Staff Bios

Denise Benjamin (Office & Facilities Assistant) is new to San Francisco and the Mime Troupe and is very excited to be here! She has been involved in the Renaissance Faires mostly in Central California for about 15 years doing everything from acting gigs and research to a mountain of sewing plus other crafts. When not working she likes to write short stories and run around the City with her two amazing daughters and search for more craft stores.

Jenee Gill (Managing Director) has spent the past 20-odd years working in the theatre & non-profit arts communities, both in San Francisco and Los Angeles. After earning a B.A. in Theatre from UCLA, she spent a number of years performing in and managing educational theatre programs in Southern California, working primarily with homeless and incarcerated youth in productions that focused on issues of substance abuse, domestic violence and AIDS prevention. Those same years were spent overseeing a homeless feeding program in Hollywood, serving as a near-volunteer stage manager in less-than-99-seat houses around town, and at one point raising a ruckus with some friends onstage in an agitprop theatrical reaction to the Gulf War. The more keen-eyed of you (blink and you missed it!) may have seen her as Patricia in Gregg Araki’s gay teen angst movie, “Totally F***ed Up.” In San Francisco - prior to becoming a parent, when she still had the energy to stay up later than 10 p.m. - she created and performed various solo shows at The Climate & Marsh theatres, while earning an M.A. in Arts Education & Administration at SF State. She has served as the Outreach Director at Young Audiences of the Bay Area, Executive Director of TILT, “Adventures in Music” Coordinator at the SF Symphony, Director of the Children’s Art Center at Fort Mason, and most recently, as the Operations & Finance Manager of AcroSports. Jenee, her 14 year-old son & baby-daddy live with their rambunctious pit-bull mix and sickly, shedding cat in Bernal Heights.

Erica Lewis-Finein (Publicist)

Jerome Moskowitz (Development Director) worked as a grantwriter for American Conservatory Theater from 1993 to 1998, eventually advancing to the position of associate director of development. He has worked for the Mime Troupe in a consulting capacity since November 1998, where he has increased the company’s success rate at grant solicitation, developed a stable core of major donors, and helped with strategic planning and management issues. Jerome helped to plan the Mime Troupe’s 40th anniversary celebrations in 1999 and will do the same for the upcoming 50th festivities in 2009. When not working with the Mime Troupe and other nonprofit clients, Jerome can be found pursuing his passion for performing cabaret and musical theater. In summer 2008, he was one of 36 students selected from a nationwide audition to participate in the sixth annual Cabaret Conference at Yale University.

Michele Rudenko (Bookkeeper)

Wan-Yin Tang (Tour Manager, Emerging Artist in Residence) is a recent graduate of the University of California, Santa Cruz, a performer, director, and most recently teacher of theater. In the past, she has been heavily involved with UCSC's multi-cultural theater troupe, Rainbow Theater, and has also served as artistic director for UCSC's student theater company, BarnStorm. She started off as an intern and workshopper at the troupe, and is now currently ecstatic to be working with the Youth Theater Project and the Troupe's summer season. The Troupe is her wacky family and home away from home, and she is so glad to be working here as an artist as well as a member of the staff!


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