VIP Tickets ($60) include a Meet & Greet with Dan Hoyle

TAKES ALL KINDS

From Dan Hoyle whose work has been hailed as “riveting, funny and poignant” (New York Times) and “hilarious, moving and very necessary” (Salon) and directed by celebrated theater artist Aldo Billingslea, comes Takes All Kinds, a funny and essential new piece of Journalistic Theater that has been touring the country and resonating deeply with audiences and critics alike.

Based on immersive reporting from the trenches of democracy, from school board showdowns in Florida, grassroots organizers in Atlanta, barbershops in Las Vegas, deprogrammers of violent extremists in Missouri and much more.

Takes All Kinds channels powerful, funny and complex people caught in the social forces roiling the country. In tender portraits of everyday Americans turned unlikely changemakers, it offers hope and ways forward in these tumultuous times. Don’t miss this singular artist and these unforgettable Stories of American Democracy.

Dan Hoyle (actor/playwright) is an actor and writer whose brand of immersion research theater has been hailed as “riveting, funny and poignant” (New York Times) and “hilarious, moving and very necessary” (Salon). His solo shows have toured the country including Off-Broadway at The Public Theater and Culture Project, Baltimore Center Stage, Berkeley Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Mosaic (D.C.), Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Playmakers Rep (North Carolina), Painted Bride (Philly), Pure Theater (Charleston, SC and abroad in India, Ireland, Wales, Mexico, Canada and Nigeria.

Hoyle has been recognized with many awards, been supported by grants from the Edgerton Foundation, Pew Theater Initiative, Fleishhacker Foundation, and holds a double degree in Performance Studies and History from Northwestern University and was a Fulbright Scholar in Nigeria in 2005-2006.

He has been an artist-in-residence at Columbia University, and Trinity College, Dublin, and teaches storytelling to newcomer youth at the Mind, Media, and Matter Lab at Calgary University. He works as an acting and story coach at the Formerly Incarcerated People’s Performance Project and lives in Oakland with his wife, an art teacher in East Bay public schools, and their two children.