Odyssey Storytelling Presents: ODD COUPLES

ODD COUPLES Show at 7 p.m., Doors open at 6:30 p.m. $8 Curated by Carolyn Langford Hussein Fort and Michael Woodward Odd Couples: stories of individuals in partnership, Felix and Oscar. Shrek and Fiona. Woody and Soon-Yi. Do opposites really attract? Absolutely! It just makes it more interesting. And as any gay Republican can attest, politics can make for some strange bedfellows. Storytellers: Higher Education Administration UA grad student Spenser Darden; Pima County Appeals Team public defender, Abby Louise Jensen; Pima Community College instructor Rebecca Cohen; Attorney Wendy Ascher; and more! Storyteller Bios: Spenser Darden is originally from the DC area and is currently a Grad Student at the University of Arizona studying Higher Education Administration. He has spent the last year and-a-half as a Hall Director for Residence Life and has served as a Graduate Intern for The Office of LGBTQ Affairs at the UA. Spenser received his BS in Sport & Exercise Psychology from West Virginia University. Spenser is passionate about all-things related to diversity and inclusion, and intends to work to promote their importance at colleges and universities across the country. Spenser loves the outdoors, watching and playing sports, and spending time with his partner and their 1 year old kitten Kiki. Abby Louise Jensen is a Western, mostly small-town, gal, having migrated from Idaho to California to Idaho to California to Washington to Montana to Arizona. She didn’t plan to stay, but has now lived in Arizona longer than anywhere else. However, she still misses the Pacific Northwest and its rivers full of trout. In 2012, Abby made her most recent migration from Prescott to Tucson, where she now smiths words for the Pima County Public Defender Appeals Team. Abby learned the value of story in treatment and is now more than willing to talk about herself. This is her first venture onto the Odyssey stage, but likely not her last. Rebecca Cohen is originally from New Jersey but has been living in Tucson for 20 years and still hasn’t completely lost her accent. Rebecca works at Pima Community College teaching people how to be special education teachers. She is also a grad student at the U of A currently working on her dissertation. Rebecca expects to graduate in December of 2014 and will be celebrating ALL month long. Rebecca likes to spend her free tim (though, at the moment there is very little of it) traveling, tasting wine and hanging out with her soul dog, Chaco. Wendy Ascher is originally from Brooklyn, New York. She moved from there when she was 17 to attend college in Binghamton, New York. There have been many stops in between with lots of geographic solutions: Chad; Burkina Faso; Ithaca, New York; Niger; Chad (again); Congo-Kinshasa; Chad (yes, again); and finally Tucson. She has been a Peace Corps Volunteer, international aid worker, program coordinator for refugee services, and finally an attorney. In between those moves, she married, had a son, was widowed, and is grateful to have found love again and become part of an ‘odd couple’. More Storyteller Bios coming soon!