Meet Our Team
2021 Virtual Directors
Tasha Spear
Tasha Spear is a US based director and choreographer who recently graduated with an MFA in Theatre Directing from The University of Essex: East 15 Acting School in the UK. She also holds a BA in Critical Theory & Social Justice from Occidental College. Tasha has been working in the theatre industry for over twenty years in various capacities. Some credits include Who’s on Zoom? (Lake Placid Center for the Arts-Director), Grímnismál (Or, The Magpie Play) (Command Fringe Festival-Director), Polyphemus (Stagebrush Theatre- Director), Grease (The Marriott Theatre Lincolnshire- Assistant Director), Footloose (Greasepaint Mainstage-Choreographer) and Frozen, Jr. (FHYT- Choreographer). She looks forward to the day when we can all congregate in a theatre together again and experience the magic of live performance, but until then she’s grateful to be able to make virtual theatre that helps inspire meaningful artistic expression. www.tashaspear.com
Yasmine Marie Jahanmir |
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Yasmine Marie Jahanmir is a scholar, director, and synchronized swimmer. She is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her wide-ranging academic work—on sport and performance, Middle Eastern popular theatre, and performance pedagogy—is rooted at the intersection of theater history, performance theory, and gender studies. As a director, she is passionate about collaborating to create playful, audacious, and colorful theatre that inspires and provokes. She has directed theater and short film projects in New York City, California, Arizona, Kuwait, and Nevada. She recently was awarded a Nevada Humanities grant, in collaboration with Rosie Brownlow-Calkin, to engage the Veteran community in theatre-making. www.yasminejahanmir.com
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Ciera Eis
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Ciera Eis (she/her) is a director and producer. She currently resides in San Francisco and is the Co-Artistic Director of FaultLine Theatre, the New Works Producer of Custom Made Theatre, the Creative Producer of Pint Sized Plays, and the Manager of Individual Giving at Magic Theatre. She is passionate about developing socio-political new work, supporting emerging artists, and exploring space through immersion. She has developed new work at American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Magic Theatre, The Curran, and been in the room with playwrights such as Taylor Mac, Naomi Iizuka, Luis Alfaro, Mfoniso Udofia, Octavio Solis, Kimber Lee, and Will Eno. Recent directing credits include: The Lost Ballad of our Mechanical Ancestor (Shotgun Players), Every Brilliant Thing (Saint Mary’s), In the Dark (Playground-LA), You Had Me At Hello (FaultLine), The Official Unicorn Hunter’s Guide (Winner of Shortlived VIII), and three commissioned media projects through Shotgun Players. She is currently in the SDCF Observer Class 2019-2021 and graduated from University of California, Santa Cruz with a double in Directing and Psychology. www.cieraeis.com
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Virtual Education Coordinator
Kevin Reams
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Kevin Reams was the Artistic Director at Thunder Bay Theatre in the fall of 2013 and spring of 2014, directing such wonderful shows as: Beauty and the Beast, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Grey Gardens, Miss Nelson is Missing, Boeing Boeing, Almost Maine, Sylvia, and Unnecessary Farce. He was also an actor for TBT back in the fall seasons of 2005 and 2006. Kevin holds a bachelor's degree in Theatre from the University of Central Florida. In the United States, he performed in 26 states with various touring theatre groups. Internationally, he has taught drama in South Korea, Hong Kong, China, and the Philippines. He sailed with both Carnival and Holland America Cruise Lines as an entertainment and activities host. Currently, he is in the Philippines with his three dogs where he has taught acting for six years at two different film schools.
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