MIRIAM’S PLACE
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MIRIAM’S PLACE

A SEMINAR SERIES HOSTED BY PATRICK DOOLEY

Miriam Schiffman was a life-long learner with an insatiable curiosity and passion for bringing people together. She also loved theater. With the generous support of her beloved husband, Stan, we have dedicated space at our studios to host gatherings for the exploration of live theater and the promotion of fellowship around shared interests and perspectives. There’ll be coffee and tea at every session.

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lily janiak

MARCH 13

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LILY JANIAK

Lily Janiak joined the San Francisco Chronicle as theater critic in May 2016. Previously, her writing appeared in Theatre Bay Area, American Theatre, SF Weekly, the Village Voice, and HowlRound. A Michigan native whose childhood also took her to Tennessee and Texas, she holds a BA in theater studies from Yale and an MA in drama from San Francisco State. She served on the jury for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

JON TRACY

APRIL 3

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JON TRACY

Jon Tracy works internationally across theatre and film as a producer, director, playwright, designer, educator, and facilitator. His work has been recognized with awards from the Kennedy Center, North Bay Artys, the Ellys, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, and Theatre Bay Area, along with the Solano College Theatre Alumni Award.Jon has served in artistic leadership roles with Darkroom Productions, Traveling Lantern Theatre Company, and Groundswell International, and completed a five-year facilitation tenure with TheatreFIRST, commissioning and developing the work of more than fifty playwrights. In addition to his institutional leadership at Marin Shakespeare, Jon maintains an active freelance practice as a director, deviser, collaborator, and creative consultant.

MARGO HALL

MAY 1

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MARGO HALL


Margo Hall is an award-winning actor, director, playwright, and educator, as well as the Artistic Director of Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (LHT). She was awarded the 2021 Kenneth Rainin Fellowship in Theater and listed as one of the YBCA 100 honorees for 2020.
She was last seen onstage in Josephine’s Feast by Star Finch for Campo Santo and Magic Theatre. Other acting credits include Black Odyssey, Fences, Twelfth Night, A Raisin in the Sun, A Winter’s Tale, American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, and SPUNK for California Shakespeare Theater; JAZZ, Skeleton Crew, Gem of the Ocean, Fences, and Seven Guitars for Marin Theatre Company; Ah! Wilderness, Once in a Lifetime, and Marcus or the Secret of Sweet for American Conservatory Theater; Exit Strategy and Trouble in Mind* for Aurora Theatre Company; Marcus Gardley’s A World in a Woman’s Hands for Shotgun Players; Barbecue* and MF with a Hat for San Francisco Playhouse.
Margo debuted as a theater director with Campo Santo’s world premiere of Joyride, from the novel Grand Avenue by Greg Sarris, which won the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Original Script; the SF Weekly Black Box Awards for Best Production, Best Ensemble, and Best Director; the Drama-Logue Award for Best Production and Best Ensemble in Northern California; the Backstage Garland Award for Best Production and Best Ensemble in Northern California; and the Bay Guardian Goldie Award for Stage. She recently directed Soulful Christmas for LHT, Nollywood Dreams for San Francisco Playhouse, and Hieroglyph (a co-production for LHT and San Francisco Playhouse). Other directing credits include Thurgood and Rejoice! (LHT); How I Learned What I Learned (LHT, Ubuntu, and Marin Theatre Company co-production); Barbecue, Red Velvet, and The Story (San Francisco Playhouse); andSonny’s Blues by James Baldwin, which toured France with Word for Word. With Ellen Sebastian Chang, she co-directed the Pulitzer Prize Finalist Bulrusher by Eisa Davis for Shotgun Players. She also directed Once on This Island, Hamlet, Blood in the Brain, SPUNK, The Trojan Women, It Falls, Ragtime, and A Streetcar Named Desire for Chabot College; and Polaroid Stories and In the Red and Brown Water for UC Berkeley.

Join us for coffee and cookies on the first Friday of every month from 10:30 AM to 12 PM as we meet some of the most influential theater makers in the Bay Area. Each session will begin with an interview about their history and artistic endeavors, followed by an opportunity to ask questions and a group discussion.

Tickets are pay-what-you-can.

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the world of a play

Get an insider’s perspective on what goes into creating a play from the first read of a script, through design discussions, into the rehearsal rooms, and finally to full production. Shotgun Players’ artistic director Patrick Dooley and other collaborating artists will lead this exploration through the experience of producing Bess Wohl’s Continuity. This seminar involves six gatherings on Mondays from 10:30am – 12pm, and four other events, including a read-through with the cast, a rehearsal in our studios, a technical rehearsal, and a preview performance at the theater.

**Limit 20 participants per seminar

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