Sheila Devitt

Sheila Devitt (she/her) is a San Francisco-based performer, educator, director and producer. She has served on the Board of Directors at the Vortex Theatre, ABQ; produced Reading the Kilroys List; served as founding member and Managing Director of Bacchus Players, summer Shakespeare at Coppola Winery; Assistant Managing Director at Theatre of Yugen; Communications Manager for the Bay Area Consortium of Ensemble Theatres; a co-producer of the 2020 Bay Area Women’s Theatre Festival; regional coordinator of the StateraArts mentorship program. She has performed nationally and internationally, including the GALA Choruses Festival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, and the Hosho Noh Theatre, Tokyo. She has collaborated with playwrights Erik Ehn, Chiori Miyagawa and Katie Pearl, among others. She has trained with Augosto Boal in Theatre of the Oppressed; Moscow Art Theatre School in Stanislavsky technique and Chekhov; Viewpoints with Mary Overlie; Lunatique Fantastique in found-object puppetry; Theatre of Yugen and Theatre Nohgaku in classical Japanese Noh drama and Kyogen comedy. She is equally excited by classical, multilingual, new and devised plays, and joyously collaborates with living writers, with a special emphasis on female playwrights. She is a graduate of the University of New Mexico, with a focus on bilingual performances of Federico Garcia Lorca’s pastoral trilogy. She is a member of Theatre Bay Area since 2003 and Theatre Communications Group since 1997.