Story Keepers

10/23/2026

Why are we doing a play in a church hall? Because that's where it happened.

The play is set in the basement banquet hall of the church grew up in. So we're not building a set. We're using the real thing.

Thank you to First United Methodist Church of Pinellas Park for opening up your fellowship hall. You'll sit in the same kind of room where this story takes place, a few feet from the stage.

35 seats a night. That's it.

Nov 12–22 · Tickets from $30, second seat free during Pinellas County Theatre Week. Link in bio.

10/21/2026

Some stories wait a long time to be told out loud.

Only One Question, a new play by Tampa Bay playwright Jan Adkins, gets its first public hearing on November 14. We're reading Act One, in a room full of people, for the first time.

Staged reading · Directed by José Avilés
Sat, Nov 14 · 3 PM · First United Methodist of Pinellas Park
Free to attend. Reserve at storykeepers.org (link in bio).

10/20/2026

"It's a show, but more like a party." —

Iraisa grew up in New Jersey, in a church where the whole community gathered every January for La Fiesta de Los Reyes Magos. Now she teaches dramatic writing at NYU, and she's turned that night into a 90-minute solo show that played Off-Broadway.

Instead of sitting and watching, you're a guest at the fiesta. Come meet her.

Nov 12–22 · First United Methodist Church, Pinellas Park
Tickets from $30, second seat free during Pinellas County Theatre Week. Link in bio.

10/17/2026

Two bodega stories. One night.

This month's Arts Passport Book Club pick is Bodega Stories by , paired with A Bodega Princess Remembers. Read the book, see the show at 7:30 PM on Saturday, Nov 14, then join the conversation with Amaris and afterwards.

$50 covers your copy of the book (pick it up at Tombolo Books) and your ticket. Arts Passport members join with 3 credits. RSVP by Nov 13 at tbartspassport.com/book-club.

Presented with

10/16/2026

It's Three Kings Day, 1998. The church banquet hall is ready, the food is out, the whole neighborhood showed up, and the girl from behind the bodega counter is in the middle of all of it.

This November, Story Keepers brings the Florida premiere of A Bodega Princess Remembers to Pinellas Park, fresh off its Off-Broadway run at Ensemble Studio Theatre. Written and performed by . Directed by José Avilés.

Eight performances. 35 seats each. In a real church hall.

Nov 12–22 · First United Methodist Church, Pinellas Park
Tickets from $30, second seat free during Pinellas County Theatre Week. Link in bio.

10/13/2026

Meet the team behind A Bodega Princess Remembers: La Fiesta de Los Reyes Magos, 1998!

This November, Story Keepers presents the Florida premiere of Iraisa Ann Reilly's story of a family bodega, Three Kings Day, and the memories that hold a family together. We're staging it in a church fellowship hall, just like the one where Iraisa's story takes place.

Here's who's making it happen:
• Iraisa Ann Reilly — Writer & Performer
• José Avilés — Director
• Jessy Julianna — Stage Manager
• Justin Lore — Lighting Designer
• Avery Anderson — Producer

Thanks to our hosts at First United Methodist Church, Pinellas Park, for opening their doors to us.

📅 Nov 12–22, 2026
📍 First United Methodist Church, 9025 49th Street N, Pinellas Park
🎟️ Tickets and details: storykeepers.org

Seating is limited to 35 per performance. Grab your seats early!

10/09/2026

Big news for a small room. 🎉

BroadwayWorld just announced the Florida premiere of A Bodega Princess Remembers La Fiesta de Los Reyes Magos, 1998, written and performed by Iraisa Ann Reilly, directed by Jose Aviles, and produced by Avery Anderson.

Fresh from Off-Broadway, staged in a church fellowship hall in Pinellas Park, with just 35 seats a night. You won't be watching the bodega. You'll be in it.

🗓 Nov 12–22 · 8 performances only
🎟 $30 · buy one, get one
📍 First United Methodist Church, Pinellas Park

Read the story ⬇️ and grab seats at tbartspassport.com/theatre-week/shows/bodega-princess

https://www.broadwayworld.com/tampa/article/A-BODEGA-PRINCESS-REMEMBERS-to-Make-Florida-Premiere-in-Tampa-Bay-20261009

Iraisa Ann Reilly's Off-Broadway solo show opens in Pinellas Park, staged in a church fellowship hall with intimate 35-seat performances. The…

09/12/2026

An off-Broadway show is coming to Florida—and it’s landing in St. Pete.

A BODEGA PRINCESS REMEMBERS
LA FIESTA DE LOS REYES MAGOS, 1998 is the years-in-the-making work by Iraisa Ann Reilly, a playwright and educator who has developed work at theatres across the country.

It’s sharp, tender, and exactly the kind of story Story Keepers exists to bring home.

Directed by Jose Aviles this Florida premiere will take place in First United Methodist Church of Pinellas Park.

Running Nov 12-22.

Thanks to Tampa Bay Theatre Week, tickets are buy-one-get-one. Bring someone. Support the work.

🎟️ tbartspassport.com/theatre-week/shows/bodega-princess

09/09/2026

Story Keepers exists to make space for unexpected stories and the artists who tell them. These three nights help us do exactly that.

Unexpected, Unseen is a series of intimate house fundraisers—story, music, and comedy in hidden St. Pete spaces. Every seat, every gift, every laugh goes directly back into the work we make together. No set ticket price. Just give what you can.

Reserve your seat and support the work: storykeepers.org/unexpected-unseen

06/27/2026

We are super excited to be cooking up something cool with our friends at First United Church of Pinellas Park and Beyond the Wings.

Great ideas start with good friends and a shared love for the community.