MISSION
FOGG Theatre Company engages, entertains, and enlivens the San Francisco Bay Area community with musical productions that examine and celebrate our history, our communities, our heroes, our concerns, and our ideologies. We commission, develop, and produce locally relevant stories created for the San Francisco Bay Area. We also provide Bay Area focused performing arts education.
VISION
FOGG stands for "Focus On Golden Gate". We are a collaborative venture building a locally based, self-reliant theatre system—one in which the creation of work, the production of work, and the consumption of work enhances the economic, environmental and social health of the San Francisco Bay Area. By telling locally relevant stories, and by using Bay Area artists, we are creating a theatre system that gives our audience a personalized, consequential and vital entertainment alternative. Telling Bay Area stories is important. Stories are how we process our past, how we examine our present, and how we imagine our future. They're how we grieve our losses, and how we celebrate our triumphs. Our stories matter.
PRESS
FOGG Theatre named one of SFist’s 12 Best Local Theaters In The Bay Area
SFist September 2, 2015 'Cable Car Nymphomaniac' Remounted for Limited Run in June SFist March 21, 2015 Bay Area Stories for Bay Area Artists San Jose Mercury News January 19, 2015 'Cable Car' Promises Wild Ride San Francisco Examiner January 15, 2015 New Theatre Company Debuts Story of Infamous 'Cable Car Nymphomaniac SFist January 6, 2015 |
30 Amazing Things to Do in S.F. This Month
Refinery29 January 5, 2015 New Theater Stages the Cable Car Sex Case that Gripped S.F. SF Gate November 5, 2014 Singing the Climax: A New Musical Theater Company Launches with a Show About a Nymphomaniac's Lawsuit SF Weekly February 26, 2014 |
STAFF
Aimee Miles
Co-Founder/Director of Education aimee@foggtheatre.org Aimée Miles is a working actor, singer, and voice-over artist living in San Francisco. She has performed in dozens of plays and musicals, on both coasts and abroad, as well as numerous films, tv shows, and video games – including Spiderman-3, CSI, Trauma, Back to the Future (game) and Nickelodeon’s Drake and Josh. Aimée served as a Creative Producer for the SF/LA/Boston women’s theatre company, erinys productions, for which she produced and starred in the Los Angeles premiere of Anthony Minghella’s all-female play, Whale Music, a benefit for City of Hope’s Breast Cancer Research Center. She is a founding member of the Academy Repertory Company, in which she and a dozen other singing actors workshopped new musicals for the Academy for New Musical Theatre in Los Angeles. Following her homecoming to the Bay Area in 2006, Aimee made her directing debut in at Brava Theatre Center in San Francisco with Birth, a docu-drama of women’s birth stories, penned by Karen Brody. Aimée has worked behind the scenes in education and youth theatre since college, as a teaching assistant (ACT’s Young Conservatory, Oddfellows Playhouse), youth camp musical director (CYP Youth Theater), children’s playwright, private coach, career mentor, and touring elementary school performer (LA’s Imagination Central). Aimee holds a BA in Theatre Arts and Latin American Studies from Wesleyan University, CT. |
Tony Asaro
Co-Founder/Artistic Director tony@foggtheatre.org Tony received his undergraduate degree from Santa Clara University in 1998 in Theatre and Music, and later received his Masters Degree in Musical Theatre Writing from the Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program at NYU: Tisch School of the Arts. In 2008, he was honored with the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust Award for songwriting. In 2011, he was a Resident Artist in American Lyric Theater’s Composer Librettist Development Program. As a composer/lyricist, Tony has worked on a number of music theatre projects including FOGG Theatre’s first commission, The Cable Car Nymphomaniac which played to sold out houses in both January and June of 2015, and the award winning Our Country (with Dan Collins), which received its world premiere in June of 2009 through the Planet Connections Theatre Festivity. Our Countrywent on to win four Planet Connections awards, including Outstanding Overall Production of a Musical, and Outstanding Book, Music & Lyrics of a Musical, and was subsequently published in the “2010: Plays and Playwrights” anthology of new plays (NYTE Small Press). The hit show then enjoyed a successful run in 2010 at New York Musicals Theatre Festival. Tony has self-produced every iteration of Our Countryincluding the concept album (available on iTunes!) He has also self-produced multiple readings of his show The Many, Many Men of Tony Asaro in both New York City and San Francisco, and has co-produced concerts of his own work on both coasts as well. Tony’s first musical, Family has enjoyed two productions–one at SCU in 1999 and one at the Ryan Repertory Theatre in New York City in 2000. Also an accomplished librettist, Tony has received commissions from choirs and opera companies to pen libretti for multiple operas and oratorios. His oratorio Such Beautiful Things, written with composer Jeff Parola, was commissioned by Choral Chameleon of New York City, and performed by them in 2010. His opera All Wounds Bleed, written with composer Chris Cerrone, was presented in Opera America’s New Works Forum in 2012, and received its world premiere at Tulsa Opera in 2013. Tony has recently been commissioned by American Lyric Theatre to write the libretto for a family opera adaptation of Ray Bradbury’s The Halloween Tree. |
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
Leta Soza, Morgen Humes
Tony Asaro, Vice President
Nam Nguyen, Treasurer
Aimee Miles, Secretary
Scott Knaster
Marc Pinto
Tony Asaro, Vice President
Nam Nguyen, Treasurer
Aimee Miles, Secretary
Scott Knaster
Marc Pinto