Staff

Artistic Director Davis McCallum
dmccallum (at) hvshakespeare.org

Managing Director Katie Liberman
kliberman (at) hvshakespeare.org | 845.809.5750 x11

Associate Artistic Director and Director of Education Sean McNall
smcnall (at) hvshakespeare.org | 845.809.5750 x19

Finance Director Linda Patterson
lpatterson (at) hvshakespeare.org | 845.809.5750 x21

Director of Development Catherine Taylor-Williams
ctwilliams (at) hvshakespeare.org | 845.809.5750 x12

Director of Marketing and Communications Emma Corey
ecorey (at) hvshakespeare.org | 845.809.5750 x17

Director of Community Engagement/Associate Producer Elizabeth Audley
eaudley (at) hvshakespeare.org | 845.809.5750 x18

Associate Director of Education Nora Wilcox
nora (at) hvshakespeare.org | 845.809.5750 x13

Production Manager Mike Vandercook
mvandercook (at) hvshakespeare.org

Development Associate Jena Hershkowitz
jhershkowitz (at) hvshakespeare.org | 845.809.5750 x16

Business Manager Regina Boscia
rboscia (at) hvshakespeare.org | 845.809.5750 x14

Davis McCallum

Artistic Director

Davis is in his fourth season as HVSF’s Artistic Director, and is...

Davis is in his fourth season as HVSF’s Artistic Director, and is honored to lead the company alongside Managing Director Kate Liberman. Under McCallum’s leadership, HVSF established HVStories, a multi-year exploration of the people, history, and culture of the Hudson Valley, and Full Circle, a community engagement program inspired by 2016's citizen-driven production of OUR TOWN. His extensive background with Shakespeare and the classics includes productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Guthrie, The Old Globe, The Pearl, the American Shakespeare Center, and The Acting Company. A graduate of Princeton, he studied Shakespeare at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar, and trained as a director at LAMDA. He has taught acting and directing at Princeton and The New School for Drama. He is the father of two sons, Thomas and Angus.

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Kate Liberman

Managing Director

Katie joined HVSF in March of 2015. She was previously the General Manager ...

Katie joined HVSF in March of 2015. She was previously the General Manager of The Laguna Playhouse in Southern California where she worked on strategic planning, a fiscal turnaround, and major capital improvements. She also served as the Associate Managing Director at Yale Repertory Theatre, Managing Director of Yale Summer Cabaret, and the Managing Director Fellow at Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Prior to graduate school, Kate was Associate Manager of Development at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC where she helped execute the successful $10M fundraising campaign for the international festival, Arabesque: Arts of The Arab World. She holds an MFA in theater management from Yale School of Drama and an MBA from Yale School of Management. At Yale, she was the recipient of the Daniel and Helene Sheehan Scholarship and the Morris J. Kaplan Prize for theater management. Kate completed her undergraduate work in English and Theatre Arts at the University of Pennsylvania, where she graduated summa cum laude. She was a 2006 recipient of the Harry S. Truman Scholarship and now serves as the President of the Truman Scholars Association Board of Directors. Originally from the Boston area, Kate is thrilled about settling in the Hudson Valley.

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Elizabeth Audley

Director of Community Engagement / Associate Producer

Elizabeth is a recent transplant to the Hudson Valley, and has worked in...

Elizabeth is a recent transplant to the Hudson Valley, and has worked in professional theater for over 20 years, as an actor, director, producer, and writer. Concurrently, she’s worked as a resource consultant for dozens of arts organizations across the country through Arts Action Research, a non-profit arts management consulting group. For the last ten years, she’s also worked as a community organizer, on national and local initiatives. She’s been a teaching artist for theaters in Milwaukee, Los Angeles, New York, and beyond, and has directed and taught acting at community colleges and other public universities, where her focus was ensemble-based, devised, and original student-written work. She has a BA from Brown University, and an MFA from Ohio University, with additional training from SITI Company, Pig Iron Theater, The Actor’s Studio, Fiasco Theater, The Alvin Ailey Center, LaMama, and The American Globe. She lives in Beacon with her husband, Martin Anderson, and their dog, Hazel.

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Regina Boscia

Business Manager

Regina joined us mid-season 2012 as our Business Manager. After enjoying...

Regina joined us mid-season 2012 as our Business Manager. After enjoying many HVSF shows over the years, she's delighted to now be a part of our mission. She comes to us with more than 20 years experience in business, including 12 years in the non-profit industry. A resident of Cold Spring for over 20 years, she and her husband have raised four children.

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Emma Corey

Director of Marketing and Communications

Emma joined HVSF in 2016 after working in marketing for Caramoor Center...

Emma joined HVSF in 2016 after working in marketing for Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts (Katonah, NY), where she helped reshape the organization’s brand voice and audience communications. Prior to Caramoor, she worked in marketing for the real estate industry and with several arts-focused non-profits, including ArtistTrust (Seattle, WA) and View Arts (Old Forge, NY). As a freelance designer and brand consultant, she has supported several small businesses and organizations throughout the northeast, handling everything from social media strategy to comprehensive rebranding and website overhauls. Emma received a bachelor of science in visual arts from the State University of New York at New Paltz with a concentration in painting and drawing, and completed a summer intensive in urban design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She and her fiancé, Ricardo, live across the river in Newburgh.

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Jena Hershkowitz

Development Associate

Jena comes to HVSF from Institutional Giving at BAM (Brooklyn Academy...

Jena comes to HVSF from Institutional Giving at BAM (Brooklyn Academy Music). She was a digital producer and production assistant for The Greene Space at New York Public Radio, where she wrote live event broadcast scripts and web features. She served as Partnership Coordinator for Film at the JCC in Manhattan, and coordinated international dance tours for DanceMotion USA, an initiative of the U.S. Department of State. Her proudest achievement was when she made the front page at WNYC.org. Brooklyn born and raised, Jena was a Posse Scholar at Colby College in Waterville, Maine.

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Sean McNall

Associate Artistic Director / Director of Education

Sean McNall is thrilled to return to Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival,...

Sean McNall is thrilled to return to Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, having played Romeo in 2001 just out of The Juilliard School of Drama. For the past twelve years he has been a member of The Pearl Theatre Resident Acting Company in New York City, where he appeared in over forty productions, receiving an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence of Performance and sharing a Drama Desk Award recognizing the Stalwart ensemble. His recent productions include Terrence McNally's And Away We Go, Shaw's You Never Can Tell, and Henry IV, Part One, directed by Davis McCallum. Sean was Director of Education and a teaching artist with The Pearl and is proud to have acquired significant funding to provide arts programming for children and teens throughout the five boroughs. He and his wife, Abigail, have a wonderful son named Declan.

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Linda Patterson

Finance Director

Linda has been working in the entertainment industry for over twenty-five...

Linda has been working in the entertainment industry for over twenty-five years. Before joining HVSF, she worked as a Finance Manager and Coordinating Producer on dozens of critically acclaimed, nationally broadcast documentaries. She is knowledgeable in all areas of business and finance management. Her previous production credits include Into the Deep: America, Whaling and the World, Death and the Civil War, Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film, Eugene O’Neill, and the New York series (with filmmaker Ric Burns), WNET’s Nature series, HBO undercover programs (with filmmaker Tom Simon), and the Emmy-award winning series Healing and the Mind with Bill Moyers. Linda graduated from the University of Delaware with a BA in English Literature, and holds an MBA in Accounting from the Fordham Graduate School of Business. She lives in Cold Spring with her two fantastic teenagers, Alii and Mason.

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Catherine Taylor-Williams

Director of Development

Catherine Taylor-Williams joined HVSF in 2015 as Director of Development....

Catherine Taylor-Williams joined HVSF in 2015 as Director of Development. She was Director of Individual Giving at St. Ann's Warehouse from 2012-15 where she increased individual giving by over 60% during a $31M capital campaign to build St. Ann's first permanent home in Brooklyn Bridge Park. She previously held development positions at the Atlantic Theater Company and Jacob's Pillow Dance, and was a 2008 Fellow of the DeVos Arts Management Program at The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. Catherine was the Producing Artistic Director and Founder of The Wharton Salon, producing the work of American novelist Edith Wharton at her home, The Mount, in Lenox, MA (2008-2014). She is also an alumna of the Women's Project Producers Lab in NYC. For seven years she was a company actor and Communications Associate at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox. Catherine is originally from Canada, where she worked for Shakespeare festivals including the Stratford Festival of Canada, Bard on the Beach (Vancouver), and Shakespeare by the Sea (Halifax). Catherine lives in Cold Spring with her husband Robert Serrell and son Lucas.

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Mike Vandercook

Production Manager

Mike has a BA from New College of South Florida, an M.A. in literary and...

Mike has a BA from New College of South Florida, an M.A. in literary and rhetorical theory from the University of New Orleans, and an MFA in Technical Design and Production from Yale School of Drama. He has served as the Director of Operations and Technical Director for the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center; working with The National Theater Institute, National Puppetry Conference, National Music Theater Conference, and the National Playwrights Conference. He served as assistant Technical Director for Lehigh University, and Technical Director for the Dorset Playhouse, Elm Shakespeare Company, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Mike has been Production Coordinator for the MFA program at Towson University and Production Manager for Baltimore Theatre Project. He has been a technical consultant for many artists and institutions including Eliza Jane Schneider, Lee Breuer, and the Raue Center for the Arts. He proudly served as an interim Operations Manager for Yale Repertory Theatre and Yale School of Drama. Mike was Producing Executive Director and a founding member of Generous Company and the Managing Director for WordBRIDGE Playwrights Laboratory, and Producing Director for Raue Center for the Arts in Crystal Lake Illinois. He is thrilled to embark on a new journey with Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and their impressive and professional staff.

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Nora Wilcox

Associate Director of Education

Nora has enjoyed working with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival over...

Nora has enjoyed working with the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival over the past nine years, during which she has helped oversee the development and expansion of the education department, increasing its reach by 143% (reaching 51,500 students, families and educators in 2016). As a freelance arts management consultant, she has assisted small, non-profits with everything from board development and training to social media and marketing strategy. She graduated with a bachelor of arts in journalism from SUNY Purchase in 2007 and immediately joined HVSF thereafter. She also has a professional certificate in Human Resources Practices from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Nora has grown up in the Hudson Valley and has enjoyed attending the festival since high school. She is happy to be involved in an organization that allows her to give to back to her local community.

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