The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival

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

Sarah Eismann as Launce in Shakespeare On Tour's
The Two Gentlemen
of Verona

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

	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 for a second summer to teach for SF Shakes. This past school year he had the privilege of performing several roles in the Shakespeare On Tour production of Twelfth Night. Additionally 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 can be seen this May/June in Northanger Abbey at Pear Avenue Theatre in Mountain View and at summer's end 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.
	Alexandra Creighton has acted with California Shakespeare Theater, Marin Theatre Company, Aurora Theatre Company, Word4Word, Z-space, Theatre Rhino, Impact Theatre, the Playwrights Foundation, and spent three seasons as a company member with Crowded Fire. She is a member of the sketch comedy troupe Funny But Mean and the newly-founded Just Theater. Alex holds a B.A. in Drama with minors in Dance and English from Ithaca College, New York, and has also trained with South Coast Repertory, and the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC.
	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.
	Jenny Debevec has been professionally performing, teaching and writing for the arts for over 10 years. A graduate from University of Portland, with a BA in Music and Philosophy, she received the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) award for Musical Theatre. She is certified to teach Theatre Arts for the International Baccalaureate Program. Previously, she was head of Armijo High School's Theatre Department, Manager, Director for Pied Piper Players, and Music Teacher at The Hilldale School. Ms. Debevec has performed in four Woman's Will productions as well as many others throughout the Bay Area and Northwest. Ms. Debevec is an active member of Theatre Bay Area and a freelance writer. She is pleased to be returning to Shakespeare Camp!
	Sarah Eismann, a native Jersey girl, is excited about returning to Bay Area Shakespeare Camps. Sarah got her BFA in Drama and Biology at Tisch School for the Arts at NYU. She has been teaching for over 10 years, and has had the wonderful opportunity to teach with Peninsula Youth Theatre, California Theatre Center, Children's Musical Theatre San Jose, Kids on Camera, and many others. She has also been performing professionally for about 10 years. Among others, she has worked with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, the Tony Award winning Children's Theatre Company in Minneapolis, California Shakespeare Theatre, Pear Avenue Theatre, Impact Theatre Company, Thrillpeddlers, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Center REP, and The Western Stage. I love working with young people. I learn just as much from them as I hope they do from me. Thank you so much for sharing your children with us!
	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.
	Clayton B. Hodges is a local actor, teacher and theatre maker. His Bay Area acting credits include: A.C.T., Playground, New Voices West at the Magic Theatre, Theatreworks, the Playwrights Foundation, Theatre Rhinoceros, the Pear Avenue Theatre and California Theatre Center. Clayton also has extensive theatre credits in New York, London and in regional theatres. Clayton's teaching credits include: A.C.T.'s Young Conservatory, the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute, the Hun School of Princeton, NJ, the University of San Francisco, St. Mary's College and the San Francisco Arts Institute. His self-produced educational projects include: an original adaptation of Oscar Wilde's The Critic As Artist as well as Catching Lawyers in the Act, a play/curriculum to teach courtroom litigators better communication through basic acting skills. He is a graduate of the A.C.T. M.F.A. program and received his B.F.A. (with Honors) from N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.

	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.
	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.
	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.
	Rebecca Longworth is glad to be back with SF Shakes for her second summer teaching and managing Shakespeare Camp. Rebecca is a stage director who has worked in San Francisco and New York City with actors of all ages. During the school year, she teaches after-school drama programs with New Conservatory Theatre Center and directs the annual drama production at Immaculate Conception Academy. She and Bill S. go way back - at least to Rebecca's membership in the Wellesley College Shakespeare Society, the USA's oldest all-female Shakespeare ensemble. Since then she has directed Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream and Twelfth Night, and appeared in Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Henry V, Julius Caesar, and Macbeth. She is currently artistic director for Jump! Theatre, a company that creates original plays based on real-life experiences of mental illness.
	Stephen Massott is happy to be back for his fifth season with Shakespeare Camps 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 can be seen at Pacific Repertory Theatre during late summer & fall - this season in Troilus & Cressida and The Comedy of Errors. Steve thanks Rebecca for everything and all the Camp actors for their talent, trust, heart, and passion! Learning and loving Shakespeare - what a way to spend the Summer!!
	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.
	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.
	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.

	Amelia Taber is currently enrolled in the drama department at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Most recently she worked professionally as a stage manager and musical performer at the Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre. She has worked with other companies including the Mountain Play Association in Marin. She has been studying Shakespeare since she was 12 years old and has performed in many plays, including As You Like It, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Cymbeline, and Romeo and Juliet.
	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!