
About Berkeley Rep
Berkeley Repertory Theatre has grown from a storefront stage to an international leader in innovative theatre. Known for its ambition, relevance, and excellence, as well as its adventurous audience, the nonprofit has provided a welcoming home for emerging and established artists since 1968. Over 5.5 million people have enjoyed nearly 500 shows at Berkeley Rep, which have gone on to win six Tony Awards, seven Obie Awards, nine Drama Desk Awards, one Grammy Award, one Pulitzer Prize, and many other honors. Berkeley Rep received the Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre in 1997. To formalize, enhance, and expand the processes by which Berkeley Rep makes theatre, The Ground Floor: Berkeley Rep’s Center for the Creation and Development of New Work was launched in 2012. The Berkeley Rep School of Theatre engages and educates some 20,000 people a year and helps build the audiences of tomorrow with its nationally recognized teen programs. Berkeley Rep’s bustling facilities—which also include the 400-seat Peet’s Theatre, the 600-seat Roda Theatre, and a spacious campus in West Berkeley—are helping revitalize a renowned city. Be a Rep.
Mission statement
Berkeley Rep creates ambitious theatre that entertains and challenges its audiences, provokes civic engagement, and inspires people to experience the world in new and surprising ways.
Values statement
Excellence
We believe in striving for excellence in all that we do; attracting the best artists and teachers, maintaining the highest production values, and providing education and enrichment opportunities to our community.
Relevance
We believe that the best way to entertain and challenge our audience is by developing new work and producing an eclectic repertoire of contemporary work and classics.
Diversity
We believe that theatre can advance a more diverse and inclusive future, and we endeavor to reflect that future in our arts, its creators, and our community.
Risk
We believe that producing compelling theatre requires taking risks and pushing boundaries for ourselves and our audiences.
Stewardship
We believe that creating meaningful art requires financial and institutional stability and we embrace that responsibility as stewards of the resources entrusted to us.
Johanna Pfaelzer · Artistic Director
Johanna Pfaelzer is delighted to join Berkeley Rep, and honored to serve as its fourth artistic director. She recently spent 12 years as the artistic director of New York Stage and Film (NYSAF), a New York City-based organization dedicated to the development of new works for theatre, film, and television. NYSAF is known for providing a rigorous and nurturing environment for writers, directors, and other artists to realize work that has gone on to production at the highest levels of the profession. Notable works that were developed under Johanna’s leadership include the 2016 Tony Award winners Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda, and The Humans by Stephen Karam, The Wolves by Sarah DeLappe, Junk and The Invisible Hand by Ayad Akhtar, A 24-Decade History of Popular Music by Taylor Mac, Hadestown by Anaïs Mitchell, The Homecoming Queen by Ngozi Anyanwu, The Great Leap by Lauren Yee, John Patrick Shanley’s Pulitzer- and Tony-Award-winning Doubt, The Fortress of Solitude by Michael Friedman and Itamar Moses, The Jacksonian by Beth Henley, and Green Day’s American Idiot.
Susie Medak · Managing Director
Susie Medak has served as Berkeley Rep’s managing director since 1990, leading the administration and operations of the Theatre. She has served as president of the League of Resident Theatres (LORT) and treasurer of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), organizations that represent the interests of nonprofit theatres across the nation. Susie chaired panels for the Massachusetts Arts Council and has also served on program panels for Arts Midwest, the Joyce Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Closer to home, Susie serves on the board of the Downtown Berkeley Association (DBA). She is the founding chair of the Berkeley Arts in Education Steering Committee for Berkeley Unified School District and the Berkeley Cultural Trust. Susie serves on the faculty of Yale School of Drama and is a member of the International Women’s Forum and the Mont Blanc Ladies’ Literary Guild and Trekking Society. She was awarded the 2012 Benjamin Ide Wheeler Medal by the Berkeley Community Fund and the 2017 Visionary Leadership Award by TCG. During her time in Berkeley, Susie has been instrumental in the construction of the Roda Theatre, the Nevo Education Center, the renovation of the Peet’s Theatre, and in the acquisition of the Harrison Street campus. She also worked with three consecutive mayors to help create Berkeley’s Downtown Arts District.
Theresa Von Klug · General Manager
Theresa Von Klug brings to the Theatre 20 years of experience in the New York not-for-profit performing arts sector where she has planned and executed events for dance, theatre, music, television, and film. Most recently she was the interim general manager of the Public Theater and general manager/line producer for Theatre for a New Audience, where she opened its new state-of-the-art theatre in Brooklyn, and filmed a major motion picture of the inaugural production of Julie Taymor’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, released June 2015. She has worked as a production manager at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center and New York City Center, including the famous Encores! Great American Musicals in Concert, and as a field representative/lead negotiator for Association of Theatrical Press Agents and Managers. She is a graduate of Baruch College where she received her MS in Labor Relations and Human Resources Management and Arizona State University where she earned a BA in Theatre.
Board of trustees
Gail Wagner · President
Bruce Golden · Vice President
Stewart Owen · Vice President
Felicia Woytak · Vice President
Henning Mathew · Treasurer
Leonard X Rosenberg · Secretary
Stewart Owen · Chair, Governance Committee
Kerry L. Francis · Chair, Audit Committee
Past presidents
Helen C. Barber
A. George Battle
Carole B. Berg
Robert W. Burt
Shih-Tso Chen
Narsai M. David
Thalia Dorwick, PhD
Nicholas M. Graves
Richard F. Hoskins
Jean Knox
Robert M. Oliver
Stewart Owen
Marjorie Randolph
Harlan M. Richter
Richard A. Rubin
Edwin C. Shiver
Roger A. Strauch
Martin Zankel
Founding director
Michael W. Leibert
Producing Director, 1968–83
Board members
Berit Ashla
Edward D. Baker
Erica Brown
David Cox
Anne Nemer Dhanda
Lauren Edgerton
Robin Edwards
Sandra Eggers
Chuck Fanning
Jill Fugaro
Karen M. Galatz
Steven Goldin
Scott Haber
Michael Kossman
Jonathan C. Logan
Sandra R. McCandless
Susie Medak
Juan Oldham
Sudha Pennathur
Johanna Pfaelzer
Laura Severino
Emily Shanks
Richard M. Shapiro
Roger A. Strauch
Jean Z. Strunsky
Kelli Tomlinson
Brian Watt
Steven C. Wolan
Sustaining advisors
Rena Bransten
Diana Cohen
William T. Espey
William Falik
David Fleishhacker
Paul T. Friedman
David Hoffman
Richard F. Hoskins
Helen Meyer
Dugan Moore
Peter Pervere
Marjorie Randolph
Patricia Sakai
Jack Schafer
William Schaff
Michael Steinberg
Michael S. Strunsky
Martin Zankel

Artistic
Director, The Ground Floor / Resident Dramaturg
Madeleine Oldham
Artistic Associate
Katie Craddock
Artists Under Commission
Todd Almond
Christina Anderson
Lisa Peterson
Sarah Ruhl
Tori Sampson
Joe Waechter
Production
Production Manager
Audrey Hoo
Associate Production Manager
Zoey Russo
Company Manager
Morgan Steele
Stage Operations
Stage Supervisor
Julia Englehorn
Properties
Properties Supervisor
Jillian A. Green
Associate Properties Supervisor
Amelia Burke-Holt
Properties Artisan
Dara Ly
Scene Shop
Technical Director
Jim Smith
Associate Technical Director
Matt Rohner
Shop Foreman
Sam McKnight
Draftsperson
Jamaica Montgomery-Glenn
Carpenters
Patrick Keene
Read Tuddenham
Scenic Art
Charge Scenic Artist
Lisa Lázár
Costumes
Costume Director
Maggi Yule
Resident Costume Design Associate
Cody Von Ruden
Draper
Star Rabinowitz
Wardrobe Supervisor
Barbara Blair
Electrics
Master Electrician
Frederick C. Geffken
Associate Master Electrician
Sarina Renteria
Production Electrician
Kenneth Coté
Sound & Video
Sound & Video Supervisor
Lane Elms
Associate Sound & Video Supervisor
Chase Nichter
Sound Engineers
Angela Don
Michael Kelly
Administration
Finance Director
Jared Hammond
Associate General Manager
Amanda Williams OSteen
Executive Assistant
Kate Horton
Interim Executive Assistant
Abbey Bay McSweeney
Associate Finance Director
Eric Ipsen
Payroll Administrator
Katie Riemann
CRM Project Manager
Destiny Askin
Human Resources and Diversity Manager
Modesta Tamayo
Development
Director of Development
Lynn Eve Komaromi
Associate Director of Development
Daria Hepps
Director of Individual Giving
Laura Fichtenberg
Institutional Giving Manager
Julie McCormick
Individual Giving Manager
Kelsey Scott
Marketing & Communications
Director of Marketing and Communications
Steve Tate
Senior Marketing Manager
Seth Macari
Director of Public Relations
Tim Etheridge
Communications & Digital Content Director
Karen McKevitt
Webmaster
Christina Cone
Video & Multimedia Producer
Benjamin Michel
Marketing Associate
Katherine Gunn
Front of House Director
Kelly Kelley
Subscription Manager
Laurie Barnes
Box Office Supervisor
Julie Gotsch
Box Office Agent
Oliver Kampman
Operations
Facilities Director
Mark Morrisette
Facilities Manager
Ashley Mills
Building Engineer
Thomas Tran
Building Technician
Kevin Pan
Facilities Assistants
Lemont Adams
Theresa Drumgoole
Sophie Li
Guy Nado
Jesus Rodriguez
LeRoy Thomas
Berkeley Rep School of Theatre
Director of the School of Theatre
Rachel Hull
Associate Director
MaryBeth Cavanaugh
Associate Director
Anthony Jackson
Education and Youth Programs Associate
Si Mon' Emmett
Data and Tessitura Analyst
Katie Riemann