So long as we were in a room in a brothel, we belonged to our fantasies, but once having exposed them, we’re now tied up with human beings, tied to you and forced to go on with this adventure according to the laws of visibility.
Jean Genet, The Balcony
Val Sinckler is a native of New York and Stanford alum, currently living in San Francisco. She has worked as a classically-trained artist/educator in the Bay Area for over a dozen years, notably with StanShakes, Stanford Summer Theater, Sony Pictures, the Lorraine Hansberry Theater, as well as the site-specific troupe We Players, Stanford Lively Arts, and The Joseph Papp Public Theater of New York.