Board of Directors

All members are welcome at Board meetings, which are generally held on the first Sunday of the month from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM.

We welcome your comments and suggestions! (All name links below are e-mail links and will open in your e-mail program.)

President
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The President serves as the "face" of PCSF, and is our key ambassador for public outreach. The President is an energetic individual who is passionate about connecting PCSF to other partner organizations that can help extend PCSF's benefits to all playwrights and theatre people. The President will work closely with the Program Director to help find necessary producers, actors and directors for our programs.

 

Rod McFadden: Treasurer and Acting Chair

Rod McFadden earned his BA from UCLA's Playwriting program in 1982, and then took a 26 year hiatus from writing to have a tragically successful career in retail management. But in early 2009, he returned to writing full time. His plays have been well-received by Bay Area audiences of Broadway West, The Playwrights Center of SF, Wily West Productions, and PlayGround SF. His short play, Counting on Love, was a finalist in the 2011 Showoff competition.


Karl Schackne: Secretary

Karl is an actor & playwright raised in the Bay Area. Among his favorite roles since he began acting in 2009 are Barnaby in Much Ado About Lebowski (Primitive Screwheads), Schultz in Circle Mirror Transformation (City College of SF), Dr. Fine in Six Degrees of Separation (Custom Made), and Glyndwr in Spell Eternity (Quantum Dragon). His plays include 3 collaborations with Wily West Productions: Superheroes, Zero Hour: The Mars Experiment, and I Saw It; Chocolate, winner of the audience-judged Daegu Play Festival (2014); Age Old Wisdom, ShortLived (finalist, 2016); Bringing Up Muriel, ShortLived (2018); Gastón & Jovita, SF Olympians (2019). He enjoys biking, choo-choos, chasing trucks, hunting for bugs, and repeatedly filling & emptying cups of water with his toddler Hobbit.

Program Director
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The Program Director is responsible for the efficient running of all PCSF programs. This person identifies producers for key PCSF programs, and serves as the Board advisor for those producers. The Program Director will have excellent organizational and communication skills, as this person creates strong partnerships with local theatres and theatre professionals, including actors, directors and producers. The Program Director also serves as the Board advisor to the PCSF Literary Committee.

Marsha Roberts: Commmunications Director

Marsha is a partial escapee from corporate America. She is also co-founder of Welcoming Home, a non-profit that furnishes homes for the formerly homeless. Her short plays have been produced in various US and international venues. Several e-zines and anthologies have featured Marsha's fiction. "The Agent," her novel about an elegant con game, was published in 2020 and is available on Amazon. Marsha is an alumna of PlayGround SF's Writers' Company and a member of The Dramatists Guild and Left Coast Writers. Marsha Roberts' website

 

Cathy Stonie: Member-at-Large

Cathy is originally from Los Angeles. Since coming to the Bay Area, she has had short plays performed at PCSF PlayOffs and at Flight Deck in Oakland. Cathy frequently volunteers for PCSF events and spearheaded a PCSF initiative to provide discounted tickets to PCSF events for young playwrights and actors. In addition to writing plays, Cathy has also taken acting classes and is beginning work on a screenplay.

 

Geoffrey Grier: Member-at-Large

Geoffrey Grier has a wealth of experience with the Bay Area theatre community, as a writer, actor, director and producer. He heads up San Francisco Recovery Theatre, whose mission is to meet people where they are, provide a medium of communication and deliver a message of hope, consequence and solutions. Geoffrey also hosts the Mr. Geoffrey Show, a local on-line show that focuses on the issues, concerns and events of the Tenderloin community. He holds a degree in Psychology from San Francisco State University and has had on-the-job training, theatre experience and many years as a group facilitator at various treatment centers in San Francisco. Geoffrey feels that theatre production is the only safe place that people of different cultures, races and religious backgrounds can experience the lifestyle of another without feeling threatened. While many people are still battling substance abuse, mental health, or housing problems, it becomes a formidable task for Recovery Theatre to assist those in need to transcend them to a healthier, progressively positive life.

Updated 10/13/20