Meet the Cast of LTYM Boulder's 2025 Holiday Show
And get your tickets today for the 11/29 show!
Tickets are now on sale!
Our holiday show on Saturday, November 29th is going to be AMAZING. Next week, we get to have our first read-through, which is always my actual favorite part of the entire show season. It’s pure magic. Today, in addition to reminding you to buy tickets, like, NOW!, because there is limited seating at the Dairy Center, and we sold out last year, we get to introduce you to this beautiful cast. Grab tickets below before you forget, and then come back and meet them!
Our stellar cast
Britt is a mother, writer, filmmaker, host of Unsent live show and podcast, and co-founder of the new healing arts non profit Three Things with her husband, rap artist Old Man Saxon. She’s a trained End of Life Doula through Peaceful Presence, and she guides older adults through 3rd Act Life Review Interviews as part of her legacy work offerings. She makes music as Baby Luck (she’s not a singer but she can sing!) and more music will be pouring out of her soon. She really loves hosting Unsent Show and is expanding the show in exciting ways, so stay tuned! She’s grappling with grief and freedom, so she’s currently writing a film about a daughter whose mom asks her to help her die, and a TV series about a barber turned death doula that she pitched at SeriesFest Pitch-a-thon and won, amongst many other short stories and essays! She also writes The Overflow on Substack, which is her happy place.
Priscilla Dann-Courtney is a psychologist and writer. She and her husband of 42 years raised three children. And she likes to say, even though we are all growing older, the emphasis has to be on the growing and doing new things. So in her 20’s she biked across the country. In her 30’s she went bungee jumping and had three kids. In her 40’s she survived their adolescence and started running competitively and in her 50’s she took up yoga, and now in her 60’s she started stand-up comedy to remember the importance of laughter and the challenge of making ourselves BIG and center stage. Her columns have appeared in numerous national publications and her book, Room to Grow, Stories of Life and Family(Norlights Press, 2009), is a collection of her essays. She dreams of becoming a peach farmer bringing sweetness and healing to a struggling world.
Megan DeRosa is a writer, educator, and pathfinder with an eye on wellbeing in midlife. Over the years, she has gleaned insight from various day jobs, including roles as a: NASA scholar, managing editor, monthly columnist, yoga therapist, workshop leader, and pediatric-life-coach-household-CEO (a.k.a., mom). Her work has been featured in Yoga Journal, Insight Timer, The Science Teacher, Yoga Anytime, and Thrive Global. Megan leans into mindfulish living and long hugs with her son, husband, and aspiring lapdog. She carves out ample time for meandering walkabouts on crisp, sunny mornings, and early evening gatherings on her screened-in porch.
Melanie Gruenwald is a writer, storyteller, and community builder who finds joy in weaving humor and heart into everyday experiences. As Executive Director of Kabbalah Experience in Denver, she guides students through transformative explorations of Jewish mysticism, while also carving out space for her own creative expression. Melanie’s journey into performance has taken surprising turns—this past spring (2025) she stepped onto the comedy stage with the JCC Denver, sharing her voice and wit in a stand-up show that left her eager for more laughter-filled moments. Whether she’s teaching, writing, or performing, Melanie draws from her roles as a spouse, mom of twins, daughter, and friend—always seeking connection through stories that reveal both vulnerability and resilience. She believes that stories create bridges between people, and she is delighted to share hers this November.
Kerry Maiorca is all about hats. Specifically, wearing different ones. She and her husband opened Chicago’s Bloom Yoga Studio in 2004, then welcomed the first of their three children a couple years later. In the ensuing years she spent a lot of time holding sleeping babies while typing one-handed emails. Determined to be a full-time mom AND a full-time small business owner, she never had quite enough childcare and often felt on the verge of collapse but somehow only has sweet, tender memories of those years (thanks, nature!). Since moving to Boulder in 2018, she’s gone back to grad school again, become a sound bath practitioner, and launched a private practice offering somatic therapy for individuals and couples. She’s working on a book about mindfulness and is always trying to master the art of saying no to fun things when the hats start piling up too high.
Morgan Marilley McGarvey is a Boulder-based mother, domestic violence survivor-advocate, and unapologetic magic-maker. She’s raising two spirited, elementary-aged elves who embrace mischief and wonder in equal measure—and who never hesitate to point out when she’s not Mom-ing to standard. A founding member of Collective Advocacy & Partnership, Morgan is passionate about unveiling the hidden sides of domestic abuse through direct advocacy, system coordination, and legislative progress. A former client and now regular volunteer with SPAN: Safehouse Progressive Alliance for Nonviolence, she’s seen how the smallest spark of magic can brighten even the darkest days. Morgan finds joy in her rockstar support system, dancing to occasionally questionable music, a nightly spoonful of Nutella, sprinkles of dark humor, and getting her heart rate up outdoors—while trying not to make yet another call to her orthopedist.
Ellen Nordberg is a freelance writer and storyteller who has performed her stand-up comedy and essays in Moms Unhinged, the Listen to Your Mother Show, the Narrators, and the Boulder Story Collective. Her works have been featured by Stories on Stage. Ellen lives in Louisville where she teaches water aerobics and collects cat towers.
Petra Perkins is a Highlands Ranch author of poetry, essay, memoir, fiction, humor, stageplay, and is currently experimenting on a screenplay. Drama is her middle name! Her favorite author and muse is Nora Ephron. Petra has won several writing awards but says her real claim to fame is that she originated the saying “Mean People Suck!” in the 1990s at a party in Washington DC after which it went viral and got plastered onto a million bumper stickers. In several former lives, Petra was a marching band drum major, opera singer, piccolo-ist, sculptor, skier, sailor, and pilot. She retired from aerospace engineering—an industry of exact science—and decided to devote the rest of her life to the messy pursuit of Creativity Unplugged. (She has not made her bed or cleaned her closet since!) To learn more about her writing, please check out Petra’s website: petrapetra.com.
Kelly’s love of children began when she was a teenage camp counselor and morphed into a thirty-year career in maternal and child health. Her writing talents began with passionate journal entries and dramatic notes discreetly passed in the hallways of middle school, and ended (for a time) after her stint writing angsty poems in high school. As a mother with no time of her own, Kelly relished the writing of other mothers who described the utter chaos of parenthood with wit, wisdom and grace. Recently recommitted to creativity, Kelly now dabbles in prose and poetry and is delighted to be on stage telling a story of her own. Kelly’s other creative endeavors include gardening and playing guitar while singing in a circle of kind friends who think off-key is cool. Kelly also enjoys most anything outdoors with her supportive husband and the two beautiful humans who define and challenge her as a mom.
Jenn Yee is a writer, artist, educator, comedian, and mother. Her writing has recently earned her an Honorable Mention for Creative Non-Fiction from The Bacopa Literary Review and a juried spot in The Book Project at The Lighthouse Writers Workshop in Denver, where she is working on her debut novel. She is proud to once again be in the cast of Listen To Your Mother, and has performed on storytelling and comedy stages small and large from from Colorado to Alaska. You can learn more about her performances, writing, and creative work at jennyee.me.
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Steph Sprenger is a writer, podcaster, producer of live storytelling and comedy shows, and single mom to two teenage girls. Her writing has been featured in O Magazine, The Washington Post, Mutha Magazine, The Belladonna Comedy, and more. She is the Executive Producer of Listen To Your Mother Boulder and podcasts at Peri-Normal, a show about midlife neurodivergence, hormones, and happiness. Steph teaches writing workshops for midlife women at MidCircle. You can follow her Substack, The Reclamation Era, or connect with her on her website. Steph’s memoir, NOSTALGIA JUNKIE, is forthcoming from Third Rail Press in December 2026.
Nikki Howley lives and works in Boulder, as a massage therapist and is a full time single mom to three teenagers, and also shares her home with three dogs, two cats and three bunnies. She loves her children, her rescue animals, talking on the phone and running, which brings her ultimate freedom. By showtime, she will have just run the New York City Marathon as a personal comeback to rebuilding her life, her strength and her confidence. Nikki has been a LTYM cast member twice, and is excited to join the production team this year. If you need an emcee for your comedy show, function, or funeral, Nikki is your girl!
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I’m so glad Britt is participating! She is a rockstar. The entire cast looks phenomenal. I’ll be there!
What a great cast! I’m so sad I will miss it!