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All staff e-mails are found "@broadwaybythebay.org"
In an effort to slow the pace of virus e-mails that find
addresses on web sites, we've broken the addresses up in
this way.
BROOKE KNIGHT
Artistic Director
(650) 579-5565 x 211
Email: Brooke@
JIM GARDIA
Executive Director
(650) 579-5595
Email: Jim@
GRACE PRASAD
Development Director
(650) 579-5565 x 205
Email: Grace@
ERICA WYMAN
Education & Outreach Director
(650) 579-5565 x 207
Email: Erica@
MARC JACOBS
Advanced Training Program
Email: Marc@
BERLE DAVIS
Choreographer Emeritus
Email: Berle@
DANIELLE SANTANA
Operations Manager
(650) 579-5565 x 208
Email: Danielle@
KELLY ESTRELLA
Allied Live, LLC
Marketing & Communications
(323)-857-7692
Email Kelly
JOE DUFFY
Box Office Manager
(650) 579-5565 x 210
Email: Joe@
RANDI REYNOLDS
Bookkeeper
(650) 579-5565 x 206
Email: Randi@
KEVIN KOJAK
Charley Zukow Associates
Public Relations
www.charleszukow.com
kevink@charleszukow.com
KEVIN LOW
House Manager
Email: Kevin@
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Brooke
Knight is in her sixteenth year as Broadway By
the Bay's Artistic Director. In addition to overseeing the
artistic integrity and quality of Broadway By the Bay's
shows and planning the theatrical season, Brooke normally
directs one production per year. In Brooke's tenure as Artistic
Director of BBBay, the company has received innumerable
nominations and awards from the Bay Area Theater Critics
Circle Awards. Brooke's own directorial talents have earned
nominations from the BATCC for her productions of 42nd
Street, Sweet Charity, Jesus Christ Superstar and
Camelot. Brooke's production of Guys and Dolls
won five Bay Area Critics Awards, including 'Best Direction'
and 'Best Entire Production.' Her association with BBBay
started in 1989 when she directed our critically acclaimed
production of the musical Company. In 2000 Brooke
Knight was the recipient of the Bravo! award that is presented
annually to an outstanding contributor to the performing
arts. Brooke and her 'Forever Star' husband, the late Allen
Knight, have been educators, counselors and inspiration
to thousands of Bay Area students.
Jim
Gardia comes to Broadway By the Bay from Los Angeles
where he served as Producing Director for Reprise Theatre
Company with productions of Follies with Patty
Duke, Vikki Carr and Donna McKechnie, Anything Goes,
(2003 Ovation Award for Best Musical) with Rachel York and
Brent Barrett, On the Twentieth Century with Carolee
Carmello, She Loves Me with Rebecca Luker, Babes
in Arms with Joey McIntyre, Kismet with Len
Cariou and Anthony Crivello, Company with Chris
Sieber and Judith Light, Brigadoon with Marin Mazzie,
Jason Danieley and Orson Bean, Pippin with Sam
Harris, Applause with Sheryl Lee Ralph, On
The Town with Harriet Harris, City of Angels
with Stephen Bogardus and Vicki Lewis, Zorba with
Marc Kudisch and Judy Kaye, My One and Only with
Rachel York and Betty Garrett, Sunday in the Park with
George with Kelli O'Hara, Manoel Felciano and Nancy
Dussault, No Strings with Scott Bakula, On
Your Toes with Stefanie Powers, Damn Yankees
with Ken Page, Li'l Abner with Cathy Rigby and
Fred Willard and Flora, The Red Menace with Eden
Espinosa. Special events include: Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda
starring Patti LuPone, The Last Five Years starring
Jason Robert Brown, Elegies starring Liz Callaway
and Randi Graff, Baby starring Faith Prince and
Alice Ripley, Superman starring Cheyanne Jackson
and Opposite You starring Marin Mazzie and Jason
Danieley. Additional shows include: Steve Martin's Picasso
At The Lapin Agile, The Last Night of Ballyhoo
starring Rhea Perlman, After-Play with Bea Arthur,
Forever Plaid (original cast), The Last Empress,
Nude Nude Totally Nude starring Andrea Martin,
Bermuda Avenue Triangle with Renee Taylor, Joe
Bologna and Bea Arthur, Ruthless! The Musical,
Party, bash: the latter-day plays starring Calista
Flockhart and Paul Rudd, Bill Graham Presents with Ron Silver
and War Letters with Treat Williams. Benefits:
Ruthless! The Concert starring Bernadette Peters
and Elegies...For Angels, Punks, and Raging
Queens.
Grace
Prasad is the newest addition to Broadway By the
Bay’s administrative staff. Raised in Michigan where
she studied dance, music and theater from a young age, Grace
has been working in non-profit arts organizations since
her very first job as a camp counselor at Interlochen Arts
Academy. Grace left Michigan for Chicago to complete a Bachelor’s
degree in Music Business from Elmhurst College, and then
went on to obtain a Master’s degree in Arts Management
from Columbia College. While in Chicago, Grace had the opportunity
to work for Ravinia Festival and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Since moving to northern California in 1997, Grace has worked
in operations and development for a handful of performing
arts organizations, most recently in fundraising for SFJAZZ
and the San Francisco Symphony.
Erica
Wyman brings with her a vast knowledge of theatre
as well as a long and distinguished stage career to Broadway
By the Bay. After growing up in Michigan and attending the
University of Toledo, she began her career at The Croswell
Opera House in Adrian, MI (the second oldest running theatre
in the country). Erica landed in San Francisco in 1990 where
she spent over a decade wearing big hats and creating some
very attention grabbing characters in Steve Silver's Beach
Blanket Babylon. After leaving BBB in 2000, she spent
four years as co-owner of a talent agency, Show Off Talent,
Inc., as well as teaching and directing children's theatre
throughout the Bay Area. She has performed on stage for
well over 25 years, most recently as Sally Bowles in Broadway
By the Bay's Cabaret, Flaemmschen in Grand Hotel
and Sister Robert Anne in Nunsense. Erica comes
to Broadway By the Bay after 2 years as the Children's Conservatory
Director for Foster City's Hillbarn Theatre, where she directed
Once upon a Mattress, The Pajama Game and most
recently the main stage production of BIG, The
Musical.
Marc
Jacobs trained at the London Academy of Music and
Dramatic Art, and, after graduation, directed the Journeyman
program and the New Plays Series for the American Shakespeare
Festival. In television he co-starred with Robert Loggia
in the docudrama "The People vs. Inez Garcia" and
spent two years in a recurring role on the soap opera "Days
of Our Lives." He has directed plays, musicals, concerts
and operas for the Magic Theatre, New York City Opera, the
Houston Opera Center, American Musical Theatre of San Jose
(AMTSJ) and Los Angeles Music Center Opera. On Broadway
he assisted Director Hal Prince on the short-lived musical
"Roza." He was Associate Artistic Director and
Director of New Works for 9 years at AMTSJ where he directed
"The Music Man," "La Cage aux Folles," "Phantom," "Singin'
in the Rain," "Joseph and the... Dream Coat," "The Sound
of Music," and "On the 20th Century." His
original show for that company's Outreach Tour, "How
to Make a Musical" received a National Endowment for
the Arts Award. Marc is Director of the Music Theatre Conservatory,
Broadway By the Bay's professional training program. He
directed our 2004 "My Fair Lady."
Berle
Davis is choreographer emeritus for Broadway By
The Bay. His work is much admired by critics, audience members
and performers. Over the years Berle has choreographed over
150 shows in the Bay Area and has trained many Broadway
and National Touring company performers. He has been nominated
numerous times for Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Awards
for outstanding choreography, and he has won the Award on
eight different occasions. As a performer, Berle has performed
the choreography of Gower Champion (Bye Bye Birdie),
Jerome Robbins (West Side Story), Onna White (The
Music Man), Eugene Loring (Kiss Me Kate) and
Carol Haney (Flower Drum Song). Berle has also
been honored by the San Mateo County Arts Council as Outstanding
Individual Artist; he has received the Hillbarn Bravo! Award
for Outstanding Contributions to Performing Arts in the
Bay Area and the Barbara Bladen Porter Award for Achievement
in Theatre by the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. He is
the Founder and Director of Dance Arts Center in San Mateo.
Danielle
Santana recently graduated from Santa Clara University
with a B.A. in theatre arts, specializing in technical theatre.
She has worked with Broadway By the Bay on several productions
since 2002. She began with Me & My Girl and went
on to work Funny Girl, Cabaret on crew, Ragtime
and Miss Saigon as crew chief, Bye Bye Birdie
as assistant stage manager and then going on to stage manage
My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof.
She began working in the BBBay offices in Jan. 2007, while
also assistant stage managing Show Boat , Beauty
& the Beast and Ahrens & Flaherty Words & Music.
She also stage managed Annie Get Your Gun in 2007. Danielle
has been active in youth theatre in the area stage managing
for Bowditch Middle School's spring musicals, teaching elementary
school enrichment programs, and as the assistant youth conservatory
director at Hillbarn Theatre in Foster City where she was
for 2 years.
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Joe Duffy is thrilled to re-join the team
at BBBay where he serves as Box Office Manager and Administrative
Associate. Along with these duties, he also teaches in YTC.
Broadway/National Tours: PARADE - First National
Company under the direction of Harold Prince (Dance Captain/Swing),
Gypsy, Babes in Toyland, Monster in the Woods (Orig.
Cast/Kennedy Center/Televised). Off-Broadway: Choreographer-Sacramento...50
Miles! for New York's Children's Music Workshop and Assistant
Director for Amon Miyamoto on I GOT MERMAN (Off-Broadway/
American Premier). He performed in four national television
broadcasts from 1988-92 at the Kennedy Center in Washington,
D.C., as well as recording the soundtracks for these productions
with Shawnee Press/ Fred Waring. International: Grease
(Resident Dance Captain), Pablo Casals Music Festival (San
Juan/ Televised), and gala events across Europe for RTL
and RTL2 television programming. Regional: Of Thee I
Sing/ Let'Em Eat Cake and Le Rossignol with
the San Francisco Symphony and Michael Tilson Thomas, SVGMC's
Falsettoland Suite, Pippin (BATCC Award for Best
Choreography), Sweeney Todd (Dean Goodman Award),
On The Town, Gershwin! By George (World Premier),
The Philadelphia Orchestra 100th Birthday Celebration, Candide
and The Snow Queen at the Hal Prince Theatre and
11 productions for the former AMTSJ.
Kevin
Low was raised in the Bay Area and was introduced
to dance 14 years ago taking ballet and jazz at Dance Arts
Center in San Mateo. Kevin started as a volunteer usher
and Usher coordinator in 2001 and became the Broadway By
the Bay House Manager in 2002. In addition to running the
front-of-house and helping behind-the-scenes at the Theater,
Kevin assists at auditions and our YTC productions.
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