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FREE SHAKESPEARE
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San
Francisco Shakespeare Festival Board of Directors
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Robert Chansler
(Chairman) brought his enthusiasm for Shakespeare to the South
Bay from Pittsburgh where he did graduate work at Carnegie-Mellon
University. Rob and his wife Kim attended Free Shakespeare
in the Park on their first date. Their daughter Katie is a
4-year veteran of Bay Area Shakespeare Camps and was an acting
intern in the 2006 Free Shakespeare. During the day, Rob manages
software development for storage area network vendor McDATA.
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Eleanor Jacobs
(Vice-Chair)) has loved Shakespeare since she was a high school
freshman. She's been active with the San Francisco Shakespeare
Festival since 2000, as a member of the Development Committee
and Board of Directors. Born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri,
Eleanor has a masters degree in Social Work from St. Louis
University. She was Executive Director of Catholic Social
Services/San Mateo;of the YWCA of San Francisco/Marin/San
Mateo;of Westside Community Mental Health Center, Inc. in
San Francisco; and she was President and CEO of the United
Way of Santa Clara County. Working in San Francisco's city
hall, Eleanor served as Homeless Coordinator in the administration
of Mayor Frank Jordan. She enjoys theater, movies and books."
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Linda Merriweather
(Secretary and Development Chair) has spent the last three
years co-writing/producing/performing The
Shlepperellas: Mothers Gone Mad! A native of Southern
California, Linda studied drama at UCLA before moving to the
Bay Area. She also studied improvisational comedy at Stanford
University under the direction of Patricia Ryan and Dan Goldstein.
Linda worked at Hewlett-Packard in marketing and customer
relations, eventually becoming a manager. She serves on the
board of directors of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival,
a regional theater company and education provider that sponsors
annual Free Shakespeare in the Park productions as well as
innovative programs for kids such as Shakespeare On Tour,
Shakespeare Camps, and Midnight Shakespeare. (Back
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Keith Taylor
(CFO) has been active with the Festival since 1998 as a Board
member, as well as with other non-profit organizations. Keith,
a native South bay Californian, lives in Mountain View with
his wife of twenty-two years and their four children. As CFO
for Magellan Navigation, Inc., and partner with Tatum Partners,
LLC, Keith is a senior finance executive with more than 25
years of experience in the high tech and service industries,
with previous stints as CFO for Encover, Topio, BrassRing,
and CareerCentral.com, and in various finance roles at Global
1000 companies Adecco SA and Apple Computer, Inc. Keith earned
his CPA and CISA certifications while at EY, an MBA from SJSU
and a BSBA from Cal Poly. His love of the combination of arts
and youth education keeps him actively promoting the Festival
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Stephen Hamilton (Past Chair) Trained as a Chartered
Accountant and CPA, Stephen Hamilton has lived in the UK,
France and, for the past twenty-five years, in the US. He
has worked in a number of hi-tech companies in a variety
of sales, marketing and senior management roles. He is currently
an independent consultant helping companies and organizations
grow their business through the use of Internet based marketing
and communication tools. Stephen has been a board member
since 1998 and has served as chairman of the board since
2002. Stephen's passions are sailing and theatre but these
days being on the board is as close as he can get to treading
the boards! He and his wife Fiona enjoy all of the festivals
programs and their two teenage daughters are graduates of
the summer camps. (Back to 'Board
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