Our Mission

The mission of the Presidio Theatre is to ensure that the magic of live performance is accessible to the entire community. By reawakening an architectural jewel in the Presidio and creating a professionally run venue that reflects the rich diversity of the Bay Area, the Presidio Theatre encourages artists to grow and flourish.

History

The Presidio Theatre is a modern performing arts center, originally built in 1939 by the U.S. Army with funding from the Works Progress Administration.

 

Partners

Presidio Trust

Marin Community Foundation

Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy

Board of Directors

Peggy Haas

Board Chair
Peggy Haas brings a lifelong passion for art and theatre to her role as Presidio Theatre Board Chair. As a longtime member of the Children’s Theatre Association San Francisco, Peggy is a performer and avid supporter
of artists and artistic institutions. In fact, her role as a performing artist gave Peggy first-hand experience with the challenges of finding affordable and modern spaces for small productions in San Francisco. Her vision for the Presidio Theatre emerged in the quest to find a truly community-based theatre, bringing her to a gem in the Presidio that had been shuttered for more than 20 years. Peggy’s tenacious commitment to breathing new life into the Presidio Theatre, and especially to providing San Francisco, its artists and audiences with a beautifully restored performing arts hub, is the lifeblood of the Theatre’s mission.

Jane Foster

Vikki Garrod

Valerie Malone Raskin

Staff

Robert Martin

Executive Director
Robert Martin is the Executive Director of the Presidio Theatre. He led the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico for 16 years, where he developed the Lensic Presents series featuring more than 45 
theatre, dance, music, and film events each year that reflected the cultural diversity of Santa Fe and supported local, national and international artists. Prior to that, Bob directed programming for the Cowell and Bayfront Theatres at Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. He was an online producer for the Statue of Liberty Celebration’s Harbor Festival, among other historic events in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Bob earned a Bachelor of Arts with highest honors in political sociology at UC Berkeley and pursued graduate work at UC Santa Cruz, where he taught a course on the history of political theatre in America.

Jen Tait

Director of Operations and Community Relations

Matthew Keefe

Director of Development and Communications

Jeff Gregory

Technical Director

Patty Ann Farrell

Production Manager

Max Gustafson

Marketing and Programs Manager

Alessandra Waste

Production Assistant

Damon Pierson

Facilities Manager

Jono Clay

Box Office Manager

Ben Krames

House Audio Engineer

Chris Kenney

House Deck, IATSE Local 16 Union Steward

Consultants

Scott Horton

Media Relations

Terry Lorant

Archival Documentation

Pete Jacobson

Archival Documentation

Key Advisors

Walter A Haas III

Patrick McCabe

Shartsis Friese LLP

Parker Phillips

Argonaut Securities

Project Team

ARCHITECT
Hornberger + Worstell

San Francisco

PROJECT MANAGER
Pacific Union Development Company

San Francisco

CONSTRUCTION MANAGER
Plant Construction Company

San Francisco

STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS
Forell/Elsesser Engineers, Inc.

San Francisco

MEP CONSULTANT
Guttmann & Blaevoet Consulting Engineers

San Francisco

THEATRE DESIGN CONSULTANT
Auerbach Pollock Friedlander

San Francisco

HISTORIC PRESERVATION CONSULTANT
Knapp Architects

San Francisco

CIVIL ENGINEER
Sherwood Design Engineers

San Francisco

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT
Rhaa

Mill Valley

ELECTRICAL ENGINEER
O’mahony & Myer/omm

San Rafael

ACOUSTICS CONSULTING
Paoletti Consulting

San Mateo

GEOTECHNICAL CONSULTANT
Langan, Treadwell & Rollo

San Francisco

LIGHTING DESIGNER
Auerbach Glasow

San Francisco

INTERIOR DESIGNER
Phyllis Martin-Vegue

San Francisco
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