Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies

Staff & Faculty Production Team

Please note that bios are not available for all members of the production team. Refer to the printed program for a full list of production credits.

Jamila Cobham

Production Manager

Jamila is a production manager and event producer with experience working in the United States and the Caribbean. Previously, she was the Production Manager for Cal Shakes (California Shakespeare Theater) where she managed numerous classics, as well as new works, that presented a diverse range of perspectives. Jamila was also the Interim Production Manager for Magic Theatre; freelance Stage Manager for FieldTech Staging Solutions Inc; Event Planner for Barbados' National Cultural Foundation; and Interim Theater Manager and Stage Manager for The Errol Barrow Center for Creative Imagination (EBCCI). Jamila holds an MFA in Production Technology and Management from Carnegie Mellon University and a BA in Psychology from The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus. 

Rebecca J. Ennals

Stage Management Advisor

Rebecca J. Ennals (she/her) spent 21 seasons on the staff of San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, including 10 seasons as Artistic Director, where she oversaw all aspects of production, education, and artistic programming. She currently works as a producer, Equity stage manager, director, educator, and community engagement facilitator for A.C.T. She is passionate about the role of the stage manager in co-creating collaborative and supportive cultures in which diverse theater-makers can thrive. Her interests include free civic theater, increasing access to the arts, and environmentally responsible theater-making in the time of climate crisis. Ennals holds an M.F.A. from UC Davis and a B.A. from Scripps College and is a graduate of Directors’ Lab West. She was born and raised in the South Bay and now lives in San Francisco with her partner, two young children, and two perfect kittens.

Robin Maegawa 

Technical Director

Robin Maegawa (They/Them) is the Technical Director for TDPS. They are a graduate of the USC School of Dramatic Arts, holding a BFA in technical direction. They have previously worked as a freelance carpenter and props artisan at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and assistant prop shop manager at American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco.

Tim Kopra 

Scene Shop Supervisor & Lead Carpenter

Tim Kopra is the Scene Shop Supervisor and Lead Carpenter for TDPS. He is an artist and educator living and working in Oakland, California. Tim received his MFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2015. Since then he has continued an interdisciplinary art practice investigating, and often collaborating, with the architectural and natural landscapes of the Western United States. Tim has fabricated large scale works and led sculptural immersive experiences throughout California, most notably with MORE Lab, Cathartic Productions, LAME Arts, and Gordon Huether Studio. He has been exhibiting internationally since 2009, notably at Gallerie Califa in the Czech Republic, Fort Mason Center in San Francisco, Aggregate Space Gallery Oakland, Robert Blitzer Gallery Santa Cruz, and Mills College Art Museum.

Zoë Casey

Scenic Artist

Zoë started her theatrical career at a young age, performing and creating for family plays. Her first design work was helping her mother to make props and costumes for her family performance in the Commedia Dell'arte show at the Renaissance Faire. She continued her theater studies at Concordia University’s design and production program in Montreal, where she did her first scenic painting. Creating the sets for her shows in university inspired her to go to grad school at California Institute of the Arts, where she specialized in scenic art. She then worked as a scenic artist in television, film, and theater in Los Angeles before settling in the Bay Area. She has worked on hundreds of productions at theaters all around the Bay, and has learned how to bike with several roller poles and buckets and not crash (well... not often).

Properties Director

Peet Cocke 

Peet Cocke is a director, playwright, and designer. His recent directing credits include Adam Esquenazi Douglas’s Pinned Butterfly, Susan Sobeloff’s Jubilee, and Naomi Wallace’s No Such Cold Thing. His original plays include Crush and Hum, Extraordinary Mysteries, Even at A Funeral, a movement piece, Already Done to You, and original adaptation of the novel Voices, by Ursula Le Guin, entitled Through the Glass Darkly. His scenic and lighting design work includes Peter and the Starcatcher, Silent Sky, The Three Musketeers, Fete de la Nuit, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Nights Dream, and Gruesome Playground Injuries. For more information visit peetsbrain.com

Denise Umland

Costume Director

Denise Umland started her career over 30 years ago working as a stitcher in the Maryland/DC area for Theater on the Hill’s summer stock, and costume designed and shop managed at McDaniel and Goucher Colleges. She then started working as an over hire at Olney Theatre Center for the Arts (Olney, MD) and quickly moved up to Assistant Costume Shop Manager, then to Costume Shop Manager, and eventually becoming Costume Shop Manager at Round House Theatre (Bethesda, MD) and Signature Theatre (Arlington, VA). Denise has worked several seasons as Assistant Costume Shop Manager and First Hand at Wolf Trap Opera Company, and First Hand/Stitcher at Sarasota Opera and was Costume Director at Florida Grand Opera (Miami, FL). Denise has also served as Wardrobe Supervisor for two Nutcrackers, the first being Olney Ballet School using the costumes from the Washington National Ballet’s Mary Day’s costumes, and more recently, the Santa Barbara Festival Ballet which employs several principal dancers from the San Francisco Ballet and the Dance Theater of Harlem. In the Baltimore/DC metro area, Denise was a costume designer working at many of the smaller theaters as well as a company member of Faction of Fools, a commedia dell’arte company in residence at Gallaudet University who casts Deaf students with professional actors (some of her favorite designs were for Hamlecchio, Our Town, and A Christmas Carol).

Aurie Stetzel

Lead Costume Shop Technician

Aurie Stetzel holds a Master’s of Fine Arts in Sustainable Fashion Design from UC Davis and a Bachelor’s of Science in Apparel Design and Merchandising with an emphasis in Costume Design from San Francisco State University. Aurie has over eight years of professional experience in costume design, working extensively with theater companies across the Bay Area, though her passion and practice of costume design has been lifelong. Following her work on the feature film Fairyland (released 2023), she took on various stitching and wardrobe roles at the Orpheum, Curran and Golden Gate Theaters for Broadway SF. From 2022-2024, Aurie served as the lead stitcher at the San Francisco Ballet, and continued her costume work at the San Francisco Opera and Broadway San Jose. Aurie designed shows for Playground Theatre and served as lead stitcher for Marin Theatre Company for the 2024-2025 season. Some of the other theatres for which she’s done design, building, stitching and wardrobe from 2017 onward include Aurora Theatre, California Shakespeare Theatre, Crowded Fire Theatre, Lamplighters Theatre, and more. A long-standing member of IATSE Local 784, she has worked extensively as a designer, costume builder, stitcher, and dresser, and has years of custom design experience for independent clients and arthouse projects.

Ethan Schmidt

Production A/V Engineer

Ethan Schmidt is a sound technician and dungeon crawler who has been with Cal Performances since 2021. Before coming to the Bay Area, they were the Audio Department Head for the Morrison Center (Boise, ID), working alongside touring productions of Les Misérables, The Play That Goes Wrong, Waitress, and more. They have worked with Josh Ritter, Kristin Chenoweth, Angélique Kidjo, William Kentridge, and many other artists over the years. She Kills Monsters will be their fifth production with TDPS.

Dio Ramirez

Theater Production Supervisor & Lead Lighting Electrician

Dio Ramirez (they/them) is the Theater Production Supervisor and Lead Lighting Electrician. They began their theater career at Cal (TDPS 2015). They worked as a freelance lighting technician and light board programmer for venues across the Bay Area, including: BerkeleyRep, Calshakes, SF Playhouse, Smuin Ballet, and Marin Theater Company.