BIOGRAPHY
Rod Hipskind
Rod Hipskind (Co-Director) is a freelance photo stylist, art director, actor and director residing in San Francisco. Having graduated from SF State University with a double emphasis in acting and directing he brings his experience in all these fields to his continued ensemble collaborations with Banana Bag & Bodice. Ensemble work with BB&B includes: The Young War, The Sewers, The Fall & Rise of The Rising Fallen. As a company member of foolsFury he directed the Best of San Francisco Fringe production, Turn of the Screw and Twelfth Night. Acting credits with fF include, Michael Majeski in Don Delillo's, Valparaiso and as Lorko Levic in the U.S. premiere of The Devil on all Sides. As artistic director of the now defunct underground ensemble Wit's End, he directed Eric Overmeyer’s On the Verge, and adapted George Buchner's Woyzeck touring from San Francisco to Montreal in 1998. He completed the scenic design for the West Coast premiere of Charles Mee's Gone for Crowded Fire Theater Company and for Mugwumpin’s 2010 premiere of And I Need That. This is All I Need.