WE ARE ON THE ANCESTRAL HOMELANDS OF THE AGUA CALIENTE BAND OF CAHUILLA INDIANS, THE ORIGINAL INHABITANTS & STEWARDS OF LANDS NOW OCCUPIED BY PALM SPRINGS, CA.

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Indigenous Magic

Our monthly series is always seeking artists to anchor the evening’s event. This means you get a timeslot in the center of the evening of at least 30 minutes, a stipend of $125.00, and our support with promotions and so on leading up to the event. Indigenous Magic is always free to all, a family event, and open to new and existing allies and audiences of Native/indigenous peoples. Artists are welcome whether their medium makes use of traditional indigenous/Native forms or not, and whether or not your medium is intrisically performative or not. We support musicians, singers, poets, playwrights, prosewriters, scriptwriters, painters, sculptors, animators, sound artists, dancers, and more.

Showing in MAGIC THEATRE, SAN FRANCISCO

2024-04-23

GhostRave: an immersive indigiqueer opera

Coyote is at it again! When the Trickster stumbles across the 1890 Ghost Dance in western Nevada, he accidentally summons Chayson, an indigiqueer bike messenger, from 1990 San Francisco. Trying to get back home, Chayson launches on a journey across time, space, music, dance, despair, hope, and love.

GhostRave unfolds – for Chayson, Coyote, an assortment of Native and indigenous beings and spirits, and most of all the audience – as an immersive adventure from composer Brandon M.P. Roberts and librettist Jerome Joseph Gentes that breaks the rules of dancefloors, spacetime, indigeneity, genderqueerness, opera and theatre. Featuring groundbreaking approaches to musical composition, using DJ formulas and techniques such as harmonic mixing and beat matching to fuse music genres and rhythms.

A limited number of tickets will be available for each performance – patrons are invited to sit, stand, drink, and yes, dance! It’s a fresh, original theatre experience coming alive for the first time in this workshop production from TigerBear, the creative production team that brought the immersive kink chamber opera Unbound to Palm Springs and the award-winning Deal With The Dragon to the Magic Theatre.

Electronic music, haze effects, flashing lights, light scent design. Hey, it’s a danceclub!

Showing in MAGIC THEATRE
SAN FRANCISCO

2024-10-28

Helene Stapinski & Bonnie Siegler: Reading and Book Talk

The American Way: Author Reading and Talk

FREE EVENT. The two authors will appear together to read, discuss, and sign copies of their new book, which unpacks the story behind the story of the night Marilyn Monroe filmed her famous white dress and passing subway scene from The Seven Year Itch. Only Palm Springs area appearance.

Showing in Palm Springs, CA

2023-05-08

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the TigerBear “tail”

Our story

TigerBear Productions started on its journey long before 2019. Our fore“bears” include the first artists who inspired us as wee cubs, and those who shaped and shared them with us. As we grew, we wondered again and again: who could we gather to tell a story with, and who could we gather to tell it to? Print and stage and screen evolved, and so did we, yet we kept renewing our love of making stories and making them happen. Here, now, we keep telling and making them, with more inspirations in our hearts and imaginations than we can count. Join our journey.

join us in our mission to inspire, elevate and delight!

We’re grateful for all the ways you support us. That you’re reading this is one of them. If you’re interested in other ways, like sponsoring a production or more, let us know!

Come play with us! Check out your ongoing and upcoming opportunities to make and tell and perform with team TigerBear.

There are so many ways to play and make with us, from welcoming guests at our events to joining our board. Let’s make something happen together.

meet the TigerBear team

Jerome Joseph Gentes

Creative Director

He / Him / His

Co-founded the Musical Cafe Showcase Series, a Berkeley, CA-based performance series and project of PlayCafe. He attended UC Berkeley and Columbia.