Welcome to our season
A message from Sue Trigg, Artistic Director
Welcome to Role Players and to a very special season as we celebrate our 25th Anniversary as Danville’s premiere venue for quality live theatre. Wow! We are so proud to offer such high production values (even in such tough economic times) and to share with you an extraordinarily talented pool of actors and directors from the San Ramon Valley area and beyond. As this is such a special year for us, I have strived to develop a season that will delight, intrigue and entertain you… our valued audience members.
We will kick-off the 2008–2009 Season with the critically acclaimed play – The Best Man from the political pen of the well renowned author and essayist Gore Vidal. This often humorous story of a highly charged race to the White House is as timeless as it is timely. Next -The Underpants, a comic masterpiece, beautifully adapted by the award winning actor, comedian and author Steve Martin. This is a fast-paced, witty, tongue in cheek story filled with double entendres and laced with ribald fun. We complete our season with an American classic, Edward Albee’s Three Tall Women, a compelling and honest insight into the life of a woman in her nineties as she reflects on her triumphs, her mistakes and her relationship with her son.
At Role Players Ensemble we are endeavoring to lay a strong foundation for excellence and build a local theatre company that you can be proud to say is in your own backyard. Please join us as we celebrate 25 years of story telling and I hope you continue with us on our journey so we may reach another such milestone.
— Sue Trigg
Sue Trigg, who has a degree from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, has performed and directed in the Bay Area for more than 25 years. Sue most recently directed her first show – “The School for Scandal” – since becoming RPE artistic director. Other directing credits include, “Loot,” “Nuts” “Morning's at Seven” and the critically claimed “Death of a Salesman” at the Altarena, in her home town of Alameda. Favorite acting roles include Martha in “Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf” “Shirley Valentine in the one woman show of the same name, Lettice in “Lettice and Lovage,” and Dotty Ottley in “Noises Off”, a role that garnered Sue a coveted San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle award for best supporting actress. Sue is married to another regular performer at Role Players, Chris Chapman.
