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Eastenders has produced 81 full-length and one-act plays since 1990. Our highly-acclaimed one-act festivals began in 1999 as the company recommitted to nuturing the talents of our repertory acting ensemble. Each of our one-act festivals has featured a different theme and a wide variety of the 20th Century's most influential playwrights, performed in rotating repertory by a core troupe of performers.

2008-2009 Season Frozen (Bryony Lavery) 100 Years of Queer Theatre - co-production with Theatre Rhinoceros - 8 plays in repertory (Mikhail Kuzmin, Djuna Barnes, Tennessee Williams, Joe Orton, Robert Patrick, Craig Lucas, Cherríe Moraga and Tony Kushner) Pride Open
Wylie Herman, Craig Souza, and Amanda Krampf in Václav Havel's Unveiling	2007-2008 Season 3 Vanĕk Plays: Audience, Unveiling, and Protest (Václav Havel) Discover New Voices - Readings of 8 works in progress by Bay Area playwrights.
2006-2007 Season Fear & Misery of the Third Reicht (Bertolt Brecht) Pinteresque - Harold Pinter's The Lover and 6 short works written by local artists in response to Pinter's play.	Craig Dickerson and Michaela Greeley in Harold Pinter's The Lover
Craig Souza and Ross Pasquale in Tennessee William's And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens...	2005-2006 Season 100 Years of Sex-Acts - 6 plays in repertory: Playing With Fire (August Strindberg), The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in His Garden (Federico García Lorca), And Tell Sad Stories of the Deaths of Queens... (Tennessee Williams), Dialogue Between A Prostitute and Her Client (Dacia Maraini), Three More Sleepless Nights (Caryl Churchill), and Edward Albee's Marriage Play.
2004-2005 Season 100 Years of Political Theatre - 6 plays in repertory: The Bedbug (Vladimir Mayakovsky), The Informer (Bertolt Brecht), Statements After An Arrest Under the Immorality Act (Athol Fugard), Audience (Vaclav Havel), Far Away (Caryl Churchill), and The Retreating World (Naomi Wallace). Two full-length world-premieres by local playwrights in repertory: WWJD? (Scott Munson) and A Knight's Escape (Charles E. Polly)	Craig Dickerson and Michaela Greeley in Scott Munson's WWJD?
Kate Dunlop, Joseph Leonardi, and Robert A. Zick, Jr in [sic], by Melissa James Gibson	2003-2004 Season Two full-length comedies in repertory: Wonder of the World (David Lindsay-Abaire) and [sic] (Melissa James Gibson) Three Hotels and Four Monologues (Jon Robin Baitz)
2002 Season A year of Tennessee Williams! Tenn in 2002! - The Long Goodbye and 8 short works written by ERC Artist Members in response to Williams' play Eight by Tenn: Eight one-act plays by Tennessee Williams - Moony's Kid Don't Cry, Hello From Bertha, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion, A Perfect Analysis Given By A Parrot, I Can't Imagine Tomorrow, The Gnädiges Fräulein, In the Bar of a Tokyo Hotel, and The Traveling Companion.	Tenn in 2002!
Michaela Greeley and Joseph Leonardi in Eugene Ionesco's Frenzy For Two, Or More	2001 Season 106 Years of Comedy One-Acts: Mixed Doubles (Georges Feydeau and Maurice Desvallieres), Overruled (George Bernard Shaw), Early Mourning (Noel Coward), Franklin D. Roosevelt To Be Inaugurated Tomorrow (Moss Hart), Local Boy Makes Good (George S. Kaufman), Women Undressed and Bodies to be Dispatched (Dario Fo), Frenzy For Two, Or More (Eugene Ionesco), The Boundary (Tom Stoppard and Clive Exton), Medea (Wendy Wasserstein and Christopher Durang), and Reverse Transcription (Tony Kushner).
2000 Season 100 Years of Euro One-Acts: In the Shadow of the Glen (John M. Synge), Chee-Chee (Luigi Pirandello), The Jewish Wife (Bertolt Brecht), No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre), The Virtuous Burglar (Dario Fo), A Slight Ache (Harold Pinter), Rockaby (Samuel Beckett), and Blue Kettle (Caryl Churchill). June Bug Music - part 3 of the Twyla Trilogy (Charles E. Polly)	Marnie Levee, Michaela Greeley, Suzan A Kendall, and Charles E. Polly in June Bug Music, by Charles E. Polly
The Dutchman by Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka	1999 Season 100 Years of One-Acts: Trifles (Susan Glaspell), Waiting For Lefty (Clifford Odets), Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen (Tennessee Williams), Hughie (Eugene O'Neill), Dutchman (Leroi Jones/Amiri Baraka), Cowboy Mouth (Sam Shepard & Patti Smith), and Ambivalence (Tony Kushner).
1998 Season Twyla's Story - part 2 of the Twyla Trilogy (Charles E. Polly)	Craig Dickerson, James Kitzmiller, and Cambron Williamson in Charles E. Polly's Twyla's Story
Rebecca Moutray, Charles E. Polly, Cambron Williamson, and Craig Dickerson in Something Cloudy, Something Clear by Tennessee Williams	1997 Season Something Cloudy, Something Clear (Tennessee Williams) The Vampers (Dean Backus) - produced as part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival Happy Days (Samuel Beckett)
1996 Season On the Outs (Mary Milton)	On The Outs by Mary Milton
Temporarily Yours by Tom W. Kelly	1995 Season Thus With a Kiss (Dean Backus) Temporarily Yours (Tom W. Kelly)
1994 Season Twyla's Boy (Charles E. Polly) - produced as part of the San Francisco Fringe Festival	Charles E. Polly and Suzan A Kendall in Twyla's Boy, by Charles E. Polly
Suzan A Kendall and Charles E. Polly in Polly's Twyla's Boy	1993 Season Twyla's Boy (Charles E. Polly)
1990 Season What the Plumber Saw and The Three Policemen (Bret Fetzer)	Craig Dickerson in The Three Policemen by Bret Fetzer