Livermore Shakes Increases Staff

Shakespeare’s Associates, producers of Livermore Shakespeare Festival at Darcie Kent Vineyards, rings in the new year by expanding their staff. Katie Anderson will serve as the Administrative Associate, while Lindsey Schmeltzer joins the team as the new Education Director. Both positions were added due to the organization’s growth and expanded programming.

Livermore native, Katie Anderson, with a background in graphic design and creative coordination, is excited to join a company “that is doing so much to build up the Livermore community.” Anderson found synergy between her personal goals of creating an inclusive community with the theatre’s mission to create community through the arts. Anderson is especially excited about the company’s mission to build a small black box theatre downtown that includes the collaboration of over a dozen diverse arts groups.

Last seen in Livermore Shakespeare’s 2016 production of The Tempest, Lindsey Schmeltzer has served as an actor, musical director, and teaching artist throughout the Bay Area. Schmeltzer settled in the Bay Area in 2014 and found a theatre home at Livermore Shakes, having performed in the summer festivals and Holiday Readings at Swirl on the Square, and taught the So Wise So Young curriculum in multiple 2nd grade Livermore classrooms. She has expertise in curriculum design and implementing state and national learning standards. As Education Director, her first task is to create new curriculum that links Shakespeare with the school district’s social emotional learning curriculum, Choose Love™, funded in part by a generous donation from Lawrence Livermore National Security.

More information on Livermore Shakespeare Festival and its programs can be found at LivermoreShakes.org or by calling (925) 443-BARD.
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