Highlights and Awards
Quotes from the Press:
2005 San Francisco Bay Guardian GOLDIE AWARD recipient for THEATER “Success like this is always exceptional. One way Crowded Fire has gained that success is by establishing a well-deserved reputation for challenging modern work as aesthetically rich as it is politically and socially provocative.” — SF Bay Guardian, 2005 Rob Avila
"In seven years, Crowded Fire has become the go-to company when you
want something challenging but well produced." — Oakland
Tribune, April 13 2004
"[Crowded Fire] has consistently pushed itself to create fascinating,
exceptional and difficult work." — Oakland Tribune,
March 30 2003
Robert Hurwitt of the S.F. Chronicle included Crowded Fire as
one of the groups that "bear watching, both for what they've already
achieved and for promise of better things to come." — S.F.
Chronicle, December 30 2003
"[Crowded Fire is] one of San Francisco's most adventurous small theater
companies" — S.F. Bay Guardian, March 5 2001
"Wallace's drama hits with an emotional directness as potent as its
intellectual force." — S.F. Chronicle, April 12 2004
(Slaughter City)
"...a powerful, unsettling experience." — Oakland Tribune,
April 13 2004 (Slaughter City)
"In a stunning, simply staged production, director Rebecca Novick's
cast delivers a series of uniquely individualized performances as stripped
to the emotional bone as the hog and beef carcasses they carve." — S.F.
Bay Times, April 22 2004 (Slaughter City)
"[An] invigoratingly imaginative production...a first-rate ensemble." — S.F.
Chronicle, July 15 2003 ('Maid)
"It would be hard to imagine a more evocative production for Ehn's
world than what Crowded Fire director Rebecca Novick has wrought at Exit
Stage Left." — S.F. Bay Times, July 17 2003 ('Maid)
"[B]racingly sardonic explorations of American culture found their
way into one long-overdue American Premiere, Crowded Fire Theater Company's
fearless and nearly flawless mounting of British playwright Edward Bond's A-A-America!" — S.F.
Bay Guardian, December 24 2003
"Packed with rapid-fire, dense dialogue and characters whose motivations
are anything but immediately obvious, the show isn't for those whose idea
of entertainment nirvana is 'Everybody Loves Raymond.'" — S.F.
Examiner, October 15 2002 (The Train Play)
"Stellar acting and impeccable timing." — SFGate.com (S.F.
Chronicle online), June 6 2002 (Top Girls)
"This superb ensemble...does assured, robust work." — Oakland
Tribune, June 10 2002 (Top Girls)