Banana Bag & Bodice

Banana Bag & Bodice is a Brooklyn-based ensemble theatre company that creates original plays with a strong emphasis on text, music and design. They have performed at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater, PS 122, The Brick Theater, Abrons Arts Center, American Repertory Theater, Joe's Pub, and festivals in San Francisco, New York City, Montreal, Dublin, Edinburgh, and Adelaide.

Founded in 1999 in San Francisco by Co-Artistic Directors Jason Craig and Jessica Jelliffe, Banana Bag & Bodice have created ten original productions. The group is now based in Brooklyn NY, but maintains a strong relationship to the San Francisco Bay Area community.

Their rock musical Beowulf - A Thousand Years of Baggage, commissioned by the Shotgun Players, won the 2008 Will Glickman Award and a 2011 Edinburgh Festival Herald Angel, and continues to tour internationally.

A compendium of oddities

A drama about death and remembrance

A study on prison deformation

A musical about killing animals

A panel discussion on the death of love

A double feature of The Young War and Sandwich

An aborted living room drama play

A "making the band" pageant play

A Banana Bag & Bodice SongPlay

A claustrophobic container tale

Jason Craig (Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director/Writer/Performer)

Jessica Jelliffe (Co-Founder/Co-Artistic Director/Performer)

Peter Blomquist (Performer)

Mallory Catlett (Director/Dramaturg)

Miranda k Hardy (Lighting Designer)

Rod Hipskind (Director/Performer)

Dave Malloy (Composer/Sound Designer/Performer)

Heather Peroni (Performer)

Zbigniew Bzymek (Video Artist for Space//Space)

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