Committed to telling stories, we don’t try to recreate theatre online, but distill performances down to the simplest and purest form of Theatre there is: The playwright's words.
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"entrancing (in the fullest sense of the word), disturbing, liberating, hypnotizing, mind blowing..."
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"you guys did SUCH a great job. I'm wary of zoom theater for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is the way it can unintentionally flatten an actor's natural rhythm, but you and the others really nailed it. the nuance you were able to bring to zoom is unreal."
​Upcoming Events
Outside the Box '25
Reading Series

Play #1
THE THIN PLACE
by Lucas Hnath
Directed by Emilie Talbot
Monday, July 7, 2025 | 7pm at Z Below in San Francisco
Sunday, July 13, 2025 | 7pm at the Aurora in Berkeley
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Everyone who ever died is still here, just in a different part of here. Linda can communicate with them. And if you believe, she can make you hear them, too — in the thin place, the fragile boundary between our world and the other one. Beautiful and deeply creepy all in one.
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Cast includes: Michelle Apriña Leavy*, Ron Chapman*, Amy Kossow, Danielle Levin*
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Play #2
APPROPRIATE
by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Directed by Leontyne Mbele-Mbong
Sunday, July 20, 2025 | 7pm at the Aurora in Berkeley
Monday, July 21, 2025 | 7pm at Z Below in San Francisco
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Appropriate follows the dysfunctional Lafayette family as they return to a decaying plantation mansion in Arkansas to battle over their recently deceased father's inheritance. Soon after the discovery of a relic buried deep in the recess of their family's past, decades of resentment burst through centuries of historical sin.
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Cast includes: Harry Davis*, Isabel Langen*, Catherine Luedtke*, Ash M.B., Luisa Sermol*, Michael Ray Wisely*
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Play #3
THE BEST WE COULD
By Emily Feldman
Directed by Timothy Redmond
Sunday, July 27, 2025 | 7pm at the Aurora in Berkeley
Monday, July 28, 2025 | 7pm at Z Below in San Francisco
In this funny, wise, and heartbreaking debut from Emily Feldman, a daughter’s road trip with her father becomes a theatrical journey across more than just state lines. Though 36-year old Ella has nearly given up on life, she agrees to accompany her father Lou on a long-distance trip to adopt a rescue dog. Guided by a narrator called Maps and interspersed with memories and phone calls from Ella’s mother, Peg, their journey reveals hard truths as their pasts slowly rise to the surface.
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Cast includes: James Carpenter*, Leontyne Mbele-Mbong*, Lisa Morse*, Robert Parsons*, Michelle Talgarow*
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Play #4
RECIPE
by Michael Gene Sullivan
Directed by Ansley Valentine
Monday, August 4, 2025 | 7pm at the Aurora in Berkeley
Tuesday, August 5, 2025 | 7pm at the Magic in San Francisco
The Morning Glory Baking Circle seems like a harmless enough group of women bakers of retirement age... until they reveal the rest of their title, "for Revolutionary Self-Defense!" They may appear inoffensive, but they are as dedicated to making pies, cakes, muffins, and cobbler as they are to overthrowing the fascist corporatocracy of America... with a "K!" But when they invite a young Black reporter to their rebel headquarters to divulge their latest plan for socialist revolution the last thing they expect is that she might be an F.B.I. mole, sent to infiltrate and destroy them. Or is she? Are they just paranoid old nuts, or has the government really taken notice of them?
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Cast includes: Mary Baird*, Anne Hallinan*, Asia Jackson*, Julia McNeal*, Emilie Talbot*
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​* Member, Actors' Equity Association
Past FULL PRODUCTIONS
Annie Baker // THE ANTIPODES
Presented in person at Marin Shakes, 514 4th St
Performed NOV 8 - DEC 2, 2024
Directed by Alyson Schacherer
Past READINGS
OUTSIDE THE BOX Reading Series 2024
Presented at Marin Shakes, 514 4th St, San Rafael
George Brant // INTO THE BREECHES!
Performed on JULY 1, 2024
Directed by DAVID SINAIKO
Betty Shamieh // MALVOLIO
Performed on JULY, 21, 2024
Directed by AMY KOSSOW
Jeffrey Hatcher // STAGE BEAUTY
Performed on AUGUST 12, 2024
Directed by NANCY CARLIN
Susan Ferrara // BUZZ
Performed on AUGUST 21, 2024
Directed by MARCIA PIZZO
Stephen Adley Guirgis // THE LAST DAYS OF JUDAS ISCARIOT
Presented in person at Marin Shakes, 514 4th St
Performed on MAY 4, 2024
Directed by LUISA SERMOL
Aaron Posner // LIFE SUCKS
Presented in person at Marin Shakes, 514 4th St
Performed on DECEMBER 4, 2023
Directed by AMY KOSSOW
OUTSIDE THE BOX Reading Series 2023
Presented at Marin Shakes, 514 4th St, San Rafael
Henry & Hissom // SHAKESPEARE AND
THE ZOMBIE PLAGUE OF 1590
Performed on JUNE 5, 2023
Directed by ALDO BILLINGSLEA
Dominique Morriseau // PIPELINE
Performed on JUNE 19, 2023
Directed by LEONTYNE MBELE-MBONG & EMILIE TALBOT
Jez Butterworth // THE FERRYMAN
Performed on JULY 10, 2023
Directed by ROBERT PARSONS
Lucy Kirkwood // THE CHILDREN
Performed on JULY 31, 2023
Directed by TIM REDMOND
Jordan Harrison // THE GROWN-UP
Presented in person at Z Space
Performed on JANUARY 30, 2023
Directed by TIM REDMOND
Oksana Zabuzhko // YOUR AD COULD GO HERE
Presented on ARC YouTube Channel
Performed on APRIL 30, 2022
Cast by AMY KOSSOW & PATRICIA SILVER
Octavio Solis // MOTHER ROAD
Presented on ARC YouTube Channel
Performed on NOVEMBER 22, 2021
Cast by CATHERINE CASTELLANOS & AMY LIZARDO
Henry & Hissom // SHAKESPEARE AND THE
ZOMBIE PLAGUE OF 1590
Presented on ARC YouTube Channel
Performed on OCTOBER 24, 2021
Cast by ALDO BILLINGSLEA
Shakespeare // ALL'S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Presented on ARC YouTube Channel
Performed on AUGUST 21, 2021
Cast by AMY KOSSOW
Charles L. Mee // BIG LOVE
Presented by THE STREAMING THEATER
Performed on JULY 17, 2021
Cast by ROBERT PARSONS