
She was a Resident Artist with the American Conservatory Theater, (ACT), for 15 years, where she served as a core faculty member and director in the MFA Program, a director and teacher in the Young Conservatory and Studio ACT Programs, and as the resident director of the main stage production of A Christmas Carol. Lozano is a Bay Area based Director, Actress and Educator. His latest project is a new musical The Mortification of Fovea Munson at The Kennedy Center.ĭomenique Lozano, Director and Translator of Fall '22 Theatre Production of Brecht's The Caucasian Chalk Circle
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During pandemic he directed his first full length film, a hip-hop musical adaptation of As You Like It with music and lyrics by Ryan Nicole Austin produced by ACT as well as “hold me the forgotten way’ audio cycle produced by Tigerbear.

Recent productions include the World Premiere of Obie winner Christopher Chen’s Home Invasion, Kevin Rolston’s Deal with the Dragon at ACT & Edinburgh Fringe, Mia Chung’s You for Me for You at Crowded Fire, James Ijames’ White at Shotgun, and Kait Kerrigan's Father/Daughter at Aurora.

He directed the West Coast Premiere of Jerry Springer: The Opera and won Bay Area Critics Circle Best Director for Truffaldino Says No at Shotgun Players. He’s directed in New York City, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Portland Oregon, Washington DC, and in the San Francisco bay area. He spent five years as Producer of Aurora Theater’s new play development program and festival The Global Age Project. He grew up outside of New York City and has been based in San Francisco since 2004. He is an O’Neill/NNPN National Directing Fellow, an Oregon Shakespeare Festival FAIR Fellow and a proud Resident Artist at SF’s Crowded Fire. Graham Smith is a San Francisco-based Director, Educator and Producer. Graham Smith, Director Fall '23 Theatre Production: "A Midsummer Night's Dream" She has an MA from San Francisco State University in Drama, an MPhil from Cambridge in Modern European History and a BA in Drama and History from UC Irvine. She has adapted scripts and librettos for 42nd Street Moon in San Francisco and B8 Theatre in Concord, where she is also a company member. Annie has had work published in Studies in Musical Theatre, The European Journal of American Studies, and American Theatre and has presented her research at the American Society for Theatre Research and the Association for Theatre in Higher Education as well as other conferences. She studies the depiction of history on stage, which she examined in her dissertation, The Musical as History Play: Form, Gender, Race, and Historical Representation. She has taught at Columbia University, Barnard College, New York University, and Ramapo College of New Jersey.

Amissa Miller, Play Analysis: Modern Drama, Interactive TheatreĪnnie holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance from Columbia University. She’s worked with: New Native Theatre, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, A.C.T., Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Aurora Theatre Company, Native Writers Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, American Indian Community House, Cal Shakes, Anchorage Opera, Theatre of Yugen, Berkeley Rep, MoxieArts NY, StageWrite, Brava Theater, Theatre Battery, Ohio University- Tantrum Theatre, Ashland New Play Festival, Freestyle Love Supreme, Forward Theatre, UC-Berkeley, Shotgun Players, TheaterWorks, Marin Shakespeare, Renaissance Theaterworks, Playwrights Foundation, & others. She is a classics buff who turns traditional storytelling reverentially on its head with devised satire and puppetry. Shannon champions storytelling not normally included in traditional white patriarchal theatre narratives. Shannon strives to create true community through practicing active Decolonization and Anti-Racism in processes she leads. With a foundation in Theatre of the Oppressed, Shannon uses the transformational tools of theatre to endeavor to restructure harmful processes, raise consciousness, and heal community. She has most recently been: in the Cal Shakes Artist Circle, the Director of Community Connections at American Conservatory Theater, a Guest Artist/Lecturer at UC-Berkeley, and a co-founder of Bay Area Native Theatre Artists (BANTA) as well as the Bay Area Theater Accountability Workgroup. She holds a BA from UW-Whitewater in Theatre and Vocal Performance, and an MFA in Directing & Acting from UW-Madison, specializing in directing intercultural theatre for social awareness. She is Indigenous, Mixed, Queer, a woman, & neurodivergent. Davis (she/they) is a Bay Area director, storyteller, educator, & community connector originally from Wisconsin.
