Zelda aka Judith Z. Miller (storyteller) Tina Barry (poet) – Featured Performance & Open Mic

Zelda aka Judith Z. Miller –  is a Queer multimedia firecracker—storyteller, performer, percussionist, healer and mover—whose true stories spark laughter, solidarity, and the courage to survive turbulent times. She has lit up stages from the Kennedy Center, The Fine Line Actors Theatre, GALA Hispanic Theatre (DC) to WOW Café Theatre and Dixon Place (NYC), and across the Hudson Valley at Studio Theatre in Exile, Avant-Garde-Arama, Rosendale Theatre, The Lace Mill, and beyond. Woodstock audiences may recognize her at the Woodstock Drum Circle—maracas shaking, drums beating, body moving in trance-dance — joy unmistakable. Zelda is a TMI Storyteller of the Week and featured on their multi-award-winning Pride Stories Podcast. Her writing appears in The Washington Post, American Theatre magazine, Inside Arts, Ecosexuality: When Nature Inspires the Arts of Love, and Queeries Blog & Zine. Her acclaimed solo show, Que Será, Será: A Life’s Journey of Sexual Orientation & Gender Expression, streams at QueSeraSeraShow.com. She also offers performance coaching for poets and fiction writers. Follow Zelda on Facebook & Instagram @ArtistSoulSpeaks; ZeldaArtsManagement@gmail.com.

Tina Barry sold towels at Bloomingdales and nuts at the Nut Shoppe at different malls in New Jersey. She’s worked as a secretary, a cocktail waitress (for one night), a textile and clothing designer, and is now a poet and short story writer, editor and teacher. Tina’s third collection I Tell Henrietta, with art by Kristin Flynn, was published in 2024. (Aim Higher, Inc.) Her writing can be found in Rattle, Verse Daily, ONE ART, The Best Small Fictions 2020 and 2016 and elsewhere. MFA in creative writing, Long Island University, Brooklyn. Tina has several Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net and Best Microfiction nominations. She teaches at The Poetry Barn and Writers.com.