Hello and welcome! Today we bring you episode four in our series. Here’s more information about this week’s play:

Still Life With Fruit And Lemons by Jennifer Roberts

Directed by Claire Rice

Read by Jan Carty Marsh (Teresa), Michelle Talgarow (Shel), and Peter Townley (Stage Directions).

Stage manager: Chelsey Little

Thank you to the people who made this podcast possible:

Playwright:

Jennifer Roberts is the current President of The Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco with an MFA in Creative Writing from California College of Arts. Her full-length play, Beekeeper, premiered at Virago Theatre Company in 2011.

Contact Jennifer online at her website, jenniferlynneroberts.typepad.com, twitter, @jlynneroberts, or email, [email protected]. 

Tech Support:

Thomas Kessinger (Sound) is a musician/publicist residing in Salt Lake City. Working for Exigent Records/Crucial Fest he promotes patronage of the performance arts. Follow him @xthomasx.

Taylor Gonzalez (Sound) has designed and run sound for the SF Mime Troupe, Fusion Theater, and All Terrain Theater. He joined Fusion Theater at the Edinburgh Festival with Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories.

Director:

Claire Anne Rice (director) is a playwright as well as a director and actor. She has worked with Thunderbird Theatre Company, No Nude Men, Three Wise Monkeys, PianoFight, AtmosTheatre, Theatre Pub, San Francisco Olympians Theatre Festival, Custom Made Theatre Company and is co-founder of Ann Marie Productions.  Her plays include Sex in the Next Room,Woman Come Down, The Carmine Lie, It Ain’t Me, Water Line, Demeter’s Daughter and Pride and Succubus. Claire was born in New Mexico where she spent most of her life. She graduated from Eastern New Mexico University with a BFA in Performance. Before moving to San Francisco to get her MFA in Playwriting at San Francisco State University. She lives and works in San Francisco with her wonderful husband.

Stage Manager:

Chelsey Little (Stage Manager) A native of Austin, TX, Chelsey smirks rather than smiles just like her mother and has a voracious temper just like her father. She is one of five children in the Little Clan and bears the cross of being the only redheaded daughter. After graduating with honors from Stanford University with a degree in English Literature and a concentration in Shakespeare, Chelsey moved to “the City” where she has been living and working since, dipping her toes into the vibrant theatre scene. She’s worked with theatre companies worldwide, from ZACH Theatre in her hometown to FESTA Theatre in Florence, the Corpus Christi Owlets in Oxford, Dragon Productions in Palo Alto, and the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco. While she’s an actress at heart, she is interested in every aspect of theatre and has experience in theatre education and administration. She also writes from time to time.

Actors:

Jan Carty Marsh (Teresa) has a B.A. in theatre and has served internships with The San Francisco Mime Troupe and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. She is a SAG/AFTRA member and Equity Membership Candidate. Although primarily an actor, she does teach and direct, and has helped get new works produced or read as an Associate Producer at Bindlestiff Studios and a Producing Director for the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco.  She can be seen in Theater Pub’s Taming Of The Shrew, and playing Hallie Flanagan in The Exit’s “Behind the Curtain" readings.

Michelle Talgarow (Shel) has performed at multiple venues around the San Francisco Bay Area.

Peter Townley (Stage Directions) is a large mammal endemic to Northern California whose habitat has only recently expanded to the Bay Area.  Its range is now thought to extend into San Francisco and the East Bay, where its elaborate calls and social displays have been observed in theatrical settings.

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