San Francisco, CA: This summer, the Troupe serves up a new play packed with more song and dance than a Bush administration press conference!

WHAT: Making a Killing follows two army newspaper reporters assigned to write a puff piece on the construction of an American funded hospital in Iraq. But as the facts unravel, it soon becomes clear that there’s more to this benevolent seeming humanitarian project than meets the eye. Back in Washington, Dick and Condi are manipulating intelligence and in Iraq, a cabal of military-industrial-Neo-Con colluders will stop at nothing to hide the shocking truth!

Written by: Michael Gene Sullivan and Jon Brooks

Directed by: Ellen Callas

Music and Lyrics: Pat Moran

Cast: Velina Brown, Michael Gene Sullivan, Victor Toman, Ed Holmes, Lisa Hori-Garcia

When: World Premiere Wednesday, July 4, 2:00 pm, until September 29th. See full schedule for details.

Show: Sat-Sun: 1:30pm Live Music - 2:00pm Show, all summer long.
(Some shows at 4pm-please check local listings or tour schedule)

Where: Dolores Park, Mission District, SF -- and various parks and theaters throughout California

Tickets: FREE! Pass-the-Hat donations after the show.
Info and Schedule: www.sfmt.org 415-285-1717

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Mime: the exaggeration of everyday life in story and song. No, not that other kind of mime!

The San Francisco Mime Troupe creates and produces socially relevant theater of the highest professional quality. Founded in 1959 by R.G. Davis, the company became the San Francisco Mime Troupe in 1961. This has led to a tradition of more than four decades of free outdoor performances using song, dance, music and comedy to enlighten, entertain and provoke.

Since 1970, the Troupe has operated as an artist-governed collective, comprised of actors, musicians, writers, composers, directors, designers and technicians who the create shows and make policy as well as approve tour plans, grant sources, expenditures and special projects.

The Troupe won its first OBIE Award in 1968 for "uniting theater and revolution and grooving in the park." Since then, two more OBIEs, the coveted Tony Award (for Excellence in Regional Theater), the Bay Area Media Alliance's Golden Gadfly Award for Lifetime Achievement and numerous Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Awards have been added to the list of the company's many honors.

Performances of the San Francisco Mime Troupe are made possible in part by the National Endowment for the Arts, City of San Francisco Grants for the Arts, San Francisco Arts Commission, Bernard Osher Foundation, LEF Foundation, Puffin Foundation, William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, W.A. Gerbode Foundation and Zellerbach Family Foundation.