Staff Emails are all @bbbay.org

BROOKE KNIGHT
Artistic Director
(650) 579-5565 x 211
Email Brooke

JIM GARDIA
Executive Director
(650) 579-5595
Email Jim

JANINE PAVER
Development Director
(650) 579-5565 x 205
Email Janine

ERICA WYMAN
Education & Outreach Director,
(650) 579-5565 x 207
Email Erica

MARC JACOBS
Advanced Training Program
Email Marc

BERLE DAVIS
Resident Choreographer
Email Berle

DANIELLE SANTANA
Operations Manager
(650) 579-5565 x 208
Email Danielle

SUSIE LICKO
Marketing & Communications Manager
(650) 579-5565 x 212
Email Susie

TONY ZELAYA
Box Office Manager
(650) 579-5565 x 202
Email Tony

JENI GALLI
Patron & Donor Sevices Associate
(650) 579-5565 x203
Email Jeni

MEL FREAR
Bookkeeper
(650) 579-5565 x 206
Email Mel

CHRISTIE PUIELLO
Box Office & Administrative Assistant
(650) 579-5565 x 210
Email Christie

CARLA BEFERA
Public Relations
www.CB-PR.com
carlab@cb-pr.com

DEBORAH LEHMAN
Web and Marketing Design
www.hopping.com
deborah@hopping.com

KEVIN LOW
House Manager
Email Kevin

Brooke Knight is in her sixteenth year as Broadway By the Bay's Artistic Director. In addition to overseeing the artistic integrity and quality of Broadway By the Bay's shows and planning the theatrical season, Brooke normally directs one production per year. In Brooke's tenure as Artistic Director of BBBay, the company has received innumerable nominations and awards from the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Awards. Brooke's own directorial talents have earned nominations from the BATCC for her productions of 42nd Street, Sweet Charity, Jesus Christ Superstar and Camelot. Brooke's production of Guys and Dolls won five Bay Area Critics Awards, including 'Best Direction' and 'Best Entire Production.' Her association with BBBay started in 1989 when she directed our critically acclaimed production of the musical Company. In 2000 Brooke Knight was the recipient of the Bravo! award that is presented annually to an outstanding contributor to the performing arts. Brooke and her 'Forever Star' husband, the late Allen Knight, have been educators, counselors and inspiration to thousands of Bay Area students.

Jim Gardia comes to Broadway By the Bay from Los Angeles where he served as Producing Director for Reprise Theatre Company with productions of Follies with Patty Duke, Vikki Carr and Donna McKechnie, Anything Goes, (2003 Ovation Award for Best Musical) with Rachel York and Brent Barrett, On the Twentieth Century with Carolee Carmello, She Loves Me with Rebecca Luker, Babes in Arms with Joey McIntyre, Kismet with Len Cariou and Anthony Crivello, Company with Chris Sieber and Judith Light, Brigadoon with Marin Mazzie, Jason Danieley and Orson Bean, Pippin with Sam Harris, Applause with Sheryl Lee Ralph, On The Town with Harriet Harris, City of Angels with Stephen Bogardus and Vicki Lewis, Zorba with Marc Kudisch and Judy Kaye, My One and Only with Rachel York and Betty Garrett, Sunday in the Park with George with Kelli O'Hara, Manoel Felciano and Nancy Dussault, No Strings with Scott Bakula, On Your Toes with Stefanie Powers, Damn Yankees with Ken Page, Li'l Abner with Cathy Rigby and Fred Willard and Flora, The Red Menace with Eden Espinosa. Special events include: Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda starring Patti LuPone, The Last Five Years starring Jason Robert Brown, Elegies starring Liz Callaway and Randi Graff, Baby starring Faith Prince and Alice Ripley, Superman starring Cheyanne Jackson and Opposite You starring Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley. Additional shows include: Steve Martin's Picasso At The Lapin Agile, The Last Night of Ballyhoo starring Rhea Perlman, After-Play with Bea Arthur, Forever Plaid (original cast), The Last Empress, Nude Nude Totally Nude starring Andrea Martin, Bermuda Avenue Triangle with Renee Taylor, Joe Bologna and Bea Arthur, Ruthless! The Musical, Party, bash: the latter-day plays starring Calista Flockhart and Paul Rudd, Bill Graham Presents with Ron Silver and War Letters with Treat Williams. Benefits: Ruthless! The Concert starring Bernadette Peters and Elegies...For Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens.

Janine Paver was born and raised in Los Angeles and worked in film production before getting her B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley. In pursuing her Master's thesis in American Studies from the University of Maryland, Janine focused on film and culture and published a book titled, Femmes Fatales: Resistance, Power, And Postfeminism. Janine brings her extensive non-profit experience both as a fundraiser for the Washington D.C.-based Meridian International Center and as the assistant grants administrator at the Bay Area-based Compton Foundation to her work as Development Director for BBBay.

Erica Wyman brings with her a vast knowledge of theatre as well as a long and distinguished stage career to Broadway By the Bay. After growing up in Michigan and attending the University of Toledo, she began her career at The Croswell Opera House in Adrian, MI (the second oldest running theatre in the country). Erica landed in San Francisco in 1990 where she spent over a decade wearing big hats and creating some very attention grabbing characters in Steve Silver's Beach Blanket Babylon. After leaving BBB in 2000, she spent four years as co-owner of a talent agency, Show Off Talent, Inc., as well as teaching and directing children's theatre throughout the Bay Area. She has performed on stage for well over 25 years, most recently as Sally Bowles in Broadway By the Bay's Cabaret, Flaemmschen in Grand Hotel and Sister Robert Anne in Nunsense. Erica comes to Broadway By the Bay after 2 years as the Children's Conservatory Director for Foster City's Hillbarn Theatre, where she directed Once upon a Mattress, The Pajama Game and most recently the main stage production of BIG, The Musical.

Marc Jacobs trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, and, after graduation, directed the Journeyman program and the New Plays Series for the American Shakespeare Festival. In television he co-starred with Robert Loggia in the docudrama "The People vs. Inez Garcia" and spent two years in a recurring role on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives." He has directed plays, musicals, concerts and operas for the Magic Theatre, New York City Opera, the Houston Opera Center, American Musical Theatre of San Jose (AMTSJ) and Los Angeles Music Center Opera. On Broadway he assisted Director Hal Prince on the short-lived musical "Roza." He was Associate Artistic Director and Director of New Works for 9 years at AMTSJ where he directed "The Music Man," "La Cage aux Folles," "Phantom," "Singin' in the Rain," "Joseph and the... Dream Coat," "The Sound of Music," and "On the 20th Century." His original show for that company's Outreach Tour, "How to Make a Musical" received a National Endowment for the Arts Award. Marc is Director of the Music Theatre Conservatory, Broadway By the Bay's professional training program. He directed our 2004 "My Fair Lady."

Berle Davis is choreographer for Broadway By The Bay. His work is much admired by critics, audience members and performers. Over the years Berle has choreographed over 150 shows in the Bay Area and has trained many Broadway and National Touring company performers. He has been nominated numerous times for Bay Area Theatre Critics' Circle Awards for outstanding choreography, and he has won the Award on eight different occasions. As a performer, Berle has performed the choreography of Gower Champion (Bye Bye Birdie), Jerome Robbins (West Side Story), Onna White (The Music Man), Eugene Loring (Kiss Me Kate) and Carol Haney (Flower Drum Song). Berle has also been honored by the San Mateo County Arts Council as Outstanding Individual Artist; he has received the Hillbarn Bravo! Award for Outstanding Contributions to Performing Arts in the Bay Area and the Barbara Bladen Porter Award for Achievement in Theatre by the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle. He is the Founder and Director of Dance Arts Center in San Mateo.

Danielle Santana recently graduated from Santa Clara University with a B.A. in theatre arts, specializing in technical theatre. She has worked with Broadway By the Bay on several productions since 2002. She began with Me & My Girl and went on to work Funny Girl, Cabaret on crew, Ragtime and Miss Saigon as crew chief, Bye Bye Birdie as assistant stage manager and then going on to stage manage My Fair Lady and Fiddler on the Roof. She began working in the BBBay offices in Jan. 2007, while also assistant stage managing Show Boat , Beauty & the Beast and Ahrens & Flaherty Words & Music. She also stage managed Annie Get Your Gun in 2007. Danielle has been active in youth theatre in the area stage managing for Bowditch Middle School's spring musicals, teaching elementary school enrichment programs, and as the assistant youth conservatory director at Hillbarn Theatre in Foster City where she was for 2 years.

Susie Licko is a native of Redwood City, and received her undergraduate degree in Marketing from Notre Dame De Namur in Belmont. As a marketing communications professional, Susie brings her eye for brand identity and marketing savvy to her role as Marketing & Communications Manager, along with her enthusiasm for theatre and non-profit volunteer experience with a local children's theater organization.

Tony Zelaya has been with Broadway By the Bay since it was known as Peninsula Civic Light Opera, some sixteen years now. He began volunteering as an usher then became the concessions coordinator. After 34 years of working as a mail carrier for the US Postal Service Tony became the Box Office Assistant. Tony held that position for over a year and in 2003 was promoted to Box Office Manager.

Jeni Galli joins Broadway By the Bay after a three-year stint in Los Angeles, where she completed her Bachelor of Arts degree at California State University Fullerton in Theatre with an emphasis in Theatre Management and Acting. Along the way; she spent time in all areas of production (also as a dialect coach), catering, assisting a professor in writing a book on Shakespeare Festivals in America, multi-media/merchandising at Border's Books & Music, and just recently left a fabulous group of 65 billboard crewmen at Clear Channel Outdoor, as their production coordinator, for this wonderful opportunity. An avid sushi enthusiast, Jeni grew up in Pacifica and currently lives in Foster City with her loving fiance and their chinchilla, Puck.

Mel Frear graduated from Washington State University, then went on to work in construction and manufacturing companies' accounting departments. She brings her expertise to BBBay after 20 years as Controller for the San Francisco 49ers.

Christie Puiello is a native of San Mateo, Christie has been involved with BBBay for several years. Ms. Puiello is a recent Cum Laude graduate of San Francisco State University, where she received a B.A. in Theatre Arts with a Performance emphasis. Christie also holds an A.A. degree in Liberal Studies from College of San Mateo. During her time with BBBay she has also worked in the office & backstage, as well as singing with the orchestra!

Kevin Low was raised in the Bay Area and was introduced to dance 14 years ago taking ballet and jazz at Dance Arts Center in San Mateo. Kevin started as a volunteer usher and Usher coordinator in 2001 and became the Broadway By the Bay House Manager in 2002. In addition to running the front-of-house and helping behind-the-scenes at the Theater, Kevin assists at auditions and our YTC productions.