In Front of Your Eyes 2024
Performance Festival Presents:
Celina Demos’
EELS! The Musical
at The Marsh Berkeley Mainstage
Book by: Celina Demos & Nicole Jost
Music by: Celina Demos & Tony Eiras
Lyrics by: Celina Demos
Performed by Julia Wright, Celina Demos, Faustino Cadiz, & Daniel Rios
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Thursday, August 15 at 7:30pm
Friday, August 16 at 7:30pm
Saturday, August 17 at 7:30pm
About the Festival
In Front of Your Eyes Performance Festival will feature developing works from women and nonbinary performers and playwrights. The festival will take place in both San Francisco and Berkeley. San Francisco will feature solo shows, and Berkeley will feature ensemble shows.
About the Show
How do eels have sex? When biologists Gabby and Lacy find their research funding cut, they dive into an unexpected solution: producing a musical! Brimming with humor, heart, and an outrageous number of fish puns, EELS! The Musical hopes to hook audiences and reel in laughs with its disarming approach.
Ticket Information
Tickets: $15 – $35 General Seating sliding scale | $50 & $100 Reserved Seating
Online ticket sales close 2 hours before each performance,
and additional tickets may be available for purchase at the door.
No Intermission | Ages 16+
Please do not bring infants to the show
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About the Artistic Crew
Celina Demos (Music, Lyrics, Libretto, Direction, & Charlotte the Piano Player) is a dedicated musical theatre enthusiast with a passion for tarot cards, local politics, and tattoos, who admires Stephen Sondheim, and has a unique fondness for eels.
Tony Eiras (Music & Arrangement) is a musical director, conductor, composer, and teacher. His choral compositions have been recorded by the Laudamus Singers and Orchestra and are perormed in parishes and churches across the United States.
Nicole Jost (Book) is a playwright, teaching artist, and theater producer. She co-founded Queer Cat Productions, a theater company dedicated to creating consent-forward accessible, immersive experiences from 2017 to 2023. With Queer Cat, Nicole co-wrote four interactive plays, including The Gay Divorce Play (Potrero Stage, 2019) and Felix B. Love Is Not Alone! (virtual, April 2020). She is also part of the musical theater writing team Grabmeier and Jost, currently working on a queer rom com titled Love U.
Julia Wright’s (Dr. Gabriella Cunningham) past roles include Natalie in Next to Normal (Sunnyvale Community Players), Wednesday in The Addams Family (WVLO Musical Theatre), and Piggie in Elephant & Piggie’s ‘We’re in a Play’ (Plethos Productions).
Faustino Cadiz (Joey) is a Filipino-American educator and performing artist, who has appeared in A Chorus Line, Yellow Face, Assassins, and Sondheim on Sondheim. He has collaborated with numerous local theatre companies, including Bindlestiff Studio, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company, Tri-Valley Theatre Company, and Center Repertory Company.
Daniel Rios (Tom) is an opera singer with extensive experience in both classical and contemporary operas. He has performed with esteemed companies such as Opera San Jose, Opera Modesto, and the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.