John Caldon (Playwright/Co-Director): Caldon is co-artistic director and co-founder of Guerrilla Rep. Most recently, he directed the world premiere of Guerrilla Rep’s hotshot at Mama Calizo’s Voice Factory. In 2007, He co-directed the San Francisco State University One-Act Fringe with preeminent Chicano playwright and director Roy Conboy. He also staged Tony Kushner’s Homebody monologue and To Tame a Shrew, his own conceptual adaptation of Shakespeare’s work, for the SFSU Brown Bag Theatre Company’s 2007 season. Previously, he assistant-directed the SFSU Main Stage production of The Karamazovs, Bill Peter’s adaptation of the Dostoevsky novel. Caldon comes from a background in theater and film production, working with The Western Stage in Salinas, with Royal Caribbean International, and as Executive Producer for Amedias Motion Pictures. He is a recent graduate of the SFSU Creative Writing program.

Thu Tran (Co-Director): Tran is a graduate of SFSU with a degree in Theatre Arts Performance. Most recently, he played the title role in the world premiere of Mark Jackson's adaptation of Don Juan. Other credits include The Forest War at the Ashby Stage, Lovers and Other Strangers, Danton's Death, and Les Liaisons Dangerouses. In 2007 he adapted and directed Andrew Lam's Perfume Dreams for the SFSU Brown Bag Theatre Fall Season, as well as wrote and staged a reading of a new original musical, A Concordance of One's Life. His theatre training includes Suzuki Method Training, Biomechanics, Corporeal Mime, and Nohgaku Theatre.

 Lucas Baisch (Armando): Baisch will be entering his third year at San Francisco's School of the Arts' Theatre Program where he recently appeared in Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth and Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Biasch training includes Shakespeare, Commedia dell'arte, Noh and Kyogen Theatre, Afro-Haitian Dance and Playwriting.

Melenie Eleneke (Melenie): Eleneke is a Native Hawaiian mahuwahine, hula dancer, Polynesian costume/fashion & Chihuahua fashion designer under her own “Mahinamalamalama” couture label. Aside from being an improvisational performance artist, Eleneke has garnered international attention for her work as a human rights advocate. She is an “HIV Stops With Me” spokesmodel, a health educator, an HIV/AIDS prevention advocate, a transgender human rights activist, and a social justice activist in the LGBTQQI, Asian & Pacific Islander, and In-Prison communities. While pursuing her social work and social justice education, Eleneke is focusing on LGBTQQI Pacific Islander cultural competency and the proactive maintenance of health and wellness in those communities.

Kat Evasco (Jovee): Evasco was fortunate to find sanity in the performing arts. Three years and some odd months ago, she joined Bindlestiff Studio, the only permanent community-based performing arts venue in the nation dedicated to showcasing emerging Filipin@ American and Pilipin@ artists. Cultivated as an artist by crazy Filipin@s, Evasco discovered a passion and a path in theater arts. Besides theater, Evasco also started making her life public through stand up comedy and she may be found performing stand up on Thursdays at Brainwash.

Ryan Fuimaono ("the playwright"): Fuimaono is a Pacific Islander community activist and a recipient of the Rickey Williams Leaders Fellowship granted by the Horizons Foundation and Castro For All to emerging LGBT leaders in communities of color. A former member of the LGBT Advisory Committee to the San Francisco Human Rights Commission, Fuimaono currently volunteers as an HIV Test Counselor at Asian & Pacific Islander Wellness Center. He is also a hula dancer with the San Francisco-based hālau, Nā Lei Hulu I Ka Wēkiu.

Rachel Garcia (Shannon): A recent graduate of the SFSU Theatre Arts program, Garcia has performed in a staged reading of the play-in-progress The Devil Beatin’ His Wife by John Caldon, the 2007 SFSU One-Act Fringe, Tony Kushner’s Homebody monologue for the SFSU Brown Bag Theatre Company’s 2007 season, and a SFSU main stage production of The Karamazovs, Bill Peter’s adaptation of the Dostoevsky novel. She is thrilled to be working with John Caldon for the fifth time and honored be a part of Guerrilla Rep. She is looking forward to moving to Los Angeles in the fall to further pursue her career.


Greg Gutting (Rick): Most recently, Gutting appeared as Christian in Guerrilla Rep’s hotshot and he is thrilled to continue working with the company as Rick in Third Eye; the b-side monologues. Other favorite credits include Butch Manley in Real/Not Real (Custom Made Theatre Company 2007), the Pet Dog in The Pet Dog and the Lady (Unidentified Theatre Company 2007), The Referee in The Sentimental Boxer (Three Wise Monkeys 2006), and Nathan in Strange Bedfellows (2006).


Terrence Beswick (dramaturg): Beswick is co-artistic director and co-founder of Guerrilla Rep. After studying acting as an undergraduate, Beswick worked as an AIDS activist, policy wonk and reporter for many years. Currently an MFA candidate in playwriting at SFSU, in 2007 Beswick was awarded the school’s James Milton Highsmith Playwriting Award for hotshot, his first full-length work which was staged in April 2008 as Guerrilla Rep's inaugural production. Beswick’s other plays include Gobsmacked in the Grand Canyon, produced as part of the SFSU One-Act Fringe Festival in 2007, and The Will and Woody Show, produced as part of the Fall 2007 season of the Brown Bag Theatre Company at SFSU. Beswick is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild and Theatre Bay Area.

 Ian Caldon (projection design): This will be Caldon’s first venture into theatre as he comes from a cinema background. He has produced, edited and directed more than 12 short films, "Comings and Goings" winning over the New York Gay Film Festival’s audience in the summer of 2002. Later graduating from SFSU in May of 2006 with a Bachelor’s degree in Cinema and Latin American Studies, he moved to Peru where he and his wife have produced 2 international short films and are currently working on the screenplay for a feature-length film to be later produced in South America. Also a musician, he has performed internationally at such recognized South American venues as La Posada del Angel, El Tayta and Café Café. Artistically, he likes to spend his free time, when not slaving away at editing or producing a new project, composing folk or trova music, and can be found at local open mics. Caldon is quoted saying, “I can’t figure out who my true love and mistress are - music or cinema. When I’m writing music I think she is my mistress and that I should be working on my next film and vice versa when I’m working on a film.” However, spiritually, there is no doubt that he belongs with his wife Cecilia Villar Baldera, their 16-month-old baby daughter and soon to be born baby boy this November.

Annie Clark (poster and graphics design): A graduate of the SFSU College of Industrial Arts, Clarke works as a freelance graphic designer and illustrator in San Francisco. Clark also designed the poster for hotshot.

Juan De La Rosa (publicity): De La Rosa was born in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. After a short stay in Los Angeles, he recently completed Bachelors degrees in Theatre Arts and Dance from SFSU. De La Rosa originated the role of Marty in Guerrilla Rep's hotshot and has worked with several dance companies including University Dance Theatre, Paco Gomes and Dancers, Se.Da.Co., and Bodypoetics. He also originated a leading role in the South American tour of Teatro Arcoiris' Poeta Pan for which he was given a cultural enrichment award by the city of El Quisco, Chile. Other theatre credits include Orpheus In The Underworld, West Side Story, The Tailor From Chihuahua (title role), Pinocchio, Raised In Captivity, and most recently, the New Conservatory Theatre's production of In Gabriel's Kitchen (title role). This fall, he will appear in History Boys at New Conservatory Theatre.

Adrian Hernandez (production manager)

Mark Koss (costume design): Koss immersed himself in theatre at a young age, learning under the capable hands of Marie Glotzbach. Since then, Koss has adopted the emphasis in costume design with the aid of Professor Todd Roehrman, Wendy Amorose and Anne Perry. A recent graduate from SFSU with a B.A. in Costume Design, Koss's design work includes Guerrilla Rep's hotshot, Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld directed by Roy Conboy, Napoli Millionaria directed by Rob Siminoski, Urinetown directed by Joey Price, and The Ibsen/Strindberg Project directed by Mohammad Kowsar, and the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival’s production of Pericles, directed by Ken Kelleher.

Ryan Marchand (assistant stage manager)

Maura Ann McGowan (stage manager): McGowan is excited to be working on her first show with Guerilla Rep! She began her Stage Management career at SFSU where she received her BA in Theatre Arts with an emphasis on Performance. Maura has enjoyed working on stage and behind the scenes over the years and has spent the past 10 years teaching theatre arts to young people around the Bay Area with Kidstock Inc. and Marin Shakespeare Co. Maura hopes to combine her two passions, theatre and teaching, and find her niche in the Bay Area theatre community!

Luke Neu (makeup design): Neu has designed makeup Guerrilla Rep's hotshot and for Napali Millionari and Whispers in the Dark at SFSU, where he is currently a student, and for San Joaquin Delta College’s Halloween Showcase. He was voted Scream King of the 2007 Shockerfest.

Tanya Orellana (set & prop design)

Cecilia Palmtag (technical director): A recent graduate from the SFSU Theatre Department, Palmtag has been studying the various facets of theatre since third grade, earnestly adopting: acting at 14, directing at 16, production at 19, and stage management at 22. For Guerrilla Rep's hotshot, she served as production stage manager.

Krista Smith (lighting design)

Matt Stines (sound design): Stines also served as sound designer for Guerrilla Rep's hotshot. A theatre arts major and sound lab supervisor at SFSU, he previously designed sound for The Karamozovs, Lovers and Other Strangers, To Tame a Shrew, and the Fall 2007 SFSU One Act Fringe Festival. He was also a technician for this year’s SF Sketchfest and is cofounder of No Name Sound Design (www.nonamesound.com). He is also an avid musician.