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Andy
Alabran
actor, archivist
Andy
hails from Framingham, MA. He received his B.A. in Theater from
U Mass, Amherst and his M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory
Theater. His acting credits with Shotgun include: Rudy in Bent,
Pentheus in The Bacchae, and Johnny Squarefoot in
The Skriker, Vaslav in Dasvedana Mama, Hal in
Loot, Topman in There Will Be No Trojan War, Ernie in A Fairy's Tail, Swiss Cheese in Mother Courage, ensemble of The Death of Meyerhold, Cleante in The Miser, and Peasant Woman/Azdak/etc. in Caucasian Chalk Circle. He also had the sublime experience of performing in San Francisco Symphony's production of Leonard Bernstein's Candide along with, among others, Rita Moreno, George Hearn, and Jason Danieley. Andy also teaches at A.C.T. He is grateful and inspired to be able to share the space with the creative forces onstage and off of the Shotgun Players.
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Valera
Coble
Costume Design and Construction
Valera
received a degree in photography
from the Academy of Art
in San Francisco, but
not before having worked
as a resident actor with
Children's Theater Workshop,
performing plays that
dealt with coming of age
issues for kids ages six
to eighteen. She has also
worked with children in
an educational capacity,
teaching drama in schools
and summer arts camps.
Presently, she works in
part with the theatre
students at Lick Wilmerding
High School, teaching
costume design. Valera
has been involved with
Civic Arts Presents of
Pleasanton for the last
five years, designing
main stage productions
as well as projects in
their teen theater program.
She also currently holds
the position of Assistant
Costume Department Manager
for Dean Lesher's resident
theater company, Center
Rep. Valera does freelance
design work for Word for
Word, A Traveling Jewish
Theater, The Willows Theater,
Unconditional Theater,
Solo Opera, Role Player's
Ensemble, Impact Theater,
Custom Made Theater Company,
Exit Theater, and Venue
Nine. Previous Shotgun
credits include: Three
Sisters, As you Like it,
The Author's Voice, The
Water Engine, and
Someone Who'll Watch
Over Me.
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Reid
Davis
education
director, actor & director
Reid
has directed locally at the CACT Advanced Training Program,
Eureka Theatre, Theatre Rhino, Signal Theatre, and Kudzu Theatre.
Reid was winner of the 1994 Dramalogue awards for Direction,
Actor and Actress; Actor's Theatre of Louisville (Jane Anderson's
Lyunette at 3 AM in the 1992 Humana Festival); and New
York (assistant to Athol Fugard's My Children! My Africa!).
He has acted in Shotgun's Henry V and A Midsummer
Night's Dream and directed Shotgun's production of Bent.
He teaches at ACT, California Shakespeare Festival, and Solano
College.
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Beth
Donohue Templeton
Educational Outreach & Actor
Beth has been an actor with Shotgun since 1996 (Genet's The Maids ). A
Buffalo Native, Beth trained at New York University's Tisch School of the
Arts (Circle in the Square), Mills College and San Francisco State
University. Favorite roles on the Shotgun stage include Little Missy
What's-Her-Face in the world premiere of Adam Bock's A FAIRY'S TAIL, Masha
in THREE SISTERS , Lily in THE SKRIKER, and Rosalind in AS YOU LIKE IT. Beth
has worked with The Aurora, Berkeley Rep (as an actor and faculty member of
the theater school), Center Rep, The Magic Theater, Theatre Rhinocerous,
Nightletter Theater, and others. Beth teaches Acting, Improv, and Creative
Drama at the Julia Morgan Center for the Arts where she is Director of
On-Site programs. Last year, Beth piloted two successful new JMCA programs,
the Homeschooler Drama Workshop, a deep and challenging theater workshop for
the homeschooling community and Kaleidoscope Unlimited, an integrated summer
arts camp for children with Asperger's Syndrome. Call Beth to book your
school groups for Shotgun shows and she'll give you pre-engagement
activities and talk-backs. Beth believes that theater, in its most
fundamental function, reminds us all that we are not so separate. Thanks for
taking that leap.
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Kimberly
Dooley
Actor, Choreographer and Development Consultant
Favorite Shotgun roles include: Cassandra in both "There Will be No Trojan
War" and "Troilus & Cressida", Pat in "Vampires" and various roles (her
favorite - a fish) in "A Fairy's Tail". She also co-created and directed the
Shotugn Theatre Lab hit "Eat". She has been seen in the Bay Area as Peggy
Sawyer in "42nd Street" and Patsy in "Crazy For You" at Broadway by the
Bay. She received her BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she
co-created and played Camille in an original play based on the life of
Camille Claudel. She has acted, taught theatre and dance or held arts
administrative positions in New York, Los Angeles and the Bay Area. She
loves this community and is proud to be a part of it.
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Patrick
Dooley
artistic
director, actor &
director
Patrick is the Artistic Director and founder of the Shotgun Players. He
launched the Shotgun Players with a production of David Mamet's play Edmond in July of 1992. Patrick received a BA in English from James
Madison University of Virginia and studied in the Atlantic Theatre's
Practical Aesthetics Workshop. He was a founding member of the
international touring company, The Shenandoah Shakespeare, and has scores
of other regional theatre acting and directing credits. He has directed
over forty plays since founding the Shotgun Players in 1992. Some of Mr.
Dooley's Shotgun Player directing credits include: All Men are Whores,
The Shawl, The Lover, Iphigenia in Aulis, Merchant of Venice, The Bacchae,
Dr. Faustus (for which he won 2 Dramalogue Awards for Direction and
Production), The Birthday Party, Baal and Henry V (for which Shotgun won
the 1998 Bay Guardian Black Box Award), Skriker (2000 Dean Goodman choice
award for Best Director, Overall Production & Ensemble) & the critically
praised Mother Courage & Her Children. Shotgun Players have won Best
Overall Production three of the past five years at the Bay Area Critics
Circle Awards. Patrick received the Barbara Bladen Porter award for
bringing innovation and enthusiasm to new works and classics in 2002. He
currently is co-chair of the New Plays League, a member of the Berkeley
Cultural Trust and is elected to TBA’s Theatre Services Committee.
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Elizabeth
Lisle
Managing Director
In addition to her administrative roles with Shotgun Players, Liz edits a
small literary magazine called Watchword Press, and an all art, no words art
review called (lo!). To keep the literary lobe from going rotten, she also
works at a bookstore once a week. Her latest passion is to envelop herself
in the Shotgun Theatre Lab project, and to create and facilitate as many new
styles of theater making as humanly possible. Shotgun is her constant
inspiration to think bigger and better on all things art.
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Alex
Lopez
lighting designer
Alex
Lopez has worked with the Shotgun Players since its inception.
Alex graduated from the University of California with a degree
in dramatic arts. He has designed the lighting for numerous
East Bay theatre companies. Most recently he has received recognition
for his innovative light design for The Possum Play.
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Dave Maier
Actor, Fight Captain and 911 Tool Man
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Joanie McBrien
Dramaturg and Theatre Lab Associate
Joanie is a company member and the resident dramaturg for Shotgun. She
worked as dramaturg and/or assistant director for The Skriker, Iphigenia in
Aulis
(she also wrote the pre-show: The Curse of the House of Atreus), Trojan War
Will Not Happen (for which she also made a brief appearance on stage with a
feather boa), A Fairy's Tail and Oedipus Rex. She was the co-director of
Troilus &
Cressida and she took a plunge into directing with The Vampires in 2003.
Joanie has a Master's degree in English & European Renaissance Drama and has
worked for several years with the California Shakespeare Theater as a
writer,
dramaturg and most recently as the resident lecturer for the nightly
pre-show
discussions. She is very happy to be part of Shotgun's talented, creative
ensemble.
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Trish
Mulholland
actor
Trish is a graduate of the National Theatre of
Australia , was a top-rated radio announcer in Australia
and Europe , and has appeared in various television
roles. She has received BATCC nominations and a
Pater Award (Australasian radio). Favorite roles
include Mother Courage, Agave in The Bacchae, Marion
(the predatory realtor in Caryl Churchill's first
play, Owners), JulietÊ1⁄4s Nurse, and
Woman in the west coast premier of Edward Albee's
The Play About The Baby. Trish has appeared in theatres
around the bay area including ACT, The Magic Theatre,
The Aurora Theatre, and SF Shakespeare Festival.
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Judy
Phillips
special events
director & actor
Judy
hails from New Orleans,
where she studied at the
University of New Orleans
and Contemporary Arts Center
and was a founding member
of the Uncommon Players.
In New York she studied
Meisner Technique at the
William Esper Studio. Judy
has been in the Bay Area
for 11 years, and is an
original memeber of Shotgun
Players, having performed
dual roles in its first
production, David Mamet's
"Edmond". Other
Shotgun productions include
"Baby with the Bathwater,"
"All Men are Whores,"
"The Shawl," "Sure
Thing," "The Blue
Hour: City Sketches"
and "The Tragical Historie
of Doctor Faustus".
She also played the role
of Irma in the West Coast
Premiere of "Possum
Play" and most recently
appeared in "The Water
Engine". She has also
performed at the California
Conservatory Theatre, the
College of Marin, Oregon
Coast Music Festival, and
the Esalen Institute's First
Annual Arts Festival in
Big Sur. She landed the
leading role in the East
Coast tour of "A Rage
in Orange," to educate
the public regarding women
and HIV. She can be seen
and/or heard in over 50
local radio and television
commercials as well as several
educational and industrial
videos. She assists Shotgun
Players in its ongoing fundraising
efforts by catering Opening
Night festivities.
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Katja
Rivera
Actor and Actor's Equity Liason
Katja studied theatre (and nothing else) at Los Angeles City College
Theatre Academy and the Drama Studio London at Berkeley. After getting her
Equity Card she figured it was a good time to take a ten year hiatus from
acting (i.e she had 2 babies and wasn't so good at leaving them), but
returned with Shotgun's production of "Silence and the Storyteller."
Other Shotgun productions include "Three Sisters" (Anfisa) and "We Won't
Pay" (Antonia). She's also acted with the Magic Theatre, Theatre
Rhinoceros, Center Rep and Geoffrey Chaucer and Co., as well as directed
with Shotgun ("The Winged Man"), Eastenders Rep, Subterranean Shakespeare
("Comedy of Errors") and Playground. In her copious spare time she likes
to run marathons.
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Marilyn
Stanley
Stage Manager, Costume Designer, Etc.
Marilyn is a Bay Area native who studied Dramatic Art-Dance and English at
UC Berkeley sometime in the last century. She has costume designed a
couple of shows (including The Vampires) and stage-managed a great many
shows (including The Death of Meyerhold and Dog Act). She helps with box
office and lobby displays and sews and paints and hammers and scrounges
things off the streets at night for props. During the day, she wrangles
office machines and young theatre arts campers at the Julia Morgan Center
for the Arts. Sometimes, she sticks her big toe in the fight for creating
public value and building arts participation with the Arts Marketing
Institute. If she weren't a Shotgun Player, she'd be Buffy, or maybe a cat.
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Andrea Weber
Choreographer and Ensemble Training Coordinator
Andrea Weber is a choreographer, teacher and performer working in both dance
and theater. Since joining the Shotgun Players in 1999, she has
choreographed such notable and award winning theater works as Mother
Courage, Iphegenia in Aulis, The Skriker, and The Bacchae. Other local
projects include Word for Word's Stories of Tobias Wolfe and Winesburg, Ohio
and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead produced by Diablo Valley College.
Andrea's artistic path is to collaboratively discover ways of combining
movement, text, and sound in ever new and exciting ways. She is also the
current coordinator of Shotgun's ensemble training program. Andrea is
grateful for her involvement in Shotgun and is looking forward to many more
years of making, discovering and performing plays.
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sibani michael
bose
sibani joined the Shotgun Players as a company
member in 2006. She is a specialist at the University
of California Berkeley who writes budgets and allocates
money to astronomers so they can spend their time
gazing at stars. She has a bachelor’s degree
in dramatic arts (theater and performance studies)
from UC Berkeley and is also a company member of
Just Theater based in Berkeley, California. |
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