foolsFURY

Production History, 1998 - 2020:

Note that there are dozens of workshop productions, staged readings, and incubator projects that are not included below. This is only the fully produced projects or, in the case of significant works that never made it to “full” production, the last significant showing to date.

1998 The Possibilities (The Next Stage, SF)
By Howard Barker
Directed by Ben Yalom 

1999 Jacques and his Master (The Next Stage, SF)
Adapted from Diderot by Milan Kundera
Directed by Ben Yalom 

2000/2001 The Illusion (Gurdjieff Center, SF & remount at Marin Theater Company)
Adapted from Corneille by Tony Kushner
Directed by Ben Yalom

2001 Midnight Brainwash Revival* (Gurdjieff Center, SF)
By Kirk Wood Bromley
Directed by Ben Yalom (Gurdjieff Center, SF)

2002 Attempts on Her Life** (Gurdjieff Center, SF)
By Martin Crimp
Directed by Ben Yalom

2003 The Dreamstealers* (Exit Theater, SF)
By Stephen Jacob
Directed by Ben Yalom

2003 Attempts on Her Life** (remount: Val’s, Berkeley, Dell’Arte, Blue Lake)
By Martin Crimp
Directed by Ben Yalom

2003 Out at Sea/The Party (The Next Stage, SF)
By Slawomir Mrozek
Directed by Rod Hipskind and Ben Yalom 

2004 Valparaiso (Ashby Stage, Berkeley & Exit on Taylor, SF)
By Don DeLillo
Directed by Ben Yalom

2005 The Jenson Files* (Traveling Jewish Theatre, SF)
By Ben Yalom
Directed by Ben Yalom 

2005 FURY Factory #1

2005 Lifting Belly (incubator) (Traveling Jewish Theater, SF/ FURY Factory) 
By Gertrude Stein
Directed by Marissa Wolf

2005 Monster in the Dark* – devising project with Shotgun @ Ashby Stage, Berkeley
By Doug Dorst and foolsFURY
Directed by Ben Yalom

2006 and 2007 The Devil on All Sides** (TJT, SF and PS122, NY)
By Fabrice Melquiot
Directed and translated by Ben Yalom

2006 Big Love (TJT, SF)
By Chuck Mee
Directed by Laley Lippard

2007 Twelfth Night / What You Will (TJT, SF)
By Shakespeare 
Directed by Rod Hipskind

2007 Apartment (incubator)
Created and directed by Mia Rovegno

2007 FURY Factory #2

2007 Turn of the Screw (TJT, SF and The Garage, Fringe Festival SF)
By Henry James, adapted by Jeffrey Hatcher
Directed by Rod Hipskind

2008 Monster in the Dark* (Ashby Stage, Berkeley & CoutnerPulse, SF)
By Doug Dorst and foolsFURY
Directed by Ben Yalom 

2009 All You Can Eat* (TJT, SF)
By Steve Morgan Haskell
Directed by Steve Morgan Haskell

2009 FURY Factory #3
Including (R)evolution X (incubator) by Doug Dourst/foolsFURY

2010 Port Out, Starboard Home (@ Playwrights Festival, Thick Description, SF)
By Sheila Callaghan and foolsFURY
Directed by Ben Yalom 

2011 FURY Factory #4

2012 Port Out, Starboard Home* (Z Space, SF, La Mama, NYC)
By Sheila Callaghan and foolsFURY
Directed by Ben Yalom

2013 Factory Parts summer devised work series (ACT Costume Shop, and TJT, SF)
Including foolsFURY works:

The Seeing Place
By Elizabeth Spreen, Debórah Eliezer, and foolsFURY

Baden Powell Wars
By Steve Morgan Haskell, directed by Steve Morgan Haskell

2014 FURY Factory #5

2014 Faulted* (Potrero Playhouse, SF)
By Angella Santillo
Directed by Evren Odcikin

2015 The Unheard of World (Exit Theater)
By Fabrice Melquiot
Directed and translated by Michelle Haner

2016 Group:Solo new plays in development
By Debórah Eliezer, Michelle Haner, and Brian Livingston
Directed by Ben Yalom

2016 FURY Factory #6

2017 Role Call: New Plays by foolsFURY Women (NOH Space, SF)
(dis)Place[d] by Debórah Eliezer, directed by Ben Yalom
Sheryl, Hamlet, and Me by Michelle Haner, directed by Ben Yalom

2018 FURY Factory #7

2018-present Further developing, performing, and touring of:
(dis)Place[d] by Debórah Eliezer
Directed by Ben Yalom

2019 Dionysus Was Such A Nice Man
By Kate Tarker
Directed by Ben Yalom

2020 – Library Project – being developed
By Katie Pearl and foolsFURY