Keith A. Anderson (Director) Keith was a professional actor, director, and producer for over 35 years and more than 200 productions before he retired from professional theatre for health reasons. Since then he has enjoyed the more leisurely pace of community theatre and has directed 23 productions at the Coronado Playhouse, including Wait Until Dark, The Merchant of Venice, Picnic, The Fantasticks, Macbeth, Moon Over Buffalo, Everybody Loves Opal, Murder at the Vicarage, The Mousetrap (thrice), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (twice), Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, The Hollow (twice) The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, I Hate Hamlet, and Social Security (Coronado Playhouse Best Direction Awards and Aubrey nominations for the latter five). He was Artistic Director of the Southwest Ensemble Theater in Phoenix, a professional, resident theatre for 3 years and Drama Director for the City of Phoenix for 7 years. While working in Los Angeles, he was Associate Director and board member of Hollywood Actor’s Theatre and was involved with TV and film. He received his M.A. in theatre from Cal State LA. Of his many productions, the most notable was his direction of the World Premiere in 1973 of William Inge’s The Last Pad which starred then unknown actor Nick Nolte and won nominations from the LA Drama Critics’ Circle. While serving as Drama Director for the City of Phoenix, Anderson started the Phoenix Free Shakespeare Festival, supervised over 80 citywide drama classes, and sponsored a New Playwright’s Festival. His book, An Essay on the Meaning of Hamlet: A Director’s Approach was published in 1979.

Mary Anderson (Producer/Assistant Director) earned her BA in speech, English and drama at the University of Minnesota, her MA at SDSU and has taught for 32 years. Both an actress and technician, Mary has worked in all aspects of theatre, co-producing professional productions with the actor/director husband, Keith. She worked at Santa Barbara Rep as a costume designer and taught theatre classes at Grossmont and SBCC. She works full-time as the library media teacher at Bonita Vista High and works part-time as a library substitute at San Diego Public Library. A Coronado Playhouse Board Member, Mary has won numerous costuming and production awards.

Lee Dronick (Graphic Artist, Webmaster and Set Construction) Lee is a retired Navy Senior Chief. After his military service he worked for several software companies before starting his own graphic design and computer consulting firm. Lee was a theater technician during high school years and also worked in the school print shop, so doing projects for the Coronado Playhouse come natural to him. He would like to thank his wife Jennifer for putting up with his eccentricities.