Performers for Sunday, May 18th, 2025
Performer: Eowyn Mader
Title: The Retreat
Bio: Éowyn Mader has performed with the California Shakespeare Theatre, the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Stage Company and Center REP, among many others. She was also a member of Rough and Tumble and Signal Theater Company. She is an early childhood music educator teaching in preschools and in the Music Together family music program.
Writer/Director: Nicole Galland
Title: The Retreat
Synopsis: Meditate on this: Minutes before a 3-day silent mindfulness retreat kicks off, a close friend betrays your trust (again) and now you’re stuck in the same meditation hall and dining room and corridors with him - unable to confront him in real life and unable to stop confronting him in your imagination. Will you spend the whole weekend writing a gloriously satisfying f*ck-you letter? Or can the Retreat Support Team help you find compassionate non-attachment?
Bio: Writer & Director Nicole Galland's day job is writing novels; her 10th and most recent, BOY, is set in Shakespeare's London. A recovering theatre artist, she's a former Literary Manager/Dramaturg of Berkeley Rep, and a proud dropout of the PhD Drama program at UC Berkeley. She occasionally directs, and/or co-writes, wee theatre projects in Massachusetts and Ireland.
