Dan Hoyle’s
Takes All Kinds
Live & In Person at The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage
Written & Performed by Dan Hoyle
Directed by Aldo Billingslea & Michael Moran
Developed with Charlie Varon
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and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
EXTENDED!
Now thru Feb 22, & March 15 thru March 29
Fridays at 7:30 pm
Saturdays at 5:00 pm
Ticket Information
Tickets: $20 – $35 General Seating sliding scale | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
Use code “GROUP” to get 20% off tickets for groups of 10 or more
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
75 minutes | No Intermission | Ages 15+
Please do not bring infants to the show
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About the Show
Based on immersive reporting from school board showdowns in Florida, grassroots organizers in Atlanta, barbershops in Las Vegas, deprogrammers of violent extremists in Missouri and more. Experience the moving, funny, true Stories of American Democracy in these tumultuous times.
About the Creative Team
Dan Hoyle (Writer & Performer) is an actor and writer whose brand of immersion research theater has been hailed as “riveting, funny and poignant” (New York Times) and “hilarious, moving and very necessary” (Salon). His solo shows BORDER PEOPLE, EACH AND EVERY THING, THE REAL AMERICANS, TINGS DEY HAPPEN, and CIRCUMNAVIGATOR, have toured the country and overseas including The Public Theater, Culture Project, Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Mosaic Theater Company (D.C.), Portland Center Stage, Playmakers Rep, Painted Bride (Philly), The Park in Kolkata, India, the Samuel Beckett Theater in Dublin, Ireland, Taliesin in Swansea, Wales, and a five city tour of Nigeria (Lagos, Abuja, Bauchi, Jos, and Calabar).
Hoyle has been recognized with many awards, including the Will Glickman, Prize of Hope, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, multiple TBA awards, and Lucille Lortel (Nomination). He’s been supported by grants from the Edgerton Foundation, Pew Theater Initiative, Fleishhacker Foundation, and been commissioned by Aurora Theater, First Person Arts, San Francisco Playhouse and The Working Theater. He holds a double degree in Performance Studies and History from Northwestern University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria in 2005-2006.
He has been an artist-in-residence at Columbia University’s Heyman Center for Humanities, Trinity College, Dublin, and Santa Clara University. He lives in Oakland with his wife, an art teacher in East Bay public schools, and their two children.
You can read and subscribe to his monthly essays on process and extra stories on his Substack “Go There To Know There.” Also erratically on IG @cuttyhoyle
Aldo Billingslea (Director) is Professor of Theatre Arts at Santa Clara University (SCU) where he teaches acting. Billingslea served as SCU’s Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion and served as the vice president of the 100 Black Men of Silicon Valley. He also serves on the Board of the Institute for Contemporary Art in San Jose and TheatreWorks. Billingslea has performed on numerous stages around the Bay Area and the Country and is the Theatre Program Director for The222.org in Healdsburg, California.
Michael Moran (Director) is the executive director, co-artistic director, and one of the founders of the Oakland Theater Project, a theater company with a mission to create exquisite theatrical experiences to inspire compassion and forge bonds across socioeconomic and racial barriers. Moran has worked as a professional actor in regional theaters throughout the United States and has directed over 15 productions at Oakland Theater Project. He is the recipient of the San Francisco Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for Best Director in the East Bay.
Charlie Varon (Developer) is known for his three decades of creating, performing, and directing new work in San Francisco. He has collaborated with Dan Hoyle for 20 years, on his solo shows Circumnavigator, Tings Dey Happen, Each and Every Thing, The Real Americans, and Border People. Charlie’s own shows – all created in collaboration with David Ford – include the plays Rush Limbaugh in Night School (1994), The People’s Violin (2000), and Rabbi Sam (2009), as well as the storytelling/dining experience Storyborscht (2017) and Charlie’s collaboration with Brian Copeland, The Great American Sh*t Show (2019). Current projects include teaching storytelling, coaching writers and performers, and fundraising for Democrats in North Carolina, California’s Central Valley and elsewhere. Varon has recently returned to his roots in satire with his surreal Comic Bonbons, short audio pieces featuring his impersonations of Bernie Sanders, Alan Watts, Studs Terkel and Pete Seeger, among others. These can all be heard for free at charlievaron.com.
Press & Media
“Stunning…something almost supernatural transpires…the Bay Area’s theatrical prophet is back.”
–The San Francisco Chronicle
Review: With Dan Hoyle’s ‘Takes All Kinds,’ the Bay Area’s theatrical prophet is back
“Hoyle’s gift is not just the ability to establish trust with interviewees, to strike up meaningful conversations in tense times with complete strangers, but to share those experiences, viscerally.”
-Local News Matters
Review: Solo actor extraordinaire Dan Hoyle strikes again in ‘Takes All Kinds’
“A moving and timely look at contemporary America through the actual words of a diverse tableau of Americans.”
–Theatrius
“Takes All Kinds”: Genius Celebration of America on the Brink—at The Marsh
“The show itself is a welcome reminder of how the faceless masses are actually a collection of folks who each want their story told.”
-48 Hills
In ‘Takes All Kinds,’ a trip through red states brings out complex humanity
“Dan’s ‘Man on the Street’ approach to interviewing his subjects allows him to personify these everyday Americans with astounding mimicry and startling accuracy.”
–Stage & Cinema