Artistic
Director:
Nan Crawford
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Nan Crawford co-founded Playback Theatre West in Denver in 1988 and founded Pacific Playback Theatre in 1997. She has a diverse background in performing, directing & facilitation.
In addition to performing locally with TheatreWorks, Contemporary Shakespeare Co. & Calaveras Rep, Nan has worked internationally, leading experiential training to cultivate creativity, confidence & clarity. Her consulting firm Nan Crawford & Co. fosters leadership, innovation & collaboration.
A cum laude graduate of The University of Texas with a BFA in Theatre, she holds an MA in Organization Development & Transformation from the California Institute of Integral Studies.
Stephen Bass is pleased to be doing ìmprov with a soul. In addition to being an accomplished actor, clown, puppeteer and teacher he is a founding partner of All Star Stilts & Comedy (www.allstarstilts.com). He performed with BATS Improv for over 10 years and with Shotgun Players, Theatre Rhino and S.F. Shakespeare Festival, to name a few. He has been a part of Pacific Playback Theater since 2002.
Cat Callejas has been recently seen performing with Latina Theater Lab in the San Francisco Wild Women's Festival. As Playwright and Artistic Director for Teatro Sabor, she is writing a Latina rock opera called, Calentura to be read at Esperanza's Playwright's Lab. She has a BA in Dramatic Arts from UC Berkeley and is also a member of Teatro de la Esperanza and Latina Theater Lab. Cat is a founding member of Pacific Playback Theatre.
Laurel Carangelo was
introduced to Playback Theatre by her father when she was six years old.
Later, majoring in arts and social change at Vassar College, she
wrote a thesis titled "Playback Theatre and the Politics of Difference," in
which she explored the possibilities for improvisational theatre to "comfort
(or strengthen) the afflicted and afflict the comforted." She has taught
and performed in Maine, California, and Oaxaca, Mexico. She currently
teaches theatre in San Francisco schools through Performing Arts Workshop
and in "Resolve to Stop the Violence Project", a restorative justice
program in a San Francisco county jail. A graduate of the School of Playback
Theatre, Laurel has been a member Pacific Playback Theatre since 2002.
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An alumnus of Oberlin and San Francisco Conservatories, Wingate is a versatile singer, performer and musician. He was a featured soloist in the San Francisco Symphony's Emmy Award winning broadcast of Sweeney Todd with George Hearn and Patty Lupone. He was also a featured performer in the Symphony's recent production of Candide. Other recent roles have included Quint in Britten's The Turn of the Screw and the title role in Rossini's Count Ory. Recently he produced and directed his second Evening of Remembrance and Hope, a benefit for the UCSF AIDS Research Institute which to date has raised over $17,000. In addition to his stage credits, he is a talented pianist, composer and arranger.
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Melvina Jones was recently seen by Bay Area audiences in the Actors Anonymous production of Five Women Wearing the Same Dress by Alan Ball. Born and raised in San Francisco, Melvina has performed at numerous Bay Area theaters including The Magic Theater, New Conservatory, Zeum, Transparent Theatre in Berkeley, The Calvin Simmons in Oakland and Theater Works in Palo Alto. Melvina has toured with Kaiser Permanente Educational Theater and with African American Shakespeare Company.
Stacy McCarthy has
a background in intercultural training, organizational change consulting
and experiential learning. She holds an MA in Intercultural/ International Management
from The School of International Training, Brattleboro, Vermont. She
performed with Full Circle Theater, an interactive theater group focusing
on positive social change. She first studied (and fell in love
with) the form of Playback Theatre in 1995 in Philadelphia and has recently
studied at the School for Playback Theater at Vassar College, a summer
program led by Playback's founder, Jonathan Fox.
Patricia Miller was raised & studied theatre in the UK. Favorite Directing credits include: Brecht's Mother Courage for UC Riverside, Julius Caesar for SoMArts, & classes for SF and California Shakespeare Festivals. Performing Credits include: Lady Capulet at TheatreWorks, Sandra in Beautiful Thing at New Conservatory Theatre Center & Frano in Mrs. Sweeney at the Magic. Favorite production: Her daughter Lola, born August 25, 2001.
Adam Kenyon Venker is an actor and clown dedicated to creating theater which inhabits the depth and multiplicity of our selves while reflecting the common roots and predicaments we share. A graduate of the California Institute of Integral Studies with a degree in Philosophy, Consciousness & Cosmology, Adam is proud to be part of the global community of Playback Theater performers.
Musician:
David Rhoades
David Rhoades was
born in California, educated in the East, studying music and education
at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond. He plays saxophone, flute
and a million other noise making devices. He has played in the
infamous Haight-Ashbury Free Band and the much missed Salvation Air Force. David
is a founding member of Pacific Playback Theatre, and has toured
with the company to Washington DC, New Orleans, Los Angeles and Monterey.
Billy Cauley
Billy Cauley has played with numerous renowned jazz musicians, composed songs for motion pictures and has studied and performed with many master drummers. Billy studied music at Cleveland State and Oberlin Conservatory. He is an educator and arts therapist that has incorporated his 38 years experience as a professional musician on stage, recording, and video with the powerfully transformation tool of expressive arts. He studied psychology at Harvard University and expressive arts therapy at Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado and Tamalpa Institute in California.
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