nicky martinez

THEY/THEM

Nicky Martinez is a Latiné genderfluid theatre activist who was born and raised in San Francisco. They have a BA in Performing Arts and Social Justice from the University of San Francisco. They are a solo performing artist, poet, published playwright, and visual artist. In their art, they focus on social issues like having queer and trans identities, racial inequities, mental health, and femme rights. They currently work at Theatre Bay Area as a Program and Grants Coordinator and are involved with several ensemble companies like FoolsFURY, Ragged Wing, You Don't Know Me, and others.

Joshua Waterstone

HE/HIM

Joshua Waterstone is an ensemble member working with FoolsFURY as a performer, fight choreographer, teaching artist and in digital production, marketing, media and administration. Past FoolsFURY projects are Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man by Kate Tarker, Build From Here: The Future of Ensemble Theatre, and Celebration Provocation. Joshua believes that theatre arts curricula and programming are not only useful, but essential in bringing voice to historically marginalized populations. Joshua participates in multiple economic and social justice initiatives in the Bay Area as part of TASC (Theatres Advancing Social Change) Theatre Bay Area cohort along with the cohort Pathways to Belonging: Building Anti-Racist Practices at Your Theatre and believes that self awareness and growth as well as ensemble practice is a pathway to social change..

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debórah eliezer

SHE/HER

Debórah Eliezer is the Artistic Director of foolsFURY Theater, an Associate Member of Golden Thread, and an artEquity Arts Facilitator Alum. Passionate about the power of human transformation, her work focuses on disrupting assumptions about art, human values and society.  An arts administrator, theater maker and cultural provocateur, she creates with a focus on ensemble collaboration. Passionate about the power of community, her work focuses on disrupting assumptions about the relationship to art, human values and society.  With foolsFURY, Eliezer has created and performed in world premieres: Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man, by Kate Tarker, * (dis)Place[d] (writer/performer), The Unheard of World by Fabrice Melquiot,  Faulted by Angela Santillo, Port Out Starboard Home with Sheila Callaghan, Monster in the Dark with Doug Dorst, The Devil on All Sides by Fabrice Melquiot,  All You Can Eat by Steven Morgan Haskell, and The Jensen Files by Ben Yalom.

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Mercilee Jenkins

SHE/HER

Dr. Mercilee Jenkins is a Professor Emerita of Communication Studies at San Francisco State University. Her teaching, research and creative work are informed by feminist theory and critical ethnography, and she considers performance an essential way of making social change. She focuses on the intersectionalities of social constructions such as gender, sexuality, race, class and age as rich material for her art and life. Her most recent academic publication is the lead chapter she co-authored with Dr. Karen Lovaas in Queer Communication Pedagogy. Her solo performance pieces and plays addressing social issues include her latest effort, “My First Boss,” presented at The Marsh International Solo Performance Festival and “Winning," published in The Best American Shorts Plays 2014-2015. Her full-length play, Spirit of Detroit focusing on the 1967 rebellion/riot was presented in Detroit at The Wright Museum of African American History. She is also a poet whose poem, “Peonies in a Pandemic” was recently published in the San Francisco Chronicle. She is currently part of the writing team for 3 Girls Theatre’s "The Sins And Secrets Of Tabard Lake, a pandemic radio play whodunit.”

LUCINDA OTTO

SHE/HER

Lucinda Otto launched her theatre career as a Munchkin in the Los Altos Community Theatre production of The Wizard of Oz at the age of 5. Trained in ensemble theatre with Mary Overlie at NYU’s Experimental Theatre Wing, Lucinda taught creative drama and directed young performers for many years in San Francisco. As a director and playwright she wrote and produced over 20 plays for young audiences. Her first adult play, Threshold, had its World Premiere at the FURYFactory Festival in 2011. Lucinda has a strong background in arts advocacy and community organizing and has served on several nonprofit boards as well as on the faculty at San Francisco State. She currently works for Corcoran Global Living, helping people buy and sell homes in San Francisco and Marin County. She has a BFA in Drama from NYU and an MA in Arts Education from Stanford University.