SFTF 2008 will be held on Sunday, July 27, 2008 at beautiful Yerba Buena Gardens as part of the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival.
Festival performances range from 20 to 30 minutes typically and include all kinds of theater, from youth theater to Shakespeare, from improvisation to solo performances, from musical theater to new plays by new playwrights.
Over 5,000 people attended the SFTF 2006 (the third annual 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 many theater groups they had never heard of before.
Featured at the 2007 festival:
- Insignificant Others, an award-winning original musical by San Francisco's own talent, Jay Kuo.
- The Intersection for the Arts will showcase projects.
- The Exit Theater will showcase recent productions and preview its fall classic, the Fringe Festival
- The Marsh presents its talented solo performers
- Tell it on Tuesday will present some of its finest solo artists
- Suzan-Lori Parks' 365 days/365Plays (week 36, Jul 16-22, 2007)
“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: …and still dreaming, 42nd Street Moon, African American Shakespeare, Ambit Theatre Company, Asian American Theater Company, Atmos Theatre, BATS Improv, Big Yellow Bus (Playground Theater Chicago Improv), Blue Blanket Improv, Caterpillar Puppets, Clown Conservatory, Colored Ink, Brian Shapiro’s Cultureworks, Cutting Ball Theatre, Exit Theatre (Mark Romyn, Sam Chase), Foothill Theater Conservatory, Galatean Players Ensemble, Gillian Summers, High Noon Ensemble, Insignificant Others, Jazz Kids, Jump! Theatre, K-Arts, Lamplighters Musical Theatre, Last Night at Playland, Lucky Dog Theatre, Lynn Ruth Miller, Lyric Theatre of San Jose, Magic Theatre, Makeshift Ensemble, The Marsh (Mark McGoldrick, Erica Lann-Clark, Rebecca Fisher), Mountian International Dance Co., New Works West, No Nude Men Productions, Not Quite Opera Productions, Omni Circus, Pangs Theater, Panhandler’s Theater Company, Pirate Tenaya, Playground, Porchlight Theatre Company, PUS Works, Ray of Light Theatre, Red Lantern Theatre Company, Richter Scale, San Francisco’s 4 in 1 Improv, SF Buffoons, SF Free Civic Theatre, SF Recovery Theatre, Sha Sha Higbee, Sleepwalkers Theatre, Spellbound Entertainment, StageBridge Senior Theatre, Stanford Summer Theater, String Theory (Vancouver Canada’s Theatresports Improv), Subterranean Shakespeare, Terri Tate, Tell it On Tuesday (Liz Nichols, Stephanie Goldstein, Steve Budd, Frank Turco, Sandra Niman, Wayne Harris, Carolyn Doyle), The Vageniuses (Kathleen Antonia), Three Wise Monkeys, Venus Christ, Young People’s Teen Musical Theater Co., Youth for Asian Theater.
Stage Hosts: Fred Anderson, Big Al Catraz, Tony Sparks, Tim Smith, Michael Cappozola, Eric Cash, Boswich J Turnstyle, Big City Improv, Doug Nolan, & Howard Stone, Tim Gaskin, Shaun Landry
