CAL SHAKES - Key Persons
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- Artistic Learning Program Manager
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- Production and Rentals Manager
(Fight Director) Dave (he/him/his) is a prolific fight director with over three hundred production credits. He has been the resident fight director at Cal Shakes since 2006 and has received several awards for his efforts, including the TBA for Outstanding Fight Choreography for the Cal Shakes production of Quixote Nuevo. His work has been seen at many bay area theaters including SF Opera, ACT, Berkeley Rep, Berkeley Playhouse, Center Rep, Marin Theatre Co., Magic Theatre, SF Playhouse, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Shotgun Players, African American Shakespeare Co., and Oakland Theatre Project. Dave is recognized as a Master Fight Director and Senior Instructor with Dueling Arts International, and has taught combat related courses at Stanford University, UC Santa Cruz, St. Mary's College of California, San Francisco Conservatory of Music, Studio ACT, Berkeley Rep School of Theatre, and national workshops for Dueling Arts International
(Resident Dramaturg) Dr. Philippa Kelly (she/her) is Resident Dramaturg for California Shakespeare Theater (Cal Shakes). Philippa moved to the Bay from Australia in 2002. She has been awarded fellowships from the Fulbright, Rockefeller, and Commonwealth Awards, and grants from the California Arts Council, the National Endowment of the Humanities, the Walter and Elise Haas Foundation, and the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas. Philippa has published 11 books, 48 internationally peer-reviewed articles, and 52 playbill articles. Her Arden book, The King and I, is closest to her heart, illuminating King Lear through the lens of Australia's history of outcasting. Philippa is Chair and Professor of English at the California Jazz Conservatory, Professor of Theatre at San Jose State University, and currently Visiting Professor of Theatre at St. Mary's College of California.
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- Assistant
- Technical Director
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- Marketing & Communications Manager
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- Marketing & Communications Director
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- Music Director / Composer
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- Advertising Sales Director at Encore Media Group.
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- Shaharazad Squad Creative Director
(Scenic Designer) Tanya (she/her) designs performance spaces for theatre, opera and immersive experiences. Originally from San Francisco's Mission District, she has been a core member of the award-winning ensemble Campo Santo since 2008, participating in their intimate new work process, conceptualizing and designing sets alongside the writing process. Her design collaborations include: The Industry's Sweet Land, a world premiere immersive opera directed by Yuval Sharon and Cannupa Hanska Luger at L.A. State Historic Park, the Mexico premiere of Angels in America directed by Martín Acosta at Teatro Juan Ruiz de Alarcón (Mexico City), and ACT's Fefu and Her Friends directed by Pam MacKinnon. She holds a MFA in Scenic Design from CalArts and is the 2016 recipient of the Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award. She is a member of WingSpace Theatrical Design and an organizing member of La Gente: The Latinx Theatre Design Network.