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Rick, Dildine, Executive Director:
Rick joined SFSTL in September 2009, having most recently served as Managing Director of Chicago’s About Face Theatre, whose work has been recognized with the Pulitzer Prize and the Tony Award. For seven years he was associated with the Stephen Foster Theatre, a 50-year old outdoor theater company in Kentucky. Beginning as Production Manager and moving up to Associate Artistic Director, he was appointed Artistic Director from 2005-2008. In 2008, as the theater celebrated the half-century mark, the State Senate of Kentucky passed legislation recognizing his work with the “Official Outdoor Musical of Kentucky.” From 2006-08, Dildine was the Producer of the Brown University/Trinity Rep New Plays Festival and Playwriting Coordinator for the graduate playwriting program at Brown University, all under the leadership of Pulitzer Prize-winner Paula Vogel. Rick also spent two seasons as a member of the acting company at the Warehouse Theatre in South Carolina. He is a past recipient of the National Directing Fellowship from the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and has served on the Arts & Cultural Advisory Council for the Chicago 2016 Bid for the Olympics.
Dildine received his BA from Ouachita University, his MFA in Acting from Brown University and is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association and the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society.
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Marilyn Spirt, Director of Development & Marketing:
As Managing Director of Shakespeare Festival St. Louis from 2004-2009, Marilyn co-led the Festival with the Producing Director through 2007 and with the Artistic Director in 2009. An experienced businesswoman, arts manager, and educator, she joined the Festival in 2001 as Director of Development and Marketing. Prior to joining the Festival, Marilyn was Assistant to the Director of Edison Theatre at Washington University. Previously, she co-founded and developed an automotive parts business, which she co-ran for more than 20 years, and was business development manager of an internet start-up company. A native New Yorker, Marilyn has a B.A. from Washington University and is an experienced field archaeologist, two courses short of completing her coursework at the University of Pennsylvania towards a Ph.D. in the Archaeology of Israel. She currently serves in her third year as Chair of the Board of the New Jewish Theatre.
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Christopher Limber, Education Director:
Christopher is an award-winning playwright, director, composer and actor. His commissioned play for the Festival, Me & Richard 3, won the 2009 Kevin Kline Award for Outstanding Production for Young Audiences and was recently published by Playscripts, Inc. During a 30-year career (as a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association), Christopher has acted in over 75 professional productions and directed more than 50, including shows for The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Opera Theatre of St. Louis, The Orange Girls, The NonProphet Theater Company, Idaho Theatre for Youth and HotHouse Theatre Company. Two of his 2001 directorial projects were honored with awards: Bent at HotHouse Theatre received a St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Judy Award” for Best Drama, and 12th Night for St. Louis Shakespeare was named Best Shakespeare Production in 2001 by The Riverfront Times. SFSTL’s 2005 Education Tour production The Tempest~In a Flash! was named “Best Children’s Theatre” by The Riverfront Times and Tour productions The Tempest~In a Flash!, Much A Doo-Wop About Nothing, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream…In the Wink of an Eye! (which Christopher co-wrote and directed) all received Kevin Kline Award nominations. His scores for The Secret Garden and The Ugly Duckling have received hundreds of productions all over the world. He has provided scripts, music and lyrics for theatres internationally, including The Kennedy Center in Washington DC, and Childsplay Theatre in Phoenix, AZ.
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Robin Weatherall, Resident Composer:
Robin is from London, was educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School, Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Goldsmith’s College at the University of London. A member of the Royal Shakespeare Company for almost two decades, he worked on 189 productions including Peter Brook’s groundbreaking production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and toured extensively throughout the world. Currently Robin directs, composes and designs sound for productions both in the USA and Europe specializing in the plays of William Shakespeare. His score for the Festival’s production of The Tempest won a Kevin Kline Award in 2005; he also received nominations for 2007's production of Much Ado About Nothing and for Metamorphoses in 2006. Robin is very active in the field of education. He directs high school programs for Shakespeare Festival St Louis and teaches both music and drama at Lutheran High School North.
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