ADK Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Theseus, Moth); Merchant of Venice (Antonio, Launcelot Gobbo, Tubal); 2011 Children’s Play (TBA)
Bennett Fisher is a San Francisco based playwright, director, and actor. He has performed with San Francisco Theater Pub (Henry IV Parts I and II), Marin Shakespeare Company (Antony and Cleopatra), Crowded Fire (The Lysistrata Project), the Pear Ave Theatre (Pick Up Ax), Stanford Summer Theater (Elektra), AtmosTheatre (The Frogs), and Brava Women’s Theatre (Sincerity Forever), among others. Directing credits include Audience and Ubu Roi for San Francisco Theater Pub and the upcoming world-premiere of Susan Sobeloff’s Merchants for No Nude Men. His first full length play, Hermes, premièred in San Francisco last fall, where it was hailed as a “daring and extremely intelligent” and “a breathtaking experience in relevant, contemporary theatre” by The Huffington Post. Two more of his full-length plays – Devil of a Time and Don’t Be Evil – are slated for full production in 2011-2012. His various short plays have been performed in New York, Boston, San Francisco, Chicago, and New London. He is an associate artist with AtmosTheatre and Threshold Theatre, a founding director of the San Francisco Theater Pub, and the artistic director of the Flying Island Theatre Lab, in residence at the Palo Alto Art Center.
