News In Brief: 2010
A selection of recent stories about faculty, students, and alumni that have appeared in the media.
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The Plot Thickens
The SFSU production was handsomely designed by Abe Lopez with costumes by Sarah Correa. Under William Peters' astute direction, the cast did a superb job of carrying off a comedy of manners from a very different era.
Posted December 17, 2010
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SF State Magazine Fall/Winter 2010 ~ The Sky is the Limit
He was a scholar and a showman, a big man with big ideas who had the moxie and flair to make things happen. August Coppola, the flamboyant dean of SF State’s College of Creative Arts from 1984 to 1992 who died last year at 75, left a major mark on the University and the arts community he championed.
Posted December 16, 2010
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SF State Magazine Fall/Winter 2010 ~ A Message from President Corrigan
San Francisco State also continues to play an important role in the artistic life of the Bay Area and the nation. In this issue we share news of Emmy and Grammy award winners, one Theater Hall of Fame inductee, and a new film from a Pulitzer Prize winner. We look back at the tenure of the late August Coppola, a dean who helped push this campus to expand its vision for creative arts. If only he could see how our dreams have grown as we begin the first steps toward the Mashouf Creative Arts Center, a $240...
Posted December 16, 2010
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SF State Magazine Fall/Winter 2010 ~ Alumni & Friends: Co-Pilot for Joy
Leslie Carrara-Rudolph (B.A., ’87) is living her dream. The "Sesame Street" character she animates, Abby Cadabby, wasn’t yet a sequin in her puppet-maker’s eye when a young Carrara-Rudolph sent her parents a letter from SF State telling them she wanted to be "the ultimate entertainer for kids."
Posted December 16, 2010
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San Francisco Bay Times
As the leader and principal composer/ producer for the band, my background was NOT music but art. I actually studied playwriting and photography at San Francisco State and then transferred to CSULB where I got a BFA in painting and drawing.
Posted December 10, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Department engages audiences
The production, which opened in SF State's Little Theatre Dec. 2, had students undertaking theatrical challenges that included mastering foreign dialects and lengthy scenes.
Posted December 9, 2010
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Theatre Bay Area
One thing that struck me about my projects at SF State was the number of my professional colleagues who attended and said these productions were among my best work. Though I agreed, I found myself asking how could “the school play” manage to surpass professional productions?
Posted December 1, 2010
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Theatre Bay Area
When I talked to one very recent graduate of San Francisco State, Dara Yazdani, age 22, he was appearing in Shotgun Players' Mary Stuart and planning for graduate school back East. "Having an MFA opens doors," he asserts. He took Tomalin's online class in his second semester at State.
Posted December 1, 2010
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Greek Actress & Musician Helena Charbila in Al Pacino’s “Wilde Salome” | Hollywood.GreekReporter.com
Elena Charbila was born and raised in Athens but she has been living in California for the last six years. She originally moved to California to study theatre at San Francisco State University. Elena was also the only one to survive the vampires in the film entitled “Creed”
Posted November 18, 2010
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Sandra Archer, Mime Troupe actress in '60s, dies
Sandra Lee Archer was born Feb. 23, 1938, in San Francisco and graduated from San Rafael High School at the age of 16, said Linda Jenkins, her cousin and closest surviving family member. She graduated from San Francisco State College, where she studied theater, and was briefly married, Jenkins said.
Ms. Archer performed with the Mime Troupe from 1964 to 1970. She excelled in commedia dell'arte, outdoors in the parks, and in more serious works by Sartre, García Lorca and Brecht.
Posted November 16, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Theatre rookies and veterans "shotgun" creative spark
The event, held Nov. 6 in the Studio Theatre, gave seven directors just 48 hours to prepare a script for a 10-minute scene with a cast of up to six actors.
"This is as raw as theater gets," said Paul Jordan, 21, who helped host and coordinate the event.
Posted November 12, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Arts Blog: Replicating the Victorian Era
These days, the costume shop is hard at work designing outfits to replicate this moment in time, for the upcoming theatre production at SF State, the farce comedy "Engaged."
Posted November 12, 2010
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'A true song-and-dance man' | Recordnet.com
Born July 6, 1932, Nardi grew up in San Francisco, earning his bachelor's and master's degrees at San Francisco State - where he taught for three years - and graduated from American Civic Theater's program. He served as an artillery captain in the Army and became a professional member of Actors Equity.
Posted November 10, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Department revives long forgotten play
In 1937, an outline was written for a play called "Money: A Comedy with Music," by Leon Alexander and Hoffman Hayes, for the Federal Theatre Project, a program created as part of President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal in an effort to put actors back to work.
Seventy-three years later, the SF State theatre arts department has brought "Money" to the stage for the first time.Posted November 3, 2010
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GOLDIES 2010: Christopher Kuckenbaker
Arriving in San Francisco in 1993, Kuckenbaker received a degree from San Francisco State's prolific theater department in 1997. Since then, his graceful work and alternately intense and quirky looks have made him a unique presence onstage.
Posted November 3, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Arts Blog: What to check out this week
If you find yourself on campus before your Halloween weekend, the Creative Arts department is holding a couple of shows that are worth checking out--and you can even save your money for those last-minute finishing touches on your costume. Or to get into that nightclub.
Posted October 28, 2010
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Jewish artist Bernard Zakheim again gets his due
Also, tonight at 7, Rosenbaum, along with San Francisco State Professor Joel Schechter and journalist Oscar Villalon, will participate in a panel on the WPA murals at the Contemporary Jewish Museum.
Posted October 21, 2010
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SF State's Theatre Department Should Add JuggleFit App to the Cirriculum - anthonyx's posterous
SF State's Theatre Department Should Add JuggleFit App to the Cirriculum
Caleb Cabrera
I caught up with Ian Hopps and Caleb Cabrera while they were practicing their juggling skills in the Creative Arts building. Sacramento native Cabrera studies theatre and said he started juggling because he got bored one day.
Posted October 21, 2010
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anthonyx's posterous - Home
If the crew are such pros, then the cast must be amazing. I have no doubt SFSU produces fine theater; I've just never seen it. Sorry.
Posted October 21, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Arts Blog: One-Act Fringe express different dynamics of human relationships
Relationships, or the disintegration of them, are complex. While you won't be able to figure them out just by watching, the three plays of this year's version of the One-Act Fringe festival expresses those complexities creatively on stage, through SFSU-grown talent.
Posted October 20, 2010
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Maplewood author parlayed a lifetime love of food into a culinary career | NJ.com
Thirty years ago, when Rick Rodgers was studying theater at San Francisco State University, he never dreamed he would become the prolific cookbook author and popular culinary instructor he is today.
Posted October 20, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Arts Blog: SF State's art venues
Have you ever found yourself in the Creative Arts building, wondering about the different theaters and why we have a lot of them? Or have you walked into the Fine Arts building, curious about its galleries and what the Coppola Theatre is doing there?
Posted October 14, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Arts Blog: Student actors, playwrites get chance to shine
Major theatre productions at SF State are usually adaptations of plays and musicals written by household names. However, for two weekends this month, the Theater Arts department will collaborate with the Creative Writing department to showcase student-penned works.
Posted October 6, 2010
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Boys scholar of the week: HB center Toplak | week, scholar, boys - Sports - OC Varsity
His sister, Tea, attends San Francisco State and is an aspiring actress.
Posted October 5, 2010
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WPA for artists program's time has come again
Young actors and singers at San Francisco State could benefit from a government jobs program like the one that hired artists during the Great Depression.
Posted October 4, 2010
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Tribute to Annette Bening this Thursday in San Rafael « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
You’re invited to a tribute program honoring the career of Annette Bening this Thursday, Oct. 14 at 7 p.m. at the Smith Rafael Film Center in San Rafael
Posted September 21, 2010
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Typical California dude on George Bernard Shaw « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Martin Benson is your typical California dude – San Francisco State grad, former dabbler in the Hollywood scene, lover of fast vehicles and faster airplanes. So how does he explain his fixation with the plays of George Bernard Shaw?
Posted September 16, 2010
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SCR's Benson revisits his old pal, George Bernard Shaw | benson, shaw, misalliance - Entertainment - The Orange County Register
Martin Benson is your typical California dude – San Francisco State grad, former dabbler in the Hollywood scene, lover of fast vehicles and faster airplanes. So how does he explain his fixation with the plays of George Bernard Shaw?
Posted September 15, 2010
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Skylight Opera Theatre Presents Dames at Sea 9/17-10/3 2010/08/27
Gary studied technical theatre at San Francisco State University. Previously, he worked at the Santa Fe Opera, Theatreworks in Palo Alto, California and Summer Repertory Theatre in Santa Rosa, California.
Posted August 30, 2010
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Is there some irony in here somewhere? - SignOnSanDiego.com
Encinitas native Christopher Collins, who’s made it to Thursday’s fifth episode of “Project Runway” (Lifetime; 9:30 p.m.), came to fashion late. As a kid, he was in theater, his major at San Francisco State. But midstream, he switched to design. It paid off. At 30, he has his own fashion company, and counts San Francisco first lady Jennifer Siebel Newsom among the clients for his collection.
Posted August 25, 2010
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Our Weekly Picks: Aug. 25–31, 2010 | San Francisco Bay Guardian
Creative Arts Bldg., Room 102
SF State University
Posted August 25, 2010
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News and notes from the world of books - SFGate
Posted August 23, 2010
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The Stage / Shenton's View / The parallel universes of stage and film acting...
Checking out Bening’s CV, its telling that - like such movie greats as Meryl Streep and Glenn Close - she began her career with theatrical ambitions - she did a degree in theatre arts at San Francisco State University, and subsequently joined the acting company of San Francisco’s American Conservatory Theatre.
Posted August 13, 2010
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Tour guide training class returns to NVC curriculum
The former film and performance manager for Copia, Miami holds both a bachelors and masters degrees in Theater Arts from San Francisco State University.
Posted August 13, 2010
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Exit Theatre Creates Exit Press and Presents TEN PLAYS 2010/08/11
Mark was a 2003 resident playwright of the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, where he was awarded the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation Honorary Fellowship, and a 2005 German Chancellor Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. He is a proud graduate of the San Francisco State University Theatre Arts Department.
Posted August 12, 2010
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Actor BD Wong Keynotes Fundraising Luncheon to Benefit Providence Hospice of Seattle
In 1988, Wong impressed audiences with his debut in “M. Butterfly,” for which he won the Tony Award, Outer Critics Circle Award, Clarent Derwent Award, Theatre World Award, and the Drama Desk Award. He was the first actor to win all five awards for a single performance.
Born and raised in San Francisco, Wong graduated from San Francisco State University.
Posted August 12, 2010
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East West Players' 45th Season Presents MYSTERIOUS SKIN 9/15 2010/08/09
Writer Prince Gomolvilas is a Thai-American playwright. His plays include BIG HUNK OF BURNIN' LOVE and THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING, which received their world premieres at East West Players. He writes BAMBOO NATION, an arts and entertainment blog. He teaches in the Master of Professional Writing Program at USC and in the David Henry Hwang Writers Institute at East West Players. He received his M.F.A. in Playwriting and his B.A. in Film from San Francisco State University.
Posted August 10, 2010
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3rd ANNUAL‘MIMI AWARDS Held at the Vivian Beaumont Theater 11/8 2010/07/27
Mr. Emmes received his BA and MA from San Francisco State University, and his PhD from USC. Along with his colleague, Martin Benson, Mr. Emmes is the recipient of the 2007-2008 Margo Jones Medal for lifetime commitment to the Living Theatre.
Posted July 28, 2010
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Kate Linder
A native of Pasadena, Calif., Linder attended San Francisco State University and graduated with a B.A. in theater arts. Linder has appeared in numerous theatrical productions in Los Angeles and the Bay Area.
Posted July 26, 2010
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Vonetta McGee, Actress in Blaxploitation Films, Dies at 65 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
While studying pre-law at San Francisco State College, she became involved in community theater. She left college before graduating to pursue an acting career.
Posted July 16, 2010
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Obituary: Vonetta McGee dies at 65; film actress during 1970s blaxploitation era - latimes.com
Born Lawrence Vonetta McGee in San Francisco on Jan. 14, 1945, she was attending what is now San Francisco State when she got involved with a local acting group.
Posted July 15, 2010
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Timothy Near on 'Mrs. Warren's Profession'
Timothy Near has been busy since she left San Jose Repertory Theatre at the end of the 2008-09 season after 22 years, 21 as artistic director. The graduate of San Francisco State and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art has since plied her trade as a freelancer.
Posted July 15, 2010
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Fullerton College youth theater marks 30th year | students, college, fullerton - News - The Orange County Register
"When I first saw 'The Lion King' on Broadway, everything just came to life for me," said participant Lorenzo Ferrer, 18, a graduate of Mission Viejo High School who attends San Francisco State and plays the captain. "I wanted to be involved in a production like that. It's a lot of fun to integrate and interact with everyone onstage."
Posted July 14, 2010
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SF Station: The Kids Are All Right
In Kids — a title inspired, somewhat whimsically, by a 1979 documentary about The Who – Julianne Moore and Annette Bening play Jules and Nic, a same-sex married couple whose teenage children, both products of artificial insemination, track down their birth father. For Cholodenko, who attended San Francisco State as an undergraduate before moving on New York’s Columbia University for film school, it’s a story drawn in part from her own experiences as a materfamilias.
Posted July 9, 2010
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S.F. State’s Lisa Cholodenko Explores Same-Sex Parenthood in ‘The Kids Are All Right’ | 7x7
Not wanting to embark on her latest creative journey alone – she describes solo projects High Art and her 2002 follow-up, Laurel Canyon, as fulfilling but lonely – Cholodenko wrote Kids with Simon Blumberg (Keeping the Faith), himself a former sperm donor. Together, they produced a brutally honest screenplay that struck a chord with Bening, a fellow San Francisco State alumna who began her career with the city’s American Conservatory Theatre.
Posted July 8, 2010
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Mama bear role in 'The Kids Are All Right' a perfect fit for Annette Bening - San Jose Mercury News
The city's familiar turf for the movie star. Bening, 52, graduated from San Francisco State and studied at and performed with the American Conservatory Theater, an experience, she says, that taught her to "listen to my gut."
Posted July 7, 2010
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For Rick Simas, Passion is spelled T-H-E-A-T-E-R - SignOnSanDiego.com
Those experiences pushed him to begin acting in school and community theater. When he reached San Francisco State University as an undergraduate, Simas started directing for the first time and, after college, began teaching dramatic arts in high school, community college and at ACT – the place where theater had so inspired him as a child.
Simas capped off his formal education at Berkeley, where he earned a Ph.D in dramatic art.
Posted July 6, 2010
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Apprentices learn Shakespeare's craft at CLU » Ventura County Star
For Kenny Toll of Simi Valley, being part of the Kingsmen Festival has been almost a lifelong tradition. Toll, 21, is studying theater at San Francisco State University and has had walk-on parts in Kingsmen plays since he was a child.
Posted July 2, 2010
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Annette Bening flying high in S.F. after 'Kids'
Annette Bening feels as if she is floating above San Francisco.
Looking out from her top-floor suite at the Ritz-Carlton, the 360-degree view wraps around her like the arms of a familiar friend. There's Coit Tower, the Golden Gate and her alma mater, San Francisco State.
Posted July 1, 2010
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SF State’s funny people « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Posted June 29, 2010
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Creative minds: Annette and Armantrout « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Posted June 29, 2010
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OJAI PLAYWRIGHTS CONFERENCE Announces 2010 Season Of New Works 8/3-15 2010/06/22
A multifaceted performer and puppeteer Leslie Carrara-Rudolph currently performs the fairy puppet "Abby Cadabby" on Sesame Street for which she was nominated for an Emmy. A graduate of San Francisco State University, Carrara-Rudolph designed her major in Child Development Through the Arts to combine her love for theater with her desire to help challenged kids discover and celebrate their unique gifts. She started puppeteering with the Jim Henson Company on Muppets Tonight and toured with their improv...
Posted June 23, 2010
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This play me thinks is worth seeing « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Tony Award-winning alum Daniel Sullivan is directing “The Merchant of Venice” at the Delacorte Theater in New York’s Central Park this summer.
Posted June 22, 2010
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Dan Sullivan: Directing Al Pacino in Merchant of Venice - Crain's New York Business
When The Merchant of Venice opened the Delacorte Theater in Central Park nearly 50 years ago, Daniel Sullivan drove cross-country to see it. It was the first play Mr. Sullivan—then an English major and budding actor at San Francisco State University—ever saw in New York.
Now the 70-year-old director, whose credits include Broadway hits like Proof, is directing the Public Theater's first staging of Merchant since.
Posted June 22, 2010
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'All teenagers have a desire to be heard' | Recordnet.com
Pacheco is headed for San Francisco State University, where she'll study drama, hoping to "start in little Broadway shows and, one day, be on the big screen. If not, I'd like to open my own mini-Juilliard (School), so I can teach."
Posted June 14, 2010
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Young performers shine at Western Stage in Salinas | thecalifornian.com | The Salinas Californian
"The Music Man" and the role of Zaneeta Shinn mark Petrovich's graduation from The Western Stage's Young Company and her send-off to San Francisco State University.
Posted June 11, 2010
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Open Fist Presents SORORITY QUEEN IN A MOBILE HOME, Previews 6/9 2010/06/08
He has guest lectured at San Francisco State University, the Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Santa Fe Screenwriters' Conference, the Oklahoma Scholars' Leadership Enrichment Program.
Posted June 9, 2010
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SF Playhouse Presents HOW I STOPPED WORRYING AND LOST MY VIRGINITY 5/23 & 5/30 2010/05/19
She now works and teaches at SF State while working in the SF theatre scene for such companies as Thunderbird Theatre Company, No Nude Men, and Teatro de la Esperanza. Her first full length play Pride and Succubus was performed with Thunderbird Theatre company August 2008.
Posted May 21, 2010
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New Yellow Springs Theatre Project seeks to tap local talent – Yellow Springs News, Yellow Springs, Ohio | Events | Arts | Entertainment | Music | Bulldog Sports | Blogs & Opinion
She studied theater in San Francisco for several years, and went on to teach at San Francisco State University. The city was a hotbed of new theatrical experiences, she said.
“If you want to be a theater artist, San Francisco was the place to be,” Crews said. “There’s a lot of risk-taking.”
Posted May 13, 2010
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Review: Property trumps propriety in AlterTheater's 'Owners' - Marin Independent Journal
AlterTheater's "Owners" is actually one of several Churchill productions overlapping in the area. Ross Valley Players are opening "Top Girls" on May 21, and San Francisco State's Theater Arts Department finished a run of "Vinegar Tom" last weekend.
Posted May 13, 2010
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Betty and Bening making headlines « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Melissa Camacho, associate professor of broadcast and electronic communication arts, says that actress Betty White’s appeal may be her mischievous willingness to go against the grain. Read more in the Calgary Herald.
In her newly released film, “Mother and Child,” Alumna Annette Bening ”gives the kind of performance that leaves you mopping up tears,” says Time magazine.
Posted May 10, 2010
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Marin Theatre Company Presents WOODY GUTHRIE'S AMERICAN SONG 5/27-6/20 2010/05/04
Berwick is a graduate of San Francisco State University.
Posted May 5, 2010
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Annette Bening in new film written by fellow alumna « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Annette Bening is starring in “The Kids Are All Right,” a new film written by fellow SF State alumna Lisa Cholodenko.
Posted May 4, 2010
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Skylight Opera Presents RENT May 21-June 20 2010/04/23
Gary Ellis is serving in his third year as Skylight's audio visual supervisor and has been an audio engineer in theatre for over 15 years. He began his career as a software engineer in Silicon Valley, but got hooked on theater after years of watching performances at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Shows he has mixed include White Christmas, The Spitfire Grill, The Producers, Blues In The Night, Sunday In The Park With George, Side Show and Violet. Gary studied technical theatre at San Francisco State...
Posted April 26, 2010
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Marchers look forward - Capitol and California - fresnobee.com
San Francisco State University student Fermin Sierra uses a puppet to decry education cutbacks and mortgage foreclosures.
Posted April 23, 2010
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Thousands Continue to Fight Budget Cuts | City on a Hill Press
More than a thousand protestors filled the Capitol lawn as students from San Francisco State University opened the rally with a skit starring “The Draculator,” a vampiric satire of the governor who “also represents the generous bankers and the brave generals … who want to suck the blood from each and every one of you.” An 8-foot tall paper maché puppet played the role of The Draculator’s victim, a student still paying back loans from beyond the grave.
Posted April 23, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Production focuses on message, not race
When theatre arts professor Rhonnie Washington was devising his classes for the spring 2010 semester, he had two options: either teach a basic acting class or take on a workshop.
"I wanted to do something more creative," Washington said.
And more creative he did get by taking on an acting and directing workshop. With the free reign to design his class, Washington decided to turn the class into an homage to African American playwright August Wilson.
Posted April 21, 2010
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The Actors Fund Honors Annette Bening, Kevin McCollum & More At Gala 4/12 2010/04/08
Born in Topeka, Kansas and raised in San Diego, Bening was enrolled at a local college when she got a job as a dancer in a pre-show presented outside of San Diego's famed Old Globe Theater. This led to a walk-on in a Shakespearean production and two plays with the San Diego Repertory Theater.
Bening graduated from San Francisco State University and was accepted by the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, where she trained until she joined The Acting Company.
Posted April 9, 2010
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Reimagining theatre 75 years later - SF State News - San Francisco State University
A never-completed living newspaper outline, thought to be too radical in the Depression-era, is now inspiring creativity in a group of students at SF State.
Posted April 6, 2010
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Voxtheatricum’s Weblog
On Saturday, March 20, the actual day of the Equinox, I went to SF State to see a version of “Romeo and Juliet,” which was just called “Juliet,” and had a cast of six women and one man – all of them playing Juliet. It was marvelous much, a character study exploring different aspects of her personality, thoughts and feelings. That was quite interesting. I have seen recent productions of “Romeo and Juliet” where Juliet herself seemed to have gotten lost somewhere in the rehearsal and directing process....
Posted April 6, 2010
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Robert Culp has Died (RIP: 1930-2010)
Robert Martin Culp was born on Aug. 16, 1930, in Oakland, Calif., and attended high school in Berkeley. He attended the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.; Washington University in St Louis; San Francisco State College; and the drama school of the University of Washington, though he never earned a degree.
Posted March 26, 2010
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ST. LOUIS: Robert Culp - STLtoday.com
Robert Martin Culp, born in 1930 in Oakland, Calif., led a peripatetic existence as a college student, attending College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., Washington University in St. Louis and San Francisco State College before landing at the University of Washington drama school.
Posted March 26, 2010
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The Associated Press: Robert Culp, who starred in `I Spy,' dead at 79
Robert Martin Culp, born in 1930 in Oakland, led a peripatetic existence as a college student, attending College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., Washington University in St. Louis and San Francisco State College before landing at the University of Washington drama school.
Then at age 21, a semester removed from his degree, he moved to New York, where he began landing roles in off-Broadway plays. One of them was in "He Who Gets Slapped."
Posted March 26, 2010
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Actor and UW alumnus Robert Culp dead at 79
From Oakland, Calif., he went to College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., Washington University in St. Louis and San Francisco State College before finally landing at the UW school of drama.
Posted March 26, 2010
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I spy another alum I wish I’d known was an alum « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Alumnus Robert Culp, the actor who teamed with Bill Cosby in the racially groundbreaking TV series “I Spy,” died Wednesday.
Posted March 26, 2010
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Robert Culp, who starred in 'I Spy,' dead at 79 - 3/25/10 - San Francisco News - abc7news.com
Robert Martin Culp, born in 1930 in Oakland, led a peripatetic existence as a college student, attending College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., Washington University in St. Louis and San Francisco State College before landing at the University of Washington's drama school.
Posted March 25, 2010
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Robert Culp, Star in ‘I Spy,’ Dies at 79 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
Robert Martin Culp was born on Aug. 16, 1930, in Oakland, Calif., and attended high school in Berkeley. He attended the College of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif.; Washington University in St Louis; San Francisco State College; and the drama school of the University of Washington, though he never earned a degree.
Posted March 25, 2010
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Want exciting and fulfilling? « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
San Francisco Chronicle’s Robert Hurwitt recommends … And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi, a drama by SF State alumnus Marcus Gardley at San Francisco’s Cutting Ball Theater through April 11.
Posted March 24, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Faculty and students rally at Capitol
Conrad is part of a student political theater production that includes four large puppets, the "Draculator," who represents the government sucking the money out of schools, a skeleton student, who died before being able to graduate and the "Weeping Woman," who cries for current education crisis.
The production is the brainchild of Carlos Baron, theater arts professor. Baron previewed the production at SF State, for the March 4 rally, and created the idea for the show because he believes the use...
Posted March 24, 2010
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Juliet and Juliet and Juliet | The Idiolect
In between his highly stylized professional shows such as his recent Faust Part 1 and Macbeth at Shotgun Players, playwright/director Mark Jackson returns frequently to his alma mater San Francisco State to direct students in the theater department, as he did last year with his own version of Don Juan.
Posted March 19, 2010
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'Jesus Moonwalks' looks at race, identity
Gardley earned his bachelor's degree at San Francisco State University and his master's at the Yale School of Drama, taught playwriting at Columbia University and now divides his time between New York City and Amherst, Mass., where he teaches a course on playwrights of color at the University of Massachusetts. He says the Bay Area remains a big influence in his work as a writer and as a person: "the sense of community, the celebration of diversity, and equality. They exist in other places, but not in...
Posted March 18, 2010
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I Would Walk 500 Miles For Juliet
Juliet is raw and intense, romantic and funny, tense and tragic, youthful and vigorous, sensual and beautiful. It will play upon your funny bone and pull on your heartstrings. It will make you think; it will make you remember, and it will make you want to dance.
Posted March 18, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : A brand-new take on Juliet
"O Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art though Romeo?" isn't a rhetorically poetic question for "Juliet", SF State's theater department's latest production, but a reality to consider.
Posted March 17, 2010
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Word for Word performs at SF State tonight « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Look how much fun these two are having! Don’t be left out. Attend tonight’s Word for Word production of Tennessee Williams’ short story “Two on a Party” at SF State’s McKenna Theatre.
Posted March 16, 2010
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Major force in psychotherapy and human potential movement - The Irish Times - Sat, Mar 13, 2010
Following his discharge, Rebillot moved to San Francisco, where he developed an experimental theatre department at San Francisco State College and worked with Mumako, a Japanese mime, at the hungry i, the iconic nightclub and recording venue in North Beach.
Posted March 15, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Budget cuts force student actors to self-promote
Most people correlate budget cuts to furlough days, fewer sections and higher tuition, but students in the creative arts department, like those involved in SF State's "Fringe Festival," see it as less money available for sets, lights, costumes and publicity.
Posted March 15, 2010
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The Militant - March 22, 2010 -- Calif. protesters say: Stop education cuts!
Students from San Francisco State carried a giant puppet of a human skeleton wearing a graduation cap. “It’s a student who’s still paying off his student loans, even after he’s dead,” one said.
Posted March 15, 2010
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Daily Pilot - Serving Newport Beach & Costa Mesa, California
The pair met backstage as acting students at San Francisco State, where dreams of SCR were born. Now, after nearly a half-century of well-documented and often brilliant productions, they finally find themselves serving as theater administrators, though each still directs at least one show a year.
Posted March 12, 2010
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Mark Jackson's 7-Juliet 'Romeo'
This year, he's upped the ante, creating a version with seven Juliets, one of whom is played by a man. The adaptation is aptly called "Juliet," and runs tonight through Sunday and the following weekend at San Francisco State University, featuring student actors from the College of Creative Arts.
Why tinker with Shakespeare's most romantic and recognized play? "When I see it done traditionally, it seems too habitual," Jackson said. The idea of rewriting the play with seven Juliets also arose in...
Posted March 11, 2010
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Reimagining the Bard in 'Juliet' - SF State News - San Francisco State University
"Actors stand there and speak, and it can be beautiful and nice, but for me it feels like a cliché," Jackson (B.A. '93) said. "'Romeo and Juliet' is about passion and love and hatred and these strong emotions that need a physical outlet. The goal is to release the fire in what Shakespeare wrote, and to be true to the impulse and not the letter."
Posted March 11, 2010
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Arts - San Francisco State and Other Institutions Struggle for Arts Funds - NYTimes.com
Word has clearly been getting out about the high quality of performances at San Francisco State, where tickets range from free to about $15. So far, in the 2009-10 academic year, the College of Creative Arts has had a 46 percent increase in attendance at its performances over the previous year.
Posted March 8, 2010
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Campus Activism Across the State of California - The Daily Californian
13. Hundreds of student picketed at San Francisco State University armed with giant puppets before joining a rally in the evening at the Civic Center.
Posted March 8, 2010
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Civic Center rally attracts thousands of education supporters | San Francisco Examiner
The group on the steps of City Hall included students from San Francisco State University's creative arts department who created giant paper mache puppets, one of which was a skeleton that said, "Still paying my student loans."
Posted March 5, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Puppets march forth in protest
Among the throngs of upset students, concerned faculty and token, stick-and-board protestors expected at the March 4 statewide walkout, don't be surprised to see a skeleton, Dracula, or a dead SF State student rapping about budget woes.
The theatre arts department has built four giant puppets in preparation for the March 4 "call to action" and will use them as players in a short play of protest.
Posted March 3, 2010
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Expanding movement - Page 2 | San Francisco Bay Guardian
Carlos Baron, a theater professor at SF State, was wondering whether the grand procession of papier-mâché puppets his theater students will unveil on the March 4 Day of Action should take a V-shape or some other form. "The main puppet is the Draculator," explained Baron, a Chilean who directed plays in the Salvador Allende era before he began teaching at SF State in 1978. "It's a cross between the Terminator-Governor and Dracula. But also it doubles as a banker and a general."
Posted March 3, 2010
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California Student Strike: Send Us Your Videos & Photos
According to the Chronicle's feature on the day of action, group of students and artists at San Francisco State are approaching the potentially grim topic with some sense of humor:
Posted March 2, 2010
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Daily Pilot - Serving Newport Beach & Costa Mesa, California
Now, Emmes and Benson’s award-winning company calls a three-theater complex in Costa Mesa home and commands an annual budget of $9 million. Not bad for two graduates of San Francisco State University, who started their theater production company out of a station wagon and with a budget of $17.
Posted March 1, 2010
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Schools in state fired up over Day of Action
Rachel Kerns, a sophomore at San Francisco State, recently put final touches on a 12-foot papier-mache "Draculator." It's one of four huge, in-your-face puppets that students, theater Professor Carlos Barón and artist Colette Crutcher are creating for Thursday's rally.
The group is building a traditional Mexican weeping figure called "La Llorona" to cry for students, dinosaur bones to signify the extinction of education, and a huge skeleton in a graduation cap.
Posted March 1, 2010
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The Inquirer - Music and stories come alive at DVC
Baron, a professor of theater arts from San Francisco State, did not tell one story, but several varying in length and subjects ranging from Latin American folklore to personal experiences living under a military dictatorship.
Posted February 25, 2010
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Reinventing Romeo and Juliet « Blog Archive « SF State Gator Buzz
Six women and one man—all Juliet—offer fresh perspectives on Shakespeare’s classic character in Juliet, a new choreographic-theatre piece directed by alumnus Mark Jackson.
Posted February 24, 2010
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Skylight Opera Theatre Presents A DAY IN HOLLYWOOD/A NIGHT IN THE UKRAINE 2010/02/19
Shows he has mixed include White Christmas, The Spitfire Grill, The Producers, Blues In The Night, Sunday In The Park With George, Side Show and Violet. Gary studied technical theatre at San Francisco State University. Previously, he worked at The Santa Fe Opera, Theatreworks in Palo Alto, CA and Summer Repertory Theatre in Santa Rosa, CA.
Posted February 23, 2010
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South Coast Rep Announces Search for Artistic Director 2010/02/04
After attending Orange Coast College, he received his BA and MA from San Francisco State University, and his PhD in theatre and film from USC.
Posted February 5, 2010
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South Coast Repertory leaders Martin Benson and David Emmes will step down after 46 years | Culture Monster | Los Angeles Times
he SCR story began when Benson, from Northern California, and Emmes, who grew up in Orange County, met as theater undergraduates at San Francisco State. They headed south after getting their degrees and in 1963 hatched a plan to plow what they saw as promising virgin territory for the burgeoning regional theater movement.
Posted February 5, 2010
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Marin Theatre Company Presents WOODY GUTHRIE'S AMERICAN SONG 2010/02/04
Regional credits include Ain't Misbehavin' and Cyrano de Bergerac at Tennessee Repertory Theatre; Seussical the Musical at Chicago Shakespeare Theater; and Anyone Can Whistle with Patti LuPone and Audra McDonald at the Ravinia Festival. Berwick is a graduate of San Francisco State University.
Posted February 5, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : SF Players rock out
With high-energy, rock-rooted performances and witty, hilarious dialogue, the SF State Players Club's first production of the semester "High Fidelity the Musical" is stepping away from any dark-drama oriented production and looking to put on a real rock show.
Posted February 2, 2010
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Golden Gate [X]press : Brown Bag threatened by budget cuts
Brown Bag Theatre productions at San Francisco State University have been adversely affected by the budget crisis like so many other programs on campus. Trouble is, they barely had a budget to begin with.
Posted January 6, 2010
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Veteran actor makes city his home and stage - Bakersfield.com
In his earlier years, after receiving a degree in theater arts from San Francisco State University, Stodder trained with the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and did summer stock with the Peterborough Players in New Hampshire.
Posted January 5, 2010
