Performers for Sunday, November 16th, 2025

Performer: David Jacobson

Title: Murder on the Mission to Mars!

Synopsis:  The year: 2045. Six elderly eccentrics are crammed aboard a spaceship bound for Mars. Each was rigorously selected for this trailblazing seniors mission by sponsor Kepler RV Industries, top maker of self-flying recreational vehicles. But en route to the Red Planet, one of the crew is found extra-unpleasantly murdered -- in a room locked from the inside! Cut off from Earth communications, the septuagenarian survivors must solve this zero-gravity who/how-dunit ... or risk becoming the next victims!

Bio: David Jacobson consumes the caloric equivalent of 80,000 Big Macs every day. He lives in all the world's oceans except the Arctic. No, wait, that's Blue Whales. 

Jacobson is a Portland, Oregon-based writer/performer who's been doing solo theater for 18 years. He now has that Imaginary Friends & Family phone plan where all your outgoing calls go to your own voicemail. 

His shows "Theme Park" and "Dog's Misery Swamp" toured Fringe Festivals in the U.S. and Canada. He's performed at Monday Night Marsh, Tell It On Tuesdays, Solo Sundays, Sunset Solos, and Oakland's fabled High Dive. 

"Murder on the Mission to Mars!" was born in Charlie Varon's fertile workshops. The script was developed with Mark Kenward. Characters were honed with Julia McNeal. It's directed by Brooke Totman of 100 Lives Repertory Theater.