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We continue our celebration of our community, this time with Lauren Matley, aka Loe. You’ve seen her captivating images on our website, in our emails, and on our stationery since 2013.

Loe's ebullience and positivity, along with her can-do, will-do, already-did-done attitude and ethic have carried us through many a challenging passage.

Read more at www.weplayers.org/news

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I am We

There are so many people that make We possible- including you! We want to introduce you to some of the amazing humans that help us perform our special brand of magic- the witches of We, if you will. We'll be spotlighting different members of our We Family throughout the year - so stay tuned!

First up, the loving Lauren Dietrich Chavez! Lauren was our first Managing Director and there would hardly be a We without her.

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We Players was born on the Stanford campus 25 years ago.

We couldn't be more grateful for the overwhelming support, the incredible opportunities, and the deep love that we've received over the last quarter of a century. We are so deeply proud of the work that we've produced, the art that we've made over that time.

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Happy New Year and the biggest "thank you"!

Thank you for donating to our Season Launch Party last February, thank you for attending our screening of Mother Lear, thank you for rocking out with us at our Sites and Sounds concert, thank you for adventuring with Alice on both coasts, thank you for your generous support of our end of year campaign. Thank you for volunteering! Thank you for laughing! Thank you for your careful attention! Thank you for donating! Thank you for all the ways, big and small, that you contribute to our community! Thank you, old friends and new! We couldn't do it without you! Happy New Year, friend. Photo by Mark Kitaoka

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"Thank you for all you create, imagine and inspire. With gratitude for your role in my world." - Audience member

Cheers! Here's to the arts! Here's to theatre that makes us think and feel, to art that awakens our senses and asks us to attend to the natural world around us, to stories that connect us to our community and remind us of our shared humanity. And cheers to you!

We couldn't make this work without your support- thank you for investing in what we make as a vital way to shape our world.

If you've already made a contribution to our end of year campaign, thank you so much. If you have yet to give, please consider a donation today. https://www.weplayers.org/we-2024

Photo by Tracy Martin

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Finally wrapping up this long list of events from our busy 2024!

We of course put on our annual Sites and Sounds concert, this time featuring the tunes of our 2015 production of Ondine at Sutro, arranged for 6-piece jazz outfit.

Here's to a solid year of sharing sense-awakening events, and to continuing to connect with our community in the coming times.

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This year, we also shared a new short film project, See Clown, a story of self-love.

See Clown for yourself at https://www.weplayers.org/see-clown-2024

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In 2024 we also premiered a new 'popup' version of our PSYCHOPOMP work, with a gathering of guardian gods to be discovered one afternoon along San Francisco's Great Highway.

Photo: David Enloe

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"Happy to support the creative and ever effervescent work of the wonderful We Players!"

We are committed to telling stories that help us make meaning of our current moment, that inspire us to invest in the natural world around us, and that connect us to our shared humanity - but we need your help. We cannot do this work alone. Please lend your hand to lift us up.

This Giving Tuesday we're asking you to give what you can in support of local theatre. We're asking you to make a contribution that represents the joy, hope, wonder, and community that We Players has provided you. Any gift is the right size!

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Fall also saw us sharing our award-winning Mother Lear at Cal Shakes.

Mother Lear is a poignant play about an irascible middle-aged scholar with dementia who communicates with her caretaker daughter using only the text of King Lear as the two struggle with aging, love and their own balance of power.

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This fall, we brought our new hybrid visual art & performance piece Our Lady of the Moon to the golden grasses and oak groves of Cal Shakes in Orinda, California.|

Photo by the amazing Lauren Matley!

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A core corp of our Adventures With Alice cast also hit the Big Apple at New York Botanical Garden for our special event, The Queen's Tea!

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This past spring we also returned to Golden Gate Park with a second run of 2023's smash hit Adventures with Alice.

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We've had a busy year of events, beginning with a springtime sumptuous celebration of the senses at our annual Season Launch Party.

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Happy Halloween! Here's a shot from 2014's Macbeth at Fort Point

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Catch up with Ox Head and Horse Face, those wise-cracking Chinese guardians of the underworld, on SF's Great Highway this Saturday at Noriega from 12 to 4. This event is free and open to all ages!

Photos by the amazing Lauren Matley

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Visit the most metal band in all of Valhalla, Saturday on SF's Great Highway.

Val, Ky, & Rie will keep you entertained while philosophizing on movement through space & time. They’ll be hanging out at Pacheco, swing by between 12 & 4!

Photos: Lauren Matley