A Very Scrumpy Holiday Carol
The Marsh Berkeley Cabaret
December 9, 12, 13, 18 & 19, 2026
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday at 7:30 pm
Sunday at 3 pm
Created by: Wayne Harris, Joyful Raven, & Stephanie Weisman
Featuring your favorite Marsh performers with Randy Craig & Friends Band
Ticket Information
General Admission: Sliding Scale $20 – $35+ | Reserved Seating: $50-$100+
Pay What You Can Holiday Party, Wednesday, December 9
No Intermission | Ages 13+
(Please do not bring infants to the show)
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance.
Additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
Show Description
Ghosts of politicians’ past, present and future have a message this holiday season with irreverent variety show, A Very Scrumpy Holiday Carol starring Joyful Raven as the laughably notorious King Scrump. Created by Joyful Raven, Wayne Harris, and Stephanie Weisman, in this riotous cabaret, Scrump sits on his throne one evening for a feast with his royal court, both dead and alive. Tormented by the consequences of his rule and a rotating cast of clowns, entertainers, and ghostly politicians, Scrump is forced to reckon with the fact he may not go to heaven. This satirical production boasts festive musical accompaniment by the Randy Craig & Friends band and performances from beloved Marsh entertainers.
Artist Biographies
Wayne Harris is an award-winning solo performer, writer, educator, curriculum innovator and musician. His plays include Mother’s Milk, The May Day Parade and Jockamo. His last production Train Stories was critically acclaimed earning a Bay Area Broadway nomination and an extended sold-out run. A gifted artist with wide ranging interests Wayne is passionate about storytelling that combines his lived experience with hopeful declarations for the future. Wayne was invited by the U.S. State Department to travel to the Middle East and perform his play, The Letter; Martin Luther King at the Crossroads. Having just retired from being Program Director for The Marsh Youth Theater in San Francisco, serving underprivileged students in after-school programs, Wayne now travels extensively throughout the U.S. providing “Improvisation & Performance” workshops for Youth Pageantry groups (marching bands, dance teams etc.) In addition, he is currently a facilitator for FIPPP, an exciting and important project guiding formerly incarcerated adults in creating, producing and performing their stories and partnering with Berkeley Rep in bringing storytelling to programs in San Francisco Jails.
Joyful Raven is an award-winning actor, director, and ‘story midwife’ known for her powerful and thought-provoking solo shows. Born into an iconic political theater family, she has been devising theater for over 20 years. Her last solo comedy, Tales of a Sexual Tomboy, was dubbed ‘…one of the funniest shows now on display on Bay Area stages’ by the SF Chronicle, won Best of the Fringe at the San Francisco International Fringe Festival 2016, and enjoyed an Off-Broadway run in 2017. Her current show, Breed or Bust, is hot off a critically acclaimed run at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland, where it was nominated for an Offie. ★★★★★ ‘Joyful Raven’s masterful approach to storytelling and exquisite performance skills elevate her work to another level.’ – Theatre Weekly UK. The show was also nominated for Best Comedy at the 2022 Hollywood International Fringe Festival, received a Producer’s Encore Award, and a gold medal by TV-olution. She has directed and mentored hundreds of storytellers, co-founded the award-winning theater company Rococo Risqué, and co-authored four plays for the Prize of Hope-winning company Human Nature. Joyful studied theater at Sarah Lawrence College in NY and holds an MFA in dramatic art from UC Davis. She teaches regular storytelling and solo theater classes at the Berkeley Rep School of Theater and her own studio in Oakland, CA.
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