Auditorium at CLARA AUDITORIUM, 1425 24th Street, Sacramento, CA 95816.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Performance begins at 7:00 PM.
Doors open at 6:30 PM. Performance begins at 7:00 PM.
SEASON FINALE--NOVEMBER 18, 2022
Maceo Montoya is a California-based author, artist, and educator who has published books in a variety of genres. His first novel, The Scoundrel and the Optimist (Bilingual Review, 2010), was awarded the 2011 International Latino Book Award for "Best First Book" and Latino Stories named him one of its "Top Ten New Latino Writers to Watch." In 2014, University of New Mexico Press published his second novel, The Deportation of Wopper Barraza, and Copilot Press published Letters to the Poet from His Brother, a hybrid book combining images, prose poems, and essays. Montoya’s third work of fiction, You Must Fight Them: A Novella and Stories (University of New Mexico Press, 2015) was a finalist for Foreword Review's INDIEFAB Book of the Year Award. Montoya is also the author and illustrator of Chicano Movement for Beginners, a work of graphic nonfiction. His most recent novel is Preparatory Notes for Future Masterpieces (University of Nevada Press, 2021).
In the visual arts, Montoya's paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in exhibitions and publications throughout the country as well as internationally. He has collaborated with other writers on visual-textual projects, including David Montejano's Sancho's Journal (University of Texas Press, 2012), an ethnography of the Brown Berets in San Antonio, Laurie Ann Guerrero's A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlán Libre Press, 2015), and Arturo Mantecon's translation of Mexican poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro's Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth (Dialogos Books, 2018). In 2021, Red Hen Press published American Quasar, a collaboration with Fresno poet David Campos featuring 19 of Montoya's monoprints.
Montoya grew up in Elmira, California. He comes from a family of artists, including his father Malaquias Montoya, a renowned artist, activist, and educator, and his late brother, the poet Andrés Montoya. Maceo graduated from Yale University in 2002 and received his Master of Fine Arts in visual art from Columbia University in 2006. He is currently an associate professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis where he teaches courses on Chicanx culture and literature. https://maceomontoya.com/biography.html
Elison Alcovendaz’ work has appeared in The Rumpus, Santa Monica Review, Portland Review, Under the Gum Tree, Ruminate Magazine, Lost Balloon, Gargoyle, our SOSS anthology, Twenty Twenty, and other places. He is the author of The Evolution of Love, and his work was selected as a Best Small Fiction of 2020 and was nominated for Best of the Net. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Sacramento State and still calls Sacramento home. Elison enjoyed writing as a child, but didn't rediscover his love for storytelling until he realized (much later than he should have) that he wouldn't be the first Filipino-American in the NBA. https://elisonalcovendaz.com
In the visual arts, Montoya's paintings, drawings, and prints have been featured in exhibitions and publications throughout the country as well as internationally. He has collaborated with other writers on visual-textual projects, including David Montejano's Sancho's Journal (University of Texas Press, 2012), an ethnography of the Brown Berets in San Antonio, Laurie Ann Guerrero's A Crown for Gumecindo (Aztlán Libre Press, 2015), and Arturo Mantecon's translation of Mexican poet Mario Santiago Papasquiaro's Poetry Comes Out of My Mouth (Dialogos Books, 2018). In 2021, Red Hen Press published American Quasar, a collaboration with Fresno poet David Campos featuring 19 of Montoya's monoprints.
Montoya grew up in Elmira, California. He comes from a family of artists, including his father Malaquias Montoya, a renowned artist, activist, and educator, and his late brother, the poet Andrés Montoya. Maceo graduated from Yale University in 2002 and received his Master of Fine Arts in visual art from Columbia University in 2006. He is currently an associate professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at UC Davis where he teaches courses on Chicanx culture and literature. https://maceomontoya.com/biography.html
Elison Alcovendaz’ work has appeared in The Rumpus, Santa Monica Review, Portland Review, Under the Gum Tree, Ruminate Magazine, Lost Balloon, Gargoyle, our SOSS anthology, Twenty Twenty, and other places. He is the author of The Evolution of Love, and his work was selected as a Best Small Fiction of 2020 and was nominated for Best of the Net. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Sacramento State and still calls Sacramento home. Elison enjoyed writing as a child, but didn't rediscover his love for storytelling until he realized (much later than he should have) that he wouldn't be the first Filipino-American in the NBA. https://elisonalcovendaz.com
 Actor Brennan Villados
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Actor Brennan Villados who will perform Elison's work, is based out of Sacramento, California. His most recent acting credits include in The Picture of Dorian Gray with Freefall Stage, A Soldier’s Play with Celebration Arts, and Marat/Sade with Falcon’s Eye Theatre. Brennan made his directorial debut in 2019 with Romeo and Juliet for Freefall Stage’s Shakespeare in the park. He attended The American Academy of Dramatic Art and has worked for the UC Davis School of Medicine Standardized Patient Program for the last six years. His other favorite roles include Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet with Falcon’s Eye Theatre, Patrick Stone in Inventing Van Gogh with Big Idea Theatre, Eddie in Fool for Love, and Tom in the one-man show Poster of the Cosmos, both for Blank Canvas Theatre. He is delighted to be a part of this production and looks forward to discovering new ways of connecting and storytelling in this unprecedented time.
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Ernesto Bustos, who will perform Maceo Montoya's work, is a graduate of Sac State’s Theatre program and has been performing in theatre in and around the Sacramento area for the better part of 20 years. Most recently, he performed in Main Street Theatre Works' recreation of the Mercury Theatre on the Air 1930s broadcast of Treasure Island, as well as their summer production of Four Weddings and an Elvis. Other stage credits include Time of Death, both English and Spanish versions of Frida, Balm in Gilead, Anna in the Tropics, Antigone, Midsummer Night’s Dream, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, and Talk Radio. Mr. Bustos considers himself a competent amateur chef, having recently learned how to boil water. Mr. Bustos thanks his family and friends for their love and support. Special thanks to his wife Katie for standing by him all these years.
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BUY YOUR TICKETS
Stories on Stage Sacramento has been selected for the national IOBY matching grant program. For every dollar we raise between now and December, the City of Sacramento will match it, up to $15,000.
Instead of donating your $10 ticket price through Eventbrite, donate through IOBY and we'll get $20.
Want to buy a 2023 season subscription? Donate $50 through IOBY and we'll get $100! (All donations are tax-deductible, as SOSS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.)
Donate at least $50 anytime between now and December and you'll not only gain free entry to the remaining 2022 performances, but you'll also be a season subscriber and get in for free for all of next season!
Every dollar we raise will go toward producing the 2023 season and beyond, including paying for our beautiful CLARA auditorium space as well as the amazing actors and authors.
Click at the link below now and double your impact to help fund Stories on Stage Sacramento's 14th season and keep Sacramento's vibrant literary scene strong and vital for years to come! This is where you will now contribute to join us September 23. (Of course if you're already a season subscriber, you're set.) tinyurl.com/DOUBLEFORSOSS
Stories on Stage Sacramento has been selected for the national IOBY matching grant program. For every dollar we raise between now and December, the City of Sacramento will match it, up to $15,000.
Instead of donating your $10 ticket price through Eventbrite, donate through IOBY and we'll get $20.
Want to buy a 2023 season subscription? Donate $50 through IOBY and we'll get $100! (All donations are tax-deductible, as SOSS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit.)
Donate at least $50 anytime between now and December and you'll not only gain free entry to the remaining 2022 performances, but you'll also be a season subscriber and get in for free for all of next season!
Every dollar we raise will go toward producing the 2023 season and beyond, including paying for our beautiful CLARA auditorium space as well as the amazing actors and authors.
Click at the link below now and double your impact to help fund Stories on Stage Sacramento's 14th season and keep Sacramento's vibrant literary scene strong and vital for years to come! This is where you will now contribute to join us September 23. (Of course if you're already a season subscriber, you're set.) tinyurl.com/DOUBLEFORSOSS
FROM OCTOBER...Gabriela Garcia
On writing in the female voice in OF WOMEN AND SALT, featured novel for October 28.
Gabriela Garcia is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University. Her fiction and poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Tin House, Zyzzyva, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She is the daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Cuba and grew up in Miami. Of Women and Salt is her first novel.
All the characters in Garcia's novel are female. NPR's Sarah McCammon asked her about that.
"I was raised in a very matriarchal family. My mother was a single mother. She had a sister. My grandmother had all sisters. I have all sisters. And a lot of the women in my family and my community were, you know, single mothers and sometimes dealing with, you know, the aftermath of failed relationships. But I never felt a lack in any of that. ... I was thinking about Maria Isabel working in a factory where she was finding this kind of escape and joy through literature but also all of the books that were read to her, which are the actual books that were read to cigar factory workers during that time, were written by mostly European white men. And so she's hearing about herself always through this particular gaze."
Hear more in her NPR interview below.
On writing in the female voice in OF WOMEN AND SALT, featured novel for October 28.
Gabriela Garcia is the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writer's Award and a Steinbeck Fellowship from San Jose State University. Her fiction and poems have appeared in Best American Poetry, Tin House, Zyzzyva, Iowa Review, and elsewhere. She is the daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Cuba and grew up in Miami. Of Women and Salt is her first novel.
All the characters in Garcia's novel are female. NPR's Sarah McCammon asked her about that.
"I was raised in a very matriarchal family. My mother was a single mother. She had a sister. My grandmother had all sisters. I have all sisters. And a lot of the women in my family and my community were, you know, single mothers and sometimes dealing with, you know, the aftermath of failed relationships. But I never felt a lack in any of that. ... I was thinking about Maria Isabel working in a factory where she was finding this kind of escape and joy through literature but also all of the books that were read to her, which are the actual books that were read to cigar factory workers during that time, were written by mostly European white men. And so she's hearing about herself always through this particular gaze."
Hear more in her NPR interview below.
Stephanie R. McLemore Bray
Stephanie was born in her grandparents’ house in the middle of a field in Headland, Alabama, on All Hallows Eve. Raised in New Jersey, she moved with her husband and two children to Sacramento, California, in August 2005, on the heels of Hurricane Katrina. She is a graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University, with a B.A. in Philosophy. When she is not working as the Chief Engagement Officer at Seattle Foundation, she writes. She has had articles published on philanthropy, Black maternal health and health equity. She has also had an essay published by Next Avenue, an online journal for those aged 50+. Stephanie is the Founder of Black Women Write, a community of writers in Sacramento who are committed to celebrating and uplifting Black women’s voices through storytelling.
You're going to be so moved by Stephanie's story, "Sherwood Green's Last Picture Show." It won't surprise you to read how much she has also given off the page in Sacramento. You'll learn more with Sue Staats's upcoming interview. But as a little sample before that, find out here about one of the programs she developed to support impoverished local children.
Stephanie was born in her grandparents’ house in the middle of a field in Headland, Alabama, on All Hallows Eve. Raised in New Jersey, she moved with her husband and two children to Sacramento, California, in August 2005, on the heels of Hurricane Katrina. She is a graduate of Douglass College, Rutgers University, with a B.A. in Philosophy. When she is not working as the Chief Engagement Officer at Seattle Foundation, she writes. She has had articles published on philanthropy, Black maternal health and health equity. She has also had an essay published by Next Avenue, an online journal for those aged 50+. Stephanie is the Founder of Black Women Write, a community of writers in Sacramento who are committed to celebrating and uplifting Black women’s voices through storytelling.
You're going to be so moved by Stephanie's story, "Sherwood Green's Last Picture Show." It won't surprise you to read how much she has also given off the page in Sacramento. You'll learn more with Sue Staats's upcoming interview. But as a little sample before that, find out here about one of the programs she developed to support impoverished local children.
Answers to logistical questions about attending Stories on Stage Sacramento
Parking is available in the large lot behind the auditorium (entrance on "O" Street) and on the street. There is a ramp to enter from the parking lot.
Entry is either via the parking lot or the double doors on 24th street (look for the green and gold balloons at either entrance)
Doors open at 6:30 PM—performance begins at 7:00 PM
We are no longer checking vaccination status/masks are encouraged but not required
Season subscriber and ticket holder names will be at the WILL CALL table—check in to receive a program and raffle ticket(s)
Season subscribers can pick up a wallet sized card for expedited check-in at future events
You can donate in person at the DONATE table.
Wine, beer and water will be available for purchase
Seats will be spaced, though family and friend groups may wish to move closer together
Please feel free to email us with any other questions.
Entry is either via the parking lot or the double doors on 24th street (look for the green and gold balloons at either entrance)
Doors open at 6:30 PM—performance begins at 7:00 PM
We are no longer checking vaccination status/masks are encouraged but not required
Season subscriber and ticket holder names will be at the WILL CALL table—check in to receive a program and raffle ticket(s)
Season subscribers can pick up a wallet sized card for expedited check-in at future events
You can donate in person at the DONATE table.
Wine, beer and water will be available for purchase
Seats will be spaced, though family and friend groups may wish to move closer together
Please feel free to email us with any other questions.
CAN'T MAKE IT TO THE PERFORMANCE BUT DON'T WANT TO MISS IT?
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Of course we'd love to see you in person at the CLARA AUDITORIUM on Friday nights. But if you can't be there, we record all of the performances and post links to the recordings on our website, YouTube channel and share them in our newsletter. SIGN UP for THE newsletter so it comes right to your email box.
