Company



Co-producers:
Diana Brown
Susan Jackson


Company:
INDEPENDENCE: Do Tell!
Stories of independence & freedom 
with a little taste of the South

Diana Brown

STUCK ON LOVE, Actor
INDEPENDENCE DAY, Actor
INCOMING BEIGNETS, Actor
LIPSTICK CALLED PROTAGONIST, Director
Recently, Diana was seen as  Ruth Steiner in  Donald Margulies' two hander, COLLECTED STORIES with Expression Productions in a "Pop-up Theater™ event. She reprised the role of Nandy in the world premiere of Southern Railroad's production Susan Jackson's THREE MARY'S AND AN OTTER: Rocket's Red Glare, The Holiday Story. Diana appeared again as Elizabeth in Expression's revival production of Marcus Lloyd's two character thriller, DEAD CERTAIN, running for a year in San Francisco's Union Square Theatre District. In April 2013, Diana and Co-Producer Susan Jackson represented Southern Railroad Theatre Company in New York's theatrical cage match The Bare Knuckle Theatre Festival. Diana's other credits New Conservatory Theatre Center's *THE LARAMIE PROJECT: Ten Years Later, SF run and Northern CA tour. She performed in Wily West's Sheherezade X and XII. Diana originated the roles of Nandy in Susan Jackson's ROCKET'S RED GLARE, Jenny in Jackson's Eye Tooth and Henri in Jackson's IN SITU. She also originated the role of Red in the world premiere of Susan Jackson's BLESSING HER HEART receiving a Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle Award nomination. She played Elizabeth in Expression Productions’ SF & NYC premieres of Marcus Lloyd’s two-handed thriller DEAD CERTAIN. Other credits include Annie Wilkes in Expression's SF stage premiere of MISERY, Inez in NO EXIT with Expression Productions. Dr. Livingston in AGNES OF GOD, Beth in BOX CONSPIRACY with George Coates Performance works, The Fairy Godmother Magee in CINDERELLA WALTZ, Lucifer in Barry J. Weir's THE DEMON POPE, Berdine in PSYCHO BEACH PARTY. Diana also performs with the Leela Theatre, Aromondo Company. You can listen to Diana on the improvised podcast Radiostar on Radiostar Network at http://www.radiostarnetwork.com/

Robert Cooper

STUCK ON LOVE, Actor
SWING SET, Actor
Robert Cooper (BBW3, Dr. Brevard) has most recently appeared on stage in “Love & Other Disasters” with the GuyWriters Theatre Company, and as Tom “Boss” Finley in Tennessee William’s “Sweet Bird of Youth” at the Diego Rivera Theatre in San Francisco. Other roles of note include Camillo in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” at the Actor’s Ensemble of Berkeley, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman with the Pacifica Spindrift Players and Judge Haywood in Judgment at Nuremberg with the late, lamented San Francisco Free Theatre. As always, he would like to thank his family for their love 

Susan Jackson

INDEPENDENCE DAY, Actor
STUCK ON LOVE, Actor
SWING SET, Playwright, Actor
Susan Jackson has been performing the roles of famous women:  Dorothy Parker, C.S. Lewis's wife, Sarah Bernhardt, Thomas Wolf's mother, and most recently, Joan Crawford---some of the real women that she has portrayed.   She's also been writing about her Southern roots-- In 2009, she received the Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle Award for Best original play for BLESSING HER HEART, starring Diana Brown.  BLESSINGS received another production with the SF Fringe, and was listed as "top ten".  Her work has been performed nationally, and internationally (New York City, South Carolina, the Bay Area, and Sydney, Australia).  She is a member of Dramatists Guild of America, a former alumni of PlayGround, a member of the Pear Writers Guild and City Light Source of San Jose. 

Stacy Marshall


SOUTHERN RAILROAD THEATRE COMPANY, 
Production Manager
Some of Stacy’s recent credits include: Stage Manager, Light/Sound Operator on Dead Certain (San Francisco & New York City),Misery, and No Exit, Stage Manager on Blessings By Susan Jackson, Blessing Her Heart, The Demon Pope, Well Operator, Running Crew: Cinderella Waltz. Stacy is also a photographer of over 25 years that has been working with theater and improv groups in the San Francisco Bay. She has shot such groups as:RadioStar Improv, The Green Room Improv Players, The Legal Briefs, Tilted Frame, Improv Revolution Allstars, and many others. Her photography exhibit Bi-Coastal Unique Perspectives has been seen in San Francisco and New York City, as well as a solo exhibit at the Cassandra’s Call Studio at Off-Market Theaters in San Francisco. Her most recent solo exhibit Lightning in a Bottle, a series capturing moments of live performance was installed at the Royce Gallery for 3 months in 2009. At present, Stacy is working on her new series, Signs of the Times. This June, Stacy will have a showing of her iconic series Bi-coastal Perspectives: Unique views of NYC and SF Landmarks, here at the Hotel Rex in the Library Bar.

Laylah Muran de Assereto


INCOMING BEIGNETS, Director
Laylah is the Executive Producer for Wily West Productions, now in it's seventh year. Laylah has been involved in theatre and writing creative fiction since childhood. Raised in an extended urban family of poets, musicians, and performance artists, Laylah got her start acting with her family's avante-garde puppet theatre troupe, Handghost Theatre in the 80s. Her first short play "Censored in Tehran" was included as part of Sheherezade X in 2010. "Pitchfork and Light" was included in PCSFs 2nd 24-Hour Playfest in 2012 and "Outward and Onward" received a reading in Southern Railroad Theatre Company's "Resolutions: I Do Declare!" in 2013. She directed two pieces, "Two to Five with Three Seconds to Go" by Susan Jackson and "After Frank" by Patricia Milton for Sheherezade 13 in 2013. Most recently she directed a staged reading of "Bloodline" by Alan Olenijczak and Jeff Mattlin for PCSF's Spring 2014 reading series. Laylah has produced Sheherezade since 2009 and is a former Playwrights' Center of San Francisco Board Chair. Occasionally a poem happens, a video gets edited, and homemade enchiladas get made. http://laylahmuran.co and http://www.wilywestproductions.com.



Eric Nelson

STUCK ON LOVE, Actor
INCOMING BEIGNETS, Actor
SWING SET, Actor
Southern Railroad Theater Company, Sound Designer

A native San Franciscan, Eric has been acting for the last 10 years with the San Francisco Free Civic Theater where his is roles included: Thomas Stockman in An Enemy Of The People, Arthur Ills in The Visit, George Antrobus in The Skin Of Our Teeth, The King in The Cave Dwellers and many others. When he's not acting, you can find Eric playing the washboard with the band Back 40 and singing with The Carburetors.

Jackie Peters

STUCK ON LOVE, Director
SWING SET, Director

Ann Thomas































LIPSTICK CALLED PROTAGONIST, Actress
INDEPENDENCE DAY, Director
TENDING TO OTHER THINGS, NYC & SF performances, Director
STUCK ON LOVE, Playwright
Ann Thomas is delighted to be directing, writing and acting again for Southern Railroad Theater Company. Ann’s mission is to direct, write, act and produce new works. Previous directing and producing credits include; Scheherazade 2009 ,2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, Blue Plate Special, A Stranger Calls, Love and Murder in San Mateo, Something About Death, and Women of Ibsen as well as various plays for SRTC. Ann's short plays Do-Over and Re-Resolute have been performed at Something About Death at the Actors Theater/PTR and as a staged reading at Southern Railroad Theatre Company. Ann is on the literary committee for two theater companies and acts as a standardized patient for medical students at UCSF. Ann is the founder of Pacifica Table Readers, a monthly on-going table reading group for original unpublished stage plays and screenplays. Ann is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.
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Directors, Cast and Crew
THREE MARYS AND AN OTTER:
Rocket's Red Glare, The Holiday Story


Diana Brown

Nandy 


In January 2014, Diana returns to the role of Elizabeth in Expression Productions two handed psychological thriller DEAD CERTAIN playing in it's second year at the Cartwright Hotel Union Square in San Francisco. She will play the role of Ruth in Donald Margulies' two hander, Collected Stories. Earlier this year, Diana and Co-Producer Susan Jackson represented Southern Railroad Theatre Company in New York's theatrical cage match The Bare Knuckle Theatre Festival. Diana's other credits New Conservatory Theatre Center's *THE LARAMIE PROJECT: Ten Years Later, SF run and Northern CA tour. She performed in Wily West's Sheherezade X and XII. Diana originated the roles of Nandy in Susan Jackson's ROCKET'S RED GLARE, Jenny in Jackson's Eye Tooth and Henri in Jackson's IN SITU. She also originated the role of Red in the world premiere of Susan Jackson's BLESSING HER HEART receiving a Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle Award nomination. She played Elizabeth in Expression Productions’ SF & NYC premieres of Marcus Lloyd’s two-handed thriller DEAD CERTAIN. Other credits include Annie Wilkes in Expression's SF stage premiere of MISERY, Inez in NO EXIT with Expression Productions. Dr. Livingston in AGNES OF GOD, Beth in BOX CONSPIRACY with George Coates Performance works, The Fairy Godmother Magee in CINDERELLA WALTZ, Lucifer in Barry J. Weir's THE DEMON POPE, Berdine in PSYCHO BEACH PARTY. Diana also performs with the Leela Theatre, Aromondo Company. You can listen to Diana on the improvised podcast Radiostar on Radiostar Network at http://www.radiostarnetwork.com/


Robert Cooper
Billy Barnett Wilmington, III

Robert Cooper (BBW3, Dr. Brevard) has most recently appeared on stage in “Love & Other Disasters” with the GuyWriters Theatre Company, and as Tom “Boss” Finley in Tennessee William’s “Sweet Bird of Youth” at the Diego Rivera Theatre in San Francisco. Other roles of note include Camillo in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” at the Actor’s Ensemble of Berkeley, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman with the Pacifica Spindrift Players and Judge Haywood in Judgment at Nuremberg with the late, lamented San Francisco Free Theatre. As always, he would like to thank his family for their love and their patience.


Susan Jackson

Peaches Nasterson

Susan Jackson (Peaches and playwright) has been performing the roles of famous women:  Dorothy Parker, C.S. Lewis's wife, Sarah Bernhardt, Thomas Wolf's mother, and most recently, Joan Crawford---some of the real women that she has portrayed.   She's also been writing about her Southern roots-- In 2009, she received the Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle Award for Best original play for BLESSING HER HEART, starring Diana Brown.  BLESSINGS received another production with the SF Fringe, and was listed as "top ten".  Her work has been performed nationally, and internationally (New York City, South Carolina, the Bay Area, and Sydney, Australia).  She is a member of Dramatists Guild of America, a former alumni of PlayGround, a member of the Pear Writers Guild and City Light Source of San Jose. 

Adrienne Krug









Adrienne Krug (Lacy) is delighted to rejoin this cast of eccentric southerners for a fifth production with SRTC. A New Englander herself, Adrienne’s favorite roles include Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman, Grandma in The American Dream, and Halie in Buried Child. She recently performed in a studio production of “A Doll’s House” at A.C.T. directed by Rene Augesen. 
Her credits include work with the Magic Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre, Boxcar Theatre, Theatre Rhinoceros, Bus Barn Stage Company, Virago Theatre, Willows Theatre Company, BOA Festival, and San Francisco Fringe Festival, among others. Offstage, Adrienne role plays in training sessions with medical students, lawyers, and police officers. She also plays classical piano. Adrienne is a Shellie Award nominee for Supporting Actress for her work in It’s A Wonderful Life at Town Hall Theatre.



Stacy Marshall
Production Manager
Southern Railroad Theatre Company
Some of Stacy’s recent credits include: Stage Manager, Light/Sound Operator: DEAD CERTAIN (San Francisco & New York City), MISERY, and NO EXIT, Stage Manager: BLESSINGS By Susan Jackson, BLESSING HER HEART, THE DEMON POPE, Well Operator, Running Crew: CINDERELLA WALTZ. Stacy is also a photographer of over 25 years that has been working with theater and improv groups in the San Francisco Bay. She has shot such groups as: RadioStar Improv, The Green Room Improv Players, The Legal Briefs, Tilted Frame, Improv Revolution Allstars, and many others. Her photography exhibit Bi-Coastal Unique Perspectives  has been seen on the set for DEAD CERTAIN both in San Francisco and New York City, as well as a solo exhibit at the Cassandra’s Call Studio at Off-Market Theaters in San Francisco. Her most recent solo exhibit Lightning in a Bottle, a series capturing moments of live performance was installed at the Royce Gallery for 3 months in 2009.  At present, Stacy is working on her new series, Signs of the Times.  

Eric Nelson

Salacious P. 
Sound Designer, Southern Railroad Theatre Company
A native San Franciscan, Eric has been acting for the last 10 years with the San Francisco Free Civic Theater where his is roles included: Thomas Stockman in An Enemy Of The People, Arthur Ills in The Visit, George Antrobus in The Skin Of Our Teeth, The King in The Cave Dwellers and many others.  When he's not acting, you can find Eric playing the washboard with the band Back 40 and singing with The Carburetors.

Margo Sims

"the Tulita"
Ms. Sims, is a former professional classical modern dancer and trained Method actor born and raised in New York City. Margo was graduated from the NYC School of Performing Arts and studied acting with professionals such as Carroll O’Connor, Peter Ustinov, Michael Howard, and Vinnette Carroll. In addition to her training in Italian and Russian Ballet, she received an Eartha Kitt dance scholarship, performed at the United Nations, and took master classes with the legendary Martha Graham. In television, Margo worked with Burgess Meredith.
Margo performed with the Geoffrey Holder Dance Company at Jacobs Pillow. While in the Eleo Pomare Company, she partnered with Dudley Williams, former lead dancer in the Alvin Ailey Company. Margo joined the Lee Sherman Dancers while living in Europe. She also performed with the Boscoe Holder Company, who choreographed the dance scenes for the film “She”. In that production, Margo performed with Ursula Andress, Christopher Plummer and Christopher Lee. The last dance company in which Margo worked was world renown, Maurice Bejart in Brussels. She has also performed with Cicely Tyson, Roscoe Lee Brown, and Clarence Williams III in “Dark of the Moon”, a play directed by Vinnette Carroll.
Of late, Margo has worked at her alma mater, with the University of San Francisco’s Dance Generators – a multigenerational Dance Company. She has also worked with the SF State Jazz
Vocal Ensemble.

Ann Thomas

Director
Ann Thomas is delighted to be directing again for Southern Railroad Theater Company. Ann’s mission is to direct, write and produce new works. Previous directing and producing credits include; Scheherazade 2009 ,2010, 2011, 2012 Blue Plate Special, A Stranger Calls, Love and Murder in San Mateo, Something About Death, and Women of Ibsen. Ann's short plays Do-Over and Re-Resolute have been performed at Something About Death at the Actors Theater/PTR and as a staged reading at Southern Railroad Theatre Company. Ann is on the literary committee for two theater companies and acts as a standardized patient for medical students at UCSF. Ann is the founder of Pacifica Table Readers, a monthly on-going table reading group for original unpublished stage plays and screenplays. Ann is a proud member of SAG-AFTRA.
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Co-producers:
Diana Brown
Susan Jackson



Directors, Cast and Crew
2BEHOLDEN: Or Not 2B!

Brendan Aanes
Lighting Designer
Brendan Aanes has designed light and sound for a wide variety of performances, recently Born and Raised (Berkeley Playhouse), Tigers be Still (SF Playhouse), Bay Area One Acts (Boxcar Theater), and M. Butterly (Custom Made). Current projects include sound design for the world premiere of Caliban Dreams with Berkeley Opera, Marin Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the composition of an opera based on Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. Brendan’s own music, sound, and video art has been seen and heard at the Climate Theater, Old First Concert Series, Mills College, Union Square, and elsewhere.

Diana Brown
Jenny in EYE TOOTH, part 2
Nandy in ROCKETS RED GLARE: The Wedding

Diana was seen in New Conservatory Theatre Center's *THE LARAMIE PROJECT: Ten Years Later, SF run and Northern CA tour. She performed in Wily West's Sheherezade XII. Diana originated the roles of Nandy in Susan Jackson's ROCKET'S RED GLARE parts one & two, Jenny in Jackson's Eye Tooth, part one and Henri in Jackson's IN SITU. She also originated the role of Red in the world premiere of Susan Jackson's BLESSING HER HEART receiving a Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle Award nomination. She played Elizabeth in Expression Productions’ SF & NYC premieres of Marcus Lloyd’s two-handed thriller DEAD CERTAIN. Other credits include Annie Wilkes in Expression's SF stage premiere of MISERY, Inez in NO EXIT with Expression Productions. Dr. Livingston in AGNES OF GOD, Beth in BOX CONSPIRACY with George Coates Performance works, The Fairy Godmother Magee in CINDERELLA WALTZ, Lucifer in Barry J. Weir's THE DEMON POPE, Berdine in PSYCHO BEACH PARTY and Bev in GRACELAND. Diana also performs with the Leela Theatre, Aromondo Company. You can listen to Diana on the improvised podcast Radiostar on Radiostar Network at http://www.radiostarnetwork.com/ . Radiostar was invited to perform at the 2012 San Francisco Improv Festival.


Robert Cooper

Dr. Brevard in EYE TOOTH
Billy Barnett Wilmington, III in ROCKETS RED GLARE: The Wedding

Robert Cooper (BBW3, Dr. Brevard) has most recently appeared on stage in “Love & Other Disasters” with the GuyWriters Theatre Company, and as Tom “Boss” Finley in Tennessee William’s “Sweet Bird of Youth” at the Diego Rivera Theatre in San Francisco. Other roles of note include Camillo in Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” at the Actor’s Ensemble of Berkeley, Willy Loman in Death of a Salesman with the Pacifica Spindrift Players and Judge Haywood in Judgment at Nuremberg with the late, lamented San Francisco Free Theatre. As always, he would like to thank his family for their love and their patience.

Stephen Drewes

Director, FOR I AM NOT BREAKING part four
A fifth-generation San Franciscan, Drewes began his career in 1970 as an actor at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Since then, he has performed over forty roles with such companies as the Magic Theatre and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He holds an MA from UC Berkeley in Dramatic Art and an MFA in Directing from Brandeis University. Drewes accepted his first professional directing assignment in 1975 for the People's Theatre in Cambridge, MA, and has since directed over 80 productions in every genre from children's theatre to grand opera. He has been a member of the faculty at Boston University, Middlebury College and Colgate University, and was Artistic Director of the Publick Theatre in Cambridge, MA, where three of his productions won Boston Critics Circle Awards for Directing. Drewes has taught and directed extensively, published theatre and cabaret criticism, and has been the recipient of grants from the Packard Foundation and the California Arts Council. For three years he was the Resident Stage Director for the Pocket Opera. Drewes taught at City College of San Francisco from 1988 to 2008.




Susan Jackson

Peaches Nasterson in ROCKETS RED GLARE: The Wedding
Marion Peallin in FOR I AM NOT BREAKING, part four
Director, Heathen, part two
Susan Jackson won a BATCC Award for Best Original Play for BLESSING HER HEART in 2009, starring Diana Brown. BLESSINGS (with new material) was performed at both the SF Fringe (won top ten) and at theRoyce Gallery last year. She has had her plays selected, staged-read/performed at Ross Valley Players (RAW), Wily West Productions, San Jose's City Lights Theatre Company, Pacific Table Readers on Stage--Something AboutDeath--SF, and with the Eugene O'Neill Foundation as part of a PlayGround collaboration. She has been a playwright finalist with the FUSION THEATRE COMPANY, and the SHORT AND SWEET International short play competition. She is an alumni of PlayGround, a member of Pear Writer’s Guild and The Dramatists Guild of America. She has acted with Theatreworks, Palo Alto Players, Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, and other theatre companies in the South and in the Bay Area. She would like to thank Dorothy, Ruby, Dolores, all her Southern Friends, and Ian.

Adrienne Krug

Lacy in ROCKETS RED GLARE: Lacy's Story 
Lacy in ROCKETS RED GLARE:The Wedding

Adrienne Krug (Lacy) is delighted to rejoin this cast of eccentric southerners for a fourth production with SRTC.  A New Englander herself, Adrienne’s favorite roles include Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman at the Hapgood Theatre, Nan in Beautiful Child at Theatre Rhinoceros, and Lenore in You Should Be So Lucky at New Conservatory Theatre.  She recently played Mom in True West and Halie in Buried Child for Boxcar Theatre’s Sam Shepard Festival.  Other Bay Area credits include work with the Magic Theatre, Bus Barn Stage Company, Virago Theatre, Willows Theatre Company, and Pacific Alliance Stage Company, among others.  Next up, Adrienne will play Ma Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life at Town Hall Theatre.


Ann Kuchins

Bess in HEATHEN
Director, ROCKETS RED GLARE: The Wedding 
Ann Kuchins is thrilled to be part of the Southern Railroad Theatre Company after having been an enthusiastic audience member of the company. Ann began her acting and directing career in the Bay Area at the San Francisco Actor’s Ensemble aka San Francisco Poverty Theatre. She has directed new works by local playwrights Bobbi Fagone, Thunderbabe, and Jeff Carter, Homeland Prayer. Other directing credits include Mauritius (Pear Avenue Theatre), Pack of Lies (Palo Alto Players), and Steel Magnolias (Hillbarn Theatre). Some of her favorite roles include Ann in The Cocktail Hour, Margrethe in Copenhagen, and A in Three Tall Women for which she was nominated for a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award. She won a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Costume Design at Venues of 99 or Less for Death of a Salesman at the Pear Avenue Theatre.



Stacy Marshall
Production Manager
Southern Railroad Theatre Company
Some of Stacy’s recent credits include: Stage Manager, Light/Sound Operator: DEAD CERTAIN (San Francisco & New York City), MISERY, and NO EXIT, Stage Manager: BLESSINGS By Susan Jackson, BLESSING HER HEART, THE DEMON POPE, Well Operator, Running Crew: CINDERELLA WALTZ. Stacy is also a photographer of over 25 years that has been working with theater and improv groups in the San Francisco Bay. She has shot such groups as: RadioStar Improv, The Green Room Improv Players, The Legal Briefs, Tilted Frame, Improv Revolution Allstars, and many others. Her photography exhibit Bi-Coastal Unique Perspectives  has been seen on the set for DEAD CERTAIN both in San Francisco and New York City, as well as a solo exhibit at the Cassandra’s Call Studio at Off-Market Theaters in San Francisco. Her most recent solo exhibit Lightning in a Bottle, a series capturing moments of live performance was installed at the Royce Gallery for 3 months in 2009.  At present, Stacy is working on her new series, Signs of the Times.  

Eric Nelson

Williams in FOR I AM NOT BREAKING, part four
Salacious P. in ROCKETS RED GLARE: The Wedding
Sound Designer, Southern Railroad Theatre Company
A native San Franciscan, Eric has been acting for the last 10 years with the San Francisco Free Civic Theater where his is roles included: Thomas Stockman in An Enemy Of The People, Arthur Ills in The Visit, George Antrobus in The Skin Of Our Teeth, The King in The Cave Dwellers and many others.  When he's not acting, you can find Eric playing the washboard with the band Back 40 and singing with The Carburetors.

Margo Sims

Posey in HEATHEN, part two
"the Tulita" in ROCKETS RED GLARE: The Wedding
Ms. Sims, is a former professional classical modern dancer and trained Method actor born and raised in New York City. Margo was graduated from the NYC School of Performing Arts and studied acting with professionals such as Carroll O’Connor, Peter Ustinov, Michael Howard, and Vinnette Carroll. In addition to her training in Italian and Russian Ballet, she received an Eartha Kitt dance scholarship, performed at the United Nations, and took master classes with the legendary Martha Graham. In television, Margo worked with Burgess Meredith.
Margo performed with the Geoffrey Holder Dance Company at Jacobs Pillow. While in the Eleo Pomare Company, she partnered with Dudley Williams, former lead dancer in the Alvin Ailey Company. Margo joined the Lee Sherman Dancers while living in Europe. She also performed with the Boscoe Holder Company, who choreographed the dance scenes for the film “She”. In that production, Margo performed with Ursula Andress, Christopher Plummer and Christopher Lee. The last dance company in which Margo worked was world renown, Maurice Bejart in Brussels. She has also performed with Cicely Tyson, Roscoe Lee Brown, and Clarence Williams III in “Dark of the Moon”, a play directed by Vinnette Carroll.
Of late, Margo has worked at her alma mater, with the University of San Francisco’s Dance Generators – a multigenerational Dance Company. She has also worked with the SF State Jazz
Vocal Ensemble.

Ann Thomas

Director,
EYE TOOTH: part two
ROCKETS RED GLARE: LACY'S STORY
Ann Thomas is delighted to be directing again for Southern Railroad Theater Company.  Ann’s mission is to direct and produce new works.  Previous directing and producing credits include; Scheherazade 2009 and 2010, Blue Plate Special, A Stranger Calls, Love and Murder in San Mateo, Something About Death, and Women of Ibsen.   Ann can be seen on old re-run episodes of “I, Detective” on Court TV, and the occasional independent film, and commercial.  Ann is the founder of Pacifica Table Readers, a monthly on-going table reading group for original unpublished stage plays and screenplays. She is grateful for the support of her husband and children so she can continue to enjoy her passion for theater.



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Directors, Cast and Crew
4 MERCY: Friendly Fires

Brendan Aanes













Lighting Designer

Brendan Aanes has designed light and sound for a wide variety of performances, recently Born and Raised (Berkeley Playhouse), Tigers be Still (SF Playhouse), Bay Area One Acts (Boxcar Theater), and M. Butterly (Custom Made). Current projects include sound design for the world premiere of Caliban Dreams with Berkeley Opera, Marin Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the composition of an opera based on Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. Brendan’s own music, sound, and video art has been seen and heard at the Climate Theater, Old First Concert Series, Mills College, Union Square, and elsewhere.


Diana Brown


Photo by Stacy Marshall

Director, ROCKETS RED GLARE 2.75
Nandy in ROCKETS RED GLARE 2.5 & 3.0
Henri  in IN SITU
Rhonda in ADOPT A HIGHWAY

This summer, Diana originated the role of Nandy in Susan Jackson's ROCKET'S RED GLARE as part of 4GIVENESS: In a Family Way.  She is delighted to continue exploring the character in RRG 2.5 and 3.0.  She also played Jenny in Jackson's Eye Tooth. Last year Diana played Sarah in the world premiere of Susan Jackson's BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS as part of BLESSINS,  She was co-founder/co-creator of the sold out improvised sitcom FUTURESTYLE '79.  She originated the role of Red in the world premiere of Susan Jackson's BLESSING HER HEART at the Marin Fringe, for which she received a Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle Award nomination. She played Elizabeth in Expression Productions’ NYC premiere of Marcus Lloyd’s two-handed thriller DEAD CERTAIN. Diana originally appeared as Elizabeth in the San Francisco premiere of DEAD CERTAIN. Other favorite stage credits include Annie Wilkes in the San Francisco stage premiere of MISERY with Expression Productions, Inez in NO EXIT with Expression Productions. Dr. Livingston in AGNES OF GOD, Beth in BOX CONSPIRACY with George Coates Performance works, The Fairy Godmother Magee in CINDERELLA WALTZ, Lucifer in Barry J. Weir's THE DEMON POPE, Berdine in PSYCHO BEACH PARTY and Bev in GRACELAND. 
You can listen to Diana on the improvised podcast Radiostar available on the Radiostar Network at http://www.radiostarnetwork.com/


Stephen Drewes


 

















Director, FOR I AM NOT BREAKING part three
Director, ROCKETS RED GLARE 2.5

A fifth-generation San Franciscan, Drewes began his career in 1970 as an actor at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Since then, he has performed over forty roles with such companies as the Magic Theatre and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He holds an MA from UC Berkeley in Dramatic Art and an MFA in Directing from Brandeis University.

Drewes accepted his first professional directing assignment in 1975 for the Peoples Theatre in Cambridge, MA, and has since directed over 80 productions in every genre from children's theatre to grand opera. He has been a member of the faculty at Boston University, Middlebury College and Colgate University, and was Artistic Director of the Publick Theatre in Cambridge, MA, where three of his productions won Boston Critics Circle Awards for Directing. Drewes has taught and directed extensively, published theatre and cabaret criticism, and has been the recipient of grants from the Packard Foundation and the California Arts Council. For three years he was the Resident Stage Director for the Pocket Opera. Drewes taught at City College of San Francisco from 1988 to 2008.


Susan Jackson



Director, , ROCKETS RED GLARE 3.0


Peaches Nasterson in ROCKETS RED GLARE 2.5 & 3.0
Marion Peallin in FOR I AM NOT BREAKING part three

Beth in ADOPT A HIGHWAY & IN SITU

Susan Jackson won a BATCC Award for Best Original Play for BLESSING HER HEART in 2009, Starring Diana Brown. BLESSINGS (with new material) was performed at both the SF Fringe (won top ten) and at They Royce Gallery last year.  She has had her plays selected, staged-read/performed at Ross Valley Players (RAW), Wily West Productions, San Jose's City Lights Theatre Company, Pacific Table Readers on Stage, Something About Death -- SF, and with the Eugene O'Neill Foundation as part of a Playground collaborations.  She is a former member of Playground, a member of Pear Writers Guild, and The Dramatists Guild of America. She has acted with Theatreworks, Palo Alto Players, Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, etc.  She would like to thank Dorothy, Ruby, Dolores, all her Southern Friends, and Ian -- past and present supporters. 


 

Adrienne Krug

Crazy Lacy in ROCKETS RED GLARE 2.5 & 3.0
Sylvie in ADOPT A HIGHWAY
Adrienne Krug (Sylvie/Lacy) is delighted to return for a third production with Southern Railroad Theatre Company, having previous played Ruby in BLESSINGS, and Annie/Tess/Lacy in 4GIVENESS. Favorite roles include Grandma in The American Dream with Boxcar Theatre, Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman at the Hapgood Theatre, and Dina in the world premiere of Nicky Silver’s Past Perfect at Theatre Rhinoceros. Other Bay Area credits include work with the Magic Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Willows Theatre Company, Bus Barn Stage Company, Virago Theatre, Pacific Alliance Stage Company, Actors Ensemble, BOA Festival, Women on the Way Festival, and the San Francisco Fringe Festival, among others. Later this month, Adrienne will play Emilia in Desdemona at Boxcar Theatre.
Stacy Marshall 
Production Manager,
Southern Railroad Theatre Company

Some of Stacy’s recent credits include: Stage Manager, Light/Sound Operator: DEAD CERTAIN (San Francisco & New York City), MISERY, and NO EXIT, Stage Manager: BLESSINGS By Susan Jackson, BLESSING HER HEART, THE DEMON POPE, Well Operator, Running Crew: CINDERELLA WALTZ. Stacy is also a photographer of over 25 years that has been working with theater and improv groups in the San Francisco Bay. She has shot such groups as: RadioStar Improv, The Green Room Improv Players, The Legal Briefs, Tilted Frame, Improv Revolution Allstars, and many others. Her photography exhibit Bi-Coastal Unique Perspectives  has been seen on the set for DEAD CERTAIN both in San Francisco and New York City, as well as a solo exhibit at the Cassandra’s Call Studio at Off-Market Theaters in San Francisco. Her most recent solo exhibit Lightning in a Bottle, a series capturing moments of live performance was installed at the Royce Gallery for 3 months in 2009.  At present, Stacy is working on her new series, Signs of the Times.  


Eric Nelson

Officer Stevens in ADOPT A HIGHWAY
Salacious P. in ROCKETS RED GLARE 2.5 & 3.0
A native San Franciscan, Eric has been acting for the last 10 years with the San Francisco Free Civic Theater where his is roles included: Thomas Stockman in An Enemy Of The People, Arthur Ills in The Visit, George Antrobus in The Skin Of Our Teeth, The King in The Cave Dwellers and many others.  When he's not acting, you can find Eric playing the washboard with the band Back 40 and singing with The Carburetors.




Ann Thomas



















Director, ADOPT A HIGHWAY and IN SITU

Ann Thomas is delighted to be directing again for Southern Railroad Theater Company.  Ann’s mission is to direct and produce new works.  Previous directing and producing credits include; Scheherazade 2009 and 2010, Blue Plate Special, A Stranger Calls, Love and Murder in San Mateo, Something About Death, and Women of Ibsen.   Ann can be seen on old re-run episodes of “I, Detective” on Court TV, and the occasional independent film, and commercial.  Ann is the founder of Pacifica Table Readers, a monthly on-going table reading group for original unpublished stage plays and screenplays. She is grateful for the support of her husband and children so she can continue to enjoy her passion for theater.





Directors, Cast and Crew
4GIVENESS: In a Family Way



Brendan Aanes













Lighting Designer

Brendan Aanes has designed light and sound for a wide variety of performances, recently Born and Raised (Berkeley Playhouse), Tigers be Still (SF Playhouse), Bay Area One Acts (Boxcar Theater), and M. Butterly (Custom Made). Current projects include sound design for the world premiere of Caliban Dreams with Berkeley Opera, Marin Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the composition of an opera based on Tove Jansson's The Summer Book. Brendan’s own music, sound, and video art has been seen and heard at the Climate Theater, Old First Concert Series, Mills College, Union Square, and elsewhere.


Diana Brown


Photo by Stacy Marshall

Nandy in ROCKETS RED GLARE part one
Jenny in EYE TOOTH
Last summer Diana played Sarah in the world premiere of Susan Jackson's BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS,  She was co-founder/co-creator of the sold out improvised sitcom FUTURESTYLE '79.  She originated the role of Red in the world premiere of Susan Jackson's BLESSING HER HEART at the Marin Fringe, for which she received a Bay Area Theatre Critic's Circle Award nomination. She played Elizabeth in Expression Productions’ NYC premiere of Marcus Lloyd’s two-handed thriller DEAD CERTAIN. Diana originally appeared as Elizabeth in the San Francisco premiere of DEAD CERTAIN. Other favorite stage credits include Annie Wilkes in the San Francisco stage premiere of MISERY with Expression Productions, Inez in NO EXIT with Expression Productions. Dr. Livingston in AGNES OF GOD, Beth in BOX CONSPIRACY with George Coates Performance works, The Fairy Godmother Magee in CINDERELLA WALTZ, Lucifer in Barry J. Weir's THE DEMON POPE, Berdine in PSYCHO BEACH PARTY and Bev in GRACELAND. 
You can listen to Diana on the improvised podcast Radiostar available on the Radiostar Network at http://www.radiostarnetwork.com/


Stephen Drewes


 
















Director, ROCKETS RED GLARE part one

 
A fifth-generation San Franciscan, Drewes began his career in 1970 as an actor at the Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Since then, he has performed over forty roles with such companies as the Magic Theatre and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He holds an MA from UC Berkeley in Dramatic Art and an MFA in Directing from Brandeis University.
Drewes accepted his first professional directing assignment in 1975 for the Peoples Theatre in Cambridge, MA, and has since directed over 80 productions in every genre from children's theatre to grand opera. He has been a member of the faculty at Boston University, Middlebury College and Colgate University, and was Artistic Director of the Publick Theatre in Cambridge, MA, where three of his productions won Boston Critics Circle Awards for Directing. Drewes has taught and directed extensively, published theatre and cabaret criticism, and has been the recipient of grants from the Packard Foundation and the California Arts Council. For three years he was the Resident Stage Director for the Pocket Opera. Drewes taught at City College of San Francisco from 1988 to 2008.


Susan Jackson

Director, HEATHEN, ROCKETS RED GLARE part two

Peaches Nasterson in ROCKETS RED GLARE part one
Marion Peallin in FOR I AM NOT BREAKING parts one and two
Waitress in EYE TOOTH


Susan Jackson won a BATCC Award for Best Original Play for BLESSING HER HEART in 2009, Starring Diana Brown. BLESSINGS (with new material) was performed at both the SF Fringe (won top ten) and at They Royce Gallery last year.  She has had her plays selected, staged-read/performed at Ross Valley Players (RAW), Wily West Productions, San Jose's City Lights Theatre Company, Pacific Table Readers on Stage, Something About Death -- SF, and with the Eugene O'Neill Foundation as part of a Playground collaborations.  She is a former member of Playground, a member of Pear Writers Guild, and The Dramatists Guild of America. She has acted with Theatreworks, Palo Alto Players, Actors Ensemble of Berkeley, etc.  She would like to thank Dorothy, Ruby, Delores, all her Southern Friends, and Ian -- past and present supporters. 


Adrienne Krug

Annie Caaman in FOR I AM NOT BREAKING part one
Tess in EYE TOOTH
Crazy Lacy in ROCKETS RED GLARE part two

Adrienne Krug played Ruby in last season’s Southern Railroad Theatre Company production of Blessings. Favorite roles include Grandma in The American Dream with Boxcar Theatre, Linda Loman in Death of a Salesman at the Hapgood Theatre, and Dina in the world premiere of Nicky Silver’s Past Perfect at Theatre Rhinoceros. Other Bay Area credits include work with the Magic Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Willows Theatre Company, Bus Barn Stage Company, Virago Theatre, Pacific Alliance Stage Company, Actors Ensemble, BOA Festival, Women on the Way Festival, and the San Francisco Fringe Festival, among others. Adrienne has also performed at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, and in a showcase production of Custer at the Manhattan Theatre Club. She studied acting at Vassar College and the National Theatre Institute.

Stacy Marshall
 
Production Manager,
Southern Railroad Theatre Company

Some of Stacy’s recent credits include: Stage Manager, Light/Sound Operator: DEAD CERTAIN (San Francisco & New York City), MISERY, and NO EXIT, Stage Manager: BLESSINGS By Susan Jackson, BLESSING HER HEART, THE DEMON POPE, Well Operator, Running Crew: CINDERELLA WALTZ. Stacy is also a photographer of over 25 years that has been working with theater and improv groups in the San Francisco Bay. She has shot such groups as: RadioStar Improv, The Green Room Improv Players, The Legal Briefs, Tilted Frame, Improv Revolution Allstars, and many others. Her photography exhibit Bi-Coastal Unique Perspectives  has been seen on the set for DEAD CERTAIN both in San Francisco and New York City, as well as a solo exhibit at the Cassandra’s Call Studio at Off-Market Theaters in San Francisco. Her most recent solo exhibit Lightning in a Bottle, a series capturing moments of live performance was installed at the Royce Gallery for 3 months in 2009.  At present, Stacy is working on her new series, Signs of the Times.  

Eric Nelson

Master John Caaman in HEATHEN
Salacious P. in ROCKETS RED GLARE part two
A native San Franciscan, Eric has been acting for the last 10 years with the San Francisco Free Civic Theater where his is roles included: Thomas Stockman in An Enemy Of The People, Arthur Ills in The Visit, George Antrobus in The Skin Of Our Teeth, The King in The Cave Dwellers and many others.  When he's not acting, you can find Eric playing the washboard with the band Back 40 and singing with The Carburetors.


Margo Sims

Posey in HEATHEN

Ms. Sims, is a former professional classical modern dancer and trained Method actor born and raised in New York City. Margo was graduated from the NYC School of Performing Arts and studied acting with professionals such as Carroll O’Connor, Peter Ustinov, Michael Howard, and Vinnette Carroll. In addition to her training in Italian and Russian Ballet, she received an Eartha Kitt dance scholarship, performed at the United Nations, and took master classes with the legendary Martha Graham. In television, Margo worked with Burgess Meredith.
Margo performed with the Geoffrey Holder Dance Company at Jacobs Pillow. While in the Eleo Pomare Company, she partnered with Dudley Williams, former lead dancer in the Alvin Ailey Company. Margo joined the Lee Sherman Dancers while living in Europe. She also performed with the Boscoe Holder Company, who choreographed the dance scenes for the film “She”. In that production, Margo performed with Ursula Andress, Christopher Plummer and Christopher Lee. The last dance company in which Margo worked was world renown, Maurice Bejart in Brussels. She has also performed with Cicely Tyson, Roscoe Lee Brown, and Clarence Williams III in “Dark of the Moon”, a play directed by Vinnette Carroll.
Of late, Margo has worked at her alma mater, with the University of San Francisco’s Dance Generators – a multigenerational Dance Company. She has also worked with the SF State Jazz
Vocal Ensemble.

Ann Thomas


















Director, FOR I AM NOT BREAKING and EYE TOOTH

Ann Thomas is delighted to be directing for Southern Railroad Theater Company.  Ann’s mission is to direct and produce new works.  Previous directing and producing credits include; Scheherazade 2009 and 2010, Blue Plate Special, A Stranger Calls, Love and Murder in San Mateo, Something About Death, and Women of Ibsen.   Ann can be seen on old re-run episodes of “I, Detective” on Court TV, and the occasional independent film, and commercial.  Ann is the founder of Pacifica Table Readers, a monthly on-going table reading group for original unpublished stage plays and screenplays. She is grateful for the support of her husband and children so she can continue to enjoy her passion for theater.