Carla Pantoja (she/they) Carla has spent the last two seasons working at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as their first female fight director. Based in the SF Bay Area, they have worked as a fight director and/or intimacy director at American Conservatory Theater, TheatreWorks of Silicon Valley, California Shakespeare Theater, The Magic Theater, Crowded Fire, Golden Thread, and the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival to name a few. Carla has trained for the last 7 years in intimacy direction, first through Intimacy Directors International and then with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators. She is a certified stage combat instructor through Dueling Arts International where she serves as Vice President on the governing body. Carla is the newly appointed Artistic Director of the San Francisco Shakespeare Festival and a proud member of MGT (Making Good Trouble) an anti-racist facilitator group focused on the Bay Area.