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Peter Nathaniel Malae

Literary Arts: Writer

Peter Nathaniel Malae is the author of the novels, Our Frail Blood (2013), an epic about the dissolution of an American family in three generations; What We Are (2010), a New York Times Editor’s Choice, winner of the San Francisco Foundation’s...

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Lisa Mallette

Performing Artist: Actor, Stage Director

Now in her thirteenth season at City Lights, and her tenth as Executive Artistic Director, Lisa Mallette is also a member of the Theatre Bay Area Board of Directors, and chairs the TBA Theatre Services Committee. She is a graduate of both the...

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Leslie Martinson

Performing Artist: Actor, Stage Director

Leslie Martinson, previously Casting Director/Associate Artist and director of many hit TheatreWorks Productions, is the company’s Associate Artistic Director. Martinson has served as a director and administrator at TheatreWorks since 1984.

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Gary Masters

Performing Artist: Choreographer

Gary Masters (Founder and Co-Artistic Director) for sjDANCEco is the 2014 Isadora Duncan Awardee for Outstanding Achievement in Restaging/ Revival/Reconstruction for the company’s 2012 production of Joseé Limón ‘s The Moor’s Pavane and the...

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Ken Matsumoto

Visual Artist: Sculptor

Ken is a well-established and respected sculptor who holds a Masters of Fine Arts degree in sculpture from San Jose State University. His extensive track record includes solo and group exhibitions throughout California since the mid-1980’s. His...

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Janis Mattox

Performing Artist: Composer, Musician; Visual Artist: Computer Arts

Janis Mattox, composer and pianist, is a native of Minnesota and graduate of the University of Minnesota (BA) and Northwestern University (MA) in Evanston, Illinois. She began creating multi-media works merging live performance, dance, film, and...

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Therese May

Visual Artist: 3D, Textile

Therese May has been a leader in the creation and development of art quilting, recognized worldwide as a guiding light in the movement and one of its most inspiring advocates. Honored as both artist and teacher, she has been chosen to exhibit her...

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Victoria May

Educator; Visual Artist: Mixed Media

As a mixed media artist, Victoria’s work results in objects and installations that integrate contrasting materials and methods, creating a “different perspective between one’s surroundings and ordinary materials”. Victoria was an artist in...

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Elizabeth McKenzie

Literary Arts: Writer

Elizabeth McKenzie is the author of The Portable Veblen, forthcoming from Penguin in 2016. Her collection, Stop That Girl, was short-listed for The Story Prize, and her novel MacGregor Tells the World was a Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle...

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Kat Meads

Literary Arts: Poet, Writer

An award-winning writer of fiction, drama, nonfiction and poetry, Kat Meads is a native of eastern North Carolina. She holds an MFA from the University of North Carolina, Greensboro and a BA from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She...

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Stephanie Metz

Visual Artist: Sculptor

Stephanie Metz lives and works in San Jose, California and was a featured artist in Bay Area Currents 2009 at ProArts Gallery, Oakland, CA. She has exhibited at Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco and New York, and the San Jose Institute of Contemporary...

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Valerie Mih

Educator; Performing Artist: Composer; Visual Artist: Animator, Filmmaker

Valerie Mih is an animated filmmaker with a wide range of both studio and independent production experience. Commercially, she has animated for Pixar Animation Studios (Toy Story II, Geri’s Game, A Bug’s Life), Lucas Learning Limited (Star Wars...

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Joe Miller

Visual Artist: 3D

Joe Miller is a visual artist based in San Jose. His art combines found, acquired, and artist-made objects with text and image to comment on the place of the individual in our manufactured environment. Recent exhibits at local venues include Art Ark...

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Cathleen Miller

Literary Arts: Writer

Cathleen Miller is a bestselling author and, since 2004, has been a professor of creative writing at San Jose State University. Cathleen has taught hundreds of students – many of whom have gone on to become successful writers, editors, and teachers...

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Una Mjurka

Visual Artist: Ceramist

Una Mjurka was born in Riga, Latvia. She received an Artist Expert degree from Riga Applied Arts School and a BA in Ceramics from Art Academy of Latvia. In 1994 Mjurka moved to the U.S. to continue her education at Humboldt State University (Arcata,...

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Kimberly Mohne Hill

Literary Arts: Writer; Performing Artist: Producer, Stage Director

Kimberly Mohne Hill received her MFA in Acting from the American Conservatory Theater (A.C.T.). Currently an Associate Professor of Acting, Voice & Speech, and Dialects at Santa Clara University (SCU), Hill continues to direct and dialect coach...

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Henry Mollicone

Performing Artist: Composer

As a resident of San Jose California, Mr. Mollicone has worked actively as a free-lance conductor of opera, symphonic, and new music ,while holding various university teaching posts. Music composed during this period include the operas HOTEL EDEN...

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Kenna Moser

Visual Artist: Painter

My studio is full of objects that inspire, and piles of old botanical books, dictionaries and letters to be used in my work. I begin by gluing original vintage letters, envelopes and collage to a wood panel; a signature layer of beeswax follows...

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