Indra’s Net Theater
Bringing Science to life in the Theater
Founded June 2012 by Alexandra Frappier (Managing Director) and Bruce Coughran (Artistic Director)
May 2013
Copenhagen by Michael Frayn,
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Venue: Osher Studio, Berkeley Premiere (included panel discussion, special guests, pre-show talks)
Cast: Robert Ernst, Michael Cassidy, Karol Strempke
October 2013
Staged Reading In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer by Heinar Kipphardt,
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Venue: BUFF Fellowship Hall, Berkeley
(Followed by Panel discussion)
Cast: James Carpenter, Galen Murphy-Hoffman, Michael Cassidy, George Maguire, Chad Deverman, Robert Ernst, Dixon Phillips, Ross Turner, Dave Sikula, Daniel Bakken, Bob Lane, Kurt Johnson, Rob Seitelman, Garth McCardle
December 2013
QED by Peter Parnell
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Venue: Berkeley City Club, Berkeley, Bay Area
Premiere (included special guests, pre-show talks)
Cast: Jeff Garrett, Kendra Oberhauser
TBA Award Nomination: Jeff Garrett, Best Performance in a Play
April 2014
QED by Peter Parnell
(co-produced with Theatre@Liberty)
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Second Run
Venue: Berkeley City Club
Berkeley (included special guests, pre-show talks)
Cast: Jeff Garrett, Britt Lauer
April 2014
Staged Reading
Delicate Particle Logic
by Jennifer Blackmer
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Venue: Berkeley City Club, Berkeley
Cast: Linda Ayers-Fredrick, Jan Zwaifler, Michael Cassidy, Chad Deverman Jeff Garrett
May 2014
Staged Reading The Secret of Life
by Bruce Coughran
Directed by George Maguire
Venue: Berkeley City Club, Berkeley
Cast: Laura Lowry, Soren Santos, Lucas Hutton, Aaron Wilton, David Ewing, Damion Matthews
September 2014
Staged Reading Copenhagen
by Michael Frayn (excerpt)
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Venue: Eugene O’Neill Festival, Danville
Cast: Rolf Saxon, Molly Noble, Michael Cassidy
October 2014 –World Premiere
Delicate Particle Logic
by Jennifer Blackmer
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Venue: Osher Studio, Berkeley
(included special guests, pre-show talks)
Cast: Teressa Byrne Foss, Janet Heller, Michael Cassidy, Jeff Garrett, Darek Burkowski,
5 TBA Award Nominations – Best Performance by an actor in a Play (Teressa Byrne Foss); Best World Premiere Play; Best Sound; Best Direction of a Play; Best Original Music; Broadway World Award Nomination – Teressa Byrne Foss, Best Actress in a Play
December 2015 – World Premiere
The Secret of Life
by Bruce Coughran
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Venue: Berkeley City Club
Cast: Laura Lowry, Sam Tillis, Alan Coyne, Matt Weimer, Robert Shryock, Luke Brady
4 Bay Area Theater Critic’s Circle Award Nominations – Best Performance by an Actor in a Play (Laura Lowry); Best World Premiere Play; Best Overall Production
(East Bay); Best Overall Production (Whole Bay Area)
December 2016
Darwin in Malibu
by Chrispin Whittell
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Venue: Berkeley City Club
Cast: George Killingsworth, Leandra Ramm, Robert Ernst, Stuart Hall
Musician: Hal Hughes
December 2017
Partition by Ira Hauptman
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Venue: Berkeley City Club
Cast: Heren Patel, Alan Coyne, Avanthika Srinavasan, David Boyll, Marco Aponte, Aparna Krishnamoorthy
Musicians: Natarajan Srinavasan
3 Bay Area Theater Critic’s Circle Award Nominations – Best Costume Design (Lisa Claybaugh); Best Overall Production (East Bay); Best Overall Production (Whole Bay Area)
December 2018 – World Premiere
A Time for Hawking
by Bruce Coughran,
Directed by Bruce Coughran
Venue: Berkeley City Club
Cast: Alan Coyne, Adrian Deane, Tirumari Jhoti
Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award – Best Overall Production (East Bay) Theaters under 100 seats.
BATCC Awards nominations – Best Actress in a Play (Adrian Deane), Best Actor in a Play (Alan Coyne), Best Overall Production (Whole Bay Area)
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In our short 6-year history, Indra’s Net Theater has received a total of 11 BATCC Award Nominations, 6 TBA Award nominations, one Broadway World Nomination, and a “Top-10 productions in the Bay Area” listing for 2017, a Time for Hawking was chosen as the Best Overall Production in the East Bay (Theaters under 100 seats) for 2018 by the Bay Area Critics Circle.
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Financial Support has been given by the following institutions:
- Zellerbach Family Foundation
- City of Berkeley Civic Arts Grant
- County of Alameda ArtsFund Grants
- Actors Equity Foundation Grants – Mechanics Bank
- Indra’s Net Theater is a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas.