Written by Wickie Stamps
Directed by Jed Bell
Part of “Open Season”
at
SF FRINGE FEST
Sept. 5–7 and 13–14
at
The Garage
975 Howard St. @ 6th
San Francisco
Look for the red door!
For tickets CLICK HERE. Tix are $9.
The theater is small, so snap up your tickets as soon as you can!
Fugue State, from Wickie Stamp's Southern gothic work-in-progress, revolves around the crimes of and against the notorious Dr. Prince Beckman—a psychiatrist and former head of Zeboiim prison. Follow Francy MacLeish, a frequently medicated ex-mental patient, as she "investigates" the doctor's gruesome trail. Meet the case's major suspects: Jackson Beckman, a defrocked psychiatrist and son of Prince, Jackson's convict brother Dakin, and Francy's sister M MacLeish—an anti-psychiatry, sexually transgressive, revenge-oriented anarchist. Fugue State is an engaging and disturbing fever dream.
Starring:
m.i. blue as Dakin Beckman
Victor Gresser as Jackson Beckman
Lauren Hachemeister as Francy MacLeish
Lynn Lockwood as Dr. Prince Beckman
Sadie Lune as M MacLeish
Wickie Stamps - Writer and Producer
Jed Bell - Director and Producer
Lauren Hachemeister - Assistant Producer
m.i. blue, Victor Gresser, Lauren Hachemeister, Miriam Kronberg, Joe Landini, Lynn Lockwood, Sadie Lune - Creative Co-Conspirators
Wickie Stamps is a widely published writer and emerging screenwriter whose work has appeared in The Advocate, OutWeek, Gay Community News, Frontiers, Drummer, Socialist Review, and over a dozen short-story collections. Writer of the award-winning short film "Foucault WHO?, Wickie is currently finishing her first novel, a strange Southern tale of queerness and crime. Her current obsessions include crime, horror, dark arts, and small dogs. Wickie also offers Creative Co-Conspiracy Services (a.k.a. coaching) in her alternate persona, Monstre Sacré.
Jed Rosenthal Bell is a filmmaker who started out as a community organizer for ACT UP and queer civil rights campaigns, learning graphic design along the way by making posters and flyers, protest signs and newsletters. Jed wound up combining the collaborative skills of activism with the visual storytelling of graphic design to start making films. His first short, the queer noir crime drama "Foucault WHO?," has toured the globe, winning "best of fest" awards in the U.S. and Europe. His kvetchy animated trans satire "DRIVE THRU" is still making its way around the world after winning "Best Animation" at San Francisco's Rough Cut Film Festival.
Victor Gresser, visual artist and performer from Baltimore, MD, has been doing theater and dance nearly 20 years. In college, he first took to the stage in an experimental dance performance choreographed by Joanna Rotkin founder of TinHouse Experimental Dance Theatre. It all took off from there: traditional theater roles, modern dance, and producing his own original one-man shows. In 2003 and 2004, Victor learned the art of puppetry and was a marrionetist/actor with Dawkins Puppet Company. Since 2005, Victor has been a member of The Grey Area Ensemble directed by Adam Ansell based in San Francisco. With Grey Area, Victor has played Madame D in THE POISONOUS PARTY OF MIRABELLA MCCLOP and Jeanette de Gella in last year's 10 LANES PIZZA BOWL. Victor has trained in improv at Pan Theater in Oakland and studied movement theater with the internationally known Israeli theater company, T'MU-NA. Victor is very excited to be a part of this extraordinary piece of theater.
The only acting that Lauren Hachemeister has done is in her imagination where she channels all sorts of characters who inspire her to expand her sense of self. Demons, fairies, monsters, animals, and even humans have resided in her persona. She is thrilled that she could be here with you today, in whatever form her possession takes.
Lynn Lockwood is a new arrival to the San Francisco arts scene from Denver, and brings to Fugue State numerous independent film, television, voiceover, and theater credits. His last stage appearance was as Chief Bromben in “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.” Lynn enjoys San Francisco with his wife Janet and their four cats.
Sadie Lune is delighted to finally be queer enough to be a part of the National Queer Arts Festival; she's worked so hard at it.
Sadie is a multi-media artist and pleasure activist based in San Francisco, whose work focuses on sexuality, gender and erotica in performance and visual genres. She is organizing a float to promote visibility and an appreciation of the history of sex workers in San Francisco for this year's Pride Parade, in conjunction with the Center for Sex and Culture and the St. James Infirmary. Sadie has recently performed as Rod Serling in The Twilight Zone, the Plays, an eco-friendly Dominatrix in a piece she created for Annie Sprinkle and Beth Steven's Green Wedding, and something inexplicable but hot at the L.A. Dyke March. Her Saturn Returns Komyx runs regularly in $pread magazine, she won a People's Choice award in the Good Vibes Annual Amateur Erotic Film Competition for her kinky-foodie short "Yum", and she's really starting to get into this blogging thing.
She is currently looking for a wife. Sadie lives in the Mission with her three snakes.
m.i.blue
Last seen participating in his own postmodern production of a Twilight Zone episode, m.i.blue can also make monkey and elephant noises. Ask him.
Fugue State is an unfunded project of Heads Will Roll. To fund one or two of our charming killers (our killer cast, crew, and creatives, that is), please send along a check with "Fugue State" in the memo area made payable to the non-profit SAFEhouse--more info below--c/o The Garage, 975 Howard St., San Francisco, CA 94115.
Fugue State is a part of the 11th Annual National Queer Arts Festival.
The Garage is the home of AIRspace (Artist In Residence),a work-in-progress performance laboratory and rehearsal facility designed to incubate emerging lesbian/gay/bi/transgendered performing artists and artists exploring same-sex and gender issues. The program allows residents to explore the creative process and to develop their performing arts craft. The in-progress nature of AIRspace performances educate audiences about the artists' creative processes and the discipline employed – performance, dance, theater, music and interdisciplinary – while generating critical feedback for the development of the work. Each group or individual resident is awarded up to eight hours a week of available studio time during a four-month residency.
The non-profit SAFEhouse (Saving Art From Extinction) as well as other programs are also housed at The Garage. SAFEhouse was developed to create new forums for contemporary performance. In 2007 he founded The Garage to create a "safehouse" for local performers and foster a creative community that is both inclusive and professional.
