Bessie Zolno is our next guest on The Yay! Bessie is an actress, fight coordinator and an intimacy/violence choreographer – she was the former director of Center Stage. We talk about her background, her views on intimacy on the stage and where she sees herself in the future.
You can contact Bessie directly via Instagram: @bessiezolno
You can learn more about Bessie Zolno via her personal webpage: https://www.bessiezolno.com
Jameelah Rose has her own business selling healthy drinks - MelanA☥D is a black owned business that specializes in alkaline elixirs used to heal the mind and body. It's currently being sold at the Mandela Shopping Mart and you can find more info on MelanA☥D on this Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/melanaid
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Erin Merritt (Episode 191) is a gifted actress and director – creator of Women’s Will, the all-female Shakespeare group that ran from 1998-2009, who is suffering from ALS. She has been a blessing to the bay area theatre community and this is an opportunity to be a blessing for her. Her GoFundMe page link is below – please consider giving to help with her medical needs. Even a little bit counts.
Erin Merritt’s Go Fund Me site: https://gofund.me/e85e9f04
SHOWS:
A Christmas Carol (CenterREP)
Dec 12 – 22
Adam KuveNiemann (Episode 274) is in the show
https://www.centerrep.org
Leili & Majnun (Central Stage)
Dec 5 - 15
Brandon DiPaola (Episode 306) is in the show
Torange Yeghiazarian (Episode 167 & 286) wrote and is directing the show
https://centralstage.org/leili-%26-majnun
Thirty-Six (Shotgun Players)
Nov 16 – Dec 22
Lauren Garcia (Episode 207) is in the show
https://shotgunplayers.org/Online/default.asp
Every Christmas Story Ever Told – And Then Some (Town Hall Theatre)
Dec 7 – 21
Cecilia Palmtag (Episode 34) is in the play
https://www.townhalltheatre.com/every-christmas-story
Word for Word: The Strange Library (Z Below)
LAST SHOW TOMORROW
Jed Parsario (Episodes 63 & 186) is in the show
Chuck Lacson & Julie Kuwabara (Episode 184) is in the show
http://www.zspace.org
A Sherlock Carol (San Jose Stage)
Nov 20 – Dec 15
Li-Leng Au (Episode 189) is in the show
Julian Lopez-Morillas (Episode 217) is in the show
https://www.thestage.org
A NOH Christmas (Theatre Yugen)
Dec 4 – 29
Eiko Moon-Yamamoto (Episodes 120 & 225) is in the show
https://www.theatreofyugen.org
A Pickwick Christmas (Magic Theatre/Rainbow Zebra)
Dec 9
Eiko Moon-Yamamoto (Episodes 120 & 225) is in the show
Andrea Gordon (Episode 255) directs the show
https://www.classy.org/event/reading-series-extravaganza/e590229
Waitress (SF Playhouse)
Nov 21 – Jan 18, 2025
Tanika Baptiste (Episode 253) is in the show
Dorian Lockett (Episode 230) is in the show
Sharon Shao (Episode 176) is in the show
https://www.sfplayhouse.org/sfph/2024-2025-season/waitress/
The Breakup – A Latina Queer Torch Song
Dec 6 – 15
Tina D’Elia (Episode 268) wrote and is the star of her one woman show
https://www.brava.org/all-events/thebreakup
In Love and Warcraft (CityLights Theatre)
Jan 16 – Feb 9, 2025
Miranda Liu (Episode 300) is in the show
Kimberly Ridgeway (Episodes 155, 251 & 293) is directing the show
https://cltc.org/event/warcraft/
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