LUCKY STRIKES by Anabel Roca Lezra: A dancer and in motion the day she arrived. Anabel’s words flow like her body moves. With grace, intelligence and an unexpected awkward elegance.
COMFORT FOOD by Noah Lashly: My big hearted, big dreaming, big brained nephew with a big, warm laugh is a senior at Hendricks College. He loves comic books and stand-up and being right -- all the time.
NO, NOW by Amanda Lezra: Born and raised in Madrid with her cousin Anabel who you heard earlier. Somehow the fates lined up -- so that the direct, pragmatic and infinitely poetic Amanda Lezra ended up here in Ojai, California. Yay fates!
FRENCH BOY by Amaury Saugrain: A skater, an embedded systems engineer, a doting husband to my daugher, Amaury comes to us by way of Paris, France. He likes Cards Against Humanity, Brooklyn Nine-Nine and pasta burritos. Which is exactly what it sounds like.
LETTING GO by Jeanette Stampfli: Her Swiss sensibilities wind their way effortlessly through her life as a mom, wife, teacher, student, neighbor, writer, buddhist, adventurer -- friend. Thanks for the loan Burgdorf, Switzerland -- but we aren’t giving her back.
HOUSE ON THE CORNER OF THE STREET by Saul Gordillo II: Saul started in my class as a trouble makin’ 9th grade, poet, rapper, genius artist boy -- and we have worked together ever since. Most recently, he was by my side as a dramaturge and assistant director on the Indigenous Voices Project and in my Juvenile Hall class.
Bios written by Lily Brown & Kim Maxwell
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WHY YOU DON'T WANT TO BE WITH ME by Katie Rae Newcomer: Katie is a Golden Girls loving, Masters Degree toting, musical theater nerd -- with a wicked sense of humor and a leaning towards all things social justice. Katie is like -- if Patty Lupone and Bernie Saunders had a love child.
WASTED by Rain Perry: A singer-songwriter, activist, filmmaker, mom, neighbor, strawberry-jam-making guru -- I met Rain Perry at a Summit Elementary School PTO meeting and we have been building playgrounds, taking each other’s classes and making art together ever since. She is the composer and performer of The Townies Podcast theme song and my best friend.
NUMBERS by Ilis Geronimo: Botany and math and ceramics and songwriting and bugs and beaches and buildings with vaulted ceilings and puppies and seals and anything with big brown eyes. Ilis started off in my teen class -- but is now off illuminating the halls of higher learning with her beautiful words.
HELPLESS DARTBOARD by Sarah Hartigan: A Patagonia copy editor by day -- and rock climbing, Search and Rescue team member by night. Miss Sarah frequents the stages of Kim Maxwell Studio and the Upright Citizen’s Brigade in LA. She is also the super-fancy editor-in-chief of our upcoming collaborative blog at KMS.
GERMAPHOBE by Woody Brown: The cleanest high school senior you will ever meet. Endlessly sharp-witted and snarky, effortlessly hilarious and kind, Woodrow is obsessed with fairness, Krispy Kreme doughnuts and environmental science. He is my son and awesome and well -- my favorite boy in the whole world.
THE LAND OF OPPORTUNITIES by Noah Crowe: Once upon a time Noah was a 5 foot nothin’ theater nerd in my Saturday morning teen class. Noah is now a 6 foot 2 world traveling artist/adventurer perpetually off to New York or London or South Africa. He is a Solar Power Consultant, Burning Man Regular and a brother-slash-uncle to my kids.
Bios written by Lily Brown & Kim Maxwell
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