Staff
Anna Shneiderman
Executive Director
Anna Shneiderman is a theatrical director and performer, a master teacher, and a creative arts administrator committed to working at the intersection of theatre, education, social justice and entrepreneurship. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and a Masters in Teaching from UC Berkeley, and her theatrical training includes work with Augusto Boal, Michael Rohd, SITI company, The Dell’arte School, and ZenZenZo. In 2014, after 10 years of successfully running and growing Ragged Wing Ensemble from a tiny theater company into a thriving arts non-profit, she spearheaded the opening of The Flight Deck. Both as an artist and as an organizational leader, Anna focuses on designing unique structures of collaboration that bring divergent voices into dialogue and create opportunities for connection.
Executive Director
Anna Shneiderman is a theatrical director and performer, a master teacher, and a creative arts administrator committed to working at the intersection of theatre, education, social justice and entrepreneurship. She holds a BA from the University of Chicago and a Masters in Teaching from UC Berkeley, and her theatrical training includes work with Augusto Boal, Michael Rohd, SITI company, The Dell’arte School, and ZenZenZo. In 2014, after 10 years of successfully running and growing Ragged Wing Ensemble from a tiny theater company into a thriving arts non-profit, she spearheaded the opening of The Flight Deck. Both as an artist and as an organizational leader, Anna focuses on designing unique structures of collaboration that bring divergent voices into dialogue and create opportunities for connection.
William Campbell
Technical Director
William Campbell is The Flight Deck's technical director.
Technical Director
William Campbell is The Flight Deck's technical director.
Nicholas Sherwin
General Manager
Nicholas Sherwin is an artistic director, event producer and product/project manager with a blended background in immersive installation design, operations management, and relationship marketing. In the experience design world, he is the founder and artistic director of Screenshot Productions, an immersive installation collective producing work in Los Angeles and San Francisco exploring objectless awareness and non-duality as a fundamental shift in the structure of consciousness. In addition, he has worked as a producing director, project manager and stage manager for various immersive theatrical companies including WePlayers and Vortex Productions (creators of the extreme theatrical event Blackout).
The mission in all the work Nicholas creates, regardless of form or medium, is to place the individual within universal experiences that speak to large social issues, and thereby ask the individual to consider their responsibility within a larger whole. He seeks to challenge the individual to find empathy and connection to others' experience and believes that immersive productions are a strong conduit for provoking thought and response in audience members.
Nicholas is currently studying to become both a project management professional (PMP) as well as a certified scrum master (CSM). He graduated with an MBA in Leadership and Managing Organizational Change from Pepperdine University and for his undergrad attended Biola University, graduating with a B.S. in Management Sciences.
General Manager
Nicholas Sherwin is an artistic director, event producer and product/project manager with a blended background in immersive installation design, operations management, and relationship marketing. In the experience design world, he is the founder and artistic director of Screenshot Productions, an immersive installation collective producing work in Los Angeles and San Francisco exploring objectless awareness and non-duality as a fundamental shift in the structure of consciousness. In addition, he has worked as a producing director, project manager and stage manager for various immersive theatrical companies including WePlayers and Vortex Productions (creators of the extreme theatrical event Blackout).
The mission in all the work Nicholas creates, regardless of form or medium, is to place the individual within universal experiences that speak to large social issues, and thereby ask the individual to consider their responsibility within a larger whole. He seeks to challenge the individual to find empathy and connection to others' experience and believes that immersive productions are a strong conduit for provoking thought and response in audience members.
Nicholas is currently studying to become both a project management professional (PMP) as well as a certified scrum master (CSM). He graduated with an MBA in Leadership and Managing Organizational Change from Pepperdine University and for his undergrad attended Biola University, graduating with a B.S. in Management Sciences.
Brandon Williamscraig
Communications Director
Brandon Williamscraig enjoyed a twenty-year career in the professional regional theater as an actor, director, vocalist, and dramaturg. After a national theater tour and relocation to California to become an aikido instructor and somatics practitioner, his focus grew to include social-entrepreneurship, learning and sharing leadership through community organizing, social action, and co-creating sustainable organizations. Increasing communication capacity continues to be his vocation, in order to engage in social justice culture-making. Toward this end, he completed a Ph.D. in cultural mythology and psychology, and teaches graduate students in Depth Psychology and Somatics at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He also co-founded and directs the nonprofit Association Building Community, one of several organizations which calls The Flight Deck home, and which hosts his Peace Practices project in order to synthesize and offer the skill sets of the martial artist, educator, performer, and facilitator through business consulting and in-school instruction.
Communications Director
Brandon Williamscraig enjoyed a twenty-year career in the professional regional theater as an actor, director, vocalist, and dramaturg. After a national theater tour and relocation to California to become an aikido instructor and somatics practitioner, his focus grew to include social-entrepreneurship, learning and sharing leadership through community organizing, social action, and co-creating sustainable organizations. Increasing communication capacity continues to be his vocation, in order to engage in social justice culture-making. Toward this end, he completed a Ph.D. in cultural mythology and psychology, and teaches graduate students in Depth Psychology and Somatics at Pacifica Graduate Institute. He also co-founded and directs the nonprofit Association Building Community, one of several organizations which calls The Flight Deck home, and which hosts his Peace Practices project in order to synthesize and offer the skill sets of the martial artist, educator, performer, and facilitator through business consulting and in-school instruction.