FOUNDING ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Ian Gallanar

Ian Gallanar is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Chesapeake Shakespeare Company in Baltimore, Maryland and is proud member of the distinguished National Theatre Conference, the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society (the union for professional stage directors) and the Dramatists Guild of America.

Ian is a Distinguished Alumni of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania, a Telly Award Winner, a Howie Award Winner – Howard County, Maryland’s Lifetime Achievement Award for Outstanding Artist and a Helen Hayes Tribute Award winner. He is the recipient the Berger Award, given annually by the international Shakespeare Theatre Association for outstanding lifetime achievement as an Artistic Director of a Shakespeare company. He served as President of that organization from 2019-2021. He was also given the Distinguished Alumni Award from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. In 2015, he was invited to become a member of the prestigious National Theatre Conference.

PRODUCING EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
Lesley Malin

Lesley Malin is a founder of The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company and has served as its Producing Executive Director since 2003, supervising its growth into one of the largest theatres in Maryland and the fifteenth largest Shakespeare theater in the U.S., all without ever taking a single accounting or management class.

She managed CSC’s 2012-2014 building renovation of an 1886 bank into its award-winning modern Shakespeare playhouse as well as the associated $6.7 million capital campaign. She also oversaw the 2017 expansion of the CSC campus to the neighboring building, creating the educational space, The CSC Studio. A pedestrian bridge between the two buildings was built and opened in 2019.

Her acting credits at CSC include Queen Elizabeth in Mary Stuart, Lady Macbeth, Paulina in The Winter’s Tale, Lady Bracknell, Mrs. Fezziwig, Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing Mrs. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, Anne Frank’s mother, the Queens in Richard III and Cymbeline, Titania, and Mrs. Hardcastle in She Stoops To Conquer; previously, she performed in New York.

For twenty years she was the vice president of the board of trustees of The Lark, a new play development center in New York City, where she previously served as Managing Director. She served on the Executive Committee of the international Shakespeare Theatre Association for five years and organized its 2017 conference that was held in Baltimore. 

She conceived and spearheaded the Baltimore August Wilson Celebration, a groundbreaking, collaborative theatre project where 9 Baltimore theatres produced the entire American Century Cycle. 

She is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, NYU’s Arts Management program, The LEADERship Baltimore (2018), and Leadership Howard County (2009).

Emily Rockefeller, President
Robin Hough, Vice President
Bill Henry, Treasurer
Lesley Malin, Secretary

Laura Boydston
Kevin G. Burke
Geri Byrd
Neal Flieger
Ian Gallanar
Scott Helm
Jack McCann
Linda Pieplow
Earle W. Pratt, III
Sophia Silbergeld
Adam Stull
Calvin Young

OPERATIONS TEAM 
Michael Lonegro, Chief Financial Officer
Kayla Schultz, Assistant Managing Director

PRODUCTION TEAM 
Lauren Engler, Production Manager
Dawn Thomas Reidy, Production Associate
Dan O’Brien, Technical Director & Facilities Manager
Chester Stacy, Assistant Technical Director & Facilities Associate
Kristina Lambdin, Resident Costume Designer

DEVELOPMENT TEAM 
Jo Keller, Director of Development
Kristen Campbell, Institutional Giving Manager
Séamus Miller, Major Gifts Officer
Abby Dobry, Box Office & Development Assistant

EDUCATION TEAM 
Brooke Donald, Education Manager

MARKETING TEAM 
Brandon W. Vernon, Director of Marketing & Resident Graphic Designer
Miranda Solomon, Marketing/Digital & Analytics Manager
Keri Anderson, Communications Manager (Interim)

BOX OFFICE/FRONT OF HOUSE TEAM 
Mandy Benedix, Audience Services Manager
Pamela Forton, Senior House Manager
Abby Dobry, Box Office & Development Assistant

SHAKESPEARE BEYOND & CSC ACCESS TEAM 
Séamus Miller, Associate Artistic Director, Shakespeare Beyond
Molly Horton Booth, Associate Director for Education and Community Engagement, Shakespeare Beyond
Kathryne Daniels, Access Producer
Ellie Skoda, Access Associate

Company members who have served the organization for many years with particular dedication and loyalty.

† Deceased