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Executive Board Gary
Schaub, vice president-development and immediate past president Jack De Rieux, Vice President - Education; a resident of Concord and retired director of drama at Northgate High School. He is a graduate of San Francisco State University, where he majored in theater arts. One of his top goals: Helping further the recognition and appreciation of America's greatest playwright, Eugene O'Neill. Susan Jackson, Vice President-Programs is a theatre arts instructor at City College of San Francisco and a Bay Area actress. She has performed leading roles in plays that include “Wit,” “Three Tall Women,” and “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” She performed scenes from “Mourning Becomes Electra” for the Eugene O’Neill Foundation at Tao House. She has also directed over 60 plays. She teaches acting, directing, improvisation and playwrighting. Ginny
Iverson, Treasurer Carole
Wynstra, Secretary;
Director and former Trustee Chair, Diablo Regional Arts Association;
member, Junior League of Oakland-East Bay; past member, Walnut Creek
Arts Commission; former board member, American Cancer Society; board
member, Diablo Light Opera Company. Board of DirectorsThe Foundation is governed by a Board of Directors (at least 12, not more than 24) who serve three-year terms. Members of the Executive Committee are also members of the board. Willard Carmel, sculptor; owner, Danville Mobile Vacuum; former instructor, Humboldt State and Southern Illinois Universities; former member, Board of North Coast Arts Group, Humboldt County; designed first Tao House Award, 1989. Dan Cawthon Gary DeAtley, President and chief operating officer of California Sun Dry Foods in Danville; Mr. DeAtley has been active the Museum of the San Ramon Valley, and Role Players Ensemble and is a former chair of the Danville Heritage Resource Commission and the Danville Area Chamber of Commerce Government Affairs Committee. He has received the San Ramon Valley Times “Citizen of the Year” award as well as the Valley Herald “Businessman of the Year” recognition for his leadership role in the restoration of the Southern Pacific Depot in Danville and the passage of Danville’s nationally recognized Historical Preservation Ordinance. Eric Fraisher Hayes, a resident of Danville, is a member of Actors’ Equity, the labor union representing American actors and stage managers in the theatre. He is employed at Solano College, where he works with the youth theatre program. He works with the California Shakespeare Festival and its intermediate and high school teachers’ program. Hayes also is involved with the New Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, where he teaches workshops for teens in acting, filmmaking and summer stock. Mary Greco received her B.A. in English from Holy Names University in 1965 and also a Masters degree in Education in 1983. She recently retired from the San Ramon Unified School District where she was active on many district committees and attended summer programs for teaching the gifted at the University of Connecticut and also attended sessions at Columbia University focusing on teaching literature and writing to elementary students. She was a mentor teacher for beginning teachers for several years and spent the last three years teaching special education students. Raised in Alamo, she and her husband Guy have lived in the valley for almost 35 years. They are also active in the community through Rotary and the Danville Chamber of Commerce. They have two married daughters who live in the area and have five grandchildren who attend local schools. Eileen Herrmann-Miller, instructor of literature and writing at Dominican University, San Rafael, CA since 2000. Prior, she was twice a Fulbright recipient, residing in Germany. She has lectured at the Universities of Santa Cruz and Davis, from where she obtained her doctorate in 1998. Her dissertation, "O'Neill the Misprized Modernist," forges a direct link between O'Neill's brand of Modernism with that of other great Modernist writers of his age--e.g., Pound, Eliot, Joyce. She is the author of several articles on O'Neill, as well as on other dramatists. She is currently researching the relationship of Metaphor to Modern American Dramatists. Merilyn Milam, retired from the Mt. Diablo School District where she headed all the GATE programs. Past president of the Danville/Alamo branch of the AAUW and past president of the Panhellenic Council. She has her teaching credential from Cal State Hayward and a Masters in Educational Leadership from St. Mary’s. Claudia Nemir Vickie Sciacca has been with Contra Costa County Library at the Danville branch since May 2007 and serves as the adult/teen services librarian. She grew up in Danville and in 1977 moved to the New York Metropolitan area where she lived for 25 years. She has been in the library field since 1986 when she received her Master of Library Science degree from Columbia University. She returned to Danville with her family in 2002. She is involved in various committee positions with the county library system, including programming chair for the Reading Festival 2009, and reading and literacy. She is also serving on a task team to explore extensive services and programs to senior citizens and persons with disabilities within the county. Robert J. Sehr, Jr., Walnut Creek attorney, specializing in tax, business and estate planning. He is experienced in the related fields of business transfers, mergers and reorganization, probate and real estate law. He is a graduate of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he majored in economics. He later enrolled in the Yale Law School. His professional activities have included membership in the Mt. Diablo Estate Planning Council (former President), associate membership in the Mt. Diablo Association of Life Underwriters and membership in the International Association for Financial Planning. He is an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University where he has taught Corporate Taxation and Financial Planning for Closely-Held Businesses, and at John F. Kennedy University where he has taught income taxation. In addition, he has taught advanced Estate Planning for The American College. Peggy Sheehan works in commercial property management in San Francisco. She is involved in city and national efforts to reduce the environmental impact of office buildings. Peggy is also a writer and has contributed to the San Francisco Chronicle, Diablo Magazine and other publications. Peggy has a BA in English Literature from St. Mary's. Robin Taylor is an award-winning actor, singer, director, choreographer and teacher. In addition to previous works at the O’Neill Foundation, he has staged for San Diego Rep, Shakespeare in the Streets (Minneapolis), Musicals with Heart (SF) and the Fairbanks (AK) Arts Festival. He has won Bay Area Critics’ Awards, Dramalogue, and Dean Goodman Awards for the title role in “Where’s Charley?” with the Lamplighters, entire ensemble for “Man of La Mancha” with The Willows, “Man 1” in “And the World Goes ‘Round” and “New Wrinkles” with Playhouse West, and “The Cat” in “Honk!” with the Diablo Theatre Company. He wrote and staged nine musicals for his own company, The Musical Theatre Wagon in Minneapolis. He trained at the Juilliard School in New York and for four summer intensive workshops with the late Richard Miller of Oberlin.
Honorary Board of Directors
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| Linda Best Mary Camezon Wendy Cooper Carol Lea Jones J.R.K. Kantor Beverly Lane (chair) Florence McAuley Diane Schinnerer Carol Sherrill Brian Thiessen |
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Honorary Members
Kaye Albertoni
Stephen A. Black
Arvin Brown
Ric Burns
Zoe Caldwell
Kiera Chaplin
Brian Dennehy
Arthur Gelb
Barbara Gelb
Edward Hastings
Glenda Jackson
Paul Libin
Theodore Mann
Lois Robards
Kevin Spacey
Gerald Eugene Stram
Liv Ullman
Max von Sydow
Jane Caldwell Washburn
George C. White
