List of Actors
This site is for people who act in San Diego
I wanted to create a site for people in San Diego to have a basis on which to start. If you have a headshot you need to get taken, if you are looking for an audtion, you want to get involved with a theater company, you want to do film, you want to know if anyone else is getting together and acting in San Diego, then you have come to the right place.
Compass Theatre
I ran across this theatre the other day and am so excited to find out more about it.
I went to their site and found this:
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COMPASS CLOSING PRESS RELEASE
December 17, 2009
Compass Theatre Points to New Horizon
Local theatre impresario, Dale Morris, to assume new role as full-time actor
while tapping ion theatre company to assume Hillcrest venue
San Diego: Dale Morris, local theatre impresario, who over the last nine years maintained the city’s busiest port of call for emerging and established local theatre talent—now Compass, formerly 6th@Penn—announced today that he plans to hand over the reigns of his venue to the widely lauded and highly energetic young company, ion theatre, while focusing his attention on other artistic pursuits.
Said Morris of his tenure as chief of the Hillcrest storefront theatre that launched several local companies, including ion, “After almost nine years, some good, some bad, some real good, some real bad, I’ve decided to move on and let Compass Theatre go dormant for a while as I consider the future. Acting is the passion I most want to follow now, especially after the critical success of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and a few other recent showcases.” Faced with the prospect of closing the venue, however, Morris continued, “that would have killed me. I’m thankful I picked up the phone and called Glenn and Claudio. Knowing they’ll be in the space is a great comfort to me.”
Claudio Raygoza, Founding Executive Artistic Director of ion theatre company which launched in 2004, and current Producing Artistic Director Glenn Paris, will assume the lease of the Hillcrest locale on the corner of 6th Avenue and Pennsylvania as of February 15, 2010. “We’re grateful to Dale for thinking of us and ion theatre,” said Raygoza, “It’s poetic justice, somehow, to return to the venue where ion was born. Dale has made a steady and I think noteworthy practice of maintaining a place where theatre artists of all backgrounds and experience levels can cut their teeth and really learn the process of theatre-making from the ground up.” Said Paris, “Interestingly, though I was a director in New York, it took a directing opportunity at Compass to entice me back into the chair after a healthy hiatus. Claudio, who had also worked on several productions at 6th@Penn prior to launching ion, prodded me to re-test my theatre legs here. I’m grateful I did.”
Currently, ion plans to produce work outside of its regular season in the soon-to-be-renamed building come 2010 as the company assumes the venue midway through its season and has already contracted spaces for its remaining four productions: Hurlyburly at Diversionary Theatre in January, Back of the Throat and Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue at NTC/Liberty Station in March, and the world premiere of Galilee at 10th Avenue Theatre in May.
As for Morris, his future plans may include, “a new, bigger, theatre space as a possibility. The board wants that and will pursue it, and if it happens it’ll be great. If it doesn’t, oh well, I just hope I get called in to audition and not to produce!” Added Morris, “I’m proud of all the actors, directors, and techs that I’ve put to work over the years. It hasn’t always been smooth sailing, but there have been many highs.” Morris will continue to operate San Diego Theatre Scene Newsletter & his theatre resource website to stay busy after moving in with his fiancé who he plans to marry in February.
For ion theatre, which has been homeless most of its five years, this marks a new phase of creativity and necessary resourcefulness. Says Raygoza, “we’ve learned what it’s like to do with and without a home and I feel that we’ve toughened up enough over the last several years to see clearly the many opportunities looming in this new locale. With a company of 16 members and a host of artists we can call friends and colleagues, we’re ready to work. We’re grateful to our audiences and steadfast donors who grow in number daily and who cheer us on in our growth.” Added Paris, “For this new venue, expect us to think even more out of the box than ever before. In this hip new environment, ion may find itself hosting theatre one night, spoken word the next, music, film series, and more—all in the spirit of continuing to provide San Diego with work that is always passionate, intensely exciting and certainly bold and uncompromising.”
For details on San Diego Theatre Scene, please go to www.sdtheatrescene.com.
For details on ion theatre company, please go to www.iontheatre.com.