Performer for Sunday, Sept 20th, 2026
Performer: Abbey Glover
Title: I'm a Businessman, Man
Synopsis: On the verge of achieving her lifelong dream of becoming the ultimate businessman, Abbey finds her quest may cost her more than she expected.
Bio: Abbey Glover is a San Francisco-based writer and performer whose work explores themes of self-expression and vulnerability with wry insight that “wouldn’t be out of place in either a Greta Gerwig film or a Peanuts comic strip” (The Scotsman). Her first solo show Abbey’s Box premiered at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, earning multiple 4- and 5-star reviews from publications such as The Scotsman and Broadway World.
Performer: Cynthia Matzger
Title: Mirror Image
Synopsis: Flashback a couple of decades earlier to see Cynthia quickly climbing the ladder of her dreams. Her goal of becoming a Hollywood Director may finally be coming to fruition. She’s got it all; youth, good looks and a hot boyfriend. But then overnight, everything changes. She is forced to take a really hard look in the mirror and decide will she continue to thrive in LaLa Land of make believe or face reality?
Bio: Cynthia Matzger developed her story chops with a BA in Film Studies and total immersion in the Hollywood studio system. She’s worked professionally as a Director (member of the Directors Guild of America) and Producer before returning to her Native San Franciscan roots. In November of 2025 she was lovingly shoved on stage to perform improv and a spark was born. She now finds herself tiptoeing her way from “behind-the-scenes” and into the (spot) Light!
Performer: Silvi Alcivar
Title: snow white and la bruja negra
Synopsis: snow white and la bruja negra: a tale akin to the disney version, complete with a bruja mother, seven little men, a dash of humor, and the brother’s grimm. this is the story of a life literally touched by animal magic and what happens when being beaten in oakland gives wing to a strength and life-altering spiritual understanding about surviving childhood violence. it’s a portal into what exists when life and death straddle the threshold of ineffable magic and being profoundly human
Bio: silvi alcivar, aka the poetry store, has written and sold an estimated 100k poems for twice as many people since 2008. her poetry lives in the moment two strangers meet over her red royal
typewriter—the anonymity an invitation to speak, the typewriter keys a willing listener. she’s worked in places as recognizable as google, as intimate as a funeral, as private as signed an NDA can’t say. her work has appeared at The De Young, SOMArts Cultural Center, KQED, The California Report, and Madrone. silvi is a teacher, visiting speaker, poetic storyboarder, collaborator with
fire practitioners, and creator of interactive performances. though storytelling’s her newest art form, she’s performed at The Marsh and the zero to fierce festival.