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Tara Jepsen is a writer and performer from San Francisco, California. Among her many performances, she has featured at the Porchlight storytelling series, the RADAR reading series at the downtown San Francisco public library, and at Litquake. She recently was chosen, with Beth Lisick, as one of five winners for the San Francisco MoMA's "I Want You" collaboration with Tony Labat. She has short stories published in the anthologies Pills, Thrills, Chills and Heartache (Alyson Books) and It’s So You (ed. Michelle Tea, Seal Press, 2007). She toured extensively with seminal all-female cabaret Sister Spit’s Rambling Road Show in October and November of 2007, as well as summer 1997, fall 1998, and summer 1999. Her most recent short film, Diving for Pearls (co-written, directed and acted with Beth Lisick), won the “Most Innovative Short” award at the Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival (2004) and was selected for the “Best of Newfest” screening at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. She co-curates and co-hosts San Francisco's longest running queer open mic, K'vetsh (awarded “Best Open Mic” by the SF Bay Guardian and SF Weekly), with Kirk Read. She recently completed a sold-out first run of her live stage show, written and performed with Beth Lisick, entitled Getting in on the Ground Floor and Staying There. Beth and Tara will take their show to Las Vegas in December 2008, and to New York City's Dixon Place in February, 2009. |
“Beth Lisick and Tara Jepsen are our own Amy Sedarises…”
- Hiya Swanhuyser, SF Weekly, July 2008 |
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