Past Risings

2026

January 20 2 Women, 2 MothersVicki Dello Joio &
Merry Ross
February 11Life & Death: A Love Story  Sherry Glaser
February 17The Bumpy Road Less TraveledAnthony Michael Jefferson
April 22GraceChloe Johnston
May 12The CaptainJoan Bernier
May 27Joke MandalaAlicia Dattner
June 3Rosie’s Brain Evelyn Rose
June 23The Ballad of Madelyne and Therese Rachel Garlin
July 7 2 Women, 2 MothersVicki Dello Joio &
Merry Ross
July 22When the Skeleton Does Not StandKristen Cosby
October 10Buen CaminoSusan Edsall
October 21HomecomingDara Kosberg

2025

January 8 CRUSHMolly Rose Williams
January 15Don’t Mind Me
(I’ll Just Sit Here in the Dark)
Lauren Mayer
February 12Someday, Mija, You’ll Learn the Difference Between
a Whore and a Working Woman
Yvonne Martinez
February 18Pass the Nails and Shame the DevilPearl Louise
April 22Oy, What They Said About LoveSteve Budd
September 24You’ve Been ServedNoemi Zeigler
October 8Did She Really Say Tantrum Yoga?Paul Sussman
October 15Flight RiskCarole Klyce
October 21Raised in HellDeon Price
November 12Amadeus Never Gives Me the BluesAmy Bouchard
November 19Emil Amok 69Emil Amok Guillermo
December 2Title PendingHeather Tyson

2024

January 31FONTWALAShubhra Prakash
February 8Night DriverPearl Ong
February 13 Benjamin’s PassionElizabeth Du Val
February 21Seeing StarsSteve Budd
March 6Abbey’s BoxAbbey Glover
March 7 Takes All KindsDan Hoyle
March 13Hick: A Love Story
Based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Letters to Lorena Hick
Terry Baum
April 9Aristotle, Freud, Mobsters & Gonads:
The Eel Musical
Celina Demos
July 10After the Rainbow:
A Mystical Music-Full Midlife Journey Through Oz
Molly Kittle
& Amy MacClain
December 4Looking for Justice (In All the Wrong Places)Amy Oppenheimer
December 11Grandma’s MIllion-Dollar SchemeKoorosh Ostowari
November 1

Reckless Son

Matt Butler
November 7Born Again in BerkeleyTheresa Donahoe
November 15 Tobacco, Zig-Zags, and GumAlgiin Ford
December 6Fear Rage Heal ChangeDan Hoyle

2019

January 23Who Killed Sylvia PlathLorri Holt & Lynne Kaufman
January 30Hippie KidZappo Diddio
February 20A Box Without a BottomDavid Hirata
March 6Trump SonnetsKen Waldman
March 23The Road TakenGeoff Hoyle
May 1Vox in a BoxCandace Johnson
May 8The California Missions and Race TourFred Pitts
June 5Overlooked LatinasTina D’elia
June 12Grandma and MeBrian Copeland
July 24Courage Under FireThomas Simpson
October 16Adam and Eve on a RaftThe Book of Jones
November 6Welcome to the Cancer CafeJudith C.
November 19Planet DoReMiStephanie Weisman
November 20Harsh SadnessEdna Mira Raia, James Sundquist,
James Green & Dan Foley
December 4Solitary Man:
My Visit to Pelican Bay State Prison
Fred Johnson & Charlie Hinton

2018

January 24 The Clyde Always ShowClyde Always
January 31Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
January 31Bravo 25Eliza Gibson
February 21Stop Stopping the UnstoppableRoss Everett
February 28Keeping Up With The JorgensonsJeremy Greco
March 14Yesterday is TomorrowGenie and Marie Cartier
March 21The Last of the Red Hot TenantsLois Pearlman
March 28Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
April 18Throwing Darts in TrafficHoward Egger-Bovet
May 9Don’t you Have Dignity MamaXiaojuan Shu
May 22Sex Math and SeizuresBárbara Selfridge
May 30Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
June 6Trolls in Yoga PantsLisa Rothman
June 13Thick and ThinKelly Rafferty
June 27Border PeopleDan Hoyle
July 11I Want to Sell DemocracyIrma Herrera
July 12On the BrinkLinda Joy
July 25Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
August 8PolySHAMoryKate Robards
August 15Unfriending TexasAnnette Roman
August 16Inauguration VacationHarriett Patterson
September 5I Love MenRuth Kynn Miller
September 12Border PeopleDan Hoyle
September 19An Evening with Wayne HarrisWayne Harris
September 26Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
September 26The Happiest White Lady EverPearl Louise
September 27Tennessee TimesRebecca Fisher
October 3The Ins and Outs of Fingers Spoons and Open MarriagePascal Rogers
October 10The Wrong Kind of PessimismPaul Sussman
October 16I Should Have ListenedCarrie Kartman
October 21Unfriending TexasHarriet Patterson &
“Voices from the Projects”
November 7The Designated DaughterVictoria Podesta
November 21Border PeopleDan Hoyle
November 28Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
December 12You May Think I’m Funny But Its NotRabbi Sydney Mintz

2017

1/18/2017Kicking FacebookMargery Kreitman
2/1/2017Tales of a Sexual TomboyJoyful Raven
3/29/2017Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
5/3/2017StoryborschtCharlie Varon
5/10/2017You Are Reminded That Your Safety Is Your Own ResponsibilityJanna Goodwin
5/17/2017Ain’t That RichKate Robards
5/31/2017Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
6/14/2017Two MindsLynne Kaufman
6/27/2017Taking the High RoadSheryl Glaser
7/19/2017A Glimpse of Emily Dickinson – Old-Fashioned Naughty EverythingChetana Karel-Michaan
7/26/2017Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
9/20/2017Gangsters In Freaky LandDavid Caggiano
9/27/2017Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
10/4/2017A Fatal StepJill Vice
10/18/2017Return to the Scene of the CrimeDavid Kleinberg
11/1/2017Fight for 52 CentsHoward Petrick
11/15/2017Why Would I Mispronounce My Own NameIrma Herrera
11/29/2017Brain ImprovsJosh Kornbluth
12/6/2017I’m Always Drunk in San FranciscoGeoff Pond

2016

1/13/2016Grey MatterJulie Katz
2/3/2016Who Was I?Corey Fischer
2/17/2016Mom Spilled Guts on my Tater TotsKenny Yun
2/24/2016From Piss to BlissAdy Lady
3/9/2016Mincing WordsTom Ammiano
3/23/2016Solitary Man: My Visit to Pelican Bay State PrisonCharlie Hinton
4/6/2016Bruce Barthol Life and Songs: A Work In ProgressBruce Barthol
4/13/2016Summer in SanctuaryAl Letson
5/4/2016Holding The EdgeElaine Magree
5/11/2016Wake-Up CallJerry Franklin
5/18/2016The Moby Dick DiariesAndrea Mock
6/8/2016Two Big MouthsNaomi Newman and Linda Hirschhorn
6/29/2016Nigga-RooDazié Grego-Sykes
8/3/2016Eat Pray LaughAlicia Dattner
9/21/2016Nice is Not What We DoKathleen Denny
9/28/2016Erased: Babi Yar, the SS and MeCorey Weinstein
10/5/2016Daughter of a Garbage ManDaughter of a Garbage Man
10/12/2016My Stroke of LuckDiane Barnes
10/26/2016The Center of the LabyrinthShelley Campbell
11/16/2018What They Say About LoveSteve Budd
11/30/2016A Tension to DetailGerard Harris
12/7/2016The Amazing Bubble Man’s Show for Grown-Up KidsLouis Pearl

2015

1/14/2015Oh No There’s Men On The LandKaren S Ripley
1/21/2015StereotypoDon Reed
1/28/2015HEY HEY, LBJ!David Kleinberg
3/11/2015Green Eyes- Just Like You and MeGary Walker
3/18/2015Inappropriate In All the Right WaysAnn Randolph
4/8/2015Crazy FamousSharon Eberhardt
5/19/2015Date Night at Pet EmergencyLisa Rothman
8/5/2015Mandarin OrangeKate Robards
10/7/2015Fifty-two LettersRegina Y. Evans
10/21/2015Colette UncensoredLorri Holt
11/4/2015Victory for the Recycled VirginHouston Robertson
11/18/2015Second Time AroundCharlie Varon

2014

3/12/2014The Dark FantasticMartin Dockery
3/18/2014Memphis on my MindRebecca Fisher
6/25/2014Semi-Famous: Hollywood Hell Tales from the MiddleDon Reed
7/2/2014MelancholySara Felder
7/16/2014Playing My HandRachell Pell
7/30/2014My Body Love StoryDominika Bednarska
8/13/2014Passing on CurvesCraig McLaughlin
8/20/2014Are We There Yet?Richard Stockton
9/10/2014Doodu BoyStefhen Bryan
10/15/2014With HeldJeremy Julian Greco
10/22/2014Never Own Anything You Have to Paint or FeedHoward Petrick

2013

2/6/2013Cheesecake and DemerolGene Gore
2/20/2013The LetterWayne Harris
2/27/2013Wake Up CallJerry Franklin
3/6/2013Wake Up CallJerry Franklin
3/6/13So You Can Hear MeSafiya Martinez
3/20/2013Two Women, Two StoriesVicki Dello Joio & Merry Ross
3/27/2013Patti IssuesBen Rimalower
4/24/2013Vermont Boy in West OaklandMichael Sommers
5/8/2013Whatever Happened to Sara JaneAdy Abbot
5/22/2013Jewish ChroniclesDaniel Cainer
5/29/2013Each and Every ThingDan Hoyle
6/19/13Nantucket, Part 1Mark Kenward
6/21/2013Pride BabyMargo Gomez
6/26/2013This Side of ImpossibleSebastian Boswell III
6/27/2013Each and Every ThingDan Hoyle
8/7/2013Oy of SexAlicia Dattner
9/25/2013Hitler’s Little Abomination 
10/16/2013Each and Every ThingDan Hoyle
10/20/2013The Real AmericansDan Hoyle
11/6/2013Eating Pasta Off the FloorMaria Grazia Affinito
12/4/2013I Eat People Like You For BreakfastSteven Alan Green
12/7/2013Each and Every ThingDan Hoyle
12/12/2013The Real AmericansDan Hoyle

2012

1/11/2012Abnormally FunnyJen Schiffman
2/8/2012The Imagine-a-Nation of a Lala ChildRivera Sun Cook
3/14/2012SuperHappyMelancholyexpidalidociousSeth Lepore
4/4/2012The Gospel According to MatthewMatthew Francis
5/2/2012The Stories of Cesar ChavezFred Blanco
5/9/2012Keith Moon, the Real MeMick Berry
5/23/2012Wind in the MirrorJosie Hyde
6/1/2012Street StoriesLarry Hankin
6/2/2012Street StoriesLarry Hankin
6/6/2012A Queer DivineSara Felder
6/13/2012Homeless in HomelandSaria Idana
6/14/2012An Evening of SongJetty Swart
7/10/2012Tyrone “Shortleg” JohnsonWayne Harris
9/19/2012Marta’s InfernoGaren Anderson
9/30/2012SqueezeboxAnn Rudolph
10/17/2012Steve Seabrook: Better Than YouKurt Bodden
10/24/2012The Rita Hayworth of This GenerationTina D’elia
11/7/2012Brooklyn HamletBrenda Adelman
11/14/2012PilgrimageElaine Magree
12/12/2012No Enlightened People Have Ever Come Out of the GhettoAndre Salvage

2011

1/11/2011All My ChildrenMatt Smith
1/25/2011The Tiffany BoxKathleen Buckstaff
2/8/2011La Esquinita, USARuben C. Gonzales
2/22/11Madhouse RhythmJoshua Walters
3/8/2011Jump Theatre 
3/15/11Jesus RideMack Schlitt
5/3/2011Rambo: The Missing YearsHoward Petrick
5/10/2011The VoiceDavid Kleinberg
6/7/2011Vital SignsAlison Whitaker
6/21/2011Donna/MadonnaJohn Paul Karliak
7/26/2011Heroes and Other strangersZac Jaffee
8/30/2011Wounded StagDan Carbone & Andrew Goldfarb
9/27/11Acid TestLynne Kaufman
10/14/2011Phone WhoreCameron Moore
10/18/11Walking on Turtle IslandRobert Owens-Greygrass
10/25/2011ShaheedAnna Khaja
11/8/11It Goes Without SayingBill Bowers
12/13/2011Finding the MichaelsCassie Angley

2010

4/21/2010Performance ArtPhillipe Coquet & Carla Pauli
9/14/2010A Time to DanceLibby Skala
9/21/2010In Folds of GoldSha Sha Higby
10/26/2010Wretch Like MeDavid Templeton
11/9/2010You’re Gonna CryPaul Flores
12/7/2010The Other WomanAviva Layton
12/7/2010The Other WomanConnie May Flower
12/7/2010The Other WomanCaroline Leavitt
12/7/2010The Other WomanSherry Glaser-Love
12/7/2010The Other WomanMaxinne Rhea Leighton