Crew of Richard III

David MacDowell Blue (Editor/Director) hails from San Francisco, born Sagittarius in the Year of the Boar (which as it happens is this year as well).  Got a theatre degree from the University of West Florida, then attended the National Shakespeare Conservatory in New York.  His directing credits include Heartbreak House, The Public Eye, Dirty Linen, and numerous staged readings as well as several dance shows by Troupe Zaghareet.  Mostly he's known as a review of live theatre in Los Angeles via his blog, Night Tinted Glasses.  Richard III is his favorite Shakespeare play, and he thinks today is a particularly appropriate time to produce a show about tyranny.

George “Geo” Nikitas (Stage Manager) is a theater professional that hails from the bay area and has directed, choreographed, staged managed or performed in numerous productions up and down the west coast. Youth theater Directing/Choreography Credits: Mad Adventures of Mr. Toad, The Jungle Book, Charlotte’s Web for Theater in the Mountains, Aladdin and Treasure Island for Palo Alto Children’s Theatre, Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse at the Morgan-Wixon Theater. Favorite theater projects include directing Jekyll and Hyde and Into The Woods for Sunnyvale Players and stage managing The 1940s Radio Hour for San Jose Musical Theater and the 50th Anniversary production of Hair the musical in San Francisco for Landmark Musicals to commemorate the Summer of Love. Cheers to this cast and David for this opportunity. Please continue contributing to the vitality of our community by supporting the arts.

Michaela Slezak (Combat Choreographer) is a lover of combat and is SAFD certified in Unarmed, Rapier and Dagger, and Broadsword stage fighting. She has choreographed combat for projects including ZJU’s original Western West Destiny and the Nightpantz sketch group’s Warriors-inspired piece Paint Night. She is also a lifelong actor, performing youth theatre in Phoenix before getting her BFA at AMDA and going on to act in venues including ZJU, Skylight Theatre, and Rogue Machine.

Omen Kaine (Producer) From childhood’s hour I have not been 

As others were—I have not seen 

As others saw—I could not bring 

My passions from a coMmon spring— 

From the same source I have not taken 

My sorrow—I could not awaken 

My heart to joy at the same tone— 

And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— 

Then—in my childhood—in the dawn 

Of a most stormy life—was drAwn 

From ev’ry depth of good and ill 

The mystery which binds me still— 

From the torrent, or the fountain— 

From the reD cliff of the mountain— 

From the sun that ’round me roll’d 

In its autumn tint of gold— 

From the lightning in the sky 

As it paSs’d me flying by— 

From the thunder, and the storm— 

And the cloud that took the form 

(When the rest of Heaven was blue) 

Of a demon in my view—