Laura Jane Bailey is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and Theatre Bay Area. Bay Area productions include: Equus (Boxcar Theatre); Enchanted April & Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (Bus Barn Theatre); Fat Pig (City Lights); Juan Gillion Dances For The Sun (Crowded Fire); Bad Dates, The Memory Of Water, Smell Of The Kill, Cloud 9, For The Love Of A Pig (Dragon); Nicky Goes Goth (Impact); Snakepit (Theatre Q). Other companies she has worked with include TheatreFirst, The Playwrights Center, A Travelling Jewish Theatre and Theatreworks. Chicago productions include: The Cider House Rules directed by David Cromer, The American Dream, Raised in Captivity, I Am Yours, and Tattoo Girl.  She was the Artistic Director of cobalt ensemble theatre, where they offered a Shakespeare Camp and Greek Theatre Camp for Middle School children. She was also a Meisner technique teacher at The Actors’ Center of Chicago. LJ was nominated for Best Actress at the Midwest Film Festival for the feature film Repetition.

Allison Blackwell is very happy to be teaching with The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival! She is a graduate of Tulane University's BFA Acting program and holds an Associate's degree in American Sign Language & Deaf Studies. Favorite roles include Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream (Murphys Creek Theatre Company), Guide in Sam I Am: A Processional of Short Plays and Prose by Samuel Beckett (Performers Under Stress),  Hippolita in 'Tis Pity She's A Whore (Bigger Than A Breadbox Theatre Company), and Yelena in Uncle Vanya (Powerhouse Theatre, NY). She is a proud member of the Bay Area's all female, all funny sketch comedy troupe Femikaze. Allison is currently obtaining her Masters in Special Education with an emphasis in Deaf & Hard of Hearing and is looking forward to bringing the Theatre Arts to kids with special needs!

Kristin Clippard has worked as a theatre artist across the U.S. She holds an MFA in directing from the University of Iowa and a BFA in acting from Wright State University.  She has trained with Shakespeare & Company, the Orlando Shakespeare Theatre, the National Conservatory Theatre, foolsFury and the SITI Company. Kristin has toured her original one-person show, developed new plays on both coasts, trained dozens of teaching artists and created theatre with at-risk populations. She has worked for the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival in various capacities for nine years! www.kristinclippard.com

Sarah Shoshana David's work ranges from Shakespeare through contemporary drama to musicals, film and aerial dance. She just wrapped filming as a principle opposite Joaquin Phoenix in Paul Thomas Anderson’s upcoming major motion picture with Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sarah won critical praise this past spring as Tibby in the West Coast premiere of Regrets Only, with New Conservatory Theatre.  Other credits include Halie in Sam Shepard’s Buried Child (Arty nomination for Best Actress), Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Ellen in Jewish Roots by Emmy-winning Ellen Sandler of Everyone Loves Raymond; Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Adriana in Comedy of Errors and Charlotte in Durang's Beyond Therapy. Sarah was originally trained as a dancer and worked in the US and abroad in ballet and modern dance productions. She is a voiceover artist and member of the creative staff of Antenna Theater, where she helped to create Magic Bus. Teaching Shakespeare to children is a highlight of the year for Sarah and a source of perennial joy and inspiration!

Livia Demarchi is thrilled to be back teaching Shakespeare summer Camps; this will mark her third year. She has also been a Shakespeare On Tour actor in Romeo and Juliet and Hamlet and understudied several roles in Comedy of Errors. Livia has performed as an actor with several local companies and in her native country of Brazil where she attended the Macunaima Conservatory of Theatre. Shakespeare roles include: Desdemona in Othello with Ninjaz of Drama and Macunaima Theatre in Brazil; Titania/Hyppolita in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Tybalt/Lady Cap in Romeo and Juliet; Gertrude/Marcellus in Hamlet and Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is proud to be bringing Shakespeare’s timeless works into the lives of children and hopes to inspire them with the words from the bard.

Jacquie Duckworth is delighted to teach Shakespeare this summer with SF Shakes. As a performer and educator Jacquie toured schools throughout the state bringing history to life with Live Oakes Educational Theater’s Complete Condensed History of California and Coyote Tales.  As a guest lecturer at City College of San Francisco and for Girl’s Evolve, an organization dedicated to building confidence and self esteem in teen girls, she taught improvisational theater, creative thinking, and team collaboration .She studied Shakespeare at Cal Shakes and Berkeley Rep and most recently performed the role of King Edward in Actor Ensemble’s staged reading of Henry VI, Part III. Jacquie has performed extensively on stage throughout the Bay Area and has appeared in commercials, on television, and in numerous voice-over spots.

Sean Garahan is a recent San Francisco transplant from Boston where he received a BA in Theatre from Emerson College. Working in all aspects of theatre from technical work at Cal Performances in Berkeley, to House Management back in Boston, to his true passions of acting and teaching - he has covered much of the theatre spectrum. With professional credits with companies like the Actor's Shakespeare Project and Centastage, he is thrilled to be working with the prestigious San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and looks forward to performing in Free Shakespearea in the Park's Henry V this summer! A theatre lover all his life, Sean feels a particular affinity for Shakespeare, his words, characters, and the magical tales he weaves.

Suzanne Halka is excited to share her love of the Bard with youth this summer! Since childhood, she has been on stage as a ballet dancer, actor, or director.  Most recently, she has directed several youth productions (Backstage, Color Me Something, Sam and Licorice, and The Silent Voice) for her hometown of Lynchburg, VA's Parks and Recreation Department. She also co-wrote the latter three as a part of her co-founded DIY Theatre program, which teaches youth to write and perform their own scripts.  She last appeared in Randolph College's production of The Visit, and loves debuting her creative work at No Shame Theatre.

Carl Holvick-Thomas is a Resident Teaching Artist with SF Shakes. He played the title role in Shakespeare on Tour's Hamlet and Arviragus in Cymbeline (2011, Free Shakespeaere in the Park). Carl has also performed for the Shotgun Players, San Jose Stage, Pacific Repertory, Cuttingball, Playwright's Foundation, Word for Word, Marin Shakespeare Company, and Impact. He is a graduate of UC Berkeley’s Theater Department. 

Emily Jordan, born and raised in the south of England, has been a feature of the San Francisco theatre scene for several years. She is happy to be returning for her seventh summer teaching at Bay Area Shakespeare camps.  During the school year spends her days teaching drama as therapy at Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital, working as a dialect coach, and, as a voiceover actor, lending her voice to several video game villains.  A member of Actor’s Equity, Emily has appeared with San Francisco Shakespeare Festival in their Free Shakespeare in the Park productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Titania), Pericles (Thaisa/Diana), Two Gentlemen of Verona (Silvia) and Cymbeline (Innogen). Other Northern California Shakespeare credits include As You Like It (Rosalind) Henry VI, Parts 1-3, Richard III (Margaret), Taming of the Shrew (Kate), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena), Twelfth Night (Maria), Othello (Bianca), Hamlet, (Guildenstern/Gravedigger,) Troilus & Cressida (Andromache) and the title role in Richard III with Woman’s Will, the Bay Area’s all-female Shakespeare company. 

Anne Yumi Kobori is an actor, director, costume designer, and playwright. She is thrilled to be returning to SF Shakes as a teaching artist for her third year. This summer she'll be at the June 17 sesion in Palo Alto, the July 8 session in Piedmont and the July 22 session (Players Campers) in Pleasanton. Anne studied theatre for two years at Sarah Lawrence College in NY, and is currently pursuing a B.A. in Theatre at Santa Clara University. Favorite roles include Queen Anne in The Three Musketeers, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Helga in Cabaret, and Kayleen in Gruesome Playground Injuries. Anne is currently in rehearsals for Miss Saigon with Palo Alto Players. Her new play, Always Eden, will premiere at the Fess Parker Studio Theatre this spring.

Becky Kemper is an actor, director, scholar and teacher enjoying her 2nd season with San Francisco Shakespeare Festival as Director of Training and Outreach.  Prior to moving to the Bay Area, she served as the Producing Artistic Director of the Maryland Shakespeare Festival, an equity theater company she founded in 1999.  She holds a BFA from NYU, an MLITT in Shakespeare & Renaissance Literature, and an MFA in Directing from the American Shakespeare Center. She is a classical text teacher at Shakespeare & Co. in Lennox, MA, and has begun training as a Linklater Voice teacher.  She has served as the Artistic Director of the Metawhateverphor Theater in NYC, the Director of Education for Baltimore Shakespeare Festival, and the chair of the Artistic Council for the Shakespeare Theater Association.  She has presented her research into Shakespeare’s dramatic use of rhetoric at numerous national conferences and theatrical workshops across the country, as well as having her scholarship published in the online journal, Shakespeare Criticism.  

Caitlyn Louchard is so excited to return to Shakespeare Camp this summer! A Bay Area native, she has worked with SF Shakes in various capacities over the past four years—as an alternate on the school tour of Romeo and Juliet, and as a teaching artist for both Players Camp and Upstart Crows. She took last summer off from teaching to play Pisanio in Free Shakespeare in the Park's Cymbeline, and is so beyond thrilled to return. As an actor, Caitlyn appeared most recently in Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia: Voyage at Shotgun Players, and is currently developing her solo show Mudlark. This fall she will be acting in the Strindberg Cycle at Cutting Ball, where she is an associate artist. Caitlyn also teaches after school theatre in Berkeley Public Schools. She holds a BFA in acting from NYU Tisch / Atlantic Theater Company. See you at camp!!

Rebecca Martin is a director, drama instructor and curriculum developer for youth theatre; she performs as a voice over artist and stage actress. Bay Area credits include Marin Theater Company, Magic Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, Fools Fury, West County Reparatory and Sixth St. Playhouse. She is a member of Stars Agency. Rebecca received her MFA from The National Theater Conservatory at the Denver Center and is a proud member of AEA. Favorite roles at The Denver Center include Ethel in The Voysey Inheritance, A Prayer for Owen Meany, and the World Premiere of Eventide. She is a graduate of Middlebury College.

Stephen Muterspaugh is excited to be returning to Bay Area Shakespeare Camp this Summer. He's been a teaching artist at multiple sessions of the Festivals' Midnight Shakespeare program. He's also worked regionally with such companies as Utah Shakespearean Festival, Southwest Shakespeare Company, and Geva Theater Centre. Stephen is thrilled to be a part of introducing and furthering the Shakespeare education of the young people of the Bay Area. He is a graduate of PCPA Theaterfest and a proud member of Actor's Equity. Additionally he is a member of SF Shakes' Resident Teaching Artist Corps.

Alicia Stamps is excited to continue working with SF Shakes, having performed in their touring productions of The Tempest and Macbeth. She also performed in Much Ado About Nothing with Woman’s Will. She received her Bachelors in Fine Arts from Cornish College of the Arts. Favorite roles include Esther in Intimate Apparel, Sebastian in The Tempest, and ensemble roles in The Beautiful Things That Heaven Bears with Book-It Repertory Theatre.

Alison Whismore is new to the Bay Area, having toured with the same international theatre company in France, Switzerland, Belgium, the UK and North America for 22 years. The majority of her acting and directing has been "on the road" in an eclectic range of venues: schools, universities, retirement homes, youth camps, half-way houses, prisons, US military bases, forests, hospitals,  psychiatric clinics and châteaux.  Her experience as a teaching artist has largely been leading and performing Character Counts workshops, teaching English as a Second Language (ESL) through drama, as well as training teachers and youth counsellors. Having a BA in Drama from Manchester University (UK) and trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, Alison is excited about finally putting to use her Shakespeare toolkit this summer after all these years! She'll be managing the June 17 Players Camps in San Mateo and Palo Alto, as well as the July 22 Players Camps in San Francisco and Alameda.