ADVANCE SALES ARE NOW OVER! Tickets available at the door and NO ONE turned away!

Tickets now on sale for Springboard 2017! Two performances and one staged reading!

March 17 and 18, 2017 at 8 PM short pieces

short pieces by Jeanne Lupton,(read by Deborah Fruchey) Diana Slampyak, and Gigi Gamble (Friday only)and Isiah Bell (Saturday only)

excerpts of Sacrificium by Ashley Smiley and Butterflies by Gaetana Caldwell-Smith

March 19, 2017 at 2 PM (play reading)

No Believers by Roberta D’Alois

featuring Radhika Rao, Gabriel A. Ross and Rob Dario.

All performances at A.C.T. ‘s Costume Shop
1117 Market Street
San Francisco CA 94103

We are excited to announce Springboard Series 2017, new works comprised of short plays, excerpts and monologues created by local playwrights responding to Jump’s mission of telling authentic stories of mental illness from a variety of perspectives.

This year’s series incudes monologues on love, obsession and music by Diana Slampyak, Suzanne Gamble and Jeanne Lupton; short works by Ashley Smiley and Gaetana Caldwell-Smith on migraines and motherhood, and a staged reading of “No Believers” by playwright and director Roberta D’Alois. “No Believers” follows a young priest and a childhood friend as they discover the voices they have been hearing may be genuine calls to action.

Jump!‘s Springboard Series has developed plays that have gone on to win the Heidemann Award from the Actors Theatre of Louisville, garnered several New York productions, and have won several other awards including CASH grants from Theatre Bay Area.

Dates: March 17 and 18, 2017 at 8 PM short pieces followed by No Believers

March 19, 2017 at 2 PM  – No Believers

All performances at ACT ‘s Costume Shop
1117 Market Street

San Francisco CA 94103

Springboard Series 2017 is part of ACT’s Space Sharing Initiative.

Stay tuned for ticket info!

Theatre of Yugen, San Francisco presents Sorya! 2014 for its 35th Anniversary

As one of the few female artistic directors of any size theater, Yuriko Doi was an innovator beyond the carefully scripted, East-West fusion work she brought to Western audiences at Theatre Of Yugen. As one of a very few classically trained female Noh and Kyogen expert practitioners, Ms. Doi developed her signature work involving the blending of other cultures with Japanese traditional theater styles in such works as Blood Wine, Blood Wedding, a Kabuki-Flamenco collaboration; Bright and Gifted, in partnership with the experimental playwright Erik Ehn and her groundbreaking Noh Christmas Carol, a Company staple for many years.

Now retired as Founding Artistic Director of the company she established in San Francisco in 1978, Doi returns to Theatre of Yugen this spring to perform in the Company’s annual SORYA! Festival. This year’s event marks the Company’s 35th year, and is presided over by the Company’s current Artistic Director Jubilith Moore.

Performers for this year’s festival are Sheila Berotti, Sheila Devitt, Yuriko Doi, Alexander Lydon, Karen Marek, Jubilith Moore and Lluis Valls.

Performance Dates: March 15-24
http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/540007

Huge shout out to our many generous donors for Springboard VI!
Jump! Literally could not have produced this event without the help of our wonderful donors. A.C.T. generously provided the performance space at no cost if Jump! paid for insurance. The donors below made it possible for us to purchase the insurance and use our other financial resources to pay the artists participating in Springboard VI.

Associate Executive Producer:
Kevin Kearney

Donors:

Deborah Black
Gaetana Caldwell-Smith
Joanne Hudson
Carol Lashof
Rebecca Longworth
Markley Morris
Jennifer Roberts
Elizabeth Spreen

Closing event for Springboard VI – Reading of a new musical by Roberta D’Alois
Jump! is pleased to announce the final event of our 2013 Springboard VI Series of New Works.
On November 3, 2 PM Jump! will host the first public reading of a musical by Roberta D’Alois, titled If You Do, If You Don’t
The play focuses on a therapist and her deeply disturbed client, who may or may not be a serial killer.
The reading features the fine talents of
David Abad
Terry Amara Boero
Melissa Claire
and Robert Nelson
This is a reading WITHOUT music.
Admission is free and there will be a brief talkback after.
Very light refreshments will be served so please come down and join us!

Sunday Nov 3
2 -4 PM
(time change – set your clocks back one hour before you go to bed on Saturday night!)
Costume Shop
1117 Market St at Civic Center
San Francisco CA