Our Board of Directors

Artistic Director
​Deb Streusand

​Deb Streusand has been Artistic Director of Rosedale Shakespeare (formerly Something for Nothing Theater Company) since 2015. She holds an MFA in Shakespeare and Performance from Mary Baldwin University.

For Rosedale Shakespeare, she has directed The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, and Troilus and Cressida. She also recently directed Richard III for Last Act Theatre Company. Her next project with Rosedale Shakespeare is Cymbeline, opening in June 2019.

She recently completed a PhD in English, specializing Shakespeare, from UT Austin. 

Associate Artistic Director
Lemons Clemons

Lemons Clemons has worked with numerous theater companies in town, most recently with Rosedale Shakespeare on their productions of Macbeth and Twelfth Night, or What You Will as a dramaturg. They have adapted scripts, acted, built props and sets, but their proudest theater accomplishment to date is NOT burning down a single set or building.

Managing Director
​Allison Dillon

Allison Dillon holds a BA in English from The University of Texas at Austin and a MA in Shakespeare Studies from King’s College London. Allison previously served as the outreach assistant for Shakespeare at Winedale, where she taught Shakespeare through performance to elementary-aged students in underserved Austin communities. She is currently the Grants Program Officer at Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, where she works with non-profits across the state to support public humanities programming

​Director of Publicity and Marketing
​Heidi Penix

​​Heidi Penix recently appeared in Rosedale Shakespeare's productions of Twelfth Night and Much Ado About Nothing. She has had the privilege of performing with a number of theater companies in Austin and is excited to be able to take on this new role as a member of Rosedale Shakespeare's production team. When she is not performing, she is working as the Program Director for the Children's Justice Act grant in Texas.

Founder
​Chelsea Bunn

Chelsea Bunn is an actor, improvisor, and writer based in Austin, Texas. She founded S4N in 2012, directing and producing their first three productions: The Comedy of Errors, Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Hamlet. She performs regularly with Loverboy Comedy (named “Best Improv Troupe” by ColdTowne students and performers in 2016 & 2017).

​Her other credits include writing and performing in Heckle Her’s Doper than Dope (B Iden Payne Award Winner for Outstanding Production of a Comedy 2016) and directing the ColdTowne Theater main stage production, Missed Connections ATX. Some of the more unusual skills on her theatrical resume include: butoh, shadow puppetry, and wig making.

You can learn more about her acting and commercial credits here.

Our Guiding Principles

Photo Credit: Michael O'Reilly
Left to right: a skull, Hannah Adrian (Gravedigger), and another skull

Photo Credit: Maureen Cantara Jochetz
Left to right: Catherine Grady (Beatrice) and Lily Pipkin (Hero)

Photo Credit: Michael O'Reilly
Left to right: captivated audience member and Travis Bedard (Falstaff)

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Contact Information

Email:
S4Ntheater@gmail.com

Facebook:
Facebook.com/S4Ntheater

Ramsey Park:
4301 N. Rosedale Avenue

Rosedale Shakespeare is a sponsored project of the Austin Creative Alliance, a non-profit arts service organization. To learn more about the Austin Creative Alliance, visit: www.austincreativealliance.org.