WHEN WE WERE YOUNG AND UNAFRAID Starring Stacy Ross Comes to Custom Made Theatre

Custom Made Theatre Co. presents the Bay Area Premiere of Sarah Treem's When We Were Young and Unafraid, which runs January 17 through February 9 at Custom Made Theatre, 533 Sutter St. in San Francisco, one block north of Union Square.

In the early 1970s, and before the Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion, Agnes (Stacy Ross) has turned her quiet bed and breakfast into one of the few spots where victims of domestic violence can seek refuge.

But to Agnes' dismay, her latest runaway, Mary Anne, is beginning to influence Agnes' college-bound daughter Penny. As the drums of a feminist revolution grow louder outside her tiny world, Agnes is forced to confront her own presumptions about the women she's spent her life trying to help.

When We Were Young and Unafraid reminds us that the path to today's women's rights was perilous, and their future is not guaranteed, while telling a personal tale of change and redemption.

Young and Unafraid reunites director Tracy Ward and actor Stacy Ross, after their triumphant production of Steve Yockey's The Thrush and the Woodpecker. Custom Made is thrilled to have these two important artists back on the Sutter Street stage, for this poignant look at the perilous nature of women's rights, and the personal cost to those who fought for them.

Sarah Treem's show THE AFFAIR, which she co-created with Hagai Levi and stars Dominic West and Ruth Wilson, was named the best drama TV series at the 2015 Golden Globes, and the award for best actress in a drama TV series went to Ruth Wilson. The show received a WGA nomination for best new series.

Sarah wrote and co-Executive Produced for the first season of David Fincher's HOUSE OF CARDS for Netflix which earned her a WGA award. Prior to that, she wrote on all three seasons of the acclaimed series, IN TREATMENT, for which she won a WGA award and was nominated for a Humanitas award. While under an overall deal at HBO, Sarah wrote and produced for HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA while also developing her own pilots.

Sarah started her career in the theater, earning her B.A. and M.F.A. from Yale University, where she has also taught playwriting. Her play A FEMININE ENDING premiered at Playwrights Horizons and went on to productions at South Coast Repertory and Portland Center Stage, among others. Her play THE HOW AND THE WHY premiered at the McCarter Theater starring Mercedes Ruehl (with Emily Mann directing) and went on to productions at Interact Theatre and Trinity Repertory among others. Sarah's other plays include EMPTY SKY (Bloomington Playwrights Project), ORPHAN ISLAND (Sundance Theater Lab), HUMAN VOICES (New York Stage and Film) and MIRROR MIRROR. She has been commissioned by Playwrights Horizons, Southcoast Repertory and Manhattan Theater Club and developed work at the Ojai Playwrights Festival, the Screenwriters Colony, Hedgebrook and Yaddo.

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