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Christina Caamano is currently with a company called High Street Partners and she does international accounting management for clients in the USA who are expanding overseas. The business model is outsourcing based and Christina's responsibility is managing the America's work as her Spanish language skills come in handy in Latin America. Her interest in the SF Shakes mission comes from her experience with theater from Junior High to after High School. She worked with an outreach program to teach both deaf and hearing
children theater and had a very rewarding and fun experience. She supports the mission of SF Shakes and their intention to provide children an accessible form of theater experience. Christina believes such experience can positively benefit children just as she experienced. (Back to 'Board List')

Stephen Hamilton, trained as a Chartered Accountant and CPA, 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. 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. He is currently on a leave of absence from board service. (Back to 'Board List')

Linda Merriweather has been a co-writer/producer/performer with The Shlepperellas: Mothers Gone Mad! A native of Southern California, she 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 to 'Board List')

Deborah Styles holds a BFA and an MFA in classical theatre/dramatic literature, an MA in psychology with an emphasis in Drama Therapy, and a Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.  In her clinical work, Deborah integrates the aesthetic with the therapeutic, enriching the clinical process. As a graduate school educator, she brings this same integration to her teaching. Deborah has also worked with K-8 schools as a parent volunteer, teaching theatre and Shakespeare for curricular enrichment, psychosocial development, learning support and just plain fun. 
Recognizing the benefit of exposure to classical literature, with Shakespeare as her springboard, Deborah has since pursued her passion for the integration of theatre arts in education, psychological well-being and literacy.  Deborah’s fervent belief is that theatre in general, and Shakespeare in particular, makes a profound contribution to both educational and psychological processes, fostering imagination, resourcefulness and awareness of the world in which we live.  (Back to 'Board List')