H2O

by Jane Martin

Directed by Michael French

What would you do if you’d become a huge movie star in Hollywood even though you had never acted before, if you’d been paid $30,000,000 for two movies where you don’t say a word, and drugs and alcohol have brought you to your knees? Well, if your Jake you agree to play Hamlet on Broadway. Given full casting approval and a limitless budget, Jake embarks to New York City to seek out his Ophelia and meets not just his muse, but his match in the form of an evangelical Christian actress determined to get the role, and save what’s left of his life.

April 23rd - May 17th, 2015
Flight Deck, Oakland

The Last Days of Judas Iscariot

by Stephen Anthony Guirgis

Directed by Michael French

Set in a time bending, seriocomic netherworld between Heaven and Hell, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is a philosophical meditation on the conflict between divine mercy and human free will, as it re-examines the plight and fate of the New Testament’s most infamous and unexplained sinner.

August 28th - Sept 21st, 2014
The Flight Deck, Oakland

First

By Evelyn Jean Pine

Directed by Michael French

The date is March 26th, 1976. The very first personal computer conference attracts visionaries, hackers, hobbyists, salesmen, and entrepreneurs. Nobody takes 20 year old Bill Gates seriously. He looks like he’s 16, demands that everyone stop sharing his software, and he thinks he knows everything. A lot of people want him to take a hike, but he wants to take over the world.

Oct 12th - Nov 3rd, 2013
Stage Werx, San Franscisco

Dusk Rings A Bell

by Stephen Belber

Directed by Michael French

The setting is Bethany Beach, Delaware. Molly is a divorced, seemingly content public relations executive who returns to the beachfront home where her family spent summers in search of a memento she hid for her future self to find. Before long she encounters something else from her youth, Ray, a shy, lonesome landscape gardener with whom she once had an idyllic adolescent fling. The reunion seems destined for a second chance at love, until Ray reveals the sordid details of a crime that left him incarcerated for ten years.

MAY 18TH - 27TH, 2012
DANCE MISSION THEATRE, SF

BlackBIRD

by David Harrower

Directed by Michael French

Fifteen years after their passionate affair, Ray and Una meet again. At the time of their affair Ray was forty and Una was twelve. Without any moral judgments, BlackBIRD is a fearless story of two people and the love that inevitably brought them together, and then inevitably broke them apart.

OCT 28TH - NOV 6TH, 2011
DANCE MISSION THEATRE, SF