Ian is the founder of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and has directed over 120 professional productions over his thirty years in the profession including CSC productions of Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, and King Lear among others. Ian has been Artistic Director of The Repertory Theater of America, the National Theatre for Children and the Minnesota Shakespeare in the Park. Ian is a recipient of the Telly, Helen Hayes and Howie Awards. Ian lives in Columbia.
Lesley is former managing director and current Trustee of the Lark Play Development Center in New York, a 2009 graduate of Leadership Howard County and Vice President of the international Shakespeare Theatre Association.  Training: BA, theatre, Washington University, Michael Howard Studios, NY, Actors Movement Studios, NY, Patsy Rodenburg, author of Speaking Shakespeare. She has performed roles in numerous CSC productions including Beatrice in Much Ado, Lady Macbeth, Alithea in The Country Wife, Titania, and Goneril. Lesley resides in Baltimore.
Jenny is a past President of the Howard County Arts Council and has been active in the Howard County Arts Community for almost two decades. She is one of CSC's artist/managers and has performed in CSC’s Hamlet, Lysistrata, The Tempest, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, As You Like It, Henry V, King Lear, Taming of the Shrew, and Coriolanus; she directed CSC’s 2009 production of Twefth Night as well as the 2006 workshop production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Jenny is a longtime resident of Columbia, Maryland.

A founding member of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, Pat has directed CSC productions of Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest and Troilus and Cressida and played a number of roles for CSC including: Hamlet, Romeo, King Henry V, Coriolanus, Bottom, Torvald (A Doll’s House), and Sir Andrew Aguecheek (Twelfth Night. Other credits include the Repertory Theatre of America, the Baltimore Shakespeare Festival and the Shakespeare Project. Pat resides in Cheverly, Maryland.

Jill has worked as a resident actor at Shadowland Theatre, Queen City Stage, Ancram Opera House in NY state and Actor’s Theatre of Houston in Texas. Favorite roles include: Annie in the Miracle Worker, Viola in Twelfth Night, Catherine in Mr. Bundy, Rita in Educating Rita and Hermia in Midsummer Night’s Dream. She graduated from St. Edward’s University with a BA in Theatre Arts and studied at Ensemble Studio Theatre in New York. She appeared in CSC productions of Hamlet and Cymbeline. Jill lives in Columbia, Maryland.

Kevin has been an artistic associate and has served as CSC’s Education Director since 2006. He has appeared in several productions including Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, As You Like It, Henry V, and Julius Caesar. For CSC, he directed Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House and Titus Andronicus. Kevin is also the Director of Fine & Performing Arts at McDonogh School in Owings Mills where he leads the Institute for Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies. Kevin calles owings Mills, Maryland home.
Dan has worked both in front of and behind the curtain at CSC. He designed the set for several productions, including A Doll’s House and Troilus and Cressida. His lighting designs were featured in A Doll’s House, The Country Wife, and Lysistrata. Dan performed as Feste in Twelfth Night, Mercutio in Romeo & Juliet and Hector in Troilus & Cressida. Dan lives in Baltimore.

Scott joined the CSC family in 2004, playing the Duke in Measure for Measure. Since then, he has appeared in Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Front Page, Macbeth, Country Wife, A Doll’s House, Julius Caesar, Lysistrata, Hamlet. He was most recently seen as Titus in Titus Andronicus. Scott diercted CSC's production of The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). Scott lives in Catonsville, Maryland.

Teresa, a skilled actress, photographer and text coach holds her MFA in Acting from the Shakespeare Theatre's Academy of Classical Acting. She has appeared in a number of plays throughout her career both classical and contemporary. For CSC, Teresa has coached a number of productions and appeared in Dog in The Manger. Teresa lives in Cheverly, Maryland.
CSC’s resident costume designer, Kristina’s credits include Hamlet, The Country Wife, A Doll’s House, As You Like It (Broadway World Best of Baltimore Award), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Greater Baltimore Theater Award), Dog in the Manger, and Romeo and Juliet. Broadway World named her as a top artist of the 2007 Baltimore Theatre. Kristina is a Towson University graduate, and for eight seasons served as the Costume Supervisor for the Baltimore Opera Company. She lives in Catonsville, Maryland.