Sonoma Arts Live has a “working board.” Meaning, many hands make light work. We meet once a month on the third Wednesday at 5:30. We want all our board members to be part of helping to create our seasons and our shows. We love that our members are reaching out to our community for donations and grant possiblities. We ask that they purchase a season ticket and help at one performance for each show greeting our patrons. We have at least two events a year that we like all board members to attend. We are currently in the process of adding some committees, and are looking for members to join one of their choice and help Sonoma Arts Live grow! The most important task we have is sharing our theatre company with the Bay Area.
Artistic Director - Jaime Love has been involved in theatre and radio for over 35 years as an actor, producer, singer, director, writer and voice-over artist in New York, Los Angeles, Boston and San Francisco. She is a founding member of the Sonoma Theatre Alliance and Sonoma Arts Live, and former Co-Artistic Director and Producer of The Nicholson Ranch Players’ musical revues and Christmas shows at Nicholson Winery for 6 years. She is the founder of SAL’s Teens ’N Training program.
President - Sue Martin has been involved in theatre for over 50 years. Sue was a founding member of the Sonoma Theater Alliance and Sonoma Arts Live. She has served as President for ten years and has been a realtor in Sonoma since 1998. Sue has appeared in numerous SAL productions, including It’s A Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Nunsense: The Mega Musical, Calendar Girls, Helen of Egypt, A Christmas Story: The Musical and Guys & Dolls.. She is honored to be serving with such dedicated individuals currently on the Sonoma Arts Live Board of Directors.
Vice President - Libby Oberlin is a well-known actor who has trained and performed with Shakespeare & Co., The Upright Citizens Brigade, HB Studios, The University of London and We Players. In September of 2018, SAL and The Theater School, Libby’s educational theatere company, formed a partnership, bringing her educational programs to the Rotary Stage.
Secretary -Treasurer - Charles Wixson - has over 40 years of experience as a business, tax, and estate planning attorney. He has served on and represented boards of directors of many non-profit organizations, including a symphony orchestra and a museum in San Francisco. He splits his time between San Francisco and Sonoma, having built a home in the Sonoma sunshine nearly 20 years ago. He has performed in recitals and orchestra concerts, and with The Lamplighters Music Theater. He is now retired from those activities and, other than playing piano, he limits his enjoyment of the arts to performances by others. Charles is also works on our Grants.
Rod Crisp retired from the tech industry at 52 and moved with his wife, Sandee, from Hong Kong to their property in Hawaii. This move allowed him to spend time with his passions of woodworking, tennis and travel. His woodworking has been featured in five magazine cover spreads and a stint on HGTV. His smaller pieces were also carried at the Wayland Gallery. In Hawaii, he became active in the Rotary Club, where he was a board member and president. His primary responsibility was fundraising. Rod and Sandee also became patrons of local theater and supported the Aloha Theater Company. They moved to Sonoma four years ago and discovered SAL. They love the quality of SAL’s shows, and Rod wanted to be involved in such a creative theater company.
Lindsay John graduated from Southern Oregon University in 2016 and, upon moving back home, she immediately put her degree to use, stage managing and acting around Marin County. She was part of a volunteer group with Sheri Lee Miller and several other BIPOC members of the theater community. SAL’s Jaime and Rick Love were on a large group call with Artistic Directors of the area who were seeking to promote more inclusive casting and diverse productions to feature the BIPOC community. At that point, Lindsay had already worked at SAL in 2017, and with several other theaters in the Bay Area, bringing in a fresh perspective. Working on Ain't Misbehavin’ as Stage Manager solidified her interest in doing more with SAL.
Executive Director - Rick Love, after programming radio stations in Worcester, MA, Rochester, NY, and San Francisco, CA, transitioned into radio research in 1995, joining Creative Audience Research in Sonoma. He eventually purchased the company in 2001 and over the next 17 years continued to provide perceptual research to many of the most important companies in broadcasting. In 2018 he accepted a position with full-service firm Cooper-Roberts Research. He caught the theatre bug a few years after moving to Sonoma, with his first role as Juror #11 in 12 Angry Men, part of the Sonoma Community Center’s short-lived Theatre @ The Center Program. Since then, favorite roles have included The Old Man in A Christmas Story: The Musical (SAL), Guiteau in Assassins (NWSC), Harold in The Full Monty (etc!), Brad in The Rocky Horror Show and Williamson in Glengarry Glen Ross (T@TC). Discovering an aptitude for the business side of theatre, he joined Sonoma Arts Live as Business Manager in 2017 and was named Executive Director in 2021. Along with his theatre “hobby,” he is the host of Power Pop radio show ALL KINDSA GIRLS on Saturday nights at 9pm on 91.3 KSVY Sonoma. He holds an IPC Principal Certification from the Insights Association and a B.S. in Communications from Emerson College where he was Salutatorian of his graduating class.
Advisory Board
Buffington Clay Miller
Suzanne Brangham
Suzy and Wulfrin Oberlin
Susan Drake