The Cast
ATOSA BABAOFF She/Her (Ensemble)
Atosa Babaoff is thrilled to be back working with the beloved Shotgun Players. One of her favourite experiences ever was playing ‘Betty 2’ in Collective Rage and she is so happy to be back. She has worked all over the Bay Area and beyond. Her most recent piece GHOST PERIOD (an original work co-created with Hope Mohr/ SF Arts commission) was performed at SPACE 124. She is co-founder (along with Beatrice Basso and Nora El Samahy) of AFFINITY PROJECT, an arts collective dedicated to making devised theatre.
ATOSA BABAOFF
Ensemble
MARIT BROOK-KOTHLOW She/Her (Ensemble)
Marit Brook-Kothlow is thrilled to be working with Erika Chong Shuch, along with this incredible cast, and the highly talented folks at Shotgun Players. As a longtime member of the Joe Goode Performance Group, she has contributed to the development of more than 30 dance/theater works and has toured and taught throughout the US, and internationally in Jordan,
Egypt, Brazil and France.
Marit Brook-Kothlow
Ensemble
VIVIAN HUANG She/They (Ensemble)
Vivian Huang is a performer, writer, and teacher based in Oakland on unceded Ohlone land. She last performed as Actor One in My Obsession with Hamletmachine at Dance Mission. Vivian is ecstatic to perform at Shotgun Players and thanks everyone involved with The Fall Show. Thanks to Grace for Magritte early on. Thanks to 姐姐, 媽媽, nar, and Mel for bringing piano into Vivian’s life.
VIVIAN HUANG
Ensemble
LOUEL SEÑORES He/Him (Ensemble)
Louel is a Berkeley-based actor & Stage Manager and is thrilled to be working with Shotgun Players again! Previous acting credits include To My Girls (New Conservatory Theatre) & Four Play (Theatre Rhino). Previous Stage Manager credits include The Prince Parts 1 and 2 (Central Works) and Yerma (Shotgun Players). He’s a proud company member of Berkeley Interactive Theater & PlayGround SF, and is also a member of Shotgun’s EDIB Committee.
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LOUEL SEÑORES
Ensemble
APOLLO JAVIER SOHRABI He/Him (Ensemble)
Apollo Javier Sohrabi is so excited to make his Shotgun Players debut! He is a Mexican-Iranian actor from the Bay Area and recent graduate of Theater & Performance Studies from UC Berkeley. Recent theater credits: Cabaret (Oakland Theater Project), Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 (BareStage Productions), The Wednesday Club (UC Berkeley). He thanks his friends and family for their continued love and support. IG: @490110js
APOLLO JAVIER SOHRABI
Ensemble
CHRIS STEELE She/They (Ensemble)
Chris Steele (she/they) has been performing, producing, and creating in the Bay Area for a decade. Her work centers on highlighting queer and trans narratives throughout history, with a focus on reimagining classics and uplifting genre-explosive new works. She lives with her husband and their 3 cats.
CHRIS STEELE
Ensemble
REGINALD WILKINS He/Him (Sam)
Reginald Wilkins is originally from Texas and has been acting for 12 years. He’s had the privilege of performing in multiple plays by August Wilson with the Lower Bottom Players. Besides action, Wilkins is also a playwright, musician and multi-platform artist who loves to create! Once a middle-school teacher in another life, and also a singer in a reggae band, the Nephalim, he spends as much time as possible giving thanks for this wonderful thing called life!
REGINALD WILKINS
Sam
BETH WILMURT She/Her (Eddie; Music Director & Vocal Arrangements)
Beth Wilmurt is a long-time actor, director, and company member with Shotgun Players, and has also had the pleasure to work with Erika Chong Shuch for many years, most recently in Cabaret with Oakland Theater Project. She enjoyed creating and performing The Cassandra Sessions: Recording This World with Shotgun Players, and leads choirs with San Francisco Community Music Center where her work bridges performance and community engagement. More at www.bethwilmurt.com.
BETH WILMURT
Eddie
Shotgun’s oldest and newest company member. Over a half century ago, Don graduated high school and spent 4 years in the U.S.Navy, then waited tables, worked in a machine shop, and a grain mill. At the age of 28 he took an acting class. He then decided what he wanted to do until he grew up. In 1984 he drove to San Francisco from the East Coast in a 1976 Pinto. His Shotgun performances include “Coast of Utopia”, “Our Town”, “Dry Land”, and “Kings”. Don was previously a company member of Bindlestiff and Paducah Mining Company. He has also had the pleasure of working with Mugwumpin, Central Works, Custom Made, Boxcar, and Anton’s Well. An older Berkeley memory is doing “American Buffalo” in La Val’s Pizza basement in 1988. Now retired from his day job of 31 years at Gap Inc., he loves disc golf and his partner Michelle. Not in that order.
DON WOOD
Understudy (Sam)
The creative team
Charles Mee is an American playwright, historian, and author famous for his collage-style plays made from reconstructed texts. His works, such as Big Love, bobrauschenbergamerica, and Orestes 2.0, mix classical texts, pop culture, history, and philosophy. In the 90s, Mee removed copyrights from his plays and encourages theater-makers to use them freely in their own processes. Also a graduate at Harvard University, he now lives in New York and is a Special Lecturer of theater at Columbia University.
CHARLES MEE
Playwright
JENNIFER COSTA She/Her (Costume Assistant)
JENNIFER COSTA
Costume Assistant
NATALIE GREENE (Intimacy Choreographer)
Natalie Greene is an artist and educator whose interdisciplinary work centers community and consent. Her choreography and intimacy work have appeared regularly here at Shotgun Players, as well as at A.C.T., Aurora Theatre, Stanford University, Cal Shakes, and many other Bay Area theater, dance, and site-specific venues. Formerly Artistic Director of the award-winning devised ensemble Mugwumpin, Natalie is currently Director of Education & Community Programs at American Conservatory Theater.
piano into Vivian’s life.
NATALIE GREENE
Intimacy Choreographer
SARAH ROSE LEONARD She/Her (Dramaturg)
Sarah Rose Leonard is the Senior Dramaturg at the Ojai Playwrights Conference and the Senior Producer of Live Events and Strategy at KQED. Her production dramaturgy credits include works at Berkeley Rep, Signature Theatre, MTC, MCC, The Bushwick Starr, and The Denver Center, among others. Sarah Rose was the Co-Editor of the Obie Award-winning theater criticism publication 3Views on Theater from 2021-2025.
SARAH ROSE LEONARD
Dramaturg
JASMINE LEW She/They/He (MAD Directing Observer
Jasmine Lew is a theatre maker, educator, and social worker based in the Bay Area. By day, they run arts-based programming for transitional aged youth experiencing housing insecurity in the SF Tenderloin. By night, Jasmine specializes in facilitating devised theatre and new work development, most often working in directing, producing, and stage management roles. Jasmine is so glad to be a part of The Fall Show and the larger Shotgun Players community!
JASMINE LEW
CLAIRE MORTON She/Her (Stage Manager)
Claire is a stage manager, theatrical technician, and current PhD student in Statistics based in Berkeley. She has worked as a stage manager and assistant stage manager at Oakland Theater Project, the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Festival Napa Valley, the San Francisco International Arts Festival, and Stanford University. This is her first time stage managing at Shotgun Players and she’s so excited to be here.
CLAIRE MORTON
Stage Manager
ASHLEY RENEE She/Her (Costume Designer)
Ashley has built a textile-based practice as a costume designer, natural
dyer, and material alchemist. She is a proud member of the Bay Wardrobe
Collective where she instructs various textile workshops for the community.
Most recent design credits include The Motion (Shotgun Players), Legally
Blonde (Berkeley Playhouse), Urinetown (Ray of Light Theatre), The Fre (Oakland Theater Project), Of Love and Information (Napa Valley College), Pippin St. (Mary’s College LeFevre Theatre).
ASHLEY RENEE
Costume Designer
NOAH ROJAS-DOMKE They/Them (Assistant Stage Manager)
Noah Rojas-Domke is thrilled to be back at Shotgun Players but this time as Assistant Stage Manager. His experience spans scenic, lighting, stage management and choreography. Selected credits include La Comedia of Errors, Into the Woods, As You Like It, The Addams Family, The Lightning Thief, Les Misérables, Carrie, Legally Blonde and Rent. Noah is excited to be working on this great devised piece.
NOAH ROJAS-DOMKE
Assistant Stage Manager
SOPHIE RUF She/Her (Scenic Design Drafter)
Sophie Ruf is a former MAD Scenic Fellow. She is delighted to work on another Shotgun Players production. By day she is an architect and origami enthusiast.
SOPHIE RUF
Scenic Design Drafter
Shuch is a performance maker, director and choreographer whose work spans experimental performance and social practice, and unexpected forms of audience engagement. She is the co-founder of For You, a collective exploring performance as creative mutual aid. Recent projects include The Table, commissioned by Pink Fang, co-created with Mei Ann Teo, (2026, Judson Church NY) and 1,000 Ways To Hold, a ceramics exhibition (Anderson Collection, Stanford, 2026 and Flag Art Foundation, NY, 2027).
ERIKA CHONG SHUCH
Director, Choreographer
MATT STINES (Sound Designer)
matt stines is an SF-based self storage facilitator and is always stoked to be back at Shotgun Players. massive thanks to Didi, Gogo, Lind-zo, and Steve.
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MATT STINES
Sound Designer
MIKIKO UESUGI She/Her (Scenic Designer)
Mikiko has designed Kill the Debbie Downers!, Women Laughing Alone with Salad and Kiss for Shotgun Players. Recent theater credits include: In a Memory Palace for Theatre Nohgaku, Arab Spring for Golden Thread Productions & SF Bay Area Theatre Company, Pilgrimage for Golden Thread & Z Space. She is a recipient of the SF Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award and the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers.
MIKIKO UESUGI
Scenic Designer
ZOE P WAGNER They/Them (Props Designer)
Zoe P Wagner is a visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area, CA. Zoe P primarily works in relief printmaking and paper mache, with an emphasis on large-scale puppetry. Since 2024, they have worked with non-profits and community groups to create giant puppets for their movements, utilizing community-engaged research to help create symbols that share messages with a greater audience. They are thrilled to be a part of the joy and chaos of the work in their first Shotgun Players production.
ZOE P WAGNER
Props Designer
ALLEN WILLNER He/Him (Lighting Designer)
Allen is excited to be working on his 4th Shotgun Players collaboration with Erika Chong Shuch. Past design awards and nominations include: TBA Lighting Designs: We Player’s Beowulf, Shotgun Players Eurydice, Theater of Yugen’s This Lingering Life, SF Playground The Obligation. Bay Area Critics Circle Lighting Design, Shotgun Players God’s Ear, Isadora Duncan Dance Design Awards for inkBoat’s Line Between, inkBoat’s Heaven’s Radio and Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s Private Life.
ALLEN WILLNER
Lighting Designer
K. SID ZHANG She/Her (Assistant Director)
K. Sid Zhang is a director, dancer, and poet from Nanjing, China and currently based in the Bay Area. She searches for space between words and their silence and creates visual poetry with interdisciplinary, movement-based performances. Her work has been presented at, among others, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, San Francisco International Arts Festival, and Stanford University. Sid is a co-founder of Moon Dog, a theatre company.
K. SID ZHANG
Assistant Director
The Production Staff
- R. Black – Graphic Artist
- Cal Scenic – Scenic Building
- Gracie Brakeman – Director of Production
- Lia Findley – Wardrobe Assistant
- Todd Loyd – Electrics Supervisor
- Michael Kelly – Sound Supervisor
Season Sponsors
- Karen Elizabeth Austin
- Naomi Janowitz & Andrew Lazarus
- Craig & Kathy Moody
- Russell Nelson
- Les & Sue Polgar
- Ragesh Tangri & Daralyn Durie
- Bibi Tiphane
- Richard & Kate West
Production Sponsors
- May Lynne & Tim Gill
- Joe Kane
- Denise Tyrrell
- The Tournesol Project