Tell It On Tuesday

In Person at The Marsh Berkeley
7:00 pm

Hosted by our Tell It On Tuesday Team

Tell it on Tuesday celebrates the expression of individual voices by promoting the art of storytelling and solo performance, coming together as a community to share works crafted by theater artists and storytellers.

Last Tuesday of the Month
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October 29, 2024
Producer: Wayne Harris
Stagebridge Collaboration

Musical Guest

JORDAN FEINSTEIN
piano and vocal / singer-songwriter

Description: Very cool sounds from one of the Bay Area’s most sought after performers. Everything from Jerry Garcia to Professor Longhair will take you on a musical! (with a possible MUSICAL GUEST!)

Artist Biography: Jordan Feinstein is one of SF bay’s go-to keyboard players – he’s a regular in 30 or so bands as well as leading his own, Jordan and the RituaL. He is the musical director for Jay Lane and the Mayhem, and regularly plays with Joe and Hattie Craven and the Smokedaddies to name a few. Jordan is a partner in True Productions: a bay area music and event company. He also runs a project studio in sf – Studio 352.

Storytellers

ELEANOR CLEMENT GLASS
War Bride

Show Description: Eleanor will be telling “ WAR BRIDE”, the story of how her father and mother met, fell in love, and, against all odds, married — just after World War II in the Philippines.

Artist Biography: Eleanor Clement Glass tells folktales from around the world as a volunteer with the Storyteller Corps of the Asian Art Museum, in libraries, public elementary schools and the YouTube channel Asian American Storytopia. She also draws stories from her Black and Filipino heritage for the personal stories she shares at local Bay Area and national storytelling venues. She earned her storytelling chops from the storytelling training programs at Stagebridge and the Asian Art Museum, where she is currently co-teaching
a New Storyteller Class for 47 budding storytellers. She lives in Oakland.

LINDA WRIGHT
The Spirit of Fanny Lou

Show Description: Do you know what it was like to grow up in Mississippi in the early 1900’s poorer than dirt? How did a child feel, raised in miserable poverty, crushed by injustice and cruelty? Fannie Lou discovered her breakthrough and turned her freedom into a rallying cry for the entire world – “Nobody’s Free until Everybody’s Free.”

Artist Biography: Rooted in Oakland, graduated from UC Berkeley, married to Randy with three adult children, writer of children’s books, retired educator, amazing storyteller, and a huge fan and supporter of Stagebridge Performing Arts.

SAMIR SAAD
Transitions

Show Description: Samir lived in New York City for a while…and loved it! Good money and good friends, but the weather in summer and winter was Horrible. So Samir moves to Oakland, CA and settled in a weather agreeable all year around and MAGIC happens!

Artist Biography: Samir Saad resides in Oakland CA. retired in 2015 from Child, Family and Community Services. A good friend referred to , Stagebridge, that offered courses in Playwriting and Storytelling…and he got the STORYTELLER BUG! And has been at Stagebridge for nine years now!

MELINDA GINNE
Signs & Symptoms

Show Description: A look back at the career of a psychologist from one of the first patients she ever saw to one of the last. Some lessons take time to be learned.

Artist Biography: Melinda Ginne, Ph.D., is a psychologist with over 40 years of experience in geriatrics and treating the psychological aspects of major medical illnesses. She draws inspiration from Glinda the Good Witch (Billie Burke), Oliver Sacks, Sid Caesar, and Imogene Coca. For generations, her family lived in Boyle Heights, the Jewish-Latino comunidad of East Los Angeles where tacos were kosher and the Shul was directly across the street from the Catholic Church. The language of the streets and of her family is English, a bissel of Spanish, y un poquito of Yiddish. She is a graduate of the EPIC storytelling program at Stagebridge in Oakland and has been telling stories on Bay Area stages for many years.

Cynthia Cudaback
Raven and the Tides

Show Description: This is Cynthia’s personal variation of a traditional Native American story. She hopes it will inspire you to listen to the original, perhaps as told by Gene Tagaban.

Artist Biography: Cynthia Cudaback loves to combine her passions for science, exploration, teaching and storytelling. Her stories join the mystery and myth of the ocean with personal experiences and real science. From gentle tales of love and longing to tall tales salted with sea spray, prepare to experience the ocean in all its moods.

Show Information

Tickets: $10 – $20 General Seating sliding scale
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Last Tuesday of the Month | Berkeley TheaterStage
Showtime 7:00pm

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