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How did this get started?An Epiphany
Dan McCleary, one of this country’s most renowned Shakespearian actors and directors, began searching the South a year and a half ago for a city that needed and wanted to support an outdoor Shakespeare Company. After visits to potential locations in several states, he returned to his childhood home of Memphis. His long-time mentor and friend Frank Bluestein convinced him to look at a secluded site in Germantown, a 14-acre wooded parcel in the heart of town, behind Morgan Woods Park on Poplar Pike.
 The September Prelude Event hosted by The Dixon Gallery and Garden: Brittany Morgan and Gabriel Vaughan. |
What are the plans for 2008? Launch Shakespeare into the woods
McCleary’s proposed site and plan garnered acclaim and an enthusiastic response from city officials. They decided to create a master plan for the area, which prevented the Shakespeare Company from launching on the site in 2008. This is where St. George’s Episcopal Church, Rev. Gary Sturni, and Barbara Apperson stepped in. They offered both the church and grounds along with the Apperson property as a temporary home-away-from-home for
one year to allow for a pilot season and testing of the idea. If all goes well this autumn…. the goal will be to move forward in Year Two with a larger plan and vision.
What is the larger plan and vision?Magically Elizabethan, revelatory, and fun
An Arts Park. The original hidden parcel behind Morgan Woods allows for multiple access points on foot in a beautiful woodland already laced with trails in which scenes from each of Shakespeare’s plays would erupt, sculpture installations would rotate, children would act out plays they write, music practice sheds would sing out with violins and cellos, dancers would rehearse on an open-air platform, flower gardens would line the paths, and the trees would be lit up at dusk with pastel colors. Nestled within this activity, you would come upon an arbor, through which you would encounter a 600-seat natural outdoor amphitheatre with a 200’ x 200’ playing area for a performance that night of Macbeth played in 360 degrees. Horses ride in from stage-left, Macbeth murders the King stage-right, and Macduff’s avenging English troops arm far upstage under the sweet gum trees for their full-out assault on the Scottish Thane! |
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Dan McCleary
Founder and Artistic Director
Native Memphian Dan McCleary has crafted a successful career as an actor, playwright, producer, and director with the internationally-acclaimed theatre Shakespeare & Company, as well as other major theatre companies throughout the United States. Dan has played over 100 stage, film, and television roles, including critically-acclaimed or award-winning work as Macbeth, Marc Antony, Coriolanus, Richard III, Brutus, Petruchio, Bottom, Hotspur, Caliban, Don Armado, Dromio, and Herman Melville (you can also see him as Sylvester Stallone's computerized dad in that lost treasure, Judge Dredd). In addition to his 14-year association with Shakespeare & Company, Dan has worked Off-Broadway and in regional theatres throughout the country: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alabama Shakespeare, Arden Theatre, Georgia Shakespeare Festival, Merrimack Rep, Orlando Shakespeare, StageWest, Gloucester Stage, Huntington Theatre, and North Shore Music Theatre. In the last six years, Dan has focused on directing, adapting, and writing for the stage, with critically-acclaimed work in Vita & Virginia, The Stone Face (American Premiere), As You Like It, All's Well That Ends Well, My Own Stranger, The Servant of Two Masters, and Henry and June (his first play, adapted from the works of Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller). Dan also teaches master level acting classes at Shakespeare companies, colleges, high schools, and conferences throughout the country, specializing in Shakespeare's Text, First Folio, Scene Study, and Clowning. At Shakespeare & Company, located near Tanglewood in western Massachusetts in the Berkshires, Dan was the Associate Artistic Director from 1999-2005. During his tenure, he helped the theatre earn over $1 million for the first time in its fiscal year history. Prior to 1999, as Development & Marketing Director, Dan recruited a new Communications staff that, within two years, increased revenue by 22%, underwriting by 400%, national media coverage by 250%, and administered a $5 million capital campaign for a new 63-acre property acquisition. As the Communications Director, he launched a five-year strategic branding campaign which implemented award-winning marketing campaigns. Dan worked with over 550 members of the national and international media, including The New York Times, Variety, Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, CBS-TV, NBC-TV, N.P.R., L.A. Times, A.P., London Times, USA Today, and The Smithsonian. Dan studied Broadcast Journalism and Theatre at the University of Memphis and graduated Magna Cum Laude from Philadelphia’s Temple University with a BA from its School of Communications in 1989. His most recent poetry was published in Black Book and Arch and Quiver. E. Frank Bluestein Executive Director
E. Frank Bluestein is the 1996-1997 Disney National Performing Arts Teacher of the Year and the 1994 Tennessee Teacher of the Year. In October of 1998, USA Today named Mr. Bluestein one of the top 40 teachers in the United States. Frank is a past winner of the American Theatre Association's John C. Barner Award, a national award given to one secondary school teacher whose theatre program is judged most exemplary for the year. He has served as an arts advisory panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, the College Board Arts Advisory Committee, the Council of Chief State School Officers, and the Tennessee Arts Commission. He is a former president both of the Tennessee Alliance for Arts Education and the Germantown Arts Alliance. Each summer he supervises the theatre division of the Tennessee Arts Academy, a statewide teacher training institute located in Nashville, TN. Frank has twice been named to Memphis Magazine's Who's Who in Memphis poll, and was presented with a community service award for his accomplishments in education by the National Conference of Christians and Jews. At Germantown High School in Germantown, TN, Frank serves as the chairman of the school's Fine Arts Department. He is the founder and director of the school's theatre, the Poplar Pike Playhouse, and also serves as Executive Producer for Germantown Community Television (GHS-TV), the school's three million dollar educational television facility. In 1984 he helped the Germantown High School Fine Arts Department to become one of eight secondary schools in the nation to be chosen to receive the prestigious Rockefeller Brothers Fund Arts in Education Award. Under Frank's leadership, Germantown Community Television has received over 80 first place Hometown Video USA awards for its programming and has been named seven times by the Alliance for Community Media as the Best Community Access Station in the USA. The station has been recognized with regional Emmy and Cable Ace Award nominations. Frank has also participated in the educational programs of the National Television Academy of Arts and Sciences and has led his team of teachers and scores of students to win a national student Emmy (2004 National Student Television Award of Excellence) for sports coverage as well as 13 regional first-place student Emmy awards. Frank has served as a director of shows at Opryland, USA, and most recently wrote and directed the national touring production of Beale Street Saturday Night starring blues legend Joyce Cobb. He is a frequent speaker and writer on arts-related issues. Caroline Harrison Company Manager and Development Associate 
Caroline holds a B.A. in Theatre and Performance Studies from Kennesaw State University in Georgia, and has studied at the Gaeity School of Acting in Dublin, Ireland. Caroline worked with the College of the Arts at KSU as Assistant Box Office Manager; as the Marketing Director for the Connecticut Theatre Festival; and helped set fundraising records as the Special Events Coordinator for Georgia Shakespeare before coming to Tennessee. Artistically, she has appeared onstage in Grapes of Wrath, Translations, a series of Beckett Shorts, On the Verge, Graceland, The Odyssey, The Raven, and As You Like It. Storytelling credits include the Winter Storytelling Festival (Southern Order of Storytellers), Roswell Storytelling Festival, multiple appearances at Sketchy's Art Pad, touring Dr. John Gentile's adaptation of The Hero's Journey to dozens of public schools and featuring it at the international Mythic Journey's Conference in 2003. After graduation, Caroline worked with the KSU Tellers to write, create, and debut their four-star (British Theater Review) adaptation of Beowulf at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Stephanie Shine Education Director 
Stephanie is in her 12th season as Artistic Director of Seattle Shakespeare Company where she has directed Richard III, Henry IV, All's Well that Ends Well, The Comedy of Errors, Swansong by Patrick Page, Cyrano de Bergerac, the lauded all-male Taming of the Shrew, Measure For Measure, Richard II, Wild Oats, Hamlet, Henry V, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, and Henry IV, pt 1. Her other directorial credits include, The Comedy of Errors for Colorado Shakespeare Festival, I Am of Ireland (which she also conceived and adapted), and A Christmas Memory for Book-It Repertory Theatre, Love’s Labors Lost for Cornish College of the Arts, A Christmas Carol (also adapted) for Bainbridge Performing Arts, Romeo and Juliet for Seattle University, and When the Messenger is Hot for Theater Schmeater. After extensive touring, the award-winning one-woman Marilyn Monroe Biopic, Marilyn: Forever Blonde, opened in October in London's West End under Stephanie's direction. A well-known actress in the Northwest, she has performed for the Seattle Repertory Theatre, ACT, The Empty Space, Seattle Children’s Theatre, Book-It Repertory Theatre, and Tacoma Actors Guild, as well as several theatres across the nation including both the Oregon and New Jersey Shakespeare Festivals. Her Shakespearean roles include Juliet, Rosalind, Lady Macbeth, Beatrice, Regan, Feste, Kate, Bianca, Dionyza, The Princess of France, Hero, and Perdita. Stephanie is a graduate of the University of Washington's Professional Actor Training Program and the very proud mother of Conor and Cahilan Shine. She is currently direnting Twelfth Night for Seattle Shakespeare Company. Stephanie serves on the advisory board of the University of Washington's School of Drama, is adjunct faculty for the Seattle Film Institute where she teaches Directing the Actor. Stephanie will next direct The Taming of the Shrew for Colorado Shakespeare Festival in the spring. Brittany Morgan Artist Manager, Associate Educator 
“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.” ~Carl Jung. After making it back to her hometown of Memphis in 2008 as Phebe in TSC's As You Like It, Brittany is in her second season with Tennessee Shakespeare Company. This past fall, Brittany played Hermia in TSC's A Midsummer Night's Dream, Portia and Decius Brutus in Julius Caesar this spring, and began educating the youths of Memphis on playing Shakespeare. After receiving her BFA from Illinois Wesleyan University along with the British American Drama Academy, Brittany took to the stage in London (Opal Theatre), Chicago (First Folio Theatre), Orlando (Orlando Shakespeare Theatre; Orlando Repetory Theatre; stunt shows at Universal Studios), and Massachusetts (Shakespeare & Company; Riggs Theatre). A few favorite roles include Cordelia in King Lear, Diana in All's Well that End's Well, Juliet/Desdemona/Beatrice/Hermia in Wild and Whirling Words, Ariel in The Tempest, Peasblossom in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Iphigenia in IPH..., Louisson in The Imaginary Invalid, Lucile in The Bourgeois Gentleman, Mayella in To Kill a Mockingbird, Ophelia in Hamletmachine. In addition to dance, Brittany is also SAFD trained and certified in multiple weapons. Slade KyleTeaching Artists, Education Manager  Slade Kyle is a founding company member of Tennessee Shakespeare Company. TSC credits: As You Like It (Oliver), A Midsummer Nights Dream (Puck, Fight Director). Slade directed Germantown High School students in Prelude Scenes performed prior to each Julius Caesar performance. Memphis theatre: regional premier of Metamorphoses (University of Memphis); the 1st non-Equity production of tick,tick…BOOM! (Theatre 4 Theatre); Pandora’s Box (Zeus); Assassins (John Wilkes Booth); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (El-Fayoumy), Parade (Gov. Jack Slayton), Much Ado About Nothing (Don John); Metamorphoses (Eros/Orpheus), The Writer’s Block (Cullen – originated), The Serpent (Cain), You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Snoopy) and Lucky Stiff (Harry). International: Australian SEWA Professional Wrestler, (two-time Tag Team Champion, Light Heavyweight title holder, organization- wide choreographer). Slade received his BFA from the University of Memphis in Physical Theatre and Theatre Pedagogy. Fight Directing credits include: Othello; Fences; Harry Potter’s World Exhibition Tour (American Library Association). Directing credits: Dear Edwina (New Day Children’s Theatre); The Imaginators (Delta Arts Council). Slade is a regular Teaching-Artist at The Delta Arts Council, New Day Children’s Theatre, Theatre Memphis and numerous other Mid-South theatres and schools. Marsha Klimetz Bookkeeper 
Marsha has 30 years of accounting experience, with 21 years as Vice President of Finance for Orion, a packaging machinery company. She provides accounting services to entrepreneurial organizations in the Memphis area. She also serves as president of a local non-profit organization, Delta Dressage Association, a United States Dressage Federation organization that promotes the discipline of dressage. She is a USDF Bronze and Silver Medalist and competes her horse in shows around the Mid-South. Marsha is a member of The Church at Schilling Farms in Collierville, where she is actively involved in the Women's Ministry. Marsha is a native Memphian and resides in Collierville with her husband, David. They have four children and one grandchild. |
A History and Future of Strategic, Aggressive Organizational GrowthInaugural Season: 2008-2009
Performance:
• Site-specific, union-affiliated production of As You Like It is mounted with professional actors and musicians from around the country (pilot);
• More than 3,500 patrons attend.
Education:
• In-school workshops, post-show discussions, and student matinees are offered (pilot);
• Show-specific Study Guides are created and distributed (pilot);
• Nearly 1,500 students attend As You Like It.
Training:
• One-third of the cast are locals, and partial rehearsals are devoted to teaching them to create and sustain their craft (pilot).
Administration and Board:
• A founding Board of Directors of 15 members is created, representing all of Shelby County;
• Two full-time administrators (Producing Artistic Director, Company Manager) are employed; two part-time administrators (Executive Director, Bookkeeper) donate expertise pro bono.
Facilities:
• City of Germantown rents empty historic train depot to TSC for $1/year, and TSC upgrades the facility and begins giving tours;
• The two-year proposal to build a unique outdoor amphitheatre in the heart of Germantown gains momentum and support; a partnership is forged between TSC and the City of Germantown to begin designwork.
Operating Budget:
• $371k
Second Stage Season: 2009-2010
Performance:
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream is mounted at the Poplar Pike Playhouse with full production elements in the fall;
• Site-specific, all-female Julius Caesar is mounted in City Hall in the spring;
• More than 6,500 patrons attend – 55% of whom were 18 years and younger.
Education:
• Workshop, residency, camp, prelude curriculums are created (pilot);
• Elementary/Middle/High/College School age Camps (pilot);
• Local teacher-training (pilot);
• Two humanities-based, interactive Study Guides are developed and distributed (pilot);
• More than 6,500 students and teachers participate.
Training:
• Teacher-training intensive for top 12 Memphis area artists developed and executed (pilot) to accommodate future education expansion with educators practicing in TSC’s aesthetic.
Administration and Board:
• Board adds two new members;
• Staff adds part-time Bookkeeper, Education Director, Education Artist-Manager, and increases contract labor by approximately 200%.
Facilities:
• Four years after TSC first sited and lobbied for the area, ground is broken in the fall for the outdoor amphitheatre by the City of Germantown; a three-year capital investment plan is agreed upon by the Board of Mayor and Aldermen.
Operating Budget:
• $456k (+23%)
Performance:
• Othello is mounted in the fall;
• Mid-South Tour production of Romeo and Juliet is created for all schools and multiple public venues (pilot);
• Collaboration with Conductor Michael Stern and IRIS on A Midsummer Night’s Dream concert (pilot);
Education:
• Shelby County Education Tour of Romeo and Juliet (pilot);
• Expanded and increased in-school residencies and workshops around Romeo and Juliet (pilot);
• Summer Camps expand;
• More than 10,000 students projected to participate.
Training:
• Local teacher-training moves into Phase Two.
Southern Playwrights Series:
• Strategic planning begins for “Southern Exposure”
Administration and Board:
• Board adds two new Mid-South members;
• Staff adds Development consultancy and part-time administrative internship.
Facilities:
• New outdoor amphitheatre is projected to be useful in this first phase in the spring.
Operating Budget:
• $547k (+20%)
Performance:
• Macbeth mounted in extended run in the fall;
• The Tempest/Taming of the Shrew mounted in extended run in spring repertory (pilot);
• A modern classical playwright’s work mounted indoors (pilot);
• Collaboration with professional area arts organization.
Education:
• Mid-South Education winter tour of Romeo and Juliet/Julius Caesar in repertory (pilot);
• Playshops and residencies are administered year-round;
• More than 20,000 students participate.
Training:
• Professional, classical teaching consultant is retained;
• Possibility of creating the region’s first Classical Theatre MFA program with area college is explored.
Southern Playwrights Series:
• First call for plays in development (pilot);
• Ancillary events around modern classical play (pilot);
• Discussions begin with City of Memphis and area arts organizations to create seminal Story of Memphis cycle with event marketing for destination tourism.
Administration and Board:
• Board adds two members;
• Staff adds part-time Development support, General Manager, and Production/Tour Manager.
Facilities:
• Additional administrative office space is sought;
• Sceneshop, equipment, and storage facility are sought;
• Phase Two completed on outdoor amphitheatre.
Operating Budget:
• $683k (+25%)
Performance:
• King Lear mounted in the fall outdoors;
• Much Ado About Nothing/Richard III mounted in repertory for extended run in the spring;
• Modern classical play mounted indoors for extended run;
• Collaboration with professional area arts organization;
• “Southern Exposure” program launches (see below).
Education:
• Mid-South/TN Schools Winter Tour of repertory Henry V/Romeo and Juliet throughout the state (pilot);
• Residencies triple;
• Planning begins for “Students Armed with Shakespeare’s Canon,” a project that will bring TSC artists into schools to rehearse students for six weeks leading up to their own 90-minute Shakespeare production to be performed at both their school and at a site where all the productions are presented back-to-back on a Saturday.
Training:
• A university is identified and a curriculum presented to establish a two-year M.F.A. program in Classical Theatre.
Southern Playwrights Series:
• Call for works;
• One work is commissioned on Memphis history for development in association with City of Memphis and partner arts organizations;
• Phase One strategy and arts consortium in place for Story of Memphis cycle.
Administration and Board:
• Board adds two members (net);
• Staff adds administrative support and “Southern Exposure” Director.
Facilities:
• Additional administrative office space is secured;
• Sceneshop, equipment, and storage facility is secured;
• Costume Shop is sought;
• Final Phase Three completed on outdoor amphitheatre.
Operating Budget:
• $867k (+27%)
Performance:
• Hamlet mounted in the fall outdoors;
• Twelfth Night/Henry V mounted in repertory in the spring outdoors;
• 3-week indoor run of classical playwright (pilot);
• Modern classical play mounted indoors for extended run;
• Collaboration with professional area arts organization;
• “Southern Exposure” program expands (see below).
Education:
• Mid-South/TN Winter Schools Tour of Macbeth/Julius Caesar in repertory increases reach and frequency;
• “Students Armed with Shakespeare’s Canon,” doubles the number of participating pilot schools who create their own 90-minute Shakespeare productions with TSC artists both at their schools and in a collaborative Shakespeare Marathon open to the public;
• Playshops and Residencies continue.
Training:
• Certification is granted for the two-year M.F.A. program in Classical Theatre;
• Training Director begins teaching in current classes in first year of integrated curriculum (pilot).
Southern Playwrights Series:
• Multi-week run of developed plays is mounted;
• Phase One of commissioned Story of Memphis piece is developed (pilot);
• Playwrights’ Forum and VIP Speaker Series is launched (pilot);
• Phase Two development for arts consortium for Story of Memphis cycle.
Administration and Board:
• Board adds three members (net);
• Staff adds full-time Managing Director and three part-time artist-managers.
Facilities:
• Discussions begin with the City of Germantown to design and build a new green, multi-use, indoor theatre facility adjacent to the outdoor ampthitheatre.
Operating Budget:
• $1.04 million (+20%)
Seventh Season: 2014-2015
Performance:
• The Story of Memphis collaboration launches with all professional arts organizations, beginning with TSC’s world premiere play outdoors in the fall; • A new Holiday Show is mounted indoors in December in repertory with The Comedy of Errors;
• A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Love’s Labor’s Lost mounted outdoors in repertory in the spring.
Education:
• Phase Two of planning made public regarding the development of a fine arts I.B. professional partnership with a local high school;
• “Students Armed with Shakespeare’s Canon” increases participants by 50% and expands marathon series to Friday night;
• Mid-South/TN Winter Schools Tour of Romeo and Juliet/Othello in repertory now expanded to three months.
Training:
• Two-year M.F.A. program in Classical Theatre begins with year one students. Southern Playwrights Series:
• (See above for mainstage play);
• Supporting programming of mainstage play consists of 10-20 readings and staged reading of new southern plays, workshops, and Playwright’s Forums, expanded to two weeks.
Administration and Board:
• Board adds one member (net);
• Staff adds full-time production team and Marketing/P.R. Director.
Facilities:
• TSC and City of Germantown finalize Master Plan to build a new green, multi-use, indoor theatre facility adjacent to the outdoor amphitheatre, beginning next year;
• Costume Shop is secured.
Operating Budget:
• $1.29 million (+24%) 
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Our Generous Partners Tennessee Shakespeare Company gratefully acknowledges support for our Second Stage Season from: Donors In-Kind “Let not virtue seek/ Remuneration for the thing it was…” - Troilus and Cressida Tennessee Shakespeare Company acknowledges the generosity of those donors who have made valuable in-kind contributions toward our 2009-10 season. These are some of the Mid-South’s most talented professionals, who, in addition to running their businesses at the highest level, also donate their time and skills to enhancing and supporting our community. Take a bow…
City of Germantown
The Commercial Appeal, exclusive season media sponsor
J. Vincent Perryman, LL.M.
Marla Stuart, Director of Internal Audits, University of Memphis
Kevin Sprague; studiotwo.com, Lenox, MA
Toof Commercial Printing, Stilly McFadden
Special Acknowledgment
They have given of themselves, their time, their skill, their kindness, their homes, their advice, their food, and their steadfast support. Thank you…
Barbara B. Apperson Louise Bagby Ruth Dunning Elizabeth Farrar Donna and John Gately Germantown Community Theater Beverly Hammond Darrell Hughueley Susan Marshall Mila and Leonid Mazor Stilly and Melanie McFadden Susan and R.J. Moskop Scott Newstok, Rhodes College Dr. Ray and Hilda Osarogiagbon Poplar Pike Playhouse, E. Frank Bluestein St. George’s Episcopal Church, Eileen Field The Rev. Gary and Cindy Sturni The Computer Guy, Corinthian Veil |
| Tennessee Shakespeare Company's Board of Directors and Staff (from left to right): Ruth Dunning, Pat Smith (ex-member), E. Frank Bluestein, Dan McCleary, Sheri Lipman, Audrey Taylor, Robert C. Lanier, Stephanie Shine, Owen Britt Tabor, M.D., Margaret Wellford Tabor, Louise Calandruccio, Brittany Morgan, Barbara B. Apperson, Caroline Harrison, Zain Yunus. Board members not pictured: Nancy Copp, Blanche Deaderick, Tod Holtzclaw, John Paul Jones, Shaye Mandle, Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, M.D., W. Reid Sanders, Milton T. Schaeffer, and George Walters. |
Dan McCleary (Founder and Producing Artistic Director), a native Memphian, was Associate Artistic Director of the internationally-renowned Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts for the last half of his 13-year tenure. As an artist-manager, he served as the Company’s director of communications, marketing, public relations, and development, as well as performing in or directing more than 25 productions. Mr. McCleary has acted in and directed more than 150 regional theatre productions, including critically-acclaimed work as Macbeth, Richard III, Falstaff, Marc Antony, Brutus, Petruchio, and Coriolanus. Also a playwright and poet, Mr. McCleary teaches Shakespeare master classes and gives lectures frequently in theatres, colleges, and high schools across the country. He graduated from Germantown High School and Temple University’s School of Communications with a Bachelor of Arts degree. E. Frank Bluestein (Executive Director) is the Executive Producer of the Tennessee Arts Academy, Founder and Chairman of Germantown High School’s Fine Arts Department, and Executive Producer of the Emmy Award-winning Germantown Community Television. He is the 1996-1997 Disney National Performing Arts Teacher of the Year and the 1994 Tennessee Teacher of the Year. In 1998, USA Today named Mr. Bluestein one of the top 40 teachers in the United States. He has served on arts advisory panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, College Board Arts Advisory Committee, Council of Chief State School Officers, and Tennessee Arts Commission. A frequent speaker and writer on arts-related issues, Mr. Bluestein is a former president both of the Tennessee Alliance for Arts Education and the Germantown Arts Alliance. Owen Britt Tabor, MD (President) was born in Germantown (Philadelphia), PA, the only Yankee by birth at that time in a very large Southern family. He was schooled by Quakers at the William Penn Charter School, then by Methodists at Wesleyan University (CT), and finally by tobacco at Duke University School of Medicine. His wife of nearly 48 years, Margaret Wellford Tabor, has introduced him to the finer things in life, including Tennessee Shakespeare Company. Dr. Tabor has worked as a Navy Flight Surgeon (1965-68) and as an Orthopedic Surgeon since then; but now partially retired, he says, “I am excited about serving with a group of truly exceptional and dedicated people as this organization progresses. Henry V was right when he rallied to those who would recall their own service on St. Crispin's day at Agincourt - so it is with this remarkable TSC Board...it WILL be remembered!" Robert C. "Bobby" Lanier (Vice President), a Shelby County native, was the executive assistant to three mayors of Shelby County, serving as their chief aide and advisor. Mr. Lanier was a founder and a Vice-Chairman of the Board of The Bank of Germantown and a former director of Neshoba Bank. Currently, he serves as Advisor-Director of Trustmark National Bank. He is the past President and Director of the GermantownCharity Horse Show, and is its Executive Director. Mr. Lanier is a member of the four-person advisory Board of the Germantown Festival Association, and was the 1998-99 President of the Mid-South Fair. He was also voted Germantown Man of the Year in 1963, 1976, 2005, and 2007. W. Reid Sanders (Treasurer) is the Co-Founder and former Executive Vice President of Southeastern Asset Management, and the former President of Longleaf Partners Mutual Funds in Memphis. Mr. Sanders is a Trustee for the Hugo Dixon Foundation and Rhodes College. He serves as the Vice Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens. Mr. Sanders also serves as the Director of The Pioneer Group, Inc., Boston; Director of Harbor Global Company, Ltd., Bermuda; Director of TVA Entertainment Corporation, Nashville; Chairman of the Regional Selection Committee for the Jefferson Scholarship at the University of Virginia; National Advisory Board member of SSM Venture Partners; Member of the Advisory Board of the University of Tennessee at Memphis. Mr. Sanders is a former Board Member of the Children's Museum of Memphis, Bridges/Youth Services, and the Memphis Zoological Society. Ruth Dunning (Secretary), a teacher for 40 years, has taught in Stuttgart, Germany, Evansville, Indiana, and Shelby County. She currently teaches at the Tennessee Governor’s School for International Studies. Mrs. Dunning is the past president of the Brooks Museum League, and Chair of the Designers and Artists Showcase. She has been Teacher of the Year at Germantown High School, Shelby County Schools, and the 1986 TEA State Teacher of the Year. In addition, she was the Germantown News Teacher on the Move, and the city of Germantown Teacher of the Year. In 2001, Mrs. Dunning was named a Germantown Hometown Hero. Barbara B. Apperson, the generous host of TSC’s inaugural outdoor performance component and mother of three, is a long-time resident of Shelby County and an active member of St. George’s Episcopal Church. Mrs. Apperson served on the Board of Directors of the Samaritan Counseling Center and the Junior League of Memphis. She is the namesake of TSC's "Barbara B. Apperson Angel Fund," who mission is to bring as many Mid-South children to Shakespeare as possible. Louise Collier Calandruccio is an active member of the Memphis Garden Club. She recently illustrated a brochure on Riverwoods, a Tennessee State Natural Area, in Germantown. Mrs. Calandruccio is a volunteer for the Emmanuel Center, including the Art Camp, as well as the Episcopal Church Women scholarship committee. She has served for many years on the Board of Advisors for Bridges USA. She is the wife of Dr. Jim Calandruccio, and the mother of two. Nancy Copp has served on the Board of Directors of the Crippled Children’s Hospital, Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis Academy of Arts, and St. George’s Episcopal Day School. Mrs. Copp also founded and served on the Board of Memphis House, a drug-rehabilitation facility. In Maine, she was associated with the Prouts Association, the Prouts Neck Run Centennial Celebration, and the Winslow Homer Studio. Blanche Deaderick, a Memphis and Shelby County teacher for 39 years, was named Teacher of the Year for Germantown High School, Shelby County Schools, and the Germantown Community. She was twice named Tennessee Council for Social Studies Outstanding Teacher, and in 2007 was named to the Tennessee Teacher Hall of Fame. She has served on the Boards of Bridge Builders, the Memphis Junior League, and Planned Parenthood. A trained mediator for civil and commercial disputes and a graduate of Leadership Memphis, she is also a member of the Facing History and Ourselves National Teacher Leadership Team. She holds a B.A. from Rhodes College and an M.A. in History from The University of Memphis. Mrs. Deaderick is Associate Director of the Tennessee Governor’s School for International Studies. Tod Holtzclaw, a transplant to Memphis from Louisiana, has been employed with International Paper Company for over 17 years. Tod is an active member of the Memphis Area Gardeners, on the host committee of Opus One with the Memphis Symphony Orchestra, and a founding member of the GIVE 365 program at the Community Foundation of Greater Memphis. He is the husband of Anna McQuiston Holtzclaw and the father of 4 year-old Caroline. John Paul Jones, after graduating from Vanderbilt University and the University of Virginia Law School in 1948, joined the Memphis law firm of Wrap and Hernly, with offices in Washington, DC. He later went into private practice where he specialized in interstate commerce transportation, and labor law. In 1960, Mr. Jones became publisher of Memphis Daily News, a family-owned business and legal newspaper, that has published since 1886. Mr. Jones retired from the practice of law in 1992. A lifelong resident of Memphis, he is a past president of the Tennessee Press Association, the American Court and Commercial Newspapers, Inc., and also a past member of the Memphis Literacy Council. Mr. Jones is a board member of the Benjamin C. Hooks Library, the Rock n, Soul Museum, located in the FedEx Forum, and a founder of the Memphis Economic Club. Mr. Jones is a lifelong devotee of Thomas Jefferson and William Shakespeare. Sheryl Lipman is the University Counsel and Adjunct Professor at the University of Memphis. Ms. Lipman is a Board member of the Memphis and Shelby County Sports Development Corporation, and Past Chair and current Board member of Memphis Regional Planned Parenthood. Additionally, Ms. Lipman is on the Board of Advisors of Facing History and Ourselves and on the Board of Directors of the Memphis Jewish Federation. The Memphis Business Journal selected Ms. Lipman as one of the Top 40 under 40 in 1998, and in 1995 she was a member of the Merit Selection Panel to Choose Federal Public defender for Western District of Tennessee. She studied at the University of Michigan and New York University School of Law. Shaye Mandle (bio coming soon) Raymond U. Osarogiagbon, MD FACP, is a hematologist, medical oncologist (blood, cancer specialist). Director of the University of Tennessee Cancer Institute’s Multidisciplinary Thoracic Oncology, Dr. Osarogiagbon is an alumnus of Cambridge University’s Shakespeare Summer School and a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company. “I advocate active performance of all texts, but believe that everything begins with Shakespeare. Great poetry and drama, by providing psychological insights, foster mutual understanding. Every community needs Shakespeare.” Milton T. Schaeffer serves on the Board of Directors of both the Germantown Performing Arts Center and IRIS. Mr. Schaeffer is a partner of Oak Ridge Investments, Dallas, Texas, and he is the retired owner of Bluff City Buick in Memphis. Margaret Wellford Tabor has studied at the University of Mississippi and at Oxford College in England. She has been a full- and part-time teacher at The Hutchinson School and in the adult education departments of MUS and Rhodes College. Mrs. Tabor is a former member of the Junior League of Memphis and the Little Garden Club of Memphis. She is active in the Memphis Chamber Music Society and in local theatre. Mrs. Tabor is the wife of Dr. Owen Tabor and the mother of four grown children. Audrey Taylor is a long-time resident of Shelby County. She and her family are the owners of Wildwood Farms in Germantown. She has been a member and President of the Board of Directors of the Crippled Children’s Hospital. Mrs. Taylor is a former member of the Junior League of Memphis and the Little Garden Club. George Walters (President emeritus) is a long-time and influential community volunteer in Germantown and Shelby County. He is a past Chairman of the Germantown Performing Arts Center and past President of the Germantown Community Theatre. In addition to serving on numerous Boards and commissions, Mr. Walters is a Co-Founder and the current President of Germantown Community Television (GHS-TV), and the President of the popular Germantown Festival.
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