The following are current members of the Lobster Theater Project Board. We periodically expand the board and fill vacancies left by departing members if you would like information on joining our board please email us

Paul Charney –Artistic Director
Paul has worked in advertising having written numerous TV, print and radio ads for national brands including Yahoo!, MTV,  Morgan Stanley Dean Witter,  and Wired Magazine. He has won several industry awards including a 2001 Clio Award. Prior to joining the advertising world Paul worked in the casting department of the Public Theater in New York City. He graduated from Brown University in 1995 with degrees in Theater and History.  *  Paul is a co-founder of Killing My Lobster and the Artistic Director for the Lobster Theater Project. Paul has directed most of the company’s live shows and short films. He has served as an Executive Producer since its inception.

Lisa Busby - Board President
Lisa has been producing and directing plays in the Bay Area since 1999 and working with the Lobsters since 2003. Producing credits include One Kind Theatre's “The Coffin is Too Big for the Hole” at Noh Space,  and Killing My Lobster's “Bruno's Island New Plays Festival” at the Magic Theater.  Lisa has directed productions presented at the Marsh, The Thick House, City College and San Francisco Day School, where she chairs the English department. Lisa earned an M.A. from Middlebury College's Bread Loaf School of English in 1999.

Melanie Case - Company Representative
Melanie has been working in comedy for the past 10
years. She graduated in Theater from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film,
and Television. She studied improv. with Comedy Sportz and The Second  City Training Center in NY, and is the original founder of The Lunatic  Players (MA High School). She has performed in numerous shows in New York off- and off-off-Broadway, understudied at Berkeley Rep. and produced and  co-wrote her two-woman show, The Sho Show, in Los Angeles. She also  co-wrote, co-directed, and co-produced a film about vending machines,
entitled Product. She teaches improvisation at ACT’s Young Conservatory.
You may also NOT recognize her (since no one has) from the recent
Toyota Prius commercial with former 49er’s quarterback Steve Young, in which
she plays a mime at a bus stop. For more on Mel, check out melaniecase.net.

David Covell
David is a product management professional with expertise in defining product and customer development strategies, creating compelling marketing programs, positioning and differentiating products in a competitive marketplace, writing clear, concise marketing communications that resonate with customers, and building research programs to ensure customers get the products they want. He is currently using these skills at E*TRADE FINANCIAL managing a financial services web site with more than 1.3 million customers worldwide and revenue growth of 60% since 2001. David received his B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Kansas.

Laura Foulke
Laura  has over fifteen years of experience in education and nonprofit management. Before joining Aim High, Laura served as the Dean of Student Support Services at a K-8 charter school in Dorchester, MA, was the Director of Early College Awareness and managed a GEAR UP partnership between Harvard University and a middle school in Boston, and was a Program Officer at a small foundation in San Francisco.  Laura has a Masters in Education from Harvard University and a BA in English with a minor in Studio Art from Bowdoin College.  As the Director of Development, Laura has raised $1.3 million for Aim High this year, guided the development of a new strategic plan, and spearheaded planning for a major 20th Anniversary event.  

Sally Garbarini - Executive Director
Sally first became affiliated with Killing My Lobster the old fashion way: starting as a fan, ushering a few times, then awkwardly hanging out in bars near the lobster performers. Since volunteering to produce a show with the group in 2002, Sally  has produced four sketch shows with the group, a short film, and the 2006 new play Hunter Gatherers. Outside of KML, Sally worked for New Langton Arts, a multi-disciplinary contemporary arts organization, wearing many hats over 8 years—from administrative staff member to development officer to board president. Her next stop was BATS Improv, an improvisational theater company in Fort Mason Center, where she oversaw their financial activity. Sally  is a Bay Area native (third generation, in fact) with family on the other side of every local bridge. Besides her love for the area, she carries a hearty commitment to creating high-quality original work for Bay Area audiences. Before landing in the San Francisco arts community, she studied art history at UC Santa Cruz. 

Josh Huffard
Josh currently leads Consor Capital LLC, a small investment fund that backs entrepreneurs trying to build great companies in consumer-oriented and technology-enabled markets. He also has an interest in supporting entrepreneurial endeavors outside of work, including most recently The Lobster!  Other recent projects have included leadership roles in: establishing the Headlands Scholarship, an annual program that sends a disadvantaged SF Bay Area student to a 6 week summer wilderness program run by the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS); assisting a first-time film maker with the productions of a documentary film called “No Excuses”, which followed the U.S. Disabled Ski Team as it prepared for the 2002 Salt Lake City Paralympics; and, a real estate project which won the “Best Old-House Renovation of 2002” award from the North American Home Builders Association.  Josh is married to Heather Hero, lives in San Francisco, and is generally accompanied wherever he goes by his dog Sage.

Tashana Landray
Tashana currently works as a software engineer at Google and has worked in software development at several companies including AvantGo, Adobe, Macromedia and SGI.  She has also worked in variety of roles in film production including as a Production Coordinator for visual effects for the Matrix sequels, and on several local narrative and documentary films. Tashana received her BA from Brown University and MS from the University of Washington, both in computer science. She is a Bay Area native and a long-time Lobster fan.

Reva Parness
Reva currently works as a fundraising professional at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, a multidiscliplinary arts center featuring visual arts, performing arts, film/video and educational programs. At YBCA, Reva manages the Individual Gift and Membership programs. She also managed the membership at the San Francisco Film Society, presenter of the San Francisco International Film Festival. Prior to working for non-profits, Reva was an interactive producer for an investment bank. She received her B.A. in Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara.