March 17 -
April 2
West Coast Premiere
Tickets: $10 – $40
Run time: 80 minutes.
No intermission.
Private Lesson Plan >>
We’ve created this lesson plan for people who want to dive deeper into the themes behind the show and the scenes. This is geared towards high school aged students, but can be used by anyone!
“★★★★★...the language sparkles, bounces, whirls, and promenades”
“‘Private’ is the surveillance drama for our moment...Peerzada keeps digging until she finds a BS-free pearl at the core…with Cabrera’s versatile performance slowing time itself.”
“At once funny, intimate and of-the-zeitgeist”
“Peerzada and Cabrera sizzle with electric synergy...Don’t miss this layered examination of privacy and intimacy in the digital age”
WRITTEN BY MONA PIRNOT
DIRECTED BY PETER J KUO
2023 Helen Hayes Nominee for Outstanding New Play or Musical
A searing one-act play interrogating the collision between privacy rights and our intimate relationships.
Georgia’s husband Corbin has landed his dream job as a product engineer working under a tech superstar. Georgia is thrilled–that is, until she learns that the company demands round-the-clock monitoring of their devices. Mona Pirnot’s dynamic one act relentlessly dissects a relationship brought to the brink of ruin by an exposed lie, and raises the question of how much personal privacy we should expect from our friends, employers, and partners in the digital tech era.
Potrero Stage, 1695 18th St, SF, CA 94107
TICKETS + LOCATION
SPECIAL PERFORMANCES
Fri 3.17 Opening Night
Post-show reception with food + drinks
(Must show proof of negative COVID test)
Sun 3.19 Post-Show Tech & Ethics Panel
Join us for a moderated conversation after the matinee showing, where three tech & advocacy trailblazers will unpack the state of Digital Privacy and its impact on society. Panelists to be announced! This performance and panel will be live streamed for free on twitch.tv/SFBATCO
Thu 3.23 Theatre Thursday
All tickets $10
Sun 3.26
ASL Interpreted Performance + Chat with the Cast
Potrero Stage
1695 18th Street, San Francisco, 94107
Email info@potrerostage.org with questions.
TICKET FAQs:
GENERAL ADMISSION
All seating is general admission. Please email boxoffice@sfbatco.org with any accessibility questions.
WAITLIST
For sold out performances, we offer an in-person wait list on the day of the show, beginning in the lobby 30 minutes before showtime, first come first served. Contact boxoffice@sfbatco.org with questions.
EXCHANGING
Patrons may exchange tickets for a different performance up to 24 hours before showtime by contacting boxoffice@sfbatco.org.
REFUNDS
Patrons can request refunds for their tickets up to 48 hours before showtime. A refund transaction fee of $5.00 will be charged to the patron. Contact boxoffice@sfbatco.org.
LATE SEATING
Seating will end 15 minutes after the scheduled start time. Tickets may be released to the waitlist if they are not claimed by performance scheduled start time.
COVID-19 PROTOCOLS
Performers are tested weekly and will be unmasked during the performance. Audience masks encouraged.
ASL INTERPRETED SHOW
Sunday 3/26 will have 2 ASL Interpreters.
THE CAST
AIDAA PEERZADA as Georgia
SEDRICK CABRERA as Corbin
ADAM MAGGIO as Jordan
RISA FERRER as Abbey
DREW PATON Understudy (Jordan)
THE CREATIVE TEAM
MONA PIRNOT
Playwright
PETER J KUO
Director
TIERSA NUREYEV
Costume Designer
CELESTE MARTORE
Scenic Designer
CLAUDIO ANDRES SILVA RESTREPO
Lighting Designer
RAY ARCHIE
Sound Designer
TAYLOR MENDEZ
Stage Manager
JOCELYN THOMPSON-JORDAN
Assistant Stage Manager
MALLORY MCDANIEL
Assistant Costumer and Run Crew
ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT AND DIRECTOR
MONA PIRNOT (Playwright, she/her) is an NYC based playwright and songwriter. She is a current member of EST/Youngblood. Plays include I Love You So Much I Could Die (2022 NYTW Dartmouth Residency), Private (2022 Mosaic Theater, 2022 Mirrorbox Theatre, 2019 Kilroys List), and Offshore Clinical Trials (2019 EST/Sloan commission.) Her work has been produced by or developed with Playwright's Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mosaic Theatre, Mirrorbox Theatre, Premiere Stages, Mile Square Theatre, and Hecht Studio Theatre. Selected monologues are published in In Performance, Contemporary Monologues for Teens (Hal Leonard.) She was the 2014-15 Literary Fellow at Center Theatre Group and Williamstown Theatre Festival’s 2019 Playwright in Residence.
PETER J KUO (Director, he/him) is a director, producer, writer, and educator focused on raising the visibility of marginalized communities. He is the director of the conservatory at A.C.T. and serves on the staff EDI committee. Kuo is an alum of Williamstown Theatre Festival’s Directing Corps, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s FAIR Program, and Directors Lab West. He held a residency at Drama League and was named one of Theatre Communications Group’s Rising Leaders of Color. He is cofounder of Artists at Play, a Los Angeles–based Asian American theater collective. Previously, he has taught and directed students at The New School, Herbert Berghof Studio, Atlantic Acting School, and Redhouse Arts Center. Directing highlights include the internationally viewed Zoom production of Madhuri Shekar’s In Love and Warcraft, Lauren Yee’s in a word and Ching Chong Chinaman, Christopher Chen’s Mutt, Adam Gwon’s Ordinary Days, and Jason Robert Brown’s Songs for a New World. He received his MFA at The New School of Drama in New York. peterjkuo.com