Donna has been taking care of the theater’s day to day operations since January 2001. She ensures the theater runs smoothly year round as she manages budgets, productions, personnel, grants, educational programs, volunteers, and much more. She comes to SCCT with a background teaching and directing parent education classes. Donna loves theater and has been involved in Chickens’ Ball, Belmont Community Players and Kiwanis shows for many years. She was honored by the City of San Carlos with the San Carlos Arts and Culture Achievement Award.

Caitlin has been working with children of all ages for over 15 years, from theater and dance to gymnastics and movement classes. She has spent years under the mentorship of many amazing arts educators in the Bay Area. In 2012, Caitlin received her MFA from Mills College and began working for Crystal Springs Uplands School as their middle school dance and theater instructor. She has also choreographed, directed and taught with SCCT and Portola Valley Theater Conservatory for many years.

In addition to managing technical theater operations, Jim shares his expertise by training students as technical interns to work on sound, light and backstage during all SCCT shows. Jim also developed our StageCraft technical theater camp which provides students ages 10-15 an opportunity to gain hands-on training in set design, special effects and light/sound design & operation.

Joanne has been taking care of the financial records for the theater since February 2014. Working with the theater has been a very enriching experience, and she enjoys watching the productions, especially the musicals. Joanne also works for SCEF and Healthy Cities Tutoring.

Laura completed her costuming education at Canada College and now shares her talents with theaters throughout the Bay Area. She enjoys working with youth actors and mentoring students interested in costume design. During her free time, Laura creates costumes for her own enjoyment and loves participating in a wide variety of local costumed events.

Eve first became involved with SCCT in 2001 as a parent volunteer and later as a member of the Board of Directors. She now works on SCCT marketing, communications, and special events, as well as advising the theater’s Youth Advisory Board. She comes to SCCT with a background in journalism and publicity. Eve has been involved in productions with several local theaters, including NDNU, San Francisco Ballet, Peninsula Youth Theater, Hillbarn, and San Carlos Kiwanis.

Caitlin has been a teaching artist, director, and vocal director with SCCT since 2020. Trained in both classical and contemporary vocal styles, Caitlin performed extensively in college and graduate school with the Stanford Savoyards, Ram’s Head Theatrical Society, the Asian American Theater Project, and the Victorian Theatricals Society. She has taught high school theater since 2012 and founded the Mid-Pen Drama Program at Mid-Peninsula High School in 2016. She also performs across the Bay Area with the rock band Doll Parts. She lives in San Francisco with her partner and two cats, Peanut and Chutney.

Brittany has been teaching and directing with SCCT since 2014. She is grateful that her work never feels like work, and she relishes each and every opportunity to work with the amazing teachers and young people who are part of SCCT. Some personal highlights include Frozen Jr, Honk Jr, Tuesday story drama classes, and working with Junior Assistant Directors (JADs). She holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA in Theatre for Young Audiences from the University of Central Florida.

Gary is a Choreographer for SCCT main-stage productions. Gary has worked on local high school dance and cheer programs since 2008 and collegiate competitive dance at a local college since 2015. He directs and choreographs for many local theaters and has a BS in Dance management and an MBA in International Business.

Danny, fondly know as “Danny G” has worked with SCCT for many years in both main-stage and school productions as a Choreographer. His casts took First Place at the Redwood City Hometown Holiday Festival twice. He works during the school year in San Carlos and Redwood City Schools teaching dance. Danny is in several bands with a wide variety of genres. He was a Master-Artist for the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts and was the Artistic Director of the Young Extensions Children’s Dance Theatre. He also taught an outreach program for Zohar School of Dance in Palo Alto, teaching underprivileged youth where he received several California Arts Council Artist-in-Residence awards.

Danny was a founding member of Citi-Centre Dance Theatre, performing modern jazz and he also performed for the Berkeley Ballet. He directed a traditional Southern Philippine dance and music ensemble called Kulintang Dance Theatre and was a former student of Kulintang Master Danongan Kalanduyan. He has taught dance at San Francisco State University and for the San Francisco Ballet’s “Dance In Schools” program.

Daniel’s background includes training in jazz, modern, ballet, musical theater, Southern Philippine music and dance, hip-hop and children’s dance therapy. He has choreographed the musicals Footloose, Little Mermaid, Big Fish, In the Heights, Big Fish, 9-5, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Pipin, to name a few, for high schools around the Bay Area. He is now an active member of Kultura Kapwa, a traditional Philippine ensemble and The Autonomous Region, a Filipino-American Jazz ensemble that rehearse and perform at the historic International Hotel Manilatown Center.

Caitlin grew up with Palo Alto Children’s Theater and went on to work there after college before heading to the east coast where she took classes and taught at Berklee College of Music. Caitlin returned to the Bay Area and now directs and teaches classes at SCCT.

Sam holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Performance and a minor in Musical Theatre from Chapman University. She is an alumni of SCCT and performed in over 30 productions with SCCT in her youth. She is so excited to join the team as a teaching artist and choreographer!

Angela is an active teaching and performing artist throughout the peninsula! Angela has provided music and vocal direction for Hillbarn Conservatory, Palo Alto Children’s Theatre, Woodside Community Theater, Pacifica Spindrift Players, and now San Carlos Children’s Theater! Local performance credits include Lyric Theater, Tabard Theater, Hillbarn, NDNU, Opera San Jose, West Bay Opera, Bay Shore Lyric Opera, and Santa Clara University. She graduated from Santa Clara University with a BA in Music and earned her MM in Voice & Opera Performance from Northwestern University. Angela is the performing arts director at Beechwood School in Menlo Park where she teaches KP-8 students. She is certified in levels I & II of Orff-Schulwerk and teaches voice to singers of all ages.

Mike is a guest Technical Director for San Carlos Children’s Theater. In his spare time, Mike goes fishing.

Karen Althoff is a vocal director for SCCT productions.

Margaret Marshall has been directing, vocal directing and coaching young actors in the community since 2005. Her shows with SCCT include productions on the main stage as well as outreach communities including Roy Cloud School, Sandpiper Middle School and Clifford School. Margaret performs whenever possible as a soloist around the Bay Area and teaches drama at Hillsdale High School in San Mateo.

Nicole “Nikki” Reynolds (She/Her/Hers) grew up a choir kid and has performed under dozens of accomplished directors. After pursuing a corporate ladder climb, she unexpectedly and serendipitously ended up back in the creative jungle once her three kids entered school. She is SCCT’s Main Stage Photographer and also a Vocal Director for the school shows. She conducts elementary school choir and is a piano accompanist for middle school choir. With whatever time remains, she dedicates herself as a pianist/vocalist with a church worship team in Menlo Park.

Sarah attended San Carlos Children’s Theater and has returned to SCCT after graduating from Chapman University with a degree in drama to teach and direct for SCCT.

Gary is a Choreographer for shows and teaches dance in the Broadway Rising Stars program. Gary Stanford Jr. is a Bay Area theater stage director, choreographer and actor of 25 years. He has won over 100 State Talent Championships with P.S. Performance Studio. He is a multiple Theater Bay Area nominee and specializes in Diversity and Inclusion in musical theater. He is president and owner of the San Jose-based theater company, North California Arts Collective that creates outreach programs throughout the Bay Area.

Maya Bilbao is an Early Childhood Education/Psychology student that joined the SCCT team in 2021. As a performer at several other community programs since she was 5, she is excited to be a part of the magic of production! She works on the choreography team as well as teaches performance-related classes at SCCT, and she is ready for any other opportunity to work with such amazing people.

Ruth Bennett has been teaching music at Charter School in San Carlos for many years.