Staff Bios
Jeff
Rowlings (Producer)
is also currently working for American Conservatory Theatre as
Production Supervisor. Prior to Foghouse, Mr. Rowlings served
as Producing Director for San Diego Repertory Theatre where he
produced It Ain't Nothin' but the Blues, which ran on Broadway
at the Lincoln Center and the Ambassador Theatre. He designed
lights for SDR productions of Death of a Salesman, Culture
Clash in Bordertown, Uncle Vanya and Radio Mambo. Jeff
co-produced and designed lights for Bordertown with the
Mark Taper Forum last summer and which was included in the LA
Weekly's Top Ten Productions of 1999. Prior to SDR, he was Production
Manager and Resident Designer for the Magic Theatre for a ten
year span. Designs there included sets for The House of Yes,
Moon for the Misbegotten and Why We Have a Body and
sets and lights for Unquestioned Integrity: The Hill-Thomas
Hearings and Park in our House. Jeff designed lights
for Foghouse's productions O'Carolan's Farewell to Music
and Culture Clash Anthology (at Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts and Los Angeles Theatre Center). His passion for new
work has premiered the writings of Claire Chafee, David Ives,
Octavio Solis, D.W. Jacobs and Scott Feldsher, Julia Sweeney,
Rick Najera, Nilo Cruz, Wendy MacLeod, Culture Clash, Amy Freed
and many more. More about Jeff at his own website: www.jeffrowlings.com
Brett
Metzger (General Manager)
is also currently the
Program Administrator for the Friend Center for the Arts at the
Jewish Community Center of San Francisco. He has previously worked
as a fundraiser for Berkeley Repertory Theatre and was
the GM for the San Diego Repertory Theatre. Mr. Metzger has an
MFA in Arts Management from UCLA and is happy to be collaborating
with Mr. Rowlings again after working together in San Diego.
Rich
Baker (Associate Producer) is the president of
Odaat Productions a San Francisco based for-profit theatrical
production organization. Odaat has been producing theatre in San
Francisco for the last seventeen years. There most notable production
was Bar None -A Comedy/Murder Mystery which ran for four
years. Odaat has also produced Mona Roger's in Person starring
Helen Shumaker, Josh Kornbluth's Haiku Tunnel and The
Mathematics of Change as well as QuizBang, Eisenhower Hour,
Let's Play Two and Billy Bishop Goes to War among others.
In the middle Nineteen Nineties Rich was also the managing/artist
director of the Cable Car Theatre in San Francisco for four years.
Currently Rich is working on four scripts of his own for future
production. Rich is married to Cheryl Madsen a local actress and
producer and they have three children Jake, Tom, and Ruby who
really occupy most of their time and energy.
Rachel
Lopez (Website) recently graduated from California
College of the Arts (and Crafts) with a degree in Graphic Design.
She is freelance print designer, and owner and principal designer
for the handmade card company Handmade by Rachel.
"take
it from the top"