The West Coast Premiere of “Dodo for President”: a funny, quirky and touching look at friendships, presidential campaigns and an incriminating peach sweater. November 8, 2007

WHAT: Candy (A J Davenport) and Dodo (Alex Alexander) were best friends at summer camp; 40 years later, Candy is a lesbian lunch lady and Dodo is running for President, although no one knows that Dorothy Adamson used to be nicknamed for such a strange bird. Along with a van full of quirky, loveable characters, Candy begins a quest to find Dodo, return a certain peach sweater, and remind the future Ms. President that we are all connected in the strangest of ways.
Like a modern-day Mr. Smith Goes to Washington¸ Dodo for President is funny, touching, and relevant. More importantly, it will inject some much-needed humanity into our political season!

Mark Eisman (playwright) has received two daytime Emmy nominations, a NY state playwriting fellowship, a Writers Guild screenwriting fellowship, the Beverly Hills Theater Guild/Julie Harris Playwriting Award, the Charles MacArthur Fellowship for comic writing (THE GUY UPSTAIRS screenplay) and a playwriting scholarship from Primary Stages theater. Mark wrote questions for JEOPARDY and scripts for children’s TV programs including THE GREAT SPACE COASTER, READING RAINBOW and the RAMONA series for PBS. He has recently completed two novels for children. His play, Shove, won best Playwright by the LA Weekly and was presented two seasons ago at Custom Made. Mark was born in Boston, lives in New York, and is a graduate of Northwestern University.

WHO: The Custom Made Theatre Company. Directed by Leah S. Abrams. With Alex Alexander, Perry Aliado, Megan Briggs, AJ Davenport, Mary McGloin and Richard Wenzel.
WHEN: November 8 – December 8, 2007; Wed. – Sat., 8:00 p.m.; Preview Thurs., Nov 8th; Opening Nov 9th.
WHERE: The Custom Stage @ Off-Market, 965 Mission St. (between 5th & 6th), San Francisco.
TICKETS: $25 general; $15 Seniors/Students/TBA Members. Visit www.custommade.org or call 1-800-838-3006.

Official Website: http://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/23461