Former Interns

Lauren Boone and Caitlin Boylan (Stage Management, 2009) at the PIP picnic; photo by Dallas Kane.

Lauren Boone
Stage Management, 2009
Lauren is completing her freshman year at San Francisco State University; this is her third season interning with Cal Shakes. She has worked with the Artistic and Artistic Learning departments in the past, and finds herself on the Stage Management team for Romeo and Juliet this season.

Caitlin Boylan
Stage Management, 2009
Cailtin was born in Chicago and lived there until 2005, when she began her studies in design/production and theater management at Illinois State University. Theater was always a part of her life and, growing up in a theater family, a love for drama was instilled at a young age. In stage management, Caitlin was able to find where precision and organization meets drama and the arts; a perfect fit for her personality. However happy she is to return to ISU for one last semester, she is even more excited to begin her career in the professional world of stage management.

Rachel Winfield (Artistic Learning/Stage Management, 2009), Dallas Kane (Artistic Learning/Stage Management, 2009), and Caitlin Boylan (Stage Management, 2009) at a Cal Shakes performance; photo by Lauren Boone.

Jonathan Bremner
Sound, 2009
Jonathan has worked for the past three years as a sound technician and designer with the University Theatre in Norfolk, VA. His recent work in Polaroid Stories earned him an “Honorable Mention” in the regional Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival competition. Both composer and musician, he has an ardent love of all things musical.

Daniel Chavez
Electrics/Lighting Design, 2009
Daniel is from Washington, DC, and is a rising senior at Brandeis University, where he is majoring in theater arts with a concentration in lighting design. He has been designing lights for student-run productions for the past two-and-a-half years, and has worked as a technician for theaters in and around Massachusetts and the DC area. His past work includes Suburbia, Six Characters in Search of an Author, I Hate Hamlet, City of Angels, Fools, Runner The Play, The Fate of Cockroach, and Philadelphia Here I Come.

Rachel Fettner (Artistic Learning, 2009) at the PIP picnic; photo by Dallas Kane.

Rachel Fettner
Artistic Learning, 2009
Rachel fell in love with the theater at age 3, when her mother took her to see Into the Woods at the local Woodminster Theater in Oakland. As she grew, watching and performing in theater was a constant in her life. During high school she became the first student to direct a school production, and also performed for Princess Anne of the UK while studying abroad at the Gordonsoun School in Scotland. Rachel currently attends the Tisch School for the Arts at New York University and has performed and held stage management positions in numerous school productions. “I love to create the art of theater,” she says, “and give that gift to others. I can’t imagine a life without it.”

Carrie Foster
Artistic Learning, 2009
Carrie is a rising junior at Catawba College in North Carolina. She is a theater major with an emphasis in directing. She recently spent a semester abroad studying theater in England. A native of the great city of Baltimore, she roots for the Orioles every year.

Courtney Flores
Costumes, 2009
Courtney received her A.A. in Fashion Design and Merchandising from College of Alameda and a B.A. in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Costume Design. Currently Ms. Flores is attending San Francisco State University, enjoying the challenges of the graduate program for Costume Design. Since 2003, Ms. Flores has had the opportunity of designing costumes in and around the San Francisco Bay Area for such theaters as Stage 1 Theatre, Pleasanton Playhouse, Impact Theatre and Renegade Theater Experiment. She has also designed for Aces Wild Theatre Company, which took its production of Anna Bella Eema to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland in the summer of 2008. Currently, Ms. Flores is preparing to design The Revengers’ Tragedy at San Francisco State University, which will open Fall 2009.

Julie Gillespie
Scenic/Paint, 2009
Julie is excited to be new to Cal Shakes. She recently graduated from San Francisco State University with a B.A. in Technical Theater and Design, with an emphasis in scenic design. She is working hard to make theater her home. Carpe Diem.

Edgar Gonzalez (Properties, 2009) and Julie Gillespie (Scenic/Paint, 2009) at the PIP picnic; photo by Lauren Boone.

Edgar M. Gonzalez
Properties, 2009
Edgar is a theater arts student attending UC Santa Cruz. He has done work both on- and offstage. He is currently focusing on becoming a set designer.

Katie Henry
Artistic Learning, 2009
Katie graduated from Berkeley High School in 2008, where she both wrote and performed in plays within the Berkeley High Drama Department. She is now a rising sophomore at a New York University in the Tisch School or the Arts, majoring in dramatic writing. She won the Berkeley Repertory Theatre’s Teen Playwriting awards in 2007 and 2008. Her winning 2008 play later won the Young Playwrights Inc. National Contest, and was read by professional actors at the Off-Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre.

Dallas Kane
Artistic Learning and Stage Management, 2009
Dallas is currently a student at the University of Florida. Although not a theater major, she has worked in various productions with both The School of Theater & Dance as well as the student-run Florida Players. Previous productions include The House of Yes, The Violet Hour, The Braggart Soldier, and Glengarry Glen Ross,as well as new productions including Where The Bee Sucks and Electronic City. She plans to attend graduate school in stage and production management upon graduating with her B.A. in Linguistics.

Carrie Foster (Artistic Learning, 2009) at the PIP picnic; photo by Dallas Kane.

Alan Kline
Artistic Learning, 2009
Alan grew up acting in the Bay Area, primarily at Windrush School, Stage Door Conservatory, and Marin Academy. He returned a year ago, after graduating from Oberlin College with a theater degree. There he focused on directing, putting on such shows as Little Shop of Horrors, Torch Song Trilogy, tick, tick…BOOM!, The Fantasticks, and his own adaptation of The Yellow Wallpaper. He also had the opportunity to intern with The Public Theatre in Maine for a semester. Recently he has stage managed The Stone Stage at The San Francisco Theater Festival and Friends are Forever with New Conservatory Theater.

Erik LaDue
Scenic, 2009
Erik is a theater arts major at UC Santa Cruz. Through theater arts, Erik has received training in scenic construction and electrics, acting as Assistant Technical Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz’s Wind in the Willows and as Technical Director for the African American Theater Arts Troupe at UCSC for their production of The Piano Lesson. Erik is also Props Manager for the Theater Arts department at UCSC.

Christina Larson
Stage Management, 2009
Christina made her stage debut as Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night at the Cal Shakes Summer Intensive when she was eight years old. Since then her passion for theater and Shakespeare has only grown. She is currently finishing her second year as a drama major at the University of Washington, Seattle, and plans on focusing on Stage Management.

Kimberly Liljequist
Costumes, 2009
Kimberly has been married for 24 years and has two children, one in college and the other a junior in high school. She was a stay-at-home mom until two and a half years ago when she took a part-time job. She has done volunteer work for the school, Scouts, and plays. She likes to travel and loves reading about history. She is still very much involved in scouting and has an Eagle Scout and a Venture Scout.

Katie Henry and Jane Moriarty (Artistic Learning, 2009) at the PIP picnic; photo by Lauren Boone.

Lyrica Tyree
Electrics, 2009
Lyrica grew up in Sedona, AZ, with a love for the outdoors and art. She began designing lighting for theater while still in high school and has produced designs for plays such as Proof, The Lion in Winter and 37 Postcards. She studied theater at the University of Arizona in Tucson and lived in Chile for a semester where she studied Spanish.

Elise Walter
Artistic Learning, 2009
Elise is a Northwestern University undergraduate majoring in theater and English literature. She is the Education Director for Northwestern University’s student theater ensemble, the Purple Crayon Players, specializing in theater for young audiences. Her favorite roles at Northwestern include performances in Euripides’ The Bacchae and Edmond Rostand’s Cyrano de Bergerac. Elise was born in California, but moved abroad with her family to New Delhi, India, when she was 12 years old. Her current home is in Geneva, Switzerland.

Rachel Winfield
Artistic Learning and Stage Management, 2009
Rachel is a student at Santa Clara University in the graduating class of 2011. She is majoring in theater arts with an emphasis in stage management and directing. Recent credits include stage managing Twelfth Night and a workshop production of Beth Thornstensen’s play Over the Mountain.

Britney Frazier-Harper
Casting, 2008
Britney attended Skyline High School in Oakland and was quickly accepted into their theater arts program. While attending Skyline, Britney received performance critiques and training from actors Tom Hanks and Lou Myers. So far, Britney has been in Bulrusher at Shotgun Players and many productions at Laney College and Rawley T. Farnsworth Theater. "Acting is my passion,” she says. “I am always willing to do the work."

Dalia Haire
Casting, 2008
Dalia Haire’s passion for theater and movies started when she was about five years old, when she began to love movies “with their believable characters and stories.“ She was born in Viernheim, Germany, in 1986 to an American father and German mother. Dalia lived in Germany until the age of 16, moving to her father’s hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas, after finishing the tenth grade. In 2005, one year after graduating high school, she moved to Berkeley where she worked as a live-in nanny. She is now a resident of Oakland.

Deck Manager Alycia Dymond and 2009 Stage Management PIP Lauren Boone move the Romeo and Juliet scooters; photo by Dallas Kane.

Kristin Loughry
Stage management, 2008
Kristin studies Stage Management at Ithaca College in New York. She is preparing to study in London next spring. “I liked everything about the internship,” she says.” I had an absolutely amazing summer!”

Kathryn Flowers
Stage Management, 2008
Kathryn is currently a second year at University of Texas at Austin where she focuses her studies on Stage Management. She writes: “I adored San Francisco and all aspects of production. An Ideal Husband was a glorious experience—loved the people, loved the place, loved Cal Shakes.”

Amanda Warner
Stage Management, 2008
Amanda plans to pursue Stage Management as a career upon graduating from UCLA in 2010.

Christina Hogan
Stage Management, 2008
Now in her last year at St. Mary’s College, Christina has begun to work within the Bay Area theater community. She is currently the Assistant Stage Manager for Town Hall Theatre’s production of Miracle on 34th Street, directed by Cal Shakes Associate Artistic Director Jessica Richards.

Madeline Hanson
Artistic Learning, 2008
Madeline is a recent transfer to USC, where she is studying theater and film. “I liked the people,” she recalls. “Everyone was very welcoming at Cal Shakes. I enjoyed seeing the kids grow and experiment at camp.”

Anthony Harvey
Artistic Learning, 2008
Anthony is currently finishing up his degree in theater at Willamette University in Oregon. He says: “I liked that I had the opportunity to help in other departments. For me, that was a plus. It made me feel a part of Cal Shakes.”

Rachel Erickson
Artistic Learning, 2008
In her second year at Lewis & Clark College in Oregon, Rachel is studying theater and has a strong interest in dramaturgy and Stage Management. Rachel really appreciated the mentorship aspect of her Cal Shakes experience: “Both in the office and at camp, people took the time to explain things to us that they probably could have done faster themselves. …Also, I have overcome my fear of talking on the telephone.”

Ava Jackson
Artistic Learning, 2008
A recent graduate of Brooklyn College, Ava is now the Artistic Learning Coordinator for Cal Shakes; she also works as an actor and freelance choreographer.

2008 Interns pose for photographer Jay Yamada.

Kate Jopson
Artistic Learning, 2008
Kate is currently completing her last year at UC Berkeley, where she studies anthropology with a minor in theater. “I really enjoyed getting to meet people in the theater community,” she says.

Jacquie Antonson
Artistic Learning, 2008
Jacquie is currently studying abroad, after which she will return to Middlebury College to complete her degree in theater and English.

Hannah Fazio
Artistic Learning, 2008
Now in her third year at Hamilton College in New York, Hannah is studying acting while also exploring other theatrical career possibilities.

DC Lincoln
Artistic Learning, 2008
Currently studying at Laney College, DC is a native of Liberia. She hopes to one day take the training she has received in the states back to Africa where she can implement it. DC loved working in the Artistic Learning office and at camp. In addition, the workshops and seminars provided to the interns “gave me an inside look to what I’m about to do for the rest of my life.”

2008 Intern Deepika Singamsetty in the Artistic Learning office.

Deepika Singamsetty
Artistic Learning, 2008
Deepika is in her second year at UC Santa Cruz where she is majoring in theater with an English minor, and focusing on directing. “I felt like part of the department,“ she recalls. “I wasn’t treated like a lowly intern—my ideas were heard and acknowledged.”

Lauren Boone
Artistic Learning, 2007-08
In addition to studying at San Francisco State University, Lauren is busying stage managing for local companies and schools. “I liked everything” about Cal Shakes,” she writes. “The people were great and all the different seminars were great too.”

Bessie Delucchi
Costumes, 2008
At the conclusion of her internship with Cal Shakes, Bessie came on board as the Design Assistant for Twelfth Night and is now designing for local companies such as North Bay Shakespeare Company, Town Hall Theatre, and Marin Academy of the Arts. She says: “I really liked the ability to touch on all aspects of costuming.”

Canae White
Electrics, 2008
Canae is studying theater with an emphasis in acting at Dillard University in New Orleans. “I liked the fact that I have been working since I got here,” writes Canae. “I’ve grown a lot from the experience.”

Evan Patipa
Props, 2008
Evan is study technical theater with an emphasis in design at Sonoma State University. He is designing several shows for his school over the next year. “I learned a lot,” he recalls. “I got to have a lot of new experiences and had a lot of fun with my supervisor.”

Carin J. White
Casting, 2006-07
In pursuit of a career as a freelance director, Carin is currently enrolled in the M.F.A. directing program at Columbia University under the direction of Anne Bogart.

Tracy Held Potter
Casting, 2007
Tracy is currently working as Development Coordinator for the Crowden Music Center while also pursuing acting and playwriting.

2006 Interns Samantha Fryer and Yi-Ning Lin take BART to a Cal Shakes event.

Johnathan Williams
Casting, 2007
Johnathan is studying at Laney College while working with local companies such as the African American Shakespeare Company and working as a co-producer for Golden Gigs in Oakland.

Antonette Bracks
Casting, 2007
Antonette has recently transferred to San Francisco State where she is studying acting and performance. She came back to Cal Shakes in 2008 to be a part of the deck crew for Uncle Vanya.

Rhio V. Ossola
Artistic/Casting, 2007
After the completion of his casting internship, Rhio came on board as Assistant Director for Twelfth Night, working alongside director and Associate Artist Mark Rucker.

Brianna Hill
Artistic Learning/Casting, 2007
Shortly after completing her internship, Bri moved to Chile on a Fulbright Scholarship. There, she is teaching and implementing a playwriting curriculum that she developed during her internship at Cal Shakes.

Drew Kaufman
Scenic, 2007
Since leaving Cal Shakes Drew has won regional KCACTF awards for his designs, and come back to Cal Shakes to work as a carpenter and Assistant Lighting Designer. He is now a Bay Area local for the time being, designing for Diablo Valley College, Town Hall Theatre, Marin Academy of the Arts, and the Bentley School. Click here to see pictures from Drew's internship and post-internship experience.

Donna Acquavella
Stage Management/Directing, 2007
Donna returned to Cal Shakes in 2008 as a Production Assistant on Pericles and Uncle Vanya as well as Deck Manager for Twelfth Night. She is currently working on A.C.T.’s Stage Management team.

Derek Smith on a New Works/New Communities trip in Salinas.

Derek Smith
Artistic Learning, 2007 and New Works/New Communities, 2008
Derek returned to our Artistic Learning camp programs in 2008 as Camp Coordinator for Two-Week Camps in Orinda and El Cerrito. He has recently transferred to San Diego State University to finish his studies in theater.