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STAGE DOOR CONSERVATORY
Offering after-school and summer day camps focusing on the performing arts and musical theater to children living in Berkeley, Oakland and Alameda and other East Bay communities.
WHO’S WHO
Our Staff, Board of Directors and Supporters!
STAFF
Deborah Grossman, FOUNDING GENERAL MANAGER/COUNSEL
is a graduate of Oberlin College, and studied voice and piano
at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. She has worked in musical
theater and opera as a producer, director, stage manager and
music director and pianist. She was the pianist for Stage
Door Conservatory’s production of Once Upon a Mattress,
and music director and pianist for its Into the Woods, Jr.
She also worked in a similar capacity for OnStage at the Berkeley-Richmond
Jewish Community Center, where she collaborated with Gina
Scher on Annie Get Your Gun, Once Upon a Mattress, Alice in
Concert and Really Rosie. She has produced the Christmas Revels
for California Revels, directed production for the Pocket
Opera and Livermore Valley Opera and stage managed for many
Bay Area companies, including the San Francisco Opera Center,
A.C.T. Conservatory, Lamplighters and Oakland Lyric Opera.
Debbie now lives in England with her husband and children.
Gina Scher, CO-FOUNDER/COUNSEL
graduated from Yale University with a Bachelor of Arts degree
in Women's Studies. As an active member of Yale's Children's
Theater, she performed story-telling programs, directed plays
and led many drama workshops in New Haven's public schools.
Her directing credits include Annie Get Your Gun and Really
Rosie with the Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center,
Annie with the Bay Area Educational Theater Company and Into
the Woods, Jr., The Wizard of Oz and Fiddler on the Roof,
Jr., for Stage Door Conservatory. Recently, she completed
a Master of Arts in Education and an elementary teaching credential
at Mills College. She currently teaches kindergarten in San
Francisco.
Rawna Romero, GENERAL MANAGER
accepted the offer to become General Manager of Stage Door
Conservatory in the fall of 2003. Her stepson, Dani, has been
participating in Stage Door Conservatory since he was in elementary
school and will be performing in Teens on Stage for his third
consecutive year this summer. Rawna, who also has a private
practice as a psychotherapist in San Francisco and Alameda,
brings many years of experience in arts and non-profit management
to her role as General Manager.
Simon Kaplan, CAMP DIRECTOR and DIRECTOR OF ON BROADWAY
is a graduate of Northwestern University where he received
a Bachelor of Science in Theater. Before joining Stage Door
Conservatory, Simon co-founded the Theater Workshop Program
at the Berkeley-Richmond Jewish Community Center. He co-wrote
I Got a Haggadah with the Mazel Tov Troupe. Simon has also
worked professionally as both an actor and a director. Some
of his credits include Fiddler on the Roof, Damn Yankees,
Gypsy and Emperor Norton. In 2000, Simon toured both Northern
and Southern California schools with the Traveling Lantern
Theater Company. He has directed many plays through his involvement
with Stage Door Conservatory, including: You’re a Good
Man, Charlie Brown, How to Eat Like A Child, Once Upon a Mattress,
Bye Birdie, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and
42nd Street. Simon currently teaches theater for the Berkeley
Unified School District and is an ensemble member of EastEnders,
where he is a regularly featured actor and director.
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
PRESIDENT
Cynthia Metcalfe
Theater Artist/Business Consultant
TREASURER
Gina Scher - Theater Artist, Producer and Educator
SECRETARY
Rawna Romero
Arts Manager/Nonprofit Consultant/Marriage Family Therapist
MEMBERS
Lynda Arnold - Parent of Enrollee
Stan Gurfinkel - Parent of Enrollee
Rosalind Sarah - Arts Educator
Elizabeth and Mark Sandberg - Parents of Enrollees/Academic
Counselor and Educator
Gina Scher - Theater Artist, Producer and Educator
FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS (2007)
Alameda Art Commission
The Alnas-Benson Family
Tony Anderson
The Cucarola Family
The Davis Family
The Metcalfe Family
The Million Family
Thomas Michahelles and Jane Steinberg
Charlotte Milliner
Rawna Romero
The Sandberg Family
Laura Stachel
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