San Francisco Theatre Festival
Yuerba Buena gardens, downtown SF

July 22nd 2007

This festival brings together over seventy of the Bay Area’s best theatre companies for a day of shorts and scenes.

We were excited to present as our first public performance ever, the darkly comic short by David Holstien: Saints in Strange Places.

Saints in Strange Places
Deep Fried Cheese

AUGUST 2007
Our inaugural production was a two play comedic
evening. Saints in Strange Places joined Artistic
Director Tore Ingersoll-Thorp’s first play
Deep Fried Cheese, for a short run at the theater
where the three founding members staged their first
play two years ago: the (in)famous Climate Theater.

Deep Fried Cheese is a classic boy loses girl, boy tries to win girl back story; only this time the boy is a rising competitive eating star, and his girl leaves him after going vegan. Speed eating, soy milk, and intentional sap were all part of the world premiere comedy.

 

Use Both Hands

OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2007
Thursday through Saturday
October 18th through November 17th
--Pay what you can on Wednesdays 24th & 7th--

The Phoenix Theater,
414 Mason, 6th Floor, San Francisco.

Three a.m. in the month of May, two strangers meet in the Keno Lounge of the Circus Circus, Reno, Nevada. Over the course of the night, their lives become desperately entangled as they gamble with their future in a battle for self-worth.

Use Both Hands, by founding member John Rosenberg, was the centerpiece of our first season, best representing the Sleepwalkers aesthetic and process. Developed by the author and Artistic Director, Ingersoll-Thorp, for over two years, this drama’s emotional realism, tight-knit structure and insightful wit is our litmus test for good writing.

"Arthur Miller explained everyone has agony. The difference is
that he took his agony home and taught it to sing. The beauty
and challenge I find in playwrighting is learning not to be
tone-deaf."”--John Rosenberg

 

two plays by
David Ackerman

Inside Albert's Head
Lost & Found

FEBRUARY 2008
The Phoenix Theater,
414 Mason,
6th Floor,
San Francisco

"I love the surprise that comes from a hearing a good actor breathe life into the words I’ve written. That special surprise and the magic where the art forms mash up, creating a new and different form than what I imagined, is what’s in it for me - and that’s why I write." --David Ackerman

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