The SFTF will be held at the beautiful urban park setting of Yerba Buena Gardens as part of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.
Festival performances range from 15-30 minutes and include all kinds of theater: Shakespeare, comedy, drama, musical theater, children’s shows, solo performances, improv, one acts, excerpts, classics, new works…
An estimated 10,000 people attended the 2008 festival, including families, teens, and adults. Our multicultural audience included the Bay Area’s committed theater audience and an audience that is just discovering the possibilities of theater and learning about the many theater groups they had never heard of before.
Featured at the 2008 festival:
- AfroSolo presents Angela Dean-Baham as Black Patti
- Amiri Baraka’s provocative plays of black experience, including his new play, “Sisyphus Syndrome”
- Lamplighters Music Theatre’s “The Mikado”
- Best of Playground’s one act plays
- Aleshia Brevard & Gina Grahame's transsexual production of "One Damn Man!"
- Oh My Godmother, gay Cinderella
- Best of the Buddy Club, 16 great children’s shows
- Improv Groups: Blue Blanket, BATS, SPF, Big City & Stagebridge's Over-50 Improv
- The Exit Theatre
- The Marsh
- Tell it on Tuesday
“This was our second year with the festival and we look forward to participating in the future. The festival is a Bay Area performing arts treasure and a one of the crown jewels for the City of San Francisco.”
“Thank you for the absolutely WONDERFUL experience of the SF Theater Festival. The Festival was so well organized and produced, and everyone who was there seemed to have a wonderful theatre experience!
I can't wait until next year!”
“We had a great time. The audience was fabulous at the Zeum. I was especially impressed with the staff & lighting person who really worked to have our show look good.”
“…wanted to thank you too for the opportunity to help out the SFTF. It has actually worked to my great advantage in that I've booked two paid gigs with a producer who was in the audience. Hooray!
Congratulations for staging such a successful, well-attended event.”
“What fantastic talents I witnessed!”
“The festival was a blast.”
“The staff and volunteers werefriendly and skilled. The overall arrangements were excellent and very respectful of the artists. The audiences were strong and responsive (which again reflects on the work that you did as arrangers.)
We had a highly successful experience and I think we won lots of new friends for our work.”
Performance Groups Represented:42nd Street Moon, Acme Players Ensemble, AfroSolo, Aleshia Brevard & Gina Grahame, Allison Floyd, And Still Dreaming…,Anthony Carter, AtmosTheatre, BATS Improv, Bay Area Rep, BarbaraInCharacter, Biko Eisen-Martin, Big City Improv, Blue Blanket Improv, CalShakes Conservatory, Cherry Terror, Climate Theater, David Glover, David Hirata, David Kleinberg, David Stein, Del Sol Ballet Theater, Donald Lacey, Dorothy Richman, EastSide Arts Alliance, Enzo Lombardo Quintero, Exit Theatre, Erica Lann Clark, Et Ceteras, Foothill College, Galatean Players, Golden Thread Fairytale Players, Horizon Arts, Howard Petrick, Garen Patterson, JB Saunders, Jeff Byers, Jeff Greenwald, Jenny Overman, Jump! Theatre, International Theater Ensemble, Joya Cory,, Kambayoka Arts, LA Recovery Theatre, Lambeth Sterling, Lamplighters Music Theatre, Lauren Crux, Living Miracle Pdns, Lower Bottom Playaz, Lynn Ruth Miller, Lucky Dog, Lunatique Fantastique, Luscious Lens, Magnetic Theater, Maryclare McCauley, Marjorie Mann, Marvin X, Mia Paschal, Maya Gurantz, Naatak, Nina Wise, No Nude Men, Oakland Public Conservatory of Music, Oh My Godmother!, Opera Piccola, One Act Players, Pangs Theater, Pear Avenue, Pi: The Physical Comedy Troupe, Playground, PUS (Performers Under Stress), Ray of Light, Ross Alternative Works, SF Recovery Theatre, Sammy Wegent, SF Buffoons, SF Circus, SF Sound Wave Chorus, SF Free Civic Theatre, Sarita Ocon, Shakespeare’s Insults, Shanique Scott, Shopping! The Musical, Solano Youth Theatre, SPF7, Stagebridge, Tell it on Tuesday, Terry Varela, The Marsh, The One Act Players, Threshold Project, Three Wise Monkeys, Uncle Buzzy’s Hometown Theatre, Un-Scripted Theater, Untitled 5, Vidya Sundaram, Voxmaids, Virago Theatre, Wayne Harris, Wordslanger, Yehmanja, Youth for Asian Theatre, Youth of the Bay, Zoe Sheli Sameth
Plus Children’s Show Performers (presented in cooperation with The Buddy Club): Brian Scott, Fred Anderson, Tye the Magic Guy, Unique Derique, Zappo, Robert Strong, Boswick. Plus many of the shows & performers listed above.
Stage Hosts: TBD
