Rebecca J. Ennals (Artistic Director of Education Programs) oversees the Shakespeare Festival’s education programs (including Bay Area Shakespeare Camps) and serves as casting director. She has directed at numerous theatre companies throughout the Bay Area, including Shakespeare on Tour (The Tempest, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo & Juliet), 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, The Psychic Life of Savages, Tales of the Lost Formicans, Arcadia, Northanger Abbey, The Way of the World). 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.
		Steve Muterspaugh (Assistant Director) is a Resident Teaching Artist with the Shakespeare Festival, teaching the Bay Area Shakespeare Camps and Midnight Shakespeare programs.  As an actor he has worked regionally with such companies as Utah Shakespearean Festival, Southwest Shakespeare Company, and Geva Theatre Center.  Bay Area credits include:  Tender King with Second Wind Productions, Lend Me a Tenor with Livermore Shakespeare, and the upcoming Sleuth with California Conservatory Theatre.  He is a graduate of PCPA Theaterfest and a proud member of Actor's Equity.

Music, Production, & Design

Bill Walker (Composer) has created music for productions at the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, the Pear Avenue Theatre, and the University of Illinois Theatre Department. He can he heard performing jazz and rock keyboards around the bay with the Roger Steen Band. He holds a Ph.D from University of Illinois, where he studied jazz piano with Tony Caramia and electronic composition with Scott Wyatt.

Serina Serjama ((Scenic Artist, Designer) is pleased to be working with Shakespeare On Tour again. She has created the visual artistry on stages by painting and/or designing for many companies mostly on the West Coast for about 11 years. Latest projects include City of Los Altos Festival of Lights Parade, Twixt a F. Coppola project, Idomeneo, San Jose Opera, Dreams Happen Childrens Playhouse projects in Palo Alto/Los Altos, Backdrop for Pirates of Penzance, Lamplighters, The Most Happy Fellow Festival Opera, Romeo and Juliet in Livermore Opera, among others. She studied the Fine Arts independently in Europe & Asia for eight years and worked successfully as a muralist and freelance artist in Portland. The sets she created have won numerous awards, and her skills in Trompe l'Oeil have had seasoned directors and critics fooled, thinking that drops were 3D, backlit canvases were projections, or that wood-floors or marble were real materials.

Thalia Cronander (Costume Designer) is a Bay Area costume, mask and makeup designer with a BFA from Emerson College in Boston. She's designed costumes for Pleasanton Civic Arts Stage Company productions of Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, The Princess and the Pea, James and the Giant Peach, Cinderella, Charlotte’s Web, and Treasure Island. Other design credits include: Annie, Cinderella and Guys and Dolls with Alameda Civic Light Opera; Bye Bye Birdie, Scapino, Little Shop of Horrors, Romeo and Juliet, Oklahoma, and Oliver Twist with Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep; Masks and Animals for Seussical at Mercy High School, SF; Philadelphia Story, 70 Scenes of Halloween, Mask Design for Long Bridge over Deep Water, and Emerson Dance at Emerson Colege. She teaches a course every semester at Sacred Heart in costume construction and design as well as make-up.

		Carla Pantoja (Fight Director) works as an instructor of theatrical combat for California Shakespeare Theater and San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. She teaches stage combat and acting as an adjunct faculty for Hartnell Community College, and has been an adjunct teacher for Mendocino Community College. She has assisted Master Teacher Gregory Hoffman in classes at the American Conservatory Theater’s MFA program. Carla teaches stage combat to various schools in the Bay Area and is a teaching artist through Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and Each One Reach One. Carla received her theatrical combat training through the British Academy of Stage & Screen Combat, Academy of the Sword, Action Actor’s Society, and continues with Dueling Arts International.
		Becky Kemper (Text Coach) 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.