Over the past twenty years Climate Theater has been an invaluable part of the San Francisco community and cultural landscape. An unusual ecosystem of young artists producing almost entirely original work. Climate grew through the dotcom period of the nineties and reflected that time and place with productions such as Cobra Lounge which was a multimedia cabaret as well as a host of theatrical shows and events rooted in multi-media, new art forms and new tools.

 

Climate began producing larger and larger events, including Festival Fantocia, Solo Mio, and others. Climate Theater closed it's doors in the late nineties and became a nomad company focusing it's attention on larger productions like AWD, Solo Mio, and Dark Kabaret.

 

Climate opened in a new location four years ago and in the years since it re-opened has produced the critically acclaimed shows: Devil in the Deck, Titillation Theater, Crash Course, and An Hour of Magic. Additionally Climate has played host to numerous original performances from a cross section of emerging and established artists.

 

STAFF

 

Jessica comes to Climate Theater after 9 years at Magic Theatre, where she was most recently Associate Artistic Director. She has directed many world premiere productions including Territories, Pleasure and Pain and The Black Eyed at Magic Theatre and was voted Best Director 2007 by SF Weekly.  She teaches at the SF School of Digital Filmmaking, San Jose State and University of SF and works as a freelance casting director for film and theater.

 

 

After playing clarinet badly in grade school, David Kaye quit playing in order to save face and badly mauled ears. After seeing the Balkan folk band Hot Flying Plates playing in a San Francisco alley in 1999, he was inspired to take up the clarinet again, but he noticed that he was still sucky at it. So, taking up the violin in 2000, he began to specialize in bluegrass and Western swing jamming. He now plays pop tunes on button accordion for rich people's parties.

 

David Kaye is a former radio and club DJ and band manager who has promoted live music in bars and nightclubs since 2000, attempting to expose people to music outside the mainstream. The Climate Theater Music Box series is a chance to book really excellent bands in a venue where the performers are louder than the audience. He is pleased to be be able to showcase some of the world's best players in an intimate environment and at an affordable price.

 

 

is a video artist who attempts to break the narrative, cinematic genre through the creation abstract video collages. Her video performances are often created improvisationally in real time while projecting onto non-traditional surfaces.

 

She has exhibited her work through out the Bay Area including venues such as the de Young Museum, Recombinant Media Lab, SomArts, 21 Grand, Roxie Cinema, The Lab, The Fine Arts Cinema and Artists Television Access (ATA). She received a B.F.A in Film, Video and Performance from California College of Arts and Crafts.

 

 

Received her Master of Fine Arts in Photography from California College of Arts & Crafts in 1995. Victoria is an artist, educator and mom. She is continuing to explore the balance between her teaching career, art practice and motherhood. Her work has been exhibited nationally in New York City, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle. Victoria has organized two performance evenings in conjunction with her photographic exhibitions. She is interested in making connections between other artforms and inquiries involved in complimentary themes. Victoria’s work can also be seen in the book “I Am My Lover” published by Down There Press, editor Joanie Blank. 

 

In addition to her exhibition history, Victoria has taught at community colleges, four year universities and art schools for the past 10 years. Currently she is an Adjunct Instructor at City College of San Francisco where she teaches traditional and digital photography, and a team-taught, multidisciplinary, collaborative design class. She has also lectured at UC Berkeley, California College of the Arts and Art Center College of Design. 

 

Victoria is originally from New York City and attended New York University as an undergraduate in Film Studies. After working for three years in feature film editing, Victoria decided to focus on photography. Previously, she has been a curator and co-owner of a cooperative art gallery in the East Village in NYC. For the past 18 years, Victoria has been happy to call California her home.

 

Brock is a musican/composer from New Orleans, LA, and a new arrival to the Bay area. His musical background includes multiple graduate degrees in classical guitar, many years of work in eastcoast jazz bands (big and small), and residencies with various flamenco ensembles in New Orleans and Baltimore. He is currently studying Hindustani Classical music, and is involved in MIDI-based composition for several short-film and video-game projects. At the Climate Theater, Brock helps to organize publicity, research, and community work for the Music Box series