OUR HISTORY

The Sarah Fulton Group was founded in 1990 as an actor's ensemble and production company. Inspired by the legendary Steppenwolfe Theater Company and American Academy of Dramatic Arts alumni John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, Tim Byron Owen, along with American Academy schoolmate Nick Cassavetes and director Dr. Phil Boroff, began the Tuesday Night Sarah Fulton Project. With Owen serving as Artistic Director since 1990, SFG began an outreach program with the California School of Design in Pasadena, doing films and participating in film directing classes with Ted Post, and department head Francine Parker.
In 1997, SFG helped produce a film for The American Heart Association entitled Where's Jo, with writer/director Lane Shefter, and received an Emmy Award for the Group's participation. In 2001, Owen co-directed a short film for SFG along with BAFTA member Angela Lubbock, A Far Cry From A Distant Land.
Also in 2001, SFG launched the hit play A Night In November, by Marie Jones, starring Marty Maguire. The play debuted at the Celtic Arts Center, then went to Garry Marshall's Falcon Theatre. On Jones insistence, the Tricycle Theater in London brought SFG's production over to sold out performances. Owen and Maguire then went to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, taking the Spirit of the Fringe award for Best Production, and the Tapwater Award for Best Actor. They returned to London's Tricycle Theater, and then went on to Dublin's Gaiety and Liberty Hall Theaters.
In 2002, SFG produced Stephen Metcalfe's Sorrow & Sons and Spittin' Image.   2003 saw major change for SFG when they lost their space, and are grateful to now be sponsored by Chelsea Studios in West Hollywood.
In August of 2004, SFG continued its history of excellent theatre by proudly producing another hit play and West Coast Premiere, Fighting Words, by Sunil Kuruvilla, for an extended nine week run at the Celtic Arts Center of Los Angeles. This was followed by the return engagement of A Night In November, garnering two Ovation Award nominations for Best Play and Best Performance, leading to a March, 2006 off-Broadway production at the Irish Arts Center in New York.
In 2006, SFG was invited to bring its critically acclaimed production of Fighting Words to the Wales Millenium Centre in Cardiff, Wales for the play's European Premiere. SFG is grateful and delighted to be invited back to The Celtic Arts Center for a return engagement of Fighting Words, as a warm-up for the Cardiff Passion Festival in July, 2006.


Tim Byron Owen
Artistic Director &
Chairman of the Board
THE SARAH FULTON GROUP