Libby Oberlin has proudly served on the board of Sonoma Arts Live for over a decade. Libby is an award-winning Bay Area actor, stage director, and educator who has been treading the boards since the ripe old age of six – smitten from the very start. At SAL, Libby has directed Six Degrees of Separation, Anne of Green Gables, and Love, Loss, and What I Wore. As the director of SAL’s Teens ‘N Training ensemble, she directed Carrie the Musical, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Emma the Musical, 13, Peter and the Starcatcher, as well as two original productions which toured local schools. You’ve seen Libby on the SAL stage in Master Class where her portrayal of Maria Callas earned her San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award nominations for Principal Performance and Best Overall Production. Libby portrayed Vivian Vance at SAL in the critically acclaimed one-woman-show Sidekicked and has been seen as Mother Superior in Nuncrackers, Catherine in Proof, and Gertrude in Jeeves Intervenes. A long-time performer with San Francisco’s immersive theater company We Players, Libby has wowed audiences playing tyrants, queens, clowns, and ingénues, as well as her Theater Bay Area Award-nominated performance of Capulet in Romeo & Juliet. In the Bay Area, Libby has also performed with Shotgun Players, The Mountain Play, and Landmark Musical Theater.
Libby was the Founding Artistic Director of The Theater School, a non-profit educational theater studio working with hundreds of young performers in full stage productions, musicals, school tours, camps, and studio classes. She has taught for Google, Throckmorton Theater, Girls Leadership, The Performing Arts Academy of Marin, and in many New York City and Bay Area classrooms. Libby holds a master’s degree in educational theater from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in theater from Hofstra University. Among all the fancy-pants jobs and incredible characters she’s played throughout the years, her very favorite role is being a partner in art and life to Miller and being a mom to her daughter, Maeve.