Barry David Horwitz has been teaching and reviewing theater for many years–as well as acting and producing plays for The Quixotic Players. He tries to link theater to political and social movements, as he did for many years in English and Drama classes at Saint Mary’s College, Univ/Calif/Berkeley, and Univ/Paris. READ MORE

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Patricia L. Morin MA, LCSW is a licensed psychotherapist in NY and CA with 30+ year experience. She has is also a licensed herbalist (American herbs), a licensed Pilot (single engine), and has published four short-story mystery collections. READ MORE

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Tyler Jeffreys, the thespian, is a Bay Area film and stage actor. Besides working with Theatrius, she instructs Fitness Classes specializing in dance, flexibility, and Pilates.  READ MORE

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Robert M. Gardner, a native of North Dakota, is trained as an archaeologist, with a life-long love of the arts. He taught for many years at at Saint Mary’s College of California, teaching courses including “Exploring Museums, and Music Around the Bay.” READ MORE

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Rosa del Duca is a writer, journalist, teacher and musician. Her work has appeared in literary magazines like Cutbank, CALYX, River Teeth, and Mission at 10th. READ MORE

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Nicholas Leither lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and teaches writing at Santa Clara University. His books include Dubliners: A Guide to the Craft of Fiction and Slant: Writing Essays You Want to Read. READ MORE

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Evelyn Arevalo is a Bay Area native, who is passionate about literature, social issues and international travel.  READ MORE

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Jennifer Ann Charron, a native of Seattle, raises cats, dogs and kids in the East Bay. A marketing director, consultant and content strategist by trade, Jennifer is first and foremost a professional story teller. READ MORE

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Cynthia Lopez acted in and directed elaborate backyard plays with her sister and childhood friends. They even charged for admission and snacks. Decades later, she still appreciates the entire theater experience. READ MORE

♦♦♦Jordan Freed is a writer and editor from Oregon who recently relocated to the Bay Area. He graduated from Willamette University with a Bachelors of Art in Performance Studies. READ MORE

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Lynne Stevens became enthralled with theater after her fourth grade teacher showed a Royal Canadian Theater production of Oedipus Rex. READ MORE

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Svea Vikander explores untold and necessary topics in print, web, and radio broadcast. She interviews artists and other cultural producers for Arts In Review (Thursdays on KALX90.7FM) and has contributed to gallery catalogues, parenting blogs, Canada’s most-visited progressive news site, and the Swedish magazine Feministisk Perspektiv. READ MORE

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Philippa Kelly is Resident Dramaturg for the California Shakespeare Theater, Resident Dramaturg for Remote Theater, and production dramaturg for many regional theaters. READ MORE

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Alex Stimmel is a Comparative Literature major at UC Berkeley and a CAL Extern at Theatrius. A native of Los Angeles, she is committed to working in entertainment and screenwriting. READ MORE

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Tom Glynn recently retired from a 30 year career in professional and academic theater. As an actor he has been a member of the company at The Guthrie Theater and The La Jolla Playhouse. READ MORE

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Amy Deng is an Electrical Engineering & Computer Science major at U.C. Berkeley and a lifelong lover of theater! She has always gone out of her way to search for theater opportunities, including teaching at Beijing Playhouse’s kids’ summer camp and joining Steppenwolf Theater’s Young Adult Council in Chicago. When Amy isn’t reading plays or watching musicals, she is writing in her journal, working on poems, and thinking about how technologies and products can change people’s lives!

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Joanne Engelhardt is a San Jose State University journalism graduate who spent about seven years working at newspapers on the San Francisco Peninsula. Later, she wrote and edited employee publications for Hewlett-Packard. She began writing theater reviews about 20 years ago, first for the now-defunct San Mateo County Times and now for both the Peninsula News/San Jose Mercury and for the Santa Cruz Sentinel.

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Jeanette Quick is an author of fiction, poetry, theater reviews, and thoughts on loose scraps of paper near her desk, and is working on her first novel. Her work has been published in many literary magazines and she is a fiction reader for The Maine Review.

Jeanette has earned residencies from Craigardan, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Art Farm, Eugene O’Neill Foundation, and Sundress Academy for the Arts and has received support from the Rona Jaffe Foundation for the Bread Loaf Writers’ Workshop.

Jeanette has a Certificate in Creative Writing from City College of San Francisco, a Bachelor of Arts from UC Berkeley, and a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center. When she isn’t writing, she is a lawyer and public policy professional, and her work advocating for under-served communities has appeared in many publications, including Fast Company, MSN, Morning Consult, Forbes, Business Insider, The Hill, and American Banker.