Event

Words First

Words First is the premier solo performance event in San Francisco. The first Wednesday of every month, Words First invites the finest solo artist, comics, and storytellers to the CounterPULSE stage. Solo performance is a unique brand of theater one person, one stage. Its one part storytelling, one part comedy, one part drama, and 100% entertainment.

::: With Performances By :::

MONICA BHATNAGAR
"Bollywood Princess"
A pre-adolescent fantasizer negotiates bullies, and emerges as a fabulous Indian heroine. (http://www.monicabhatnagar.com)

HOWARD PETRICK
"Rambo: The Missing Years (excerpt, Hello Ft. Hood)"
This is the often humorous story of the military bureaucracy and a draftee who, without breaking the rules, spoke out against the war to his fellow GIs and anyone else who would listen. After a turbulent two months in basic training Pvt. Petrick and his anti-war buddy Moen are assigned to Ft. Hood, Texas to be trained as field wiremen.

ENZO LOMBARD
"Love Humiliation & Karaoke"
LHK opened at San Franciscos StageWerx Theatre in September of 2008, moving to NYC Summer 2009 where it was nominated for two Midtown Artist Awards, winning Best Solo Show/Outstanding Actor in a Production w/ Music. (http://www.enzolombard.com)

KATHY JETNIL-KIJINER
âIep Jeltok: Woman a Bountiful Basketâ
Kathy, a Marshallese girl swims between responsibility to her family and to herself and along the way finds her own meaning of the Marshallese term iep jeltok.