Staff

Michael Addison (Artistic Director) brings rich theatrical experience to Theater 150, including eight seasons as Artistic Director of the California Shakespeare Festival, head of the Professional Theater Training Program at UC San Diego, and Dean of Theater at CalArts. His Shakespeare productions have also been seen at the Oregon, Utah, San Francisco and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals. He has staged productions as diverse as The Importance of Being Earnest and Waiting for Godot at Regional Theaters including the Berkeley Repertory Theater, the Bathhouse Theater of Seattle, the San Diego Repertory Theater, and Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre Company. Internationally, productions directed by Michael Addison have been presented at the Festival of Perth, Australia, the Dubrovnik Theater Festival, Yugoslavia, and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where he directed Euripides’ Medea and, contrastingly, The Yankee Doodle Vaudeville Show.


Susan Scott (Managing Director) brings to the position a lifelong love of theatre, plus extensive experience in nonprofit management, community engagement, and fundraising. She has consulted with numerous organizations in this country and internationally, and held senior or chief executive positions with nonprofits in Chicago, New York and California. During 2008-2011, she served as the ArtsLIVE Consultant for the Ventura County Community Foundation, working with arts organizations and leadership throughout the county on matters involving capacity building, communications, fundraising strategy, and donor/volunteer relations. Earlier, she served as the founding Executive Director of Bell Arts Factory in Ventura, and was later associated with the San Buenaventura Foundation for the Arts as its Advancement Officer, and with Rubicon Theatre Company as Managing Director.


Chris Nottoli (Producing Director) trained, and then worked as an actor in San Diego, University of Washington, New York and Los Angeles. He has appeared in many plays, several films, and some television. His weirdest roles include a floating chicken head in a Seattle Fringe Fest production of Angry Bones, a space vegetable in the film Phantom Town, and King Lear as a 20-year-old college student. The intersection of varied occupational paths with his theatrical career has resulted in management positions in restaurants, small businesses and corporations. Since moving to Southern California in 1996, Chris’ association with The Echo Theater Company in L.A., the Ojai Playwrights Conference and Theater 150 has deepened his theatrical education. He has been an actor, director, painter, board member, managing director and most recently, producer on the last seven mainstage shows at Theater 150.


Deb Norton (Literary Director) is a playwright, actress, and teacher. After attending the masters program at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, she joined its acting company to play roles in 1918, Babylon Gardens, Twelfth Night, and more. Following a six-year stint in NYC, she moved back to the west coast to author and star in her first full-length play, The Whole Banana, first in Ojai and then in Los Angeles, where she garnered rave reviews and a movie option. Since then, Deb has had the pleasure of appearing on the Theater 150 stage in Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, The Romance, Dog Park and Fuddy Meers. Her short plays, Helping, King of Everything, The Romance, Dancer in Cowboy Country and Humble Pie, have received readings and productions at Theater 150. She is currently developing a full-length play based on the Persephone myth for the 2012 season. She served as Theater 150's Artistic Director from 2005-2010. Deb is a passionate teacher and has helped many writers achieve their dreams of authoring plays, fiction, memoir and poetry.