes as an Actor, Playwright, Director, Singer, Designer and Producer. His work spans the realms of theater, film, television, web series, publishing and audio recordings. He currently coaches actors and performers on Wednesday evenings. He helped create and manage two landmark performance venues: Valencia Rose Cabaret (1980s) and Josie’s Cabaret & Juice Joint (1990s). Previous Marsh SF productions include two (2) full length plays: RECIPROCATING PUMPS (2023) and AXIS (2024) – both of which were extended in their runs. He was seen on Monday Night Marsh in December 2024 in a solo piece titled URBAN ARCHAEOLOGY: LUBIA ‘N RIVERS.


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