You Mean to Do Me Harm

You Mean To Do Me Harm

World Premiere

September 18 – November 3, 2018

Tickets: from $25

Under-30 tickets: 50% off

Run time: 1 hr, 30 min

Closed November 3, 2018
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Audience (278 Reviews) 4.43

4.5

You Mean to Do Me Harm

By Christopher Chen

Directed by Bill English

“Riveting from start to finish” – San Francisco Examiner

“An entirely smart look into human conversations and how different cultural backgrounds complicate them” – The Daily Californian

PLAY DETAILS

An innocuous comment at a dinner of two interracial couples leads to a surreal escalation of Cold War-style paranoia. You Mean to Do Me Harm is a psychological exploration of Chinese and American foreign relations, and of the personal relations we hold most dear. Originally produced as part of last season’s Sandbox series, this captivating new play closely examines the different perceptions we operate under and the difficulty of setting our own boundaries.

THE CAST

Cassidy Brown*

BEN
Katie Rubin*

LINDSEY
Charisse Loriaux*

SAMANTHA
Jomar Tagatac*

DANIEL
Krystle Piamonte

U/S: SAMANTHA
Sam Stark

U/S: DANIEL
Noah Thompson

U/S: BEN
Wera von Wulfen

U/S: LINDSEY

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PHOTOS

Samantha (Charisse Loriaux*), Ben (Cassidy Brown*), Daniel (Jomar Tagatac*), and Lindsey (Katie Rubin*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Daniel (Jomar Tagatac*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Daniel (Jomar Tagatac*), Samantha (Charisse Loriaux*), and Ben (Cassidy Brown*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Daniel (Jomar Tagatac*), Lindsey (Katie Rubin*), Samantha (Charisse Loriaux*), and Ben (Cassidy Brown*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Lindsey (Katie Rubin*) and Ben (Cassidy Brown*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Ben (Cassidy Brown*) and Daniel (Jomar Tagatac*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Lindsey (Katie Rubin*), Ben (Cassidy Brown*) and Daniel (Jomar Tagatac*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Lindsey (Katie Rubin*) and Daniel (Jomar Tagatac*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Daniel (Jomar Tagatac*) and Samantha (Charisse Loriaux*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Samantha (Charisse Loriaux*) and Ben (Cassidy Brown*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Lindsey (Katie Rubin*) and Samantha (Charisse Loriaux*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Samantha (Charisse Loriaux*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

Lindsey (Katie Rubin*), Daniel (Jomar Tagatac*), Samantha (Charisse Loriaux*) and Ben (Cassidy Brown*) in 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

The cast and crew of 'You Mean to Do Me Harm' at San Francisco Playhouse.

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Photos by Ken Levin. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers.

BEHIND THE SCENES

ABOUT THE PLAYWRIGHT

Christopher Chen

Christopher Chen is an Obie Award-winning playwright whose plays have been performed across the US and abroad. Works include Caught (Obie Award for Playwriting, New York Times Critics Pick, Barrymore Award, Drama League Award nomination), Home Invasion, The Hundred Flowers Project (Will Glickman Award, Rella Lossy Award, James Tait Black Memorial Prize shortlist), Into the Numbers (Belarus Free Theatre International Contest of Contemporary Drama, second place), The Late Wedding, Mutt, A Tale of Autumn, and Passage, which will receive its New York premiere at Soho Repertory Theatre this season. Other honors include the Lanford Wilson Award, a Sundance Institute and Time Warner Fellowship, the Paula Vogel Playwriting Award, a MAP Fund grant, and serving as playwright-in-residence at Crowded Fire Theater. Christopher has been published in Theatre Bay Area, American Theater, Theater Magazine (Yale), The Drama Review, and by Dramatists Play Service. His current commissions include Aurora Theatre Company, LCT3, Manhattan Theatre Club, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons (The Steinberg Commission), and The Royal Shakespeare Company. A San Francisco native, Chris is a graduate of the University of California, Berkeley, and earned an MFA in playwriting from San Francisco State University.

CREATIVE TEAM

Bill English
DIRECTOR
Angrette McCloskey
SCENIC DESIGNER
Brooke Jennings
COSTUME DESIGNER
Theodore J.H. Hulsker

SOUND & PROJECTIONS DESIGNER
Kurt Landisman
LIGHTING DESIGN
Jacquelyn Scott
PROPERTIES ARTISAN
Chrissy Martino
ASSISTANT DIRECTOR
Maggie Koch
STAGE MANAGER
Shannon R. Carroll

ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Caitlin McFann
STAGE MANAGEMENT INTERN
Dori Jacob
CASTING DIRECTOR

San Francisco Playhouse’s production of You Mean to Do Me Harm is made possible by executive producers Scott Walecka & Martha Seaver and Janet & William McAllister; producers Gail & Arne Wagner; and associate producers Mary & Tom Foote, Elizabeth Groenwegen, and Betty & Cliff Nakamoto.

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