Every Saturday Night

Darryl V. Jones* is a professional actor, singer, director, and professor. Locally, he has been seen as the “Tin Man” in A.C.T.’s The Wizard of Oz. Followed by “The Man” in Crowns at Center Rep. He was TBA nominated for the role of “Bernadette,” the trans woman, in Theatre Rhino’s first production of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, and was the “Sun” in Word for Word’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner. Jones co-wrote, directed, and performed in Halie! The Mahalia Jackson Musical for Lorraine Hansberry Theatre. He also appeared as “The Man” in Blues In The Night at the Old Globe in San Diego. On the East Coast, Jones performed roles at Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, and toured Europe with the USO. He has sung at the White House twice and has written music for productions including Choir Boy, which he directed at Shotgun Players. As director, he has worked at Aurora Theatre Co. (The Royale TBA winner Best Ensemble, Outstanding Direction nominee; Blue Door & Detroit 67) and Kill Move Paradise for Shotgun Players. He directed the SFBATCC-winning production of The Devil’s Music; The Life… Bessie Smith for Center Rep. Jones directed and choreographed Spunk for Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, where he also served for two years as the Acting Artistic Director. Darryl is also a Professor Emeritus at Cal State East Bay, where he headed the musical theatre program. He also taught August Wilson/Tenesse Williams scene study classes for the MFA Acting Program at A.C.T. Jones holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from The Catholic University of America School of Music and an MFA in Theatre Directing from Boston University. darrylvjones.com 

Janelle LaSalle is delighted to be returning to SFBATCO in Every Saturday Night after being seen in The Day the Sky Turned Orange (Amari and Principal/Understudy). Film/TV credits include Twenty Something (Nicole) with Pixar Animation Studios and feature roles in television commercials for Cache Creek and Raley's. Stage credits include Jesus Christ Superstar (Jesus) with Ray of Light Theatre (TBA and SFBATCC Best Actress Nominee), Beauty and the Beast (Belle) with Berkeley Playhouse, Chicago (Velma Kelly) with Palo Alto Players, Dreamgirls (Deena Jones) with Broadway by the Bay, Avenue Q (Gary Coleman) with New Conservatory Theatre Center, and Memphis (Felicia) with The Tabard Theatre (TBA Best Actress Nominee). As a professional recording artist, Janelle has produced two original albums, and her music has been featured on national radio and television. She continues to perform throughout the bay area. This performance is dedicated to her favorite co-stars: her daughter and her late father. - “I hope I always make you both proud.” www.janellelasalle.com

Velina, an actor, director, and collective member of the San Francisco Mime Troupe, is thrilled to debut at the SFBATCO. She’s toured the Bay Area, across the country, and internationally, performing musical political theater with SFMT. Velina also toured France with Word for Word, Spain and Portugal with Brooklyn-based ensemble Barbez, with whom she made an album “For Those Who Came After: Songs from the Spanish Civil War.” Her credits include American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, California Shakespeare Company, The Magic Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, TheatreWorks, Shotgun Players, Central Works, CenterREP, New Conservatory Theatre, The Denver Theatre Center, and SF Playhouse. Velina is also a film, television, and voice-over actor and a Drama and Film Appreciation teacher at Gateway High in SF. Visit www.velinabrown.com or www.sfmt.org

L. Rob has worked on the development of Every Saturday Night since the original concept. Past favorites include work at Theatreworks (as an actor - Rob in Ain’t Misbehavin’, Willie in Master Harold…and the boys, Pippin in Pippin; as a musical director - Ain’t Misbehavin’, Little Shop of Horrors; and as a director - Tiny Tim is Dead): Lorraine Hansberry Theatre (as an actor - Miss Roj in The Colored Museum, Lou in Spell #7; as a composer or musical director for Sophisticated Ladies, Dream on Monkey Mountain, Home) : original musicals (The Fireworks Rag – musical director/arranger and playing Scott Joplin, Memphis - playing Bobby, and Go Down Garvey – vocal arranger and playing Duse Ali). A native of New Orleans and a graduate of Stanford University, he also taught theatre and music in various artist residencies and is thankful for every breath.

Imri is an actor and creative based in the Central Valley passionate about the Bay Area theatre scene. You may have seen them in Kinky Boots with Mountain Play as Lauren, as The Narrator in Collabwerks' Midsummer, or as Louise in Shotgun Players' production of Sunday In The Park With George. Imri is ecstatic to tell this story with this group of artists and hopes you enjoy the show!

Kaila Dyson is beyond excited to be apart of the cast of Every Saturday Night. This is such a special opportunity, as Kaila was brought into the theater world by Danny Duncan, who gave them most of their foundational experience as an actor and performer in the industry. Their most recent credits include Hairspray (Dynamite) with SF PLAYHOUSE, The Day the Sky Turned Orange (Ensemble) with SFBATCO, Fly By Night (Miriam) with Hillbarn Theatre, Kinky Boots (Ensemble/US Lauren) with Berkeley Playhouse, Sign My Name to Freedom (dancer) with SFBATCO, as well as Caroline or Change (Emmie), Everybody’s Talking About Jamie (Becca) and Legally Blonde (Pilar) with Ray of Light. Kaila will forever remain grateful for all of the people and experiences that have shaped them into the artist they are today!

Devin is a multi-disciplinary artist from Oakland California. Selected acting credits include: Apparition, Magnolia Ballet; Juicy, Fat Ham; Chima, A Why Not Christmas Carol; and Simon, wearecontinous. As Co-Associate Artistic Director of African-American Shakespeare Company, he directed Cinderella and Chicken & Biscuits by Douglass Lyons. Cunningham also produced From One to Another: Homage to the Legacy of Maya Angelou which premiered in 2024. Every Saturday Night marks Cunningham's debut with SFBATCO.

RJ is thrilled to make his professional San Francisco stage debut at SFBATCO. Regional credits include: JOHN WILKES BOOTH, SENNEX, BOBBY, SWEENEY TODD, Sondheim Tribute, The Western Stage, BASILIUS in Head Over Heels, The Western Stage, AUDREYII in Little Shop of Horrors, Forest Theatre Guild, TOM COLLINS, Rent, Cabrillo Stage, CLADWELL, Urinetown, Cabrillo Stage, TYRELL, Lunch-The Musical, Cabrillo Stage.Awards: Directorial Debut, & Best Costume of Adira De La Croix 6.0, Short+Sweet Hollywood 2024.

Jocelyn is a Black and Filipina San Francisco native, performer, and theater professional. They're a proud team member at Brava Theater, elevating women’s voices and fostering community connection. This marks her 11th SFBATCO production and they couldn't be happier to continue working with a company that highlights important stories like Every Saturday Night. She gives much love to her family, friends, partner DaSean, and fur-baby Darla, whose support gives her strength to continue this work.

The T is an artist and director excited to be making his SFBATCO debut after playing Patrick Star in the SpongeBob Musical at TVTC. With two decades of national and international work, T is an enthusiastic member of gospel groups Lady Kathi & the Family and Leonard Bailey & Friends. This fall, he is celebrating the grand opening of his performing arts company: T's Studio of Arts and Entertainment. Find them on all social media platforms. #TGBTG

Isaac is making his SFBATCO debut with Every Saturday Night. He is a student at Oakland School for the Arts who likes doing theatre and enjoys doing shows a lot.

LaRae is thrilled to join the SFBATCO community through this production! A multidisciplinary artist and equity advocate based in Oakland, California, LaRae is passionate about supporting artists at all stages of development and fostering collaborative environments where creativity can thrive. When she isn’t working, you can find them catching up on reality TV or searching for allergy-friendly recipes. Keep up with LaRae on Instagram @LaRae.J.MH

Danny Duncan, a native of San Francisco’s Fillmore District, is a celebrated director, choreographer, and composer who created acclaimed works such as Uhuruh; Billie’s Song; and Go Down Garvey. A lifelong educator, he helped found SFArtsED’s musical theatre company—the Players—in 2002, where he continues to direct annual productions, and has worked with hundreds, if not thousands, of young performers.

Michael Gene Sullivan is an Actor/Writer/Director/ based in San Francisco. He has been awarded both a Guggenheim Fellowship and Djerassi Arts Center Fellowship as a dramatist, the international Prize of Hope Award, the Charles Dean Award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting and Dedication to Bay Area Theatre, and is an alum of the Playwrights Foundation. He is also Resident Playwright for the Tony and OBIE award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe.

AeJay Antonis Marquis, originally from Louisiana, is an Oakland-based director, choreographer, and scholar. Their most recent work included the critically-acclaimed Magnolia Ballet and Choir Boy at Shotgun Players, have directed and Choreographed musicals throughout the Bay Area including Footloose, Little Shop of Horrors (for which they received a Kennedy Center recognition for Best Direction), Sister Act, and Priscilla Queen of the Desert (for which they received a nomination for Best Choreography of a Musical at SFBATCC.) Immersed in New Work development, they are thrilled to bring this new musical to Bay Area audiences.

Othello Jefferson, a native of San Francisco, received a Bachelor of Music Degree in Voice from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and a single subject music credential from San Francisco State University. At Sequoia High School, in Redwood City, CA, he serves as Piano Instructor, Chorus and Orchestra Director and as Minister of Music at First AME Zion Church in San Francisco. He is the recipient of awards from San Francisco’s Academy of Gospel and the Friends of Negro Spirituals, Oakland. The show that he conceived, music directed, and composed (I, TOO, SING AMERICA, in conjunction with the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company), won three Theatre Bay Area Awards in November 2019. The CD of music from the show was released in 2022. He is featured singer on the AACI CD Good News.

Noah Bossert is a performer hailing from Oshkosh, WI, where he learned first to both entertain attendees of the corner bar, and the corner church. Current projects that Noah is a part of include the band Ruby Day & The Knights, his debut EP Nitschke which is set to be released in 2027. He works as an active MD at musical theater companies around the Bay Area (SFArts Education Project, SFBATCO, Throckmorton 145 Theater), while teaching Vocal Music at San Francisco University High School.

Ada is a San Francisco native and proud to make her SFBATCO debut. Previous stage management credits include M. Butterfly, Noises Off, Exotic Deadly: the MSG Play, The Play That Goes Wrong, and My Home on the Moon (San Francisco Playhouse) and The Speakeasy (Boxcar Theater). "In loving memory of Kuya Keith."

Ka'Nayah is an up-and-coming Stage Manager in the Bay Area who recently graduated from St.Mary's college of California. Go Gaels! She has spent these first few years in post-grad working and learning from many different theaters including Oakland Theater Project, Berkeley Playhouse, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Shotgun Players, and now SFBATCO. This is also the second professional show she has been apart of with her mentor, Aejay Mitchell who has seen and helped her grow since she was 13! Please enjoy this phenomenal piece of art.

Sarah’s rcent credits include "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime", "Indecent", "As You Like It", "Nollywood Dreams", and "Evita" at SF Playhouse, "I Am My Own Wife" and "Angels in America" Parts 1 & 2 with Oakland Theatre Project, "Wait Until Dark" and "Fly By Night" at Hillbarn Theatre, and "Golden Girls Live! The Christmas Episodes" at The Curran Theatre. Additional credits include "West Side Story", "Memphis", "Into the Woods", "Kinky Boots", "Rent", and "The Prom" at Berkeley Playhouse, "Torch Song" at Marin Theatre, and "The Red Shades" for Z Space. Upcoming projects include "Cabaret" with OTP and "Cats" at Berkeley Playhouse. Sarah is a proud member of United Scenic Artists 829.

Spense Matubang is a lighting designer currently based in Oakland. They are very excited for their first project with SFBATCO! Recent lighting credits include Continuity (Shotgun Players); how to make an American Son (New Conservatory Theatre Center); Dragon Mama (Geffen Playhouse); Georgiana and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (Theatreworks Silicon Valley); Sally & Tom (Marin Theatre); and Indecent (Center Repertory Company). Proud member of United Scenic Artists Local 829.
www.spensematubang.com

Tiersa is a multidisciplinary artist and designer. Textile and fiber based mediums are principal elements in the majority of her work, which spans costume design, arts education, and fine art.

Rae Lynn is excited to be joining the SFBATCO family! She is currently completing her BFA in Costume Design at the Academy of Art University. She previously worked as a production assistant on HBO's Winning Time and Netflix's Dead to Me where she discovered her love of costume design. Since that, she has expanded her ambition and was a costume assistant at Ray of Light Theatre with their productions of Mean Girls and Urinetown.

Chili Corder is a San Francisco-based multi-instrumentalist with a background and training in jazz guitar, studying at UCLA with legendary bebop guitar master Kenny Burrell. Perpetually busy musical directing, band leading, and playing a wide array of instruments and musical styles, Chili is often playing jazz for natural wine and oyster events or touring and performing with his bands f.mph, Jared Mattson, and Zheniia.