Chad joined SFArtsED in 2010 as Director of Development and Communication, and assumed the position of Executive Director in 2015, having worked previously in development with the French American International School and in marketing for Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

A fifth-generation Nevadan and graduate of the University of Nevada, Reno, Chad was a long-time member of the American Theatre Critics Association and has served for more than a decade on the Glickman Committee, which awards a cash prize for the best play to debut in the Bay Area.

It is hard to find a musical or play with which Chad is not familiar (believe us, we’ve tried), as he spent more than a decade as a staff theater critic and features writer with the Bay Area News Group (a chain of daily newspapers) and has written regularly for such publications as the San Francisco Chronicle, Wired, American Theatre, Theatre Bay Area, Sacramento Bee, Palo Alto Weekly, the London-based Plays International, and at his own TheaterDogs.net, which he created in 2006.