Inside A.C.T.

By A.C.T. Publications Team Kay Yun, A.C.T.’s Board President, was a subscriber in the mid-1990s before work commitments drew her to the East Coast. After she returned to the Bay Area, she was lured back to A.C.T. by, of all things, dancing plums. Her daughter took classes in the Young Conservatory, performing for three years in A.C.T.’s holiday classic, A Christmas Carol , first as a dancing French Plum and then as Martha Cratchit. This experience opened up a whole new side to A.C.T. that Yun hadn’t seen before. “I wasn’t aware of all the educational opportunities that A.C.T. provides until my daughter got involved,” she says. We sat down with Yun to hear her story, and what stories she’s interested in helping A.C.T. tell in the coming years. Carey Perloff showing set designs to Kay Yun and associate producers Arnie and Shelly Glassberg at the first rehearsal of Hamlet . Photo by Brad Amorosino. Was it A.C.T.’s educational programs that first drew you to joining the Boar...

By A.C.T. Publications Staff For former advertising copywriter Nancy Livingston, stepping down this year as chair of A.C.T.’s Board of Trustees represents the culmination of yet another successful campaign. The Cleveland-born Livingston has been involved with A.C.T. since 1976, when she came to The Geary to see Equus , starring Harry Hamlin. But her links with the theater really intensified when Fred Levin, a clothing manufacturer with whom she’d worked as a copywriter and account executive, asked her to join him one night at the theater. “I married the client,” says Livingston, laughing. Nancy Livingston, Carey Perloff, and Fred Levin at A.C.T.'s 50th Anniversary Gala. Photo by Drew Altizer. Her partnership with Levin drew Livingston into Bay Area philanthropy, through their stewardship of the Shenson Foundation, a donor-advised fund established by two of Levin’s cousins. Today Levin and Livingston continue the founders’ legacy by giving to the visual and performing arts...