Upcoming MNM 2025 Performances

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.

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April 14 & 28

ANGELA URATA
The Slaughtering of the Mink

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.v

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.

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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.

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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.

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June 9 & 23

ANNETTE ROMAN
Nature’s Miracle

Show Description: It’s September 9^th, 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 Abomination, Animal 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.

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.

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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 from his hometown of Santa Cruz to the unpredictable world of acting. Inspired by James Dean and fueled by his grandmother’s belief that he’s Dean reincarnated, Jeremy’s story begins in the quirky coastal town where he forms a friendship with a young Adam Scott. Together, they chase their dreams at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Pasadena. Along the way, Jeremy encounters the highs and lows of ambition, friendship, eccentric mentors, and Hollywood’s challenges. 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.com, www.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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