The Law of Attraction Playbill

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W E LCO ME

from the Founder & Artistic Director

Originally, The Law of Attraction by Patricia Milton

was scheduled to have its world premiere at NCTC this season.

Instead, thanks to the playwright’s magic pen, it joins our repertoire in a reimagined radio play version for online broadcast. Another testament of resilience and forward momentum offered by theatres across the land during the time of COVID-19. No matter what the circumstance, art and artists find a way – creativity endures.

Learning how to make theatre remotely is an adventure. While it does not replace the miracle that is real time and real space collaboration, it provides an opportunity to keep storytelling churning. Our imaginations need to remain engaged especially during tumultuous times. It helps us cope and find the strength to continue. Even more so if a dash of human folly can be part of the journey. A chance to laugh a little – something we all desperately need right now.

The Law of Attraction takes us full throttle into the madness of the multizillion dollar self-help publishing industry, but with a definite comic edge. With their road maps toward better living in hand, the story takes our characters careening down life’s highway searching for the ever elusive on and off ramps to personal satisfaction. Everyone is in the race towards fulfillment before the fuel tanks of their hearts hit empty.

This is a time when we are all looking for answers to so many questions. The need for love, respect, healthful living, and unity looms large. Often times we gaze so far inward to resolve these questions that we miss the really important conversations that we should be having with one another. The queries about the things that matter most like happiness, health, and wellbeing fall by the wayside. We become estranged from the collective human condition as well as ourselves. It becomes harder and harder to steer clear of divisiveness and aggression in the existential playbook. But goodwill can prevail. The Law of Attraction suggests that the best guide for living is found in the smiles we share and how graciously we turn the page.

Founder & Artistic Director

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NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER PRESENTS

By Patricia Milton Directed by Nikki Meñez CREATIVE TEAM

Stop h ating your lif e?

Directed by Ed Decker Technical Direction by Carlos Aceves Production Management & Casting by Stephanie Desnoyers Sound Design by Kalon Thibodeaux

CAST Chelsea Bearce Cary Ann Rosko Louel Señores Matt Weimer

NATASHA M.J. BOLO PETER

Special thanks to Logan Hehn for providing vocals on the intermission recording.

love = time + attraction

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W E LCO ME

from the Executive Director

Welcome to The Law of Attraction! We are so glad you are taking the time to join us for this wonderful piece of theatrenow-radio-play. We have been looking forward to sharing this work with you since we first commissioned it, which is why we adapted it as a radio drama – it was simply too good to put on the shelf until we could stage it. It’s been an interesting learning curve creating a show for your ears only. We appreciate you coming along on the adventure as we go back to an art form that was ubiquitous nearly 100 years ago. Makes me wonder if the generation raised on radio drama became better listeners!

The pandemic has presented us with many challenges, both artistic and logistic.

It has also provided a unique opportunity for us to take the time to come together as a staff and take an in depth look at what it means to be a progressive, activist theatre at a time when so many crises are at hand: in particular how do we use the platform we have built to amplify overlooked voices?

One place we have started is with a land acknowledgement practice. The full version of our statement is on the opposite page. A shorter version will be incorporated into communications, preshow speeches, meetings and other events going forward. It is a small way to acknowledge the debt we owe to the people who lived on and cared for this land before colonization. For further information about this history please visit our website at www.nctcsf.org/LandAcknowledgment for more resources.

I hope you are yours are well and safe. Thanks again for joining us - and enjoy the show!

Executive Director

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LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT “My grandmother, my mother and I believe that when song, dancing and ceremony stop so does the earth.”

- “Kanyon Coyote Woman” Sayers-Roods In pursuit of New Conservatory Theatre Center’s ongoing mission to effect personal and societal growth, enlightenment, and change, we’ve learned the importance of acknowledging the original inhabitants of what we now know as San Francisco. We recognize that Ramaytush was the first language of this land as spoken by its original peoples, who are the original stewards and understand the interconnectedness of all things, maintaining harmony with nature since time immemorial. Our theatre is located on stolen land of the Ramaytush Ohlone Peoples, the original peoples of what is now the San Francisco Peninsula, and the greater Bay Area is the ancestral territory of the Miwok, Yokuts, Patwin, and other Ohlone to whom we owe a collective debt. We have directly benefited from being settlers on this land and we are privileged to call it our artistic home.

Through our own research and in-depth conversations with local Indigenous Generalized Specialist “Kanyon Coyote Woman” Sayers-Roods, we’ve gained a deeper understanding of the many travesties towards Native Americans over hundreds of years that have led to a history of displacement, gentrification, and cultural erasure which informs the context and demographics of our area to this day.

Storytelling is the core of theatre. Being unable to gather at NCTC during this time has highlighted how essential it is that we share the story of the land we occupy. This statement is one small step in recognizing the original stewards of this land and paying our respect to these Indigenous communities while educating our patrons, artisans, teachers, and students. More importantly are our actions that follow, which will include but are not limited to: uplifting local Indigenous communities, businesses, and artists without the expectation of reciprocal benefits, offering space and resources to Indigenous organizations, and being inclusive in the stories we tell and how we tell them.

Colonization is ongoing and so must our efforts be to engage, repair, and learn EpisodesWe 3 and 4 were you brought tothe you by as an organization. encourage to visit reference links here to better understand the legacy of the Ramaytush Ohlone people and the history of this serving the community since 1890. land. Please join us in acknowledging and honoring their ancestors, their elders, and their communities.

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D RA M AT U R G Y

Real Talk with Nikki Meñez

by Andrea Partridge

The first thing you notice about

The Law of Attraction director, Nikki Meñez is her infectious laugh - you can hear it from anywhere in the NCTC basement. The second? Her total comittment to theatre as a form of social activism, a passion which has shaped her ever-evolving career.

Nikki has been an integral part of the fabric of NCTC for the last five years, and of the progressive Bay Area theatre at large. She began at NCTC as a teaching artist with the Conservatory program when a parttime position became available with YouthAware, our educational theatre program that tours short productions to schools and helps students and teachers navigate topics that might 6otherwise be difficult to approach

in a classroom setting. From her first interview with Artistic Director Ed Decker for YouthAware, a pipeline was established that would eventually lead to Nikki directing on the mainstage. In the meantime, she says, “having my growth as a human being and a young professional facilitated by NCTC,” allowed her to evolve the program into something she could take real ownership of. Indeed, Nikki’s hard work and vision lead to her becoming the YouthAware Program Director.

All the while, Nikki cut her teeth by freelance directing productions at various theatres in the city, including the indie Awesome Theatre (where she also serves as their Casting Director) and notably, a production of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s In The Heights at Custom

Made Theatre. This production solidified and centralized her work’s focus on the connective tissue of relationships and community, a necessary aspect of a show that requires authentically conveying familial, life-long neighborhood closeness among its cast of characters.

Nikki’s path to NCTC’s mainstage has been largely intertwined with the circumstances of the pandemic. She Assistant Directed Yilong Liu’s The Book of Mountains & Seas alongside Director Becca Wolf (Casa Valentina, STEVE), a play which only got one preview performance before closing due to San Francisco’s shut down of events in city buildings. Though disappointingly short lived in its run, this experience served as an easing into mainstage direction while she also worked closely with Ed and playwright Patricia Milton on the development of The Law of Attraction, slated for production in the 2020-21 Season. It was a natural choice for Nikki to direct - the production was set to be staged in the intimate Walker theatre and Nikki had already worked with Patricia on a short play festival with 3 Girls Theatre. Additionally, Nikki shared a character’s Filipinx background, her cultural competency would be instrumental in honoring that culture’s representation. Plus, she says, “it’s just funny. The access point of humor and social justice really resonated with me.”

As a world premiere with NCTC’s New Voices/New Work program, the theatre has the opportunity to shape the development of the play and respond to the conversations and context of the time. In the complex circumstances of the pandemic and of fervent calls for justice and accountability, a play centering around a well-meaning but naive white woman, making her living selling commercialized feminism in the form of self-help books and talks

Nikki with the cast and crew of YouthAware’s 2020 production of Real Talk

geared towards other well-meaning white women, became fertile ground for delving into these themes more deeply.

Not only have current events focused the themes of the show, they have also changed the format. In order to produce the play in the highest quality and safest manner, NCTC has decided to release it as an audio drama.

Of course, this created both new opportunities and new challenges.

This format necessitates being very specific as to how characters describe themselves and convey personal traits.

For example, Natasha, around whom the plot’s central conflict revolves, is a biracial person. Therefore, naming her biracial identification and that she is in an interracial relationship is key to conveying the context of their relationship. “It’s also important to let levity, even on a serious topic, be a part of that experience,” Nikki says. “It lets you build a participatory connection to these characters. There are 4 characters who have completely different lenses through which they view the world. Everybody is bound to identify with someone in this play, and yet, nobody is safe from a joke.

Sometimes when you laugh, you don’t quite know if you’re the type of person being laughed at. Sometimes you have to listen a little harder. It opens you up to being even more empathetic towards everyone involved in this story. ”

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PRO F I L E S CHELSEA BEARCE (Natasha, pronouns: she/her) This is Chelsea Bearce’s first show with NCTC and her third show working with playwright, Patricia Milton. Chelsea starred in Bamboozled (where she won a TBA Award for Outstanding Principle role) and The Victorian Ladies Detective Collective both at Central Works Theatre. She has been a stand up comedian for almost 13 years, performing all over the country. Chelsea also owns and solely operates Chelsea Got Cakes, a custom cake and cupcake business out of Benicia, CA, created and produces the new online game show called Who Wrote This S#!t?, and is the mother of a very active and hard-headed four-year-old boy named Chance.

CARY ANN ROSKO (M.J., pronouns: she/ her) is thrilled to make her debut with NCTC! She enjoys a theatre career that spans multiple genres, performing opera, light opera, and musical theatre with such Bay Area companies as The Lamplighters, Pocket Opera, Cinnabar Theater, Verismo Opera, Oakland Opera Theater, and Berkeley Opera. Cary has recently expanded into nonmusical theatre, appearing with the Playwrights’ Center of San Francisco in their developmental readings and award-winning Playoffs series. www. caryannrosko.com

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LOUEL SEÑORES (Bolo, pronouns: he/him) is delighted to be working with NCTC for the very first time! Not to mention delighted in general for being fortunate enough to be able to participate in an artistic project in the time of Covid. Louel is an actor and stage manager, but is looking forward to using his time sheltered-in-place to explore more writing. He hopes everyone reading this is staying safe, healthy, and reasonably happy!

LouelSenores.com MATT WEIMER (Peter, pronouns: he/him)This is Matt’s ninth show with NCTC, following such personal favorites as The Lisbon Traviata and The Homosexuals (TBA Award Finalist, featured actor). Other recent work includes performances with Custom Made Theatre Co., Theatre Rhinoceros, Left Coast Theatre Co., and Indra’s Net. He has toured with children’s theater, performed improv and sketch comedy, acted in independent films and video games, and written for the stage.

PATRICIA MILTON (Playwright, pronouns: she/her) Patricia’s plays have been produced around the world, including Bamboozled, Reduction in Force, The Victorian Ladies’ Detective Collective, and her audio drama, Bystanders (at centralworks.org). Enemies: Foreign and Domestic (Central Works) was awarded “2015 Outstanding World

Premiere Play” by Theatre Bay Area.

Believers was produced in Istanbul, Turkey. Plays with Andrew Black include It’s Murder, Mary! (New Conservatory Theatre Center, Emerald Theatre) and Strange Bedfellows (Theatre Out, Khaos Theatre).

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NIKKI MEÑEZ (Director, pronouns: she/they) is a director, creator, and arts administrator born and raised on unceded Ohlone territory of the SF Bay Area. After making their creative home at New Conservatory Theatre Center on staff as Program Director for YouthAware Educational Theatre & Casting Associate, they are thrilled to be bringing their directing skills to NCTC’s Mainstage. Nikki has worn various creative hats at Custom Made Theater Company, Faultline Theatre, Queer Cat Productions, Epic Party Theater, and PianoFight. Featured directing credits include Let’s Kill Jessica by Claire Rice (Awesome Theater), The Gay Divorce Play by Carson Becker & Nicole Jost (Queer Cat Productions), and In the Heights by Quiara Alegría Hudes & Lin-Manuel Miranda (Custom Made).

STEPHANIE DESNOYERS (Production Management & Casting, pronouns: she/her) has been stage managing in the Bay Area since moving here in 2008, working with Cutting Ball, SF Shakespeare Festival, and ten shows with NCTC, including Everything That’s Beautiful, Salome, Dance for Me, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, and Die, Mommie, Die!. She began her career in Pittsburgh and traveling to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Stephanie holds a B.A.

in Theatre Design & Technology from Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania.

CARLOS ACEVES (Technical Director, pronouns: he/him) has lived and worked in the Bay Area for the past ten years as a technical director, scenic designer, and charge artist. Recently, he’s worked as a scenic designer for the Eugene O’Neill International Festival of Theatre in New Ross, Ireland. In 2016, Carlos worked as the scenic designer and technical director for The Awakening at the Breadbox Theatre, which received a Theatre Bay Area award for Outstanding Production of a Play. He’s also received an award for excellence in stage management from the KCACTF, and the title of California Theatre Arts Scholar in 2005. Carlos is delighted to be a part of the NCTC team and to champion their mission.

KALON THIBODEAUX (Sound Designer, pronouns: he/him) The Law of Attraction marks Kalon’s 7th sound project with NCTC after working on In Good Company, You’ll Catch Flies, The Gentleman Caller, The Cake, Head Over Heels, and the world premiere of Del Shores’ This Side of Crazy. Over the last 30 years, Kalon has worked as an Actor, Director, and/or Designer for many theatrical companies throughout the Gulf South, the Bay Area and the Pacific Northwest including: Southern Repertory Theatre, 42nd Street Moon, Stone Soup Theatre, California Theatre Center, The Dixie Theatre and Le Petit Theatre de Vieux Carre. He recently stage managed the world premiere of Training Wheels at the RAVE Theatre Festival in NYC. 9

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Scott, Bill Clawson & Frank Benedito, Paul Colfer, John G. Collet & Laurence Stevens, Jose Colon, James Colopy, Bill Coppock, Victor Cordon, Robert Costello, Ronald Coulter, Jim Coursey, Martha Sue, & Lia Coursey, April Culver, Donald Currie, Kevin Daehnke, Jennifer Daly, Stephanie Desnoyers, Norm Dito & Steve Weiner - in memory of David Beery, James Doherty, Jay Dold, Shannon Hall & Paxton Dold, Kathryn Douglas, Roberta Drake, Amina & Layla Durrani, Elana Dykewomon - in honor of Jewelle Gomez, Cheryl Eccles - in honor of The Lynch Family, Alisha Ehrlich, Claudia Ehrlich, Ruth Ekhaus, Jessica Ellis, Barb English, Birgit Eschmann, J. M. Eskin, Ingrid Estrada, Michael Evans, James Fagler & Lori Yamauchi, Caty Farley, Rochelle Felitti, Bonnie Feuer - in memory of Brenda Fahie, Duncan Findlay, Joyce Fishback & Marcia Marks - in honor of Bennet Marks, Ryan Flores, Ryan Fogarty, Dennis Fong, Douglas Fruehling, Jonathan Funk & John Arnold, Michael Gagne, Tamara Gagnidze, Davd & Kendall Galvez, Susan Julian Gates, David Gaus, H. Gelfand - in honor of Yilong Liu, Anthony J. Gemmato Jr., C. E. Gerndt, Jr - in memory of Miss Gene, Dorothy Giammona - in honor of William Giammona, Edward Gibbons, Justin Gillman - in honor of Steven M. Salzman, Edwin Glazier, Paul Goetz, John Golding & Martin Mass, David Grabstald - in memory of Mrs. Ann Getty, Matthew Greenberg, Christopher Hadley & Helen Bersie - in memory of David V. Beery, Olof Hansen, Susan Hansen, H. Adam Harris - in honor of Ed Decker, Anthony Harrison, Gregory Harvey, Kevin Hazelwood, Justin Hecht, Hallie Henle, Mark Hernandez, Lynn Hickman, Colin Hodgen, Dr. Jerry Hofkin & Ms. Lynda Stotsky - in honor of Leah Hofkin, Sabrina Hofkin, Tomlinson Holman, Sandy Holmes, Gregory Holmes, Eric Hsu & James Chambers, Brandon Jackson, Jessica Jensen, Kate Jones Butler, Gregory Jurin & James McCrea, Bill Kaiser - in honor of The Purple Circuit Theatres, Adam Katz, Steve Kehrli & Pablo Patino, Keith Kellogg, Cindy King, The Kinsley/Binard Family, Mike Klayman, “Julia Kochi”, Barbara Koehler, Daniel Koehler, Shelley Kramer, John Spakas, Gary Kukus, Gregg Kyle, Dale Lancaster, Roberta Langren, Christopher Leason III - in memory of Dennis Zaborowski, Harris Lehrer, Alison & Ron Limoges, Kevin Lucas, Alexis Lucio, Karen Lylis, Janet Lynn, Amy MacWilliamson, Scott Moore & Imogen Moore, Caroline Maillard, Shai Malka, Eugene Marangoni, Richard Mason, Donna Giammona Mathison, Richard Mazzarisi, Sean McBride, Colleen Mccarty, David McCrory, Alessandro McLaughlin, Georgia McNamara, Edward Melaika, Michael Melton, Nicole Meñez, Betsy

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Mercer, Amy Meyers, Alkisti Mikrogeorgiou, Markham Miller, Shannon A. Miller, Katherine Mills, Frank D. Monti, Allison Morrell, Arthur Morris, Richard Mosqueda, Patrick Murray, Scott Najima - in honor of Randy Nakano, Marissa Nakano, Dorian Nasby, Michael Niemann, Mark Niu, Melissa O’Keefe, Edward Omasta, Arthur Ong, ORMCE - in memory of David Beery, William Osuna, Janet Pak, Maria Paulia Belgado, Sara Pearson - in honor of Jay Manley, Jeffrey Pekrul, Joel T. Perlstein, David Perry, Robin Peterson, Dixon Phillips, Robert Pittman, Paul Pleasanton, Steven Polsky, Poulet Deli, Ora Prochovnick, Amy Prosser, Brian Quigley, Harry Rabin, Don Ramos & Alan Sauer, Vanessa Ramos, Dick Rees, Suzan Reily & McKenzie Reily-Isaac, John Reliford, Richard Riffer, Bryna Rifkind, PhD, Terry Rillera, Robert Ripps & Steven Spector, Susan Penelope Rix - in honor of David Beery, Michael, Anne, David, & Carla Romero, Stephen Rupsch, Corrine Sacks, Gordon Sakaue, Brian Sands, Becca Schlichtig, Hope Schmeltzer, Joshua Grossnickle & Isaac Grossnickle, John Schrom, Lori Schryer, Timothy Schuman, RS&JJ, Donald Senn, Joel Shapiro, Sachiyo Shelton, Stacey Shuster & Joan Lefkowitz, Jonathan Siekmann, Liz Sizenksy - in honor of Anne & Rodney Vaughan, Evelyn Smith, Rose Smith, Jim Smoldt, Lisa Soberanes, Elise Sommerville, Tony Spruill, Deb Stallings - in honor of Robert Holgate & Al Baum, Chris Starr, Marc Stein & Jorge Olivares, Laurence Stevens, Sandra Stober, Michael Stuber, Beli Sullivan, Virgnia Sweeney - in honor of TJ Santiago, Doug & Lois Tema Lawrence, Jerry Thornhill, Lisa Wayne, Mary Tienken & Isaac Wayne, Robert Tinkler, Francine Torres, Sue Trowbridge, Kimberlee Trudeau, Anonymous - in memory of Steven Salzman, Judy Ung, Vaho, Linda Vallee, John Ventura & Frank Soda, Jr., Rena Vilt, William Vilt, Annika Button & Sydney Button, James J. Vogt, Yae Wada, Mary Kay Wagner, Laurie Waldman, Harold Wasson, Sharon Waterhouse, Matt Weimer, Amy Weitz, Randy Weled, Lori Whitney, Elyzabeth Gregory Wilder, LaDonna Willems, Barbara Wills, William F. Wilson, Lawrence & Hillary Wollin, Stephanie Wolper, Angelo Wong, Joyce Ycasas, May Young - in honor of Randall Nakano

INSTITUTIONAL PARTNERS

New Conservatory Theatre Center is sponsored in part by a grant from Grants for the Arts, and supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund. $50,000+ William & Flora Hewlett Foundation San Francisco Arts Commission San Francisco Grants for the Arts $25,000 - $49,999 Bothin Foundation San Francisco Department of Children, Youth & Their Families The Shubert Foundation Small Change Foundation $15,000 - $24,999 Centers for Disease Control & Prevention California Arts Council Horizons Foundation Kimball Foundation $10,000 - $14,999 Fleishacker Foundation National Endowment for the Arts The Sheri & Les Biller Family Foundation Bernard Osher Foundation $2,500 - $9,999 Art4Moore Bill Graham Supporting Foundation of the Jewish Community Federation and Endowment Fund Wells Fargo Foundation

Every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of this listing. If an error has been made, you have any questions, or would like to make a gift, please contact Director of Individual Giving Andrea Partridge at 415.694.6158 or andreap@nctcsf.org.

WAYS TO GIVE Support NCTC by making a secure donation online at NCTCSF.ORG/DONATE or mail a check to: NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER, 25 Van Ness Ave., LL, San Francisco, CA 94102 NCTC also accepts bequests, stock transfers and in-kind contributions. For more information about supporting NCTC, please contact Andrea Partridge, Director of Individual Giving 415.694.6158 | andreap@nctcsf.org

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NCTC THANKS THE FOLLOWING INSTITUTIONS FOR MATCHING THEIR EMPLOYEES’ DONATIONS

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STAF F

FOUNDER & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Ed Decker

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Barbara Hodgen

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR

Carlos Aceves

FRONT OF HOUSE & BAR MANAGER

Walt Anthony

DIRECTOR OF MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS MARKETING & PRESS MANAGER PRODUCTION MANAGER & CASTING COORDINATOR CONSERVATORY PROGRAMS MANAGER BOX OFFICE & PATRON SERVICES MANAGER YOUTHAWARE PROGRAM DIRECTOR & CASTING ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR OF INDIVIDUAL GIVING BUSINESS MANAGER DIRECTOR OF INSTITUTIONAL GIVING PHOTOGRAPHER CONSERVATORY DIRECTOR

Kate Jones Butler April Culver Stephanie Desnoyers Kathleen Lee Alessandro McLaughlin Nicole Meñez Andrea Partridge Brad Pence Vanessa Ramos Lois Tema Stephanie Temple

B OARD OF DIREC TOR S Ed Decker - Artistic Director Larry Vales - Board Chair Eric Valko - Treasurer Eli Lazarus- Secretary Andrew Smith - Chair Emeritus J. Conrad Frank Leah A. Hofkin Robert Holgate Maurice Kelly

Eve Lynch Christopher Murriel Andrew Nance Charles Renfroe Renee Roux Stephanie Walker Nathan Williams Dana Zook

NEW CONSERVATORY THEATRE CENTER 25 Van Ness Avenue at Market Street San Francisco, CA 94102 BOX OFFICE: 415.861.8972 OFFICES: 415.861.4914 New Conservatory Theatre Center is a constituent of the Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the National Organization for ­American Theatre, Associate Member National New Play Network, and a company member of Theatre Bay Area.

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