Past

Productions

2023 \ 2024

Rossum's Universal Robots by Karel Capek

You Did It CoPro with Payson Whitwell

Variety Pack 2024

2022 \ 2023

Pony by Sylvan Oswald

Red Carol  CoPro with San Francisco Mime Troupe

Gaslit by Chris Steele and Sean Owens. CoPro with Poltergeist Theater Project

Exhaustion Arroyo by W. Fran Astorga. CoPro with IN THE MARGIN

Towards Opulence: The Opera CoProduction with Skywatchers

2021 \ 2022

The Real Sappho by Aimee Suzara

2020 \ 2021

UTOPIA by Charles L. Mee

Utopia Feature: Disability in the Arts
Utopia Feature: Self-Expression
Utopia Feature: Utopia in a Time of Dystopia
Utopia Feature: Q+A with the Choreographer: Katerina Wong

Artists in Isolation Series

Winter Workshops

PHANTASMAGORIA A Collaborative Film with Bay Area Theater Cypher and Mugwumpin

2019 \ 2020

Free For All by Megan Cohen

Cutting Ball Variety Pack

Short Cuts
The Yellow Wallpaper by Karina Fox
Rappaccini's Daughter by Maya Herbsman
How to be a Failure in San Francisco by Kayla Kaufman
Decolonize Your Sex Life by May Liang

Unproduced/Unpublished
Pidor and the Wold by Sam Max
import speech_memory by Lucas Baisch

Cultural Exchanges
The Stronger by Anna Pettersson

Ways To Leave A Body by Alexa Derman And Roxie Perkins

2018 \ 2019

Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov

Cutting Ball Variety Pack

  • Short Cuts:
  • The Spurt of Blood directed by Ariel Craft
  • Valley of the Dead directed by Maya Herbsman
  • a selection from The Lady from the Sea directed by Susannah Martin
  • Cyclops 2018 directed by Erik Pearson
  • Unprecedented/Unpublished:
  • Zoohouse by Aurin Squire, directed by Margo Hall
  • Three Fat Sisters written and directed by Morgan Gould
  • Informal Readings:
  • Sappho by Estelle Anna B. Lewis
  • As Five Years Pass by Federico García Lorca in translation by Caridad Svich
  • The Physicists by Friedrich Dürrenmatt in translation by James Kirkup

The Tenderloin Tour by Annie Elias

La Ronde by Arthur Schnitzler

The Bald Soprano by Eugene Ionèsco

2017 \ 2018

The Mineola Twins by Paula Vogel

Cutting Ball Variety Pack

  • Directors Series: an evening of 4 short plays:
  • Ode by Daria Kaufman
  • Proben im Haus by Paige Rogers and Leighton Fong
  • Iago: Images Unseen by Jonathan Vandenberg
  • Pezzetti 2 by Beatrice Basso and Valentina Emeri
  • Playwrights Series:
  • THUNDERBODIES: a reading of a new play by Kate Tarker
  • Complex (KOM-pleks): a reading of a new play by Alexa Derman
  • Reading Series:
  • A reading of The Marriage of Figaro, discussion led by Rob Melrose
  • A reading of Ritter, Dene, Voss, discussion led by Paige Rogers
  • A reading of Natasha's Dream, discussion led by Paige Rogers
  • A reading of The Book of Grace, discussion led by Rob Melrose

Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

2016 \ 2017

Avant GardARAMA!

  • The Wasps by Guy Zimmerman
  • An Evening with Activists by Yussef El Guindi
  • Lorca al vacío by Maria Velasco
  • Pezzetti by Beatrice by Basso and Valentina Emeri
  • Crooked and Dangerous by Katerina Wong
  • Whatever Self: Virginia Woolf & Virginia Woolf by Susan Terris
  • Inkwell by Isaac Schott-Rosenfield

Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen

Phèdre by Jean Racine

Readings

  • Phèdre by Jean Racine
  • Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekov
  • Timon of Athens by Shakespeare

2015 \ 2016

A Dreamplay by August Strindberg

Ondine by Katharine Sherman

Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca

Risk Is This…

  • all of what you love and none of what you hate by Phillip Howze
  • My Home is Where by Alex Johnson
  • Borealis by Bennett Fisher

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen
  • Phèdre by Jean Racine

2014 \ 2015

Mount Misery by Andrew Saito

Antigone by Sophocles

Superheroes by Sean San José

Risk Is This…

  • Who Is Heiner Muller or The End of History by Mark Jackson
  • Caught by Christopher Chen
  • nightcap by Katharine Sherman
  • whisper fish by Andrew Saito
  • Beauty Secrets by Andrew Saito

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • Oresteia by Aeschylus
  • Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  • A Murder of Crows by Mac Wellman
  • A Dream Play by Austin Strindberg
  • Hamletmachine by Heiner Mueller

2013 \ 2014

Sidewinders by Basil Kreimendahl

Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry

Communiqué n° 10 by Samuel Gallet

Risk Is This…

  • Stegosaurus by Andrew Saito
  • Ondine by Katherine Sherman
  • Mt. Misery by Andrew Saito
  • WINK by Jen Silverman
  • Ex Machina by David Jacobi

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Natural Relations and other plays by Qorpo Santo
  • Antigone by Sophocles
  • The Police by Slawomir Mrozek
  • The Balcony by Jean Genet
  • Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
  • Rabinal Achi, an ancient Mayan play, translated by Dennis Tedlock

2012 \ 2013

Strindberg Cycle: The Chamber Plays in Rep by August Strindberg

The Chairs by Eugène Ionesco

Krispy Kritters In The Scarlett Night by Andrew Saito

Risk Is This…

  • Superheroes by Sean San José
  • Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry
  • Insect Play by Josef and Karl Capek
  • Passing by Dipika Guha
  • Sidewinders by Basil Kreimendahl

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Father by August Strindberg
  • The Increased Difficulty of Concentration by Václav Havel
  • Electra by Sophocles
  • The Merry Wives of Windsor by William Shakespeare
  • The Black Masks by Leonid Andreev

2011 \ 2012

Pelleas & Melisande by Maurice Maeterlinck

Tontlawald text by Eugenie Chan

Tenderloin by Annie Elias

  • with Tristan Cunningham, Siobhan Doherty, Rebecca Frank,
    Michael Kelly, Leigh Shaw, David Sinaiko and David Westley Skillman

Risk Is This…

  • Aulis: An Act of Nihilism in One Long Act by Christopher Chen
  • GIZMO by Anthony Clarvoe
  • The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg
  • The Pelican and The Black Glove by August Strindberg
  • Storm and Burned House by August Strindberg

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • Play Strindberg by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
  • Camino Real by Tennessee Williams
  • Miss Julie and A Dream Play by August Strindberg
  • Easter by August Strindberg
  • The Stronger, Pariah, and Simoon by August Strindberg
  • The Keys to Heaven by August Strindberg

2010 \ 2011

The Tempest by William Shakespeare

Bone To Pick & Diadem by Eugenie Chan

Lady Grey (in ever lower light) and other plays by Will Eno

Risk Is This…

  • Tontlawald by Eugenie Chan
  • Krispy Kritters In The Scarlett Night by Andrew Saito
  • Madame Ho by Eugenie Chan
  • Ozma of Oz Adapted from the novel by L. Frank Baum, Rob Melrose (book and lyrics), Z.O.N.K. (music)
  • Tenderloin by Anne Elias

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Braggart Soldier by Plautus
  • Epicoene, or The Silent Woman by Ben Johnson
  • Andromache by Euripedes
  • The Insect Play by Josef and Karel Capek
  • The False Suitor by Marivaux

2009 \ 2010

The Bald Soprano by Eugène Ionesco

…and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley

Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Knights by by Aristophanes
  • Troilus And Cressida by William Shakespeare
  • Medea Vs. Medea Euripides vs. Seneca
  • Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton
  • Storm by August Strindberg
  • The Antiquarian's Family by Carlo Goldoni

2008 \ 2009

Victims of Duty by Eugène Ionesco

Mud by Maria Irene Fornes

Thom Pain (based on nothing) by Will Eno

Krapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett

Open Process

  • Pelléas and Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck in a new translation by Rob Melrose

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Pelican by August Strindberg in a new translation by Paul Walsh
  • Magnetism of the Heart by Aleksander Fredro
  • Helen by Euripides

2007 \ 2008

Endgame by Samuel Beckett

Avant GardARAMA! 2008: An Evening of Short Experimental Plays

  • Accents in Alsace by Gertrude Stein
  • Betting on the Dust Commander by Suzan-Lori Parks
  • Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan (world premiere)

Risk is This…The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival

  • …and Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi by Marcus Gardley
  • Trojan Barbie by Christine Evans
  • Lighthouse by Brad Chequer

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Emperor of the Moon by Aphra Behn
  • Burned House by August Strindberg in a new translation by Paul Walsh
  • Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
  • Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights by Gertrude Stein
  • Pelléas and Mélisande by Maurice Maeterlinck in a new translation by Rob Melrose

2006 \ 2007

Risk Commissions

  • Mr. Fujiyama’s Electric Beach by Kevin Oakes
  • Bone to Pick by Eugenie Chan

365 Days / 365 Plays by Suzan-Lori Parks

Woyzeck by Georg Büchner in a new translation by Rob Melrose

The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • Danton’s Death by Georg Büchner
  • The Public by Federico García Lorca in a new adaptation by Caridad Svich
  • Quartet & The Task by Heiner Müller
  • Life is a Dream by Pedro Calderòn
  • It Is So (If You Think So) by Luigi Pirandello
  • The Black Glove by August Strindberg
  • Ubu Roi by Alfred Jarry in a new translation by Rob Melrose

2005 \ 2006

The Death of the Last Black Man in the Whole Entire World by Suzan-Lori Parks

The Maids by Jean Genet

Risk Is This… The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival

  • The Girl Triptych by Janet Allard
  • Alien Motel 29: The Secret Outtakes of The Ebony Lady Macbeth by Robert Alexander
  • the evolutionist’s club by Kevin Oakes

The Hidden Classics Reading Series

  • The Rover by Aphra Behn
  • The Ghost Sonata by August Strindberg in a new translation by Paul Walsh
  • Medea by Seneca
  • The Changeling by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley
  • Sphinx and Strawman & Murder Hope of Womankind by Oskar Kokoschka

2004 \ 2005

Macbeth by William Shakespeare

No Exit by Jean-Paul Sartre, in a new translation by Rob Melrose

Avant GardARAMA! 2004: An Evening of Short Experimental Plays

  • Fighter Airplanes from the notebooks of Richard Foreman
  • Ajax, for Instance by Heiner Müller translated by Carl Weber
  • Helen of Troy by Rob Melrose
  • Pickling by Suzan-Lori Parks
  • The Sandalwood Box by Mac Wellman

2003 \ 2004

The Vomit Talk of Ghosts by Kevin Oakes (world premiere)

Risk is This… The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival

  • Snakewoman an opera libretto by Eugenie Chan
  • Wet, or Isabella the Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes by Liz Duffy Adams
  • Infestation by Payne Ratner

2002 \ 2003

Roberto Zucco by Bernard-Marie Koltès

Risk is This… The Cutting Ball New Experimental Plays Festival

  • Chain Reactions by Trevor Allen
  • The Bad Math Plays by Kevin Oakes
  • Begging the Eclipse by Caridad Svich

2001 \ 2002

Drowning Room installation by Jeff Becker, directed by Rob Melrose, text by Kevin Oakes

As You Like It by William Shakespeare

2000 \ 2001

The End of the World as We Know It:
A Double Bill of Apocalyptic Plays

  • Vladimir Mayakovsky: A Tragedy by Vladimir Mayakovsky
  • Hamletmachine by Heiner Müller

Staged Readings

  • The High Priest of Bad Math by Kevin Oakes
  • Timon of Athens by William Shakespeare

1999 \ 2000

My Head Was a Sledgehammer by Richard Foreman