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THEATRE and PUBLIC PROJECTS :: Producer, Designer and Company Manager

Life is Living 15th Annual Festival at Lil’ Bobby Hutton Park, West Oakland CA October 8 - 25, 2022

Prieto  by Yosimar Reyes Directed by Kat Evasco, Brava San Francisco, CA  September 3 - 15, 2022 

We The Peoples Before, Directed by Roberta Uno. 50th Anniversary of the Kennedy Center/25th Anniversary of The First Peoples Fund, The Kennedy Center, Washington DC,  June 26 - July 1, 2022

25th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, The Kennedy Center’s The Reach, July 19 - 25, 2022

Not My First Pandemic  by César Cadabes’ Directed by Kat Evasco, Brava San Francisco CA June, 2022 

The National Performance Network Mid Year Conference, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, June 1- 4, 2022

The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Festival, University of Manoa, Oahu HI, May 21 - May 30, 2022

Last Days at Pu’unene Mill, by Tanya Orellana and Joan Osato, The Audium San Francisco May, 2022

Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Sandglass Theater Putney VT, April 5 - 11, 2022

Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite and Roberta Uno, REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA March 24-26, 2022

Otto Frank by Roger Guenvere Smith and Marc Anthony Thompson, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA March 11 -27, 2022

Shelter by Bennett Fisher, Directed by Omar Metwally, Magic Theatre, San Francisco, CA  February 25 -26, 2022

Tomorrow's Memories: A Little Manila Diary by Matthew Welch, Directed by Sean San Jose, January - June, 2022

Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Utah Presents Salt Lake City, UT, November 19 -20, 2021

Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Brava Theater, San Francisco, USC Los Angeles CA, October 21, 2021

Life is Living 14th Annual Festival at Lil’ Bobby Hutton Park, West Oakland CA October 9 - 11, 2021

Laveau, by Brit Frazier, Directed by Margo Hall, Online Premiere August 21, 2021

24th Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, July 2 - 25, 2021

Hotel Angulo by Luis Saguar, Directed by Margo Hall, Online Premiere April 9, 2021

Technical Assistance Program for Oakland Arts, November 9 - December 10th, 2020 (Online virtuals workshop series, 15 sessions for artists and organizations in Oakland, CA)

Rashomon  by Sean San Jose Directed by Mina Morita, Postponed.

Life is Living, a community engagement project presenting a new model for partnerships between diverse and under-resourced communities, green action agencies, and the contemporary arts world. Oakland (for the past 13 years), Philadelphia, Chicago, Norfolk  July - October 2020 (Online Festival September 10 - October 12, 2020)

Last Days at Pu’unene Mill, by Joan Osato and Tanya Orellana,  Maui Arts and Cultural Center, HI & Crockett Historical Museum, CA. August - October 2020 Exhibition Crockett Museum. (Postponed)

We So Bay/Echoes Weekend, Directed by Sean San Jose featuring Kronos Quartet, The Living Earth Show and Youth Speaks Poets, Ryse Center, Rising Rhythms, ODC Theater San Francisco, BART from Richmond to 24th Street/Mission Station, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco CA March 7th (3 performances), 2020

Side Effects by Star Finch Directed by Sean San Jose, African American Arts and Culture Complex, San Francisco April 2020 (postponed and produced as a film)

Try/Step/Trip by Dahlak Brathwaite and Roberta Uno, Dance Mission, San Francisco CA February 24-28, 2020

Translating Selena, By Richard Montoya Directed by Sean San Jose, featuring Marga Gomez, Richard Montoya, Brian Rivera, Jordan Don, Yiyo Ornelas and PerSia, Brava Cabaret San Francisco, CA January 29 - February 4, 2020

Moving and Passing, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Amara Tabor Smith, Yaw Agyeman, Tommy Shepherd and Traci Tolmaire, Guggenheim Museum Residency and Community Engagement Project at Queen Lili’oukalani Trust, Maui HI November 6 - 12, 2019

Who Shot La Miguelito, Department of Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley Zellerbach Playhouse, Berkeley CA October 17 - 20, 2019

pehlotah by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael Garces, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, Kahului HI, February 26 - March 7 - 14, 2019

The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Festival, Victory Gardens Theater, DePaul University August 2018.

21st Annual Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Festival, University of Houston Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts,  July 22 - 26, 2018

Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Brava Theater, San Francisco, October 2018, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, March 2018, Honolulu Theater for Youth, March 2018

Chasing Mehserle, by Chinaka Hodge, Directed by Raelle Myrick-Hodges, Hi-Arts, NY February 16 - 28, 2018, he John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts, Washington DC March 7 - 8, 2918

People’s Kitchen Collective: STREETS! May 20, 2018

National Asian American Theater Festival in association with Victory Gardens Theater, Chicago IL August 13 - 19, 2018

Black Woman is GOD: Portrait Series , by BWIG Collective, Somarts Cultural Center, San Francisco, cA  August 30, 2018.

Masters of the Currents, by Leilani Chan and Teada Productions, Brava Theater, San Francisco CA  October 2018

Nogales: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, Maui Arts and Cultural Center, March 12 - 18, 2017 

Ethos de Masquerade, with Rashad Pridgen and Campo Santo, ACT Strand, August 16 - 27, 2017

The Consortium of Asian American Theaters and Artists Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, October 2016

Babylon is Burning, by Campo Santo, World Premiere,  ZSpace, January 2016

Black Joy in the Hour of Chaos, Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Traci Tolmaire, Dahlak Brathwaite, Michael Wayne Turner, Juliette Jones, Harlem Stage, June 2016

H.O.M.E. (Hookers on Mars Eventually) by Star Finch, Directed by Sean San Jose, ACT Strand, June 2016


NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, Mesa Arts Center, November 2016

/peh-lo-tah/, by Marc Bamuthi Josesph, directed by Michael John Garces, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, October 2016

5th National Asian American Theater Festival and Conference, with CAATA and Oregon Shakespeare Festival September/October 2016

NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, Borderlands Theater, September 2016

NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel County (work in progress production) by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato, The Magic Theatre, August 2015


The Colored Museum, New Works by Andrew Wilson, ZSpace and Impact Hub Oakland, 2015

The Saga of the Return, by Shannon Matesky (work in progress), Intersection for the Arts, September 2015

red, black and GREEN: a blues, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael John Garces, ZSpace September, 2015

Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, directed by Sean San Jose and Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2015

Chasing Mehserle, by Chinaka Hodge, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2014

The River, by Richard Montoya, directed Sean San Jose, 2013

Tree City Legends, by Dennis Kim, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2012

red, black and GREEN: a blues by  Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael John Garces, 2011

Word Becomes Flesh, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Majestic Theatre, Dallas, TX, 2010

Mirrors in Every Corner, by Chinaka Hodge, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Intersection, 2010


Reflections of Healing, by Brett Cook. A public art project in Oakland, CA 2009 - Present

War Peace: The One Drop Rule, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Project Artaud Theatre, 2009

Mapa Corpo 3, by La Pocha Nostra, directed by Guillermo Gomez Pena, 2009

unbuckled, uncensored, by Regie Cabico, directed by Brian Freeman, 2009

Monday Golden Sun, directed by Jeannie Barroga, Brava Theatre, 2009

Bury Marcos, by Jason Mateo, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2008

Life is Living, Oakland, Houston, Chicago, Harlem, Minneapolis, Washington DC, San Francisco, Philadelphia 2008 - Present

the break/s: a mixtape for stage, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, directed by Michael Garces, 2008

Regarding Women, by Michelle Mush Lee, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2007

Inferno, by Dante directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, 2006

In Spite of Everything, by the Suicide Kings, directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, 2006

Representa! By Paul S. Flores, directed by Danny Hoch, Project Artaud Theatre, 2006

Scourge, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Chinaka Hodge, Eli Marienthal, directed by Kamilah Forbes, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2005

Fear of a Brown Planet, by Paul S. Flores, Mark Pinate, directed by Tony Garcia, Project Artaud Theatre, 2005

Word Becomes Flesh, by Marc Bamuthi Joseph, Directed by Deborah Gibson, ODC Theatre 2003

Cause, by Kirya Traber, Emiliano Bourgois-Chacon, Luke Brekke-Miesner, Ise Lyfe and Jason Mateo, Directed by Robert Moses, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, 2003

The Cure, by Joel Tan and Ginu Kamani, Directed by Joel Tan, Jon Sims Center 2001

Sisters Matsumoto, by Philip Kan Gotanda, Directed by Sharon Ott, Seattle Repertory Theatre 1999 – 2000

Sisters Matsumoto, by Philip Kan Gotanda, Directed by Sharon Ott, San Jose Repertory Theatre, 2000

Bare, by Toa Fraser, Directed by Rena Owen, New Langton Theatre, 1998

The Butcher’s Burden, By Harold S. Byun, Directed by Kelvin Han Yee, 1998 Somarts

The Clouds, The Ocean and Everything In Between, by Michael Premsirat, Directed by Ellen Sebastian Chang, 1997


EXHIBITIONS and VISUAL DESIGN :: INDIVIDUAL ARTIST

1984 "94110"  SF CAMERAWORK, SAN FRANCISCO, CA

2009 “Bay Area Currents 2009”, PROARTS/OAKLAND ART GALLERY, OAKLAND, CA 

2009  “Monday Golden Sun”, Photographic Installation, Brava Theatre, San Francisco, CA

2009 “Box Art Benefit 2009”, PROARTS GALLERY, OAKLAND, CA

2010 “Mirrors in Every Corner”, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco

2011   Home in the World: An Apocalyptic Travelogue, Solo Exhibition and Installation, Ictus Gallery, San Francisco

2012  “Tree City Legends”, by Dennis Kim,  Visual Design, The Living Word Project/Campo Santo

2012  “Reimagine What We Cannot Realize”, Exhibit Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

2013  “The River”, by Richard Montoya, Visual Design, Campo Santo/Intersection for the Arts

2013  “Future Soul Think Tank, Field of Inquiry” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

2013  “Califas” with Campo Santo, Intersection for the Arts, Calshakes and The Triangle Lab

2013  “Alleluia” by  Luis Alfaro,  Directed by Jonathan Moscone, Visual Design, Campo Santo/Calshakes

2013 “Spiritrials” by Dahlak Brathwaite, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph

2014   “Tribes” by Nina Raine, Directed by Jonathan Moscone, Berkeley Repertory Theatre

2014   Home in the World: An Apocalyptic Travelogue, Solo Exhibit and Installation, OMI Gallery/Impact
Hub Oakland


2014   "Chasing Mehserle" by Chinaka Hodge, Directed by Marc Bamuthi Joseph

2015   Spiritrials, by Dahlak Brathwaite, directed by Sean San Jose and Marc Bamuthi Joseph

2015
   NOGALES: Storytellers in Cartel Country, by Richard Montoya, Sean San Jose and Joan Osato

2016   Babylon is Burning by Felonious, Star Finch and Campo Santo



ALBUM, CD ART, PERIODICALS

1984   "Joe’s Second Record", Pop O Pies, Subterranean Records

1985   "We Care a Lot", Faith No More, Go Records

1986  "Joe’s Third Record", Pop O Pies, Subterranean Records

2009   "Brother Min’s Journey to the West", Denizen Kane, Tree City Music 

2009   Koream Magazine, Feature Photos

2009   Africa is a Country Magazine, Featured Photo

2010   San Francisco Chronicle , Feature Photo

2011   Theatre Bay Area Magazine, Cover and Feature Photo


HONORS AND AWARDS           

2007      The Jefferson Award for Public Service

2008      San Francisco Arts Commission
              Arts and Community Partnership Realization Grant


2009      Prix de la Photographie: Honorable Mention
              Bay Area Currents 2009 Juried Exhibit

2010      James Irvine Foundation New Works Fund
              Zellerbach Family Foundation (Tree City Legends Visual Design)
              ArtSlant Prize/Photography


2011      Zellerbach Family Foundation (red, black and GREEN: a blues)
              East Bay Community Foundation MacPhearson Fund for Visual Art
              Oakland Innovators Award
              Open Circle Foundation
              Panta Rhea Foundation


2012      Zellerbach Family Foundation (The River Visual Design)
              East Bay Community Foundation


2013      Zellerbach Family Foundation (Alleluia Visual Design)
              Rockefeller MAPFund (Califas)
              ArtSlant Prize/Photography


2014      Zellerbach Family Foundation
              Rockefeller MAPFund (Nogales)
              Akonadi Beloved Community Fund (Reflections of Healing)
              Theatre Bay Area Awards Best Video Design (Tribes at Berkeley Rep)
              Theatre Bay Area Awards Best Production (Tribes at Berkeley Rep)
              ArtSlant Prize 2014/Photography
              Prix de la Photographie/Bronze Medal for Single Image Press & Book Proposal (Viridaplantae)

2015      San Francisco Arts Commission Individual Artist Commission (Visual)   
              San Francisco Arts Commission Organizational Project Grant
              Zellerbach Family Foundation       
              Surdna Foundation Artists Engaged in Social Change Award 

2016      New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project

2017      Zellerbach Family Foundation

2018      New England Foundation for the Arts, National Theater Project
              National Performance Network 

2019      YBCA 100
              Cal Shakes Luminary Award for Community Engagement
              Rainin Foundation New Project Award

2020      Creative Work Fund



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