2020 Fringe Schedule
Hi-DeF Goes High-Tech for 2020!
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, the producers of the Hi-DeF Festival will host an online festival this year.
WE DID IT!!!!!!!!
June 13, 2020 Saturday
Thank you to everyone who tuned in!
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MEET THE PERFORMERS AND THEIR STORIES......
Turiya Autry
POETIC JUSTICE
Author, Teaching Artist, Professor, Poet, Performer, Playwright, Photographer, Radio Host, Mask Maker and more! Turiya’s message is one that delivers on its promise of educating, motivating, and inspiring a wide audience. For two decades, her work has incorporated the arts, pop culture, and history with personal, community, and political struggles.
POETIC JUSTICE
Author, Teaching Artist, Professor, Poet, Performer, Playwright, Photographer, Radio Host, Mask Maker and more! Turiya’s message is one that delivers on its promise of educating, motivating, and inspiring a wide audience. For two decades, her work has incorporated the arts, pop culture, and history with personal, community, and political struggles.
Roy Boucher
TAROT BY YOU FOR YOU
Roy Boucher is a playwright and actor. He has been an active member of “Writing for Performance” for 8 years and he has appeared in 7 independent films. He wrote and produced the 2019 short, “Happy Birthday Art” which was shown in 12 film festivals across the U.S. It was recognized with a Bronze Award from the LA Shorts Awards and is now seen on their channel on serb.tv.
TAROT BY YOU FOR YOU
Roy Boucher is a playwright and actor. He has been an active member of “Writing for Performance” for 8 years and he has appeared in 7 independent films. He wrote and produced the 2019 short, “Happy Birthday Art” which was shown in 12 film festivals across the U.S. It was recognized with a Bronze Award from the LA Shorts Awards and is now seen on their channel on serb.tv.
Marianne Emma Jeff
IT’S A KNOCKOUT
CEO of The Women’s Business Momentum Center and #1 Best Selling Author of Brand Me! & The Get it Done Diva's Guide to Business, and voted audience favorite at the 2019 Fringe returns to the Hi DeF Fringe this year with her latest.
IT’S A KNOCKOUT
CEO of The Women’s Business Momentum Center and #1 Best Selling Author of Brand Me! & The Get it Done Diva's Guide to Business, and voted audience favorite at the 2019 Fringe returns to the Hi DeF Fringe this year with her latest.
Greyson Hayles
SOULS OF THE KINGDOMS
Hi-DeF welcomes its youngest solo festival performer. Thirteen year old, Greyson will be reading/performing excerpts from his novel, Souls of the Kingdoms, Book 1. The novel revolves around Jacob, who, after losing his father, tries to free the world from his father’s killer... will thejourney ever be fulfilled?
SOULS OF THE KINGDOMS
Hi-DeF welcomes its youngest solo festival performer. Thirteen year old, Greyson will be reading/performing excerpts from his novel, Souls of the Kingdoms, Book 1. The novel revolves around Jacob, who, after losing his father, tries to free the world from his father’s killer... will thejourney ever be fulfilled?
Miri Hunter
Bobby Jo Jackson: NEWS FROM AROUND THE LIVINGROOM CHAIR
Co-producer of the Hi-DeF Fringe, Miri Hunter returns in this third installment of the Bobby Jo Jackson series. After preaching about the Vortex of Evil, losing your soul for false promises, Bobby Jo, Sheltering in Place, gives a commencement speech on the world in 2020 from her livingroom chair.
Bobby Jo Jackson: NEWS FROM AROUND THE LIVINGROOM CHAIR
Co-producer of the Hi-DeF Fringe, Miri Hunter returns in this third installment of the Bobby Jo Jackson series. After preaching about the Vortex of Evil, losing your soul for false promises, Bobby Jo, Sheltering in Place, gives a commencement speech on the world in 2020 from her livingroom chair.
Abby Palen
MOVING THE MOUNTAIN
Abby Palen is a recent graduate from The University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, earning a BFA in Acting. Moving the Mountain is one person’s real life fairytale. There’s Abby, non-binary jolly human learning what it means to be human. There’s a villain, EDNA, a mountain of false truths the hero has convinced themselves to believe. And there’s a journey, a physicalized papier machè mannequin mountain to be moved every single night in front of a live audience. And life doesn’t have a happily ever after, but it does have happy.
MOVING THE MOUNTAIN
Abby Palen is a recent graduate from The University of Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, earning a BFA in Acting. Moving the Mountain is one person’s real life fairytale. There’s Abby, non-binary jolly human learning what it means to be human. There’s a villain, EDNA, a mountain of false truths the hero has convinced themselves to believe. And there’s a journey, a physicalized papier machè mannequin mountain to be moved every single night in front of a live audience. And life doesn’t have a happily ever after, but it does have happy.
Gary Powers
BITTERSWEET, MEMORIES IN POETRY AND SONG
Gary Powers is a Palm Springs-based playwright, actor, singer, songwriter and comedian. A graduate of Boston's Emerson College, he studied playwriting with Circle Rep's Milan Stitt ('The Runner Stumbles') and was mentored by composer John Kander ('Cabaret'). He shares memories in ‘Bittersweet,’ capturing the often sad beauty of life with story and song.
BITTERSWEET, MEMORIES IN POETRY AND SONG
Gary Powers is a Palm Springs-based playwright, actor, singer, songwriter and comedian. A graduate of Boston's Emerson College, he studied playwriting with Circle Rep's Milan Stitt ('The Runner Stumbles') and was mentored by composer John Kander ('Cabaret'). He shares memories in ‘Bittersweet,’ capturing the often sad beauty of life with story and song.
Kurt Schauppner
KURT SCHAUPPNER’S STORIES, EXCUSES AND ALIBIS
Kurt Schauppner is a working journalist who has served the people of Twentynine Palms as editor of The Desert Trail for more than 20 years. When not working on the paper, he has been an active member of several community theatre troupes, acting, writing and directing in productions across the Morongo Basin.
Two of his plays, “The Memory Jar,” and “Unbroken Chain,” have been published by Off The Wall plays, an online company. Three of his self-published novels, “Ghosts of Ide County,” “The First Book of Exile: The Book of Albert,” and “The Second Book of Exile: The Book of Ian,” are available for purchase at lulu.com. He is hoping to publish a book of poetry, “Mary’s Confession and Other Bits,” soon.
KURT SCHAUPPNER’S STORIES, EXCUSES AND ALIBIS
Kurt Schauppner is a working journalist who has served the people of Twentynine Palms as editor of The Desert Trail for more than 20 years. When not working on the paper, he has been an active member of several community theatre troupes, acting, writing and directing in productions across the Morongo Basin.
Two of his plays, “The Memory Jar,” and “Unbroken Chain,” have been published by Off The Wall plays, an online company. Three of his self-published novels, “Ghosts of Ide County,” “The First Book of Exile: The Book of Albert,” and “The Second Book of Exile: The Book of Ian,” are available for purchase at lulu.com. He is hoping to publish a book of poetry, “Mary’s Confession and Other Bits,” soon.
Leah Solomon
THE SINGING RABBI GOES TO ISRAEL
This is the story of a woman whose successful open heart surgery leaves her with a visit from the Goddess which catapults her into becoming an Israeli citizen, singing with drag queens and giving birth to a new kind of spirituality. Leah is an actor, singer and writer who has done off Broadway and off off Broadway. She currently resides in Tel Aviv, where she is pursuing cantorial studies while singing in cabaret venues. She is developing a new kind of spirituality linked to the practice of her tantric voice lessons.
THE SINGING RABBI GOES TO ISRAEL
This is the story of a woman whose successful open heart surgery leaves her with a visit from the Goddess which catapults her into becoming an Israeli citizen, singing with drag queens and giving birth to a new kind of spirituality. Leah is an actor, singer and writer who has done off Broadway and off off Broadway. She currently resides in Tel Aviv, where she is pursuing cantorial studies while singing in cabaret venues. She is developing a new kind of spirituality linked to the practice of her tantric voice lessons.
Ann Van Haney
LUNCHTIME ASHRAM
This is a world premiere of the newest solo show by Hi-DeF Co-Producer Ann Van Haney. At the Lunchtime Ashram, Vera Frank can size up what you need and get your life back on track in 30 minutes or less. If silent meditation retreats where you eat lentils for a week aren’t your thing, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to the land of drive-thru enlightenment!
LUNCHTIME ASHRAM
This is a world premiere of the newest solo show by Hi-DeF Co-Producer Ann Van Haney. At the Lunchtime Ashram, Vera Frank can size up what you need and get your life back on track in 30 minutes or less. If silent meditation retreats where you eat lentils for a week aren’t your thing, you’ve come to the right place. Welcome to the land of drive-thru enlightenment!
