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Kevin Hearle
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Kevin Hearle received his AB degree in English at Stanford University and his MFA in English (creative writing poetry) from the University of Iowa. He also completed his MA and Ph.D. in Literature at UC Santa Cruz. His book of poems, Each Thing We Know Is Changed Because We Know It, was a finalist for the National Poetry Series, the Yale Series of Younger Poets and the Pushcart Prize. He was the Poetry co-editor of Quarry West. He served as the Research Assistant at the NEH Summer Institutes on Literary Translation. He has been a lecturer at UC Santa Cruz, San Jose State University, CSU Los Angeles, UC Santa Cruz Extension, and Santa Clara University. He was a participant at the NEH Summer Seminar on American Indian Literature and was a founding member and member of the editorial board of the Steinbeck Newsletter. He recently co-edited Beyond Boundaries: Rereading John Steinbeck. (Eds. Susan Shillinglaw and Kevin Hearle) Tuscaloosa: U Alabama P, 2002. While at Stanford, he was a reporter and newscaster for KZSU FM at Stanford, and he served as moderator and executive producer of "Campus Conference" also on KZSU FM.


Jessica Teeter
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A Bay Area native, Jessica graduated from Santa Clara University with a double BA in Theater Arts and English. Jessica has worked with various theater companies in the area, including TheaterWorks, Festival Theater Ensemble, Renegade Theatre Experiment, and City Lights. Some of Jessica's favorite roles include: Dawn DiVito in David Ives' Universal Language, Rosie in Dancing at Lughnasa, Second Voice in Under Milkwood, and Isabella from Measure for Measure.


Wm Leslie Howard
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Wm Leslie Howard's performing career spans 35 years as actor, writer, director, sound designer and composer. The Bay Area actor was a founding company member at most San Jose theater venues including San Jose Children's Musical Theater (Best Actor 1971, Outstanding Performer 1972), San Jose Stage Company, San Jose City Lights, San Jose Repertory Company, and six years as an actor-in-residence at VITA's Shakespeare Festival at Paul Masson Mountain Winery.

Howard is known for his many intense characterizations. Nine of his past ten shows were extended by box office popularity, including Dr. Einstein in Arsenic and Old Lace, 16 characters in Jules Pfeiffer's Hold Me!, 22 characters -- one of two actors -- in How I Got That Story, Jacques in Jacuqes and his Master and the immensely popular John Barrymore in I Hate Hamlet.

Wm reads books onto tape for the non-profit service organization, Books Aloud. Current novels being read are Steinbeck's Cannery Row and Of Mice and Men. Cannery Row takes place in the same neighborhood as the KAZU radio studios.


Elizabeth Dale
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Elizabeth Dale is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Theatre and Dance at Santa Clara University. She received her B.A. from U.C. Davis and her MFA from U.C. San Diego. She teaches acting and directs for the University. She recently returned from Italy where she taught theatre for Gonzaga in Florence for a year and then served as the Assistant Dean for Gonzaga University.

Some of her favorite plays that she has directed to date have been To Gillian on her 37th Birthday, Quilters, Grapes of Wrath, Ladyhouse Blues, Arcadia and most recently in March of 2004, A Streetcar Named Desire. She will be directing The Complete Works of William Shakespeare this summer at Shakespeare at Stinson.
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