Word Performances
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Event Description
Word Performances is a series of poetry, prose, comedy, and memoir where words are the lead, music is featured, and dance makes a cameo. "Attending Word Performances is something akin to finding yourself inside a marvelous Literary Carnival where a cavalcade of talented players delight, amuse, enlighten, play, sing, dance, revel.
The writers they invite are both well-known and newcomers, and on any given night there might be a singer or a dancer or a stand-up comic. It's a delightful event - one with a love of performance and a deep commitment to words. - Sylvie Simmons, author of I'm Your Man, The Life of Leonard Cohen |
Curator: Cybele Zufolo Siegel
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Event Readers
Delores Churchill
Delores Churchill, is a working actor and comedian in the Bay Area. She just completed a Groundlings Workshop with writer, producer Guy Stevenson and recently performed in an Improv Comedy show at the Shelton Theater.
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Alvin Orloff
Alvin Orloff is the author of three novels, I Married an Earthling, Gutter Boys, and Why Aren’t You Smiling?, as well as the co-author of The Unsinkable Bambi Lake, a transgender showbiz memoir. After you’ve bought and read all of those, you can read his short story "Strawberry Ice Cream Glacé" online for free in The East Bay Review. He plans to publish one last novel and a memoir about crazy club kids during the AIDS crisis, then retire from writing and become a cranky old man.
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Todd Siegel
Todd Siegel crafts and performs idea satire poetry, and was called "the e e cummings of San Francisco tech culture" by Joel Landmine at Identity Crisis III. In perpendicular, Todd designs and prototypes user experiences and serves as a wordsmith for startups. He was interviewed in The New Yorker about the future of work.
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Cybele Zufolo
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Cee Reiss |
Joel Landmine |
Cee Reiss received an MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University and cofounded WE Write and Edit, a marketing communications firm.
Her novel, Jane Is Everywhere, will be published in 2018. |
Poet Joel Landmine's work has never been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. "Yeah, Well..", his first poetry collection, is available from Punk Hostage Press.
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Yae-Ming |
Hannah Glass |
Bio coming soon
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Classically trained in piano and violin, Hannah Glass has been sharing her multi-instrumental and vocal talents in the Bay for 6 years now. She has performed at venues such as the Sydney Opera House, Hollywood Bowl, Disneyland's 75th Anniversary, UC Berkeley's Zellerbach Hall at Ted Talks, The Great American Music Hall, and Chinatown's historic Great Star Theater. On occasion she plays solo gypsy-jazz and tango at Kat Robichaud's Misfit Cabaret.
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Thomas Barron
Thomas Barron’s first novel, Bocas, comes out in November. His work has been compared to Carl Hiaasen and Elmore Leonard. He lives in San Francisco, with his sleepy dog King.
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