Lured by their health service (but primarily by their theatre), she moved to the UK to study medicine at St. George’s Hospital, University of London. Now back in San Francisco, working towards American licensure, she has been teaching at 826 Valencia and spent a formidable year teaching Chemistry and Music History at San Francisco University…

M. G. Renu Cappelli (founding member) was born in Italy, sojourned in India and France for a time, and was properly raised in Maui, Hawaii. She completed her Ph.D. in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley in 2007, and has been living in the San Francisco Bay Area for the past twelve years. She is a…

Matthew Daube (founding member) is an artist-scholar with an MFA in Playwriting from Smith College and a PhD in Theater and Performance Studies from Stanford University. Theatrical highlights include directing his own adaptation of Franz Kafka’s Metamorphosis and performing for the Chicago-based performance group Every house has a door in their production Tesseract. Matthew’s research…

Michael Hunter (co-founding artistic director) is a director, performance curator, and adjunct professor at Stanford University, where he received his PhD in Drama and Directing.  His directorial work in the Bay Area and the UK has included Calderòn, Orton, Genet, Ionesco, and Kushner, as well as his own plays, which he has presented at the Edinburgh Fringe…

Barry Kendall (founding member) is a performer, director, and Executive Director of Circus Center, the oldest and largest circus training and performing arts center on the West Coast. Favorite productions include Measure for Measure and Adrienne Kennedy’s Motherhood 2000 at Stanford,Henry V at the Off-Broadway Jean Cocteau Repertory Theatre, and the original site-specific pieces The Tower of Babel for Fun…

(co-founding artistic director) Avid surfer, educator, writer, filmmaker, sailor and stage director who received his AB and PhD from Stanford University. For theatre he has worked at the Mark Taper Forum, Magic Theatre, The Public Theater, La Mama ETC, PS122, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and for six years with the avant-garde New York…

Angrette McCloskey is a New York based set designer and carpenter having recently relocated to the Bay Area. Angrette has worked in theater and film for the past 8 years. Her notable design credits include Swimming to Spalding directed by Richard Schechner and The Bacchae directed by Kevin Kulhke at the Warsaw International Theatre Festival, as well assistant credits on Broadway,…

While Sharka can and does write intelligibly at times, her distinction rests on her use of words apart from their conventional meaning. Her emphasis falls on sound rather than sense. Devotees profess to find her restoring a pristine freshness and rhythm to language. Medical authorities compare her effusions to the rantings of the insane.

Florentina Mocanu-Schendel (founding member; SAG-AFTRA). At age 12, she wrote, directed and performed comedy. At 18 she was awarded best actress, entered the People’s School of Art in Bucharest and later the University of Theater Arts in Targu Mures where she earned her Diploma in Acting for theatre and film. In Romania she worked for…

Niki Ulehla is a San Francisco based artist, puppeteer and goldsmith. Originally from Tennessee, she lived in Texas, Alabama, Germany, Georgia, Massachusetts and the Marshall Islands before coming to California in 1997. She studied painting at Stanford, puppet-making in Prague and goldsmithing in San Francisco. She worked as a goldsmith in the studios of Petra…