THEATRE

Artists are listed in alphabetical order.

Alive & Well Productions / Annie Kahane

Meeting #7

Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, June 16, 9:00 PM, Saturday, June 17, 8:00 PM
Duration: 50 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 401 Alabama St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Joe Goode Annex
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $18, Advance: $21, Door: $24


Meeting #7 is a one-woman show created and performed by dance theater artist Annie Kahane, with projections by filmmaker Ethan Alesch. In Meeting #7, an orientation-leader welcomes the audience to a an orientation-leader welcomes the audience to a satirical powerpoint presentation, as if they are extraterrestrials who have just arrived on planet earth.

Bons Tempos Theatre

Qaddafi's Cook

Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, June 9, 8:00 PM, Saturday, June 10, 3:00 PM
Duration: 55 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 401 Alabama St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Joe Goode Annex
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28


Taste the tyrant. Two young Mexican chefs get caught in the tailspin of Libyan dictator, Muammar Qaddafi, world’s bloodiest foodie and Lockerbie plotter. Inspired by real events, critics from NYC to San Diego raved, "Intense and charming... beautifully connects food, passion, and power...” and “Do not miss this fine performance.”

Crescent Moon Theater Productions

Hold On, When Everything Changes in a Flash

Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, June 16, 7:00 PM, Saturday, June 17, 2:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2781 24th St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: BRAVA Studio
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28


Join us as four young adults share harrowing and courageous stories of fleeing their home countries of Guatemala, Afghanistan, Iraq and Venezuela, and starting their lives in the US. Accompanied by professional musicians, this evening of storytelling gives in an intimate and honest look into the refugee experience.

David Kleinberg

He Wants to Run

Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, June 9, 6:30 PM, Sunday, June 11, 2:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $15, Advance: $20, Door: $22


"He Wants to Run" is David Kleinberg's story of a guy who hates running and dogs, and how he ended up running with his neighbor's dog for 13 years in Cloverdale and what Butler teaches David about living and dying.

Gamal Abdel Chasten

Crawfish - We The Invisible

Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday, June 17, 6:00 PM, Sunday, June 18, 4:30 PM
Duration: 75 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2781 24th St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: BRAVA Studio
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $30


"Crawfish / We the Invisible" chronicles Cristofer Cruz's (Crawfish) journey from being a New Orleans homeowner pre-hurricane Katrina to eventually becoming a homeless resident of the Bay Area during the COVID-19 Pandemic. His story is synonymous with the issues of homelessness, gentrification and global warming.

Helen Stoltzfus of Black Swan Arts & Media

DISPATCHES FROM THE GREAT BURNING

Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday, June 10, 2:00 PM, Sunday, June 11, 5:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28


Dispatches from the Great Burning is a solo performance of one woman’s reckoning with the climate crisis: from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert in search of the nearly extinct Gobi bear to San Francisco's toxic-ridden Bayview, and from Civil War ancestor stories of the “Great Burning” to Wall Street West climate protests.

Jason Bayani

Locus of Control

Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, June 9, 8:30 PM, Saturday, June 10, 5:30 PM
Duration: 75 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28


Locus of Control explores the complicated, sometimes fragmented experience of the Filipinx-American background and identity. Setting himself behind a DJ booth, Bayani seamlessly moves between poetry, storytelling, music, and video taking the audience through his family’s history of migration viewed through both a historic and intensely personal lens.

Kat Evasco, Co-Writer & Performer

Mommy Queerest

Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday, June 17, 8:30 PM, Sunday, June 18, 5:30 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28


Written by Kat Evasco & John Caldon, Kat Evasco stars in Mommy Queerest, an autobiographical one-woman show about unconventional mommy/daughter tale that tackles conflict with humorous insight, while illustrating the experience of being a Filipina lesbian, gay Christian, survivor of sexual abuse, and young American just trying to get some.

Lisa A Frias

Gratitude

Date(s) & Time(s): Thursday, June 8, 8:00 PM, Saturday, June 10, 8:45 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28


“Gratitude” is a cloth of hidden scars, liminal spaces, and unexpected wings. From working all night restaurants and mental health agencies to over two decades in the classroom. From close calls and pitfalls, love stories and activism, to prayers, recovering, and laughing. *Contains some difficult themes. For mature audiences.

Put Ur Play Productions

Unapologetically Black: Here for Facilitating Harm Reduction Services for Those in Need, Incorporated

Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday, June 17, 2:00 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28


'Unapologetically Black' is a great jumping-off point for dialogue about racism and the possibilities of allyship. This initiative is a celebration of Black creatives coming together with allies to use art as a way to usher in the change we want to see in the world.

Radical Medicine Project and Theatre Movement International

Haunting our His & Her Stories: Indigenous Children’s Boarding School & Related Experiences

Date(s) & Time(s): Saturday, June 10, 8:30 PM, Sunday, June 18, 2:00 PM
Duration: 45 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2781 24th St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: BRAVA Studio
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28


A presentation by deCoy Gallerina that explores the circumstances and state of being of Indigenous children taken from their families and placed in boarding schools. Utilizing a magical realism format, the piece spans a century of actual accounts married with sleuthed deduction. The stories include, "Two Mason Jars" and "Hair Cutting."

US in the U.S.

What Had Happened Was...

Date(s) & Time(s): Friday, June 16, 8:00 PM, Saturday, June 17, 5:30 PM, Sunday, June 18, 2:30 PM
Duration: 60 minutes w/out intermission
Location: 2840 Mariposa St, SF, CA, 94110
Venue: Theatre of Yugen
Ticket Prices: Early Bird: $20, Advance: $25, Door: $28


"What Had Happened Was..." takes the audience through the process of shedding identity. Giving folks a chance to choose their own identity or to choose not to have one at all! Come with us on a journey through the Past, Present and Future. Explore generational trauma, making choices in the present moment, and navigating the future after shedding identities.