Directors
Bill Starr
Bill Starr (Director and Choreographer) spent twenty years in New York City appearing in eighteen original Broadway shows, and doing commercials and television specials. He has directed and choreographed over one hundred and fifty corporate shows nationally and internationally (London, Paris, Munich, Monte Carlo, Vienna, Toronto and Bali). He directed The Miracle Worker, The Music Man, and Rumors for the Actors Company of Pennsylvania and Everything’s Coming Up Merman at the A.C.T. Studio in San Francisco. His other directorial assignments include The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Sweet Charity, Dames at Sea, Where’s Charlie?, Annie Get Your Gun and Gypsy, in addition to several commercials and music videos. He was the recipient of the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Award for Irving Berlin, In Revue. Bill also directed Jerry Herman’s Best of Times in London’s West End and at the Pasadena Playhouse in Los Angeles, California. He works at Stanford University in the Lively Arts Department. This is Bill’s twelfth year working with the CTASF.
Bill Keck
Bill Keck (Musical Director) is currently the musical director of Beach Blanket Babylon at The Fugazi Theater in San Francisco and the Children’s Theater Association. Bill has a Master’s Degree in Piano Performance and studied under Soulima Stravinsky. He was the Musical Director of the Gran’ Crystal Place in Dallas and he has accompanied Rich Little, Carol Lawrence, Jim Bailey, and Silvia Sims. He has toured nationally with singer John Gary, including appearances with the San Antonio, St. Louis, and San Francisco Symphonies, and seved as a guest conductor with Milwukee’s “Music Under the Stars.”
Bill and BBB created a sensation in London in 1997 while performing at Covent Garden. In 2000, Bill conducted French chanteuse Raquel Bitton in a series of concerts beginning with a Carnegie Hall appearance in New York City. In 2004, he led the BBB 30th Anniversary Galas with Helgi Tomasson, director of the San Francisco Ballet and Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor of the San Francisco Symphony. In 2005 he and BBB gave a special performance for Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall. This will be Bill’s fourteenth season with the CTASF.
