Erin
Gilley (Director) Fiction is Erin's Dragon Productions
debut. Previous directing credits include: The Speakeasy
and Equus [Boxcar Theatre]; Turning Tricks and Counting
in Sha'ab [Golden Thread's ReOrient festival]; digital theatre
productions Longitude and Peek A Boo [London
International Festival Theatre]; The Technology Cave in Taylor
Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge [Magic Theatre]; The
Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Deal and Beautiful [elastic
future]; Wreckage by Caridad Svich [Crowded Fire]; The
Woods by David Mamet [Theatre in the Woods]; Criminal Genius by
George Walker and Making Noise Quietly by Robert Holman
[TheatreFirst]. Assistant directing credits include: 12 Angry Men [Bill
Kenwright, West End]; The Life of Galileo [Birmingham
Rep/Royal Shakespeare Company]; Khandan [Birmingham
Rep/Royal Court Theatre]. Erin studied theatre as an undergraduate at
Princeton University and received her MFA from Birkbeck, University of London.
David
Koppel* (Stage Manager) returns to the Dragon Productions where he last
appeared as Jerry in the 2012 production of Harold Pinter's Betrayal directed
by Jenny Hollingworth. David has performed and stage managed with a number of
Bay Area theatre companies and beyond. In 2015, he staged managed The
Elephant Man at Brava! Theatre in San Francisco and will stage manage
the Jewish Circle Theatre's original production of Love Sick at
Berkeley's Osher Theatre in January. David recently played Flanders
Kittredge in Western Stage's production of Six Degrees of Separation. He
has performed with the Yale Rep, Playwrights Horizons, Cutting Ball, Bellarmine
Alumni Theatre, TheatreFirst, and Crowded Fire. In 2008, David founded
the San Jose "Shakespeare on the Square Festival" dedicated to
multicultural classical and contemporary productions. He serves as an
education coordinator with the Palo Alto Children's Theatre and as a consultant
for San Jose's Hammer Theatre. David received his M.F.A. in acting from
the Yale School of Drama.
Linsey Almassey (Assistant Stage
Manager) is a senior at Notre Dame de Namur University where she is getting her BA in theatre arts with a concentration on performance. She has performed in multiple university productions including Dracula, A Christmas Carol, Picasso at the Lapine Agile, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Linsey received an Irene Ryan Acting Scholarship nomination for her performance in Almost, Maine, and another for her recent performance in The Amateurs. She is currently a production assistant and technician at Palo Alto Children's Theatre and has worked with multiple professional theatre companies in the Bay Area including American Conservatory Theater, Marin Theater Company, and here at the Dragon! Linsey plans to attend graduate school and switch her future endeavors from acting to production management.
Jesse
Ploog (Scenic Designer) Fiction is Jesse’s final show
in the Bay area. After graduating from the University of Arizona in 2015, she
moved here and quickly became a regular part of Dragon’s team. Jesse has been a
variety of rolls at Dragon such as Scenic Designer for Voice of the
Prairie, Sunlight, and On The Verge, Stage Manager
for Sunlight, Too Much Too Much Too Many ,and Wild Boy,
and ASM for The Birthday Party, Take Me Out, Voice of the
Prairie, and Or, as well as other shows throughout
the South Bay. In January, Jesse will be moving back to Phoenix to
begin her Master’s Degree in Secondary Education to become a High School
Theatre Teacher. She would like to thank her wonderfully supportive fiancé, the
Dragon staff for an amazing two years of work, and all of the other people here
who have helped shape her into the artist she is today.
Charles
McKeithan (Master Carpenter) has been working in Bay Area theater for over
tenyears now as an actor and a carpenter and is happy to be back with the Dragon
for another round of fun. His past works include Voice of the Prarie at
the Dragon, Walls of Jericho at the
Pear, Collosus at SF Playhouse, and countless productions with Ron
Gaspernetti under the guise of Thrust Scenic Design.
Dan
Garrett (Lighting Designer) is
excited to join the cast and crew bringing you Fiction. This is his fourth show with Dragon Productions and brings
his twelve years of technical theater experience to Redwood City. A native of
the Santa Cruz area, he has supported over eighty productions with twenty
different companies in a dozen venues with all aspects of technical work from
light to flight. Recent credits include master carpenter for Santa Cruz
Shakespeare, lighting designer for Spotlight Youth Conservatory’s A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum and lead flight operator for Cabrillo Stage’s
Mary Poppins. linkedin.com/in/dangarrett
Marc
Blinder (Sound Designer) Fiction is Marc’s first sound design project for Dragon
Productions. Prior to Fiction, he was a co-founder of elastic future and
spent fifteen years doing sound designs for directors Erin Gilley and Evren
Odcikin, including The Unauthorized Autobiography of Kim Deal, Equus and A
Midsummer Night’s Dream. To pay the bills, Marc spent the last 10
years in tech working at various startups in San Francisco and London.
Patricia
Austin (Costume Designer) Patricia Austin makes her Dragon Productions
design debut with Fiction. Other
production designs include Fancy Nancy,
the Musical, Beauty and the Beast, Elf Jr., and A Midsummer Night’s Dream all with Bay Area Children’s Theatre.
Trish also serves as the Costume Coordinator at Aurora Theatre. Much love and
gratitude to Tripp, LJ, and Dragon Productions for this opportunity. Go
#mixtape.
