March 7 – 22
Marin Shakespeare Company Downtown Theatre, 514 Fourth Street, San Rafael
Curated and hosted by Josh Kornbluth
Three weekends of singular storytelling curated and hosted by the beloved and incisive Josh Kornbluth, featuring both beloved solo stars and bold new voices. From polished masterworks to pieces still finding their shape, this festival invites audiences into the immediacy, intimacy, and daring of artists creating at full blaze.
Josh Kornbluth
Festival Curator and Performer
Josh has been creating and performing autobiographical monologues for over three decades. Red Diaper Baby, his Off-Broadway debut, was selected for the Best American Plays of 1992 collection and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award. He wrote and starred in feature-film adaptations of two of his shows, Haiku Tunnel (which was selected for the Sundance Film Festival and distributed by Sony Pictures Classics) and Love & Taxes (a “100% Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes) — both directed by his brother Jacob Kornbluth. For two years he hosted his own interview program on KQED-TV in San Francisco, cleverly titled The Josh Kornbluth Show. He was a Visiting Artist, and later a volunteer, at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco. He has also been a Fellow at the Global Brain Health Institute, based at UCSF. His “Citizen Brain” videos (citizenbrain.org) have been viewed by over half a million people. He has a Substack called “But Not Enough About Me” (https://joshkornbluth.substack.com/), which you can subscribe to for free. You can also find him at joshkornbluth.com. He lives in Berkeley with his wife and son.