About EXIT Theatre
MISSION:
EXIT Theatre was founded in 1983 when Artistic Director Christina Augello staged an original play in the lobby of a Tenderloin residential hotel with retired vaudevillians, young method actors and other Tenderloin residents. The mission was, and remains 40 years later, to provide a home for artists to perform and to develop an audience for that performance. We do this by providing artists opportunities to create, experiment, and grow by commissioning and producing new works, providing production support and low-cost theater rentals, and producing performance festivals for local and touring artists. The local alternative press has named EXIT Theatre “Best Local Venue,” “Best (3,000 miles) Off-Broadway Theater,” “Best Off-Beat Theatre,” and Christina Augello has been named “Best Producer” and “Working Woman of the Year.”
EXIT Theatre operates theaters in California in San Francisco and Arcata as well as producing in other alternative venues and community spaces. In addition to new works, reimagined classics, and experimental performance, we host regular burlesque, improv, and storytelling events throughout the year. Come take a walk on the wild side with us!
KEY STAFF:
Christina Augello is an actress, arts activist and theater producer. She is the daughter of an infamous theater saloon proprietor in Buffalo New York where she became involved in indie storefront theater before moving to San Francisco in the early 1970s. For the last 50 years she has acted in and produced indie theater in San Francisco while touring her one woman shows throughout the United States and in Asia, Canada and Europe. She was appointed by the Board of Supervisors as the small theater representative to the Cultural Equity Task Force which created the Cultural Equity Grant Program. She is the artistic director of EXIT Theatre ;which she founded in 1983.
Richard Livingston was born in 1945 in Sacramento California and educated there at Saint Patrick’s Grammar School, Chistian Brothers High School and Sacramento State College. For fifty years he managed various cultural, philanthropic and community development nonprofit organizations in San Francisco where he received the Daniel Koshland Award for Civic Unity. Since 1983 he has been the managing director of EXIT Theatre.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS. Geoffrey Link, President; Christina Augello, Chris Harrison, Steven Lieberman, Richard Livingston, Sharon Walton, Carmen White
FINANCES AND ADMINISTRATION. EXIT Theatre (incorporated as EXITheatre) is a nonprofit tax exempt organization under section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revue Service. Tax returns for recent years are available at www.guidestar.org. The organization is supported by artists and volunteers, a variety of earned income from ticket sales, theater rentals, concessions and other sources and donations from individuals, government, foundations and corporations. Donations to EXIT Theatre are tax deductible under Federal and State laws.
CONTACT. EXIT Theatre, PO Box 4659, Arcata, CA 95518-4659. Christina Augello, founder and artistic director, mail@theexit.org. 415-203,2516.