This past year, Marin Theatre’s been all over the map — and all over the history books — with an amazing range of productions. The Mill Valley theater company comes back to the here and now with the Bay Area premiere of workplace comedy “Do You Feel Anger?” by Mara Nelson-Greenberg, opening Thursday.

Directed by Becca Wolff, the show closes an adventurous, ambitious season. Stage Left described an off-Broadway production as a “whip-smart satire of contemporary workplace culture,” and The New York Times lauded it as “flat-out hilarious” and “ingenious and inspired.” The uproarious play is set in a debt collection agency and follows an empathy coach whose assignment proves difficult. Her fellow employees can barely identify what an emotion is, much less practice compassion for others.

Nelson-Greenberg’s fictitious company is “where bro culture makes empathy the alien and women are swimming upstream through the absurdity and danger of the men around them,” said Marin Theatre Executive Artistic Director Lance Gardner. The show should resonate across a wide swath of attendees. Everyone’s had bad bosses, problematic co-workers, pointless projects and impossible deadlines.

Last seen in Marin Theatre’s “Two Trains Running,” Bay Area theater veteran Sam Jackson stars as Sofia, a newly hired “empathy coach” at the almost all-male agency — a great comedic setup. Jackson brings authenticity to her role. She actually worked as a behavioral coach for many years.

“The script is hilarious and absurd,” Jackson wrote via email. “Playing Sofia is all too familiar to me. … I have dealt with bosses who only hear what they want to hear while telling you exactly how to do your job. … I have dealt with the oversharer in the office who loves an anecdote at the exact wrong time and have dealt with ‘class clowns’ who assume that since you’re a young woman, you have no idea what you’re talking about. This show happens to be a bit of a mirror for our current political situation.”

Such mirroring was also the hook for director Becca Wolff, who discovered the script through actor friend Rosie Hallett.

“It’s brilliant, funny and engaging,” Wolff said. “I love dark comedy, and I love suspense, and this play has both. Plus, the comedy and the terror both come from an unlikely and provocative source — ‘workplace culture,’ including identity-based violence. … The nightmare scenario Sofia finds herself in is the experience of many people who find themselves victims of workplace hostility and harassment.”

“Do You Feel Anger?” features an all-star cast of Bay Area performers, including Linda Maria Girón as Eva, a detached and disconnected employee, and Joseph Patrick O’Malley as Jon, the company’s quirky and unpredictable office manager.

Phil Wong and Max Forman-Mullin make their Marin Theatre debut as volatile employees Jordan and Howie, respectively, with Atosa Babaoff as Janie, an almost absentee employee, and as the voice of Sofia’s mother. Jesse Caldwell appears as a mysterious and long-winded elder. The design team includes Randy Wong-Westbrooke (set), Fatima Yahyaa (costumes), Ray Oppenheimer (lighting) and Matt Stines (sound), with Bessie Zolno serving as intimacy/fight coordinator.

“You’ve got stuff like ‘The Office,’ ‘Office Space’ and many other comedies. ‘Do You Feel Anger?’ is definitely in this genre, and like classic comedies and films, it turns on a workplace culture that has mutated into a kind of torture chamber for its employees — a feeling to which most people of late capitalism can all relate,” said Wolff when asked how “Do You Feel Anger?” is different from innumerable plays, films and TV shows based on workplace dysfunction.

Marin Theatre Executive Artistic Director Lance Gardner said that “this hilarious workplace comedy will have you rooting for the underdog.”

“I don’t like to set expectations of our audiences, but I’d be surprised if I didn’t see people rolling in the aisles,” he said.

Gardner mentioned that Marin Theatre’s Artistic Producer Laura Steele brought the play to his attention, so it came to both the theater company and its director through divergent sources — always an encouraging sign.

“Mara Nelson-Greenberg gives workplace violence, intimidation and coercion a brilliantly comedic treatment. The jokes are great; the cast is brilliant,” Wolff said. “I think it will play well here in Marin. People understand that hostile workplace harassment is real and that identities like race and gender play a role in who victims and perpetrators are. Think of it like ’30 Rock’ meets ‘North Country.’”

Jackson added, “I hope audiences will find this show as hilarious and heartbreaking as we do.”

Barry Willis is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association and president of the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. Contact him at barry.m.willis@gmail.com.