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Fugitive Stories @ Old Frog Pond Farm

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You may notice our considerably reduced offerings for a bit.

Fugitive started with an idea, $300, and a website in late 2015. Since then, we’ve produced 400-plus shows and sold more than 30,000 tickets in Boston’s western ’burbs. The new ownership at Sanctuary in Maynard — where we’ve been booking the majority of our events since 2020 — is now able to fulfill the role that Fugitive historically played.

Please stay tuned and continue to follow Fugitive — via our eblasts, website, and social posts — while we explore new possibilities and opportunities.

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Fugitive Stories @ Old Frog Pond Farm

  • Old Frog Pond Farm 38 Eldridge Road Harvard, MA, 01451 United States (map)

Fugitive Stories and Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard are partnering again for four afternoons on the farm. May’s theme is “Wonder.”

Hearing a true story in a live performance is fun, moving, and transformative. Every event brings surprises. As always, Fugitive’s featured tellers include Moth and Massmouth Story Slam Winners and Champions, theater professionals, comedians, authors, podcast producers, teachers, and university professors. Several folks from the local community will also be telling their tales, some for the first time.

  • $15/online • $20/door • Purchase tickets here

  • Online sales end at noon on the event date. Plenty of tickets at the door.

  • Seating starts at 2:30pm. Storytelling starts at 3pm. We recommend purchasing tickets in advance. This is an outdoor event (weather permitting).

If the weather is extreme, we will be presenting at Five Sparks in Harvard. If light rain is forecast, we’ll all stay nice and dry under a number of canopies. Please visit this calendar listing by noon on the day of the show for updates.

Please put Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard, in your GPS. (The street address sometimes take you to the other side of the woods.)

ABOUT OUR CO-HOST, OLD FROG POND FARM
Old Frog Pond Farm is a 25-acre farm in Harvard and one of the few Certified Organic Orchards in Massachusetts. In the fall they open for pick your own apples and raspberries. Every year, the farm hosts an Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit and gathers for Plein Air Poetry.

Visitors to the farm can purchase a ticket to take a self-guided tour around the pond and through the woods discovering the sculpture, native plants, and abundant wildlife that’s makes their home here. The self-serve farm stand is filled with fresh certified organic produce. fruit@oldfrogpondfarm.com

FEATURED FUGITIVE TELLERS
In addition to several local, hand-picked tellers, Fugitive brings four regional, award-winning storytellers.

Kurt Mullen
Kurt is an award-winning storyteller, writer, teacher, editor, and producer. He has told stories (twice) on GBH’s, “Stories from the Stage.” And in his work for the Stellar Story Company, he coaches and helps cast the show. As a performer, he’s told stories on “The Volume Knob” podcast in Montreal, the “GRIT: True Stories” podcast in North Carolina, and on the “RISK!” true stories podcast in Brooklyn. In magazines, literary journals, and anthologies, Kurt has written about soldiers coming home from war, about his own personal loss and grief and, generally, about the quirky folks who like to go it alone in this world. To learn more about Kurt’s storytelling, writing, and teaching, please visit him at www.kurtmullen.com.

Don Picard
Don is a Moth storyteller who shares his own moving life moments with humor and humility. He has worked in software development for more than 30 years and is currently employed at Cogito Corporation, which can “augment your workforce with our AI coaching system.” Don was a double major in Theatre Arts and Computer Science at Cornell, and chose to work as an engineer in order to be able to live in Cambridge and feed his family. Don enjoys telling live stories about his kids, husband, and extended family as it is fun, therapeutic, and allows him to exercise the other half of his college degree so he doesn’t become bitter.

Brendyn Schneider
Brendyn has been a professional storyspinner for 16 years. He has performed at fine venues such as the Cutler Majestic Theatre, Club Passim, and WBUR CitySpace Boston, with action-packed organizations like The Moth, Fugitive Productions, Emerson College, and the ’GBH TV Show, “Stories from the Stage.” By day, he’s a job search instructor / career advisor, helping folks find their professional match. He frequently uses the principles of storytelling while advising job seekers. To join in his lifelong quest for the perfect bacon, egg and cheese sandwich, please find him at brendynschneider.com.

Sara Sweet Rabidoux-Kelsey
Sara is a writer and storyteller from Boston. She is a Moth MainStage performer and has been a featured teller with Fugitive Stories, Now Hear This, and Listen Up Storytelling. Currently working on her first book, Sara is the Property Research Manager for The Trustees of Reservations. 

Theresa Wiggins
Theresa enjoys telling a story that has lived inside of her, to uncover a nugget or life lesson she may not have previously recognized.  She loves the sense of shared humanity she gets from a night of telling and listening to stories.  A moth story slam winner, Theresa is also co-founder of Redwood Speaking, which offers public speaking coaching, women’s public speaking circles, and trainings for businesses and community organizations.  The guiding belief of Redwood Speaking is that public speaking is not a one-size-fits-all type of endeavor.  Rather, each person is guided towards finding and using their own unique voice in their own unique style.

Earlier Event: May 4
Fugitive Swing Dance