Brian Copeland
Join Brian Copeland as he shares pieces of his new work in progress.
Lauren English
In The Fold moves through five characters: a nurse, a child, a teenager, a woman on the street, and a grieving partner, people who would never meet and yet are stitched together by the same quiet disaster. Moving between San Francisco, Philadelphia, and rural Appalachia, we follow them through ordinary rooms where the opioid crisis actually happens: kitchens, back seats, NICUs, the small private spaces inside a body that wants two opposite things at once. Part autobiography, part documentary and part meditation. In The Fold asks how we survive the impossible, and how love, stubborn and imperfect, keeps showing up anyway.
Brian Copeland is an award-winning actor, comedian, author, playwright, television and radio talk show host based in the San Francisco Bay Area. His one-man play, “Not a Genuine Black Man,” went on to become the longest-running solo show in San Francisco theatrical history, recently celebrating its 1,000th performance. He is a 2025 inductee in the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame.
His debut thriller, Outraged, was released in 2024. The second Topher Davis thriller, Shadows of Justice, was published in April 2025.
Lauren English (She/Her/Hers) was most recently seen in Gloria at A.C.T. directed by Eric Ting. Selected local credits include: Cry it out with Just Theatre, Nassim, The Baltimore Waltz and Why We Have a Body at The Magic Theatre, Henry IV & V, A Mid Summer Night’s Dream at Cal Shakes, Talley’s Folley at The Aurora Theatre Company, Lasso of Truth at Marin Theatre Company. She has worked extensively with San Francisco Playhouse where she is a founding company member and Artistic Associate. Favorite onstage SF Playhouse credits include: reasons to be pretty, Seminar, The Glory of Living and Our Town. In New York she worked with The Actors Company Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, The Public Theater, Ensemble Studio Theater, Lark Theatre and Playwrights Realm. Lauren holds an MFA from NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. Lauren is also a coach, facilitator and a mom. More about her work: www.laurenenglish.net.