Festival Management

21st season as producing artistic director of Idaho Shakespeare Festival.  He is also producing artistic director of Great Lakes Theater Festival (GLTF) in Cleveland, Ohio, and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival (LTSF) in Nevada.  This season he will direct Romeo and Juliet for ISF and The Two Gentlemen of Verona for LTSF.  In prior seasons he has directed Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, All's Well That Ends Well, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry the Fourth Part One, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet, and As You Like It.  His work outside the Shakespearean canon includes, Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Molière’s Tartuffe, Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers, Nöel Coward’s Private Lives and Hay Fever, George Bernard Shaw’s Arms and the Man, Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) by Adam Long, Daniel Singer and Jess Winfield. In addition to his work on the Festival stage, Charlie has adapted and directed twelve tours of Shakespearience as part of the Festival’s educational outreach program. 
Prior to joining ISF, he held the position of artistic director at the Sierra Repertory Theatre in California. He also has worked with such companies as The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, the Milwaukee and Missouri Repertory Theaters, Actors Theatre of Phoenix, and the Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. 
Idaho Shakespeare Festival has garnered significant awards under Mr. Fee’s artistic leadership, including the 1995 Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts; the 1996 and 2006 FUNDSY awards; and the 2000 Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts. In 2001, Charles was honored for his work as a director with the Mayor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts.  
Charles is active within the community where he served as a member of the strategic planning committee for the Morrison Center, as producer of the FUNDSY Award Gala (‘96, ‘98 and 2000), and as producer of the 1996 Governor’s Awards in the Arts. Charles has served on the board of the Boise Metro Chamber of Commerce and as a member of the Downtown Rotary Club and as a special lecturer at Boise State University. He received his BA from the University of the Pacific, and Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, San Diego. 
Charlie’s peripatetic life style is only possible because of the love and support of his wife Lidia and 17-year-old daughter, Alexa! Hide «

In his twentieth year with the Festival, Mark and his wife Lynn continue to cherish Idaho’s proud, neighborly and generous way of life. Mark started his career as an actor, director and dramaturg. During ten years at The Old Globe in San Diego, he worked with artistic director Jack O’Brien, founding director Craig Noel, and producing director Tom Hall, becoming the Globe’s literary manager. He also produced the Globe’s play discovery programs, held a board position with San Diego Performing Arts League, and edited his mentor Alan Schneider’s memoir Entrances.
Joining longtime colleague Charles Fee in Idaho, Mark helped lead efforts to secure and maintain a permanent home for the Festival and its production shops. Mark serves as liaison to the Idaho Foundation for Parks & Lands and the Idaho Department of Parks & Recreation, whose partnership led to construction of the Festival’s 12-acre Amphitheater and Reserve. The Festival’s regional audience now includes 50,000 students K-12 served by two nationally recognized school tours; high school apprentice and community access programs; and a School of Theater originally made possible by a debt elimination campaign and merger with Idaho Theater for Youth.
In community service, Mark collaborated on forming the Friends of Barber Pool Conservation Area, served on the board of the Shakespeare Theatre Association, addressed national conferences for the Institute of Outdoor Drama (receiving the Mark R. Sumner Award), and filled a presidential appointment to the board of the National Endowment for the Arts (receiving the Chairman’s Medal for distinguished service). Mark serves on the boards of the Boise Convention and Visitors Bureau and the National Assembly of States Arts Agencies, chairs the Idaho Commission on the Arts, holds degrees from Princeton and the University of California, San Diego, and this spring received the University of Idaho President’s Medallion for service to the State of Idaho. Hide «

Sara has been a resident actor at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival for fifteen years and at Great Lakes Theater for eight years.  She serves as Artistic Associate for Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Great Lakes Theater and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Directing: A Christmas Carol (GLT), Macbeth, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Tomas and The Library Lady (ISF Educational Outreach), The Ghost Sonata (Drop Dance Collective). Roles include: Kate The Taming of the Shrew, Frau Kost Cabaret, Viola Twelfth Night, Percy The Spitfire Grill, Drood The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Helena All’s Well that Ends Well, Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Witch Macbeth, Ariel The Tempest, Audrey Little Shop of Horrors, Masha The Seagull, Abigail The Crucible, Ophelia Hamlet, Juliet Romeo and Juliet, and Julia The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Film: Refugee City, Most Funniest and Tatoo, A Love Story Television: MDs dir. Michael Hoffman. Sara studied at Shakespeare and Company in Lenox, MA and holds a bachelor’s degree in Theater Arts from Boise State University.
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This is Kymm’s ninth season at the festival, and her third season as an Assistant Box Officer Manager (off and on). Since entering "adulthood," she has been everything from an actress to a camp counselor to a library assistant to a writer (and so much more in between!), from which she holds many crazy stories. After several stints as a professional gypsy, she now resides in Boise with her musician boyfriend and long-haired doxie, and dreams of the day she will get paid to travel the world, eat massive amounts of food and make people laugh hysterically. Until then, she thoroughly enjoys entertaining her extended family each summer at the Festival and making sure each and every patron has a fantastic theater experience. Kymm believes pizza is truly Earth's greatest invention.
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Jessamine, in her third year as an administrator at Idaho Shakespeare Festival, is enjoying her new position in grant writing and development. She first worked for ISF from 1997 to 2001 as a dresser and costume supervisor. In the intervening years she studied, worked, and lived in many locations from Waterville, Maine, to Siena, Italy, to New York, New York, to, happily, Boise, Idaho. She has kept busy throughout the year remodeling and painting her house (nearly all rooms in shades of pink and purple), annoying her neighbors by killing her lawn (though she promises that once the landscaping plants come in it will be beautiful), and studying for her master’s in Public Administration (which at this rate will take about 12 years). She will miss Sweet Pea her darling puppy of 17 years who left this world in March. Jessamine received her BA in Political Science in 2009 from Columbia University in the City of New York.
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This is the fifth season Renee will serve as Director of Education for the Idaho Shakespeare Festival.  She feels incredibly blessed to have one of the coolest jobs imaginable.  Renee oversees all of the educational programming that happens at the Festival, including getting to direct the Idaho Theater for Youth touring productions, mentoring over 25 teaching artists for the School of Theater and Camp Shakespeare, and heading up the Festival’s treasured Apprentice Company. So, she proudly feels responsible for many smiles on student faces across Idaho. Previously, Renee served as the Theater and Arts Education Director for an inner city Chicago public school. While there, she mentored a staff of 14 teachers and worked with over 200 inner city youth expanding their literacy through theater and the arts. In The Windy City, she also worked with Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Children’s Theatre and Another Chicago Theatre Company (ACTC) as an actor and a teacher. Renee also has worked with Seattle Children’s Theatre, Company of Fools (Hailey, ID), Boise Contemporary Theater and Alley Repertory Theatre as an actor and as a teacher. In addition to her work with ISF, she currently teaches musical theater classes at two Montessori schools and oversees the International Baccalaureate Theatre Arts Program at Riverstone International School. Renee holds a BA in theater arts from Willamette University. She has a big sloppy crush on Idaho and is proud to be running, hiking, and skiing in its beautiful outdoors. This summer, in the time spent outside of ISF, Renee will be in desperate pursuit of baking the perfect cupcake, climbing mountains with her hunky fiancé, crafting oodles of DIY projects for their wedding, sharing giggles with her two favorite “Petes” (Peteypants and Peteyfurrylegs), and gazing at the stars of hope.
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Sherrill is enjoying her sixteenth (!) season at the Festival, continuing her very successful mission to make ISF the most well-managed theater in the nation. Sherrill is a Bostonian who spent 18 years in California as an arts administrator, managing an Asian museum and a botanic garden, as well as cultural festivals. Her first position in Boise was with the Anne Frank Human Rights Center. Sherrill’s husband, Mark Hill, is corporate chef in Marketing and R&D with the JR Simplot Company. Son Jacob graduated, this year, as a Vandal with dramatic talents of his own. Sherrill earned her MBA from the University of California, Los Angeles, specializing in arts management.  She is a former TWIN “Women in Industry” honoree and is proud to have recently served as president of Congregation Ahavath Beth Israel, the oldest active synagogue west of the Mississippi.
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This is Debbie’s first year working with the festival. She retired in 2007 after 33 years working for Farm Credit Services doing farm loans. After retiring she was Executive Director for Willow Center for grieving children, and since moving to Boise in 2009 she has been working on getting a similar program started in the Treasure Valley.  She has also worked part time as an Event Coordinator for the Foster Grandparent/Senior Companion programs since 2009.  There is some theater in her family as her two nieces in Seattle have been in theater since they were little girls and now as adults sing and write their own music, with both of them currently working on albums.  Debbie enjoys volunteering, walking on the greenbelt, reading and spending time with her daughter that lives in Boise.
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This is Aaron’s eleventh season with the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Aaron graduated from Boise State University in 2000 with a BA in English Literature, and a minor in Philosophy. Despite rumors to the contrary, Aaron is not actually a British citizen, and is definitely not an undercover operative for MI-6. Aaron has not been involved in clandestine operations against criminal organizations involved in the illegal smuggling of Easter Island monumental statuary, and most positively cannot be seen in leaked photographs documenting raids on various centers of the smugglers’ operation. Aaron’s wife Mika certainly isn’t a representative of the Japanese government that Aaron met on a joint British/Japenese operation, and their son Michael definitely does not provide tech support services for their clandestine operations. Nowadays, Aaron certainly is not currently working undercover at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival as he pursues his arch nemesis El Gato Macho Hombre.
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This is Cassie’s first season with Idaho Shakespeare Festival and she is over the moon to be here!  She recently moved from Los Angeles to Boise and is very happy to be a new resident in the City of Trees!  Cassie was born and raised in Lexington, Kentucky and received her BA in Theatre from the University of Kentucky.  After graduating, she then moved to Dublin, Ireland in search of her Irish roots and further theater education. Cassie’s long time passion for the arts include acting, ballet, playing the harp and she recently started painting!  She lives in Boise with her spouse, Ryan, and their adorable cat, Monsieur Pierre de L’Orange de Boise. 
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This is Kiely’s eighth season with the Festival, and her second season as Company Manager.  In past years Kiely has had the pleasure to serve as house manager, assistant stage manager, and production assistant for both ISF and Boise Contemporary Theater.  She also spent two seasons as production assistant with Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, OH.  Kiely holds a BA in English from Boise State University.  Kiely enjoys riding her bike, working in her garden, and cheering (praying) for the Cavaliers.  Kiely is especially grateful for the invention of American football, for her weird and hilarious family, and for Ginnie.  Her favorite things include, but are not limited to, lilacs, drinking fountains, chickens, avocados, and wearing her seatbelt.  She would like to send a special thanks to Jenna and the animals for keeping things darling and exciting around the house (Nimirum, JP).  Kiely is pleased to work with such smart, entertaining people here at ISF and looks forward to a new season!       
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Hannah stepped into her favorite role with ISF after four years as Company Manager. Hannah started working for the Festival as a high school volunteer, since working in varied capacities for a total of seventeen seasons.  Hannah is thrilled to live in her gorgeous hometown and work for a company as remarkable as ISF.  She also has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Montana Repertory Theater, Idaho Theater for Youth, Studio Arena Theater, University of Montana, The Gesundheit! Institute, Boise Contemporary Theater, DROP Dance Collective, and is privileged to work with Balance Dance Company and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. Hannah is also a costume designer having designed for Boise State University, The College of Idaho as well as enjoying designing many productions for Boise Contemporary Theater, most recently the premiere of Lynn Allison’s Off the Record. Hannah holds a BFA in technical theater and graduated with honors from University of Montana where she received the UM Presidential Award in Technical Theater.  In 2011, Hannah was honored to be among Idaho Business Review’s Women of the Year. Hannah is incredibly delighted to be working with the exceptional sponsors of ISF and is thankful to the lovely Boise community for its unfailing support of, and enthusiasm for the arts.  Hannah sends ever grateful love to out-of-this-world friends and family.  For Dad and Femme Formidable Mom, together and separately simply the very best example(s). This summer Hannah is thrilled to debut her co-starring role in Team Us: Married with the phenomenal Kilt Guy, gardener extraordinaire and so much more, Shane Newbill.  Hide «

This is Chandra’s twelfth season with the Festival, her third as Box Office Manager.  As a founding member of the 80s hair band, Hair Band, Chandra helped pioneer the distinct sound of that decade, with the popular anthem “(Insert Current Girlfriend’s Name Here)”.  After a stint in Hair Rehab (the band formed when Hair Band broke up due to creative differences), she met her husband, Craig, and they decided to pursue a life of quiet contemplation, far away from all the masses of adoring fans, who frankly had begun to get on their nerves.  In 2003, Chandra graduated from Boise State University with a degree in Theater, Dramatic Writing Emphasis, and currently spends her free time tracking down and burning all of those old pictures of her displaying her Aquanet fetish in decades past. Hide «

This is Christine’s twelfth year with the Festival. She holds a BFA in art history from Boise State University and now has an unhealthy and often expensive obsession with Day of the Dead Mexican folk art. She and her husband, Tully live a life full of missed appointments and forgotten laundry in their North End “money-pit” with their two young children and sleepy old cat, Olive. Christine considers it her personal goal to keep the summer cherry tomato plant alive (this time) and often wonders if her house will someday collapse under the weight of all the un-used yarn, fabric, and half-read library books.
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This is Carol’s thirteenth season with Idaho Shakespeare Festival. She is a Certified Advanced Master Gardener. Carol and her husband Greg are owners of Carol’s Custom Gardens -- a small custom, personal gardening business, specializing in consultation, maintenance, installation and design, custom potting and encouraging the use of regionally appropriate plants. Carol is a Dirt Diva in good standing and holds the following licenses and affiliations: member and advisor to certification committee of the Idaho Nursery and Landscape Association, Nurseryman Licensee with the Idaho Department of Agriculture, a contributing member of the Idaho Botanical Garden and the Sawtooth Botanical Garden, founding member and board advisor of the Lunaria League chairing and serving on various committees, and member of College of Western Idaho Horticulture Technology Technical Advisory Committee.
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Mark is returning for his seventh season at Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Mark also holds the position of Technical Director at Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland Ohio and The Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. He enjoys the opportunity to explore all that is Idaho and feels privileged to be able to call Boise home 3 months a year. He earned his BA in Theater from Beloit College.
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Chris joined ISF in 2007 and celebrates his fifth season with the company. Chris is also the Production Manager of ISF’s partner companies, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare and Great Lakes Theater.  He has a long history with GLT, serving as Production Stage Manager on over twenty productions over seven seasons. Chris also served as Director of Production for Cleveland Opera for two seasons. He has toured nationally with The Acting Company’s musical productions of The Comedy of Errors and O, Pioneers, concluding with an off-Broadway run. Other New York credits include productions for Lincoln Center Institute, The American Symphony Orchestra, The Women’s Project and Mannes Opera.  Chris holds a BFA from the North Carolina School of the Arts. Hide «

Angi Grow graduated from The College of Idaho in 2006 with degrees in Art and Theater. Scenic painting started in her sophmore year of high school and continued on through college where she met Michael Hartwell who, at the time was Technical Director of the Idaho Shakespeare Festival. Angi then started her internship as a scenic artist for ISF in the summer of 2004. For the next four years, she worked her way up from Scenic Intern to Assistant to the Charge. Halfway through the summer of 2008 she had convinced the head honchos to give her a run at being the Scenic Charge Artist. Since then Angi has also become charge artist for Great Lakes Theater and the Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival. In between the big three, Angi has painted sets for Alley Rep, Hollis/Welsh, Boise Contemporary Theater, The College of Idaho, Baldwin Wallace University, Boise State University, Ballet Idaho, Opera Idaho, Idaho Theater for Youth, Shakepearience, and one really sweet dinosaur exhibit for the Western Idaho Fair. This past winter, for the first time, she designed the set for Idaho theater for Youth’s The Science of Fiction. Angi also participates in the local art scene having two Boise Weekly covers and designing the jellyfish traffic box on 6th and Main. Girl loves to paint. Hide «

Esther M. Haberlen is thrilled to return for her 7th season at Idaho Shakespeare Festival to helm its wonderfully talented Costume Shop. She has been working for ISF's sister company Great Lakes Theater since 2003 in various capacities: Dresser/ Stitcher/ Wardrobe Supervisor/ Draper and Assistant Shop Manager. She was delighted at the opportunity to join the staff of ISF in 2006 and subsequently Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival in 2010. She is a Graduate of the State University of New York- Fredonia with a BFA in Theater Production & Design. Design Credits include Opera Cleveland, The Cleveland Institute of Music, Great Lakes Theater, Cleveland Public Theater, Dobama Theater and Baldwin Wallace University. Other theater credits include Chautauqua Conservatory Theater and internships at The Pittsburgh Public Theater, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera and Syracuse Stage. Esther is a native of Syracuse, New York and now happily splits her year between Boise and Cleveland with her amazingly supportive and talented husband, Richard. Hide «

Graduate of Wittenberg University. Regional credits include; Scenic Design, Scenic Artist, Props Artist for such companies as Circle Repertory Theater (NYC), SOHO Repertory Theater (NYC), Lincoln Center Institute (NYC)(Associate Artistic Director), Cleveland Opera, Cleveland Public Theater, Cleveland Ballet, Cleveland Institute of Music, Lyric Opera Cleveland, Ensemble Theater, Dobama Theater,  Porthouse Theater, Kent State Univ., Baldwin Wallace College, Tri-C West, Berea Summer Theater. Terry also holds the position of Properties Master for Great Lakes Theater and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival.
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Paul Miller is thrilled to be back for his seventh year with ISF. In addition to working for the festival Paul has worked for Boise Contemporary Theater for four years, as well as designing lights for Eagle Performing Arts Center and Off-Center Dance Company. In the past Paul has worked for Great Lakes Theater in Cleveland, the Spoleto Festival rebuilding the Memminger theater in Charleston, SC, and Technical Theater Solutions aboard the Disney cruise ship Wonder. Paul has a BFA in Design/Technology from West Virginia University, and would like to thank his family, friends, and amazing wife Meghan for all their support.
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