BootStrap Foundation's mission is to help artists bootstrap their way to visibility to create their own followings. We focus on professional productions of original plays by San Francisco Bay Area playwrights. We work with playwrights, offering both dramaturgical and production support to bring previously unproduced scripts to fruition. We are currently collaborating with The Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View, California to co-produce new works.

For young actors, we offer the Advanced Acting Academy. This professional-level theatre training program is under the direction of Dr. Jeanie K. Forte, veteran acting coach and director in the Bay Area.

Founded in 1998, BootStrap Foundation is an affiliate of Council for the Arts Palo Alto Midpeninsula Area (CAPA) which grants us our 501(c)3 non-profit status.

Deuce by Sharmon J. Hilfinger

Co-production with Pear Avenue Theatre
June 23 - July 16, 2006
starring
Denise Balthrop-Cassidy*, Clayton Hodges*, Tom Ammon

*Actors’ Equity Association

BootStrap Foundation has premiered the following plays in the San Francisco Bay Area:

• A History of Things That Never Happened
  Magic Theatre, San Francisco, 1999
• Imaginal Disks: A Tale of Transformation
  Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, Mountain View, 2001
• got water?
  Actor's Theater of San Francisco
  San Francisco Fringe Theater Festival, 2003

In co-production with The Pear Avenue Theatre:

• A Beautiful Home for the Incurable
  June, 2004
• Veracruz
  September, 2004
• What the Birds Carry
  July, 2005