Production Team

Production Lead - Gary is a Bay Area native (born in SF) and has lived on the Bay Area peninsula and south bay for his entire life. As a performing artist he has been involved with singing, dancing, and acting since a young child he spent his youth with P. S. Performance, a bay area competitive performing arts company. He has been heavily involved in Bay Area Musical Theater and appeared in over 200 musicals with various theater companies as an actor, stage director and choreographer. He serves on the Board of Directors for Z-Space theater (SF), Woodside Community Theater and React Theater (Seattle).

He has been involved in Stage Presence productions since 2023 having Stage Directed/Choreographed Mean Girls, Into The Woods, Beetlejuice, Little Shop of Horrors, Carrie, and Hadestown Teen Edition. 

His passion with the youth theater arts sector is the cultivation of a safe environment to develop skills as amateur artists (singing, dancing and acting), as well as core life skills (kindness, being responsible, self-confidence).

Lighting Designer - Nicolas is a high school student at Capuchino High School and a well-rounded theatre artist and emerging technical designer with over a decade of experience at Spindrift School of Performing Arts. He began his journey onstage, performing in musicals, plays, and showcases, and has trained extensively in dance and voice throughout his time at SSPA. His strong foundation as a performer informs his artistic approach and deepens his understanding of what it takes to support a successful production. In recent years, Nicolas has shifted his focus to technical theatre, specializing in lighting design. He has led lighting design for numerous SSPA productions and partner school performances, and currently serves as the lead lighting designer for Capuchino High School’s theatre program. He has also contributed his skills to Pacifica Spindrift Players. Whether onstage or behind the scenes, Nicolas brings dedication, creativity, and professionalism to every production.

Technical Assistant - Jasper  is a high school student at Terra Nova High School. While originally an actor and performer with Spindrift and Terra Nova, he has since moved from working in front of the spotlight to working behind it. Jasper has experience in many different facets of theater tech, but has focused primarily on sound engineering and projections for projects like Beetlejuice and Grease. Though he is still a novice in many aspects of theater tech his dedication and quick problem solving shines through in every project he works on.