Mikel Clifford (Mary/Costumer) has worked professionally in theatre in the Northwest, New York, California, the Midwest, and Alaska as actor, costumer, stage manager, and grip.  Her training includes San Francisco State (Masters of Art), New York State University (Masters of Art), New York University (Master of Fine Arts), and the Universiteit te Ghent & the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (Fulbright scholar).  She studied with Warren Frost (acting), Karl Wallenda (movement), Lew Christiansen & Lenore Job (dance), Mamako (Mime), and Sandra Archer (Commedia). Part of the merry band creating Berkeley Repertory Theatre in 1968, she worked with BRT five happy years before herself founding what is now called the California Shakespeare Festival.  With CSF, she served as the first Artistic Director, and also acted, created costumes, and functioned as general dogsbody.  Ms Clifford also founded the ongoing Minnesota Shakespeare Festival.  Founding another theatre is underway in Mill Valley, California.  In a past life, she performed with The Experimental Wing of the Committee, and in film and TV, but now is mother of the young singer, Maeve Clifford. This is Ms Clifford's seventeenth show with Actor's Ensemble.