MARIN THEATRE
Written by Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens
It’s True, It’s True, It’s True restages the 1612 trial of Agostino Tassi for the rape of baroque painter Artemisia Gentileschi. Based on surviving court transcripts, this new play dramatises the seven-month trial that gripped Renaissance Rome, and asks how much has changed in the last four centuries. Blending myth, history, and contemporary commentary, this is the story of how a woman took revenge through her art to become one of the most successful painters of her generation.
*Content Advisory: This production may be emotionally challenging and includes sensitive subject matter including non-sexual nudity, violence, and rape. For confidential support and resources related to sexual violence, RAINN offers the National Sexual Assault Hotline, accessible by phone at 800-656-4673 and online at online.rainn.org.
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Copyright by Breach Theatre, copyright agent: Jessica Stewart of Independent Talent Group Ltd, 40 Whitfield
COSTUME DESIGN
Pamela Rodriguez-Montero
WRITTEN BY
Billy Barrett and Ellice Stevens
DIRECTOR
Rebecca Wear°
ACTORS
Emily Anderson*
Maggie Mason*
Keiko Shimosato Carreiro*
Alicia M.P. Nelson*
CREATIVE TEAM
Mikiko Uesugi+
Marshall SCENIC DESIGN
LIGHTING DESIGN
STAGE MANAGER
Kevin Johnson*
Matt Stines
INTIMACY COORDINATOR
Maya Herbsman
BREACH THEATRE COMPANY
Billy Barrett & Ellice Stevens (Breach) are writing partners and co-Artistic Directors of the award winning
British theatre company, Breach. The company is known for uncovering captivating stories - from a 1970’s experiment into teaching dolphins English in Tank (2016), to a death-defying Medieval nun in Joan of Leeds (2019). Their critically acclaimed documentary musical After the Act, about LGBT censorship in UK schools in the 1980’s, transfers to London’s Royal Court Theatre this May.
BIOGRAPHIES
EMILY ANDERSON*
(Artemisia) is a San Francisco- based actor, producer, and songwriter from the Bay Area. She holds a BFA in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University. Theatre: Doomers (dir. Ash Baker, SF), Frankenstein (Lifeline Theatre, Chicago), Over Easy (SheNYC), Hamlet (DePaul University). @emilyquail, www.emily-a.com For Nadine.
KEIKO SHIMOSATO CARREIRO*
(Tuzia) is a Collective Member, actor, designer, co-writer, and director with the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. She has performed at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory, The Magic Theater, San Jose Stage, The Aurora Theater, Word for Word, Oakland Theater Project, Center Rep, Marin Shakespeare Company, and Salt Lake Acting Company. In 2020, Keiko co-founded Kunoichi Productions (Female Ninja productions) innovative, multidisciplinary theater combining Eastern and Western Theater Traditions. Most recently, she co-directed an Immersive Production of A Strange Library by Haruki Murakami for Word for Word at Z-Below. Keiko is thrilled to be making her Marin Theatre debut.
ALICIA M. P. NELSON*
(Judge) is an award-winning actor, clown, and arts educator. Nelson holds a BFA in Acting from Boston University, and has trained in both classical theatre and commedia dell’arte in Greece and Italy respectively. She’s worked across the country in theatres including CalShakes, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, WAM Theatre, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Hillbarn Theatre, SF Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, and more. Nelson is passionate about all things that spark the imagination. She’s an avid believer in playing pretend, diving in head-first, and the power of the arts to build compassionate individuals. Much love to SCB and Hamlet. ampnelson.com
MAGGIE MASON
*
(Agostino) Maggie is so happy to be making her Marin Theatre debut in this incredible show. Recent credits include: Miss Bennett at Theatreworks (dir. Jeffrey Lo), The 39 Steps at SF Playhouse (dir. Susi Damilano), The Play that Goes Wrong at San Jose Stage (dir. Ken Kelleher), Birthday Candles by Noah Haidle (dir. Vivienne Benesch) at Chautauqua Theater, The Half-Light at Portland Stage, A Christmas Carol at Trinity Rep, and Discus at Hunger and Thirst Theatre in New York. Bay Area theatre: Berkeley Rep, Magic Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, Central Works, Center Rep, SF Mime Troupe, Town Hall Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and Pacific Rep. Brown/Trinity Rep MFA. Love to MT for making this all possible.
REBECCA WEAR °
(Director) Select directing credits include the world premieres of A Hundred Circling Camps (Atlantic Stage 2, New York), Hometown Boy (Actor’s Express, Atlanta), Kairos (Know Theatre of Cincinnati), Obedient Steel (HERE Arts Center, New York), and site specific work at Pyramid Hill Sculpture Garden (Cincinnati) and Metro Baptist Church (New York); the West Coast premieres of The Chinese Lady (Artists At Play, Los Angeles) and Wipeout (B Street, Sacramento); and productions of Kim’s Convenience (Aurora Theatre and Horizon Theatre, Atlanta) and Tea (HERO Theatre, Los Angeles). Rebecca has developed work with Roundabout Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, Ojai Playwrights Conference, South Coast Repertory, The Playwrights’ Realm, East West Players, and others. Her work has been Ovation Recommended (Los Angeles), Suzi Recommended (Atlanta), awarded Annual Best of Cincinnati, and more. She was a 2023 Pfaelzer Award Finalist (New York Stage and Film); 2019 National Directing Fellow (SDCF, NNPN, O’Neill, Kennedy Center); and is a HERO Theatre Resident Director.
PAMELA RODRÍGUEZ-MONTERO
(Costume Designer) is an award-winning scenographer, educator, and visual artist from Costa Rica. She earned her BFA in Arts and Visual Communications from the National University of Costa Rica and her MFA in Scenography from the University of Kansas. She serves as the Assistant Professor of Costume Design at UCSC. Before joining UCSC, she worked as the Assistant Professor of Design with an emphasis on Costumes at Kennesaw
State University. Pamela has more than ten years of design experience in dance, theatre, and devised work nationally and internationally, including at the National Theatre for Dance in Costa Rica, the Costa Rica National Theatre, the Alliance Theatre, and La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club. She received the Costa Rican National Award in Culture in the category of theatrical design for her Noche scenographic design. www.pamelarodriguezmontero
MATT STINES
(Sound Designer) is very happy and very grateful to be back at Marin Theatre. Somewhat recently: Yaga at MT, Whose-Dead McCarthy with Word for Word, and 1984 at Aurora. Upcoming: Do You Feel Anger? at MT, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life In the Universe at Aurora, and The Motion at Shotgun Players. Besides making noise in various contexts over the last two decades, Matt Stines has taught theatre sound at SF State, St Mary’s, and Sonoma State. Matt Stines also makes music with fullgrownmin; S T A I N S; Spleens; The World Sinks Except Japan. mikestains.com
MIKIKO UESUGI+
(Scenic Designer) has designed Topdog/ Underdog for Marin Theatre. Recent theater credits include Cuckoo Edible Magic, and Sign My Name to Freedom for San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company, The Strange Library for Word for Word, Fallen Angels for Aurora Theater Company, and Crossing Delancy for Ross Valley Players. She has also designed for Magic Theater, Golden Thread Productions, Shotgun
Players, Theater Works, A.C.T. MFA program, Berkeley Repertory Theater, among others. She is a resident artist at Golden Thread Productions, a recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers, and The Isadora Duncan Dance Award.
MARSHALL
(Lighting Designer) is excited to be joining Marin Theatre as not only staff, but also a designer for this show. He has previously designed for Masquers Playhouse production of Amelie, as well as several shows at DVC and UCSC. He has had the honor of working in theatres from here to New York, and appreciates all the support his friends, family, and teachers have given him over the years.
MAYA HERBSMAN
(Intimacy Coordinator) is an award-winning intimacy director, educator, and director. She works in theatre, film, and opera, and has nearly 100 professional credits. Maya has been the first intimacy professional at theaters across Northern California including Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Theatreworks Silicon Valley, San Francisco Playhouse, California Shakespeare Theater, San Francisco Opera, San Francisco Ballet and many more. Her work has been featured in the San Francisco Chronicle, J Magazine, OperaLine, HowlRound, and various podcasts. You can also find her writing in “Supporting Staged Intimacy” by Alexis Black and Tina Newhauser. Recent favorite credits: The Handmaid’s Tale (San Francisco Opera), Dìdi (Focus Features), and Torch Song (Marin Theatre).
PATTY GALLAGHER
(Movement Consultant) is an actor and director with specialties in Shakespeare, Beckett, and Clown. She has performed and taught in Asia, Europe, and South America. Her collaborators include Center Rep (where she is currently performing The Roommate), Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Jewel Theatre, Folger Shakespeare Theatre, CalShakes, Rogue Theatre, Grupo Malayerba and Teatro de los Cronopios (Quito, Ecuador), Ranga Shankara and Jagriti in Bangalore, India. She is a Fulbright Scholar and has served as an Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, CalShakes, and Rogue Theatre. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin Madison. She is a Professor of Performance, Play, and Design at UCSC.
KEVIN JOHNSON*
(Stage Manager) returns for his seventh production at Marin Theatre, having previously stagemanaged Waste, The Sound Inside, Noura, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, Marjorie Prime, and the special performance of Lady of Largest Heart with Olympia Dukakis. In addition to more than 30 theatrical world premieres, he also has stage managed music and dance, including San Francisco Jazz Festival (with Bobby McFerrin), International Russian Music Festival, and Dave Brubeck’s final album of his choral music, Brubeck and American Poets.
SHOW STAFF
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Audio Engineer
Lighting Operator
Props Coordinator
Carpenters
Electricians
Costume Assistant
Dresser
Kevin Johnson*
Sam Hannum
Fiona Sharkey
Mary Blake-Booth
Liam Rudisill
Mike Ferrell, Joseph Foisy
Nick Carvalho
Elise Garcia
Aurie Stetzler
MARIN THEATRE STAFF
Executive Artistic Director Lance Gardner
Director of Production Jessica Marchesi
Education Director Jackie Katz
Technical Director Jeff Klein
Artistic Producer Laura Steele
General Manager Nichole Gantshar
ATD/Props Lead Liam Rudisill
Box Office Manager Jules Simons
Marketing Manager Robbi Casnellie
Costume Shop Manager Daria Perkova
Development & Administrative Coordinator Kelsey Sloan
Lighting Supervisor Marshall
Audio Engineer Fiona Sharkey
Scenic Charge
Marketing Partner
Stephanie Jucker
Carla Befera
Patron Services Manager Carolyn Doyle
Front of House Leads
Front of House Associates
Victoria Davis, Bridget Novak, Perry Parsons
Alex Camerino, Jo Jewell, Arianna Orleans, Sunny Orleans, Zach Padlo, Serena Palmer, Richard Davis, Cynthia Whitman, Interns Ciara Bailitz, Austin Graff, Amanika Rapplin
Special Thanks Larissa Kelloway, Nico Orlandi
MARIN THEATRE DONORS
Marin Theatre acknowledges the generous support (Jan 2024 - Jan 2025) of the following individuals, foundations and corporations whose contributions make our extraordinary theatre productions and education programs possible in the past year. To join our family of contributors, receive sponsorship information or if you have questions about your gift, please contact development@marintheatre.org
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MARIN THEATRE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Penny Wright, Vice President
William Maushardt, Secretary/ Treasurer
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Daniel Johnson
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Barbara Roberts
Stacy Scott
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TRIBUTE GIFTS
Tracy and Brian Haughton Charitable Fund in honor of Lance Gardner
Kenneth King in honor of Sali Lieberman who helped bring theatre to Marin Drs. Ben & A. Jess Shenson Fund directed by Fred Levin in honor of Carey Perloff
Alan Rubin in honor of Jerry Cahill
MEMORIAL GIFTS
Gerry Goldsholle in memory of Myra Levenson
Noel Butler via Silicon Valley Community Foundation In Memory of Phil Kurjan
Gillian A. Hayward In Memory of Ralph Hayward
Anne D. Kaiser & Robert P. Taylor In Memory of Breton Kaiser-Shinn
Kathy Lavezzo In Memory of Marilyn Angela McCarthy
MARIN THEATRE PARTNERS | $50,000+
The Shubert Foundation • William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
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Buck Family Fund • California Arts Council • Kimball Foundation • National Endowment for the Arts • Stacy Scott Fine Cateringº The Bernard Osher Foundation
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER | $10,000-$14,999
Clay Foundation, Koret Foundation • MOJOº • National New Play Network • The John Brockway Hungtington Fund
PREMIERE PRODUCER | $5,000-$9,999
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PRODUCER | $1,000–$4,999
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THE LEGACY GIVING SOCIETY OF MARIN THEATRE CORPORATIONS •
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Linden & Carl Berry‡ • Jack Bissinger‡ • Dave & Bobbie Chapman • John & Shelley Chesley • Sheldon Doing & Steve DeHart • Fred Drexler‡ • Thomas W. Edwards & Rebecca Parlette Edwards • Joseph & Antonia Friedman • Brian & Tracy Haughton • Sandra Hess • James Lilienthal‡ • Shirley Loube‡ • Melanie Maier • Gladys Perez-Mendez‡ • Ivan & Lochiel Poutiatine‡ • Leigh & Ivy Robinson‡ • Gage Schubert‡ • Beverly Tanner • Fred & Kathleen Taylor • Nancy Thomson‡ • Phil Woodward & Connie Majoy ‡ Deceased
