Reminder: Marga Gomez's Lovebirds at The Marsh @ Sat Mar 1, 2014 8:30pm - 9:30pm (Queer Things)

more details » Marga Gomez's Lovebirds at The Marsh World Premiere January 23 - March 15, 2014 The Marsh San Francisco Thursdays & Fridays at 8:00pm Saturdays at 8:30pm Written & Performed by Marga Gomez Directing by David Schweizer 75 minutes No Intermission All seating for this performance is first-come, first-served (except for $50 reserved seating) This show is 17 & up All shows are in The Marsh SF Upstairs Studio 1062 Valencia Street (near 22nd Street) San Francisco, CA 94110 In her tenth solo play LOVEBIRDS, acclaimed performer Marga Gomez portrays a crew of incurable romantics as they chase their hearts' desires – into the night, through decades, and to insane lengths. Orestes, a macho maitre d' is infatuated with a tin eared singer who is married to an academic who never sleeps and is never awake. On the other side of town Orestes's daughter cuts off her hair, joins a coven, and starts dating the captain of a women's football team. They are observed and documented by Polaroid Phillie, an ageless nightclub photographer and fixture at gay bars, Spanish restaurants, and wherever passion happens. Bios: Marga Gomez is the author and performer of ten solo plays: Not Getting Any Younger; Long Island Iced Latina; Los Big Names; A Line Around The Block; Memory Tricks; Marga Gomez is Pretty, Witty & Gay; Jaywalker; The Twelve Days of Cochina and Proud and Bothered, which, along with her collaboration with Carmelita Tropicana on the erotic horror comedy Single Wet Female, have been produced nationally, internationally, and in New York at The Public Theater, 47th Street Theatre, Performance Space 122, Dixon Place, and La Mama Experimental Theatre Company Her acting credits include Off-Broadway and national productions of The Vagina Monologues and roles in Warner Bros films "Sphere" and "Batman Forever." Her awards include the GLAAD Media Award for Off-Broadway Theatre, The Los Angeles "Ovation Award for Best Featured Actress and the 2010 Bay Area Critics Circle Award for "Best Performance" Ms. Gomez is a triple winner of the SF Bay Guardian's "Best Comedian" Award and was nominated for the 2006 New York Drama Desk Award for Los Big Names. She lives in San Francisco, tours nationally and teaches solo performance. Her website is www.margagomez.com. Gomez is thrilled to be back at The Marsh where she premiered her first solo show Memory Tricks in 1991. Director David Schweizer, who also collaborated with Marga Gomez on five previous shows including the critically acclaimed Off Broadway run of Los Big Names, has been developing and directing new theatre, performance, and opera works nationally and internationally for over thirty years, from his debut at age twenty-two at Lincoln Center with his radical revival of Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, to his recent return to that locale with his triumphant staging of Richard Rodney Bennett's opera The Mines of Sulphur at New York City Opera. Notable work includes his OBIE Award-winning work with composer/writer/performer Rinde Eckert (And God Created Great Whales, Horizon) and his collaborations with innovative experimental theater companies such as TheatreWorks Silicon Valley's New Works Festival, Mabou Mines, Theatre X, and his own Modern Artists Company. Schweizer attended the Yale School of Drama, and has taught at UCLA, Cal Arts Academy, NYU, Circle in the Square, Bennington College, and elsewhere. When Sat Mar 1, 2014 8:30pm – 9:30pm Pacific Time Calendar Queer Things Who • Larry-bob Roberts - creator

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