The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival

Larkin Boero in
Shakespeare On Tour's
The Two Gentlemen
of Verona

Emily Jordan plays Thaisa in
Free Shakespeare
in the Park's
2008 production of
Pericles

Julie Kurtz as Lucianna in
Shakespeare On Tour's
The Comedy of Errors

Kristin Clippard as Adrianna and Stephen Massott as Antipholus in
Shakespeare On Tour's
The Comedy of Errors

Cassie Powell as Viola in
Shakespeare On Tour's
Twelfth Night

Michael C. Storm in the title role of the
Free Shakespeare
in the Park
production of Pericles (2008)

(L to R) Michael Abts as
Sir Toby and Jeremy Vik
as Sir Andrew in the
Shakespeare On Tour production of Twelfth Night

	Lily Balsen is very excited to be teaching with SF Shakes this Summer. She recently finished touring Northern California with Word for Word's School and Library Tour. Since moving to the Bay Area in September, she has also performed with Cutting Ball Theatre, The Collegiate Players, and El Gato del Diablo. In Washington, DC she performed with the Olney Theatre Center, the Potomac Theatre Project, Rorschach Theatre, and Theatre J. Lily was raised in Upstate NY and holds a B.A. in Drama and Classics from Middlebury College in Vermont.
	Larkin Boero is thrilled to be teaching for San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's Bay Area Shakespeare camps. She spent two years with the Festival's Shakespeare on Tour program, appearing in both A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Two Gentlemen of Verona in schools across California. Larkin has also performed with Berkeley Repertory Theater in Theatre de la Jeune Lune's production of The Miser. In the Bay Area, she has also performed with Shakespeare at Stinson, Thrillpeddlers, and SteinBeck Presents! Larkin received her BFA in theater performance from Southern Oregon University, located in Ashland, OR.
	William J. Brown III is thrilled to return to teach for SF Shakes! He's had the privilege of performing several roles in the Shakespeare On Tour production of Twelfth Night. As a performer he has worked all over the Bay Area, most notably playing the title role in Hamlet twice. He has performed with the California Shakespeare Theater, the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Theatre Rhinoceros, SF New Theatre Workshop, Calaveras Rep, Festival Theatre Ensemble, California Theatre Center, Bus Barn, and Shady Shakespeare among others. He received his BA in Theatre, Dance, and History from Santa Clara University, and has studied at Shakespeare’s Globe in London He performed in Northanger Abbey at Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View and in Troilus and Cressida and Comedy of Errors at the Carmel Shakespeare Festival. As a teacher he has taught theatre conservatories and workshops for TheaterFun, California Theatre Centre, Festival Theatre Ensemble, Herbert Hoover Middle School, St. James School, Summit High School, Advanced Acting Academy, and American Musical Theatre-San Jose.
	Mariah Castle is overjoyed to be teaching with SF Shakes this summer. A recent transplant from Portland, Oregon, Mariah is currently playing Tina in Tony 'n Tina's Wedding in San Francisco. She will also be understudying Marina this summer in Pericles at SF Shakes. A graduate from the Unversity of Oregon, Mariah spent two years teaching acting to kids and teens with Impact! Arts in Eugene. Past favorite roles include: Catherine in A View From the Bridge, Tracy in The Philadelphia Story, Daisy Mae in Li'l Abner, Kate Keller in The Miracle Worker, various roles in Shakespeare's Guide to Dating Touring Company, and Moth/dancer in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Mariah attended the Summer Training Congress at ACT last year and has studied at the Hampstead Theater in London.
	Amy Louise Cole has worked with theatre companies all over the Bay Area as a performer, administrator, director, and designer. A teaching artist since 2006, Amy has taught theatre residencies at elementary and middle schools all over the Bay Area through companies such as TheatreWorks and Bay Area Shakespeare Camps, and is thrilled to be a part of Shakespeare camp this summer! She received her BA in theatre from The University of Washington where she trained with Robyn Hunt in the Suzuki method and has studied Shakespeare performance at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London. Currently, she is a MFA candidate in Acting at The University of California, Davis. Amy is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and Screen Actors’ Guild.
	Téana David grew up in Victoria, Canada, and is currently pursuing an M.F.A. in Contemporary Performance at Naropa University in Boulder, CO. Committed to telling necessary stories by using the entire body as an instrument, she is a co-writer and performer in The Wonders with Traveling Jewish Theatre, which received a Steven Spielberg Righteous Person's Grant to tour to communities throughout the United States in 2007. Other acting credits: California and Napa Shakespeare Festivals, as well as Berkeley Repertory Theatre where she understudied and performed the role of Laura in The Glass Menagerie (dir. Les Waters). Téana holds a B.F.A in Musical Theatre with an emphasis in Movement from The Boston Conservatory and is a company member of Foolsfury Theatre in SF.
	Cathy Foxhoven believes "Summertime is Shakespeare time". Having finally adjusted to the shock of transforming from "Juliet" to the "Nurse", she looks forward to "Willy" in the summer and is excited about returning to the camps for the second time. She takes a respite from teaching "Psychology of Acting", "Acting for Commercials", "Cold Readings/Auditioning /Portfolios" and "Art Experience" at the Academy of Arts University's Motion Picture Television Department in San Francisco and the after-school drama productions at Burlingame Parks & Recreation Department. However, she'll simultaneously be teaching "Wee Theatre" for 3-5 yr. olds and "Voiceovers/Cartoon Voices" for adults in the evenings. In between San Mateo's Odyssey Camp and Burlingame's Park & Rec camp, she'll also direct Once Upon A Mattress, Jr. and a drama/poetry camp. Cathy has over 32 years as a professional actress/singer in films, prime television, soap operas, commercials, voice-overs, radio drama, print work and theatre. She has a BA and an MA in theatre.
	Mayra Gaeta is excited to be teaching for San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's Bay Area Shakespeare camps. She recently graduated from Drama Centre London where she received a BA in Acting with honors and trained under the late Reuven Adiv. She has recently relocated to the Bay Area. Favorite productions include: Ivanov, Mephisto, Spring Awakening, The Country Wife (Cochrane Theatre London), Man and Super Man (Inverness Club). She was last seen at Impact Theatre. When not on stage or rehearsing Mayra is usually a nanny, a soccer coach, a tutor, or running around like a kid herself.
	Kate Gorman is a native of Berkeley and is thrilled to start her first summer of teaching at the Bay Area Shakespeare Camps. She recently completed a season-long internship in production management at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Last year she graduated from the University of Southern California, where she received in her BA in Theatre with a minor in Cinema-Television. While there, she directed plays such as Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Bat Boy: The Musical, as well as assistant directed classic works such as The Taming of the Shrew and The Mandrake. This year she directed of a new play called Colossians 3:14 for the San Francisco Young Playwrights Foundation and she assistant directed the Professional World Premiere of Ellen McLaughlin's The Trojan Women for the Aurora Theatre Company.
	Clayton B. Hodges is an Actor/Teacher/Producer currently based in Brooklyn, NY. He graduated with Honors from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a B.F.A. in Acting and also received his M.F.A. in Acting from the American Conservatory Theatre. Acting work around the Bay Area includes: A.C.T., The Magic Theatre, TheatreWorks, The Pear Avenue Theatre and California Theatre Center. He has logged over 13,000 U.S. highway miles with touring productions and performed all over the U.S. He appeared in many productions with the theatrical production company he co-founded, Elite Fighting Crew, including several UK premieres (Finborough Theatre, London.) Clayton has also worked, teaching and coaching children, through such programs as: A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory, the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, St. Mary's College (Moraga, CA), the University of San Francisco, SCO of Brooklyn, the San Francisco Arts Institute, the Hun School of Princeton, NJ, and the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. Clayton is a proud member of Actor's Equity, the Theatre Communications Group, the A.C.T. Alumni Association, The Player's Club of New York City and is the Co-Chair of the (N.Y.U.) Tisch East Alumni Council.
	Anna Ishida is having her first experience teaching with SF Shakes...and she loves it! She has performed in the Bay Area (and Beyond) with the Shotgun Players, Banana Bag & Bodice (NYC), Woman's Will, Thrillpeddlers, TheatreFirst, PCPA Theatrefest, SF Fringe Festival and the Western Stage. She is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts in Santa Maria, CA and holds a BA in English from Mills College. Anna just closed a sold-out run of Beowulf: 1000 Years of Baggage a SongPlay with the Shotgun Players and Banana Bag and Bodice and the show will tour in NYC in April of 2009! This summer, Anna will be appearing in both A Comedy of Errors (Adriana) and Troilus & Cressida (Helen of Troy/Cassandra) at Pacific Repertory Theatre in Carmel-by-the-Sea.
	Kyle Jackson was born and raised in Oakland and has been on the stage since 1st grade. In high school at Bishop O'Dowd, he appeared in Ragtime, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Hair, Arsenic & Old Lace, and Frank Loesser's The Most Happy Fella. Additionally, he participated in award-winning scenes at the Ohlone High School Theatre Festival, including memorable turns as Richard III and Macbeth. He is most proud of his work on the project Left to Tell, in which he penned, co-directed, and adapted for the stage a theatre piece based on Imaculee Ilibagiza's book about the Rwandan genocide. This will be his first summer working at Shakespeare Camp, and hopes to learn just as much as he teaches!
	Emily Jordan, born and raised in the south of England, has been a feature of the San Francisco theatre scene for several years. She's performed with the all-female theatre company Woman's Will where she appeared in the title role of their production of Richard III, and she has also worked for several seasons at Pacific Repertory Theatre in Carmel where her credits include playing Margaret in Henry VI parts 1, 2 & 3 and Richard III, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Maria in Twelfth Night and the roles of both Anne Hathaway and Elizabeth Tudor in Amy Freed's The Beard of Avon. Emily played the role of Titania in the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival's 2007 Free Shakespeare in the Park production of A Midsummer Nights Dream and will play the role of Thaisa in their summer 2008 production of Pericles. Other Northern California credits include The Birthday Party (Aurora Theatre Company), The Odd Couple (The Willows Theatre), The Miser, Troilus & Cressida (Shotgun Players), Elizabeth Rex, Othello (Pacific Repertory Theatre) and Blithe Spirit (Sierra Repertory Theatre). She has trained with Tina Packer at Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts, Mark Jackson at Studio ACT, and Akiko Aizawa and Leon Ingulsrud of SITI Company. Emily is looking forward to her third summer teaching with San Francisco Shakespeare Camps and her third year teaching the Advanced Acting Workshop.
	Alexandra Kay is an actor, teacher and director who has worked throughout the Bay Area. This is her second year with the San Francisco Shakes summer camps and is pleased to be back. During the school year she teaches with Starting Arts and will direct As You Like It at Mills High School in Millbrae in the fall. This summer she is performing onstage with Shady Shakespeare Theatre Co. as Olivia in their 10th anniversary production of Twelfth Night.
	Katie Kelleher is enthused to be teaching with The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival! Born and raised on the San Francisco Peninsula, Katie is a founding member of The Haven Theatre Company in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. in Drama from UC Irvine's Claire Trevor School of the Arts, and has trained with many other institutions including American Conservatory Theater's Training Congress, South Coast Repertory, and The Groundlings. Katie recently finished touring in a one woman production, Gorgeous, with New Conservatory Theatre Center's YouthAware Educational Theatre program, and prior to that played Sylvia in Sylvia with Palo Alto Players. Currently she can be seen on television in a commercial for the San Francisco Giants.
	Ted Kleen is pleased to be teaching with SF Shakes this summer. He expects that his an extensive theatrical background will serve him well with the Bay Area's aspiring thespians! Ted spent two seasons as a Technician with Busch Gardens amusement park in Williamsburg, VA where he worked in set construction, pyrotechnics, and on running crews. He also has experience as an actor, a set designer, a dramaturg, and a director. Currently he is also understudying the title role of Pericles with SF Shakes. He has had great fun with Shakespeare Camp and would like to thank all of the kids for their hard work!!
	Julie Kurtz, perfromed in the touring production of The Comedy of Errors with San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and is thrilled to continue bringing the Bard to students around the state as part of the Bay Area Shakespeare Camps! Beyond SF Shakes, her local acting credits include Crowded Fire Theater, 42nd Street Moon and Bus Barn Stage Company. Julie trained at American Conservatory Theatre’s Summer Training Congress and received her degree from Whitworth College in Spokane, WA. She currently teaches music to San Francisco families with "Music Together". While in Spokane, she taught Augusto Boal theatre to at-risk teenagers, an experience she treasures to this day.
	Kelsey Lappa is happy to be back in the Bay Area after a long, cold winter at the University of Michigan. She will be returning in the fall to continue her BFA Acting degree. She has performed at Bishop O’Dowd High School, U. of Michigan, and is currently rehearsing West Side Story with Alameda Civic Light Opera. She hopes that her love of theatre is passed down through the generations. “All the world’s a stage, so please be players.”
	Kelsey Leonard has participated in musical, shakespeare and drama productions with local youth theatres the past 5 years. Favorite roles include Charlotte, in Charlotte's Web, with Peninsula Youth Theatre, and Olivia, in Twelfth Night, with Roberta Jones Jr. Theatre. She has also spent the last two summers in San Francisco, attending the Advanced Acting Workshop with the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. She served as an intern, as well, in the summer of 2007. Recently Kelsey was offered a scholarship to attend Idyllwild Arts Academy in Southern California and finish off her senior year of high school. She has chosen to graduate early, though, and will go on in September to attend Foothill College's Acting Conservatory in Los Altos, where she has also been accepted. She hopes to have a career in theatre and has had lots of fun working with the children in the Bay Area Shakespeare Camps.
	Rachel Levinson-Emley is beyond thrilled to be returning for her third summer with SF Shakes Summer Camp. She is pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in English and History at Mills College, and loves sharing her love of Shakespeare and theater with some of the most fun kids in the Bay Area.
	Caitlyn Louchard is excited to join the Bay Area Shakespeare Camp team for the first time this summer! She has taught with Peninsula Youth Theatre's Theatre in the Park program, and recently received her B.F.A. in Theatre from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where she studied with the Atlantic Theater Company Acting Studio. Bay Area acting credits include Catherine in A View From the Bridge with the Actors' Theatre of San Francisco, and Isabella in Measure for Measure with Shady Shakespeare Theatre Company. She is currently working as an understudy for Theatre Works' production of Doubt.
	Annamarie MacLeod is delighted to be working with SF Shakes as a teaching artist for her first time this summer! A longtime Shakespeare enthusiast, she has played leads in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Hamlet, and co-produced a renaissance theatre group in Illinois. A recent inhabitant of the Bay Area, you may have seen her work at Dragon Productions, Theatre Q, or the Pear Ave. Theatre. She studied theatre at the American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York.
	Stephen Massott is happy to be back at San Mateo's Intersession Camp! This is his eighth season as a Resident Teaching Artist. He earned his M.F.A. from the Hilberry Repertory Theatre (Detroit), and studied at the Moscow Art Theatre. He has performed for SF Shakes' Shakespeare On Tour as the Antipholi in The Comedy of Errors, Valentine in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Bottom & Lysander in A Midsummer Night's Dream. Other Shakespeare roles include Laertes in Hamlet, Richmond in Richard III, Macduff in Macbeth, and Titus in Titus Andronicus. He also performed in Troilus & Cressida and The Comedy of Errorsat Pacific Repertory Theatre. Steve thanks Rebecca for everything and all the Camp actors for their talent, trust, heart, and passion! Learning and loving Shakespeare - what a great way to spend spring break!!
	Stephanie Maysonave has been performing since she was four years old when she decided that she wanted to be a cartoon. Though she has not yet realized that dream, her acting career so far has been incredibly rewarding. She received her acting degree from Marymount Manhattan College in NYC before she moved to London where she completed her Masters in Classical Acting at Central School of Speech and Drama. Most recently she was fortunate enough to attend a short course at the Moscow Art Theatre School which was founded by the godfather of acting himself, Constantin Stanislavski. Her professional experience includes working as a writer, director, acting coach, teacher and actress. Her favorite roles include playing Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Emillia in Othello. Stephanie has worked on the stage, in television and film and has extensive training as a ballroom dancer. She has worked with children both as an educator and a guardian for over a decade and is very passionate about training children to act.
	Lakisha May is currently a second year MFA student at American Conservatory Theater, working towards her Master in Acting. While at ACT she has had lead roles in Blues for an Alabama Sky and Here We Are. Lakisha is also a graduate of Spelman College in Atlanta, GA, where she directed and performed in numerous productions. Additionally, she was the artistic intern at the Alliance Theater Company for the 2006-2007 season. Lakisha is thrilled and excited to share her passion for the arts with younger generations.
	Elizabeth McClelland is excited to be spending her first summer teaching for Bay Area Shakespeare Camps. She graduated with a B.A. in Theatre & Dance from Santa Clara University, and she is currently a Theatre Arts Master’s Degree candidate at San Jose State University. She has taught acting classes at San Jose State University and has directed several plays in both community and educational settings. Recent directing credits include The Siren Song of Stephen J. Gould, for which she won SJSU’s Arends Award for excellence in stage directing, The Most Massive Woman Wins, and Picasso at the Lapin Agile. Elizabeth also enjoys performing; her favorite roles include Helena and Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Tzeitel in Fiddler on the Roof, and Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie.
	Avery Monsen can currently be seen in Tony n' Tina's Wedding on Pier 39. He's also an Artistic Associate with San Francisco's Cutting Ball Theater, with whom he's performed in Endgame (Clov,) The Taming of the Shrew (Grumio) and the upcoming Victims of Duty (Mallot and Nicolas D'eu). He recently graduated from Oberlin College where he received his B.A. with high honors in Theatre. Favorite roles there include Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, Baz in A Bright Room Called Day and Woody in Six Degrees of Separation. He has also trained at the Moscow Art Theater and with the Upright Citizens Brigade in Los Angeles.
	Cassie Powell is thrilled to be working with Bay Area Shakespeare Camps this summer! She received high acclaim for her performance in the role of Viola/Cesario in the 2007-2008 Shakespeare On Tour production of Twelfth Night. Other Shakespearean credits include Juliet in the Woman's Will production of Romeo & Juliet, Cordelia in King Lear at SF City College, and Rosalind in Love's Labours Lost at the Exit theatre. Cassie has been working in the Bay Area theatre and film community for the past six years. Some high lights include: playing Lise in Strange Culture, a critical hit at the '07 Sundance Film Festival, starring in United Way's Bridging Communities television commercial and print campaign last spring, and being featured in Reader's Digest magazine.
	Johanna Ruefli is very excited to be joining the SF Shakes Camps for the first time as a Site Manager. She has been working with children from all walks of life for 17 years as a volunteer, counselor, teacher's aide, literacy tutor, behavioral specialist with children diagnosed with both physical, and/or mental disabilities. She fell in love with the theatre when she saw the musical Cats at the age of eight. She tried acting in high school, but fell in love with behind the scenes work including Stage Crew, Assistant Lighting Designer, Assistant Stage Management, and Stage Management. Her most recent projects have been the as the Assistant Stage Manager for Palo Alto Players production of The Light in the Piazza and the Touring Stage Manager for Word for Word's School and Library Tour. When not playing in the theater, Johanna enjoys SCUBA diving, taking care of her dog Lily, who she talks about endlessly, and being a big kid who will never grow up.
	Jonathan Shue is excited to be teaching for SF Shakes this summer! A Bay Area native, he is an actor and singer/songwriter. This summer he appeared as Cornelius Hackl in The Matchmaker and Faber in Liberty Inn (California Theatre Center). Favorite roles include Huck Finn in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Brer Fox in Tales of Brer Rabbit (CTC); Pemplefort in Only Ten Minutes to Buffalo (UCLA); and Saturninus in TAPE 39 (Three Chairs Theatre Company in Los Angeles, where is a founding member). He is a graduate of UCLA's Dept. of Theatre. www.jonathanshue.com
	Michael C. Storm has been acting, directing and teaching throughout the Bay Area for the past 18 years. He appeared with SF Shakes in Free Shakespeare in the Park as Sebastian in Twelfth Night; Thesesus and Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream; and plays the title character in this summer's Pericles. Other credits include: Alabama Shakespeare Festival (Beauty and the Beast, Oedipus, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Two Gentlemen of Verona); Berkeley Repertory Theatre (Missing Persons); California Shakespeare Festival (King Lear, Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Two Gentlemen of Verona); Crowded Fire (Slow Falling Bird); Napa Valley Repertory Theatre (A Christmas Carol, Table Manners); San Jose Stage Company (Beauty Queen of Leenane, Inherit The Wind, Inspecting Carol, Lonesome West, Of Mice and Men, The White House Murder Case, Treasure of the Sierra Madre) among others. In addition to serving as the Education Director of the Actors’ Lab at San Jose Stage Company, he has taught classes for American Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, SF Shakes and many Bay Area public schools. Directing credits include An Evening With Samuel Beckett (Catastophe, Come and Go, Ohio Impromptu, Rockaby, and Rough For Theatre I) and Performance/Workshop: Macbeth at San Jose Stage Company; Performance Lab: People’s Temple and Performance Lab: Zorro for Berkeley Rep School of Theatre; Containers at La Val’s Subterranean. He is the proud recipient of two Artie awards, Best Production and Best Direction for his production of Fool For Love at Solano Repertory Theatre.
	Lisa Tateosian is spending her first summer with the Bay Area Shakespeare Camps, having spent the last ten years as a Teaching Artist in dance and drama in various Bay Area public schools and after school programs. She recently returned from a year in New York City, where she earned an MA in Educational Theatre from New York University. Lisa enjoys wearing many hats in the theatre, from performer to stage manager, to teacher and choreographer. She most recently appeared as Pennywise in Urinetown at Douglas Morrison Theatre, and you can see her perform here at John Hinkel Park this July with Women’s Will in The Good Person of Szechuan.
	Jeremy Vik performed in the 2009 Free Shakespare in the Park production of The Comedy of Errors. He's also appeared in Shakespeare On Tour productions of Hamlet and Twelfth Night, and is excited to return to Shakespeare Camp as a teaching artist! As well as having acted with Virago Theatre Company and El Gato Theatre Company, Jeremy has taught drama at Duck’s Nest preschool and is a graduate of the Clown Conservatory. Jeremy also likes to juggle and looks forward to a new session of Bay Area Shakespeare Camp!
	Mason Waller is looking forward to his first summer teaching for Bay Area Shakespeare Camps. He has worked with young people and adults for many years in a variety of settings, including elementary, middle, and high schools, in summer camps and other outdoor activity programs, and in theater workshops. Over the past year or so he has trained as a voice, movement, and text teacher with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, where he also trained as an actor. A strong advocate of free public theater, he volunteers occasionally with SF Free Civic Theater and recently played Proteus and Oscar Rolfe in their productions of The Two Gentlemen of Sonoma and Judgment at Nuremberg. He recently understudied several roles at CalShakes for their production of Pericles.
	Becca Woolbright recently graduated from the College of Charleston in Charleston, SC with a B.A. in Theatre and minor in Dance. Some of her favorite roles include Dorine in Tartuffe and Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream at the Springer Opera House; Mother In-Law in Blood Wedding at C of C; and Dream Laurey at the Playhouse Merced. She has taught previously with the Springer Theater Academy in Columbus, GA and Mad River Theater Academy in West Liberty, OH. She is very excited to be sharing her love of Shakespeare with Bay Area kids!
	g. randall wright, though born in new york, hails from new mexico, where he grew up. having attained a bfa in arts administration, he spent years producing and managing classical and jazz music concerts, and cultural festivals. after getting his black belt in n. style kung fu, he relocated to taiwan, where he madly delved into fervent studies of chinese language and kung fu. upon his re-entry to the u.s., he was swept off to the s.f. bay, and accidentally joined the circus. after some acrobatics pysical theater and clown and being the first official expulsion of the clown conservatory, he accidentally joined the theatre - the perfect avenue for congealing his music, poetry, physical theatre, acrobatics and religion. this is how he came to be here today.