John Fisher’s
Doodler
The Marsh San Francisco Mainstage
May 31 – July 6, 2025
Saturdays at 8pm | Sundays at 3pm
Opening Night: June 7
Written & Performed by John Fisher
Directed by John Fisher & Colin Johnson
Ticket Information
Tickets: $25 – $35 General Seating | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
100 minutes | No intermission | Ages 18+
(Please do not bring infants to the show)
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Show Description
After sellout houses and glowing reviews, DOODLER moves to The Marsh in San Francisco. Don’t miss the show the critics have called “chilling,” “gripping,” a “masterpiece,” “a joy to watch,” “compelling,” “witty,” and “very enjoyable,”* and audiences have heralded as “super energetic and interesting,” “athletic,” “great,” “tremendous” and a ”fantastic story and performance.”** DOODLER tells the tale of the “Doodler,” who terrorized San Francisco in the 1970s. All of his victims were gay men. He picked them up in the Castro and Polk Gulch neighborhoods, had sex with them in the Outsidelands, and then stabbed them to death. When he met each man he presented him with something, something that charmed him. This is the story of a gay man who is determined to find the Doodler and revenge the death of one of his victims. Fifty years later, the case is still open, and the yet unidentified “Doodler” is the subject of John Fisher’s latest one-man show.
In a unique “take” on the on the one-man show format, for the Doodler’s performance run, John Fisher will truly be a one-man show – setting up and sweeping the space, running his own lights and sound from the stage, while enacting a complex, true San Francisco story with a still-beating heart.
Artist Biography
JOHN FISHER (Playwright/Co-Director/Actor) recently completed a successful NYC Off-Broadway run of his show Medea: The Musical at the Actor’s Temple, after an initial run at Green Room 42 in NYC. Also recently, he enjoyed a six-month run of his solo-show A History of World War II at The Marsh, preceded by two runs of the show in Manhattan (United Solo/Theatre Row – Best Actor Award – and Pangea Performance Space) and another in Los Angeles (the Broadwater.) He is a two-time winner of the Will Glickman Award, as well as being a recipient of the GLAAD Media Award, an NEA Project Grant and ten Critics’ Circle Awards (most recently for Best Production for Cabaret in 2024.) His plays include the award-winning Action Hero, Shakespeare Goes to War, To Sleep and Dream, Combat! and Medea, the Musical. Previous COVID-19 performances include Murder in Hawaii, Shark! and A Tourist in London. John’s COVID-19 plays A Tourist in Hawaii and A Tourist in London were revived online at The Marsh. He is frequent performer of his solo work at Pangea NYC, The Tank NYC and the LGBTQ Center in Manhattan. John has worked at Golden Thread, the American Conservatory Theatre, Yale, and Berkeley Rep, as well as at the HBO Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen. www.JohnLathamFisher.com.
COLIN JOHNSON (Lighting Design/Sound Facilitator/Co-Director) started with Theatre Rhino in 2012 and has assistant directed, designed lighting/sound, stage managed (often all at the same time), and much more. Favorite Rhino shows include Shakespeare Goes to War, Breaking the Code, Road Show, and At the Wake of a Dead Drag Queen. He is also the Technical Director for the Joe Goode Annex and SAFEhouse Arts in addition to being a freelance lighting designer and electrician.
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