New Threads: Spit in Your Face New Works Staged Reading

Spit in Your Face When Tom Leary, Artistic Director of the San Francisco People’s Theatre, commits to making his company more inclusive, he hires the brilliant, and controversial, Mexican director Fernando Calderón to devise a “groundbreaking” new production guaranteed to shake audiences out of their seats. Enter Liliana Tzintzún, a young Mexican American costume intern suddenly thrust into the role of assistant to the director, and into the center of a creative process brimming with ambition, ego, good intentions, and explosive questions. Witty, provocative, and unflinchingly honest, Spit in Your Face asks: Who gets to tell whose story and at what cost?