On the boards...
The Essential Services Project (ESP) and Theatre Rhinoceros
present a live, in-person presentation!
MALAYA, A NEW PLAY BY DAVID MAMET
Conceived and Performed by
John Fisher
(GLAAD Media Award Winner, United Solo Best - Actor Award, Two Time Winner of Will Glickman Award)
Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 7:00 pm
One Live Performance Only! FREE! Open to all!

ESP- An Essential Services Project
Live, in-person, in San Francisco at Theatre Rhinoceros
4229 18th Street
San Francisco, CA
Or, watch on Zoom (but it's much more fun in person!).
I got a job at Columbia and fell under the sway of the America’s greatest living playwright, David Mamet. And then the truth came out.
The Essential Services Project reboots with new shows live in San Francisco!
Essential Services Project
See John in the San Francisco Chronicle!

Photo: Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
See the amazing article about Theatre Rhinoceros and other local theaters adapting to digital. Read it in The Chronicle.
ESSENTIAL SERVICES PROJECT
Solo Performances Conceived and Performed by John Fisher
John Fisher - Nominated Best Performer by Broadway World 2021
for CLYBOURNE PARK
2021 Bay Area Critics' Circle Award Winner for
"Best Solo-Performance" for the Essential Services Project
Earlier Performances Recorded live: March 2020 – December 2021
(Not all videos start at the beginning. Many have long leaders. Please cue up to the start of each video.)
You might want to watch ESPs on Facebook – some of the recordings are cleaner.
(Download a PDF of the Facebook links.)
List of Videos of Previous Performances
- SHARK
- BEDROOM (Adance to 01:00:30)
- FREDI (Advance to 01:02:20)
- REBS! (Advance to 00:59:45)
- M2 (Advance to 00:59:00)
1/22/2022 - Live Broadcast from NYC - A History of the Civil War (No video available at this time)
1/14/2022 - Performed live at Pangea, NYC - CHRISTMAS TRUCE (Advance to 00:43:30)
12/23/2021 - The LGBTQ Center, NYC - GROWN UP [Advance to 0:19:15]
- TURKMENISTAN [Advance to 00:26:00]
- BULGE! [Advance to 00:33:00]
- Assange: A Dilemma
- Hunt Hart
- Central Park Jogger [Advance to 13:20]
- BIG APPLE [Advance to 27:30]
- Romanovs [Advance to 01:02:12]
- Keith [Advance to 01:02:00)
- WILDE AND MAUGHAM[Advance to 56:00]
- NATIONAL TRUST [Advance to 53:30]
- Murder At Hetch Hetchy
- FUNGATE
- War’s End [Advance to 2:51:45]
- Kitchen Farce [Advance to 2:30:45]
- MOMMY-MOTHER-MOM
- The Battle of Ruhr Pocket
- The Swimmer
- Sutro
- Pirates Cove
- Cats
- The Farm
- Jenny
- COVID Adventure
- The Battle of Guadalcanal
- B.S.
- Moon Shot
- Contemporary Art
- Broke and Outta Work
- The Salamander
- Lone Mountain
- Seduction
- Gay Physics
- Callisthenes for Christmas
- South Sea Bubble
- Cologne
- How I Murdered My Best Friend
- Gay Pilgrim
- The Battle of Kursk
- Gordon of Khartoum
- Insane Director
- The Big Island
- Marie’s Crisis
- RANDY!
- EVEREST!
- Straight
- The Drinker
- The Fillmore
- St. John Fisher
- Dickens
- A Death in the Family
- Exercise
- Growing Up:The World in 1976
- Danse Macabre
- Modjeska
- Johnson
- PRIDE: Frank Kameny – Eyes on the Stars
- WAHOO
- The Doodler: The Finale
- The Doodler
- Kato/Cato
- General Washington
- Zoom Castastrophe
- Shark!
- A Murder in Hawaii
- The End of Orde
- Orde in Burma
- Orde in Israel
- Ode to Orde
- A Tourist in London
- A Tourist in Hawaii