EXIT Theatre's Talk Story Festival To Bring Back Two Performers This Fall!

The signature storytellers festival, Talk Story, brings back two performers to reprise their 2018 Festival performances. As an art form and a means of communication, storytelling is one of our deepest-rooted instincts, and thanks to the phenomenal successes of series such as Porchlight, Bawdy, and The Moth, it's enjoying a renaissance in the Bay Area and across the country. Join us this fall as we present two powerful storytellers and their unique stories, spoken straight from the heart.

Talk Story Reprise, with Ed Wolf, Oct 19, 20, 26, 27 at 8PM, $20-$30

EXIT Theatre's Talk Story Festival is thrilled to bring back Ed Wolf, a legendary Bay Area wordsmith, activist, and performance artist, to reprise his 2018 Festival performance, It's Hard to Explain, a full hour of memory, momentum, and wit.

Ed Wolf has performed at numerous storytelling and performance events around the San Francisco Bay Area since 2006, including the Verdi Club with Porch Light, A Storytelling Series; Viracocha, The Lost Church and the Swedish American Hall with Youre Going to Die Too; Geoffreys Inner Circle with BustingOut Storytelling; Yerba Buena Center for the Arts with Beyond Folsom Street Blues: Stories from South of Market Before It Was SOMA; the National Queer Arts Festival in Right About Now; the Contemporary Jewish Museum in Have a Poet for Lunch and the Art of AIDS Activism; Listen For A Change in San Francisco and Oakland; Incivility: Dissent is Patriotic at the Lost Church, and numerous other venues and events. He's also featured in the award-winning documentary We Were Here, about the very early years of the AIDS epidemic in San Francisco.

Talk Story Reprise, with Randall Denham, Nov 3, 9, 10, 16 at 8PM, $20-$30

EXIT Theatre's Talk Story Festival is excited to bring back longtime EXIT collaborator Randall Denham, to reprise his 2018 Festival performance, Hedging the Edge: 1970's, a very personal history of San Francisco, and his first full-length Talk Story contribution.

Randall Denham received classical training at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating with honors. Mr. Denham has been doing theater in San Francisco since 1975, where he made his debut at the Veterans Auditorium Theater in Parasites Under the Bourgeoisie with San Francisco's legendary Angels of Light. Randall did six shows with the Angels of Light, including both productions of the Critics Circle favorite Holy Cow.

Mr. Denham has worked with the New Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare San Francisco, the Next Stage, and, is a veteran of many shows at EXIT Theatre. He's most proud of the work he did on the first five Ionesco plays that EXIT Theatre produced: Mr. Smith in The Bald Soprano being his favorite role. After a long hiatus as a bookseller, Randall is happy to be returning to EXIT with the "Talk Story" of his early years in San Francisco.