California Revels Staff, Board & VOLUNTEERS
There would be no Revels without the hard work and dedication of our Artistic and Administrative Staff, our very active Board of Directors, Advisory Council, and the many dedicated volunteers who contribute time and love, on everything from year-round Board Committees such as Marketing, to seasonally contributing in every imaginable role - from consulting to ushering! Our annual Midwinter Revels and year-round events are a magical manifestation of imaginitive work, team dedication, and fun!
Leadership Team
René Collins
Artistic Director
A native of the Bay Area, René is delighted to bring his years of experience, eclectic knowledge and love of community to his position as Artistic Director of California Revels. He believes that combining the wisdom of the past with the innovation of the present is key to creating an ever positive, progressive future. René's history with California Revels began over 36 years ago, when he first played the archetypal character of “The Fool” in our second production ever. Before then, he'd come to our stage with a background in circus, including acrobatics and clowning, with Bay Area based “Make a Circus”. This is where he first met Jeff Raz, another frequent Revels performer and script writer. Since our second Revels production, Rene has graced the Revels stage as a featured performer a number of times, most recently in 2014's “American Crossroads” and 2021's “La Siréne”. Outside of Revels, René has frequently been involved with San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, San Francisco Playhouse, and other companies. Rene's other pursuits include songwriting and performance, Capoeira, Mixed Martial Arts, and Qi Gong. You can read more about René's activities and interests more extensively on his personal website, here.
Shira Kammen
Music Director
Multi-instrumentalist and occasional vocalist Shira Kammen has spent well over half her life exploring the worlds of early and traditional music. A member for many years of the early music Ensembles Alcatraz and Project Ars Nova, and Medieval Strings, she has also worked with Sequentia, Hesperion XX, the Boston Camerata, the Balkan group Kitka, the King’s Noyse, the Newberry and Folger Consorts, the Oregon, California and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, and is the founder of Class V Music, an ensemble dedicated to providing music on river rafting trips. She has performed and taught in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, Israel, Morocco, Latvia, Russia and Japan, and on the Colorado, Rogue, Green, Grande Ronde, East Carson and Klamath Rivers. Shira continues to teach and tours extensively, sharing her expertise in the world of early music worldwide. You can learn more about Shira here.
Anne Bingham GoessAssociate Music Director & Solstice Ensemble Director
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Michele SullivanProduction Manager
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MARIJA HILLISChoreographer
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Lisa LoweExecutive Administrator
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Board of Directors
SOFIA PELLEGRINI
President
Chair: Executive, Marketing, & Events & Programs Committees
Member: Finance, Fundraising , IDEA Committees. |
Dan Gross
Treasurer, CFO
Chair: Finance Committee
Member: Executive, Personnel, and Fundraising Committees. COVID Officer |
Chas Schley
Secretary
Chair: Personnel Committee
Member: Executive, Finance, and IDEA Committees, 2022 Deputy COVID Officer |
Michael Schmid
Chair: Fundraising Committee
Member: Fundraising, Events & Programs Committees |
Chelle Persoff
Marketing Consultation
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Carolyn Thiessen
Member, Personnel Committee
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Dan Pellegrini
Member, Finance & Marketing Committees
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Commitment & Committees - Where theater begins...
Curious where theater begins? It begins with vision, resolve, and a team of people dedicated to making it happen... with organization, fundraising, and marketing! It begins with a group of stalwart team players - Board Members - and requires Commitment. Committees make Commitment real, and valuable. The Finance and Fundraising committees envision what's possible, and prepare the soil. The Marketing and Events & Programs committees plant the seeds, and water the ground with pure creativity until seeds begin to sprout! We literally lay the groundwork.... from which the flowers and fruits are harvested, to create the beautiful garden and stage that is our annual Midwinter Revels!
This whole process is informed by our Mission Statement, a beautiful philosophy that informs the Artistic Vision of each show. Other committees, such as the IDEA Committee and the Personnel Committee, help guide our best selves into kind and considerate treatment of one another, in the spirit of inclusiveness, diversity, and equity; the first with policy definition, the second with practical application.
We are always excited to welcome creative go-getters and do-ers onto our committees!
Committees currently seeking additional members are:
Marketing Committee - Art and copy-writing... the beauty of words.... and photography! Like to wheel and deal? Ad sales!
E&P (Events & Programs) Committee - Where organized creatives can direct a Revels Event with Revels talent & flair!
The IDEA Committee, which creates and drafts policies to support and enhance Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Action within our organization, will be open for new membership soon.
Board Membership Opportunities!
We are currently looking for additional Directors to join our Board! Right now, membership is open to motivated people who love the camaraderie of working together to make things happen. Matchmaker, we would love new members who know Revels, and can bring professional expertise to the table in areas such as law, finance, fundraising. We'd also love members who understand and are intrigued by the possibilities of ritual theater as a genre, are intellectually as well as emotionally engaged in the arts, are aficionados of history, culture and philosophy, and who love to talk about, plan and implement their their ideas! We welcome new members of all backgrounds, cultural, racial and economic, with intellectual, artistic, and practical spark!
Are you interested? Read California Revels' Mission Statement below, and see how it may resonate for you. If it does, click on the "Join Us!" button, and apply for Committee or Board Membership.
California Revels' Mission
California Revels seeks to create a joyful, transcendent experience of belonging and human connection through meaningful, particpatory engagement with tradition and cultural diversity, in recognition of our deep alignment with the rhythms of Nature, universally held values, and collective future.
This vision is crafted artistically, through the production of theatrical, musical, educational and social events that draw upon powerful histories, stories, rituals and traditions of diverse peoples and cultures, to reveal timeless human values and bring them into the present with renewed relevance to be shared by all.
This whole process is informed by our Mission Statement, a beautiful philosophy that informs the Artistic Vision of each show. Other committees, such as the IDEA Committee and the Personnel Committee, help guide our best selves into kind and considerate treatment of one another, in the spirit of inclusiveness, diversity, and equity; the first with policy definition, the second with practical application.
We are always excited to welcome creative go-getters and do-ers onto our committees!
Committees currently seeking additional members are:
Marketing Committee - Art and copy-writing... the beauty of words.... and photography! Like to wheel and deal? Ad sales!
E&P (Events & Programs) Committee - Where organized creatives can direct a Revels Event with Revels talent & flair!
The IDEA Committee, which creates and drafts policies to support and enhance Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Action within our organization, will be open for new membership soon.
Board Membership Opportunities!
We are currently looking for additional Directors to join our Board! Right now, membership is open to motivated people who love the camaraderie of working together to make things happen. Matchmaker, we would love new members who know Revels, and can bring professional expertise to the table in areas such as law, finance, fundraising. We'd also love members who understand and are intrigued by the possibilities of ritual theater as a genre, are intellectually as well as emotionally engaged in the arts, are aficionados of history, culture and philosophy, and who love to talk about, plan and implement their their ideas! We welcome new members of all backgrounds, cultural, racial and economic, with intellectual, artistic, and practical spark!
Are you interested? Read California Revels' Mission Statement below, and see how it may resonate for you. If it does, click on the "Join Us!" button, and apply for Committee or Board Membership.
California Revels' Mission
California Revels seeks to create a joyful, transcendent experience of belonging and human connection through meaningful, particpatory engagement with tradition and cultural diversity, in recognition of our deep alignment with the rhythms of Nature, universally held values, and collective future.
This vision is crafted artistically, through the production of theatrical, musical, educational and social events that draw upon powerful histories, stories, rituals and traditions of diverse peoples and cultures, to reveal timeless human values and bring them into the present with renewed relevance to be shared by all.
Advisory Council
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Ellin Barret
Helen Wills Brown Bone Burke Dirk Burns Malcolm Carden Gabriel Hurley |
Fred Konkel
Carl Ludewig David Metcalf Dr. Joel Parrott Marcia Vastine Dave Watt |