2011 Show List

• … And Still … a theatre company   “The Rehearsal”  Is life “Just a rehearsal?”  Or, is it all real?  (Absurdist One-Act Play)
• Angela Neff  “Another Picnic at the Asylum”  From loving father of eight to a life of homelessness on skid row  (Solo)
• Artis Mundi  “Seven Card Stud with Seven Manangs – Wild Fred & Lena Show”  Personal Bay Area Filipino-American stories celebrating life (Drama/ Comedy)
• Artis Mundi  “In Her Mother’s Image”  The searing story of a mother and daughter reopening old wounds from World War II  (Drama)
• BATS Improv  “Theatresports”  BATS Improv presents Theatresports!  Their signature improv comedy competition  (Improv)
• Bindlestiff Studio  “Really? No, Really?”  A cataclysmic tragedy of true American Filipino comedy, whatever that means… really?  (Comedy)
• Blue Blanket Improv   ”Blue Blanket Improv”   Transforming audience suggestions into side-splitting funny improv since A.D. 1066  (Improv)
• Bradley Lum   “Comedian Bradley Lum“   AKA TaiMaiShu and the co-producer of the CockyAsians Comedy Tour   (Comedy)
• Caila Lipovsky  “Solo Performance”  Robot Therapy, destitute magicians, licentious puppets & more!   (Funny/Surreal Semi-Musical)
• Chaucer Theatre    ”Joy with Wings: A Daughter’s Tale“  Then… Now… The Hereafter… Never underestimate a mother’s love  (Drama)
• Creatures of Impulse   “Tri-Valley High: The Musical”   An improvised, long-form, teen soap opera  (Improv)
• Danny Dechi    ”Danny Dechi: Comedian and Pencil Musician“  Danny Dechi, Comedian and the world’s only pencil musician.  (Comedy)
• David Kleinberg   “The Little Shop of Horrors“  Things get a little strange when David’s wife leaves the house  (Solo/ Drama)
• Enzo Lombard   “Love & Humiliation“   ”Sedaris of San Francisco” – Broadway World   (Solo/ Comedy) 
• Ericka Lutz   ”A Widow’s To-Do List”   First comes love and marriage… then, grief, absurdity, skin-hunger, and tattoos  (Comedy)
• FiFi & Fanny  “FiFi & Fanny: The Beginning“  Duo’s shocking origins revealed.  PeeWee Sherman, Holiday Hotdog!  www.fifiandfanny.com  (Comedy)
• Fred Anderson   Juggler and Prop Comic and One of the fastest and funniest performers in the country. His off-beat style and audience participation is a big hit with any age! www.fredanderson.com
• Global Women Intact  “What Mama said about Down There”  Excitement!  (Comedy)
• Heather Marlowe  “Do It Yourself”  Exploring the disturbing world of do-it-yourself SF crime-scene investigation  (Drama/ Comedy)
• Howard Petrick   “You’re a Cook”   Vietnam draftee frustrates military brass while organizing GIs against war  (Solo/ Drama)
• Indigenous Chaos   “Education Mutation: Examination Contamination”  (Musical/ Poetry)
• IRIS  “YO NO ERA ASI”  Iris choreographies shows us different people’s aspects, from manipulation to pleasures in life  (Contemporary) 
• Jeff Greenwald   “Strange Travel Suggestions”   Captivating tales of travel, adventrue and meetings with remarkable earthlings  (Solo)
• Jewish Community H.S. of the Bay Drama Dept.   “Kafka’s METAMORPHOSIS”  Kafka’s tale of man transformed as anti-fascist satire  (Drama)
• J’La Chic Entertainment  “Top Shelf’s Uptown, Downtown, Motown Madness”  A tribute to the magic of music and how Motown changed the world (Musical Theatre)
• Joe Estlack   “Bucket”  Dixie cups hold tears of those before their bucket years   (Drama)
• Jovelyn Richards   “Blue, Black & Brown Tulips for Evening”  Is dying an act of love or just dying?  (Solo/ Drama)
• Joya Cory  “The Merge”  A mother’s day trip turns into a road rage nightmare  (Solo) 
• Judy & Punchy   “The Judy & Punchy Show”  Slap stick, pie throwing, hula hooping, slack rope walking extravaganza  (Clown Show)
• Julia Jackson  “I Didn’t Sign-up for This”  Biracial queer couple takes the rollercoaster ride known as adoption  (Drama/ Comedy)
• Just a Group  “Broadway Musical Revue”   A Broadway musical revue featuring songs from Hairspray, The Wizard of Oz and Glee  (Musical Theatre)
• Karyshi Wiginton  “Too Much Woman for This World!”  One woman’s struggles to define herself and come to grips with her physical identity  (Drama)
• Keith Moon Project  “Keith Moon, The Real Me”  Mick Berry incisively reveals Keith Moon’s development, his rise, his struggles and his drumming genuis (Musical Theatre)
• Libby Skala  ”Lilia!”  An exquisitely portrayed mentoring relationship between a Granddaughter and her Oscar-nominated Grandmother  (Solo/ Drama/ Comedy) 
• Living Miracle Productions   “Someone from Assisi (Lust)”  First produced at the Circle in the Square Theater in New York January 10, 1962, as one of three plays grouped as “Plays for Bleecker Street”  (Drama)
• Louis Jackson   “I’m Not.  Celibacy.  Hare Krishnas, and first love lost”   Ex-monk rooms with Stanford coed and waxes poetic  (Solo)
• Lower Bottom Playaz  “Big Brother Little Brother”  A suicide recounts his life to his dead brother  (Drama)
• Lower Bottom Playaz   “Gem of the Ocean”  Set sail on Wilson’s lyrical journey through the North American African experience  (Drama)
• Matando Musas Albaton – The Monologue Union   “VIER”   A wedding planner organizes the wedding of an ex-boyfriend whom she still loves   (Comedy)
• Matando Musas Albaton – The Monologue Union   “DEUX”   A young woman plans to ruin her mother’s sixth wedding by telling all the guests her story of abuse during the wedding toast   (Drama)
• Matando Musas Albaton - The Monologue Union   “DREI”   A man, who after losing a lot of weight, turns into a misogynistic pig   (Comedy)
• Matando Musas Albaton – The Monologue Union   “UNO”   A fictional Mexican organization that promotes the construction of a wall between Mexico and the U.S. to benefit their own economic and personal agendas   (Drama)
• NAATAK   “PUNISHMENT”  Adapted from Nobel Laureate Rabrindranath Tagore’s most anthologized short stories  (Drama)
• Nancy Gold  “Finding Your Funny Bone”  Seasoned performer or just starting out?  Expand your “silly side’  Free Noses!!   (Clowning) 
• Nancy Perlman   “Yeshiva Girl”  My two Grandmas.  The Religious Kleptomaniac and the Commie Atheist  (Solo)
• Nicole Maxali   “The Good Apo”  ”Nicole is funny, heartfelt and funny again” - Dave Chappelle  (Comedy/Drama/Solo)
• No Nude Men  “Boys Together Clinging”  An innovative, theatrical adaptation of Walt Whitman’s homoerotic poetry, set to a bold and humorous cadence  (Solo)
• Order My Life Productions  ”The Way it is - Performance by DoSSA”  Artist DoSSA sings the inspiring song “The Way it Is with a children’s choir (Musical Theatre)
• Paolo Sambrano   “Bi-Poseur”   If Paolo doesn’t kill himself first, the blood clot in his leg will. (Solo, Comedy, Drama)
• Peters Sausage Company   “A Death in Bethany/ Inside the Department of the Exterior”   From hilarity to heartbreak in less than 20 minutes  (Comedy/ Drama)
• Philip Watt   “Dylan Thomas, 19″  Dylan Thomas, 19 reveals the brilliant mind of an extraordinary teen   (Drama)
• PianoFight’s Monday Night ForePlays   “Monday Night ForePlays”   Female-driven sketch comedy group that unites the best up-and-coming local talent   (Sketch Comedy)
• Planet Booty   “Planet Booty”   Booty beats, soul and highly entertaining stage antics   (Musical)
• PlayGround   “Best of PlayGround”   PlayGround presents the best from this year’s Best of PlayGround.  (Comedy, Drama)  playground-sf.org
• Poet, Tony Seymour   “Rocket Poetry”   Tony Seymour’s Rocket Poetry & the Music of Jeff Beck.  (Performance Poetry)
• Roy Dorantes  “A Monologue”  12 characters express the plight of the illegal immigrant through narration and dance.  (Solo)    
• Remi Barron   “Remi Barron”   Remi Barron does ribald and unexpected funny stuff  (Comedy) 
• San Francisco Recovery Theatre   “Jet”   Portrait of a nicotine addict explores the heathcare system from a comsumer perspective.  (Drama) 
• San Francisco Recovery Theatre   “Night at the Blackhawk”  (Drama)
• San Francisco Sound Wave Chorus   “Harmony For All”   Women’s barbershop music, with its close, a capella four-part harmonies and ringing chords, is a uniquely American folk art.  (Musical Ensemble) soundwave.org
• Sabrina Paterson   “A Conversation with Death”  Man’s struggle for power ends here   (Drama)
• Secret Improv Society   “Secret Improv Society”   Secret Improv’s irreverent brand of improvised comedy is laugh out loud funny  (Comedy) 
• Social Network Me   “Social Network Me”  A comedy about social networking websites with a secret plan   (One-Act)
• Souletry   “Simplexity”  An experiential blend of soulful, sensual, and spiritual poetry   (Spoken Word)
• Stagebridge Theatre Company   “The Antic Witties”   Improvised adventure through Antiques Road Show   (Improv)  stagebridge.org 
• Stagebridge Theatre Company   “Never Too Late – 2011″   Musical review on life’s good times   (Comedy, Musical Theatre)  stagebridge.org
• Stephen Kopel   “Poet with Props”   Props merge with Stephen’s words. Kick-ass stimulation that lingers.  (Solo, Comedy)
• Suraya Susana Keating   “From Prison to Peru: A White Girl’s Journey Home”   A heartfelt show exploring prison work, drug addicts, death and shamanism  (Solo) 
• Susan Ito   “FoodFoodBodyBody”  Foodie McBody goes from diabetes to athlete, via secret blog!   (Solo)
• Sweet Theater  “Pregnant in Queens”  Pregnancy, family dysfunction and sales TV meet in Queens  (Comedy) 
• The AJI Show   “Jugglers Against Chainsaws”   New school vaudeville juggler Aji and an exhibition of circus skill  (Circus Arts)
• Thao P. Nguyen   “Fortunate Daughter”   Some folks are born… made to raise the (rainbow) flag   (Solo, Comedy)
• Thomas John   “Thomas John’s Children’s Show for Adults”   A brand new comedy juggling show with masks, mayhem and machetes   (Solo, Circus Arts)
• Tu Tiatro   “Una Vueltita Mas”   The rescue of he two main characters of the art comedy, Arlechino and Francheschina, the metaphor of the game of love between the two characters   (Comedy)
• Tyrone Woodrow   “Old Time Music”   A R&B artist who also sings and acts in community theater   (Musical)
• Un-Scripted Theater Company   “Un-Scripted: Un-Scripted”   Improvised scenes and songs (Improv) un-scripted.com
• Vanessa Alabarces   “Be Careful What You Wish For”   What’s Vanessa to do when her accidental prayer is answered?   (Solo)
• Vanessa Khaleel   “Breaking Up”   Vanessa has to say good-bye to the pill   (Solo)
• Vivian Sanchez   “To Be or Not to be a Mother”   Psychomagic actions to break free from the under value of women’s sexuality   (Solo)
• We Players   “We Players presents: Wine-Dark Sea Storis”   Taste the salt of the wine-dark sea stories from The Odyssey   (Drama)
• Widget Theatre  “Am/b/used”  A woman’s relationship with her muse goes to a whole new level (Drama/ Comedy)
• Women’s Will   “Pride and Joy, by Paul Rudnick”  Rudnick’s provocative comedy of sexual diversity melds gay and Jewish humor  (One-Act)
• Wordslanger   “INK”   Wordslanger’s explosive exploration of ink, text and orality   (Spoken Word)
• Zahra Noorbakhsh   “All Atheists Are Muslim”   Physics, a pre-pre-wedding, and a sacrificial lamb.  (Solo, Comedy)  zahracomedy.com
• ZGI Players   “Financial Insecurity”   The “true” story of how the financial crisis really happened   (Comedy)