Stage Werx is dedicated to the community and has been established to:

Provide a forum in which theatre artists (actors, directors, playwrights, designers) may further develop their talents and skills

Further the vitality, stability and development of live theatre in
San Francisco by producing and hosting premieres and “reinventions” of previously produced materials

Increase the Theatre’s profile in particular and the profile of San Francisco theatre in general by creating unique projects of interest

But really, we're here to open opportunities for freaks, starving artists, newcomers, and old hats to get their stage on.

Ty Mckenzie

has spent the last 16 years in San Francisco theatres first as a board op, learning light design. She inadvertently picked up skills in sound, electrical and carpentry, audio visual, computers and theatre operations. Ty got to try out all these skills as a theatre co-owner in the Mission District. Her extensive resume can be seen here.

Ty’s first theatre gig was at the Shelton Theatre, funnily enough, across the hall from Stage Werx in Union Square (2007-2011). She then found herself at The Phoenix Theatre where a patient Mike Burg and Linda Ayres-Frederick let her play, learn, mess-up, re-do it, and grow leaps and bounds. She spent time at the Exit Theatre working with Jason Reis who helped give her the technical skills she would need to further her career. She also credits Bart Grady for helping her not only with her first nerve-wracking light design but always being there for her when she needed him. With whiskey.

Ty concurrently worked in medicine as a Laboratory Technician while pursuing her theatre career until one day she woke up and realized that there’s no place like the theatre and to spend each day immersed in the creativity and joy that the actors and theatre provides is what makes her most happy.