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SUMMARY:Dresher Ensemble Studio ReOpening Fest
DESCRIPTION:This ReOpening Fest showcases a vibrant mix of artists who have made our space their creative home through regular rehearsals\, fiscal sponsorships\, or as awardees of the Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency. Events will take place in the Dresher Ensemble Studio\, the large lobby on the second floor\, and an impromptu viewing theater on the loading dock. \nEnjoy outstanding performances\, great food\, and fine wine [William Knuttel Winery] as we come together to honor the power of shared space and creative community. \nReady to join us? Click ‘Purchase Tickets’[on top of picture] to RSVP (free) and we’ll save you food + drinks!\nAfternoon Performances (1:30–6:00 PM) \nDresher Ensemble Studio \n2:10 PM: Dresher Davel Invented Instruments Duo \n3:00 PM: Odd Savvy (puppet theater piece by Fred C Riley + Ian Erickson + Lisa Zagone) \n3:55 PM: dNaga Dance Co \n4:30 PM: Bjll Dingalls (Bill Hsu\, Tom Djill\, Matt Ingalls). \n4:45 PM: sfSound Group \n5:30 PM: Lisa Mezzacappa’s 5-ish (with Brett Carson\, Kyle Bruckmann\, Jordan Glenn\, Mark Clifford) \nLobby \nHands-on Interactive Installations: \nPaul Dresher & Daniel Schmidt’s Invented Instruments/Sound Sculptures\, and kinetic and interactive art by Sudhu Tewari. \n1:30 PM: Thingamajigs Performance Group \n2:35 PM: martha & monica (cello\, piano) performing Monica Scott’s More than Nine Minutes (2016) and Giacinto Scelsi’s To the Master. \n3:30 PM: Diane Grubbe & Frank Johnson (flute\, piano) performing Paul Dresher’s Waterfall \n3:45 PM: dNaga Dance Co. (photo: Catalina Jacksons Urueña by Mitch Tobias) \n4:10 PM: Brett Carson (piano) \nLoading Dock \n1:30-6:00 PM: John Sanborn (video art( \nEvening Concert – Dresher Ensemble Studio \nWest Oakland Sound Series (7:15 – 9:00 PM): \n– Saki Minamimoto (voice/poetry)\, Ben Goldberg\, Motoko Honda\, and Nathan Clevenger \n– Thollem (Thollem McDonas) with ROVA \nPlease note: For the West Oakland Sound Series\, tickets must be purchased either online in advance or at the door. \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/dresher-ensemble-studio-fest/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250817T191500
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SUMMARY:ERIC THEISE + ABIGAIL HINSON LARRY OCHS with FRED LONBERG-HOLM & BEN DAVIS
DESCRIPTION:In the perfect environment for close listening\, the two cellos and saxophone TRIO BEN DAVIS – FRED LONBERG-HOLM – LARRY OCHS invite you\, the avid listeners\, to join the musicians in enjoying their spontaneous but carefully sculpted music as it happens\, in real time. Through repeated performances\, musical discussions after shows and rehearsals\, this music slowly but confidently evolves. And the audience and the performance environment matter. There’s no more perfect environment than Paul Dresher’s studio space in which to hear the intimate improvisations that this trio hopes to deliver. \n  \nERIC THEISE presents a set of performances\, solo and in collaboration with ABIGAIL HINSON (movement) and local musicians. The concert involves an invented\, map-driven sound maker; dance improvisations over a map animation project onto the floor; and improvised cartography projected onto the back wall that responding to music and dance. Theise’s work was recently seen atop San Francisco’s Salesforce Tower Top.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/eric-theise-abigail-hinson-larry-ochs-fred-lonberg-holm-ben-davis/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250815T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250815T213000
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SUMMARY:Splinter Reeds
DESCRIPTION:Splinter Reeds\nWorks by Zachary James Watkins and Karola Obermüller\, and new commission Brume by Jean Carla Rodea \nCommissioned by Splinter Reeds with support from a Musical Grant Program award by Intermusic SF\, Brume is an immersive multimedia performance created by Jean Carla Rodea during her Dresher Ensemble Artist Residency. \nDrawing inspiration from breath in all its forms—from quiet\, intimate exhalations to the drifting fog over the Marin Headlands\, Brume explores air as both a bodily experience and an elemental force. Through spatialized sound\, light\, and video\, the piece transforms the performance space into a resonant\, living ecosystem. \nwww.jeancarlarodea.com \n \nKyle Bruckmann\, oboe | Bill Kalinkos\, clarinet | Dana Jessen\, bassoon | Nicki Roman\, saxophone | Jeff Anderle\, bass clarinet \nwww.splinterreeds.com
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/splinter-reeds/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250727T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250727T213000
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SUMMARY:ERNST KAREL: ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS THE GLITCH BLOOM + SADA
DESCRIPTION:ERNST KAREL: ATMOSPHERIC RIVERS\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nERNST KAREL presents his multichannel\, ongoing iterative work\, Atmospheric Rivers. This piece’s subject is a key component of the global water cycle: the enormous streams of concentrated water vapor which flow through the sky from the tropics towards the poles\, releasing heavy rain in high wind\, particularly in the western U.S\, and anticipated to increase in frequency and intensity with climate change. Performed in surround sound\, the piece consists of unprocessed stereo and multichannel location recordings of atmospheric rivers\, made over the past few years\, as they pass by our house at the rocky northern California coast. \nTHE GLITCH BLOOM + SADA\nTHE GLITCH BLOOM (EDA ER & DANNIEL RIBEIRO) operates in an indefinable musical territory where the lines between composed work\, improvisation\, and multimedia blur into a distinctive sonic fusion. Their artistic practice combines vocals\, electronic elements\, electric guitar\, and video with transducers\, unconventional playing techniques\, and sculptural objects\, establishing a fluid relationship between planned structure and spontaneous creation. Founded on mutual investigation of sound possibilities\, collaborative processes\, and multimedia integration\, Glitch Bloom embraces unexpected outcomes—where harsh sounds intermingle with melodic elements\, acoustic manipulations transform through electronic processing\, and sound manifests as both physical and transient. Their performances create immersive environments that explore the convergence of music\, physical movement\, and visual components to deliver an experience that defies traditional classification. \nSADA is a vocal duo between SARAH GRACE GRAVES and EDA ER\, both singers and composers who each stumbled upon experimental music somewhat unexpectedly: Graves began her artistic path as a choral singer\, Er as an actor. In combining Graves’ innocent virtuosity with Er’s disarming honesty\, the two hope to build a narrative\, aesthetic\, and technical habitat for stories only they can tell.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ernst-karel-atmospheric-rivers-the-glitch-bloom-sada/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250713T191500
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SUMMARY:GEORGE ROGERS + LORIN BENEDICT  LISA MEZZACAPPA 5(ISH)
DESCRIPTION:LISA MEZZACAPPA 5(ISH) \nBassist and composer LISA MEZZACAPPA (acoustic bass) brings her newest ensemble to the WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES in advance of its NYC debut at The Stone later this month. Mezzacappa’s previous works have drawn inspiration from Dashiell Hammett and Paul Auster’s lean noir crime novels and Italo Calvino’s hilarious and poignant Cosmicomics stories. Now she’s exploring the concept of worldbuilding in the otherwrldly cycle\, a suite of music inspired her fascination with the speculative fiction of Ursula Le Guin\, Haruki Murakami\, Samuel R. Delany\, and David Mitchell— as a way to envision new kinds of musical interaction\, storytelling\, structure and play. \nAARON BENNETT\, tenor saxophone\nKYLE BRUCKMANN\, oboes/modular synth\nMARK PASCUCCI-CLIFFORD\, vibraphone\nBRETT CARSON\, keyboard\nLISA MEZZACAPPA\, acoustic bass\nJORDAN GLENN\, drums \n____________________________ \nGEORGE ROGERS + LORIN BENEDICT \nGrand Prize winner of the 2025 Vandoren Emerging Artist competition\, GEORGE ROGERS is a saxophonist\, improviser\, composer\, teacher\, and facilitator from the San Francisco Bay Area\, currently based in Oberlin\, Ohio. Rogers—a mentee of saxophone legends Gary Bartz\, Justin Robinson\, and Dann Zinn—has performed at venues across the nation\, including Dizzy’s Club\, SFJAZZ\, LIBRETTO\, the Concord Jazz Festival\, the Vail Jazz Party\, and the Cleveland Museum of Art. Drawing inspiration from a diverse array of genres\, Rogers’s playing and composing styles blend elements of traditional\, modern\, and avant-garde jazz\, while also embracing influences from popular\, experimental\, and singer-songwriter music. For WEST OAKLAND SOUND SERIES\, Rogers joins LORIN BENEDICT\, an improvising vocalist (scat singer\, essentially) living in Emeryville\, California. Most of Lorin’s work in this area is centered loosely in the jazz idiom. Lorin has co-led small groups (duos\, trios) in which the roles of the musicians are somewhat mutable even in contexts where highly structured forms are being played. Examples include Bleeding Vector with Emeryville guitarist Eric Vogler\, and another duo project with east bay saxophonist Kasey Knudsen. Together\, these three musicians jointly lead the trio project\, The Holly Martins. He has also co-led duo projects with Helsinki-based drummer Sam Ospovat and LA-based musician Logan Kane.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/george-rogers-lorin-benedict-lisa-mezzacappa-5ish/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T210000
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SUMMARY:Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area\, dNaga Dance Co.\, directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma\, presents Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love\, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland\, July 10-12th\, 2025. \nJoin us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co.\, providing a unique pairing of dance\, bites\, and beverages. Driven by a longstanding collaborative team\, and celebrating its 24th year\, Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love offers a powerful and restorative evening. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks to match the exploration of grief\, fury\, grace\, and love will be included in the price of admission. \nIncluded in the evening is a suite of dances from Unbound\, which premiered at the Mondavi Center in October 2024 and was commissioned by the Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories Research Initiative (AAVOT). Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love is supported by individual donations and the generous support of Musical Traditions. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group. \n“Hard times require furious dancing” – Alice Walker. \nPhoto by Robbie Sweeny; Dancer: Raychel Hatch \nCAST & COLLABORATORS \nConceived and Directed by Claudine Naganuma \nChoreography by Claudine Naganuma and dNaga Dance Co. \nMusical Director and Composer: Joel Davel \nLighting and Technical Direction: Dale MacDonald \nVideo and Animation: Elmira Bagherzadeh \nDancers: Lihong Chan\, Mana Hayakowa\, Catalina Jackson-Uruena\, Erin Landers\, Leila Massoudi\, and Gabby Wei. \nABOUT dNaga Dance Co. \ndNaga Dance Co. started in 2001 and is rooted in creativity and community building. Through dance\, their mission is to explore that which challenges us and to uplift our commonalities in order to inspire compassion and hope. dNaga is licensed to offer the Dance for PD® program in Oakland and founded the GIRL Project at EastSide Cultural Center. dNaga’s community programs are driven by the cultivation of creativity and connection. By cultivating creative thinking\, we are directly affecting our ability to build new pathways to problem-solving. We can help to heal trauma\, interrupt systemic oppression\, and use art as a tool to liberate ourselves and our communities. dNaga is in residence at Danspace and its company members live in California and New York. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group based in San Francisco.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/tastes-like-bitterness-moves-like-love/2025-07-12/2/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250712T140000
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SUMMARY:Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area\, dNaga Dance Co.\, directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma\, presents Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love\, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland\, July 10-12th\, 2025. \nJoin us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co.\, providing a unique pairing of dance\, bites\, and beverages. Driven by a longstanding collaborative team\, and celebrating its 24th year\, Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love offers a powerful and restorative evening. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks to match the exploration of grief\, fury\, grace\, and love will be included in the price of admission. \nIncluded in the evening is a suite of dances from Unbound\, which premiered at the Mondavi Center in October 2024 and was commissioned by the Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories Research Initiative (AAVOT). Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love is supported by individual donations and the generous support of Musical Traditions. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group. \n“Hard times require furious dancing” – Alice Walker. \nPhoto by Robbie Sweeny; Dancer: Raychel Hatch \nCAST & COLLABORATORS \nConceived and Directed by Claudine Naganuma \nChoreography by Claudine Naganuma and dNaga Dance Co. \nMusical Director and Composer: Joel Davel \nLighting and Technical Direction: Dale MacDonald \nVideo and Animation: Elmira Bagherzadeh \nDancers: Lihong Chan\, Mana Hayakowa\, Catalina Jackson-Uruena\, Erin Landers\, Leila Massoudi\, and Gabby Wei. \nABOUT dNaga Dance Co. \ndNaga Dance Co. started in 2001 and is rooted in creativity and community building. Through dance\, their mission is to explore that which challenges us and to uplift our commonalities in order to inspire compassion and hope. dNaga is licensed to offer the Dance for PD® program in Oakland and founded the GIRL Project at EastSide Cultural Center. dNaga’s community programs are driven by the cultivation of creativity and connection. By cultivating creative thinking\, we are directly affecting our ability to build new pathways to problem-solving. We can help to heal trauma\, interrupt systemic oppression\, and use art as a tool to liberate ourselves and our communities. dNaga is in residence at Danspace and its company members live in California and New York. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group based in San Francisco.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/tastes-like-bitterness-moves-like-love/2025-07-12/1/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250711T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250711T210000
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SUMMARY:Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area\, dNaga Dance Co.\, directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma\, presents Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love\, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland\, July 10-12th\, 2025. \nJoin us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co.\, providing a unique pairing of dance\, bites\, and beverages. Driven by a longstanding collaborative team\, and celebrating its 24th year\, Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love offers a powerful and restorative evening. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks to match the exploration of grief\, fury\, grace\, and love will be included in the price of admission. \nIncluded in the evening is a suite of dances from Unbound\, which premiered at the Mondavi Center in October 2024 and was commissioned by the Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories Research Initiative (AAVOT). Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love is supported by individual donations and the generous support of Musical Traditions. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group. \n“Hard times require furious dancing” – Alice Walker. \nPhoto by Robbie Sweeny; Dancer: Raychel Hatch \nCAST & COLLABORATORS \nConceived and Directed by Claudine Naganuma \nChoreography by Claudine Naganuma and dNaga Dance Co. \nMusical Director and Composer: Joel Davel \nLighting and Technical Direction: Dale MacDonald \nVideo and Animation: Elmira Bagherzadeh \nDancers: Lihong Chan\, Mana Hayakowa\, Catalina Jackson-Uruena\, Erin Landers\, Leila Massoudi\, and Gabby Wei. \nABOUT dNaga Dance Co. \ndNaga Dance Co. started in 2001 and is rooted in creativity and community building. Through dance\, their mission is to explore that which challenges us and to uplift our commonalities in order to inspire compassion and hope. dNaga is licensed to offer the Dance for PD® program in Oakland and founded the GIRL Project at EastSide Cultural Center. dNaga’s community programs are driven by the cultivation of creativity and connection. By cultivating creative thinking\, we are directly affecting our ability to build new pathways to problem-solving. We can help to heal trauma\, interrupt systemic oppression\, and use art as a tool to liberate ourselves and our communities. dNaga is in residence at Danspace and its company members live in California and New York. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group based in San Francisco.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/tastes-like-bitterness-moves-like-love/2025-07-11/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250710T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250710T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T233515
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SUMMARY:Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating its 24th year of dance making in the Bay Area\, dNaga Dance Co.\, directed and choreographed by Claudine Naganuma\, presents Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love\, at the Dresher Ensemble Studio in West Oakland\, July 10-12th\, 2025. \nJoin us for an exclusive performance of dNaga Dance Co.\, providing a unique pairing of dance\, bites\, and beverages. Driven by a longstanding collaborative team\, and celebrating its 24th year\, Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love offers a powerful and restorative evening. Hors d’oeuvres and drinks to match the exploration of grief\, fury\, grace\, and love will be included in the price of admission. \nIncluded in the evening is a suite of dances from Unbound\, which premiered at the Mondavi Center in October 2024 and was commissioned by the Anti-Asian Violence: Origins and Trajectories Research Initiative (AAVOT). Tastes Like Bitterness\, Moves Like Love is supported by individual donations and the generous support of Musical Traditions. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group. \n“Hard times require furious dancing” – Alice Walker. \nPhoto by Robbie Sweeny; Dancer: Raychel Hatch \nCAST & COLLABORATORS \nConceived and Directed by Claudine Naganuma \nChoreography by Claudine Naganuma and dNaga Dance Co. \nMusical Director and Composer: Joel Davel \nLighting and Technical Direction: Dale MacDonald \nVideo and Animation: Elmira Bagherzadeh \nDancers: Lihong Chan\, Mana Hayakowa\, Catalina Jackson-Uruena\, Erin Landers\, Leila Massoudi\, and Gabby Wei. \nABOUT dNaga Dance Co. \ndNaga Dance Co. started in 2001 and is rooted in creativity and community building. Through dance\, their mission is to explore that which challenges us and to uplift our commonalities in order to inspire compassion and hope. dNaga is licensed to offer the Dance for PD® program in Oakland and founded the GIRL Project at EastSide Cultural Center. dNaga’s community programs are driven by the cultivation of creativity and connection. By cultivating creative thinking\, we are directly affecting our ability to build new pathways to problem-solving. We can help to heal trauma\, interrupt systemic oppression\, and use art as a tool to liberate ourselves and our communities. dNaga is in residence at Danspace and its company members live in California and New York. dNaga Dance Co. is fiscally sponsored by Dancers’ Group based in San Francisco.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/tastes-like-bitterness-moves-like-love/2025-07-10/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250517T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250517T210000
DTSTAMP:20260430T233515
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SUMMARY:Ninaad
DESCRIPTION:This evening’s performances will showcase two forms of dance within the Odissi repertoire — Nritta or pure dance\, usually a lyrical composition celebrating a season or a mood\, and Nritya or expressive dance where the dancers use movement and expression to narrate a story\, usually from Hindu mythology.\n\nThe dancers will perform a mix of Guru Swain’s unique choreographies\, which honor the Odissi form and traditions but offer fresh executions of this exquisite and ancient Indian classical dance form\, as well as traditional items from the Odissi repertoire.\n\nSamir Kumar Panigrahi\, Santosh Ram\, Roji Swain\, and Debashree Patnaik are award-winning principal dancers with the Bhubaneswar-based disciples of Guru Shree Bichitrananda Swain\, founder-director of Rudrakshya Foundation. A must-see for lovers of Indian classical dance and cultural storytelling.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ninaad/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250511T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250511T213000
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SUMMARY:Adam Lion (solo vibraphone)sfSoundGroup performs Lucier and Erickson
DESCRIPTION:Adam Lion (Solo Vibraphone)   \nsfSoundGroup performs Lucier and Erickson \n\nAdam Lion: Los Angeles-based percussionist presents his new vibraphone album “When a Line Bends\,” a study on acoustic phenomena and the possibilities of sound.​\nsfSoundGroup: Performing Alvin Lucier’s “Two Circles” (2012) and Robert Erickson’s “Pacific Sirens” (1969)\, featuring performers Sam Weiser (violin)\, Monica Scott (cello)\, Kjell Nordeson (percussion)\, Lisa Mezzacappa (bass)\, Hadley McCarroll (piano)\, Brendan Lai-Tong (trombone)\, John Ingle (saxophone)\, Matt Ingalls (clarinet)\, and Diane Grubbe (flute).​
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/adam-lion-solo-vibraphonesfsoundgroup-performs-lucier-and-erickson/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250504T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T233515
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SUMMARY:Double CD Release Show: "Cracking the Surface" & "Jongleurs"
DESCRIPTION:Cracking the Surface: Featuring David Michalak (instruments of skatch)\, Scott Looney (piano\, hyper-piano)\, and Thomas Dimuzio (Buchla 200E\, processing). This performance celebrates their new release recorded at Fantasy Studios with Tom Nunn\, marking his last recording.​\nChris Brown & Ben Davis: Celebrating the release of “Jongleurs\,” this duo explores free improvisation with influences from classical contemporary music\, utilizing just intonation\, noise\, and live interactive electronics.
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/double-cd-release-show-cracking-the-surface-jongleurs/
LOCATION:Dresher Ensemble Studio\, 2201 Poplar Street\, Oakland\, CA\, 94607\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250419T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250419T220000
DTSTAMP:20260430T233515
CREATED:20250418T193237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250418T193237Z
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SUMMARY:Indonesia & India in California Festival
DESCRIPTION:Celebrating 50 Years of
Cultural Bridges\n\n\n\n\nThe Indonesia & India in California Festival will celebrate the  history of these performing arts traditions as practiced in California and the SF Bay Area for over fifty years. Popular interest in culturally rich South and Southeast Asian art performance emerged in the 1960s through early 1970s through awareness of Southeast Asia\, catapulted by concerns for the Vietnamese War. The interest in Indian culture and traditional arts manifested in pop culture in music\, decorative arts\, practice of meditation and yoga\, dance and theater. \n\n11:00 AM – 5:00 PM \nFree Performances and Workshops \nFree Performances celebrating the 50-year history of Indonesian and Indian art performance in the Bay Area and learn more about the 4th and 1st largest countries in the world. Enjoy the UCB-based Sari Raras courtly gamelan bronze percussion ensemble\, followed by a lively set of West Javanese music & dance. Participate in one of the family-friendly mask and puppetry workshops while learning about the Hindu mythology shared over the centuries by India and Indonesia. Enjoy Oakland’s Bali-influenced rock ensemble\, Purnamasari\, and dances by Lestari Dance Company (Java) and Kompiang Davies (Bali). Join a Body Tjak (contemporary Balinese kecak) rhythm workshop by Oakland artist Keith Terry\, Crosspulse. Enjoy classical Bharata Natyam and other traditional South Indian dances presented by the Bala Dance Center and Kalanjali Dances of India\, both based in the East Bay for 50 years. \n6:30 PM – 10:00 PM\nEvening Concerts (tickets required) \nFormal Virtuoso Music and Dance Concert\, featuring Indian music(sarod and tabla) by Manik Khan\, youngest son of the legendary maestro Ali Akbar Khan who founded the Ali Akbar Khan School of Music in Berkeley in 1967 (since 1968 in Marin County). Enjoy music and dance by the San Jose-based Gamelan Pusaka Sunda Degung ensemble(West Java)\, followed by Balinese music and dance by Gamelan Sekar Jaya. Founded in 1979 in Berkeley\, GSJ has won numerous awards from the Government in Bali for their exemplary Gong Kebyar ensemble. (tickets required)
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/indonesia-india-in-california-festival/
LOCATION:Crowden Music Center\, 1475 Rose St\, Berkeley\, 94702\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241208T160000
DTSTAMP:20260430T233515
CREATED:20241025T005447Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T190559Z
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation : Ghost Quartet Synopsis and Cast \nTickets : odc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \nLicensing\nGhost Quartet is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency. Originally developed and arranged by Ghost Quartet (Brent Arnold\, Brittain Ashford\, Gelsey Bell\, Dave Malloy)\, Annie Tippe\, and Christopher Bowser. \nInstitutional Support\nGhost Quartet performances\, presented as an integral offering of New Performance Traditions’ San Francisco season\, are made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation. \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet/2024-12-08/
LOCATION:ODC B.Way Theater\, 3153 17th Street\, San Francisco\, CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241207T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241207T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T233515
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation : Ghost Quartet Synopsis and Cast \nTickets : odc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \nLicensing\nGhost Quartet is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency. Originally developed and arranged by Ghost Quartet (Brent Arnold\, Brittain Ashford\, Gelsey Bell\, Dave Malloy)\, Annie Tippe\, and Christopher Bowser. \nInstitutional Support\nGhost Quartet performances\, presented as an integral offering of New Performance Traditions’ San Francisco season\, are made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation. \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet/2024-12-07/
LOCATION:ODC B.Way Theater\, 3153 17th Street\, San Francisco\, CA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241206T213000
DTSTAMP:20260430T233515
CREATED:20241025T005447Z
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation : Ghost Quartet Synopsis and Cast \nTickets : odc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \nLicensing\nGhost Quartet is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency. Originally developed and arranged by Ghost Quartet (Brent Arnold\, Brittain Ashford\, Gelsey Bell\, Dave Malloy)\, Annie Tippe\, and Christopher Bowser. \nInstitutional Support\nGhost Quartet performances\, presented as an integral offering of New Performance Traditions’ San Francisco season\, are made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation. \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet/2024-12-06/
LOCATION:ODC B.Way Theater\, 3153 17th Street\, San Francisco\, CA
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation : Ghost Quartet Synopsis and Cast \nTickets : odc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \nLicensing\nGhost Quartet is presented by special arrangement with United Talent Agency. Originally developed and arranged by Ghost Quartet (Brent Arnold\, Brittain Ashford\, Gelsey Bell\, Dave Malloy)\, Annie Tippe\, and Christopher Bowser. \nInstitutional Support\nGhost Quartet performances\, presented as an integral offering of New Performance Traditions’ San Francisco season\, are made possible through the generous support of the San Francisco Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation. \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet/2024-12-05/
LOCATION:ODC B.Way Theater\, 3153 17th Street\, San Francisco\, CA
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-24/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-23/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-22/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-21/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-17/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-16/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-15/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-14/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-10/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-09/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-08/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-07/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ghost Quartet
DESCRIPTION:Dave Malloy music\, lyrics\, and text – William Thomas Hodgson director \nRinde Eckert TENOR piano – organ – slide guitar – percussion\nMonica Rose Slater SOPRANO glockenspiel – accordion – harp – percussion\nAmi Nashimoto SOPRANO cello – ukulele – erhu – percussion\nVeronica Renner ALTO accordion – autoharp – percussion\nMichael Perez BARITONE percussion \nDave Malloy’s quirky and wondrous ghost story musical is as life-affirming as it is astounding. The piece is author-described as “a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey” in which “a camera breaks and four friends drink in four interwoven narratives spanning seven centuries.” \nAudiences won’t want to miss this stunning musical from the creator whose work has recently delighted Bay Area audiences at Berkeley Rep (Octet) and Shotgun Players (Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812). Ghost Quartet is considered Malloy’s most enchanting work. \nIn partnership with Oakland Theater Project\, this production will be performed at 7:30 PM [Thursday|Friday|Saturday] and 2:00 PM on Sunday. \nOakland from November 1 to 24\nOakland Theater Project\n1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way – Oakland \nSan Francisco from December 5 to 8\nODC B. Way Theater\n3153 17th Street – San Francisco \nInformation and tickets\noaklandtheaterproject.org/ghost\nodc.dance/ghost-quartet \nTickets $60 ● $35 ● PWYC $20 ● $10 \nA co-production between New Performance Traditions—an initiative of the Paul Dresher Ensemble—and Oakland Theater Project. The performances in San Francisco are supported in part by Grants for the Arts\, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation\, and the Bernard Osher Foundation \n\nDave Malloy – music\, lyrics\, and text\nShow More\nHe has written thirteen musicals\, including Octet\, a chamber choir musical about internet addiction; Natasha\, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812\, an electropop opera based on a slice of Tolstoy’s War & Peace (12 Tony nominations\, including Best Musical\, Score\, Book\, and Orchestrations); Ghost Quartet\, a song cycle about love\, death\, and whiskey; Preludes\, a musical fantasia set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff; Little Bunny Foo Foo\, a forest entertainment for small people; Three Pianos\, a drunken romp through Schubert’s “Winterreise”. \nHe has won two Obie Awards\, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award\, a Theater World Award\, the Richard Rodgers Award\, an ASCAP New Horizons Award\, and a Jonathan Larson Grant. He has been a MacDowell fellow and Composer-in-Residence at Ars Nova and the Signature Theatre.\n\nWilliam Thomas Hodgson – Director\nShow MoreWILLIAM THOMAS HODGSON (Director) has made theater with Berkeley Playhouse since 2010. William is an actor\, director\, and educator based in Oakland\, CA. He received his MFA from UC San Diego and is the Co-Artistic Director of the Oakland Theater Project. Other directing credits include Ragtime\, Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse)\, Red Red Red (Oakland Theater Project)\, and Passing Strange (Shotgun Players). Acting credits include Every Brilliant Thing (Center REP)\, An Octoroon (Mixed Blood Theatre)\, I Am My Own Wife (Oakland Theater Project)\, Cyrano (Aurora Theatre Company)\, Shrek The Musical (Sierra Repertory Theatre)\, Mrs. Christie (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley)\, It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Repertory Theatre)\, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (La Jolla Playhouse)\, As a movement director\, William has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Tempest)\, TheatreWorks (Little Shop of Horrors)\, CenterRep (Red Bike).\n\nRinde Eckert – Tenor\npiano\, organ\, slide guitar\, percussion\, vocals\nShow More\nRinde is a writer\, composer\, librettist\, musician\, performer and director. His opera / new music theater productions have toured throughout America and to major European and Asian theater festivals. With a virtuosic command of gesture\, language\, and song\, this total theater artist moves beyond the boundaries of what a ‘play\,’ a ‘dance piece\,’ an ‘opera\,’ or ‘a musical’ might be in the service of grappling with complex issues. \nWriting and directing credits include The Schick Machine\, a solo theater work for percussionist Steven Schick composed/produced by Paul Dresher. As a composer\, Eckert composed dance scores for choreographers Sarah Shelton Mann and Margaret Jenkins\, including the evening-length Woman\, Window\, and Square for The Margaret Jenkins Dance Company. \nEckert’s work has been produced in New York by the Foundry Theatre\, Culture Project\, Theater for a New Audience\, and the New York Theatre Workshop. American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge\, Center Stage in Baltimore\, Cleveland’s Dobama Theatre Company\, REDCAT in Los Angeles at the Roy& Edna Disney/CalArts Theater\, and Berkeley Repertory Theater have also produced his work. In 2012\, he was named an inaugural Doris Duke Artist. He was honored to receive the 2009 Alpert Award in the Arts for Theatre\, a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship\, and The American Academy of Arts and Letters 2005 Marc Blitzstein Award. In 2007\, Rinde Eckert was the finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.\n\nAmi Nashimoto – Soprano\ncello\, ukulele\, erhu\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreAmi Nashimoto (she/they) is a cellist\, composer\, arranger\, teacher\, multi-instrumentalist and San Francisco native. They’ve been a prominent member of the Bay Area musical theater scene since 2010 and have played in such original productions as Larry the Musical\, Coming Soon\, The Beat Goes On\, and with companies including Shotgun Players\, 42nd Street Moon\, SF Playhouse\, and Transcendence Theatre Company. Ami also performs classical repertoire with Peninsula Symphony and Golden Gate Symphony\, as well as pop arrangements with groups including Eclecta Quartet\, Vybe Society\, and Lucky Devils Band. Ami is excited to bring her many musical talents to the stage for Ghost Quartet.\n\nVeronica Renner – Alto\naccordion\, autoharp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreVeronica is a multi-hyphenate creative. She received her BA in Theatre with Honors in Acting from the University of California\, Irvine. She continues her education by pursuing an MA in Drama Therapy from the California Institute of Integral Studies. She is excited to return to Malloy after performing as Sonya in Natasha\, Pierre\, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Shotgun Players). Her favorite roles include Sarah in Company\, Leonide in Triumph of Love\, and Li’l Bit in How I Learned to Drive. She would be a skeleton if she were to be any kind of dead guy. Love to Aaron and Nomu. veronicarenner.com\n\nMonica Rose Slater – Soprano\nglockenspiel\, accordion\, harp\, percussion\, vocals\nShow MoreMonica Rose Slater is a Brazilian-American singer-actor-educator. Since her cross-country move from Virginia to San Francisco in 2021\, Monica has performed with Word for Word (Who’s-Dead McCarthy\, readings of Paradise and Annunciation)\, Cinnabar Theater (Oklahoma!\, The Sound of Music)\, 42nd Street Moon (She Loves Me\, Falsettos)\, Lamplighters Music Theatre (The Mystery of Edwin Drood\, Iolanthe)\, Berkeley Playhouse (Cinderella)\, Pocket Opera (Traviata)\, and Foothills Music Theater (Violet). \nMonica has an MM from San Francisco Conservatory\, where she studied opera\, and a BM from James Madison University\, where she studied music and writing. \nAlongside her theatrical career\, Monica has a private voice studio and works with the non-profit Music Education for Everyone. In her free time\, you’ll find her rollerblading\, painting impressionistic landscapes\, and writing creative non-fiction. She sends out hearty\, loving thank-yous to her parents\, Vovó e Vovô\, Tia Liane\, and Glenny\, for their incessant support. \nGet in touch on IG @monicaroseslater and www.monicaroseslater.com! \n\n\nMichael Perez – Baritone\npercussion\nShow MoreMichael Perez\, an actor and musician from Houston\, TX\, is thrilled to be making his Oakland Theater project musical debut in Ghost Quartet. Perez studied Acting at The Academy of Art University\, and previous theater work includes American Idiot (42nd St Moon)\, The Music Man (Queensbury Theater)\, What in Tarnation? (Exit Theater)\, Hair (AAU School of Acting)\, and The Barbary Coast Revue: Season 3. Perez is ecstatic to be a new addition to the OTP family. This show is dedicated to his loving family and his late little brother Matthew.\n  \n 
URL:https://dresherensemble.org/event/ghost-quartet-2/2024-11-03/
LOCATION:Oakland Theater Project\, 1501 Martin Luther King Jr. Way\, Oakland\, CA\, 94612\, United States
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