More has come!

Hello all, my name is Stella Berg and as can be deduced I too am a member of the Tempest clan of ladies. Finishing up the last semester of college EVER and graduating is a very exhilarating yet frightening experience and that is what the girls and I are going through presently. I apologize for the delay in this post but there were diplomas to receive, caps to be thrown, apartments to be moved out of and rotten vegetables to be scraped off the shelves in the refrigerator. Anyways, back on track you’ve heard about our show in Syracuse and you’ve heard all that we’ve done in order to go to Edinburgh Scotland BUT for all you New Yorkers fearing you’re going to miss out on this phenomenal piece of theater fear not because thanks to more incredible people and lucky turn of events we’re going to have a New York production when we return.

Just to give you a little background information, I was born in New York and my dad being an artist always had a lot of cool, fabulous artsy people around. Scott Griffin was a friend of his that I knew and loved from the start. He gave me piano lessons and he taught me my first phrases in Turkish when both he and my family (though at different times) all moved to Istanbul, Turkey. We lost touch for quite a number of years, however, after Scott moved back to New York and my family stayed on. A decade later while doing the Tepper semester in the city we both felt it was time to reconnect. I went to his office which turned out to be the penthouse of the Westbeth building down in the West village. He asked about our project, was thrilled by our endeavors and achievements and without hesitation inquired what he could do to assist the project further. I didn’t know what to say. Therefore he did the talking. “Well, the five of you are already here doing Tepper. Jana only lives in Maryland, what is that, three hours? I’ll pay for Jana’s ticket if she wants to come up every weekend and rehearse. You can rehearse here if you’d like. Then you can do a showing of your show here as well as in Edinburgh.” Flabbergasted all I could do was sputter that I couldn’t thank him enough for his generosity and that I’d meet with the girls and get back to him with our answer. Well, how could we possibly say no? Jana, like the trooper that she is, travelled six hours in total every week so that we could all rehearse our baby in the most wonderful space in Manhattan. Thanks to Scott we will be bringing the show here in September after we’ve returned from the UK and we feel so fortunate to have so many incredible, inspirational supporters.