Jamie Lyons

(co-founding artistic director) Avid surfer, educator, writer, filmmaker, sailor and stage director who received his AB and PhD from Stanford University. For theatre he has worked at the Mark Taper Forum, Magic Theatre, The Public Theater, La Mama ETC, PS122, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and for six years with the avant-garde New York based theatre company, Mabou Mines. Jamie’s directing work includes that of William Shakespeare (Hamlet, Macbeth, Othello, The Tempest), Cyril Tourneur (Revenger’s Tragedy), Samuel Beckett (Krapp’s Last Tape, Not I, Rockaby, Footfalls, Quad), Harold Pinter (Mountain Language), Sam Shepard (Cowboy Mouth, The Unseen Hand), Peter Weiss (Marat/Sade), Lee Breuer (Prelude to a Death in Venice) and Heiner Müller (Hamletmachine). In recent years Jamie has taught at Stanford University, UCLA, USF, Yale and San Quentin State Prison.