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.

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.

Scott Horton , Board Member
For more than 30 years, Scott Horton has been a leader in communications and marketing for non-profit arts and cultural organizations. He has held staff positions at Oakland Ballet, San Francisco Opera and Spoleto Festival USA and his clients as an independent consultant since 1988 have included American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Performances, San Francisco Ballet, San Francisco Symphony, CalPerformances, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir and dozens of Bay Area dance companies, among them Joe Goode Performance Group, ODC Theater, Janice Garrett + Dancers and others. His recent projects have included representing the combined San Francisco Boys Chorus and San Francisco Girls Chorus at the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington DC in January 2009, and the May 2010 reopening of the newly transformed Oakland Museum of California.