Tom Challinor has over twenty years of experience in education as a high school English and History teacher, coach, and drama director. As an actor, he has appeared in three productions at Bainbridge Performing Arts, as Frederick Fellowes in Noises Off, Macduff in Macbeth, and Duke Senior in As You Like It. Other Shakespeare credits include Antipholus of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, and Roland de Boys in As You Like It, all with Studio H’Poko in Maui. He has an MAT in Secondary English Education from Boston University and an MFA in Arts Leadership from Seattle University.  He is the Program Director of the BPA Shakespeare Society.