SHOW TICKETS AT www.sffringe.org or our EXIT Theatre mobile app! A note from our Founder First, Thank You, for supporting the San Francisco Fringe Festival. EXIT Theatre is very proud and grateful to have had the opportunity for the past 27 years to support indie artists in this unique way. As a CAFF member festival, the SF Fringe is an open access event where our performing companies are chosen by lottery. This sometimes surprises people but it works, and a tremendous amount of new and relevant work comes out of the SF Fringe as well as many Bay Area pro- ducing groups who are cornerstones in the indie performing arts culture. We are also proud to say that we return 100% of the ticket price to the Fringe performing companies, which means that indie artists are able to earn money to continue to create their work. So please be sure to see as many shows as possible and help indie arts thrive and survive. Of course this would not be possible without the continued support of our dedicated volunteers, staff, funders, and audience. If you’ve been to an SF Fringe before you’re already familiar with our Tip The Fringe campaign. This is one of the ways we are able to continue to keep the festival going each year, so please be generous and donate what you can. And remember the SF Fringe is just one of the many different events that are on the EXIT stages year round. Come back and be a part of this vibrant, creative and important community, and check us out through- out the year at www.theexit.org Live performance is all about the human connection, realizing we are one together. See you at the theatre, Christina Augello Founder & Artistic Director

FRINGE HOW-TO’S BUY IN ADVANCE $14.99 or less at www.sffringe.org and be guaranteed a seat.

BUY AT THE DOOR $12 or less at the door on a first-come, first-served basis starting 30 minutes before the show for available tickets. CASH ONLY/ limit 4 tickets per person.

BUY A FREQUENT FRINGER PASS see five shows for $45, 10 for $85. Available for sale in the Green Room at the EXIT, 156 Eddy Street, during Fringe hours. Frequent Fringer passes are good for discounted tickets but do not guarantee a seat, so be sure to get to the box office early to redeem your pass for a ticket. Each pass is good for one ticket per show for the cardholder only.

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VOLUNTEER AT THE FRINGE and see shows on a seat available basis for FREE. Sign up to volunteer at www.sffringe.org or during the Fringe at EXIT Theatre. FRINGE BASICS ALL SHOWS START ON TIME NO LATE SEATING and NO REFUNDS for late arrivals CASH ONLY AT THE DOOR TIP THE FRINGE SF Fringe gives 100% of the box office to the performing companies. To maintain this tradition, we ask Fringe audiences to dig into their pockets and drop whatever they can into the Fringe Tip Buckets to help keep the lights on, the stages ready, and the Fringe returning year after year. You can also make online donations at www.sffringe.org.

@EXIT_Theatre @EXITTheatreSF @exit_theatre_sf FOG CITY MAGIC FEST | January 23-26 Our annual festival of magic-making and mystery, co-curated by Christian Cagigal and Jay Alexander.

BURLESQUE EXTRAVAGANZA | February 20-23 Putting the EXTRA in Extravaganza, four unique evenings featuring some of the Bay Area’s most treasured burlesque performers.

SOME ENCHANTED EVENINGS | March 8-March 23 EXIT’s Artistic Director Christina Augello presents three shorts by Don Nigro.

CRIPPLED | March 28-31 On tour from Canada, a powerful piece about living with disability through a queer lens, by Paul David Power. US Premiere!

NIGGA-ROO | April 5-27

A multidisciplinary solo performance that explores blackness as a social construct, by Best of the Fringe (2017) winner Dazié Grego-Sykes.

SUPREMACY | May 3-18 A modern-day superhero story about race, power, and collective responsibility.

EXIT THEATREEXIT GALA FUNDRAISER | May 19 Our annual fundraising gala celebrating EXIT Theatre’s commitment to sup- porting Indie artists. Performances, refreshments,and a silent auction!

TALK STORY FESTIVAL | June 5-8 A diverse slate of storytellers speaking straight from the heart.

DOLLHOUSE MONSTERS | July 12-27 An original burlesque adventure, devised and performed by Dee O’s Mio, Lady Malavendra,THEATRE and Red Velvet! 28TH SAN FRANCISCO FRINGE FESTIVAL | September 5-14 The oldest grassroots theatre2019 festival in the Bay Area, and part of a worldwide Fringe community. Take a walk on the wild side of independent theatre!

UNHOLY TRINITY | October 10-November 2 A triptych of stories taken from the works of HP Lovecraft, adapted and directed by Stuart Bousel.

SAN FRANCISCO OLYMPIANS FESTIVAL | November 6-23 “You’ve Got Gaul,” new plays sourced from the myths and legends of the Celts. A festival-in residence,SEASON curated by Stuart Bousel. The San Francisco Fringe Festival is part of a worldwide Fringe family, and a member of the Canadian Association of Fringe Festivals, www.fringefestivals.com. We run our festival in accordance with CAFF principles, including non-curated, unjuried content and selection, and 100% of ticket sales going to the artists. FRIGID Festival, New York, NY February 14 - March 4, 2018 Orlando International Fringe Theatre Festival, Orlando, FL May 15 - 28, 2018 London Fringe Theatre Festival, London, ON May 29 - June 9, 2018 Festival St. Ambroise Fringe de Montreal, Montreal, PQ May 28 - June 17, 2018 Ottawa Fringe Festival, Ottawa, ON June 14 - 24, 2018 Portland Fringe, Portland, ME June 16-23, 2018 San Diego Fringe, San Diego, CA June 21 - July 1, 2018 Toronto Fringe, Toronto, ON July 4 - 15, 2018 Regina International Fringe Festival, Regina, SK July 11 - 15, 2018 Winnipeg Fringe Theatre Festival, Winnipeg, MB July 18 - 29, 2018 Hamilton Fringe Festival, Hamilton, ON July 19 - 29, 2018 Windsor-Walkerville Fringe Festival, Windsor, ON July 19 - 29, 2018 Storefront Fringe Festival, Kingston, ON July 20 - 28, 2018 Great Salt Lake Fringe, Salt Lake City, UT August 2-12, 2018 The Island Fringe Festival/PEI, Charlottetown, PEI August 2 - 5, 2018 Saskatoon Fringe Theatre Festival, Saskatoon, SK August 2 - 11, 2018 Calgary Fringe Festival, Calgary, AB August 3 - 11, 2018 Nanaimo Fringe Festival, Nanaimo, BC August 9 - 18, 2018 Fringe North (Sault Ste. Marie), Sault Ste. Marie, ON August 9 - 19, 2018 ON THE EDGE Fringe, Sturgeon Falls, ON August 14 - 18, 2018 Boulder International Fringe Festival, Boulder, CO August 15 - 26, 2018 Indyfringe Theatre Festival, Indianapolis, IN August 16 - 26, 2018 Edmonton International Fringe Festival, Edmonton, AB August 16 - 26, 2018 Fundy Fringe, Saint John, NB August 20 - 25, 2018 Victoria Fringe Theatre Festival, Victoria, BC August 22 - September 2, 2018 Chicago Fringe, Chicago, IL August 30 - September 3, 2018 Halifax Fringe Festival, Halifax, NS August 30 - September 9, 2018 Vancouver Fringe Festival, Vancouver, BC September 6 - 16, 2018 San Francisco Fringe Festival, San Francisco, CA September 6 - 15, 2018 Elgin Fringe Festival, Elgin, IL September 7 - 16, 2018

Adam and Eve on a Raft 1 The Book of Jones, Berkeley , CA $7 SEPT 7@8:30, 8@2:00, 9@8:00, 15@5:00

60 minutes The story of a man and a woman exiled from par- adise. They dance, drink, grieve, quarrel and love through the wonders and horrors of America, 2018. Told in dream-like monologues and music in the classic American songbook style.

Musical Performance with Spoken Word

2 ALTERS FOR MY ALTARS Potatoes Mashed Comedy, San Francisco, CA $12 SEPT 8@9:30, 9@5:00, 12@7:00, 14@8:30

60 minutes Edna Mira Raia splits the human psyche into a smattering of hilariously flawed heroes, from Brian, the unstable drifter to Lucy, the sweet psy- chopath her tragic clowning nudges audiences toward empathy for the strangers we culturally dismiss. BOLD, DEEP and FUNNY as hell! Solo Dark Comedy | Nudity, Harsh, No Children 3 Dandy Darkly’s All Aboard! Dandy Darkly, Brooklyn, NY $12 SEPT 8@9:30, 9@5:00, 12@8:30, 14@8:30

60 minutes Internationally acclaimed storyteller and alt- cabaret raconteur Dandy Darkly welcomes you aboard the world-renowned Gaybird Steamer for a steaming hour of satiric Southern Gothic storytelling focused on the truly horrific: industry, white privilege and old timey trains. Solo Storytelling, Cabaret, LGBTQ | Harsh, No Children 4 Dangerous When Wet: Booze, Sex and My Mother Jamie Brickhouse, NYC, NY $8 SEPT 7@7:00, 8@5:00, 12@8:30, 15@8:00

60 minutes Sodomite Jamie Brickhouse (3-time Moth StorySLAM champion; “Beavis and Butthead”) faces his three most defining relationships: booze, sex and his Texas tornado of a mother Mama Jean in this darkly comic, award-winning solo show directed by Obie-winner David Drake. Solo Performance | Mature, No Children Experts, Assholes, and True 5 Believers Ronen Sberlo, San Francisco, CA SEPT 8@2:00, 9@8:00, 11@8:30, 14@7:00 $12 Ronen has a flight booked that leaves in three hours, but he doesnt know if he’ll be on it. He’s living at a spiritual retreat center where even talking about leaving is taboo. Will he leave? What will he say? Is this the end of his spiritual 60 minutes odyssey, or the beginning of a new one? Solo Performance | Harsh, No Children

I K(no)W 6 Kel’ Wil’ (aka Kellita), Showgirl Awakening, SF, CA SEPT 6@8:30, 8@6:30, 9@3:30, 15@5:00 $11

The lengths one woman will go to avoid saying “No” and what happens when she starts saying it. Tale complete with international pooping in pants, shimmy dance, and redemption. 55 minutes

Solo Performance

Justin Matson: Fatter Than You 7 Think Justin Matson, Los Angeles, CA SEPT 8@8:00, 9@5:00, 12@8:30, 14@7:00 $10 Adorably awkward with a twist of gay, Justin Matson is Fatter Than You Think. Fresh from the Adelaide and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Matson brings a new stand-up special about his journey and struggle with body image. It’s real, raw, and 55 minutes gayer than a small side salad. Comedy | Mature, Harsh, No Children

Mime Time with James Direct: Get 8 Out of Your Head! Cathedral City, CA SEPT 7@7:00, 9@3:30, 12@7:00, 15@8:00 $4 Get Out Of Your Head is a mime and physical com- edy play for the whole family. We follow our hero, James Direct as he becomes Elvis the Pelvis, has a toothache and expereinces many more antics. Sound, fun, audience participation and object 30 minutes manipulation round out the show. Mime Comedy | Strobe, Fog, Audience Participation ⊙︿⊙ )_/¯ Mingalabaヽ ຈ ຈ 9 ¯\_( ༼ ͜ ༼ ▀̿ Ĺ̿ ▀ ̿. James Sundquist, San Francisco, CA $12 SEPT 8@9:30, 11@8:30, 13@8:30, 15@3:30

60 minutes Continues the wild experimentation and insanity ¯\_(⊙︿⊙)_/¯ of Expeditious Intent, BEST OF FRINGE 2017 win- ner. I’m grateful for the opportunity to return!

Go to Fringe, Go to Kill or just Go Home.

Living Cartoon | Mature

10 My Preferred Pronoun is We Lyralen Kaye, Another Country Prod., Boston, MA $12 SEPT 7@8:30, 9@2:00, 13@7:00, 15@3:30

60 minutes The hilarious story of Lyralen Kaye’s decision to move to Canada...and her complete ignorance about what it would take to get all her personali- ties over the border. A roller coaster of immigra- tion struggles, long term gay marriage, and the need to accept all of yourselves. Solo Performance | Mature, Harsh, No Children, 17+

11 Naked Zombie Ron Jones, San Francisco, CA $10 SEPT 6@7:00, 8@3:30, 9@6:30, 14@8:30

45 minutes It all started with a red speedo, nude modeling , and a cat named Ralph. Did we mention a frog in a tutu, a naked Jesus, and the prophesy of a 90 year old woman? This story takes you into the world of Bay Area artists, time, and mortality.

Storytelling | Mature, Nudity, No Children, 18+

12 Put a Little Shimmer in Your Life Joan Chaplick, San Francisco, CA $10 SEPT 8@8:00, 9@6:30, 13@8:30, 15@2:00

50 minutes Retired professional athlete meets single San Franciscan woman age 40+. He’s looking for free- dom and she’s wants commitment. Somehow- it results in an amazing adventure of friendship, fame and fur. (Did I mention he’s a dog?)

Solo Performance Sail On! 13 Harriet Patterson Productions, Albany, CA SEPT 6@8:30, 8@6:30, 9@3:30, 15@2:00 $8

Harriet’s Dad loves road trips. But now there’s an ostrich in his Le Car. And that’s not the only thing that didn’t go as planned. How do you recover when life takes an unexpected turn? 60 minutes

Solo Performance | Mature, 10+

The Accidental Club 14 Sherrie Scott, Awareness Media, Santa Monica, CA SEPT 7@8:30, 9@2:00, 13@7:00, 15@5:00 $10 A washed-up rockstar dies of an accidental over- dose and finds herself in The Accidental Club hanging out with Amy Winehouse, Janis Joplin & Billie Holiday. Winning Angel of the Month, she gets to return to earth for one last concert for her 60 minutes faithful fans. Will she wake up? Will we? Musical Comedy Drama | Mature, 12+

The Folk This! Songbook; an End 15 of Empire Memoir Marcus Duskin, SF, CA SEPT 6@7:00, 8@3:30, 11@7:00, 15@6:30 $10 A journey into the past, a series of vignettes de- picting stages in the life of the performing art- ist – from upper middle class brat to revolution- ary communist, recovering addict to aging self historian – with songs rescued from obscurity and 60 minutes performed by the Folk This! ensemble. Solo Performance & Music | Mature, No Children

The Immaculate Big Bang 16 Bill Santiago, NYC, NY SEPT 7@7:00, 8@5:00, 12@7:00, 15@8:00 $12 Sparked by the death of his father and birth of his daughter, Comedian Bill Santiago goes in search of answers and laughs at the border of science and religion, exploring the comic nature of the cosmic quest for understanding existence, life 60 minutes and death (not necessarily in that order). Solo Comedy | No Children The Mermaid’s Tears 17 Evelyn Jean Pine, Invisible Salon, SF, CA $10 SEPT 8@5:00, 9@2:00, 13@7:00, 15@6:30

60 minutes A to-do list for young female entrepreneurs from a housecleaner-turned-tycoon who builds her empire by creating opportunities for women to be aroused as they watch men cry. How to com- mandeer a pornographer’s mansion, recruit emo- tionally labile gents, and pay them nothing. Solo Performance | Mature, Harsh

18 The Secret Language Allen Gittleson, Los Angeles, CA $12 SEPT 8@8:00, 9@6:30, 13@8:30, 15@3:30

60 minutes Ever feel an incredible connection with someone where they know your thoughts? Ever get the sensation you know what they’re thinking? Is it psychic? No, it’s The Secret Language! Join Mind Reader Allen Gittelson as he shows you how to read people and influence others. Mind Reading | No Children

19 The Stage Manager Claudia Barr, On a Shoestring, Berkeley, CA $12 SEPT 6@7:00, 8@3:30, 11@7:00, 15@6:30

45 minutes The actors are rehearsing a production of Shake- speare’s Antony and Cleopatra with the worst, most sarcastic director ever. He should die. An insider’s take on why you might need to take out the director and what do you do about the body? And what is it with the ghost light? Farce | Harsh, 12+

20 Tolerance?! Kathleen Denny, Oakland, CA $12 SEPT 6@8:30, 8@6:30, 11@7:00, 15@2:00

60 minutes Sometimes a gal just has to do something! Like when she walks into work and Miss September is NOT demonstrating a specialized machining technique. With humor, Kathleen Denny shares this timely tale from the front lines of a sassy new generation of Rosie the Riveters. Solo Performance | Mature, Rabble-rousing Transformation 21 Sheila Rubin, Berkeley, CA SEPT 8@2:00, 9@8:00, 11@8:30, 14@7:00 $10 Once upon a time, two sisters desperately hide their secret Cat Stevens album and the forbidden record player in a different dimension, then feel terror at the first sound of keys in the lock. We attempt to discover through magic, story and im- 60 minutes provisation what is a trick and what is true magic. Solo Performance | Mature, 12+

The San Francisco Fringe Festival and EXIT Theatre wouldn’t exist without your support!

Thanks to the Silent Auction donors to our May 20 Gala: Arizmendi Bakery 9th Avenue, Arizmendi Bakery Valencia Street, Bikes to Books, Christina Augello, Chris Harrison, Christian Cagigal & Ghost Hunt Walking Tours, Cody Rishell, Dot Janson, The Family Room, Fior d’Italia, Gino and Carlo, Other Avenues, Original Joe’s, Mik- keller Bar, Richard Livingston, Shanta Sacharoff, and Tom’s Beautiful Hair.

EXIT Theatre is supported by individuals and the following organizations: San Francisco Grants for the Arts Hotel Tax Fund, San Francisco Art Commission, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Zellerbach Family Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, Creative Capacity Fund, San Francisco Hilton Hotel, Group I, Turnitin.com, and the Krolak Ries Trust.

EXIT Theatre is a not-for-profit organization and is always accepting- dona tions, through PayPal, through the mail, and with our TIP THE FRINGE buckets during the Fringe Festival. You can also donate the stuff you don’t want anymore to Community Thrift at 623 Valencia Street and ask the proceeds to benefit EXIT Theatre (#118).

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5 21 9 3 4 7 18 12 9 3 2 11 18 10 9 SPECIAL FRINGE EVENTS 5:00PM 14 1 FRINGE MID-FRINGE CLOSING NIGHT 6 CABARET PARTY PARTY 6:30PM FRIDAY, 10PM SUNDAY, 4-7PM SATURDAY, 9PM SEPTEMBER 7 SEPTEMBER 9 SEPTEMBER 15 19 15 17 SEPTEMBER 14 Help us close out Celebrate Best of 8:00PM Our after-hours opening weekend & Sold Out Awards! fringe cabaret for with a bang! Music, dancing, all! Free of charge. Food, drink & fun. food & no-host bar. 16 4 8

EXIT Theatre EXIT Stage Left EXIT Studio Dandy Darkly’s Adam and Eve 3 2 Altars for my Alters 1 All Aboard! on a Raft 5 Experts, Assholes 4 Dangerous 7 Justin Matson: Fatter and True Believers When Wet Than You Think Mime Time With 13 Sail On! 6 I K(no)W 8 James Direct My Preferred 14 The Accidental Club 10 9 Mingalaba Pronoun is We The Immaculate Put a Little Shimmer 16 12 Naked Zombie Big Bang in Your Life 11 The Folk This! The Secret Language 15 The Mermaid’s Tears 18 Songbook 17

19 The Stage Manager 21 Transformation 20 Tolerance?! San Francisco Fringe Festival September 6 - 15, 2018 Celebrating 35 years of EXIT Theatre & 27 years of SF Fringe! show tickets available at www.sffringe.org

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