MIDNIGHT SHAKESPEARE TEACHING ARTISTS Kristin Clippard has worked as an actor, director, educator, playwright, dramaturg, model, voice-over actor, singer, and producer across the U.S. for the past twelve years. She graduated with a BFA in Acting from Wright State University. She has also trained with the Orlando Shakespeare Festival in Florida, the National Theatre Conservatory in Colorado, the SITI Company, and Shakespeare & Co. Some of her favorite acting credits include Moon for the Misbegotten with Hapgood Theatre, The Two Gentlemen of Verona with the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, and Anton in Show Business with the Human Race Theatre Company. Some directing credits include Driving Miss Daisy and Compleat Wrks of Wllm Shkspr (abridged) for Clear Stage Cincinnati, and Codes for The Harriet Lake New Play Festival. She has taught theatre to children, teens and adults for the California Shakespeare Theatre, Theatreworks, Marin Theatre Company, the University of Cincinnati's College Conservatory of Music Preparatory Department, the Orlando Shakespeare Festival, Tony(R) Award winning Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Cincinnati Opera, the Victoria Theatre Association and more. Kristin has taught for the Bay Area Shakespeare Camps and the Midnight Shakespeare program, and performed with Shakespeare On Tour in The Comedy of Errors. She's been with SF Shakes since 2005. Kate Jopson is elated to be joining the Midnight Shakes crew. She works throughout the Bay Area as an actor, director, playwright, teacher and model. She graduated from UC Berkeley with degrees in Anthropology and Theater. In addition to her years at UC Berkeley she studied in Egypt and traveled through Syria, Jorden, Isreal/Palestine, and Turkey in pursuit of her passion for Arabic poetry. Growing up next to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, the words of the Bard were fed to her at an early age. She began her acting career as a chorus member of A Merchant of Venice at age 7 and moved to playing Hamlet at 17. Currently, she is an associate company member of Woman's Will, the Bay Area's all-female Shakespeare company, where she played Katherine in Taming of the Shrew. As assistant director she worked on A.C.T's 2009 production of A Christmas Carol, CalShakes' production of A Midsummer Night's Dream and will be working on CalShakes' world premiere of Pastures of Heaven in June. Other acting credits include, Rosalind in As You Like It, Ariel in The Tempest, Cassius in Julius Caesar, Shayna in Goldie, Max and Milk, Hodel in Fiddler on the Roof, Alais in Lion in Winter, and Vicki/Brook in Noises Off, Erwin in Plebeians Rehearse the Uprising. Vivian Kane, a Bay Area native, is very excited to be working with SF Shakes' Midnight Shakespeare program. A veteran Shakespeare On Tour Actor (Juliet in Romeo & Juliet), she's also played Julie/Juliet/Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet(ish) (Nevada Shakespeare Company), Honey in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (SFSU), Adriana in The Comedy of Errors (Harbor Theater), Mary Warren in The Crucible (Hillbarn Theater), and Emily in Our Town (Ross Valley Players). In 2007 she graduated from San Francisco State University with a degree in Theatre and Women Studies. Clara Kamunde is delighted to be joining Midnight Shakespeare! She began acting at an early age in her native Kenya where she performed with the Kenya National Theatre. Some of the highlights of her performing experience include: hosting a children's program on Voice of Kenya Radio; a year as artist-in-the-community grantee for the Los Angeles Cultural Affairs Department (producing and performing classical voice concerts); singing back-up for a band formed by an ex-Bay City Roller at Hollywood's legendary Madame Wong's and recording a version of "O Mio Babbino Caro" for Rhino Records' Dr. Death Vol. III. She's also performed with Shakespeare on Tour in The Comedy of Errors. Clara is currently the understudy for the role of Veronica in Athol Fugard's Coming Home at Berkeley Repertory Theater. Clara would like to thank Judtih Skelton Grant for her inspiring biography of Robertson Davies (Man of Myth) which lead her back to the life of community theatre after a very long hiatus. Bill Olsonis happy to return for his fifth season with Midnight Shakes! He made his stage debut with SF Shakes in The Comedy of Errors this past summer. As a performer, he has worked with San Jose Stage where he has played Jim the Gentleman Caller in The Glass Menagerie, Bertram Cates in Inherit the Wind, and Andy in I Hate Hamlet; at 42nd Street Moon he played Dan King in Plain and Fancy, and Art O’Malley in Out of this World; at Calaveras Rep he played Lucky in Waiting for Godot, Launcelot Gobbo in The Merchant of Venice, and Elyot in Private Lives. He's also performed the Cat in the Hat for the Berkeley Playhouse Theatre production of Seussical the Musical, and Milky White the Cow for the TheatreWorks production of Into the Woods. Bill has worked extensively with Lunatique Fantastique, the Bay Area’s premier puppetry troupe, including the London premiere of Objects and Predicaments, the remount of Snake in the Basement in Texas, and the performance of the pastoral in Pique Dame for the San Francisco Opera. This Spring, he's directing the Pleasanton Civic Arts Stage Company production of Treasure Island. Bill is also a professional juggler and a certified teacher of the Alexander Technique. g. randall wright, hails from new mexico via new york. After attaining his BFA in Arts Administration from Long Island University, he spent years producing and managing classical and jazz music concerts, and cultural festivals. After some years in Taiwan, he recieved a double black belt in kung-fu, and a certificate from Stanford University's Chinese language program. Upon his relocation to the SF Bay Area, he accidentally joined the circus, and after some acrobatics & clown training, he accidentally joined the theatre. He has appeared as an actor, clown, dancer, and musician and with the like of: Oakland Opera, North Bay Shakespeare, S.F. Shakespeare Festival, African American Shakes, Ross Valley Players, AE of Berkeley, Coastal Repertory: rock band Think 13, his own band, Mary's Dream, and has toured and performed in China, Taiwan, Thailand and India.