Claire Mosher
president

Claire Mosher holds a bachelors in anthropology and nursing and a master's degree in anthropology. She has had a varied career from archaeology to nursing. She currently managing technical publications for a software company in San Francisco. She has been on the board of the Shotgun
Player's since its inception and continues to enjoy working with them.

Patrick Dooley
artistic director

Patrick Dooley is the artistic director and founder of the Shotgun Players. He launched the Shotgun Players with a production of David Mamet's play Edmond in July of 1992. Patrick received a BA in English from James Madison University of Virginia. He was a founding member of the International touring company, The Shenandoah Shakespeare Express where have scores of regional theatre acting credits and two directing credits for A Midsummer Night's Dream in 1990 and Julius Caesar in 1996. He also spent a summer with New York University's boot camp theatre program, The Practical Aesthetics Workshop. He has directed over thirty plays since founding the Shotgun Players in 1992. Some of Mr. Dooley's Shotgun Player directing credits include: All Men are Whores, The Shawl, The Lover, Merchant of Venice, Dr. Faustus (for which he won 2 Dramalogue Awards for Direction and Production), The Birthday Party, Baal and Henry V (for which Shotgun won the 1998 Bay Guardian Black Box Award). His crowning achievement is creating a theatre company that is affordable to the general public and where artists want to come and work.

Lois Schwartz
secretary

Lois Schwartz is lecturer-in-residence at Boalt Hall School of Law in Berkeley. She received three degrees from the University of Chicago: a
B.A. in 1967, an M.A. in English in 1972, and an M.A. in Library Science in 1990.

She received her J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1989. She is also an unreconstructed lover of the theater and has arranged her legal and academic career to allow her to keep a watchful eye on the Shotgun Players. Lois is delighted to be entering her sixth year on the Board.

Mina Morita
treasurer

Mina Morita received her B.F.A. at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts with a focus in theatre direction. She has produced, directed and designed theatre in New York City and in the San Francisco Bay Area with companies including, but not limited to: HERE Center for the Arts, The American Living Room Program, Shotgun Players and Brava. She is currently working at Kaiser Permanente's Educational Theatre Programs (ETP) as a Director/Program Coordinator and has also served at ETP as the Theatre Business Manager. Mina also currently sits as on the Board of Directors Active Arts Theatre for Young Audiences.

Katherine Avila
director

Katherine Avila is currently a marketing director for 24 Hour Fitness Inc, the largest privately held fitness company in the nation. She leads a twelve person internal creative agency that is responsible for all company-wide creative campaigns. Katherine majored in Fashion Marketing and went on to receive a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.

Ann Gabor Arancia
director

Ann is a Holocaust survivor who was born and raised in Hungary. She attended Leiden University in Holland, received her A.A. at Merritt College and her B.A. in Anthropology at UC Berkeley. She began her work in the US as a social worker for Alameda County worked there from 1966-83. Over the years she has represented the art work of many local painters and has organized numerous events. She has served on the boards for Berkeley Auxiliary, Berkeley Early Childhood Education and Teen Parent Program. She is currently a docent at the Oakland Museum.