NEVER SILENT, ALWAYS REVOLUTIONARY
"America's Foremost Theatre of Political Satire."
PRODUCTION BIOS :
SCRIPT & DIRECTION :
MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN (he/him)
(Writer, Actor, SFMT Collective)
Michael Gene Sullivan is an actor, writer, director, essayist, and teacher committed to developing theatre of social and economic justice, of political self-determination, and, of course, musical comedy. Michael is also an alum of the nationally-acclaimed Playwright's Foundation, a Djerassi Center Artist Fellow, received an Honorable Mention For Actors Equity's Paul Robeson Award, and in 2022 was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.
An accomplished veteran of Bay Area theater, Michael is also a Collective Member and Resident Director of the Tony and OBIE award-winning, always revolutionary, and never, ever silent San Francisco Mime Troupe, where he has written, acted in, and/or directed over thirty plays.
www.michaelgenesullivan.com
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DANIEL SAVIO (he/him)
(Music Direction, Composer, Lyricist, Musician - Keyboards, SFMT Collective)
Daniel Savio started his professional theater career playing keyboards for the Mime Troupe in 2006, and since 2020 he has been the Troupe's resident composer/lyricist. This year Daniel led the band, was co-arranger, and composed additional music for SFBATCO's original musical Sign My Name To Freedom: The Unheard Songs of Betty Reid Soskin. He was recently musical director for the Marin Mountain Play production of Kinky Boots. Daniel has been MD of numerous community and children's productions at theaters in the North and East Bay. He has a BA in music from the University of California at Santa Cruz.
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LISA HORI-GARCIA (she/her)
(Director, SFMT Collective)
Lisa Hori-Garcia is a collective member, actor, director, writer, arts educator, and a longtime collaborator with the San Francisco Mime Troupe. She has worked as both principal actor and director across numerous summer productions, including Doing Good, Schooled, Freedomland, Posibilidad, Seeing Red, and Too Big to Fail, alongside co-directing summer productions including Treasure Island, Red State, and Oil & Water.
Outside of the Mime Troupe, Lisa has worked in a range of capacities- including performing, directing, and development- with companies such as ACT, Berkeley Rep, CalShakes, TheatreWorks, Word for Word, and Magic Theatre, as well as Colorado-based companies including Curious Theatre, Local Theater Co., and Artibus Theatre. One of her most memorable Denver experiences was performing as “David” in David Byrne’s Theatre of the Mind at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts.
Her work as a theater maker extends into immersive and site-responsive performance. She has created and directed works including The Strange Library at Z Space, and The Sala Project: Echoes of Curtis Park in Denver, CO, a site-responsive work she wrote and directed, integrating performance and place. These projects reflect her ongoing interest in theater that emerges from environment, collaboration, and lived experience in space.
Lisa holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA in Acting from USC. Her work has been recognized with multiple honors, including a Theatre Bay Area nomination for Freedomland.
WILL DURKEE (he/him)
(Music Direction, Musician - Bass)
Will Durkee was born in the beginning part of the final decade of the 20th century. He has been involved with the arts/music scene in and around the greater Bay Area region for over 10 years. When involved in bands he primarily plays bass, while his visual art background has led him to create many designs for posters and t-shirts over the years. Will has a solo music project called Puppy Dude, releasing a full length album in April 2026 called Spring Brain that explores creative and experimental approaches to songwriting. In addition, Will is a painter and has taken part in exhibitions and public art projects all over Northern California.
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CAST :
MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN (he/him)*
(Writer, Actor, SFMT Collective)
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JED PARSARIO (he/him)*
(Actor, SFMT Collective)
Jed Parsario is excited to work on his 4th production with SFMT, and since the close of last year’s summer tour of DISRUPTION has joined the Collective. Previous SFMT credit includes BREAKDOWN and RED CAROL. Jed Parsario is an Oakland-based, TBA-nominated actor and teaching artist. He is a company member of PlayGround, Red Ladder Theatre Company, and an alum artist of Bindlestiff Studio. Bay Area credits include American Conservatory Theater (Sweat), Magic Theater (The Gangster of Love), Shotgun Players (White), and SPARC (Complete Works of William Shakespeare, (abridged) [revised]). Jed received his BFA in Motion Picture & Television, Editing from Academy of Art University, and trained with the renowned Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts. He is humbled and proud to give back to the Bay Area community through his work as a teaching artist and lead facilitator of workshops with underserved communities and the incarcerated with Red Ladder Theatre Company.
www.jedparsario.com
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KEIKO SHIMOSATO CARREIRO (she/her)*
(Actor, Costume Designer, SFMT Collective)
Keiko Shimosato Carreiro is a Collective Member, actor, designer, co-writer, and director with the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. She has performed at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory, The Magic Theater, San Jose Stage, The Aurora Theater, Word for Word, Oakland Theater Project, Center Rep., Marin Shakespeare Company and Salt Lake Acting Company. In 2020 Keiko Co-founded Kunoichi Productions (Female Ninja productions) innovative, multidisciplinary theater combining Eastern and Western Theater Traditions. In fall of 2024 she Co-Directed an Immersive Production of A Strange Library by Haruki Murakami for Word for Word at Z-Below. This spring she performed in “It’s True It’s True It’s True” at Marin Theater Company and costume designed, produced and performed in Sondheims’ “Pacific Overtures” with her company, Kunoichi Productions. She has been nominated for Critics’ Circle Award in costumes and is a recipient of a Costume Merit award from ACTF.
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CHLORIS LI (she/her)
(Actor)
Chloris is a proud Bay Area native who is thrilled to be making her SFMT debut with this year’s summer tour. This has been a dream come true! She is a believer of creating art that is relevant, representational, and accessible. When not performing, Chloris works as a speech-language pathologist across various medical settings, mentors high school students pursuing independent research projects, and teaches piano. Recent credits include The Eyes and the Impossible (Word for Word), Tartuffe (Ross Valley Players), Comedy of Errors (SPARC), Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (South Coast Repertory), and Desert Rock Garden (New Village Arts). She received her MS from Columbia University and her BA/BS from UC San Diego. Power to the people!
www.chlorisli.com
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* The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actor's Equity Association,
the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
SFMT BAND :
DANIEL SAVIO (he/him)
(Music Direction, Composer, Lyricist, Musician - Keyboards, SFMT Collective)
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WILL DURKEE (he/him)
(Music Direction, Musician - Bass)
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MIGUEL JOSE WACHER (he/him)
(Musician - Drums)
Miguel Wacher is an Oakland-based musician, actor, and filmmaker. His strong love for performing, and the performing arts, has led him to many opportunities to engage with the performing arts community and work with theaters, in bands, and on film productions all around the greater Bay Area. You can often find him having the time of his life acting on stage in rolls like Manny Munoz from City of Angels, Practicing and performing with his band The Underlay, or making films such as one of his most recent films “the Speed of Silence” which was a finalist in the 100 hour film race and won best score at Cobb International film festival. He is currently expanding his career as an actor and filmmaker while working towards establishing his own production company.
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TECHNICAL :
KEIKO SHIMOSATO CARREIRO (she/her)
(Actor, Costume Designer, SFMT Collective)
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MARIE CARTIER (she/her)
(Properties Designer, SFMT Collective)
Marie Cartier has been working with the Mime Troupe since 2012. Born and raised in San Francisco, where she is honored to fulfill many duties from event producer to writer to prop designer. Favorite jobs at the Mime Troupe include props and scenic painting for 2019's Treasure Island, writing on 2023's Breakdown and the 2021 radio play Hobos in Space, as well as working with the brilliant young minds of SFMT's Youth Theater Project. She is a founding member of "Artists Unite for Palestine," using arts events to raise funds for emergency relief for families in Gaza @artistsunitepalestine. Marie received her Masters in Social Work in 2021 and currently works full-time as a clinical social worker.
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TAYLOR GONZELZ (he/him)
(Sound Designer, Sound Engineer, SFMT Collective)
Taylor Gonzalez was born and raised in Oakland, CA. From the age of sixteen he has been working in theater and music which quickly became his passion while taking class at the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Years later, he would join SFMT as a collective member and lead sound designer of the company. He has worked with many companies as a sound designer or audio engineer in the bay area over the years, Berkeley Playhouse, Oakland Theater Project, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Destiny Arts and many more. He also spends time producing albums and concerts. Currently he is working at the Magic Theatre as the Production & Technical advisor and still touring the parks with the Mime Troupe every summer.
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CRASH DES ROSIERS (he/they)
(Scenic Painting Designer, Painter)
Crash is a 26-year-old queer and trans artist born and raised in the North Bay of California. He draws inspiration from nature, as well as indie comic books, a fascination with history & anatomy, his childhood experiences in catholicism, and his time in the punk scene. His art, as a result, is multifaceted and unconstrained by any one single genre or medium, and explores subject matter ranging from social and political commentary, to illustration for fictional works, to simple plein air landscapes.
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PIETRO CALOGERO (he/him)
(Technical Director)
Pietro Calogero teaches planning and housing policy at San Jose State, focusing on how to make cities sustainable for regular people (and other life), not for elites. He also runs role-playing games, including his own design: Notches TTRPG. Pietro’s craftwork ranges from tooled leather to vests, anime costumes, protest banners, and teardrop trailers, to design and construction of Mime Troupe sets since 2022. He is excited about the revolutionary potential of this time, and hopes we all will enjoy overthrowing White supremacy together! This could be fun! And certainly it will build character.
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SOLSTIZ IBARRA-CAMPOS (they/them)
(Carpenter, Sound Production Assistant)
Solstiz Ibarra Campos was proudly born and raised in San Antonio, and is a lifelong theatre maker and activist. Sol had the privilege of growing up deeply immersed in San Anto’s rich culture of radical Chicano art and teatro, working from a young age with local theatres and nonprofits such as the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, Jump Start Performing Arts Co. and the Esperanza Peace and Justice Center. Sol has joined the San Francisco Mime Troupe for three summer tours, and Solstiz’s greatest inspirations are the beautiful community of artists who surround them, especially their Mom, who dedicated her life to theatre education. Maria Ibarra, Presente!
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TASI ALABASTRO (he/him)
(Poster Designer)
Tasi Alabastro is a multi-hyphenated artist based in San Jose and proud wearer of SF Mime Troupe swag. He is a recipient of the SVCreates Emerging Artist Laureate and Leigh Weimer’s Emerging Artist Award. Recent directing credits include Japantown Returnings (Contemporary Asian Theater Scene), Eggshell; or Vỏ Trứng (More Más Marami), and assistant directing CLYDE’S (City Lights Theatre Company). As an actor, select Bay Area credits include Sisters Matsumoto (CenterRep); A Christmas Carol (A.C.T); Twelfth Night, musical adaptation (SF Playhouse); MANAHATTA (Aurora Theatre); Every Brilliant Thing, and VIETGONE (City Lights Theatre Company). He is a company member of the Red Ladder Theatre Company, a nationally acclaimed, award-winning social justice theatre company. For extended bio, visit tasialabastro.com.
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MARISSA HINCKLEY-BARNES (she/her)
(Production Manager, SFMT Collective)
Marissa Hinckley-Barnes has been working with the San Francisco Mime Troupe since the summer of 2017. In 2018, she took the leap and moved from her home state of Wisconsin to begin her time as the Mime Troupe's Tour Manager. Since then, she has had the joy of working as a teaching assistant for the Youth Theater Project and performing a variety of roles in the Mime Troupe's Tales of the Resistance. As an actor, she has performed with a number of Bay Area Theater companies including Ross Valley Players, The Moonrisers, Contra Costa Musical Theater, Inferno Theater, and more. Marissa received her Masters of Arts in Special Education in 2023, and currently works full time teaching an Autism Focused Special Day Class at a San Francisco Middle School.
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MIRIN SCASSELLATI (she/her)
(Rehearsal Stage Manager)
Mirin Scassellati (Rehearsal Stage Manager) is delighted to be spending her first season with the San Francisco Mime Troupe. Specializing in immersive shows and events, her previous credits include stage managing /Magic Cocktail Hour/ and /Nightmare: House on Franklin Street/ with the Palace Theater and as a captain for the immersive theater group /Otherworld/. In addition to stage management, she’s also worked as a props designer, technician, and event coordinator in the Bay Area. Scassellati is a graduate of the UC Berkeley Theater Department, where she received a degree in Theater and Performance Studies and wrote an undergraduate thesis on the transformative nature of interactive productions. More of her work can be found at https://mscassellati1.wixsite.com/website
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CASEY MOORE (she/her)
(Assistant Stage Manager)
Casey Moore is thrilled to be spending her summer with The San Francisco Mime Troupe! She recently graduated with her BS in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, as well as her BA in Theater Arts from UC Santa Cruz, where she acted as stage manager on productions such as The Comedy of Errors, Animal Farm, An Iliad, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, and more. Originally from Oakland, Casey got her start in theater at Oakland School for the Arts, and since returning to the Bay has been on the stage management team for Pippin at CCCT, and acted as the backstage assistant for The Illusionist at The Palace Theater.
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TERRI DEMARTINI (she/her)
(Booking Coordinator, Tour Manager)
Terri Demartini is a SF Native and graduate of SF School of the Arts. She attended NYU where she trained for a career in broadcasting. Some standout moments from her time in NYC include interning for Howard Stern and working at HOT-97 during the golden age of hip hop. Terri then moved to LA and worked on productions for NBC/Universal and MTV. Terri has also held roles including Assistant Program Director and Producer for various radio stations. After years of working behind the scenes, Terri began pursuing work in front of the camera, signing with SF’s Look Talent. She has appeared in commercial projects for clients including Samsung, Honda, Zillow, SF Giants, Microsoft and more. In terms of theatre, Terri worked as Stage Manager for the “Tea Party” in 2023. Terri splits her time between SF and Kona, Hawaii. She loves travel, buddhi yoga, movies, concerts and doing her podcast which tackles life and pop culture through the lens of a gen-xer. Her idol since age 12 is Prince, who she saw in concert 51 times. Being a Prince fan taught her to be herself and seek freedom everyday of her life, a mindset she holds sacred.
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JOLIE OUYANG (she/her)
(Dramaturg)
Jolie is stoked to be working with the San Francisco Mime Troupe for the first time! She is currently a Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism MFA student on the Producing Track at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale. She received her AB in English from Georgetown University (Hoya Saxa!). She has apprenticed at Olney Theatre Center and Shakespeare Theatre Company and interned at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Select credits: Panto Play (Yale), Red Pitch (Olney Theatre Center), Sleepova (Olney Theatre Center), Waitress (Olney Theater Center), and Cymbeline (SF Shakes). Jolie grew up in San Francisco and loves spending her summers in the city.
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RUBY MIHALKO (she/her)
(Volunteer Production Assistant)
My name is Ruby and I am a 20 year old creative who aims at using my love for theater and need for social justice to spread more awareness of the social issues that exist and create social change through theater. My experience as an actor has touched people in many ways and because of that my overall goal is to teach others theater so that they can touch people in the same way.
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SAI SINGH (she/her/theirs)
(Volunteer Production Assistant)
Sai Singh is thrilled to be working on “Wreckage” with SFMT this summer after working on “American Dreams” in 2024! Sai developed her interest in theatre in the third grade and has been pursuing it since. She recently graduated from NYU Tisch for drama, where she has been imbuing social justice into her original works. Free Palestine, Sudan, Venezuela, Iran, and all countries under US imperialism!
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AARON GOVERT (he/they)
(Sound Tech : A2)
Aaron Govert is an audio engineer based in the Bay Area.
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ISABELLA JUNEBUG (they/her)
(Stitcher)
Isabella Junebug is a mixed media artist based between San Francisco, CA, and Vancouver, BC. Their practice is focused on costume production, pastry arts, and up-cycling found objects. They draw inspiration from nature, historical architecture, and human biology.
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ALEXANDER KILIMIAN-NIGRO
(A2)
Alex is an Audio Engineer and Stagehand (IATSE Local 16) who has been working in theater since the age of 10. Previous sound credits include ACT's A Christmas Carol (2023), Rally on Wheels to Cancel Rent Debt & Ban Evictions! (2020) and Bread! The Musical (2017). His work has been described as "fine, sure" and "who are you, again?". This is his second tour with the SFMT. What's the difference between the mafia and the government? One of them's organized!
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