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and/or developed by Spreckels he’s written for dozens of publications
Performing Arts Center, Left Edge in the Bay Area and nationwide. In
Theater, Main Stage West, The SF 2019, he won the California Newspaper
Olympians’ Festival, 6th Street Publishers Association award for best
Playhouse, Sonoma Arts Live, Actor’s writing. He is currently at work on a
Basement and Twisted Productions. new play about the secret fantasy life
Wretch Like Me, his first solo show, has of a parrot with PTSD, and another
been performed over 75 times, with about competitive female boxers. He
runs at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, expects to soon complete his long-
the San Francisco Fringe Festival and planned collection of twisted Christmas
the Roxie Theater, with additional stories, thus clearing the way for his
performances at The Marsh, Cinnabar long-planned autobiographical solo
Theater, Santa Rosa Junior College, show about life, death and relatives,
Napa Valley College, Napa Theater tentatively titled Space Junk.
Company and others. As a journalist,

LOCAL with Laura Ekstrand

Guest Host: Dave Maulbeck
Season 4, Episode 7
Available on iTunes and
www.VividStage.org

Interviewee: Laura Ekstrand

Produced by Laura Ekstrand,
Dave Maulbeck and Maribeth
Theroux
Music by Jeff Ertz and John
Todd