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San Francisco Shakespeare Festival Staff
Administrative Staff
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Toby Leavitt
(Executive Director) oversees all aspects of the Shakespeare
Festival's programs (Free Shakespeare
in the Park, Shakespeare
On Tour, Bay Area Shakespeare
Camps, and Midnight Shakespeare).
She did her undergraduate work at the University of Chicago,
and received her Masters from the University of Chicago Business
School in 1997. Prior to joining the Festival in 1998, she
served as General Manager for Chicago's Court Theatre. She
oversaw their financial growth from a $1.6 million to $2.8
million annual budget, guided the theatre in developing a
5-year strategic plan to become the National Center for Classic
Theatre, and managed the ensuing strategic growth of the organization.
Prior to her four years with the Court, she worked at the
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago as Senior Editor and Director
of Marketing Communications. Her accomplishments in audience
development have been recognized by the Arts Marketing Center
of Chicago and the Marshall Fields Foundation. She has served
as a management consultant for Chicago Opera Theater, the
Piven Theater Workshop, and Roadworks Theater Company, and
has served as a panelist for the San Francisco Art Commission's
Cultural Equity Initiatives Grant program. (Back
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John Western
(Marketing Director) has been a fan of Free
Shakespeare in the Park since their inception in 1983
with The Tempest. He is responsible for the marketing
and advertising of all of their programs, including Shakespeare
On Tour, and Bay Area Shakespeare
Camps. He received his BA from Cleveland State University
and has continuing education credits in the advertising program
at the University of California at Berkeley's School of Extended
Learning. Mr. Western has been on the Festival staff since
1998, and has ten years of experience in theater advertising
and promotion, plus two years of management experience in
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Rebecca
Ennals (Artistic Associate for Education, Outreach, and
Casting) Ms. Ennals has been on the staff of the Shakespeare
Festival since early 2002. She has extensive acting, directing,
and teaching experience, and holds an MFA in performance from
U.C. Davis. She has taught at the elementary through college
levels, including beginning acting classes at U.C. Davis,
and has coached successful applicants to the California State
Summer School for the Arts and NYU's elite BFA acting program.
As an actor and director, she has worked locally with Napa
Valley Shakespeare Festival, Transparent Theatre, Pear Ave.
Theatre, Napa Valley Repertory and Shakespeare At Stinson.
She's served on the panel for the English-Speaking Union's
High School Shakespeare Competition, Northern California Region.
Ms. Ennals has also directed A Midsummer Night's Dream,
The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Comedy of Errors
for the Festival's Shakespeare
On Tour in-school touring program. She also serves as
director for Bay Area Shakespeare
Camps and Midnight Shakespeare.
As Artistic Associate, she manages the audition and casting
process and artist relations for Free Shakespeare in the Park.
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Daniel Holloway
(Marketing and Development Associate) received his B.A.
from Mississippi College before crossing the Atlantic to earn
an M.A. in English from the University of Kent in Canterbury,
England. For the last year he has been the Marketing and Development
Associate for the Festival, thus fulfilling his lifelong dream
of being the lowest paid college graduate ever. Between university
and the Shakespeare Festival, Daniel pretended to be a mixture
of Jack Kerouac, Willy Nelson and Cary Grant by working on
a tugboat in Boston, teaching ESL in Brazil and serving as
editor of a literary magazine. He wrote bad poetry the whole
time (which he still does). If you call the main office, you'll
most likely be speaking to him, particularly if your inquiry
is regarding Shakespeare On Tour
or Bay Area Shakespeare Camps.
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Kristin Clippard (Education Associate) has worked
as an actor, director, educator, playwright, dramaturg,
model, voice-over actor, singer, and producer across the
U.S. for the past ten years. She graduated with a BFA in
Acting from Wright State University. She has also trained
with the Orlando Shakespeare Festival in Florida, the National
Theatre Conservatory in Colorado, and with the SITI Company.
Some of her favorite acting credits include The Two Gentlemen
of Verona with the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Crimes
of the Heart with Ovation Theatre Company, and Anton
in Show Business with the Human Race Theatre Company.
Some directing credits include Driving Miss Daisy and
Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) for Clear Stage
Cincinnati, and Codes for The Harriet Lake New Play
Festival. She has taught theatre to children, teens and
adults for the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory
of Music Preparatory Department, the Orlando Shakespeare
Festival, Tony(R) Award winning Cincinnati Playhouse in
the Park, the Cincinnati Opera, and the Victoria Theatre
Association. Kristin has taught for the Bay
Area Shakespeare Camps and the Midnight
Shakespeare program, and performed with Shakespeare
On Tour in The Comedy of Errors. She is proud
to be an actor, teacher, and administrator for the San Francisco
Shakespeare Festival. (Back to
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Jackie Hasa (Development and Marketing Assistant)
received her B.A. in English literature from UC Berkeley
and briefly attended a Ph.D. program at UC Irvine, where
she set the record for realizing her preference for real-world
arts work and leaving in the shortest time possible. She
has also enjoyed stints as a legal assistant in a civil
rights law firm, SAT tutor, research assistant for an architecture
critic, and bindery worker at a printing press, as well
as other jobs too miniscule to mention. She also helps out
SFZero, the
universe’s only first-person real-world action-adventure
game, whenever they have need of her event planning skills
or task suggestions. At the Shakespeare Festival office,
she works on Bay
Area Shakespeare Camps, Shakespeare
on Tour, and general development projects. (Back
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Artistic Staff
Kenneth Kelleher (Resident Director)
2007 will be Mr. Kelleher's fifth season as Resident Director
of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, where he has previously
directed Love’s Labours Lost, Twelfth Night, Much
Ado About Nothing, and The Tempest. He has also directed for
California Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Theatreworks,
San Jose Repertory Theatre, San Jose Stage Company, Sacramento
Theatre Company, Pacific Repertory Theatre and Shakespeare at
Stinson and is the recipient of two Dean Goodman awards for outstanding
direction. (Back to 'Staff List')
Richard Ortenblad (Resident Scenic
Designer) celebrates 2007 as his fifth season with SF Shakes.
He works regularly in Los Angeles, San Jose, and Santa Cruz.
At the San Jose Stage Company his work of late includes
The Firebugs, Wit, Anton In Show Biz, A Skull in Connemara, and
Fuddy Mears. In addition to teaching in the Theatre Department
at U.C. Santa Cruz he is an avid cyclist and remodeler. (Back
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