Matt Shelton is the son of two artists, Jean Shelton and the late Robert Elross. After graduating from the University of California at Santa Barbara he began studying and acting in plays to begin what he considers his true formal education. Besides his parents, early artistic influences came from Broadway actor/director and Group Theatre member Wendell Phillips. He studied acting in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Other artistic influences came from two Russian Director/Actors Oleg Liptsin (Russian Academy of Theater Arts, Moscow) and Sasha Tihiy (Moscow Shukin Theatre School). After a series of San Francisco play performances, he received his Equity Stage card by performing in Orphans at the Marin Theatre Company to wide critical acclaim. As a natural comedian one of his performances in Laughing Wild was reviewed as "easily the finest comedic performance on the San Francisco stage." As a performer he has acted in classics such as; Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Long Days Journey into Night, Of Mice and Men, Death of A Salesman, The Seagull and others. He has performed in radio, television commercials, film and theater and has directed/produced over 50 theatre productions including the landmark productions of Edmond, Glengarry Glen Ross, Marat/Sade, The Big Funk, Noises Off, A Streetcar Named Desire, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Cherry Orchard, and many others. He has acted, directed, produced, and taught over the last 30 years and in 1993 he founded the Shelton Theater where he continues to work with veteran Bay Area actors and directors while providing opportunity to new artists. He has also taught acting at the College of the Arts and the San Francisco Art Institute. He is Artistic Director of the Shelton Theater and Shelton Studios where the art of acting in cinematic and theatrical performance is studied and created.

Margery Fairchild is a Director, Actor and Choreographer based in San Francisco. She is the founder/ artistic director of Dark Porch Theatre and has been making original theatre in the Bay Area for 12 years. She wrote and directed Hen, the Musical, Under The Bed, The In Betweens, Eleanor (2011 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Achievement in Playwriting and Nominated for Best Original Musical Production) and Pas De Quatre. With an extensive dance and literary background, Ms. Fairchild's class will focus on textual comprehension, clear theatrical objective and exploring the physicality of character work.

Oleg Liptsin is an internationally renowned drama director, actor, and educator. During the last 15 years he has directed theatre productions, conducted classes and workshops in the United States, Canada, India, France, Austria, Spain, Poland and native Ukraine. His main credits include Sophocle's Antigone, Joyce's Ulysses, Chekov's Cherry Orchard, Shakespeare's Hamlet, Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, and Beckett's Endgame. Oleg was awarded the "Best Director" prize in Ukraine, the National Award for Experimental Work in Theatre. He has participated in dozens of international festivals and projects. Currently he teaches in Paris, Moscow and in San Francisco with the Shelton Studios.

Kindrid Parker is a writer, award-winning filmmaker, and founding member of San Francisco-based production company Last Wave Film. He grew up in Columbia, South Carolina writing stories and experimenting with Super 8 film, video tape, and audio recording. He made his way to San Francisco in 1992 and began his creative career publishing fiction and experimental prose through a number of literary journals, including the post-punk, rogue publication 3am and the half-century-old surrealist cornerstone The Walrus. His voice as a writer and longtime experimentation with film naturally met, and in early 2007, Kindrid founded his production company, Last Wave Film.
The films he's written and directed have been on view at various mainstays of the Bay Area filmmaking community: The Pacific Film Archive/Berkeley Art Museum, The Artists' Television Access, The Knew Nothing, Ark 221 Gallery, The Cafe Revolution, The Space Gallery, and many others. His most recent film, Act III, Scene 1, a contemporary revision of William Shakespeare's Hamlet, won City Shorts Film Festival and is currently receiving outstanding public reception on the festival circuit. As a working producer and assistant director, Kindrid is also a vital contributor to countless Bay Area productions. Informed by his background as a writer, his films are literary, visceral, hypnotic, and fitful; operating according to the rhythms and logic of the id. Kindrid is currently in pre-production on his feature film Trubble, an impressionistic coming of age allegory about children in the deep south.