CLEMENT GOLDBERG is an award-winning Multidisciplinary Artist, Writer, Director and Animator who is non-binary trans and queer. They work across disciplines to create satirical yet hopeful projects that center collective grief rooted in climate crisis, cultural erasure and extinction. Their feature film project Let Me Let You Go was a Page International Screenwriting Award quarter-finalist and a Stowe Narrative Lab participant before receiving a 2022 Creative Capital Award. Let Me Let You Go is currently in Development with Electric Skin and Executive Producers Zackary Drucker, Silas Howard and Lilly Wachowski. Clement’s debut novel New Mistakes is forthcoming from DOPAMINE Press / Semiotext(e) September 2024.

Their work has been presented at REDCAT Theatre, The BROAD Museum, VORTEX Rep, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive and the Worth Ryder Art Gallery, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Anthology Film Archives; CounterPulse, Yerba Buena Center For The Arts, SOMArts, Luggage Store Gallery, Artists Television Access, all in San Francisco; and over 50 international film and arts festivals including Frameline, Outfest, MIX NYC, Hamburg International Queer Film Festival and Cleveland International Film Festival. Goldberg created the stop motion animated web series The Deer Inbetween and joined Michelle Tea to produce the 20-filmmaker collaborative experimental feature Valencia. Valencia won Jury Awards for Best Experimental Feature at the Polari Film Festival and Best Narrative Feature at Chicago Reeling. Goldberg was awarded a San Francisco Arts Commission IAC grant in visual arts in 2017 and their project Our Future Ends was awarded a Creative Work Fund visual arts grant in collaborative partnership with CounterPulse in 2016. Clement received an MFA in Art Practice and a Graduate Certificate in New Media Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. __ BETH LISICK is a writer, actor, and the author of six books: the novel Edie on the Green Screen (7.13 Books), the memoir collection Yokohama Threeway and Other Small Shames (City Lights), the New York Times bestselling comic memoir Everybody Into the Pool (ReganBooks, Harper Collins), the gonzo self-help manifesto and national bestseller Helping Me Help Myself (William Morrow, Harper Collins), the story collection This Too Can Be Yours, and the performance poetry/story collection Monkey Girl (both on Manic D Press).

With a grant from the Creative Work Fund, she has collaborated on a chapbook series with the artists at Creativity Explored, a studio and gallery for artists with developmental disabilities in San Francisco. The collection is called Tell You What.

Her writing has appeared in anthologies including Best American Poetry, Santa Cruz Noir, Post-It Note Diaries, Yes Is The Answer, The Speed Chronicles, and the Outlaw Bible of American Literature, among many others.

In 2002, she created the Porchlight Storytelling Series with Arline Klatte, a San Francisco storytelling show that was monthly until 2013. Porchlight now does shows about five times a year and Arline and Beth also teach workshops.

She has spoken or performed at the Museum of Modern Art, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, the Hammer Museum, Shakespeare and Company, the Guggenheim Museum, Stanford University, Storymoja Hay Festival in Nairobi, Lollapalooza, the Lilith Fair, Brown University, and University of Arizona Poetry Center. She has been in residence at Rowland Writers Retreat, CESTA in Tabor, Czech Republic, and the RADAR Lab in Akumal Mexico.

Beth has conducted onstage interviews with writers and actors, including Dave Eggers, Mary Roach, Amy Sedaris, Elijah Wood, Evan Rachel Wood, Michael Nesmith, and Zoe Saldana, for City Arts and Lectures, Litquake, SF International Film Fest and the SF Sketchfest. She has performed as an opening act for Neil Young, Allen Ginsberg, Ruth Weiss, Lydia Lunch, Exene Cervenka, Anne Waldman, Mort Sahl, Tig Notaro, and Neil Hamburger.

Her acting credits include a featured role on the Amazon show Transparent, leading roles in Frazer Bradshaw’s Everything Strange and New, which won the FIPRESCI prize and screened at festivals including Sundance and Karlovy Vary; and three short films by Joey Izzo: I Was There Too (2017), My Daughter’s Boyfriend (2015) and Stepsister, which screened at San Francisco International and Cannes in 2013. And you can ask her about the weirdness of appearing as a background extra in nearly fifty films and TV shows. The jury box of Law & Order SVU? Of course. As an audio tour narrator, she has worked with MoMA, SF MoMA, The Met, The Smithsonian, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, and ICA Miami.

Since 1999 she has been collaborating with writer/comedian Tara Jepsen on screenplays, stage and video projects. Their web series Rods and Cones was called one of the year’s ten best by Indiewire. They have performed at OUTsider Fest, Dixon Place, UCB Theatre, SF MOMA and screened their films at OUTfest, Frameline, and the Mix Film Festival of Sexual Diversity in Sao Paulo, Brasil.

She has a degree in American Studies from the University of California at Santa Cruz.