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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 its inception in 1983 with
The Tempest. He is responsible for the marketing and
advertising of all Festival programs, including Shakespeare
On Tour and Bay Area Shakespeare
Camps. He received his BA from Cleveland State University
and received 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 the public relations field. (Back
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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, Romeo & Juliet, and The
Comedy of Errors for the Festival's Shakespeare
On Tour in-school touring program. She is also 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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Kristin Clippard Kristin
Clippard has worked as an actor, director, educator,
playwright, dramaturg, model, voice-over actor, singer,
and producer across the U.S. for the past twelve 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,
the SITI Company, and Shakespeare & Co. Some of her
favorite acting credits include Moon for the Misbegotten
with Hapgood Theatre, The Two Gentlemen of Verona
with the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, 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 California Shakespeare Theatre, Theatreworks, Marin
Theatre Company, 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, the Victoria Theatre
Association and more. 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's been with
SF Shakes since 2005.(Back to
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Tyler Wanshura (Development
and Marketing Assistant) recently moved to the Bay Area,
upon completing his Masters of Fine Arts degree in Arts
Administration at Southern Utah University. He also holds
a Bachelor degree in studio art from Minnesota's St. Olaf
College. His marketing and public relations experience with
Utah Shakespeare Festival and Minnesota Opera laid the ground
work for his role at SF Shakes. In addition to assisting
with Bay Area
Shakespeare Camps and Shakespeare
on Tour promotions he also works on development projects
for all programs at the Festival. (Back
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Leslie Breton (Production Manager) has been stage
managing for over 10 years. In addition to stage managing
the 2009 Free Shakespeare in
the Park production of The Comedy of Errors,
she's stage managed Cinderella, Charlotte's Web, and
Ramona Quimby for Pleasanton
Civic Arts Stage Company. Other credits include: Woman
Who Fell From the Sky and Hero, Teatro Vision;
Befriending Shirley, The Climate Theater; Door
# 3, True West, The Baltimore Waltz, and World Goes
Round for Pear Avenue Theatre. The Rocky Horror Show;
Don Juan in Chicago; Assassins; A My Name is Alice; Jesus
Christ Superstar; and rehearsal stage manager Noises
Off! for City Lights Theatre Company. Other credits
include La Virgen del Tepeyac, La Pastorela, Cenci, El
Fin del Mundo, Punkstorela for El Teatro Campesino;
along with a variety of corporate/private events and festivals.
She has also been a manager for Bay
Area Shakespeare Camps. (Back
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Artistic Staff
Kenneth Kelleher (Resident Director)
has been with SF Shakes since 2003, where he has previously directed
Love’s Labours Lost, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing,
The Tempest, Pericle, and The Comedy of Errors. 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. He is the recipient of two Dean Goodman
awards for outstanding direction. (Back
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Richard Ortenblad (Resident Scenic
Designer) began working with SF Shakes in 2003 and has designed
every summer show since. He works regularly in Los Angeles, San
Jose, and Santa Cruz. At the San Jose Stage Company his
work 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 to 'Staff List')
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