Dan Wilson is an acclaimed Bay Area playwright, actor, director and improvisational comedian. He is the author of several produced full length and short plays including two short plays for Playland Productions Anthology show "The Grateful Deadly," which he also directed. Produced shows include 411; Vagina Dentata; Sweetie Tanya, the Demon Barista of Valencia Street; Harvesting the Lost; and Just One More Game. His short plays Get it? Got it. Good!; All That and a Box of Donuts; Pinch; and Krampusnacht. Dan performs with Bingewatch (www.bingewatchimprov.com) and Radiostar Improv (www.radiostarnetwork.com)
OUR FABULOUS CAST
JAC Cook Pam Pjay Johnson Antoine Hunter Deborah Cortez Nathan Emley Jeffrey Kimmich Miia Ashley Miyoko Sakatani Terry Stokes Richard Wenzel
Warren Baim Jennie O'Shaughnessy DeLeon
THE GRATEFUL DEADLY: AN ORIGINAL
ANTHOLOGY
OUR CREATIVE TEAM OF VISIONARY PLAYWRIGHTS
EXTRAORDINARY ACTORS Sandy Rouge Anderson, Miia Ashley, David Boyll, LeighAnn Cannon, AJ Davenport, Julia Wilde, Adian K Wu.
AMAZING CREW Sami Cowan (Stage Manager), Richard Gutierrez (Costume Design/Wigs/Props), Madison Worthington (Lighting Design) Dan Wilson (Sound/Set Design) Rajiv Vijaykumar (Set Builder~photo to come)
PLAYWRIGHT'S BIOGRAPHY
JEROME JOSEPH GENTES Jerome is the Executive Director of Play Cafe. He is working on a full-length musical with Rice Majors called THE RIGHT NOTE and is on the Individual Services Committee of Theatre Bay Area. His writing has been published in various literary journals, and he was a 2012 Pushcart Prize nominee in Poetry. jeromejosephgentes.com
LORRAINE MIDANIK Lorraine is a Bay Area playwright. Recent productions: SHOCK VALUE (PCSF Playoffs 2017), UP THE WALL (SF Fringe 2017), CYCLED (ReproRights, 3Girls Theatre 2017), BENCHED (PCSF Playoffs 2016), BOY IMAGINED (ReproRights, 3Girls Theatre 2016), FREEDOM OF SPEECH (PianoFight, 2016), SPARSE PUBIC HAIR (PCSF’s Sheherezade’s Last Tales Festival-2015, The Stuart Excellence in Bay Area Theater Award and TBA’s Award for Outstanding Production of An Anthology). Her full-length plays ORDINARY DAY, JANUARY 23rd and CLINIC INTERRUPTUS have had recent staged readings. Proud member of The Dramatists Guild, Playwrights Center of San Francisco, Theatre Bay Area (2015 ATLAS Playwright), and The International Centre for Women Playwrights.
LAYLAH MURAN DE ASSERETO Laylah is a San Francisco area playwright, actor, director, and producer. She is the Artistic Director of Spare Stage. From 2008-2014 she produced the annual short play festival “Sheherezade,” which received a TBA nomination for Outstanding Anthology. In 2015 she was one of the contributing playwrights to Wily West Production’s I Saw It. Her play FORTRESS FOUND was part of the 2015 SF Olympians Festival and UNDER THE MILKY WAY IN THE LIGHT OF DAY will be included in the 2017 festival. Her short plays, ANONYMOUS ME, JAIN, and CASH FOR CAPES were included in Wily West's TBA Outstanding Anthology-nominated Superheroes. She has directed for SCHEHERAZADE, PCSFs Reading Series, Southern Railroad Theatre’s “I Do Declare” series, and “Repro Rights!” See https://laylahmuran.co/about/
MADELINE PUCCIONI Madeline (Playwright “No Longer A Ten (CE 2018 Amerika)”) is a “re entry” playwright, back in theater after grading English essays for 30 years. Her TWO O’CLOCK FEEDING was produced at The Magic Theatre some years ago, and published in West Coast Plays IV. Recent productions in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles, include: THE SATURDAY NIGHTERS (Towne Street Theatre, L.A.), BACKSEAT BETSY (3Girls Theatre, San Francisco), and SARAH GOODIN and EURYBIA AND THE PIRATE QUEEN (Those Women Productions, San Francisco).
DAN WILSON Dan Wilson has been writing, directing, and producing theatre for longer than he cares to admit. San Francisco produced shows include 411; Vagina Dentata; Sweetie Tanya, the Demon Barista of Valencia Street; Harvesting the Lost; and Just One More Game. His short plays Get it? Got it. Good!; All That and a Box of Donuts; Pinch; and Krampusnacht have been seen at festivals and short play collections around the Bay Area. Dan is also an improv comedian and performs with Bingewatch! (www.bingewatchimprov.com) and Radiostar Improv (www.radiostarnetwork.com)
L."Z" ZEPHYR Z’s plays have been produced in N.Y.C, Chicago, Ft Lauderdale, Houston, Minneapolis, and the Bay Area. She is a member of the Monday Night Playground writers’ pool, and The Playwrights’ Center San Francisco. Her day job is designing humorous ceramic dog designs.
DRAMATURG'S BIOGRAPHY
ANTHONY CLARVOE Anthony is multiple award-winning playwright, his scripts are performed across the country and published by Broadway Play Publishing, Inc. Anthony has been a dramaturg, mentor, and teacher for the Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Playwrights Foundation, PlayGround, Ragged Wing Ensemble, TheatreFIRST, Stagebridge, St. Mary’s College, UC Berkeley OLLI, Play Café, and SF Playwrights Center.
DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
DAN WILSON Dan Wilson has been writing, directing, and producing theatre for longer than he cares to admit. San Francisco produced shows include 411; Vagina Dentata; Sweetie Tanya, the Demon Barista of Valencia Street; Harvesting the Lost; and Just One More Game. His short plays Get it? Got it. Good!; All That and a Box of Donuts; Pinch; and Krampusnacht have been seen at festivals and short play collections around the Bay Area. Dan is also an improv comedian and performs with Bingewatch! (www.bingewatchimprov.com) and Radiostar Improv (www.radiostarnetwork.com)
ACTOR'S BIOGRAPHY
SANDY ROUGE ANDERSON Sandy has bounced around the Bay area acting for more years than she wants to say. She is thrilled and delighted that she has rolled onto this playground and that the other kids invited her to play with them. Some of her favorite roles include Terry Glimmer in "Sideman" (Dragon Theater), Beatrice in " A View From The Bridge" (Off Broadway West) and Leann in "A Piece of My Heart" (Crystal Spring Players). She also wants to thank her Husband, Tom, for his love and support and putting up with her lo these many years. (40+ years).
MIIA ASHLEY Miia Ashley is thrilled to embark on a fantastical journey exploring the inevitable. Death. She is making her EXIT Theatre debut and is grateful to work with such passionate artists. Her recent credits include Marie in This Wide Night (Anton’s Well Theatre Company) and Williamson in Mamet’s Glengarry Glen Ross (B8 Theatre Company). In June, Miia will return to B8’s stage as Nora in Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll House. When she isn’t acting she a teaches theatre in San Francisco, Oakland and Emeryville for New Conservatory Theatre Center and Spotlight Girls! Keep in touch; www.miiaashley.com
DAVID BOYLL David has been called “entertainingly stodgy” as Professor Alfred Billington in “Partition” at Indra’s Net Theater. He “delivered a full load of crazy” as Bernard B. O’Hare in Kurt Vonnegut’s “Mother Night” at Custom Made Theatre Company. With Un-Scripted Theater Company’s ensemble, he’s improvised over one hundred plays and musicals since 2013. David’s performed at festivals in San Francisco, San Diego, Austin, Santa Monica, and SF Sketchfest with Improv Lab. He trained at SF State, Bay Area Theatresports, Voicetrax, and Waterfront Conservatory. Having been in love with San Francisco since 1968, all David asks is that you don’t call it “San Fran.”
LEIGHANN CANNON LeighAnn has been performing all around the Bay Area since she was a young girl. She holds a BA in both acting and directing from Muhlenberg College. Most recently she was seen portraying Varuca Salt in the BACT tour of Willy Wonka. Other credits include: Katherine in Max Gutmann's What You Will (Pear Theatre), originating Rose in Boxcar Theatre's The Speakeasy in San Francisco, Chava in Fiddler on the Roof (Hillbarn Theatre), Raz (original) in Hanna Pesha's The Cave at Slutsk (Theatre of Yugen), Katherina Cavalieri in Amadeus (Hillbarn Theatre), Jesus Christ Super Star (Coastal Rep.), and Bertha in Hello, From Bertha (Muhlenberg College).
AJ DAVENPORT AJis making her debut performance with Playland Productions. A 20 year veteran of Bay Area Theater she has appeared in over 100 productions with such divergent companies as Unconditional Theater, New Conservatory, Crowded Fire, Theater Pub, Second Wind Productions and The SF Playwight’s Center. AJ is a member of Custom Made Theater, Multi Ethnic Theater and Left Coast Theater Company. She has been nominated for several Bay Area Theater Awards and has received award for her work in A Delicate Balance with Custom Made, Sheherazde’s Last Tales with SF Playwrights Center and was named Best of Airspace Residency for Edge.
JULIA WILDE Julia Wilde is so excited to work with such a fun and loving cast and crew. She is a Bay Area actor and writer was seen most recently in Bull in A China Shop as part of the Skyfest Festival at the American Conservatory Theater. Other Bay Area credits include: FlashPlays! (Playwrights Horizon), Ishtar (SF Olympians Festival.), Eryines and Eumenides (Custom Made Theater Co.), and On Beckett with Bill Irwin (American Conservatory Theater). The Lover, Ghosts, The Foreigner (University of Mount Union). Film: After Hours, Honey and Marigold. Webseries: DNews. For AHD, David, Jane, and Mare.
ADRIAN K WU Adrian attends the Beverly Hills Playhouse in San Francisco as a training ground to better his craft. After a year there, he’s grown to become a more seasoned actor and has become more accustomed to the industry, and is now a signed talent to Boom Models & Talent. His dream is to move to L.A. or New York in the near future to pursue a career in Film/TV and give his best performances to entertain the public.
CREW'S BIOGRAPHY
SAMI COWAN (STAGE MANAGER) Sami is currently attending Las Positas College, and loves everything theater related. When she's not at work or school, she likes to spend the rest of her time in theaters, whether it is onstage, behind it, or above it. However, she prefers Stage Management to anything else, and has been focusing on that for several years now.
RICHARD GUTIERREZ (COSTUME DESIGN/WIGS/PROPS) Richard spent ten years performing with the Muhlenburg Summer Music Theatre and performed Off-Broadway at the Performing Garage and Theater for the New City. As an Actor, Costume Designer, Graphic Designer, Production Manager and Film Maker he currently lends these various creative services to Bay Area Musicals, The Custom Made Theater Company, Theater Of Others and Landmark Musical Theater where he last served as Production Manager and Costume Designer for “The Boy From Oz”, “Every Christmas Story Ever Told”, “Hair” and Costume Designer for “Roar Of The Greasepaint The Smell Of The Crowd”.
MADISON WORTHINGTON (LIGHTING DESIGN) Madison is a S.F. native and multidisciplinary theater artist. Favorite 2017 projects include playing Marcy in Left Coast Theatre Company’s DOG SEES GOD, co-directing BREAD! THE MUSICAL at Shelton Theater, designing lights and sound and performing in Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco’s anthology PLAYOFFS, and stage managing THE UNVEILING at Phoenix Theater. She finished off the year with tons of festive fun by co-producing and performing in SATURNALIA! A RAUNCHY CIRCUS CHRISTMAS at Shelton Theater. Madison holds a BA in Theater from UCLA and is forever on the hunt to discover theater magic.
DAN WILSON (SOUND/SET DESIGN) Dan Wilson has been writing, directing, and producing theatre for longer than he cares to admit. San Francisco produced shows include 411; Vagina Dentata; Sweetie Tanya, the Demon Barista of Valencia Street; Harvesting the Lost; and Just One More Game. His short plays Get it? Got it. Good!; All That and a Box of Donuts; Pinch; and Krampusnacht have been seen at festivals and short play collections around the Bay Area. Dan is also an improv comedian and performs with Bingewatch! (www.bingewatchimprov.com) and Radiostar Improv (www.radiostarnetwork.com)