Southern Railroad Makes a Critically Acclaimed DC Debut!

Southern Railroad Theatre Company made their Washington DC debut at the 2016 Capital Fringe Festival. Co-Producers Diana Brown and Susan Jackson represented SRTC in Jackson's two-hander DEATH BE NOT LOUD! Under the direction of Wesley Cayaby, SRTC was well received by DC Area Critics -Roger Catlin of The Washington Post and Revelle Brickman of DC Metro Theatre Arts.

"Under the direction of Wesley Cayabyab, the two recognizable and credible characters are comfortable in their own skin..."
-Roger Catlin, The Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/going-out-guide/wp/2016/07/15/from-capital-fringe-fairy-tale-opera-for-kids-and-southern-fried-loss/

"Susan Jackson’s new play, Death Be Not Loud—produced by the Southern Railroad Theatre Company and billed as “a contemporary Southern comedy”—is a sweet reflection on love and loss, featuring two gifted actors.... Both women are played with a touching blend of humor and malice, and both display a kind of toughness that lets us know that they, like other Southern women, will find a way to survive."

-Revelle Brickman, DC Metro Theater Arts

http://dcmetrotheaterarts.com/2016/07/09/2016-capital-fringe-review-death-not-loud/

Southern Railroad's Eric Reid awarded Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellowship

Actor, Producer, Director Eric Reid's life and art is dedicated to the examination of black and brown lives and the quality of those lives in America. He has been awarded the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts fellowship where over the next year he and 29 other fellows will be examining one very important question: What does EQUITY look like?

The YBCA Fellows program brings together creative citizens from across the Bay Area – artists and everyday people alike – to engage in a yearlong process of inquiry, dialogue and project generation. Each Fellowship cohort will explore and respond to a question that emerged from our annual YBCA 100 summit. Together, they’ll use art and culture to inspire community transformation and drive new possibilities into the public imagination. Fellows’ projects will ultimately be presented at YBCA’s bi-annual Public Square, event that provides a platform to share new information, surface big questions, and enact change.  MORE

Southern Railroad Theatre Company's Director of TAKEN, Wesley Cayabyab performs tonight in Cyclone Dancing at the Shelton Theatre in San Francisco!

LOUISE has a beautiful two month old baby and she has just been admitted to the MFA program at SFSU. She's a published poet. How hard could this motherhood thing be? Her husband GEORGE is a rock star pediatrician, up for a prestigious Fellowship, but he's never home. And KATY, like most babies, screams. All the time. Louise has no friends or family in this big new city. But that's okay. She's doing fine. She doesn’t need help. Just a little sleep. Humor and the Hospital Advice Line keep her going....for awhile. Will LOUISE survive in this surreal new territory? Will KATY survive?
 

https://www.facebook.com/events/481186075414671/
YOU ARE INVITED TO ATTEND ….

A performance of CYCLONE DANCING, a new full-length play by Madeline Puccioni. Complimentary drinks, nibbles, and coffee. Please stay for a talk-back with the playwright! 

WHEN: MONDAY, JUNE 6, 7:30 PM

WHERE: SHELTON THEATRE, 533 SUTTER STREET, SF

DIRECTIONS: 10 minute walk up Powell from the POWELL ST BART STATION, then left on SUTTER, and 533 Sutter is half a block further. The Shelton is on the lower level, Custom Made is on the upper level. There are a number of public parking garages in the area. Suggested donation: 10.00.

Southern Railroad's Diana Brown performing in Femprovisor Fest 2016

Tonight in San Francisco, Southern Railroad Theatre Company's co-producer, Diana Brown will appear at Femprovisor Fest 2016 with The Ladies of Radiostar.  They'll record a wholly improvised radio play from the Festival stage.  The Ladies of Radiostar are part of Radiostar Improv.  Festival information and tickets HERE

Tap or click the image below to listen to past recordings by RADIOSTAR IMPROV

Southern Railroad's Susan Jackson at the 35th Annual William Inge Festival

Southern Railroad Theatre Company's Playwright and Co-Producer Susan Jackson in at the 35th Annual William Inge Festival.  Her play HEATHEN appears in the festival's New Play Lab!

In honor of our 35th Anniversary, the William Inge Theater Festival and Conference features its first ever New Play Lab.  Thirty plays will be presented for the first time, Wednesday through Friday, April 20-22, from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m., every hour on the hour, simultaneously in three venues: the First Presbyterian Church (lower level), the First United Methodist Church (chapel) and the historic Booth Hotel (lower level) in downtown Independence, Kansas.  Panels of nationally-renowned theater professionals, including Master Teachers David Henry Hwang (2012 Inge Honoree), Lee Blessing, and Mac Wellman, and Inge New Voices Honorees Catherine Trieschmann (2012), Catherine Butterfield (1999), and former Inge Playwright in Residence, Obie for Lifetime Achievement Awardee, Caridad Svich, will respond to the new works, immediately following each reading.   

The New Play Lab offers playwrights attending the Festival the opportunity to interact with and have their work seen by professional theater artists from around the country, Festival attendees and the public. In addition, all play lab writers will work directly with professionals in hands-on writing workshops.   

http://ingecenter.org/festival/

TAKEN cast member Eric Reid competing in Round 5 of PianoFight's SHORTLIVED this weekend in San Francisco.

Our TAKEN cast member Eric Reid will be competing in Round 5 of PianoFight's SHORTLIVED this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at 8 with a 5 PM performance as well on Saturday. He's in a new short play by Bennett Fisher titled PECKISH and according director Gabriel Montoya, it's a take on the old Monty Python sketch. SHORTLIVED is the nation's largest audience judged theater competition. More info HERE

There's a lot goin' on y'all!

We're heading to the Nation's Capital!

This Summer, we'll perform at DC's Capital Fringe in Susan Jackson's new play                       DEATH BE NOT LOUD! 

This weekend, Southern Railroad's Diana Brown appears with two or our favorite companies   

Over at Mariposa Studio, Friday, Saturday and Sunday at 7 PM, she'll appear in an improvised performance accompanied by Anna Dal Pino on electric bass. more...

This Sunday, March 20 at 2 PM, Diana appears in 3Girls Theatre's  developmental reading of Suze Allen's new play, SOMETHING BROKEN. Directed by Southern Railroad Theatre Company collaborator, Ann Thomas.