Jackson Currier is Marin Shakespeare Company’s Technical Director. He has acted, designed, taught, and served as Master Carpenter and Tech Director for Marin Shakespeare Company. He also provides technical leadership at Mt. Tam School. As an actor, Jackson trained at Shakespeare & Company and was nominated for a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Mercutio in “Romeo and Juliet.” Jackson is the proud father of Lenox and Kili.
Lesley Currier is the founding Managing Director of Marin Shakespeare Company. She holds a B.A. in Religion from Princeton University, where she was awarded the Frances LeMoyne Page Award for Theatre. She spent three years with the Ukiah Players, where she acted, produced and served as fundraiser coordinator for the Phase II building expansion. In 1988, while in Ukiah, she initiated the New American Comedy Festival. After a season acting at Ashland’s Oregon Shakespeare Festival, she studied at U.C. Irvine’s M.F.A. Program in Acting, before being invited to Marin with her husband Robert to found Marin Shakespeare Company. Since 1989, she has produced award-winning summer productions, provided work for thousands of theatre artists, created education programs that serve thousands of students each year, and founded Shakespeare for Social Justice which has provided opportunities for rehabilitation through Shakespeare and Theatre in 14 California State Prisons, and Alameda and Marin Juvenile Halls. An actor, director and playwright, Lesley’s original adaptation of “A Thousand and One Arabian Nights“, which she directed, was nominated for “Best Overall Production of 2002” by the Bay Area Critics Circle. Lesley was nominated as “Best Director 2009” for “Twelfth Night, or All You Need Is Love” which she adapted with Robert Currier. She and Robert co-founded Baja Shakespeare in 2001, bringing live theatre to the East Cape of Mexico’s southern Baja peninsula. Lesley is past President of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, served on Theatre Bay Area’s Theatre Service Committee for six years, and has thrice served on grants panels for the National Endowment for the Arts. She was elected to the Marin Women’s Hall of Fame in 2007, and is the 2017 recipient of the Burbarge Award for excellence in Shakespeare production worldwide from the American Shakespeare Center.
Robert Currier co-founded Marin Shakespeare Company and is its original Artistic Director, retiring in 2022. He holds a B.A. in Drama and an M.F.A. in Directing from U.C. Irvine, where he helped establish the Objective Drama Project with the legendary theatrical guru Jerzy Grotowski in the early 1980’s. An actor, director, writer and designer, Robert co-founded Encounter With the Theatre at the Woodstock Illinois Opera House (artistic home of the young Orson Welles) in 1971 and the still thriving Ukiah Players Theatre in 1977. He and Lesley initiated Baja Shakespeare, Baja del Sur’s only live classical theatre company in Los Barriles, Mexico in 2001. Robert has directed and acted in well over 100 productions. At Marin Shakespeare Company, he has been nominated for “Best Director” and his productions for “Best Production” numerous times by the Bay Area Critics Circle, Choice Awards, and others. His 2016 production of Othello and 1994 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream won the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards for “Best Overall Production”. A popular teacher, Robert has been an Adjunct Professor of Shakespeare Studies at Dominican University of California as well as many other places. He is known for his wit and wisdom.
Adriana Gutierrez is a costume designer/stylist with a diverse portfolio spanning film, commercial, print, and theater. Her client list includes Apple, Nat Geo and the SF Giants, for whom she has designed and styled commercials and corporate shoots. In film, Adriana has costume-designed several titles, including Radio Dreams and Free Byrd. She has also worked on various Bay Area productions, including Thirteen Reasons Why, and Blindspotting. In addition, she has shared her expertise by having worked at College of Marin and CAFILM (Summerfilm). Her versatility has also led to collaborations with artists including Cheyenne and Green Day. Theater credits include Snow Queen (College of Marin) and Beautiful (Spreckels).
Suraya Susana Keating is an actress, licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, Registered Drama Therapist, yoga Teacher and Adjunct Professor at California Institute of Integral Studies where she teaches in the Masters Program for Drama Therapy. Suraya uses drama and the arts as tools for deep individual and social transformation. During the past 20 years, she has worked extensively with youth, adults, and the incarcerated. At Marin Shakespeare Company, she has acted in several main stage productions, and taught and directed for the Marin Shakespeare program at San Quentin State Prison since 2005 as well as Shakespeare at California Medical Facility in Vacaville. Suraya has been instrumental in creating Drama Therapy-inspired curriculum for MSC’s prison programs and training Teaching Artists in prisons. www.suraya.org
Elana Kepner (she/her) is theatre teaching artist, voice, dialect and text coach, director, performer and a Certified Assistant Teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework®. Her teaching practice centers on exploring a radically inclusive approach to Shakespeare for humans of all ages through imagination, acting, voice and movement work. Born and raised in Marin, Elana returns to the Bay Area after forays in Eastern North Carolina, Northeast Ohio, St. Louis and Kansas City. Highlights from Elana’s extensive career as a teaching artist include piloting Shakespeare Squadron, St. Louis Shakespeare Festival’s advanced teen training program, and teaching the progression of voice and speech courses for the BFA performance degree programs at East Carolina University, as well as serving as voice, text and dialect coach for mainstage productions. Most significantly, Elana served as Founding Artistic Director of Whirligig Stage (Greenville, NC), where directing credits included Macbeth, Newsies, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and James and the Giant Peach for Whirligig Youth Academy with actors ages 7 to 18. Elana earned her MFA in Acting and Directing from University of Missouri, Kansas City, and trained with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA. Elana is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and Voice and Speech Trainers Association.
Leontyne Mbele-Mbong is a long-time Bay Area actress. Recent performances include Cyrano and Hurricane Diane at the Aurora Theatre, Lear at CalShakes (BATCC award for Goneril). She has also performed around the Bay Area at A.C.T., African-American Shakespeare Company (TBA award for Medea), Berkeley Rep, Central Works, TheatreFirst, San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, and Shotgun Players, as well as regionally at the Guthrie in Minneapolis, MN and TheatreSquared in Fayetteville, AK. Leontyne is a proud founding member of the Actors’ Reading Collective with whom she serves as resident production coordinator. She has also worked around the theater arena as production manager and stage manager, usher, box office treasurer, President and Secretary-Treasurer of the FOH Union Local B18, and Board Member. Leontyne holds a BA in Dramatic Arts from Macalester College.
Noah Rojas-Domke (he/him) is a multi-disciplinary theatre artist and arts administrator around the Bay Area, with a foundation in lighting design, technical production, and growing experience in nonprofit administration, event management, and development management. He moved to the Bay Area from San Diego to attend the University of California, Berkeley to obtain a Bachelor’s in Applied Mathematics and a Minor in Chemistry, but ultimately switched to pursue a Bachelor’s in Theater Production and Performance Studies emphasis in Lighting Design. His design and technical credits span dozens of productions across the Bay Area, including work with Broadway South Bay, A.N.T.I, Green Swan Theatre, Berkeley Playhouse, Ray of Light, American Conservatory Theater, Piedmont Unified School District, Berkeley Repertory Theater, and Cal Performances. From lighting production like Little Shop of Horrors, Outside Mullingar, Les Misérables, Carrie, and Head Over Heels to programming, electrics, and leading technical teams for other productions, Noah brings depth and versatility to every project. Noah currently serves as Development Associate at Shotgun Players, where he leads individual giving campaigns, stewards donors, and coordinates cultivation events to support the company’s bold artistic mission. His prior roles at Cal Performances include Event Manager and Rental Services Coordinator, where he oversaw backstage/front-of-house operations, coordinated campus rentals and contracts, and managed artist relations for large-scale events. At Berkeley Playhouse, he supported education programs, MainStage, and administrative operations. Noah’s commitment to accessible, diverse, and inclusive performance spaces also shines through his role as Vice President of Marketing and Production Management with Artistic Nerds 4 Inclusivity (A.N.T.I.) at UC Berkeley, where he co-produced cabarets, MainStage productions, workshops, and student showcases centering queer, BIPOC, and underrepresented voices. Lastly, Noah is a classically trained vocalist and passionate ensemble performer. He has sung with the Berkeley Community Choir & Orchestra, Golden Gate Symphony, and various Bay Area churches as a ringer, soloist, and section leader. In every role he continues to bridge artistic vision with strategic leadership to support bold, community-centered theatre.
Jon Tracy works internationally as an art and culture producer for theatre and film. A director, playwright, designer, educator, and facilitator, he is the recipient of awards from the Kennedy Center, North Bay Artys, Marquee Journalists, Ellys, Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, and Theatre Bay Area, and has also been honored with the Solano College Theatre Alumni Award. He is a grant recipient from Theatre Bay Area, Shotgun Players’ Bridging the Gap, SUI Generis, and the National Endowment for the Arts. He recently completed a five year leadership position with TheatreFIRST commissioning and developing the work of over fifty playwrights. Jon is a current Company Member of both Shotgun Players and PlayGround, and a proud member of SDC, the union for stage directors and choreographers. jontracyplays.com