THE RIGHT THING to be Featured in San Francisco Theatre Festival, 3/8-4/1

By day, attorney Alisa J. Baker practices executive employment law as a partner with the San Francisco firm of Levine & Baker LLP. By night, she's seasoned playwright "AJ Baker," member of the Dramatists Guild and the Playwrights Center of SF.

Baker is one of the principals in the nonprofit 3Girls Theatre Company, which is launching its inaugural season with a theatre festival to celebrate Women's History Month. The festival runs from March 8 through April 1, and one of the featured plays is the world premiere of Baker's The Right Thing, which draws on Baker's experience in the mediation room.

The story is sure to have a familiar ring to lawyers. In The Right Thing, a high-powered woman CEO gets fired on allegations of sexual harassment, and hires an equally high-power legal pro to help her fight back. During the course of a high-stakes mediation her lawyer quickly discovers just how much his client failed to tell him about the corporate back-stabbing, sexual shenanigans, and personal secrets that led to her undoing. The result: an explosive day of behind-the-scenes intrigue, and a provocative twist of a legal whodunit.

The Right Thing is directed by Suze Allen. It features the all-star cast of Catherine Castellanos*, John Flanagan*, Lol Levy*, Louis Parnell*, Helen Shumaker, and Karina Wolfe. Baker's play is part of 3Girls Theatre Company's month-long festival of new works by San Francisco Bay Area women playwrights. The other two "girls" in 3Girls Theatre are award-winning playwright Lee Brady and playwright/director Suze Allen, who also teaches transformational workshops for women. (* Member, Actors Equity Association.)

The Right Thing plays at Thick House, 1695 18th St. in San Francisco. It runs for 13 performances, March 8 at 7:30 p.m.; March 9, 10, 16, 17, 19, 23, 24, 30, 31 at 8:00 p.m.; March 18, 25, April 1 at 4:00 p.m.

Tickets are $30 at www.brownpapertickets.com or www.3girlstheatre.org.The three co-founders of 3Girls Theatre Company are Suze Allen (Artistic Director), AJ Baker (Managing Director), and Lee Brady (Literary Director.) In addition, all three hold the title, Resident Playwright. The mission statement of 3Girls Theatre is:

"To produce the work of women playwrights who write fresh, compelling, and entertaining plays and to promote the involvement of women and girls in American theater. We aim to support female voices of all ages and viewpoints. No feminist agenda, no political fish to fry, no multicultural mission, although we're happy to include plays that are motivated by those issues. Basically we are just three (not so girlish) girls who have lots of things to say - and who want to promote other women who have things to say."

Photo credit: Andy Berry

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