Stories High XII

***DUE TO CONSTRUCTION DELAYS, OPENING NIGHT FOR STORIES HIGH XII HAS BEEN MOVED TO SEPTEMBER 15TH***
If you have purchased tickets to performances that fall between September 8 and September 10, we will honor those tickets at any night during the run.

THANK YOU FOR YOU PEACE, LOVE, AND UNDERSTANDING!
Alan S. Quismorio, Artistic Director

Bindlestiff Studio presents
STORIES HIGH XII

An annual production showcasing original works
from Bindlestiff Studio’s Stories High XII workshop series

WHEN: September 15 through October 1
Thursdays through Saturdays, 8pm

WHERE: Bindlestiff Studio
185 Sixth Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

TICKETS: $20 advanced; $25 door
Advanced tickets available via Brown Paper Tickets
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Bindlestiff Studio presents STORIES HIGH XII, its annual showcase of original works for the stage written, acted, and directed by Pilipino/Filipino American artists. This show will be the inaugural production Bindlestiff Studio’s new home at 185 Sixth St. (at Howard) in San Francisco. Performances begin Thursday, September 8th, at 8:00 pm and runs Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings through September 24th. Tickets are $20 advanced and $25 at the door; advanced tickets can be purchased online at Brown Paper Tickets.

Bloodthirsty Spaniards and fearless revolutionaries! Angry young men and passionate women! The powerful forces of love, freedom, and loss. STORIES HIGH XII, the twelfth installment of Bindlestiff Studio's annual freshmen playwrights showcase throws the doors of Bindlestiff Studio's new home at Sixth and Howard wide open with adaptations of short fiction by Pilipino and Filipino American writers. This year's exciting anthology features:

*THICKER THAN WINE Conrad Panganiban, playwright. The Jacinto-Basa brothers, spoiled by their aristocratic upbringing, meet resistance from their strong-willed maid. Set in 1870, the adaptation of Tess Uriza Holthe's "Portrait of an Aristocrat" deals with a sixteenth-century curse, corruption in the church, and racism. Directed by Arianna Caramat and Melissa Diaz-Infante.
*TIP JAR Patrick Silvestre, playwright. Based on Oscar Penaranda's "Prelude to a Gig". A young upstart challenges a jazz musician to a game of pool. Directed by Alan S. Quismorio. Choreography by Brian Batugo.
*GABRIELA'S MONOLOGUE Jocelyn Deona de Leon, playwright. In A woman, in the wake of her infant's death, is caught in a love triangle involving her husband and a 19-year-old man. Based on the short story by Cecilia Marguerra Brainard. Directed by Melinda Lopez.
*BABY LUST Manny Cabrera, playwright. M. Evelina Galang’s short story inspires this piece about a miscarriage that tests the relationship between young lovers. Directed by Jocelyn Deona de Leon.
*RIZAL ON ANGEL ISLAND Ignacio Zulueta, playwright. A feverish imagining of the Philippine national hero's detainment by the U.S. while en route to China. Directed by Larry Robinson and Wernher Goff.

CAST: Melvign Badiola, Joe Cascasan, Jackie Castillejo-Guingona, George Coker, Reg Clay, Michael Dorado, Roczane Enriquez, Kat Evasco, Emily Fernandez, Melanie Galang, Lorenz Gonzalez, Chuck Lacson, Norman Munoz, Allen Ocampo, Nino Palay, Jed Pasario, Percival Arcibal, Sunshine Roque, RJ San Jose, Paolo Salazar, Sabrina Sandalo, & Mallory Somera.

Stories High is a series of theatrical workshops culminating into a fully-mounted, professional theatrical production. These workshops are open to anyone, novice or intermediate, interested in getting involved with community arts through our workshops. Stories High hopes to discover, cultivate, and nurture new and emerging artists. This will be Bindlestiff's 12th Stories High production.

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.

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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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