ODYSSEY STORYTELLING PHOTOS and BIOS

APRIL 28, 2007 - "Strange Bedfellows"

Steve Farley is a 44-year-old small-business owner who was elected to the Arizona Legislature as State Representative from midtown Tucson's District 28 in November 2006. He now serves as the Ranking Democrat on the Government committee, as well as member of the Ways & Means and Transportation committees. Steve is well-known to Tucsonans as the artist who gathered personal photos from the Tucson community and turned them into those historic photographic tile murals around the Broadway Underpass, at the eastern gateway to Downtown Tucson, using a tilemaking process that he invented. Steve has been actively involved in City politics for the past seven years, in particular as a strong advocate for neighborhoods, downtown revitalization, and sustainable transportation improvements.

Sarah Bromer grew up on the banks of the Susquehanna River. When she was eighteen, she left home to live in Canada. Later, with her new Canadian boyfriend, she moved to New Orleans in search of adventure. When they broke up, she came to Tucson and started teaching high school English.

Bill Bernat is a native Tucsonan who has spent half his life in San Francisco, where he wrote and performed several plays, a couple of one man shows, and countless sketch comedy shows. A long time IT rat, he now writes training materials for a software company. He performs locally with the Fiasco, Monolog Cabin, and now Odyssey Storytelling. Later this year he will debut a new one man show in the Minnesota Fringe Festival, where he'll also perform with the sketch group, "Starr, Scott and Bill."

Sid Rosen relocated to Tucson in 2006 from the NYC Metro area where he practiced law in the private sector for 22 years. Recently admitted to the Arizona State Bar, Sid hopes to create a new and different narrative, through the practice of law in the public sector.

Juliana Piccillo is a mother, filmmaker and writer.

Gabriel or G. E. Washington is an African American performance artist from Washington, DC. Currently he is a visiting professor of art education at the UofA. Gabriel has created performance pieces for the Washington Project for the Arts (WPA), Philadelphia Fringe Festival, Spoleto Festival USA, Pennsylvania Arts Fest, as well as galleries, nightclubs, churches, and other public meeting spaces throughout Washington, DC and New York. Gabriel uses conversation as a medium for investigating spaces of difference. His performances hyphenate the line between the artist and audience.