Director • Actor

Paige Rogers

Paige Rogers co-founded Cutting Ball theater in 1999 where she took nearly two years to create Antigone, workshopping the piece at the Grotowski Institute in Poland and collaborating with translator Daniel Sullivan.  Paige also took a long process to create Tontlawald, a play based on an Estonian fairy tale, with playwright Eugenie Chan, co-director Annie Paladino and choreographer Laura Arrington. She has also directed Life is a Dream with David and Asher Sinaiko in the father/son roles, Guy Zimmerman’s The Wasps and Maria Irene Fornes' Mud. As an actor she was last seen onstage in Eugenie Chan's plays Bone to Pick and Diadem. Her favorite roles at Cutting Ball were Mrs. Smith in The Bald Soprano and Kate in Taming of the Shrew, for which she was voted “Best Actress in San Francisco” by the SF Weekly’s annual reader’s poll. Rogers has been seen onstage with Berkeley Opera, Lamplighters, Sonoma County Repertory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, The Kennedy Center, McCarter Theater, Trinity Repertory Company and Oregon Shakespeare Festival. She has a B.A. in English and Theater from Princeton University and attended drama school at Trinity Rep Conservatory.  After serving many years as Cutting Ball’s lead actress and then as Associate Artistic Director, Paige took over as Artistic Director in 2015.

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