Fugitive Stories and Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard are partnering again for four afternoons on the farm. June’s theme is “Patience.”

Hearing a true story in a live performance is fun, moving, and transformative. Every event brings surprises. As always, Fugitive’s featured tellers include Moth and Massmouth Story Slam Winners and Champions, theater professionals, comedians, authors, podcast producers, teachers, and university professors. Several folks from the local community will also be telling their tales, some for the first time.

$15/online • $20/door • Purchase tickets here

Online sales end at noon on the event date. Plenty of tickets at the door.

Seating starts at 2:30pm. Storytelling starts at 3pm. We recommend purchasing tickets in advance. This is an outdoor event (weather permitting).

If the weather is extreme, we will be presenting at Five Sparks in Harvard. If light rain is forecast, we’ll all stay nice and dry under a number of canopies. Please visit this calendar listing by noon on the day of the show for updates.

Please put Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard, in your GPS. (The street address sometimes take you to the other side of the woods.)

ABOUT OUR CO-HOST, OLD FROG POND FARM
Old Frog Pond Farm is a 25-acre farm in Harvard and one of the few Certified Organic Orchards in Massachusetts. In the fall they open for pick your own apples and raspberries. Every year, the farm hosts an Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit and gathers for Plein Air Poetry.

Visitors to the farm can purchase a ticket to take a self-guided tour around the pond and through the woods discovering the sculpture, native plants, and abundant wildlife that’s makes their home here. The self-serve farm stand is filled with fresh certified organic produce. fruit@oldfrogpondfarm.com

FEATURED FUGITIVE TELLERS
In addition to several local, hand-picked tellers, Fugitive brings four regional, award-winning storytellers.

Matthew Dicks
Matthew is a record 56-time Moth StorySLAM champion and 9-time GrandSLAM champion whose stories have been featured on their nationally syndicated Moth Radio Hour and their weekly podcast. His stories have also appeared on PBS’s Stories From the Stage. He is an elementary school teacher and the internationally bestselling author of the novels Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, Something Missing, Unexpectedly, Milo, and The Perfect Comeback of Caroline Jacobs. He is the founder and Creative Director of “Speak Up,” a Hartford-based storytelling organization. Matt loves ice cream cake, golf, tickling his children, staring at his wife, and not sleeping.

Kate Buhler
Kate is a multiple Moth StorySLAM winner who makes her living traveling the world as a consultant for luxury hotels, restaurants, and resorts. This provides the opportunity to meet amazing people and create new stories everywhere she goes. She is a member of the National Speakers Association, and gives talks on the question, “Why is good service so hard to find?" Kate has recently written, Inhospitable: Lessons Learned from a Lifetime in Service. For her, storytelling is an artform and a passion that strengthens the bond of human connection. 

Harold Cox
Harold Cox is professor at Boston University School of Public Health. Storytelling is his latest passion to go along with camping, knitting and skydiving. Harold has told stories on “Risk,“ “Stories From the Stage,” and “Riot Theater.”  He was a recent Moth Grandslam and MainStage participant. Harold likes to tells stories about simple and goofy things that have happened in his life. His life is full of simple and goofy things.

Catherine Weber
Catherine — a two-time Moth StorySLAM champion — is an award-winning poet, artist and storyteller, community organizer, and marketing professional with a passion for the arts, education, and the environment. She has been telling stories and reading her poetry for more than a decade in the Boston-area. She is also founder and director of Art on the Trails ArtOnTheTrails.com, an annual juried art exhibition that is mounted in the Beals Preserve in Southborough.

Fugitive Stories and Old Frog Pond Farm in Harvard are partnering again for four afternoons on the farm. July’s theme is “Perseverance.”

Hearing a true story in a live performance is fun, moving, and transformative. Every event brings surprises. As always, Fugitive’s featured tellers include Moth and Massmouth Story Slam Winners and Champions, theater professionals, comedians, authors, podcast producers, teachers, and university professors. Several folks from the local community will also be telling their tales, some for the first time.

$15/online • $20/door • Tickets will be available soon

Online sales end at noon on the event date. Plenty of tickets at the door.

Seating starts at 2:30pm. Storytelling starts at 3pm. We recommend purchasing tickets in advance. This is an outdoor event (weather permitting).

If the weather is extreme, we will be presenting at Five Sparks in Harvard. If light rain is forecast, we’ll all stay nice and dry under a number of canopies. Please visit this calendar listing by noon on the day of the show for updates.

Please put Old Frog Pond Farm, Harvard, in your GPS. (The street address sometimes take you to the other side of the woods.)

ABOUT OUR CO-HOST, OLD FROG POND FARM
Old Frog Pond Farm is a 25-acre farm in Harvard and one of the few Certified Organic Orchards in Massachusetts. In the fall they open for pick your own apples and raspberries. Every year, the farm hosts an Annual Outdoor Sculpture Exhibit and gathers for Plein Air Poetry.

Visitors to the farm can purchase a ticket to take a self-guided tour around the pond and through the woods discovering the sculpture, native plants, and abundant wildlife that’s makes their home here. The self-serve farm stand is filled with fresh certified organic produce. fruit@oldfrogpondfarm.com

FEATURED FUGITIVE TELLERS
In addition to several local, hand-picked tellers, Fugitive brings regional, award-winning storytellers (see below).

Ben Cunningham
Ben is a multifaceted artist and storyteller whose recent story aired on the “Growing Up Black” episode of GBH’s “Stories from The Stage,” a 25th Annual Webby Award winner. With first place titles from 2011 and 2017, Ben is the only two-time winner of the Massmouth’s storytelling championship, the “Big Mouth-Off.” His performance on Story Collider — true, personal stories about science — was featured on WBUR’s The ARTery.

Norah Dooley
Norah is a storyteller, children’s author, and educator who performs in schools, libraries, festivals and conferences. Booked through Young Audiences (yamass.org) she specializes in teaching people of all ages how important their stories are. She is the founder of StoriesLive.org, the former director and co-founder of massmouth.org and the “Boston Story Slam” series. She teaches storytelling at Lesley Graduate School of Education and has taught storytelling to undergrads at Tufts, Suffolk and Boston Universities. Internationally, she has lectured on storytelling to teachers and graduate students in Japan and Tanzania.

Paul Doncaster 
Paul is a published author, the father of two outstanding young women (and a bluetick beagle), and has been telling stories since 2016.  He has told at events throughout New England, performed in two Moth GrandSLAMs, and been featured on the World Channel's “Stories from the Stage.”  By day, he is a user experience design professional, listening to the stories of others and using their words to create more user-friendly online experiences.

Jennifer Hillery
Jennifer, like many storytellers, wears various hats. As a storyteller, you can find her at many a Moth storyslam supporting friends or telling stories. She is the proud winner of a Moth Storyslam, has appeared on World Channel’s “Stories from the Stage” and was a teller at a Stellar Storytelling “Stories & Spirits” event. A lawyer by background, Jennifer is now the co-founder of Redwood Speaking, LLC, where she supports individuals and organizations with developing public speaking skills and confidence. You can also find her volunteering in her community and for her alma mater.

Mark Modrall
Mark is a computer programmer from Littleton. He started telling stories in public in 2012 when he ran out of relatives who hadn’t heard that one before. Hopefully he’s gotten better at it since then. He’s won several story slams at the Moth, Massmouth, and a few other places. He’s been a featured speaker twice at WGBH’s “Stories From the Stage” and counts himself blessed that he’s occasionally invited to speak with other much better tellers at great venues like Fugitive Productions.

Swing dance is alive and well at Sanctuary in Maynard. This one is for both experienced dancers and swing dance wannabes. Sanctuary, a recently converted church, features a full stage, an enormous dance floor, and one of the best bars west of Boston.

From 6–7pm, we feature instruction with some of the best instructors in the area. Instruction will be led by Sergiy Georgiyev, the founder and director of Magenta Dance Place in Acton. who has taught ballroom across Europe and the US. Sergiy’s emphasis on maximizing confidence and minimizing stress has helped students achieve extraordinary success. He is a professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee and collaborates with the MIT Ballroom Club and Harvard Dance Sports team. At Magenta Dance Place, Sergiy and his staff believe in the transformative power of dance and strive to create a vibrant community where everyone can express themselves through movement.

From 7–9pm, Eddie Scheer’s Swinging All Stars take to the stage. Chameleon Eddie Scheer is a Sanctuary favorite, gracing us with his vocal and drumming talents with a variety of groups and styles. He has been a fixture on the New England swing scene for more than 25 years. Whether with his jump blues band The Love Dogs, the 20-piece Compaq Big Band, or various smaller ensembles, his big voice and solid drumming have kept hearts beating and feet moving wherever he plays. The Swinging All Stars is a new unit featuring some of the best musicians in Boston — leaning toward the lighter, jazzy side of swing, but still with a deep connection to and reverence for the blues. 

Doors: 5:30pm • Instruction: 6–7pm • Dancing: 7-9pm • Tickets available soon.

Fugitive Comedy hosts some of the best and brightest comics working in the Boston area and nationally.The comedians who have joined us have appeared on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Conan, David Letterman, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Last Comic Standing, America’s Got Talent, Comedy Central, NPR’s Commonwealth Journal, Lifetime’s Girls Night Out — and have opened for countless well-known comedians in clubs around the nation.

Ray Harrington
Ray is an infectiously charming comedian who performs across the globe with hilariously irreverent material and marvelous improvisational riffing. He's been seen on Conan, and his documentary “Be a Man” won the LA Comedy Festival before premiering exclusively on Hulu. His first album from Stand Up! Records, “The Worst Is Over,” debuted at the top of the comedy charts on Amazon and iTunes. His latest album, “Overwhelmed,” debuted at Number 1 on Amazon and at the top of the Billboard Comedy Charts. Ray was named Best Comedian by the Providence Phoenix, was a finalist in the Boston Comedy Festival, and was invited to host the International Filmapalooza Awards in Hollywood. He was awarded Best Documentary at the LA Comedy Festival as well as the SNOB Film Festival. His web series, “Undependent,” won Best Comedy at the NYC Web Festival, and won Best Actor for “Undependent” at the London Web Festival.

Janet McNamara
For more than a decade, Janet has thrilled audiences across the country with comedy that balances the search for identity with the search for a parking spot. From the first word, audiences are treated to an original perspective and an awkward energy that captivates undergrad hipsters and suburban housewives, sometimes at the same show (usually around Christmas). As an accountant with townie charm and no time for BS, Janet has opened for some of the biggest names in comedy and won a loyal fanbase of her own across New England. “Janet McNamara is a fantastic comic-with an amazing delivery and enviable timing of very unique material.” —Maria Bamford.

Jason Fishman
Jason is an up-and-coming comedian on the Boston scene. He co-produces Popcorn Comedy at the Somerville Theatre with Peter Liu. His comedy straddles the line between crowd-pleasing and absurd and often includes voicework and impressions. In addition to performing in the 2025 Boston Comedy Festival, he has written viral comedic blogs that have garnered over 1.5 million combined page views and press coverage in The Washington Post, ABC 7 News in Los Angeles, and other news outlets. His work has also been shared locally on NECN, WCVB-TV, and NBC 10 Boston.   

Amy Tee
“Not every crazy looks crazy,” says Amy, the comedian and motivational speaker who brings her boyish charm and dry wit to the stage with a storytelling style that shifts between stereotypes and reality. She delivers comedy with stigma-busting honesty. “I feel alive,” she says of the work. “I’m candid and exposed yet still fully clothed. Identified by the Boston Globe as a comedian to watch, and in Curve magazine as one of the “funniest lesbians in America,” Amy toured nationally and was a featured comedian in the film, “Laughing Matters — The Next Generation.”

Doors: 7pm • Performance: 8pm • Full bar • Tickets available soon!