Bulletproof Unicorn | March 24, 2023

GREG WALLOCH (Story Developer) is an internationally renowned comedian, writer and storyteller whose live solo shows have toured in Moscow, Toronto, Vancouver, London, Ireland, Germany, Australia, Poland, Scotland, Tel Aviv and in various festivals across the United States. As an openly gay artist with a disability, he uses humor to expose cultural and social fault lines. Walloch is best known for his comedic autobiographical stories, which deal with events from his own life, in a style characterized by sharp wit, poignancy and sexuality.

Additionally, Walloch is a regular guest on The Moth, the acclaimed not-for-profit organization dedicated to the art and craft of storytelling; he is currently featured in their Peabody Award-winning-series, The Moth Radio Hour on National Public Radio.

Walloch was also featured in USA Network’s Characters Unite national live storytelling tour in sold out engagements from Seattle Center’s Marion Oliver McCaw Hall to the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, as well as the Newseum in Washington, DC and the Pacific Design Center in West Hollywood, CA. The national tour featured prominent talents such as Christopher Gorham, Forest Whitaker, Meghan McCain, Pam Grier, Nathan Lane, Octavia Spencer, Matt Bomer, John Legend and Willie Garson, among others. Walloch also appeared in the network’s Characters Unite, “I Won’t Stand For…,” PSA television campaign to fight hate and discrimination. Walloch continues to support USA Network’s 

Characters Unite initiative.

With guest appearances on everything from The Howard Stern Show to Kurt Andersen’s Studio 360 on Public Radio International, the comedian has a broad appeal. He has performed to a capacity crowd at Lincoln Center’s David Rubenstein Atrium in the variety show Sxip’s Hour of Charm, has opened for ‘60’s icon Janis Ian at the World Institute on Disability Gala in the Bay Area, and performed in The Moth: West Village Stories with Amy Sedaris and Andy Borowitz in New York City. The concert film, 

F**k The Disabled, based on Walloch’s live show, starred Greg with a cast that included Stephen Baldwin, Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara.

Walloch is passionate about storytelling bringing together community. He strongly believes that sharing our personal narrative has the power to change not only our own lives, but the lives of those around us. He regularly teaches concepts from his master class The Alchemy of Storytelling. Some of Walloch’s engagements have included the American Repertory Theater at Harvard, George Washington University, UC Berkeley, New York University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Loyola Marymount University, Sydney, Australia’s High School of the Performing Arts, Escuela Campo Alegre in Venezuela, and The Calhoun School in New York City, among others. He also mentors students at Hamburg Germany’s D&F Academy.

Greg Walloch currently resides and works in Los Angeles, CA.

For more information and upcoming performance dates please visit: 

www.GregWalloch.com

VICKIE J. SCOTT (Lighting & Scenic Designer) is a Lighting and Scenic Designer for Dance, Theatre, and Themed Entertainment, and is the Executive Producer for Dramatic Women, founded in 1993 to explore and promote the participation of women in all areas of theatre and to produce original scripts for the theater by Santa Barbara, California based writers. She is also the Resident Lighting Designer and Production Coordinator for the Ojai Playwright’s Conference in beautiful Ojai, California and a faculty member in the Department of Theater and Dance at the University of California Santa Barbara, where she teaches lighting design for theater and dance, designs lights and mentors students. Vickie is proud to be the founding producer for the Initiative for New and Reimagined Work. Her first book, Contemporary Dance Lighting, was recently published by Routledge. Recent lighting designs include: in Los Angeles A Great Wilderness and Little Theater with Rogue Machine; in New York City Is Edward Snowden Single at the New Ohio and the The Shot at the United Solo Festival at Theatre Row, which received the festival Best Lighting Design award. In spring 2023 she will design The Tempest with Antaeus Theatre Company. She is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.

 

 

TERI BALL (Producer/Center Stage Theater Executive Director) In addition to her work with Center Stage, Teri is the grants manager for Californians for the Arts helping performing arts organizations across the state to access state grants. Prior to her work at Center Stage Teri worked with a number of non-profit arts organizations in Santa Barbara, Berkeley, Pittsburgh and Los Angeles as an Executive Director, Development Director, Marketing Director, non-profit management consultant, stage manager and production manager.  Teri is the Secretary of the California Chapter of NIVA, and a member of the Legislative Committee of the Theatre Producers League of Southern California. She has a Master’s degree in Non-Profit Arts Management from Carnegie Mellon.

 

 

SOPHIE LYND she/her/hers (Production Stage Manager) is a senior at UC Santa Barbara majoring in Theater Design and minoring in Professional Writing. Recent credits at UCSB include Spectral Frequencies (Lighting Designer), Doubles (Co-Lighting Designer) and Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind (Associate Lighting Designer). Sophie was also the lighting designer for New and Reimagined Work’s production of Three Sisters Center Stage Theater. 

 

Promo photo credit : Desmond Burrows