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Cast Member Bios
(l to r) Brendan Godfrey
as Oberon and
Kevin Tierney as Puck
in Shakespeare on Tour's
A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Director
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Rebecca J. Ennals oversees the San Francisco Shakespeare
Festival's education programs and serves as the casting
director. She has directed at numerous theatre companies
throughout the Bay Area, including the Napa Valley Shakespeare
Festival (Hamlet, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, Richard III, The Real Inspector Hound), the Napa
Valley Repertory Theatre (The Woman in Black, On
the Verge), and the Pear Ave. Theatre (Show and Tell,
Approaching Zanzibar). She holds a BA in Theatre and
English literature from Scripps College and an MFA in Performance
from U.C. Davis. She loves working with youth and children
and believes that Shakespeare's stories can enthrall and
unite people of all ages and backgrounds
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Soundtrack Composers/Musicians
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Pat Smith (Guitarist/Arranger/Composer/Producer) has performed
coast to coast playing in many styles. He started the Penguin
Jazz Quartet in 1994 which soon added Pianist Bill Walker.
Pat and Bill have been making music together ever since.
With a music degree from Iowa's Cornell College. Pat has
composed music for several groups including the acclaimed
Red Cedar Chamber group.
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Bill Walker (Keyboards/Composer) holds a Ph.D. in Computer
Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Bill's resume includes stints at Apple Computer's Advanced
Technology Group, Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC),
and Reactivity, Inc., a cutting-edge start-up. Bill is also
a Research Scientist at San Jose State University's Center
for Research in Electro-Acoustic Music (CREAM), where he
is engaged in ongoing interactive music system research
with Dr. Brian Belet. In 1994, he moved to Northern California,
where he met guitarist Pat Smith, with whom he has made
music for the past ten years. In 1996, Bill joined Pat in
the critically acclaimed Penguin Jazz Quartet, whose recordings
received significant airplay.
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