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WHAT THE BUTLER SAW (2009) Cat Walleck and Andy Murray | photo by Ed Smith

Faculty

  • Josh Costello, Faculty

    Director of Education

    Josh directed MTC's main stage productions My Children! My Africa! and Lovers and Executioners and our School Tour productions of A Short History of Nearly Everything, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Animal vs. Animal: an Aesop's Fables mashup and TALL Tales. He was the Education Director at Marin Shakespeare Company and has taught at A.C.T., Cal Shakes, SF Shakes, UC Riverside, Cal State Long Beach, South Coast Rep and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in Hollywood. Josh has directed dozens of plays up and down the West Coast, including House of Lucky at Magic Theatre, Reborning at SF Playhouse, Hamlet at Shakespeare by the Sea in Los Angeles and his adaptation of The Rover for the Chance Theater in Orange County, which was also televised live on the local PBS affiliate. He collaborated on Romeo and Juliet: A Fire Ballet at the Crucible in Oakland. Josh was the founder and first Artistic Director of Impact Theatre. He holds a BFA in Theatre from Boston University and an MFA in Directing from the University of Washington, Seattle.

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  • Lauren Bloom

    San Andreas High School and Marin Oaks High School

    Lauren has taught at both Marin Academy and San Domenico High Schools and worked with the Shakespeare Society's School Visit program in New York. She received her BA from Wesleyan University and her MFA in Acting from the Alabama Shakespeare Festival. As an actress, she has appeared with the Alabama Shakespeare Festival, the Actor's Company Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Columbia Stages and TheatreFIRST, along with Middlemarch Films, Titan TV and What Productions. She is a Marin County native who recently returned to the Bay Area after living in New York City for three years.

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  • Candace Brown

    Loma Verde Elementary

    Candace is a teacher and professional actor. She has performed at the Porchlight Theatre Company, Marin Fringe Festival, College of Marin, Theater Rhinoceros and the Lesher Center for the Arts. Her favorite role was Maggie Mundy in Dancing at Lughnasa directed by Molly Noble and performed at the College of Marin. She was nominated for a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for her performance in Condoms at the 2008 Marin Fringe Fall Festival. Other credits include Bad Habits, Serenity in Central Park, Three Sisters and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Candace received her BA and Teaching Credential from Sonoma State University.

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  • Blanca Florido

    San Jose Middle School, Old Mill School

    Blanca is a performer, director and choreographer in Marin County. She holds degrees in both theater and music. She last directed and choreographed Guys and Dolls at Novato Theater Company. She was nomiated for a San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award as choreographer of Urinetown at Novato Theater Company. Bianca has taught jazz dance for eight years and choreographed the last two MTC Summer Camps. She has also directed and choreographed for the children’s programs of Yes Theatre and Stapleton Theatre Company. As a performer, Blanca appeared in dozens of stage plays and operas in Florida and on national tours before moving to California, where she most recently appeared in Love’s Labours Lost. With Jef Labes, she wrote a musical for children’s theatre based on the legend of King Arthur and his apprenticeship with Merlin.

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  • Nancy Gold

    Willow Creek Academy

    Nancy is a performing artist, director and teacher. She specializes in mime, mask, movement, clowning, juggling, acting, writing and improvisation. She teaches at the A.C.T. Young Conservatory in San Francisco and the Berkeley Rep School of Theatre. Nancy's performing arts program, BodyTalk…PowerTools, has been honored by the Patron Saint’s Foundation and the Parson’s Foundation at the Marianne Frostig Center in Pasadena and was featured on magazine shows and the Los Angeles Times. Nancy teaches workshops and residencies at schools and universities throughout the country. She studied physical theater with Jacques LeCoq in Paris at Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques LeCoq, mime with Claude Kipnis and clowning with Ctibor Turba. She received a BFA and Master’s Equivalency Degree from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. She lives in San Francisco and performs her comedy characters with her partner and husband Lol Levy.

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  • Jessica Holt

    Hall Middle School and Neil Cummins Elementary

    Jessica is a Bay Area director, producer and teacher and has worked with Boxcar Theater, Cutting Ball Theater, Magic Theatre, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Playwrights Foundation, PianoFight Productions, Woman’s Will, SF Theater Pub, Shotgun Players and TheatreWorks, amongst others. Jessica is an Associate Artist at Magic Theatre where she directed Part 5 of Taylor Mac’s The Lily’s Revenge, The Laramie Project: 10 Years Later and associate directed the recent revival of Why We Have a Body by Claire Chafee. She is the Artistic Director of the Bay One Acts Festival, an annual short play festival that recently celebrated its tenth season. Jessica is also the Artistic Director and co-founder of Threshold, a theatre company that produces challenging, adventurous new work. A passionate advocate for arts in education, she also teaches theater and acting at West Valley College, Berkeley Playhouse and New Conservatory Theatre Center. Additionally, she has taught theater at University of California, Berkeley, Evergreen Valley College, Academy of Art University and Stanford University. Jessica holds a Master’s degree in Performance Studies from University of California, Berkeley.

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  • Sarah Nagelvoort

    Edna Maguire Elementary

    Sarah Nagelvoort is a director in the Bay Area. Since moving to the Bay she has worked with MTC in several capacities beginning as their Education Intern, moving on to Literary Intern, Assistant Directing their school production Tall Tales, and finally working as a teaching artist. She has assistant directed with Boxcar Theatre and Cal Shakes and directed with Brava!, Boxcar Theatre, and is working on starting the Still Waters Project. Sarah has been working with children almost as long as she has been involved in theatre and is thrilled to be teaching with MTC.

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  • Sharon Huff Robinson

    Bayside and Willow Creek

    Sharon Huff Robinson is a professional actress who has been teaching acting to children and adults for almost twenty years. She started teaching with California Theatre Center, where she was a resident actress and began teaching after school enrichment programs and summer camps. From there she went on to study physical theatre and commedia dell’ arte at the Dell Arte School in Blue Lake, California. After returning she  was a drama resource teacher in the public schools, and for ten years she taught drama for Bishop O‘ Dowd High School in Oakland. She holds an M.A. in Drama from SFSU. The organizations for whom she has taught include San Francisco Shakespeare, Theatre Forte (education director), Woman's Will (education director,) Kids on Camera, ALICE, KIPP King High School and Adda Clevenger School for the Performing Arts.

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  • Liz Sklar

    Martin Luther King Junior Academy and Park School

    Liz Sklar has appeared at MTC in Bellwether and Seagull. As a teaching artist she has worked in schools throughout Marin County, in the Young Conservatory at A.C.T. and with the Vector Theater Conservatory. Her Bay Area acting credits include Care of Trees at Shotgun Players, A Christmas Carol at A.C.T., The Tempest at Cal Shakes, The Winter’s Tale at Marin Shakespeare Company and The Foreigner at Ross Valley Players. In New York, she most recently played Lady Macbeth in Macbeth at Mortal Folly Theatre. Other regional credits include Philistines, The Lady from the Sea, The Servant of Two Masters, Village Wooing, Little Shop of Horrors, Good Breeding and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She co-starred with Stacy Keach in Imbued, now touring film festivals worldwide. Sklar holds a BA in Theater Arts from Brown University, an MFA in Acting from A.C.T. and has been training with the SITI Company in New York. Her residency at Martin Luther King Junior Academy in Marin City is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts’ Shakespeare in American Communities program.

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  • Kathryn Zdan

    Park School

    Kathryn Zdan has appeared at MTC in Bellwether as The Doll.  She is a resident Guest Artist and director at CTE at Tamalpais High School.  She is also a teaching artist with EPIC Theater at Redwood High School, The Flying Actor Studio, Mill Valley Middle School, the 142 Throckmorton Theatre, San Rafael High School, StarStruck Theater, YES! Theater, and Berkeley Playhouse. A Mill Valley native, Kathryn began teaching theater, singing, and dance to kids in the Bay Area in 2000 when she started the performing arts program at Steve and Kate's camp when she was a student at Tam High. She holds a BFA in Theatre from the University of California at Santa Barbara, and an MFA in Ensemble Based Physical Theatre from the Dell'Arte International School of Physical Theatre. Bay Area companies she has performed with include TheatreWorks, Magic Theatre, Shotgun Players, Impact Theatre, Crowded Fire, Berkeley Playhouse, Livermore Shakespeare Festival, and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. Nationally, she has toured with the Dell'Arte Company, and internationally with the Amsterdam-based street theatre and performance art group, Warner & Consorten.

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