Allison Wyper (artistic director)
Allison is a movement theatre artist with training in Butoh, Suzuki and Viewpoints, and theatrical improvisation. She is also a director/choreographer, writer/editor, and mixed media visual artist.

She earned a BA in Theatre Studies at Emerson College, with concentrations in Directing and Visual Art. She is currently pursuing her MFA in Dance at UCLA's Department of World Arts and Cultures.

Before assembling Black Stone Ensemble in 2005, Allison founded and directed the multimedia ensemble performance company The Circus in Boston in 2001. She has performed with Guillermo Gomez-Pena/La Pocha Nostra, Violeta Luna, Sara Shelton Mann, Scrap and Salvage, paige starling sorvillo/blindsight, Pilgrim Theatre, and Culture Clash.

Directing credits include WOOD!, iHuman and Myopia with Black Stone Ensemble, Adam/Lilith/Eve at Emerson College, Boston (for which she won the Outstanding Honors Thesis/Project Award), and Balaganchik/The Puppet Booth (Aleksandr Blok) with The Circus.

Allison has worked in Production, Administrative, Booking, House and Stage Management with many theatre and dance companies, most notably: La Pocha Nostra, Theatre of Yugen, Circo Zero, the San Francisco Mime Troupe, and American Conservatory Theatre.

Allison was curator and co-producer of Theatre of Yugen's NOHspace Presents series, showcasing new and established performing artists creating new experimental and Asian-based work, from 2005-2008.

She was also lights mistress for Bare Bones Butoh, for 9 of its first 10 shows.

Eric Kerr
Eric is an actor, director and dancer who relocated to San Francisco from the East Coast. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Theatre with a concentration in directing, specializing in Asian theatre and dance, from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

He has studied in Italy at The Workcenter of Jerzy Grotowski and Thomas Richards. While in Italy, he also worked with Obie-award winning director Lawrence Sacharow, Butoh dancer & choreographer Dawn Akemi-Saito, and Richard Armstrong of the Roy Hart Theatre.

Eric has performed numerous self-created works in North Carolina, Hawaii and New York City, and with David Dorfman Dance. Locally, he starred in The Octopus at the Magic Theatre, and played Frank Black in Elastic Future’s rock musical Kim Deal based on the work of the Pixies & Breeders.

Eric is a practicing massage therapist and bodyworker. He started his business, Reaching Yin Bodywork, with business partner Sarah McWay, CMT and birth doula, in 2006.

Bob Webb
Bob likes to divide his time more or less equally between theatre and dance, with the odd opera, rave, and/or street performance thrown in for good measure.

He makes most of his living as a stage manager, but he is also an Equity actor and dances with several butoh compaines, most notably: Harupin-Ha, Barely Human Dance Theatre, Raw Egg, Metropolitan Butoh, Peace Dreams and his own company Bare Bones Butoh.

He has performed all over the U.S, (including Hawaii), France, Germany, Japan, and Thailand.

Other companies he's worked with include: Inkboat, Word for Word, Deborah Slater Dancer Theatre, Campo Santo, the SF International Butoh Festival, Magic Theatre, Lines Ballet, Traveling Jewish Theatre, Huckabay/ McAllister Dance, Encore Theatre, Kunst-Stoff, EmSpace, Foghouse Productions, Smuin Ballets/SF, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Eugene Opera, Portland Opera, Oregon Repertory Theatre, Eugene Ballet...oh, the list just goes on and on.

When not on or behind a stage he reads a lot, models for artists, and spends as much time as possible outside with a pack on his back.

Bob is a founding member of Black Stone Ensemble.

Misti Boettiger
Misti relocated to San Francisco from Santa Cruz after completing a degree in both theatre and photography and a two-year Meisner Technique conservatory program.

She has worked as an actor with various companies in the Bay Area including New Conservatory Theatre, Santa Cruz Actors Theatre, Running Dog Studios, 60gRit, SF Playwrights Foundation, StageWrite, Academy of Art, Woman's Will, Pisces Moon prods., Ghostlight theatre company.

She also worked as a literary intern and actor for staged readings at the Magic Theatre.

Most recently she has been delving into the worlds of physical theatre, voice over and improv -- studying Suzuki and Viewpoints with FoolsFury, improv with Second City and voice over at VoiceOne.