Wanda's Picks Radio Show Special featuring Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe, dir. SF Mime Troup's Seeing Red
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1. SF Mime Troupe opens July 4, at Dolores Park in SF with Seeing Red, written by Rotimi Agbabiaka with Joan Holden, directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
Bay Area Opening WeekendDolores Park at 19th St. Dolores Street, San Francisco, Wed, Jul 4th @ 2:00 PM (Music 1:30). Ticket Info: FREE (Suggested donation $20)
Bio -- Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe (Director) has directed productions at SF Playhouse, Aurora Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI; Capital Repertory in Albany, NY; Southern Rep in New Orleans; Mark Taper Forum in LA; Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Woolly Mammoth in DC; Curious Theatre in Denver; 42nd St. Theatre, NYC; and TheatreWorks, Palo Alto and the SF Mime Troupe. Additional Edris has toured nationally and abroad for six years with the SFMT as an actor appearing in The Mozamgola Caper, I Ain't Yo Uncle, and Rats: A Dream Play. In 2003, her Bay Area production of John Henry Redwood's The Old Settler, received the Dean Goodman Award for Excellence. Her Dallas production of The Old Settler received Best Production and two Best Acting Awards from Dallas' Rabin Awards and in 2006, she received her second Rabin nomination for directing Neil LaBute's This Is How It Goes at Water Tower. Other directing credits: the West Coast premiere of Relativity at the Magic Theatre, Stealin' Home at Exit Theatre; Crying Holy at Theatre Rhinos, and Urban Zulu Mambo and Blue/Orange at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
She has taught and directed at Indiana U., Naropa U., Las Positas College and ACT’s MFA program in SF. With the award-winning company she founded - Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience, - Edris has directed the Bay Area premieres of In A Daughter's Eyes by A. Zell Williams, Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy, Zakiyyah Alexander's Sweet Maladies, On The Hills Of Black America and Hollis Mugley's Only Wish +2 by Keith Josef Adkins. Chain and Late Bus To Mecca by Pearl Cleage and Will He Bop, Will He Drop? by Robert Alexander.
Edris holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the U. of Iowa and is an alumna of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. Other training includes theatre research and performance at the U. of Ibadan, Nigeria, and at Shakespeare and Company in Tanglewood, MA. She has directed two films, The Green Goddess for Enlightenment Productions and her own independent series of satirical PSA’s entitled The Third Side.
1. SF Mime Troupe opens July 4, at Dolores Park in SF with Seeing Red, written by Rotimi Agbabiaka with Joan Holden, directed by Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe
Bay Area Opening WeekendDolores Park at 19th St. Dolores Street, San Francisco, Wed, Jul 4th @ 2:00 PM (Music 1:30). Ticket Info: FREE (Suggested donation $20)
Bio -- Edris Cooper-Anifowoshe (Director) has directed productions at SF Playhouse, Aurora Theatre, Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, RI; Capital Repertory in Albany, NY; Southern Rep in New Orleans; Mark Taper Forum in LA; Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Woolly Mammoth in DC; Curious Theatre in Denver; 42nd St. Theatre, NYC; and TheatreWorks, Palo Alto and the SF Mime Troupe. Additional Edris has toured nationally and abroad for six years with the SFMT as an actor appearing in The Mozamgola Caper, I Ain't Yo Uncle, and Rats: A Dream Play. In 2003, her Bay Area production of John Henry Redwood's The Old Settler, received the Dean Goodman Award for Excellence. Her Dallas production of The Old Settler received Best Production and two Best Acting Awards from Dallas' Rabin Awards and in 2006, she received her second Rabin nomination for directing Neil LaBute's This Is How It Goes at Water Tower. Other directing credits: the West Coast premiere of Relativity at the Magic Theatre, Stealin' Home at Exit Theatre; Crying Holy at Theatre Rhinos, and Urban Zulu Mambo and Blue/Orange at Lorraine Hansberry Theatre.
She has taught and directed at Indiana U., Naropa U., Las Positas College and ACT’s MFA program in SF. With the award-winning company she founded - Black Artists Contemporary Cultural Experience, - Edris has directed the Bay Area premieres of In A Daughter's Eyes by A. Zell Williams, Robert O'Hara's Bootycandy, Zakiyyah Alexander's Sweet Maladies, On The Hills Of Black America and Hollis Mugley's Only Wish +2 by Keith Josef Adkins. Chain and Late Bus To Mecca by Pearl Cleage and Will He Bop, Will He Drop? by Robert Alexander.
Edris holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the U. of Iowa and is an alumna of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Directors. Other training includes theatre research and performance at the U. of Ibadan, Nigeria, and at Shakespeare and Company in Tanglewood, MA. She has directed two films, The Green Goddess for Enlightenment Productions and her own independent series of satirical PSA’s entitled The Third Side.
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