Steve Henderson
Steve, the Hampshire Shakespeare Education Director, brings many years of teaching and theater experience to this year’s workshops. An Equity actor, and playwright with a degree from UMASS, Steve has worked with many local theaters including: The Majestic, Pioneer Valley Summer Theatre, Mount Holyoke Summer Theatre and, of course, Hampshire Shakespeare. Steve has taught comedy and beginning acting at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts School as well as numerous workshops with HSC. Presently, Steve directs senior theater groups at Loomis Village retirement community and the Agawam Senior Center.

Barry Magnani
Last season's HSC production Twelfth Night was the fourth Barry directed for the company.   Others include Midsummer Night's Dream and The Imaginary Invalid for the  HSC residency program at Northampton High School, and the HSC Young Company's  Comedy of Errors.   Other directing credits include productions at Wellfleet Harbor Actor’s Theater, the BostonTheater of the Deaf,  the Acting Company of Cape Cod, Daedelus Productions, the Harwich Winter Theater,  the Academy Playhouse in Orleans, and Comotion Theater of Lancaster Pennsylvania.    As Artist in Residence at the University of Delaware, Barry directed Marat/Sade as well as an original adaptation of Ovid's Metamorphosis.  Barry is a member of the Screen Actors Guild and Actors Equity Association.  Currently, he is working on a multi-year project at Pioneer Valley Performing Arts High School developing a Commedia dell’Arte troupe of young actors.

Sean Landers
Sean Landers, a native of Springfield, MA, is a proud graduate of Pioneer Valley Performing Arts Charter School (PVPA) in South Hadley, MA (2000), and Emerson College in Boston, MA (2004). He is a founding member of the "Atomic Powered Millionaires", a sketch comedy troupe working out of Boston. Following a year in Los Angeles working in television production, Sean returned to the Pioneer Valley. Currently, he works at his alma mater, PVPA, where he teaches improvisational acting at the middle school level, several high school film courses, and serves as an adviser to the school's sketch comedy troupe, "Headgear".

Kelly Norris
Kelly teaches theater and English at Minnechaug High School in Wilbraham and has taught theater and dance to children in the Boston area. She has performed with Hampshire Shakespeare as well as assisted with their young company and has done numerous teacher trainings with Shakespeare and Company. She loves to teach and practice improv.

Jo Ann Valle
Jo Ann is thrilled to be back with Hampshire Shakespeare working in the Williston Summer Theatre Workshops this summer. For the past two years Jo Ann has been working in the Education Program at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA, as administrator and education artist, directing in nationally recognized programs like the Fall Festival of Shakespeare and Shakespeare in the Courts as well as traveling nationwide to manage and co-lead professional development workshops for teachers. Before arriving at Shakespeare & Company, Jo Ann was a theatre and visual arts teacher and Drama Club Advisor at Frontier Regional School in South Deerfield where she directed many fabulous productions with the students and community there. She has also directed with the UMass Theatre Guild and at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, MA. Jo Ann holds a Bachelor of Arts in English from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Massachusetts State Teacher Certification in Theatre, English, and Visual Art.

Lucinda Kidder
A life-long theater artist and educator, Lucinda has directed 100+ plays and performed with small and large companies around the country and locally. She holds an MA in Theater Education from Emerson College, and an MFA in Theater from UMass where she also pursued doctoral studies in Renaissance Drama. In the course of her career she founded three theater companies and a performing arts school, and teaches and designs curriculum for all levels of theater education. She is currently Managing Director of the Renaissance Center Theater Company and Program Director for the Massachusetts Center for Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies.