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Featured
Musicians for December 2019
Joseph
Arnold with Eric Coyne
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Joseph
Arnold, jazz composer and violinist, and
Eric Coyne, classical cellist, will present
a fully improvised experience that melds
sonic landscapes and forms from classical,
jazz, folk, and world traditions, creating
lyrical and inviting works that can be heard
only at this live performance.
Featured
Actors
Emma
Gibson and Marcia Saunders
Contributing
Artist
Tom Tansey
Friday,
December 6th, 6:45pm
at Chestnut
Hill Friends Meetinghouse
20 E. Mermaid Lane, Chestnut
Hill, PA 19118
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Emma
Gibson
Emma Gibson
is a writer, director, actor and producer,
originally from the UK but now living in
Philadelphia. In the UK she worked as an
actress in London, Edinburgh, on tour and
regionally around the UK in both new writing
and classical theatre, for BBC radio drama,
and film.
In
Philadelphia she has worked with many local
companies, and most recently performed in
the Barrymore nominated production of Perfect
Blue. She has also directed multiple
classical theatre productions at The Shipley
School. As the founding producing artistic
director of Tiny Dynamite she has produced
over 20 productions ranging from Scottish
one acts, to full length plays that integrate
complex technology in performance.
She
is also the proud Mom to Oscar and Willow.
Thanks to Susan for this wonderful opportunity.
www.britishemma.com
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Marcia
Saunders
Peoples
Light: Over 85 productions including Cora
in Mornings at Seven, Ethel
in Moon Over Buffalo, Mrs. Jennings
in Sense and Sensibility, Stella
in Stella and Lou, Mrs. Bennet in
Pride & Prejudice, Dotty in Noises
Off, Nurse Ratched in One Flew Over
The Cuckoos Nest, Amanda in The
Glass Menagerie, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth,
Skin of our Teeth, My Mother Said I Never
Should, A Room Of Ones Own, Heartbreak
House, Abelard & Heloise, Toys in the
Attic, Memory of Water, The Stonehouse,
Hamlet, The Misanthrope, The Taming of the
Shrew.
Theatre
Includes: Recently Paige in HIR at
Simpatico Theatre, made her directorial
debut at Candlelight Theater in Delaware
directing Steel Magnolias. Off Broadway:
The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow
(Atlantic Theatre Co.) Regional: The Wilma,
Arden Theatre, Two River Theater, Quintessence
Theater. Playing Claire in A Delicate
Balance garnered Marcia a Best Supporting
Actress award and she has received numerous
Barrymore nominations including Best Actress
for Stella and Lou and A Man from
Nebraska.
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Tom
Tansey
Tom Tansey
is an actor, producer, and proud former
resident of Chestnut Hill. He was most recently
seen on stage at the Steel River Playhouse
in the regional premiere of Anna Ziegler's
Boy and as Henry Higgins in the Broadway
Theatre of Pitman production of My Fair
Lady.
Other
recent productions include The Christians
at the Playcrafters of Skippack, Rounding
Third with the Electric Theatre Company,
the Barrymore-nominated production of 25th
Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at
the Montgomery Theater, and the US premieres
of Abi Morgan's Tiny Dynamite and
Joe Penhall's Dumb Show in Philadelphia.
Tom has also appeared on stage with People's
Light & Theatre Company, Bristol Riverside
Theater, Azuka Theatre, and Chestnut Hill's
own Stagecrafters. Regional theatre credits
include Psychopathia Sexualis, Over The
Tavern, Book of Days, Twelfth Night, Richard
III, and Lonely Planet.
Off
stage, Tom lives in Collegeville with his
lovely wife, Diane, without whom none of
the above would have been possible.
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Joseph
Arnold
Joseph
Arnold is a violinist, composer, and leader
of the Joseph Arnold Orchestra. Joseph grew
up studying classical and fiddle music and
graduated from Carnegie Mellon in 2006 with
a BA in Jazz Studies. He has experience
playing with many different kinds of groups,
including orchestras, small string ensembles,
indie rock bands, jazz bands, blues bands,
pop bands, a tango band, country and folk
bands, as well as a far-out space rock improvisation
group. Ive been playing violin
since I was 5 years old, he told us,
and have been learning it wherever
Ive been since then
For as
long as I can remember I loved playing music,
whether at concerts or for the plumber who
came to fix the sink. Joseph says
he plays the violin to find deep peace
and awakeness in every moment of my life.
His music fills a longing you may
not have even known was there. comments
Joy R. of Philadelphia.
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Eric
Coyne
Cellist
Eric Coyne has been an active teacher, performer,
and chamber musician in the Philadelphia
region since 2001. He currently teaches
cello, music theory, and coordinates the
string program and chamber music program
at Community Music School of Collegeville,
where he's been master faculty since 2009.
He also taught cello, theory and sight-reading
in the Suzuki Academy at Music School of
Delaware from 2009 - 2019 . His performing
commitments include Prometheus Chamber Orchestra,
Symphony in C, of which he has been a member
since 2001; Arcana New Music Ensemble; and
Murmuration Improvisation Ensemble. Mr.
Coyne holds a B.M. in Cello Performance
from the University of Iowa, and an M.M.
and Performance-Pedagogy Professional Certificate
from Temple University.
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Selected
Authors - December 6, 2019
Mike
Cohen (Bovine Mantra) hosts Poetry
Aloud and Alive at Philadelphia's Big
Blue Marble Book Store. His articles on
sculpture appear in the Schuylkill Valley
Journal. His wry writing has appeared
in Mad Poets Review, Apiary Magazine,
Fox Chase Review, and other journals.
Mike has performed in venues including
Princeton's Cafe? Improv, the Pen and
Pencil Club, the Hedgerow Theatre, Fergie's
Pub, Harlem's Apollo Theater, and neither
least nor last, Philadelphia's Laurel
Hill Cemetery.
Carole
Ziegler (Spinelli) Croll (Things) graduated
West Chester University with a B.S. in
Education. She began her career as a first
grade teacher at Collegeville Trappe Elementary
School in 1973. After a move to the Chicago
area, she became a licensed massage therapist,
as well as a teacher of English Language
Learners in the Wheaton school district.
Her book, The Gift Forthcoming, is a collection
of poems about love, beauty and spirit.
Carole's work has appeared in various
publications, and has been awarded by
the Nevada Poetry Society, Poets and Patrons
of Chicago, and the Illinois State Poetry
Society.
Steve
Delia (Fear of Poetry) has been writing
poetry for 42 years. He has read in various
book stores, coffee houses, libraries
and other venues. He has read on WXPN.
He is one half of the dueling poets with
Mike Cohen. Steve has 6 books. his latest,
The Alphabet Concerto. He has won prizes
at the Phila Writers Conference including
first prize in 2015. Look for Steve and
Mike conducting interviews with poets
on youtube.
Linda
M. Fischer (A Homecoming) -Winner
of the 2019 Philadelphia Writers' Conference
poetry contest, Linda M. Fischer has published
two chapbooks: Raccoon Afternoons and
Glory (Finishing Line Press). Her poetry
has appeared in Ibbetson Street, Muddy
River Poetry Review, Poetry East, Potomac
Review, Roanoke Review, Schuylkill Valley
Journal, SoFloPoJo, Valparaiso Poetry
Review, Verse-Virtual, The Worcester Review,
and elsewhere. Twice nominated for a Pushcart
Prize, she is an enthusiastic gardener
and lives in Swarthmore, PA. www.lindamfischer.com
Monica
Borrin Flint (Forest Bathing) was
born in England, where her parents had
found refuge a few years earlier after
their original country, Poland, was brutally
conquered first by the Nazis in 1939 and
then by the Soviets in 1945. She moved
to the US in 1989 with her husband and
two daughters, where she eventually met
Dr. Chris Bursk who inspired her to write
poetry.
Leslie
D. Hamilton (She) wants to live in
a world where differences are appreciated
and the intrinsic value of women, children
and people of color is celebrated. When
the world doesn't live up to this ideal,
she writes about it. A poet and storyteller
with an MBA in marketing, Leslie has performed
in numerous venues including the Barnes,
African American Museum of Philadelphia,
schools, concert halls and the inaugural
MAAG Rocks Art Festival. She was recently
published in Black, Brown & Beige.
Follow her on Facebook at Leslie.d.hamilton247.
Dagmar
Iris Hoell (Oyster Mushrooms For Alice)-
Poetry and Storytelling has been in a
way, a quiet, yet strengthening force
in my life since the age of 33. I'am a
'young Crone' still making efforts to
live a connected life to the awe and wonder
of the Gifts. I was born in a very rural
town of Southern Germany in 1948 and immigrated
to Philadelphia in 1955. Poetry and Storytelling
have been self taught .. nothing formal.
In 2018 , i had the pleasure of meeting
MaryAnne Miller , publisher and owner
of Lucia Press. Together , my first two
chap books : The Gazing Eye and Skizzenbuch
have been published.
Jeffrey
Ethan Lee (air and variations heretic
psalm) Jeffrey Ethan Lee's novel The
Autobiography of Somebody Else was published
by White Pine Press (2016.) His poetry
book, identity papers was a 2006 Colorado
Book Award finalist and his first poetry
book, invisible sister (Many Mountains
Moving Press, 2004), was praised in American
Book Review etc. Towards euphoria was
co-winner of the editor's poetry chapbook
prize from Seven Kitchens Press (2012).
He won the 2002 Sow's Ear Poetry Chapbook
prize ($1,000) for The Sylf (2003), and
the chapbook Color Schemes was a finalist
for their first poetry chapbook prize
in 2015.
Ellen
Murphey (Right Now: Mass Shootings in
El Paso, Dayton) is an adjunct instructor
at Arcadia University, where she teaches
courses about gender, memory, coming out,
and poetry. She has had poems published
in Chiron, Blood & Thunder, and Apiary.
Steve
Nolan (The Shaker at Hancock House)-
BS in English from the University of Miami
and Masters from Barry University, in
clinical social work (25 years as a therapist
and 30 years in the military ending his
career as the Chief of Combat Stress for
Paktika Province in Afghanistan). Publications:
Passages North, U.S. 1 Worksheets, The
Florida Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal,
River Heron Review and others; his poems
featured on National Public Radio, September,
2007 upon returning from Afghanistan.
Faith
Paulsen (Attention) is delighted to
be included in Rhythm and Verse. Faith's
poetry and prose have been published in
many venues ranging in alphabetical order
from Apiary to Wild River Review. One
poem was nominated for a Pushcart. Her
chapbook A Color Called Harvest (Finishing
Line Press) was published in 2016. Most
recently her work has appeared in the
QuillsEdge Anthology 50/50: Poems &
Translations by Womxn over 50, Mantis,
Evansville Review and Terra Preta.
Wendy
Fulton Steginsky (Twilight's Small Gestures)
is the author of three books of poetry.
She attributes her love for the art form
to growing up on the shores of Bermuda
where the sea's rhythms seeped into her
bones and stayed. Her work has been widely
published in the Caribbean and the U.S.
She was selected as runner up to the 2017
Bucks County Poet Laureate. She resides
happily in Doylestown, PA, returning as
often as she can to Bermuda.
Alan
Toltzis (Parking Lot Meditation) is
the author of 49 Aspects of Human Emotion
and The Last Commandment. A two-time Pushcart
nominee, he has published in numerous
print and online journals including, Grey
Sparrow, The Wax Paper, Hummingbird, IthacaLit,
and Poetry NI. He serves as a Contributing
Editor for The Saturday Poetry Series
in As It Ought to Be Magazine and as an
Editor for the Mizmor Poetry Anthology.
Find him online at alantoltzis.com and
follow him @ToltzisAlan.
Rebeckah
Wyant (On Wing & A Prayer) -The
yard sale sign called to out-of-town cousins.
Besides, the farmhouse had always fascinated
Rebeckah. $10 bought a box of Writing
Books - several gems in the craft of fiction.
Her interest morphed into a hobby. During
the solitude of a winter writing retreat
by the ocean, Rebeckah Wyant, an MBA amid
MFAs, decided to pursue Creative Writing
and Publishing degrees - to give life
and honor to all those characters she
has known, loved, and unloved.
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