⭐️Southern Railroad Theatre Company is pretty excited about this fun collaboration! 💖
Diana Brown & Susan Jackson are contributing to this new, live, ONLINE show tonight!
Created and directed by Zoe Galvez for BATS Improv, this hybrid improvised/scripted show debuts tonight at 8 pm!
Susan contributed a scene from her play IN SITU, and Diana will be performing from that script!!✨
Join us if ya can!!
(Susan Jackson pictured top, center)
The SF/ARTS magazine, which is included in the New York Times, has a full-page article on our producing partners- 3Girls Theatre Company - and their upcoming festival of new plays. Susan is singled out for mention. Her "Swimming with Puppies," a winner of their Salon Series play development program, will be one of the plays presented. MORE
March 28: “Swimming with Puppies” (1 pm) followed by a complimentary reception, then “Meth” (3:30 pm) Tickets for the performance of Swimming with Puppies HERE
Ambition reigns in this provocative Hollywood drama about betrayal, secrets, and love. After Rock Hudson dies, his reclusive ex-wife is pursued by a writer determined to learn the truth about her marriage. Did she knowingly conspire with the studio to keep Rock in the closet? Directed by Louis Parnell. Salon Series Finalist.
Our collaborator and Artistic Director of Theater Madcap, Eric Reid is appearing in the African American Shakespeare Company's production of August Wilson's Jitney.
JITNEY
Written by August Wilson
Directed by L. Peter Callender
Set in 1977 in the Hill District of Pittsburgh that is served by a makeshift taxi company, Jitney is a beautiful addition to the author’s decade-by-decade cycle of plays about the black American experience in the 20th century.
Jitney takes place during an end of an era, where urban renewal threatens to eliminate the makeshift small business Jitney service, which developed to serve the Black community when taxis would not come to their neighborhoods. Jitney is a play about father and sons and brotherhood and love; loss and hope; and ultimately, community, told with passion that transcends all races. Jitney is part of the “Pittsburgh Cycle” of plays created by August Wilson about the African-American experience in Pittsburgh.
Written by Susan Jackson Directed by Louis Parnell (AEA)
"What happens to the Langdon family after a catastrophic event? MIRACLE LAKE follows their reunion years after Timmy’s accident, and just before it occurs. Lives are drastically changed; hope for a miraculous cure is juxtaposed with reality. Secrets are revealed. Heartbreak. Was there a moment where a miracle occured? "No one ever dies at Miracle Lake."
Heather Gordon (AEA) as Tanner (Tiffany) Langdon
Lori Hold (AEA) as Ann Langdon
Louis Parnell as Jim Langdon
Jessica Waldman as Cecelia Langdon
Aaron Wilton (AEA) as Timmy (Thomas) Langdon
FREE
January 15th, 2 p.m at the Phoenix Theatre between Mason and Geary in San Francisco.
Southern Railroad Theatre Company Co-Producer Susan Jackson will have a monologue from her new play TAKEN published in a compilation of new monologues for women. The monologue is from Scene Six of the play where Jackson's character Corrie is speaking to her deceased brother. This moving and dramatic monologue will be included in their new edition. The publishers are Smith and Kraus, Inc. and Applause Theatre & Cinema Books.
2016 San Francisco Improv Festival:
Southern Railroad Theatre Company's Diana Brown was invited to compete in the 2016 San Francisco Improv Festival's Opening Night short form match between San Jose Comedy Sportz and The San Francisco Improv Festival Allstars.
The short form show-down opened the night and the Festival with San Francisco improv performers Cassidy Jamahl Brown (SFIF), Diana Brown (Leela), Simon Pond (Un-Scripted) and Brandon Knapp (Endgames) playing against the daunting championship team San Jose Comedy Sportz, the scrappy SFIF Allstars took the match with a one point lead!! Tonight, they and the Denver Broncos won by one! #funniertogether
25th Annual San Francisco Fringe Festival:
This October, Bay area actor Brian Levi will be making his Southern Railroad Theatre Company debut as Robert in our world premiere production of TAKEN by Susan Jackson, directed by Wesley Cayabyab. This month, Brian opens at the 25th Annual San Francisco Fringe Festival in IT CAME FROM FUKUSHIMA a play by Bill Hyatt.
This is a comedy about a radioactive creature rising from the abyss to attack San Francisco. Blending Film Noir & Sci-fi, the play tells a tale of fear, greed, hope and survival. Will the monster destroy San Francisco? Will nuclear contamination signal the end of the world? Is humankind the most dangerous monster of all? What’s for dinner after the show?
BINGEWATCH
Improv you can't get enough of.
Diana Brown and Dan Wilson recreate the lost pilot of a show that you have never seen but would watch the hell out of. Every show tackles a different genre, from police procedural to soap opera to something awesome that would totally get canceled by Fox in its first season.
Tonight, two of Southern Railroad Theatre Company's artists work will be featured in Repro Rights! - The Body Politic. Southern Railroad Co-Producer Susan Jackson's play ENOUGH is featured in the line-up of plays presented tonight. Southern Railroad's actor Brian Levi who will play Robert in our upcoming world premiere production TAKEN will perform. The event is completely sold out!!