ENCORE THEATRE COMPANY PRESENTS
WEST COAST PREMIERE OF ADAM BOCK'S
"THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM"
JANUARY 27 - FEBRUARY 27, 2005

MEDIA CONTACT: Shawn Ferreyra
415 336 9369
shawn_ferreyra@yahoo.com

SAN FRANCISCO (January 7, 2005) - Encore Theatre Company presents the West Coast Premiere production of Adam Bock's THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM, a smart new comedy in which a typographer, a geographer, and a stenographer obsess over their professions, their identities, and Canada over dinner and several bottles of wine. Adam Bock's signature syncopation provides the rhythm for this hilarious story of borders, letters, fonts, and friendships. Aimee Guillot, Jamie Jones and Michael Shipley star, and Anne Kauffman directs. THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM plays January 27 (press opening Monday, January 31, 8pm) through February 27, 2005 at The Thick House in San Francisco. For tickets ($20, $15 students), the public may call 415-821-4849 or visit www.encoretheatrecompany.org.

Playwright Adam Bock is the Author of FIVE FLIGHTS, which ran five sold-out months at Encore Theatre Company, won the Glickman Award for Best New Play in the Bay Area, a Dean Goodman Award, and was nominated for the American Theatre Critics and Osborn Awards. His play SWIMMING IN THE SHALLOWS has been produced in San Francisco, Boston, Ithica, London, Key West, and in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. It won three BATCC Awards and was nominated for the Weissberger Award. THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM was work shopped in New York and was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2003. The World Premiere of THURSDAY was also produced at Encore Theatre Company in 2003. Mr. Bock has received an NEA grant and a Yaddo Fellowship, and is currently at work on a new project for Playwrights Horizons.

Aimee Guillot most recently appeared in EURYIDICE at Berkeley Rep, and the Obie Award-winning BIG LOVE, Off Broadway and at Berkeley Rep. New York credits include CANARD, CANARD, GOOSE?, XTRAVAGANZA, and MASTER BUILDER. Regional credits include The Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Athenaeum Theatre in Chicago.

Jamie Jones appeared in LIGHT UP THE SKY at ACT, STEP ON A CRACK at Berkeley Rep, and ONE FLEW OVER THE CUKOO'S NEST at Marin Theatre Company. She has worked extensively at the B Street Theatre in Sacramento, appearing in BOSTON MARRIAGE, STILL LIFE WITH IRIS, and WHY WE HAVE A BODY, among others.

Michael Shipley appeared in ME AND MY GIRL at Marin Theatre Company, A LIFE IN THE THEATRE at Aurora Theatre Company, ETERNITY IS… at Transparent Theatre, and has worked at CentralWorks, American Players Theatre, Shakespeare at Stinson, and the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival.

Director Anne Kauffman's New York Credits include THE LADIES and THE REFRESHMENT OF THE SPIRIT at Cherry Lane Theatre, LOYAL OPPOSITION at the New York Theatre Workshop, WEATHER at the Sanctuary Theater, BLUE LILA RISING and THE RIGHT WAY TO SUE at New Georges, and HANG TEN at Women's Project & Productions.

Founded in 1986, the Encore Theatre Company creates innovative, immediate, and passionate contemporary theatre in intimate settings, and shares a spirited dialogue with its theatre-loving patrons. Originally a showcase for experimental work by alumni and associates of American Conservatory Theater, Encore Theatre Company has claimed its own distinct identity within the Bay Area theatre community. Its sold-out run of I THINK I LIKE GIRLS was declared "bracingly honest, gently confrontational, ruefully funny, and deeply moving" by Robert Hurwitt of the San Francisco Chronicle. Its 2002 production of Adam Bock's FIVE FLIGHTS was extended four times, received the San Francisco Chronicle's highest rating. Encore subsequently produced FIVE FLIGHTS in New York, playing to sold-out houses. Encore Theatre Company produced the World Premiere productions of Adam Rapp's DREAMS OF THE SALTHORSE, Adam Bock's THURSDAY, and Chaire Chafee's DARWIN'S FINCHES. Most recently, Encore Theatre produced the World Premiere of THE BONEMAN OF BENARES by Terry Tarnoff.

FOR CALENDAR EDITORS:

WHAT: Encore Theatre Company presents the West Coast Premiere production of Adam Bock's THE TYPOGRAPHER'S DREAM, a smart new comedy in which a typographer, a geographer, and a stenographer obsess over their professions, their identities, and Canada over dinner and several bottles of wine. Adam Bock's signature syncopation provides the rhythm for this hilarious story of borders, letters, fonts, and friendships. Aimee Guillot, Jamie Jones, and Michael Shipley star, and Anne Kauffman directs.

WHEN: Previews: January 27, 28, 29 at 8pm, January 30 at 5pm
Press Opening: January 31, 2005
Closes: February 27, 2005

SHOWTIMES: Thursdays through Saturdays: 8pm
Sundays: 5pm

WHERE: The Thick House
1695 18th Street, between Arkansas and Deharo
San Francisco

TICKETS: $20, $15 for students.
For tickets and information, the public may call 415/821-4849 or visit www.encoretheatrecompany.org.