The Stimulant: When I auditioned and was selected to deliver a monologue in the Filipina Women’s Network production of “The Vagina Monologues†or TVM, which had its first San Francisco Bay Area performance to a sold-out crowd at Herbst Theatre in San Francisco on March 30, 2004, my “work & life†seeds with “Women in Focus†really started sprouting into roots in very fertile ground.