Visiting Instructor. Winner of the SF Weekly's Best Acting Coach/Mentor of the Bay Area last year, veteran award-winning actor and director L. Peter Callender brings his 35 years of theater experience to Stanford University. Mr. Callender is Artistic Director of the African-American Shakespeare Company in SF (recent winner of the Paine Knickerbocker Award for outstanding contribution to Bay Area theater) and, for the past 17 years, an associate artist at California Shakespeare Theater in Berkeley, CA where he has performed in over 20 Shakespeare plays. He has taught acting Shakespeare for CalShakes and San Francisco School for the Arts. He has been private Shakespeare coach to Erica Gimpel, Michelle Pfeiffer and professional actors and students throughout the Bay Area. Mr. Callender's theater credits span coast to coast including: Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater, New York Shakespeare Festival, African-American Shakespeare Company, Cincinnati Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pennsylvania Stage Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Milwaukee Rep, Berkeley Rep, American Conservatory Theater, Aurora Theatre and Marin Theater Company. Peter is the recipient of several theater awards including the San Francisco Bay Area Critics Circle Award, several Dean Goodman Awards and SF Guardian's Goldie Award for Best Actor. http://cogentoak.wix.com/lpetercallender

Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Dance Studies and the Humanities. Rachel Carrico holds a Ph.D. in Critical Dance Studies from the University of California–Riverside and an M.A. in Performance Studies from NYU. Her research explores the aesthetic, political, and social histories of second lining, an African diaspora dance form rooted in New Orleans's black parading traditions. Carrico's scholarship has been published in TDR: The Drama Review, awarded the Society of Dance History Scholars' Selma Jeanne Cohen Award, and supported by grants from such entities as the UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellowship Program, the UC Center for New Racial Studies, and the Center for Gulf South Research at Tulane University. Also a practitioner, Carrico recently completed the Limón Institute's teacher training. In 2008, she co-founded Goat in the Road Productions in New Orleans, with whom she has directed two international artist residencies and launched Play/Write, a youth playwriting festival, in New Orleans schools. Carrico is also a contributor to New Orleans's Data News Weekly and a consultant for the forthcoming documentary film, Buckumpin', on New Orleans vernacular dance. She parades annually with the Ice Divas Social and Pleasure Club.

Visiting Instructor; Musical Theater. A Bay Area native and Stanford University graduate (1968), Robert Kelley founded TheatreWorks Silicon Valley in 1970 and has been its Artistic Director ever since. He has directed over 165 TheatreWorks productions, including many of the company's 65 world premieres. In 2012 he received the Silicon Valley Arts Council's Legacy Laureate Award, having previously won the Paine Knickerbocker Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle. He has also received eight Critics Circle Awards for Direction (most recently the 2015 Award for The Hound of the Baskervilles) and two Back Stage West Garland Awards for Outstanding Direction. A prolific director of musicals, he recently directed Stephen Sondheim’s Marry Me a Little and Sweeney Todd (TheatreWorks 20th Sondheim production). He has guest directed at California Shakespeare Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and has taught directing at Stanford.