Staff
Robert Kelley
A Bay Area native and Stanford University graduate, Robert Kelley founded TheatreWorks in 1970 and has been its Artistic Director ever since. He has directed more than 150 TheatreWorks productions, including many world or regional premieres. In 2003 Kelley received the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle (BATCC ) Paine Knickerbocker Award for lifetime achievement. He has garnered BATCC Awards for Outstanding Direction for his productions of Into the Woods, Pacific Overtures, Rags, Sweeney Todd, Another Midsummer Night, Sunday in the Park with George, and Jane Eyre; Bay Area Drama-Logue Awards for his direction of Ah, Wilderness! and Once in a Lifetime; Dean Goodman Choice Awards for Violet, Ragtime, Proof, Dolly West’s Kitchen, and Harold & Maude; and Back Stage West Garland Awards for his direction of Side Show and Sunday in the Park with George.
Phil Santora
Joining TheatreWorks in 2006, after four years as Managing Director of Northlight Theatre outside Chicago, Phil Santora has also held positions as Managing Director of Georgia Shakespeare Festival (GSF) in Atlanta and Development Director for Great Lakes Theatre Festival in Cleveland and George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, New Jersey. He holds an M.F.A. in Theater Administration from the Yale School of Drama, and a B.A. in Drama from Duke University. Mr. Santora has served on the boards of the League of Chicago Theatres, the Atlanta Coalition of Theatres, and the executive committee of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT). He was named 2000’s Best Arts Administrator by Atlanta Magazine. He also received the Atlanta Arts and Business Council’s 1998 ABBY Award for Arts Administrator, and under his leadership GSF won the 1997 Managing for Excellence Award.
Leslie Martinson
Meredith McDonough
Jessica Coker
Vickie Rozell
William Liberatore
Richard Lane
David Milligan
Jim Gross
Steven B. Mannshardt
Cliff Caruthers
Corinne O'Sullivan
Karen Szpaller
Jessica Apperson, Blair Baker, Bradford Chapin, Kelly Conard, B.J. Coté, Janny Coté, Kenny Coté, Andrew Custer, Andrew Duncan, Tom Earlywine, Carolyn Foot, Zahra Garrett, Ryan Gill, Chris Griffin, Ben Jaffe, Matt Johns, Dan Kaminski, Mandana Khoshnevisan, Ryan Kleeman, Neil Masters-Gutierrez, Aileen Menkin, Erin Milligan, Gary Nelson, Michael Palumbo, Dan Potter, Daniel Rahamim, Jen Rotter, Martin Ruhlig, Alena Samoray, Jennifer Smith, Jeff Spackman, Seamus Strahan-Mauk, Jocelyn Squires, Shiboune Thill, Chris Tucker, Tirzah Tyler, Audrey Wright, Selina Young
Rick Amerson, Deborah Bennett, David Conrod, Rick Fleischman, Barry Hayes, Ed Hunter, Mike Kutner, Noah Price, Bart Sears, John Wilkes
Frank Sarmiento
Jim O’Sullivan
Tom Langguth
Sarah Lowe
Aileen Menkin
James Barton, Lisa Bledsoe, Danae Bleuel, Al Cabal, José Frausto, Rodrigo Frausto, Scott Livingston, Patrick McKenna, Aileen Menkin, Peter Michenfelder, Melody Miller, Adam Minton, William Roberts, Joshua Rose
Jill Bowers
Nina Harris
Yen La Wong
Tanya Finkelstein
Mary Carr
Anna Boyarshinova
Marina Agabekov
Nhan Luu, Nina Saakova
Farrah Southam
Jeanne Naritomi
Jessica McGinty
Rebecca Muench
Jaimie L. Johnson
Joshua M. Rose
Christine Ibañez
Jodi Corwin
Paulina Bridges, Kirk Mortensen
H. Hans Cárdenas
Barbara Sloss
Wendy Gajewski
Anne M. Holmes
Amy M. Peabody
Janine Paver
Kimberly Maas
Mariel Cano
H. Hans Cárdenas
Mary Sutton
Debra Jean Zwicker-Sobrepeña
Katie Dai
Sara E. Janzen
Jerry Falek, Noelle Goodman-Morris, Ashleigh Hill, Emily Jordan, Danielle Lencioni, Vera Sloan, Jennifer Wilkinson, Ori Zadok
Prince Gomolvilas
Sean Kelly
Carla Befera & Co.
Ev Shiro
Lorraine VanDeGraaf Rodriguez
Margaret Purdy
Elisa Valentine, Rachel Wilde
Kristine Graham
Trey Costerisan, Lizzie O'Hara
Connie Gannon, Keith Lindsey
