Staff

Artistic Director Davis McCallum
dmccallum (at) hvshakespeare.org

Managing Director Katie Liberman
kliberman (at) hvshakespeare.org

Director of Marketing and Communications Amy Brown
abrown (at) hvshakespeare.org

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

Director of Production Nora McNally-Reif
mcnallyreif (at) hvshakespeare.org

Director of Development L.Michelle Palmour
lmpalmour (at) hvshakespeare.org

Finance Director Linda Patterson
lpatterson (at) hvshakespeare.org

Manager of Sales and Membership Scotty Arnold
sarnold (at) hvshakespeare.org

Bookkeeper Gina Marie Miele
gmmiele (at) hvshakespeare.org | 845.809.5750 x14

Executive Assistant Paloma Wake
pwake (at) hvshakespeare.org

Davis McCallum

Artistic Director

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

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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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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Scotty Arnold

Manager of Sales and Membership

Scotty joined HVSF in 2018 after opening the box office of the Women’s...

Scotty joined HVSF in 2018 after opening the box office of the Women’s Project in their new home, the McGinn/Cazale Theatre. He has spent three summers as the resident composer at the Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, and his musical When We’re Gone received its world premiere at the Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma. He studied at Santa Clara University (BA: Theatre Arts, Music) and New York University (MFA: Musical Theatre Writing), and has completed artist residencies at the Rhinebeck Writers Retreat, Space at Ryder Farm, New York Stage & Film, and CAP21. He lives in Fishkill. scottyarnold.com

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Amy Brown

Director of Marketing and Communications

Amy joined HVSF in 2019 after leading the Communications Department for five...

Amy joined HVSF in 2019 after leading the Communications Department for five years at Storm King Art Center. Before moving back to the Hudson Valley, Amy worked in design and advertising in New York City. She received a BFA in Visual Communications, with minors in Advertising and Interactive Media from the University of Delaware. In her free time, she enjoys sewing, hiking, and practicing calligraphy. Originally from Poughkeepsie, Amy now lives in Beacon with her husband, Tom, and their dog, Jake.

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Nora McNally-Reif

Director of Production

Originally from Albany and raised in Takoma Park, MD, Nora has worked as...

Originally from Albany and raised in Takoma Park, MD, Nora has worked as a production manager in New York City since 2012. Nora is a graduate of Fordham University and has previously worked at Atlantic Theater Company, Roundabout Underground, Play Company, and most recently as the Associate Production Manager at Second Stage Theater. Nora is passionate about exploring sustainable producing practices and is excited to join the HVSF team.

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L. Michelle Palmour

Director of Development

In September 2020, Michelle joined Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival as...

In September 2020, Michelle joined Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival as the Director of Development. From 2017-2020, Michelle served as the Major Gifts Officer for Atlantic Theater Company, working on the private phase of a capital campaign and the acquisition of large gifts to the annual fund. Previously, she was the Development Manager at Film Forum and the Manager of Membership and Marketing at The Shakespeare Society (now merged with The Public Theater and called The Shakespeare Initiative). In 2011, Michelle completed her MA in Shakespeare Studies at King’s College, which collaborated with Shakespeare’s Globe in London. During her MA programme, she interned at the Globe Theatre in the Development Department. Michelle also holds degrees in English and Film Studies from Emory University in Atlanta, GA, and studied abroad at Charles University in Prague. Most recently, she co-produced “Bounded in a Nutshell” – a donation-based web series with award-winning actor Chukwudi Iwuji with guests like John Lithgow, Annie Potts, Lily Rabe & Hamish Linklater, Blair Underwood, Richard Linklater, Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Jessica Hecht, Bruce Norris, and more. The series was a fundraiser for restaurant artists affected by Covid-19 and later for Figure Skating in Harlem – a long-standing sports and education non-profit organization.

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