Staff and Board

Staff

The AATC Artistic Director search committee is in the midst of a nationwide search for a new Artistic Director.

Pearl Wong — Interim Managing Director
Pearl Wong is a native San Franciscan, and began volunteering with AATC in 1992. She is also a member of the sketch comedy troupe 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors, who were the subject of the documentary “Mighty Warriors of Comedy“, which aired nationally on PBS and received a 2007 Northern California Emmy® Award. As an actor, she has worked locally with Impact Theatre, Intersection for the Arts – Campo Santo Theatre, The Cutting Ball Theater, and Calaveras Repertory Theatre.

David Tsao — Interim Executive Director
David Tsao is an IT Security manager at Gilead Sciences Inc., has a photography and sound recording business, as well as a lighting and exit sign business (www.greentorch.com). He is a mentor for BUILD, an East Palo Alto high school non-profit that develops students’ business skills. David co-founded “Piano Fantasia,” a series of benefit piano concerts in honor of the Mondavis at his alma mater, Pacific Union College. David is interested in raising awareness of theater and music in all communities.

Darryl D. Chiang — Executive Director, emeritus
Darryl D. Chiang is Senior Corporate Counsel at Google Inc. in Mountain View, California, where he works on intellectual property licensing transactions for Google Maps and Google Earth. Darryl began his legal career in 1994 by clerking for Chief Judge Judith N. Keep of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California in San Diego. In 1995, he joined the San Francisco office of Latham & Watkins, where he practiced both corporate law and commercial litigation. In 1996, Darryl became Associate General Counsel of Bio-Rad Laboratories, a Latham client in the Bay Area’s bio-tech sector. From 2000 to 2006, Darryl worked at Hitachi America, Ltd., where he focused on business transactions and employment law. He joined Google’s Legal Department in 2006. Darryl earned his bachelors degree from Princeton University in 1990 and his J.D. degree from Harvard Law School in 1994. Based on a life-long love of the performing arts, he joined the Board of Directors of the Asian American Theater Company (AATC) in 2001, and has served as AATC’s Board Chair since 2005. In 2008, Darryl became AATC’s Interim Executive Director.

Board of Directors

Artistic Director
The Office of the Artistic Director maintains a seat on the Board of Directors.  AATC’s current Artistic Director shares this Board seat.

Conrad Corpus
Conrad Corpus is a professional services consultant at Genius.com, Inc. Outside of providing marketing and design consulting services to his customers, he enjoys photography, cycling, reading, and traveling. A native of the Bay Area, Conrad grew up in Fremont and currently resides in San Francisco. He studied international relations at San Francisco State University and in 2004 spent two months in the Komi Republic, Russia, on an HIV/AIDS education and outreach fellowship funded by IREX and USAID. Prior to his fellowship, he served as a program officer at the International Diplomacy Council in San Francisco. An avid cyclist, Conrad rides in the AIDS LifeCycle from San Francisco to Los Angeles. If time would allow, he would also love to continue learning ballet at the Academy of Ballet.

Nonoko Sato
Nonoko Sato is the Executive Director of Schools, Mentoring and Resource Team (SMART), an educational non-profit organization that provides advocacy as well as financial, academic and social support to motivated, financially-disadvantaged students and their families in San Francisco. Nonoko has been involved in the theater arts for over 20 years, predominantly as an actor with experience in stage and house management, as well as designing and running set/light/makeup/costume crews. Nonoko is a core company member of One4All Theater Company (CA), and Actors Anonymous Theatre Company (CA); most notably acting in the original ensemble of Beijing, California and as Meredith in 5 Women Wearing the Same Dress, respectively. She has also appeared on stage with Second Wind Productions, Theatre in the Woods, Calaveras Repertory Theatre, and The Uninvited Company. In addition to serving on the AATC Board, she served on the Advisory Board for Bay Area Neighbor’s Project , volunteers as the Team Leader for the Bay Area Carleton College Alumni Admissions Program, and participates bi-annually as an actor with Young California Writer’s Project, an organization that provides a forum for creative self-expression to under-served high school youth in San Francisco. Previous to SMART, she gained professional and volunteer experience in the fields of education, administration, graphic design, and IT. Nonoko grew up in Tokyo and Chicago and graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, with a B.A. in International Relations.

Deborah Shaw
Deborah Shaw is a native San Franciscan who did her undergraduate work at the University of San Francisco and got her master’s and credential at San Francisco State University. She has been teaching in the Theatre Arts Department at City College of San Francisco since 1987 and has also been known to teach at East Bay, San Jose City College and Co-Stars School of Performing Arts. She teaches such classes as Beginning Acting, Acting for the Camera and Character Development/Scene Study. She has appeared in shows around the Bay Area (Linda Low in Flower Drum Song, Fanny Brice in Funny Girl, Reno Sweeney in Anything Goes, Fruma Sarah in Fiddler on the Roof, to name a few…) and still sings with a band on occasion. She has worked with the San Francisco Young Playwrights Foundation as a director and on the play selection committee. Deborah has directed and choreographed such shows as Pippin, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, Big River, Godspell and Assassins. Deborah was also the recipient of the Peninsula Children’s Theatre Association Fellowship Award for graduate work.

Guy Stilson
Guy Stilson lives in San Francisco’s Richmond District and is a partner with the law firm of Low, Ball & Lynch. His practice areas include litigation and entertainment matters and his clients have included Burning Man, Jerry Garcia and other members of The Grateful Dead, Alpine Electronics and other international businesses, and major insurance companies, as well as local business owners. Having a strong drive to serve his local community, Guy also serves regularly as a volunteer Judge Pro Tem for the San Francisco Superior Court. Guy is also involved in motion pictures, having produced several award-winning independent feature films including Maladaptive, AATC’s first feature film! Guy has been on AATC’s board since 2000, and previously was on the board of Intersection for the Arts for five years.

Kathy Takeda
A native of San Jose, Kathy began working at AATC as an intern while completing her certification in Nonprofit Management at San Jose State University. In addition to her work with AATC, she is a bilingual docent at the Japanese American Museum of San Jose and has volunteered for many nonprofit organizations in the South Bay. She has a passion for music and performing and was a member of the Symphony Silicon Valley Chorale for 13 years, and is currently singing with The Choral Project under Daniel Hughes. Kathy received her B.A. in Japanese from the University of California at Berkeley and spent her junior year abroad at International Christian University in Tokyo, Japan.

Annie Wang
Annie Wang is a fashion buyer for the department store Macys. She has been involved in theater since high school. While earning her BA in Legal Studies at UC Berkeley, she was an active member and historian for Theatre Rice, the premiere Asian American theater group on campus. In addition, she volunteered with Asian Health Services and served as a camp counselor for an HIV summer camp. Her “passion for fashion” has led her to be a costume designer for various productions with AATC and One4All Theater Company. She was also a stylist for an MTV Asia music video for the band Blessed Girls. As an actress, she continues to perform with Kamikaze Theory (AATC’s resident Asian American sketch comedy group) and was recently in a production with Bindlestiff Studio.