Performing Arts

  • Dan Caldwell, actor, drama educator

  • Will Marchetti, actor

  • Mimi Farina, Bread & Roses founder

  • David Myers, cinematographer

  • Lee Sankowich, theater director

  • Joan Deamer, middle school drama educator

  • David Roche, monologist

  • James Dunn, theater director

  • Cece Bechelli, dancer, dance educator

  • Michael Parra, choreographer, dancer

  • Gloria Unti, dancer, performing arts director

  • Rob Nilsson, filmmaker

  • Kathleen Quinlan, actor

  • Susan Brashear and Ben Cleaveland, actors, Tamalpais High Conservatory TheatreEnsemble co-directors

  • Naomi Newman, actor, theater founder

  • Sharon Boucher, actor, director

  • Sammy Hagar, musician, entertainer

  • Zoe Elton, Mill Valley Film Festival director of programming

  • Jim Lange, radio & television host 

  • Mort Sahl, comedian, political satirist

  • John Korty, filmmaker

  • Jasson Minadakis, Marin Theatre Company artistic director

  • Gary Yost

  • Annie Rosenthal Parr

  • Phil Pastuhov

    Longtime Mill Valley resident Phil Pastuhov is an Academy Award-winning aerial director of photography with over 120 feature films and hundreds of commercials to his credit. He pioneered the use of drones to capture aerials and was a featured speaker at last Spring’s National Association of Broadcasters’ annual convention. For four decades he has created some of the most iconic movie scenes ever, from his “helmet cam” days shooting Bond films to the sweeping helicopter-fueled imagery of the Lord of the Rings trilogy; from the The Matrix and Jupiter Ascending to adrenaline-rush films like Mission Impossible 2, The Fast & the Furious, and the final scene of 2012’s The Bourne Legacy.

    Website: http://philpastuhov.com/Site/Demo.html

  • Tiffany Shlain

  • Larry Jordan

    Larry is an award-winning film, video and television director. Educated in Mill Valley schools and nurtured by the community’s surrounding natural beauty, he lends a wealth of talents to the world. After garnering attention in New York as a cutting edge, innovative music video editor in the early days of MTV, he returned to Mill Valley with his wife Simone to raise their children. A Primetime Emmy awardee and three-time nominee, he has directed top documentary and concert films for Sting, Mariah Carey, Tony Bennett, Boz Skaggs, The Who, Sir Elton John and many other musical icons.

  • Jeff Brown

    Jeff Brown has a larger-than-life presence in the Tamalpais Valley Community Services District. For the past seven years the Mill Valley resident has been author, director and technical designer of The Rhubarb Revue, an annual comedy revue that raises funds for the Tam Valley Improvement Club. For six of those years he also has worked on the annual Tam Valley Murder Mystery—directing, building sets, handling props and lights, acting, even developing special effects. During the summers he provides technical assistance for the Tam Valley community’s Creekside Fridays, a nine-week free concert series; during Halloween he creates ingenious technical illusions for the community’s Haunted House. These are just some of his projects. Jeff’s talent, creativity, enthusiasm and generous nature are legendary in Tamalpais Valley.