Stories High XII

Stories High 12 is made possible by generous funding from the Zellerbach Family Foundation, the W & F Hewlett Foundation, and the W A Gerbode Foundation

For 12 years, Bindlestiff Studio has offered affordable and professional theatrical workshops through its signature production, Stories High. These theatrical workshop aims to teach and refine the skills of beginning to intermediate theater artists with a focus on writing, acting and directing for the stage, culminating into an original, full-fledged theatrical production.This year's Stories High Writing Workshop will focus on adaptation for the stage. Participants will be choosing existing works from celebrated Filipino/Filipina American writers and poets as a source of inspiration or adaptation and writing pieces for theater.

Stories High 12 will be the first full-run production premiering as part of the Grand Opening of the NEW Bindlestiff Studio theater in its original location on Sixth Street near Howard St.!

Writing Workshop Facilitator:
Yato Yoshida's Bio:
Yato Yoshida graduated from Pomona College with a degree in Media Studies (and an emphasis in Film & Theater). After working briefly at New Line Cinema in the Development department, he returned to the Bay Area and got his start in local theater by volunteering at Asian American Theater Company (AATC). An original founding member of the sketch-comedy group, 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, he has collaborated with many local theater organizations over the years, including Kearney Street Workshop (KSW), Locus Arts, Thick Description, Intersection for the Arts, and Brava Theater. He's also had the good fortune to perform with such groups such as Asiantics, Campo Santos, and Culture Clash. Since 2001, he has dedicated a lot of his time to helping with production and workshops at Bindlestiff Studio. This will be the fourth time, since 2004, that he has helped to facilitate the Stories High play writing workshop.

Acting Workshop Facilitator:
Anthem Salgado's Bio
Anthem Salgado is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator. Born in the Philippines and raised in New York, he is celebrated for his bold and energetic examinations of identity, conflict and language in the American experience within a wide variety of genres including fiction, theater, poetry and performance art.
Salgado has performed his original solo-theater creations on the stages of San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Intersection for the Arts, and Kearny Street Workshop. Bare Knuckle, his feature-length one-man show debuted at Brava Theater under the direction of Evren Odcikin, and he held the lead role in the play Friends written by Kobo Abe and directed Raelle Myrick-Hodges.
Salgado has presented his spoken word throughout the Bay Area, New York, Honolulu, and Manila. As a literary artist, his fiction appears in the anthologies Field of Mirrors and I Saw My Ex at a Party.
He has led numerous workshops and has given guest-lectures at UCLA, San Francisco State University, University of San Francisco and Mills College in Oakland, California. Salgado was awarded a Philippines Fulbright-Hays scholarship via Sonoma State University's North Bay International Studies Program, and was elected Young Leader of Color by Theatre Communications Group.

Director Workshop Facilitator:
John Caldon's Bio:
John popped his first Bindlestiffie during the Bakla Show, directing Emmanuel Romero’s “Beneath the Skin (a buffalo’s heart beats 96 BPM)” and “Viewer Discretion Advised.” His most recent work, Aileen Clark’s one-woman autobiographical comedy “How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Lost My Virginity” (co-writer), rocked both The Exit and The SF Playhouse over the last year. As Artistic Director of Guerrilla Rep, his credits include “Third Eye: the b-side monologues” (playwright/co-director), Terrence Beswick’s critically acclaimed, award winning “hotshot” (director), and Beswick’s “Strings” (director), which opened the 2009 National Queer Arts Festival. With a background in theater production, John currently serves as Marketing and Special Events Manager for the War Memorial Performing Arts Center and has worked as a Production Manager for Royal Caribbean International. A graduate of the SFSU Creative Writing program, he has published opinion editorials with the San Francisco Chronicle, The Williams Institute at UCLA and the Huffington Post.

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