2019 \ Jan 9-26
The Tenderloin Tour
Prime Cuts from the 2012 Hit
By Annie Elias
with Tristan Cunningham, Siobhan Doherty, Rebecca Frank, Michael Kelly, Leigh Shaw, David Sinaiko, and David Westley Skillman
Directed By Annie Elias
The Tenderloin Tour revives the “prime cuts” of Tenderloin, Cutting Ball’s original documentary-style play from 2012 about its neighborhood, in a one-hour touring production. The Tenderloin Tour will run for a limited engagement at the theater and tour to community sites throughout the Tenderloin for free performances.
About the play:
Join the community. Get to know the neighborhood that Cutting Ball calls home. Tenderloin, Cutting Ball’s original documentary-style play from 2012, was a collage of interviews with its denizens, a vibrant homage to the unheard voices of a complex and spirited neighborhood. In 2019, Cutting Ball is thinking locally: The Tenderloin Tour brings the "prime cuts" of that original production back to the theater and out into the community that inspired the play.
Run time: 1 hour 5 minutes followed by a 30-minute discussion
Annie Elias (Writer/Director) created and directed Tenderloin for the Cutting Ball Theatre in 2012 and is thrilled to be working with Cutting Ball again, directing this touring “prime cuts” version of the play. Besides Tenderloin, she has created and directed six documentary theater pieces using transcripts of interviews as the basis for scripts focused on cultural issues. Other directing credits with Cutting Ball include The Chairs in 2013. She has written and directed numerous plays for Phantom Theater in Warren, Vermont and is the recipient of a number of awards and grants, including a development grant from the Ensemble Studio Theatre/Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science and Technology Project for her dance/theater adaptation of Einstein’s Dreams by Alan Lightman. She holds a B.A. from Mills College, was a Thomas J. Watson Fellow, and studied dramaturgy at the A.R.T. Institute at Harvard University. She is the Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Marin Academy.
Siobhan Marie Doherty (Performer) is an actor, educator, producer, voice-over artist, and NYU graduate. Her performance credits include: Magic Theatre, Shotgun Players, SF Mime Troupe, and Word for Word. She co-produces PianoFight’s ongoing series Pint Sized Plays, and recruits for Each One Reach One, a non-profit serving theatre arts to incarcerated youth. Next up: Directing for Triple Feature at Killing My Lobster.
Paige Mayes (Performer) is a dancer, singer and actress based in the Bay Area. From Denver, CO by the way of Arizona. Where she attended Arizona State University. Studying the Performing Arts and dance. Paige also studied at the American Conservatory Theater, where she participated in the Summer Training Congress and the SF Semester. She is truly blessed to be apart of The Tenderloin Tour, which is Mayes’s debut production with Cutting Ball Theater. Mayes is beyond grateful that Cutting Ball Theater grants her the opportunity of storytelling.
Jeunée Simon (Performer) is a board member with TheatreFIRST where she performed in Hela and Waafrika 1,2,3. Simon has also worked with Central Works Theater Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, and more. Simon is a proud recipient of the 2017 RHE Artistic Fellowship.
David Sinaiko (Performer) is a Cutting Ball Associate Artist, where his credits include: Timon of Athens, Life’s a Dream, Mount Misery, Ubu Roi, The Chairs, The Tempest, Endgame, Taming of the Shrew, and many others. Shotgun Players: Hamlet, Village Bike, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Antigonick, and The Coast of Utopia. Co-founder of Chicago’s New Crime Productions, where credits include: Heart of a Dog, The Balcony, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Methusalem, and Alagazam! Additionally: Just Theater, Golden Thread, Crowded Fire, SF Playhouse, The Goodman Theatre, and The Actor’s Gang. Film includes: The Grifters and Bob Roberts, among others.
Special Thanks
Amanda Pineda, Henry and Charlotte Rogers, Laura and Meg Mason, Molly Noble, the Riccitiello family, Oxana Comanescu, and Lawrie Mott for their support.