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PLEASE NOTE: 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@


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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