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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 Director of Education Programs) 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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Becky Kemper (Education Outreach Director) until recently, served as the Producing Artistic Director of the Maryland Shakespeare Festival, an equity theater company that she founded in 1999. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of Arts, a Master of Letters in Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature, and an MFA in Directing from the American Shakespeare Center & Mary Baldwin College. Her acting and directing projects have taken her to such places as Russia, China, and the Edinburgh International Fringe Festival. She is a company member and classical text teacher at Shakespeare & Co. in Lennox, MA and has served as the Artistic Director of the Metawhateverphor Theater in NYC, the Director of Education for Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, and the chairman of the Artistic Council for the Shakespeare Theater Association of America. She has presented her research into Shakespeare’s dramatic use of rhetoric at numerous national conferences, and theatrical workshops across the country. She currently resides in San Francisco where she continues her acting, directing, and research activities. (Back to 'Staff List') |
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Daniel Holloway (Development
and Marketing Associate) received his M.A. in English from the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. He also holds a B.A. in English from Mississippi College. He spent six months hiking all 2,179 miles of the Appalachian Trail, moonlights as a playwright and is happy to have Shakespeare be a part of his every day life. (Back
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Artistic Staff
Kenneth Kelleher (Resident Director)
has been with SF Shakes since 2003, where he has previously directed
Loves Labours Lost, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing,
The Tempest, Pericles, The Comedy of Errors and Two Gentlemen of Verona. 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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