Hello from the proud Artistic Directors of Crowded Fire Theater
Company. As long time collaborators, best friends, and now
newlyweds, we are thrilled to be leaders of such an important
part of the Bay Area and National New Plays ecology. We kicked
off 2008 as first season producers with Gone by Charles
Mee. We've chosen 2 more important, dramatic, and challenging
scripts to tempt you into the theater, and also into our post-show
discussions (after every performance); The Listener,
by Liz Duffy Adams (Kent directs this one) and My Name
is Vera Cupido, by Stephanie Fleischmann.
Our personal goal for Crowded Fire is three fold. We are continuing our reputation for bringing edgy, daring new voices to the Bay Area while supporting playwrights through the celebration of process. Secondly, we are focused on community. You'll find us determined to build strong bonds with our collaborators and our spectators in a way that makes the company accessible, intimate, and special. And lastly, we are truly dedicated to the ensemble we have gathered. Check out their bios on our website, and help us reach our goal to employ all of them this year. We get the joy of paying them to do what they do best, art!
Adopt Us! When you adopt us as artistic directors, you are making a financial contribution to our general operating expenses--something every theater desperately needs. Thank you in advance for your support--as financial parents, you make our job and our lives so much more fun!
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To support Kent
and Cassie 's
projects, donate now!
We have two easy
ways to donate:
1.Secure on-line
donations through
Paypal
2.Send along a
check with Kent and Cassie's
name in the memo to:
Crowded Fire
131 Tenth St. Floor 3
San Francisco, CA 94103
All donations to Crowded Fire are
tax deductable.
Thank you for your
support!
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Cassie Beck is the proud Co-Artistic Director
of Crowded Fire. Past performance credits with the company include,
Trojan Woman, Top Girls, A-A-America, One Big Lie, Slow Falling
Bird, and We Are Not These Hands, directed by Kent Nicholson.
Other Bay Area credits: All My Sons, Living Out and Be Aggressive
at TheatreWorks, The Haunting of Winchester at San Jose Rep,
Communicating Doors at Marin Theatre Company, 3F 4F at the Magic
Theatre, Thursday at Encore Theatre Co., The Marriage of Figaro
at Centre Rep, and On the Verge with the Napa Valley Repertory
Theatre. Cassie recently workshopped the latest Adam Bock play,
The Drunken City, in NYC at Playwright's Horizons. Cassie has
participated in several new play readings, including TheatreWorks
and the Bay Area Playwrights Festival. She has also served as
choreographer for several Bay Area productions.
Kent Nicholson is the Co-Artistic Director of Crowded Fire. He
directed Crowded Fire's World Premiere production of We are not
These Hands by Sheila Callaghan. He also serves as the New Works
Director at TheatreWorks, where he created The New Works Initiative,
TheatreWorks' program to develop musicals and plays for World
Premiere Production. In addition to his work for TheatreWorks,
Nicholson has distinguished himself as one of the regions most
prominent directors of new plays.
His credits include the Off-Broadway productions of Five Flights
by Adam Bock and Wet by Liz Duffy Adams. Locally his credits include:
Five Flights and Thursday for Encore Theater; Stones in His Pockets
for Magic Theatre; Dog Act, and Swimming in the Shallows for Shotgun
Players; Small Tragedy for the Aurora Theater Company; and Tenders
in the Fog for San Jose Stage Company. He also co-adapted and directed
the long running hit Sacrament! with Dave Eggers and Campo Santo
theater company, and The Good German at Marin Theater Company.
His work has been seen in Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Tucson, and
Portland. He currently serves on the board of directors for The
National Alliance of Musical Theater.
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