DIRECTOR’S NOTE
This play is about a terrible workplace. The place is absurdly terrible. And that’s just what you CAN see: grown men who can’t name feelings, outright bullying, threats of violence, harassment — sexual and gendered in nature. Offstage behaviors described as resembling a “Dutch horror movie” seem only barely hidden. So, we’ve added some touches in our production to bring that horror to light.
You can also see a well-meaning empathy coach, who is trying not to see certain problems in her life. Maybe you can see the way she becomes part of the problem, and how she finds her way back to herself.
But consider what you can’t see. What this place erases from your vision. Begin with the invisible woman at the conference table, and keep this in mind as the final scenes of this play reveal what was unseeable.
In an article published May 21 on Slate, titled Americans Don’t Lack Empathy, We Are Being Drained of It, Dahlia Lithwick observes that we err in hoping that people will come around to the suffering of “the other” because
“we are being trained every day in the opposite direction: We are being conditioned to unsee even those people for whom we felt some kinship a mere eight years ago…The weirdly urgent task lies in asking ourselves whether we have become unwitting accomplices in the imperceptible attempts to make some people unseeable… It’s something to which we are all susceptible, and against which we all must be on guard.”
Look for what you can’t see. Pay attention to what’s behind the curtain.
Becca Wolff
WRITTEN BY
Mara Nelson-Greenberg
DIRECTOR
Becca Wolff °
ACTORS
Sofia ......................................................... Sam Jackson
Eva .................................................... linda maria girón
Jon .....................................................Joseph O’Malley
Howie .......................................... Max Forman-Mullin
Jordan ........................................................... Phil Wong
Old Man ............................................... Jesse Caldwell
Sofia’s Mother/Janie ........................ Atosa Babaoff
COSTUME DESIGN
Fatima Yahyaa
CREATIVE TEAM
SCENIC DESIGN
Randy WongWestbrooke
STAGE MANAGER
Kevin Johnson*
LIGHTING DESIGN
Ray Oppenheimer
SOUND DESIGN
Matt Stines
INTIMACY & FIGHT COORDINATOR
Bessie Zolno
Do You Feel Anger? was produced by the VINEYARD THEATRE, Douglas Aibel, Artistic Director, Sarah Stern, Artistic Director, Suzanne Appel, Managing Director, New York City, 2019. World premiere in the 2018 Humana Festival of New American Plays at Actors Theatre of Louisville.
Do You Feel Anger? is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
of Actors’ Equity
BIOGRAPHIES
SAM JACKSON*
(Sofia) is a San Francisco based actor, vocalist and teaching artist. Her works include film, commercial & stage acting as well as live & recorded vocal performance. While forever a student of her craft, she began her deep work at San Francisco State University where she received her BA in theatre performance. Recent stage acting credits include: Cal Shakes’ As You Like It (Rosalind), The 222’s The Mountaintop (Camae), Oregon Shakespeare Festivals’ Twelfth Night (Viola), American Conservatory Theater’s The Headlands (Jess), Marin Theatre’s Two Trains Running (Risa), Cal Shake’s Lear (Cordelia/Comic). Deepest gratitude to her family (blood & chosen) for their love, support, and moments of sanity in this ever wild life. IG: @little_miss_sj
LINDA MARIA GIRÓN
(Eva) is a queer Guatemalan-American playwright, actor, musician, and visual artist creating art to inspire joy, empathy and collective liberation. Favorite roles include: Betty 3 in Collective Rage: A Play on Five Betties, Carolina in Best Available, Julia in Shotgun Player’s Dream Hou$e, and Shelby in Cinnabar Theater’s Steel Magnolias. linda holds a BA in Theater & Performance Studies from UC Berkeley and begins MA studies in Theatre Arts at UC Santa Cruz this fall. Infinite gratitude to their family, friends, and fiancé for their love and support and Free Palestine! www.lindamgiron. com / IG: @lindamariagiron
JOSEPH O’MALLEY*
(Jon) recently appeared in Waste at Marin Theatre, as well as Ms. Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley. Other Bay Area Theatre: Berkeley Rep, Aurora Theatre, Cal Shakes, Marin Shakespeare, and Center Rep. He has also performed at The Kennedy Center, The Guthrie Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and B Street Theatre. Motion Capture: NBA2K, Mafia: The Old Country, Star Wars: Tales from the Galaxy’s Edge, Fortnite. Joseph is a leadership and performance coach with Stand & Deliver. He earned an MFA from USC and a BA from Santa Clara University.
MAX FORMAN-MULLIN*
(Howie) was born and raised in San Francisco, and is excited to make his Marin Theatre debut. He has performed with numerous Bay Area theatre companies, including Shotgun Players, SF Playhouse, Playwrights Foundation, Berkeley Rep, and Word for Word. Most recently, he was seen in Manahatta at Aurora Theatre Company. In addition to acting, Max has worked extensively as a teaching artist and applied theatre practitioner with people of all ages, in schools, community centers, and prisons. He continues his work with incarcerated people as a paralegal at a criminal defense law office.
PHIL WONG*
(Jordan) is a multi-hyphenate, award-winning theatre artist from the city of Oakland. Recent regional credits include the national tour of A Contemporary Theatre’s Cambodian Rock Band (Duch), OSF’s Revenge Song (Louis), American Conservatory Theater’s The Headlands (Henry), and as a guest artist in the national tour of the Tony Award-winning Freestyle Love Supreme (ACT, Portland Center Stage). Local credits include work with SF Playhouse, TheatreWorks, SF Shakes, Word for Word, Shotgun Players, Lamplighters, KML, Hillbarn Theatre, Los Altos Stage, Palo Alto Players, Ray of Light, Cal Shakes (RIP), BACT(RIP), and Cutting Ball Theater (RIP). @phillywongsteak @bayareatheatrecypher
JESSE CALDWELL*
(Old Man) is thrilled to be making his debut at Marin Theatre. Post-pandemic he appeared at 42nd Street Moon as Mr. Hassler and Pop in The Pajama Game, and Dwight Babcock in Mame. He also played Cardinal James McIntyre in the world premiere of Little Heart at the Jewel Theatre in Santa Cruz. Jesse has worked in many northern California theatres including A.C.T., TheatreWorks, Center Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Shotgun Players, Hillbarn Theatre, Woodminster Summer Musicals, Crowded Fire, Lucky Penny Productions, and American Musical Theatre of San Jose. Jesse holds a B.A. from Tufts University, and M.F.A. from Stanford, and a J.D. from the University of Georgia.
ATOSA BABAOFF*
(Sofia’s Mother/Janie) is thrilled to be a part of Marin Theater’s production of Do You Feel Anger? She has performed at venues all around the Bay Area and beyond. She is most proud of creating Affinity Project, a performance collective with Nora El Samahy and Beatrice Basso. Their piece Russian Play, under the direction of Emily Hoffman, was lauded by KQED as one of ‘the wildest theatrical moments’ of that year. Next up is Ghost Period, a collaboration with choreographer Hope Mohr in 2026 (made possible by the SF Arts Commission). She is a graduate of The American Conservatory Theater’s MFA program.
BECCA WOLFF°
(Director) creates, develops and directs new plays and experimental theater productions. Her work has been seen at On the Boards (Seattle,) Golden Thread (Bay Area,) The Public Theater, and Long Wharf Theatre among others. Festivals and residencies include the Mercury Store, Brown University Arts Institute, Sibiu Festival, Theateworks’ New Works, New York Stage & Film’s Powerhouse series, and the Getty Villa. Upcoming projects include the world premiere of Preston Choi’s Limp Wrist on the Lever for Crowded Fire in San Francisco. She teaches writing and directing for film at Berkeley City College and theater at City College of San Francisco. Member SDC. Graduate Yale School of Drama.
FATIMA YAHYAA
(Costume Designer) is a filmmaker and artist from the Bay Area, who is passionate about spirituality and the subconscious. Fatima grew up in Yemen, in the valley of Tarim, where she discovered her interest in storytelling. In addition to personal creative goals, Fatima is eager about supporting others in their work, and passing on the knowledge to the next generation. Fatima has currently been designing costumes for theater and has collaborated on Collective Rage at Shotgun Players and Azad, the Rabbit and the Wolf at Golden Thread Productions.
MATT STINES
(Sound Designer) is very happy and very grateful to be back at Marin Theatre. Somewhat recently: It’s True, It’s True, It’s True and Yaga at Marin Theatre, Who’s-Dead McCarthy with Word for Word, and 1984 at Aurora. Upcoming: The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life In the Universe at Aurora, and The Motion at Shotgun Players. Besides making noise in various contexts over the last two decades, Matt Stines has taught theatre sound at SF State, St Mary’s, and Sonoma State. Matt Stines also makes music with fullgrownmin; S T A I N S; Spleens; The World Sinks Except Japan. Thanks to Dusty for the bass. All of this is impossible without Didi, Gogo, and Lind-z0. mikestains.com
RANDY WONG-WESTBROOKE+
(Scenic Designer) (they/them) is an award-nominated scenic designer originally from the East Bay. Driven by their mixed-Asian, trans, and non-binary identities, they seek opportunities to work with diverse creative teams to tell radical, provocative, and intersectional stories that question and celebrate our collective histories. They have designed sets at the Geffen Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Shotgun Players, Aurora Theatre Company, Ferocious Lotus, Crowded Fire Theater, B Street Theatre, TheatreFIRST, SF Playhouse’s Sandbox, as well as many other new and independent projects. They have been part of Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s F.A.I.R. Program and a mentee in the USITT Gateway Program. B.F.A. Ithaca College. M.F.A. UCLA. wongwestdesigns.com
BESSIE ZOLNO
(Intimacy & Fight Coordinator) (She/Her) is a violence and intimacy choreographer, and mental health coordinator. She helps performers of all ages care for their own wellbeing while navigating heightened moments of storytelling. She is also a member of Society for Directors and Choreographers, National Society of Intimacy Professionals, and certified through the Association of Mental Health Coordinators. Recent and upcoming work includes: Sweeney Todd (Cabrillo Stage), Constellations (Pear Theater), Work/Shoot (Best of Playground), and Head Over Heels (City Lights Theater Company). To learn more please visit: bessiezolno.com
RAY OPPENHEIMER
(Lighting Designer)
is a San Francisco Bay Area based lighting designer, educator, and creator who has been bringing his boundless curiosity, chimerical aesthetic, and sisyphean perseverance to lighting design and education since 2005. He is excited to be back with Marin Theatre for Do You Feel Anger?.
KEVIN JOHNSON*
(Stage Manager) returns for his eighth production at Marin Theatre, having previously stage-managed It’s True, It’s True, It’s True, Waste, The Sound Inside, Noura, The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley, Marjorie Prime, and the special performance of Lady of Largest Heart with Olympia Dukakis. In addition to more than 30 theatrical world premieres, he also has stage managed music and dance, including San Francisco Jazz Festival (with Bobby McFerrin), International Russian Music Festival, and Dave Brubeck’s final album of his choral music, Brubeck and American Poets.
MARA NELSONGREENBERG
(Playwright) work has been developed at Playwrights Horizons, Clubbed Thumb, Berkeley Rep, and ACT Theatre, among others. Her play Do You Feel Anger? premiered at the 2018 Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville and was produced at the Vineyard Theatre in 2019. She is a former member of Youngblood at Ensemble Studio Theater and Clubbed Thumb’s Early Career Writers Group, and a recipient of the Vineyard Theatre’s 2023 Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. She received her MFA from UC-San Diego.
MIRTO GOLINO
(Lobby Artist) In the years since she earned her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art, Golino has worked at painting representationally, sculpturally using found objects and re-configuring found sticks, and she has made a body of sculptures which were fanciful figures.
SHOW STAFF
Stage Manager
Production Assistant
Deck Hand
Rehearsal Assistant
Audio Engineer
Lighting Operator
Props Coordinator
Scenic Charge
Electricians
Dresser
Stitcher
Kevin Johnson*
Sam Hannum
Emma Koralev
Tajianna Okechukwu
Fiona Sharkey
Mary Clare Blake-Booth, Noah Hewitt Ismael Armando Ramos
Liam Rudisill
Stephanie Junger
Mary Clare Blake-Booth, Nick Carvalho, Noah Hewitt, Brent Wirth
Aurie Stetzle
Ariel Allen
THEATRE STAFF
MARIN THEATRE BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Josh Rafner, President
Penny Wright, Vice President
William Maushardt, Secretary/ Treasurer
Mollie Allen
Suzanne Cross
Naima Dean
Kipp Delbyck
Wendy Feng
Daniel Johnson
Danielle O’Hare
Matthew Purdon
Barbara Roberts
Stacy Scott
MARIN THEATRE DONORS
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Kathy Lavezzo In Memory of Marilyn Angela McCarthy
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Linden & Carl Berry‡ • Jack Bissinger‡ • Dave & Bobbie Chapman • John & Shelley Chesley • Sheldon Doing & Steve DeHart • Fred Drexler‡ • Thomas W. Edwards & Rebecca Parlette Edwards • Joseph & Antonia Friedman • Brian & Tracy Haughton • Sandra Hess • James Lilienthal‡ • Shirley Loube‡ • Melanie Maier • Gladys Perez-Mendez‡ • Ivan & Lochiel Poutiatine‡ • Leigh & Ivy Robinson‡ • Gage Schubert‡ • Beverly Tanner • Fred & Kathleen Taylor • Nancy Thomson‡ • Phil Woodward & Connie Majoy
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