When the things you thought were certain fall away, who are you?
Even America is not for sure any more.
Everything Is Subject to Change is an exploration of my experience of loss in a time when the pace of loss is accelerating. Structures are falling apart. Something new is being born.
Heather was engaging, she was able to throw an intimate blanket over the audience. She pulled them into her personal story and made them part of the experience. The audience actively asked her questions and she weaved her response into the performance. From an artistic perspective, I saw how she did it, she connected people and allowed them to come to grips with reality. She made it feel like its their story too.
– social artist and workshop participant Suzanne Ngyugen, Sydney AustraliaThe best kind of disruption. Heather reminds us that we all suffer, and that, in the face of that suffering, telling stories helps more than a bit. We get a hit of the real thing. And of course she’s also funny as hell. – Lisa Gluskin Stonestreet, Oakland USA
Riveting…honest…one of the best things I’ve seen in a long time. – former theatre critic and workshop participant Jimmy Waites, Sydney Australia
Show development
Live/Work – San Francisco, 1999
Institutions Fail: Loss and the Net (2011 ContactCon)
What is Home?
Outpatient
I Surrender
Other People’s Keys
Past Workshops:
Seattle, March 5th 2011
Portland – Living Room Workshop w pie, May 2011
Toronto – I Just Love That I’m So Into You, Winter 2011
Portland – Living Room Workshop w pie, Oct 2012
Litquake – Other People’s Keys, Mill Valley Library, Oct 2012
Porchlight – I Surrender (listen), San Francisco, May 2012
San Francisco – Monday Night Marsh, Marsh Theatre, May 2013
San Francisco – Solo Sundays Stage Werx, May 2013
San Francisco – Bawdy Storytelling, Verdi Club, Sept 2013
Sydney, Australia – Web Directions – October 2013
Berkeley – TMI Storytelling, Spring 2014
Alameda –November 23rd 2014 hosted by Rusty Blazenhoff
San Francisco – Solo Sundays, Stage Werx January 2015
Oakland – March 2015 – hosted by Lisa Gluskin and Erich Stonestreet
Dixon Place NYC. – May 19, 2015.
Oakland – July 2015 – hosted by Andrea Clark and Mark Addleman
San Francisco – Killing It – Fall 2016
Berkeley – Summer 2016 – hosted by Gary Pinsky
Yarn – Oakland – Fall 2016
National Queer Arts Fest – Some Things You Lose. Some Things You Give Away Spring 2017 w/Celeste Chan, Natalia Vigil, Cooper Lee Bombardier and Reggie Cabico
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