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 and has written a number of plays for children. 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 former 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.
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. 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 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 productions of Romeo and Juliet and Twefth Night as well as the 2006 workshop production of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Jenny is a longtime resident of Columbia, Maryland
Kevin 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 where he leads the Institute for Shakespeare and Renaissance Studies. Kevin calles Owings Mills, Maryland home.

Sandra initially started her career as Marketing Assistant for two production seasons with The Lost Colony, Outdoor Drama, and one production season with Utah Shakespeare Festival and served as Managing Director of Dare County Arts Council and as Program Coordinator for the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities. Sandra lives in Ellicott City.

Nadine has performed administrative duties for a number of arts organizations in the greater Baltimore/DC area including the Culkin School of Traditional Irish Dance, The Peabody Children’s Chorus and the Columbia Center for the Arts.  She has served as Administrative and Volunteer Coordinator for the orchestra and drama departments of a local high school.  She lives in Columbia

Kristina is a Towson University graduate, and for eight seasons served as the Costume Supervisor for the Baltimore Opera Company. She also serves as CSC's Resident Costumer and has designer costumes for 18 of CSC's productions. She lives in Catonsville, Maryland.
Jamie has been teaching with CSC since 2009. He has taught summer camps, in-school residencies, worshops and has led the intern and high school companies. He has also perfomed in a number of CSC productions including A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Cymbeline, Titus Andronicus, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing among many others. Jamie lives in Ellicott City.