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FROM THE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR I started college at Arizona State with two contradictory ambitions – to play varsity baseball and to act in theater productions. And for most of my freshman year, I was able to balance the sports and arts commitments pretty well. At the beginning of my sophomore year, I was offered an opportunity to redshirt on the varsity baseball team, with the promise of team membership the following season. But I was also offered the lead in a Tennessee Williams play! To a 19-year old, sitting on the bench, even on the best baseball team in the country, did not begin to compare with playing Shannon in The Night of the Iguana! At that moment, my "roads diverged in the yellow wood" and I never looked back. But my love of sports lived strong in my heart as I pursued careers in the arts, and when I happened on the script to Colossal, I was overjoyed to find a play that addressed the connection between the performing arts and athletics. Both are performers, charged with entertaining and lifting up our community, showing us we can always do better, achieve greatness, and live up to our dreams. The title “Colossal” takes on even more meaning as the play not only takes on not only the collision of football and modern dance, but is loaded with the challenges of a young athlete/dancer as he is forced to face his emerging sexuality and come to grips with catastrophic injury and disability. Wow! How could we not do this play? It forces us to focus clearly on what it can be like for young people today, thrown into the fire of growing up in our incredibly complex world, facing enormous opportunities and enormous challenges. There are so many more roads to travel in today’s world, it’s of little surprise that 30 feels like the new 20. Or that young adults are sometimes paralyzed by the expectations and capricious and constant change of 21st century life. I look back at my sports/arts quandary in my youth now as a quaintly simpler time compared to the upheaval and vagaries of today.
450 Post Street San Francisco, CA 94102 415.677.9596 info@sfplayhouse.org sfplayhouse.org Bill English
artistic director
Susi Damilano
producing director
BOARD OF DIRECTORS Andrew Teufel, president William Adler Susan Atherton Brittny Bottorff Andre Glenn Chenoweth Susi Damilano Bill English Robert Hulteng Geoffrey Jue John Kalin Helen E. Land Steven Mayer Morgan Muir William O’Keeffe Louis Parnell Sandra Robbins Dana Shapiro Christian Chadd Taylor John Trout Scott Walecka Rowland Weinstein
I hope after seeing this play, we emerge from the whirlpool of our empathy gym with a greater understanding of how challenging it is to grow up and define oneself in an environment of perpetual change. And how eternally powerful is our capacity to deal with catastrophe, how bottomless our human capacity to rebound, regroup and revive.
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PRODUCTION SPONSORHIP SUSAN ATHERTON WILLIAM J. GREGORY
presents the West Coast premiere of
executive producers
MARGOT GOLDING TOM + MARY FOOTE
by Andrew Hinderaker
producers
LONI + BOB DANTZLER HARRY + KAY RABIN MARGARET SHEEHAN associate producers
PRODUCTION UNDERWRITING JAMES COSTA + JOHN ARCHIBALD costume design
LORI + AIDAN DOCHERTY stunt choreography
SPECIAL THANKS SAN FRANCISCO RENEGADES DRUM CORP, SAN LEANDRO HIGH SCHOOL, JOHN SHERIDAN, LEE TRULL, DALLAS THEATER CENTER, MATTHEW MCCOY, CHAMP PINTO, WEST VALLEY COLLEGE, JIM WINKLER, JAMIE MANN, JARROD COOPER, JOE RAFTER, JANELLE RAMIREZ, CAROLYN TYLER, LYNNE SOFFER
Our mission is to share stories that uplift our spirits, deepen self-awareness and nurture compassionate community.
CAST
[ IN SPEAKING ORDER ]
Mike...................................................................... Jason Stojanovski Coach............................................................................ Dave Maier ● Young Mike...................................................... Thomas Gorrebeeck ● Marcus................................................................Cameron Matthews Jerry................................................................ Wiley Naman Strasser Damon..................................................................... Robert Parsons ● Player #1....................................................................Xander Ritchey Player #2..................................................................Brandon Leland Player #3........................................................................Ed Berkeley Player #4........................................................................ Jacob Hsieh Player #5.....................................................................Brian Conway Player #6.......................................................Travis Santell Rowland Swing................................................................................... Tim Huls Understudies Mike, Young Mike......................................................Brandon Leland Marcus............................................................................Ed Berkeley Coach, Jerry.................................................................... Paul Collins Damon.............................................................................. Paul Loper Drum Team Lead Drummer............................................................... Alex Hersler Drummer.......................................................................... Zach Smith Drummer................................................................. Andrew Humann
CREATIVE TEAM
Director............................................................................. Jon Tracy ■ Dance Choreographer......................................................Keith Pinto Stunt Choreographer.......................................................Dave Maier Stage Manager........................................................ Tatjana Genser ● Casting Director......................................................... Lauren English Set Designer.................................................................... Bill English Lighting Designer.................................................... Kurt Landisman ♦ Sound Designer............................................. Theodore J.H. Hulsker Props Artisan............................................................Jacquelyn Scott Costume Designer.................................................. Brooke Jennings Projections Designers...........Theodore J.H. Hulsker, Micah Stieglitz Drum Team Percussion Orchestrator.............................. Alex Hersler Assistant Dance Choreographer..................... Wiley Naman Strasser Marching Consultant................................ Anthony Frederick Aranda ●
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Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers Member of Stage Directors and Choreographers Society ♦ Member of United Scenic Artists
COLOSSAL was first produced in a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Olney Theatre Center (Olney, MD), Mixed Blood Theatre (Minneapolis, MN), Dallas Theater Center (Dallas, TX), Company One Theatre (Boston, MA) and Southern Rep Theatre (New Orleans, LA) with support from the National New Play Network’s Continued Life of New Plays Fund. For more information please visit nnpn.org 4
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PRODUCTION TEAM
Welcome to the
Production Manager.................................................... Maggie Koch Technical Theatre Manager............................................Zach Sigman Asst. Technical Theatre Manager.......................................Tish Leung Master Electrician.............................................. Molly Stewart-Cohn Sound Engineer.........................................................Anton Hedman Scenic Painter........................................................... Karen McNulty Light Board Programmer..........................................Corey Schaeffer Videography.......................................................... Shawn LaFrance Photography...........................................................Jessica Palopoli Carpenters............................Anthony Frederick Aranda, Elyse Fink, Matthew Hougey, Brendan Lee, Josh Lipps, Charles McKeithan, Caleb Salmon, Shannon Sigman Electricians............. Conrad Hubner, Kevin Landesman, Del Medoff, Corey Schaeffer, Kirt Siders, Kourtney Snow, Ericka Sokolower-Shain, Caitlin Steinmann, Kelly Witters, Audrey Wright Production Assistants........ Issere Grier-Christopher, Angela Knutson Wardrobe Assistant............................................. Stephanie Dittbern Production Intern.............................................................. Keili Elliot
STAFF
Artistic Director................................................................Bill English Producing Director......................................................Susi Damilano Resident Stage Manager.......................................... Tatjana Genser ● Production Manager.................................................... Maggie Koch Resident Playwright........................................................Aaron Loeb Associate Artistic Director.......................................... Jordan Puckett Casting Director.........................................................Lauren English Casting Associate..................................................... Monique Hafen Education Director....................................................... Kathleen Lee Marketing Director.................................................... Donny Gilliland Marketing Associate................................................... Jeffrey Adams Administrative Manager......................................Charlotte Brockman Accounting Manager.......................................... Camille Chenoweth Individual Gifts Manager.....................................................Ken Levin Development Manager............................................... Daniel Kessler Stewardship Coordinator.................................................Hillary Bray Patron Services Manager..........................................Tiiu Eva Rebane Box Office Associate................................................ Noelle Harrison Concessions Manager.......................................... Natalia Hermosilla Lead Front of House Manager....................................... Rebecca Hodges Front of House Team............................... Anthony Frederick Aranda, Jessica Charles, Issere Christopher, Alex Fine, Angela Knutson, Bebe LaGrua, Sarah Selig Graphics................................................................. Tatjana Genser ● Key Art................................ Chad Vaughan, bluejeanblack designs Publicist ..................................................................... Anne Abrams Literary Assistants.............................. Will Livingston, Casey Spiegel Marketing Assistant................................................ Alyssa Steverson Education Assistant....................................................Alexandra May ●
Member of Actors' Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers
WALTER CASPER TEUFEL JR AUDITORIUM Our auditorium is dedicated and named after
Walter Casper Teufel Jr. (1932 – 2012).
This fulfilled his wish to bequeath a portion of his estate to an arts organization where his impact would be significant. And indeed it is. His gift gave us the confidence to move into a much-needed larger space and continue our mission to share stories that deepen selfawareness, nurture compassionate community and inspire.
THE NANCY BLAIR INNER CIRCLE LOUNGE Our Inner Circle Lounge (located to the left of the bar) is dedicated to
Nancy Blair (1943 – 2012),
a board member, producer, angel and friend.
Performances:
March 15 to April 30, 2016 San Francisco Playhouse, 450 Post Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
The performance runs approximately 80 minutes. There will be no intermission. Please turn off your cell phones. Videotaping or other recording of this production is strictly prohibited. 2016.03 • BAYSTAGES.COM
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ARTIST BIOGRAPHIES ED BERKELEY (Player #4, U/S:
BERKELEY
Marcus) is a Bay Area based actor originally from the East and has had the pleasure of being a part of some great productions with even greater ensembles in the Bay Area. This production is certainly a great addition to his time here. He's ecstatic to get to share the great work that the entire cast has been working hard to develop. Previous productions that Ed has been a part of include In Love and Warcraft at Custom Made Theatre Co., In Plain Sight with Those Women Productions and From White Plains at New Conservatory Theatre Center.
PAUL COLLINS (U/S: Coach,
CONWAY
GORREBEECK
Jerry) is excited to be working as an understudy on this production and with San Francisco Playhouse for the first time! Paul relocated to the Bay Area three years ago and feels truly blessed to be immersed in the great theater produced here. Since his arrival, he has worked with Fools Fury, Idiot String, New Conservatory Theatre Center and the Eugene O’Neill Festival. Local credits include The Unheard of World, Aesop Amuck, Other Desert Cities, Faulted, The Iceman Cometh, Baden Powell Wars, The Seeing Place, The Paris Letter and Our Experience Has Taught Us. When he is not performing, Paul works as an acting coach for Kids On Camera, as a director with San Francisco Youth Theatre, and as part-time faculty at CSU East Bay. He earned an MFA. in acting from CSU Fullerton in 2011.
BRIAN CONWAY (Player #5)
appears in commercials, television and films. Stage roles include Paul in A Chorus Line (Plan B Entertainment Tour, Cabrillo Stage, Broadway By the Bay), Carlos/Dance Captain in the national tour of The Magic School Bus (Maximum Entertainment/ BACT), Damn Yankees directed by Seinfeld's Jason Alexander (Reprise!), Tino/Dance Captain in
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The Best Me (Kaiser Permanente Tour), Sonny in In The Heights (Palo Alto Players), Thalia and Sonny understudy in Xanadu (Retro Dome), Chino in West Side Story (Moonlight, Pacific Conservatory Theatre), Benny Dora in The Explorer Live, Angel in Rent (VH1, Palo Alto Players), Tommy Keeler in Annie Get Your Gun (Moonlight), Tackaberry and Bud Frump understudy in How to Succeed... (Bay Area Musicals), Judah in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Sierra Rep), Linus in You're A Good Man, Charlie Brown (Grove), Footloose, Annie, Aida (Tuacahn), All Shook Up (Musical Theatre West), Flower Drum Song (American Music Theatre) and 40 Seasons of Summer (Great America). I love you Mom and Dad!
THOMAS GORREBEECK (Young ●
Mike) is thrilled to be making his debut with San Francisco Playhouse! Local credits include The Monster-Builder (Dieter) and The Eccentricities of a Nightingale (John) with Aurora Theatre, Cymbeline (Posthumus/Closten) with Marin Shakespeare Company, Pride and Prejudice (Darcy) with Livermore Shakespeare, Sleuth (Milo) and Dracula (Harker) with CenterREP, Sense & Sensibility (Edward) and The Chosen (Danny) with TheatreWorks, Much Ado About Nothing (Borachio) with Cal Shakes, Hamlet (Hamlet), Compleat Female Stage Beauty (Kynaston), Dead Man Walking (Matt) and The Three Musketeers (D’Artagnan) with City Lights Theater Company. Mr. Gorrebeeck received his BA from New York University and is a proud member of AEA and SAG/AFTRA.
JACOB HSIEH (Player #3) is thrilled to be part of this show and to be working on his first production at San Francisco Playhouse. A recent graduate of San Francisco State University, recent credits include Dead Man's Cell Phone, Carrie: The Musical and Avenue Q.
TIM HULS (Swing) is making his
Playhouse debut and that is proof that dreams come true. He trained for four years with A.C.T. (Studio A.C.T, San Francisco Semester graduate). Recent performances include Swift Justice (Tabard Theatre), Argo (SF Olympians Festival) and Cymbeline (Marin Shakespeare Company), which was a 2015 TBA Award finalist for Outstanding Ensemble. He also enjoys acting in front of the camera and has had two national commercials shown on ESPN and HULU. He is a teaching artist with New Conservatory Theatre Center, leading an after-school program. He would like to thank his family, friends, and give a very special thanks to Leba for her inspiration. timhuls.com
BRANDON LELAND (Player #2,
U/S: Mike, Young Mike) is humbled to be making his San Francisco Playhouse debut in Colossal. Past credits include The Rainmaker, Death of a Salesman and The Threepenny Opera (San Jose Stage Company), 40 Season Of Summer (Cedar Fair Entertainment),The Dayroom (feature film) and Bella Joy (short film). Offstage, Brandon records music independently and as part of the rock/pop band Till I Fall and tours nationally/ regionally with Street Drum Corps, the percussion movement group and two-time winner of Best Drum Ensemble of the Year.
DAVE MAIER (Coach, Stunt ●
Choreographer) is excited to be making his onstage debut at San Francisco Playhouse. He has served as fight director for fourteen Playhouse productions including Reasons To Be Pretty, The Motherfucker with the Hat, Wirehead and The Fantasticks, which received a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Fight Direction. Performance credits include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Aurora Theatre), God’s Plot (Shotgun Players), Salt Plays Part One: In The Wound (Shotgun Players) and Cyrano de Bergerac (San Francisco
Opera). Recent fight direction credits include Macbeth (Berkeley Rep), Dogeaters (Magic Theatre), Little Erik (Aurora Theatre), Born Yesterday (Center Rep). He is a long time company member with the Shotgun Players and the resident fight director at San Francisco Opera and California Shakespeare Theatre. Mr. Maier is a recognized instructor of theatrical combat through Dueling Arts International and is currently teaching stage combat courses at Berkeley Rep School of Theatre.
LELAND
Mr. Maier's stunt choreography for this production is sponsored by Lori + Aidan Docherty.
PAUL LOPER (U/S: Damon) feels jubilant to be part of this exciting, meaningful show and this tremendous company. He’s done concerts to performance art to community-based projects in 19 countries over 40 years. In 2004 he earned his Ph.D. in learning and change in human systems. His CHORMMUNITY workshops, which empower and deepen a group’s understanding of and creative access to its self, have been conducted in holistic health, business, education and social justice settings. He danced with Twyla Tharp, the American Dance Machine, Ron Field (was also his assistant), Lynn TaylorCorbett, ISO (formerly Momix) and in two Olympic Games opening ceremonies. Locally he’s performed with Cutting Ball Theater, Diablo Theatre Company, Bay Area Children's Theatre, Ragged Wing Ensemble, Thrillpeddlers, Broadway By the Bay, Berkeley Playhouse, NOHspace, the Garage, Jon Sims Center, 848 Community Space, Venue 9, the Bayfront Theatre and in flash mobs, sitespecific work, and installation art.
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CAMERON MATTHEWS (Marcus) has appeared in Unbelievers, Call It Off (Mojo Theatre), One Minute Play Festival (Z Space), Trattoria and Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theatre. Cameron is incredibly grateful and honored to be a part of this production. He sends much love and appreciation 2016.03 • BAYSTAGES.COM
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to his family and friends for all of their support. Especially his mom, Sophia, for her endless support throughout this process. Love you Mom! Cameron would also like to thank Berkeley Rep School of Theatre for their top notch classes and instructors, specifically Edward Morgan for all of his help and knowledge. Thank you all for always believing in me! Go, Raiders!
ROBERT PARSONS (Damon) ●
RITCHEY
ROWLAND
STOJANOVSKI
is happy to be returning to San Francisco Playhouse where he appeared in Slasher and Six Degrees of Separation. Other Bay Area credits include work at American Conservatory Theater (Rock ‘N Roll, The Little Foxes, The Black Rider, Buried Child and The Colossus of Rhodes), Magic Theatre (A Lie of the Mind, Pleasure and Pain, The Lonesome West and The American in Me), Aurora Theatre Company, (A Bright New Boise, Private Jokes/Public Places), Marin Theatre Company, (Circle, Mirror, Transformation, Pal Joey and Communicating Doors) as well as stints at Symmetry Theatre Company, TheatreWorks, Word for Word, Cutting Ball, Marin and San Francisco Shakespeare festivals, San Jose Stage Company and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Regional credits include work at Ford’s Theatre, Ahmanson Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company and the Sydney Festival. Film credits include Delirium, Black August and This Is Hamlet.
XANDER RITCHEY (Player #1) is
thrilled to be performing in his first production at San Francisco Playhouse. A recently graduate of CSU Chico with a BA in theater arts and BS in business project management and accounting minor, he has chosen the Bay Area to be his home. He has performed in Marin Shakespeare Company's Cymbeline and Richard III. Additional performance credits gained at CSU Chico include The Rover, Dr. Faustus, Arabian
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Nights, Rashomon, Living Dead in Denmark, Monty Python's Spamalot and The Will Rogers Follies. He is a two-time Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Region VII nominee and recent finalist. He has also trained in several weapons disciplines and was Chico State's dedicated student fight choreographer for a majority of their productions. Xander is proudly pursuing Actors' Equity membership.
TRAVIS SANTELL ROWLAND
(Player #6) is an interdisciplinary performing artist, choreographer and arts educator. He holds BA degrees in both drama (popular theater) and dance (performance and choreography) from San Francisco State University. His athletics background in the Santa Cruz Coast Athletic League includes five years of wrestling where he was a two-time league champion heavyweight, and four years of football where he was a starting defensive middle linebacker and offensive lineman and fullback. Recent performance credits include his roles as assistant movement director and Faerie for A Midsummer Night's Dream and collaborating choreographer and Sprite for The Tempest at California Shakespeare Theater, and Mary Subprime Love in Taylor Mac's The Lily's Revenge at Magic Theatre. He currently performs as a creative collaborator and company member with Joanna Haigood’s Zaccho Dance Theatre and the Erika Chong Shuch Performance Project. Colossal is Mr. Rowland's San Francisco Playhouse debut!
JASON STOJANOVSKI (Mike) is an Australian-born actor based in Los Angeles. He has worked alongside Australia's best actors in films such as Suberatano, Suburban Mayhem and The 7th Hunt. His television career has seen him appear as both recurring and guest star in television series including All Saints, one of Australia’s top award-winning shows. He has appeared in several independent films, including What If, an award-
winner at multiple film festivals including Lewiston Auburn Film Festival, Reel Heart Film Festival and Sandford Festival. Jason is a Cerebral Palsy Advocate, he speaks fluent Macedonian and graduated at the top of his class at Australia’s premier Meisner Technique school of acting.
WILEY NAMAN STRASSER (Jerry,
Assistant Choreographer) is pleased to be making his San Francisco Playhouse debut. Past credits include work with Aurora, Crowded Fire Theatre, Cutting Ball, detour dance, EmSpace Dance, Golden Thread, Los Angeles Theatre Center, Mugwumpin, Shotgun Players and Studio Matejka. He holds a BA in theater from UCLA and has also trained with Alonso King Lines Ballet, CalArts, Teatr Zar, and Yuyachkani, among others. Up next he can be seen in a FACT/SF world premiere at CounterPulse. wileynamanstrasser.com
ALEX HERSLER (Drum Team
Percussion Orchestrator, Lead Percussionist) is thrilled to be a part of this production. He has been a percussionist/percussion codeveloper for The Lily’s Revenge at Magic Theatre and The Salt Plays Part One: In the Wound at Shotgun Players. He is the former drummer for the psychedelic glam rock band We Will Be Lions and a four year performer/writer with Northwestern University’s percussion ensemble Boomshaka. He is based in New York where he also writes plays and does voice-over work.
ANDREW HUMANN (Drummer)
is pumped to be returning to the Playhouse after being featured in Dogfight earlier this season. Other local credits include productions with Center REP, Berkeley Playhouse, Z Space, Boxcar Theatre and others. Special shout outs to Alex Hersler, Mr. Jon Tracy and all of the drummers in my family.
ANDREW HINDERAKER
(Playwright) is a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists,
an ensemble member of the Gift Theatre in Chicago and a threetime Jeff Award nominee. His plays include I Am Going to Change the World, Dirty, Kingsville and Suicide, Incorporated, which premiered at the Gift in 2010 and was subsequently produced Off-Broadway at the Roundabout Theatre. Hinderaker’s newest play, Colossal, featuring a dance company, a drumline and a fullypadded football team was the recent recipient of multiple awards from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Collectively, Hinderaker’s plays have been produced/developed by Manhattan Theatre Club, the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, the Araca Group, the Alliance Theatre, A.C.T., No Rules Theatre Company, Victory Gardens, Rattlestick, Stage Left and several others. He currently holds commissions from the Roundabout Theatre Company and Marc Platt Productions and recently completed his MFA in playwriting at the University of Texas in Austin. Hinderaker was a member of the 2013-2014 Playwrights Unit at the Goodman Theatre.
JON TRACY (Director) works internationally as a director, playwright, designer, educator and associate with companies that include Groundswell: The International Theatre Intensive (co-Artistic Director), San Francisco Playhouse (former Director of Artistic Development and cofounder of The Sandbox), Shotgun Players (company member), Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre Company, Darkroom Productions (founder, former Artistic Director), TheatreFIRST, Berkeley Playhouse and company member and resident director for PlayGround. A graduate of Solano College Theatre’s Actor Training Program, he is also the recipient of the Kennedy Center Meritorious Achievement Award, fifteen North Bay Arty Awards, a Sacramento Elly Award, a San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award, a TBA 2016.03 • BAYSTAGES.COM
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ANTHONY FREDERICK ARANDA
(Marching Consultant) is part of the San Francisco Playhouse staff, and delighted and honored to apply his drum corps background in this production. Previous marching and instructional experience includes The Sacramento Freelancers Drumline, Santa Clara Vanguard "B" Corps, Santa Clara Vanguard Cadets and Santa Clara Vanguard Drumline under the instruction of Robert Chavira and Scott Johnson. Anthony was also a proud member of the San Jose Raiders Open Guard and San Jose Raiders World Guard. He would like to dedicate his work in this performance to his fellow drum line brother Chris Trujillo.
SUSI DAMILANO ( Prod ucing Director) is co-founder and Producing Director of San Francisco Playhouse. Directing credits include Playhouse productions of Company, Stupid Fucking Bird, Into the Woods, A Behanding in Spokane, Den of Thieves and Wirehead (SFBATCC directing nomination), the West Coast premieres of Honey Brown Eyes (SFBATCC directing nomination), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Coronado, The Mystery Plays, Roulette and the world premieres of Rhett Rossi’s From Red to Black and Daniel Heath’s Seven Days in the Sandbox Series. She is a five-time recipient of the SFBATCC award for Best Female Performance for Abigail’s Party, Harper Regan, Bug, Six Degrees of Separation and Reckless. At the Playhouse she has performed leading roles in Tree, Bauer, Abigail’s Party, Harper Regan, Coraline, Slasher, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Landscape of the Body, First Person Shooter, Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train, The Crucible, Kimberly Akimbo, Our Town and The Smell of the Kill. BILL ENGLISH (Set Designer) is a cofounder of San Francisco Playhouse, and in 12 years with Susi Damilano, 10
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has guided its growth from a barebones storefront to the secondlargest theater in San Francisco. He designed the first theater space at 536 Sutter Street and personally reconfigured a barn-like 700-seat hall to the current gracious and intimate 200-seat venue. Along the way he has served as director, actor, set and sound designer, winning SFBATCC nominations or awards in all those categories. Bill is also an accomplished musician and builder. Milestone accomplishments include bringing Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Adly Guirgis to the Bay Area by directing three of his plays, commissioning 12 playwrights and moving world premieres from workshop to Sandbox Series to mainstage to New York including the recent New York transfer of the San Francisco Playhouse production of Bauer, the current New York transfer of Ideation and presenting the very first production of Grounded by George Brant which recently opened at the Public Theater. He coined the phrase “the empathy gym” and it drives everything at San Francisco Playhouse.
LAUREN ENGLISH (Casting Director) is a founding company member at San Francisco Playhouse where she casts all the mainstage and Sandbox Series productions. Favorite Playhouse roles on stage include Kate in Seminar, The Pilot in Grounded, Steph in reasons to be pretty, Becky in Becky Shaw, Sally in Cabaret, Emily in Our Town and Lisa in The Glory of Living. New York credits include TACT’s Off-Broadway production of The Cocktail Party, Hamlet at the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey and The Idealist at The New York Times Theatre. She has also worked at the Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Lark Theatre and Playwrights Realm. Local work includes Word for Word, Marin Theatre Company, Marin Shakespeare Company, PlayGround and Magic Theatre. She is a two-time SFBATCC Award winner and threetime Dean Goodman Award recipient. Lauren trained at Foothill Theatre Conservatory and earned an MFA from NYU’s graduate acting program.
TATJANA GENSER● (Stage Manager) is pleased to be the provider of estrogen for this wonderful production. She is classically trained in philology and an autodidact in everything that's practical theater, working as a freelance stage manager and designer. Thanks to her fiancé and kitty for being the best men in her life. ISSERE GRIER-CHRISTOPHER
(Production Assistant) is happy to be back at San Francisco Playhouse. She has worked as a production assistant on previous shows such as reasons to be pretty, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Storefront Church, Seminar, Ideation, Promises, Promises, Tree and Stage Kiss. She is currently attending school studying theater production and aspires to stage manage.
THEODORE J. H. HULSKER (Sound Designer, Projections Co-Designer), former baby model, is a San Francisco Bay Area native and sound designer. He has worked with a multiplicity of theater companies in the Bay Area including Marin Theatre Company, Shotgun Players, San Francisco Playhouse, Mugwumpin, C e n t e r Re p e r t o r y C o m p a n y, Douglas Morrisson Center, New Conservatory Theatre Company and many more. In addition to design work, Theodore curates Klanghaus, a monthly event showcasing the work of local performing and visual artists. Additionally he works as a guest artist at Tamalpais High School and Marin Academy. He graduated with honors from San Francisco State University in 2012 and was the 2012 recipient of the Eric Landisman Grant for an Emerging Designer. In addition Colossal at the San Francisco Playhouse and his work can currently be seen in Swimmers at Marin Theatre Company. theodore-hulsker.squarespace.com BROOKE JENNINGS (Costume
Design) is ecstatic to return to San Francisco Playhouse for Colossal. A graduate of UC Santa Cruz's theater arts masters program, Brooke works as a costume designer in the Bay Area and New York. Credits include Berkeley Playhouse (Peter Pan), We Players (Ondine at Sutro), Magic
Theatre (asst. designer of A Lie of the Mind, Bad Jews), Virago Theatre (The Singularity, Crooked, Ransom, TX), Custom Made Theatre Co. (Of Serpents and Sea Spray, In Love and Warcraft, This Is Our Youth, Grey Gardens, How The World Began, Late: A Cowboy Song, The Crucible), City Lights Theater Company (The Rocky Horror Show) and Santa Cruz Shakespeare (asst. designer, A Year with Frog and Toad). Brooke is the recipient of a 2015 TBA Award for Outstanding Costume Design for her work on We Players’ Ondine at Sutro, directed by Ava Roy and Carly Cioffil. Ms. Jennings' costume design for this production is sponsored by James Costa + Thomas Archibald.
MAGGIE KOCH (Production Manager) is thrilled to have worked for San Francisco Playhouse for 10 years, starting as an intern, moving to production assistant then resident stage manager and into her new title of Production Manager. She would like to thank Bill and Susi for giving her this great opportunity, her husband Ed for his love and always making her laugh and her friends and family for their constant support. Go, Steelers! KURT LANDISMAN (Lighting
Designer) designs have spanned the Bay Area with productions at all of the major local theater companies in the Bay Area, including, A.C.T., Berkeley Rep, San Francisco Playhouse, San Jose Rep, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Center Rep, TheatreWorks and California Shakespeare Festival among others. Locally his work has garnered 18 San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Awards and five Dramalogue Awards in Los Angeles. His lighting designs for playwright Sam Shepard include the world premieres of True West and Fool for Love. Nationally, his work has been seen at many regional opera and ballet companies including the Los Angeles Opera, Minnesota Opera, Virginia Opera, Tulsa Opera and
Ballet Arizona. His designs have also been presented Off-Broadway, represented at Circle Rep and the Douglas Fairbanks Theatres. Other international designs include premieres of plays by Sam Shepard in Japan and Singapore, the San Francisco Opera in Shanghai and the Moscow Circus in Tokyo. He is particularly happy to be back at this theater, having opened the space in 1982 with Talley's Folly. kurtlandisman.com
TISH LEUNG (Asst. Technical Theater Manager) has 15 years of experience working at many Bay Area theater companies including San Jose Repertory Theatre, TheatreWorks, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Musical Theatre of San Jose, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and the UC Santa Cruz Theater Arts. She is excited to be building a second season with San Francisco Playhouse's mainstage shows and also as Technical Manager for the Sandbox series. KEITH PINTO (Dance Choreographer) recently choreographed Dogfight at San Francisco Playhouse. He is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and has been on the faculty at San Jose State University for nearly 14 years, as well as Ohlone Junior College where he teaches hip-hop dance. Pinto is co-founder of the award-winning hip-hop band and theater company, Felonious, whose theater productions which Pinto also choreographed and appeared in include Beatbox: A Raparetta (NYC Hip Hop Theater Festival), Angry Black White Boy and Block by Block (Campo Santo), Stateless: A Hip Hop Vaudeville (The Jewish Theatre). Felonious has recorded numerous albums and performed with The Black Eyed Peas, LL Cool J, The Roots, Digital Underground and De La Soul. Other productions featuring his choreography include Stand Up Tragedy (Pacific Conservatory Theatre) and Jesus Christ Superstar (Urban Street Players). 2016.03 • BAYSTAGES.COM
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R E C O M M E N D S
THE ESSENTIAL STEPHEN SONDHEIM
These 30 cast album tracks make a great introduction. (masterworksbroadway.com)
THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME The Oscar-nominated Menken-Schwartz score re-imagined for the stage. (sh-k-boom.com)
ALAN CUMMING SINGS SAPPY SONGS
The Cabaret star shares his cabaret act, live from the Cafe Carlyle . (yellowsoundlabel.com)
FIRST
DAUGHTER
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John Michael LaChiusa's score with Alison Fraser and the Off-Broadway cast. (sh-k-boom.com)
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