San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company
uniting artists and audiences through live theatre
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (SFBATCO) is a nonprofit organization committed to uniting artists and audiences through live theatre that reflects the authentic perspectives and histories of the San Francisco Bay Area. SFBATCO supports artists through creative development and full productions, and inspires the next generation of performers through acting labs and mentorships.
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Marcelo Javier co-founded San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company (SFBATCO) in 2014. Acting credits include Riff in West Side Story (SFBATCO) I Too Sing America (SFBATCO), Not Another Holiday Show! (SFBATCO), Home for “all of” the Holidays (SFBATCO), Skippyjon Jones (Theatreworks USA), Rent (Syracuse Stage), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bathwater Productions). Directing credits include Death and the Artist (SFBATCO) One Googol and One (SFBATCO) Celebrate 12th Night Joyfully With Kathryn Crosby (NYPL at Lincoln Center), Cinderella (African American Shakespeare Co.) Not Another Holiday Show! (SFBATCO), La Posarela (SFBATCO 2017 & Community Music Center 2015).
SFBATCO co-founder Rodney E. Jackson Jr. made his Broadway debut in “The Book of Mormon” and was last seen at American Conservatory Theatre in the West Coast premiere of “Toni Stone”. Prior to that he traveled North America in the first national tour of “Motown: The Musical.”
A San Francisco native who built his love and foundation for art and theatre in public city organizations such as SFartsEd, San Francisco Recreation and Park’s Young People’s Teen Musical Theater Company, and the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts’ where he graduated from the theatre department. He is now the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company.
Other theatre credits: Berkeley Repertory “Ain’t Too Proud: the life and times of the Temptations”, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company “I, Too, Sing America”. @rodneyearljacksonjr