The Board of Directors
Frank Shawl, President
Frank Shawl is the co-founder with Victor Anderson of the Shawl-Anderson Dance Center. Frank has been active as a teacher, performing dancer and choreographer in the Bay Area for approximately 50 years. The Shawl-Anderson Dance Company was an active dance repertory group in the 1960s and 1970s and spawned many of today's prominent dance artists. Prior to coming to the Bay Area, Frank performed mainly in New York City. He appeared in numerous Broadway and network television shows and toured throughout the United States and Canada. He appeared in concert with the late Charles Weidman and for over eight years with the May O'Donnell Dance Company. He returned to New York in the role of assistant to Miss O'Donnell, as well as having taught, directed, and performed in Amsterdam and throughout the Netherlands.
Beth Fein, Vice President
Beth Fein has been a working artist and dancer for over thirty years in the Bay Area.
She is an accomplished visual artist whose work has been displayed in galleries and museums across the country, and is currently an Artist-in-Residence at Kala Art Institute in Berkeley, CA. Fein is also the creator of the conceptual dance/performance work, dance anywhere, which takes place internationally every April.
Aileen Kim, Treasurer
Aileen Kim is the Program Coordinator for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at UC Berkeley. She is a choreographer and has performed in Germany, Japan, and the United States in works ranging from classical ballet to dance theater, and is an Isadora Duncan Dance Award recipient. Her recent works have been presented by the West Wave Dance Festival, the Dance IS Festival, and Asian American Dance Performances. She is a member of Terrain, a Dance and Performance Collective, and additionally serves on Choreographers' Performance Alliance board and Dance IS Festival Steering Committee.
Rebecca Johnson, Secretary
Rebecca Johnson is the Development Manager for Family Support Services of the Bay Area. Ms. Johnson has over seven years of professional fundraising experience in non-profit settings including grant writing, donor communications, major gifts campaigns and event planning. She earned her Master of Education degree from the University of New Hampshire and Bachelor of Arts degrees in English Literature and Modern Dance from Rutgers University. Ms. Johnson also performs, choreographs and teaches dance in the Bay Area and has toured nationally with Paufve Dance and Nina Haft and Company. Recently, her own work has been presented by the Dance IS Festival, Watchword Press and Works-in-the-Works.
Steve Siegelman, Board Member
Steve Siegelman is a Berkeley-based writer. He has written or contributed to more than 30 cookbooks, including Firehouse Food and The Pancake Handbook. He is cofounder and editorial director of The Book Kitchen, a boutique publishing company, and creative director of the food group at Ketchum, a PR and marketing agency. He has written for several nationally televised cooking series featuring such chefs as Mario Batali, Rick Bayless and Martin Yan. Steve has been a student at Shawl-Anderson since 1996 and joined the board in 2008.