SHELLEY MITCHELL –
Performer/Adapter/Teacher
Shelley Mitchell, first adapted Gitta Mallasz's TALKING WITH ANGELS as a one act play for the 2000 San Francisco Fringe Theater Festival. After winning "Best" of the Festival Mitchell performed at San Francisco’s Magic Theater. Encouraged by the overwhelmingly emotional and positive audience response Mitchell scheduled five showcase performances starting September 19, 2001 in New York City. With the tragedy that occurred on the 11th, Mitchell and Robin Fontaine (the play's director) knew the play’s message would resonate deeply with New Yorkers. Given the uncertainty of air travel they drove from S.F. to NYC in three days to open the play as scheduled at the Milagro Theater on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Despite the panic on Broadway the show sold out and TALKING WITH ANGELS was invited back to NYC in May of 2002, funded in part by the Lifebridge Foundation and sponsored by Parabola Magazine. Since then Mitchell has performed TALKING WITH ANGELS over 200 times at various theatres on both the East and West Coast and in Ireland at the Dublin International Theatre Festival. Click here for a complete list.

  
Shelley Mitchell was nominated as Best solo performer by the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle in 1999 for Estelle Parson’s adaptation of Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo and Franca Rame’s ORGASMO ADULTO ESCAPES FROM THE ZOO. She trained in New York City with Lee Strasberg and is a graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School. She is also an alumna of Emerson College in Boston and New York University. Shelley Mitchell is artistic director of The Actors Center of San Francisco where she teaches film and theater acting. www.shelleymitchell.org

 

ROBIN FONTAINE – Director
Robin Fontaine is a producer with Reardon Films in San Francisco. She received her training in New York at Fordham University's Directing Program under OBIE award-winner Lawrence Sacharow, and then under Anne Bogart at the Saratoga International Theatre Institute. She then moved to LA, where she led an ongoing experimental movement workshop, and assistant directed the world premiere of Richard Greenberg's "Three Days of Rain" at South Coast Repertory Theatre. In Sacramento, she produced and directed "Deus ex Quanta", a darkly comic exploration of quantum physics as it relates to homicide investigation. In August of 1998, she began an eighteen-month tour of Europe as a performer with English Eurythmy Theatre in their latest collaborative performance piece, "Don't I Know You?". In 2004 she directed a contemporary film version of Chekhov’s THE SEAGULL. Robin has directed Shelley Mitchell’s one woman production of TALKING WITH ANGELS since its debut in July 2001.

TOMOMI ITAKURA – Set Designer
Tomomi Itakkura studied theatre and architecture at UC Berkeley. In the Bay Area she designed for the San Jose Repetory Company and Word for Word in San Francisco. She is currently at Harvard University's Gradute School of Design studying architecture.

SCOTT THIESSEN – Sound Designer


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