No Exit by Jean-Paul Satre - Opens September 5, 2025
No Exit
By Jean-Paul Satre
Directed by Karen McMahon
September 5 & 6 at 8PM & the 7th at 2PM
La Val's Subterranean Theater
Reservations | Directions | Photos
Actors Ensemble of Berkeley and NatePresents.com present a mini-production of Jean-Paul Satre's classic of existential drama, NO EXIT, where the characters mutually discover that "Hell is Other People".
Performed in the intimate environs of LaVal's Subterranean Theater. Just 3 performances, September 5 and 6th at 8 pm and September 7th at 2 pm. Directed by Karen McMahon. Produced by NatePresents.com in association with Actors Ensemble. Presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals.
Tickets are Pay-What-You-Will. You can donate at the time you reserve your tickets, and/or you can donate at the venue in cash.
Because of the limited number of performances we will require reservations to reconfirm their attendance a week in advance and the day prior. Reservations not claimed by 10 minutes before the show may be released to patrons at the door.
Reservations may be made here: https://buytickets.at/actorsensemble/1806257
With
Delaney Bantillo as Estelle
Ipsheeta Furtado as the Valet
Kenneth Matis as Cradeau
Natalie Tichenor as Inez
Producer and Technical Designer: Nathan Bogner
Associate Producer and Liaison for Actors Ensemble of Berkeley: Jerome Solberg
CAST
Delaney Bontillo (Estelle) - A Bay Area-born multidisciplinary and mixed-medium artist, scientist, educator, and experimental ethnographer driven by themes of identity, culture, belonging, access, and home. Delaney’s work as a storymaker, bridge builder, and paradigm shifter leading, learning, acting, writing, facilitating, directing, designing, innovating, activating, energizing, equipping, nourishing, and co-cultivating connects people to each other, to resources, and to improved understandings of themselves and the worlds around them. Delighted to be creating with the incredibly talented and thoughtful castmates and team bringing this production to life, Delaney extends gratitude to Ipsheeta, Kenneth, Natalie, Karen, Nate, AE of Berkeley, everyone in the audience, and all who could not be, whose contributions make these opportunities possible.
Ipsheeta Furtada (The Valet) - By day, Ipsheeta is an entrepreneur and, by night, a writer and theater artist. She weaves the supernatural, counter-culture female characters, generational paradigms, and the tech economy into her work. Influenced by the Central Works Method, she serves on the Boards of Shotgun Players and 3Girls Theatre Company. An alumna of VONA and SF Writers Grotto residencies, she co-founded The Network Effects Theater (incubated by PlaygroundSF). Ipsheeta is Meisner-trained and performs in musical theatre and improv. Her published poetry, sewing, and dance classes are on Instagram @_ipsheeta. She holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from UC Berkeley and prefers tea over coffee.
Kenneth Matis (Cradeau) - Kenneth Matis is excited to play Cradeau in No Exit for Actors Ensemble and Nate Presents, after recently playing Cloten in Actor Ensemble of Berkeley's production of Cymbeline and performing in Life Among the Aryans for Black Repertory Group. He's enjoyed the chance to play many roles in the Bay Area but especially Charles Condomine in Blithe Spirit and Oswald in King Lear. When he's not on stage, you can find him wrangling data for Kaiser or trying to run around Lake Merritt.
Natalie Tichenor (Inez) - Natalie teaches high school in Richmond as an Education Specialist and is also currently attending school to become a Speech and Language Pathologist. Past favorite shows include: Romeo and Juliet (Juliet), Spring Awakening (Ilse), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Germaine), D.I.E. (Mallory), 12 Angry Jurors (Juror #8), and Clybourne Park (Betsy/Lindsay). When not performing, Natalie enjoys hiking and reading. As always, she thanks her friends and family, her partner Jamari, and her very important cats, Eurydice and Ari, for all their love and support.
Actors Ensemble
P.O. Box 663
Berkeley, CA 94701
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