Camp Director Anita Maynard-Losh has 30 years of experience in arts education as an instructor and administrator, including summer programs for young people at the American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and several successful programs in Alaska. Anita came to Arena Stage from Perseverance Theatre in Juneau, Alaska, where she was Associate Artistic Director, and administered all of the theater’s educational programming. She was a full-time faculty member in the theater department at Webster University in St. Louis, and headed the theater department of the University of Alaska Southeast. She has worked as an artist in the schools in urban settings as well as in remote Alaskan towns and villages. She acted at ACT, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Marin Shakespeare Festival, and other theaters in California, and her acting credits at Perseverance include Arkadina in The Seagull and Vivian Bearing in Wit. At Perseverance Theatre, she directed eighteen mainstage productions, including Angels in America, The Waiting Room, and an Alaska Native interpretation of Macbeth set in the context of the indigenous Tlingit culture of Southeast Alaska, which received a Shakespeare in America touring grant from the NEA.