Enjoy an evening of true stories told live. Eight storytellers will entertain and touch your heart. Tonight’s theme: “At Work.”
Fruitlands Museum and The Trustees of Reservation, in collaboration with Fugitive Productions, is hosting “Hillside Stories,” a new offering of “True Stories Told Live.” Join us for a fabulous evening of storytelling and community! Eight storytellers — four experienced, competition winners along with four local community tellers — will be sharing their stories.
Fugitive Stories brings the craft of true stories told live to audiences in Boston’s western ’burbs. Each night is unique and they never fail to entertain. Hearing a true story in a live performance is fun, moving, and transformative. Fugitive Stories' evenings intimately reveal what we all have in common. You may laugh and sometimes shed a few tears. Every event opens a door to a memory, a new friend, or to your heart. Humanity's earliest stories were about survival, hope, loss, love, and courage. Today’s stories echo the same themes.
About our featured tellers:
Jamie Eldridge
Jamie has served as the State Senator for the Middlesex and Worcester district since January 2009, representing 12 communities in the MetroWest. He focuses his energy on Beacon Hill largely on increasing investments in public education and transportation, combating climate change, guaranteeing healthcare a right, stimulating the economy, reforming our criminal justice and prison systems, advancing campaign and ethics reform, protecting the environment, making government more transparent, combatting racial and economic inequality, and supporting immigrants.
Cheryl Hamilton
Cheryl is the founder and director of Stellar Story Company, a Boston-based business that helps people and institutions deliver extraordinary stories and unforgettable events that lead to meaningful change. In addition to its work with nonprofits and businesses, Stellar identifies and coaches talent for the national media program Stories from the Stage, filmed at GBH studios. Cheryl is also the creator of Suitcase Stories, a series that explores global migration.
Robin Schoenthaler
Robin has been a storyteller for about a decade and has been with Fugitive since 2018. In 2019 she won a Moth Grand Slam Championship and she is never going to stop talking about it — ever. She is also an award-winning essayist — mostly about love, loss, life, death, and Covid. Robin’s day job for 28 years was as a cancer doctor with MGH at Emerson Hospital in their Department of Radiation Oncology. She now helps people with second opinions about their cancers while she travels the world. Learn more about Robin at www.DrRobin.org.
Rose Saia
Rose is Executive Director of the Centre Street Food Pantry, a regional food relief agency that serves residents of six greater Boston cities and provides food for 3,500 people every month. She is on the board of directors and head cook at Mt Calvary Community Supper in Acton and is the former Pantry Director for Open Table in Maynard. She has been a regular competitor and winner at Moth storyslams and appeared on GBH’s “Stories from the Stage” and in the International Institute’s “Suitcase Stories” series. She was featured on the Moth Radio Hour with her story, “Paint it Black.” She lives in Acton and is trying to keep an empty nest after raising five children in their blended family. It’s a work in process.
Susan Cohn-Child
Susan is a bit of everything. She sings alto in a choir (though she’s a little bitter that she can no longer sing soprano), is a devoted member of a book group for 18 years, is a world traveler when funds and time allow, and is a daughter, a sister, a spouse, and mother of two aspiring adults. She wrote her first story in 2018 and hasn’t looked back. Susan has told stories at The Moth, is a feature teller at Fugitive Stories, and is a Massmouth audience pick winner. She loves the authenticity of the story telling community and the connections that storytelling creates between people.
Check out our new series at deCordova Museum. Save the dates:
July 10 (Theme: Haven)
August 14 (Theme: Road Trip)
September 11 (Theme: Breathless)
Tickets & Information
Location: Fruitlands’ Wayside Visitors’ Center — easy parking and wheelchair accessible
Doors Open: 6:30pm • Performance: 7pm
Pre-register: $15/Members, $20/Non-members
Tickets: $25/door
Beer, wine, non-alcoholic beverages and light snacks available for purchase
Recommended: Ages 16+