Love Missile

Hal Gelb

As play doctor and researcher, dramaturg Hal Gelb has worked on plays by such writers as Millicent Dillon, Rick Foster, James Schevill and William Shakespeare. As a director, he’s staged works by Pinter (Betrayal), Hare (Knuckle), Mamet (Oleanna), Fugard (The Road to Mecca), Guare (Six Degrees of Separation) and Bullins (Salaam, Huey Newton, Salaam; Boy x Man; Teacup Full of Roses). For Golden Thread Productions, he directed Pinter-protégé Ghazi Rabihavi’s Stoning and Voices as well as Deep Cut (Karim Alrawi).

Johannes Mager

The Musical Director/Composer/Band Leader for Make*A*Circus in 1996-2002, Johannes Mager graduated from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music with a Bachelor of Music degree in Trombone and Composition. He is the co-founder of the New Music Ensemble, a leader of avant-garde music performance in the Bay Area in the 1970’s. He worked directly with such composers as John Cage, Morton Feldman, Terry Riley and Roman Haubenstock-Ramati. Johannes was the founder of the avant-garde music trio, Suono Della Fontana, which specialized in performing graphically notated music, and toured for several years in Europe. In the 1990’s, he wrote and performed a solo performance piece called Exit, presented at the Theatre Rhinoceros, toured with the Dell Arte Players, performing the music for their production of Redwood Trilogy, and wrote and performed the music and sound design for the Fratelli Bologna theatre group, and their production of Medea, which played for 6 weeks at the Cowell Theatre in San Francisco.

Janaki Ranpura

Janaki Ranpura is a puppeteer and physical theatre actor who studied at the LeCoq School in Paris. She has worked with Shadow Light Productions in the Bay Area, and co-created the original play Beneath Sita’s Belly, which ran in the 2002 San Francisco and Seattle Fringe Festivals.

Lisa Tateosian

A graduate of Mills College, Lisa Tateosian’s primary dance training is in ballet, jazz and modern dance. She studies and performs various ethnic dance techniques with such companies as Khadra International Dance Theatre and Ballet Afsaneh. Lisa has also performed with Dance Brigade, CHODERA/dance, Asian American Dance Performances as well as musical productions at Diablo Light Opera Company, Willows Theatre, and Civic Arts Repertory.

Torange Yeghiazarian

Torange Yeghiazarian writes, acts and directs for the theatre and is the founder and artistic director of Golden Thread Productions. Among her writing/ directing credits are ABAGA (The Future), a lyrical tale of two generations of forbidden love: from Istanbul of 1915 to Jerusalem of 1935, and Operation No Penetration, Lysistrata 97! a contemporary adaptation of the classic Greek comedy where Palestinian and Israeli women unite to force their men to sign a peace treaty. Torange holds a Masters degree in Theatre Arts from San Francisco State University. A staged reading of ABAGA (The Future) presented by Immigrant Theatre in New York was reviewed in the American Theatre Magazine (April 2002).

Cast:
Sofia Ahmad, Vida Ghahremani, Lenny Moors*, Andoni Panici, Carmen Elena Sosa*, William Todd Tressler*, Kris Welch\

• Member Actors’ Equity Association. Pending AEA Approval

Crew:
Written by Hal Gelb, Janaki Ranpura, and Torange Yeghiazarian
Directed by Norman Gee
Original Music Composed and Directed by Johannes Mager
Dance Choreography: Lisa Tateosian
Puppet Design and Direction: Janaki Ranpura
Set & Costume Design: Oran Bumroongchart
Lighting Design: Paul Meason
Production Manager: Robert Anderson