Cheshire Isaacs

Managing Director

By day Cheshire is the art director of Berkeley Rep. By night (and weekend), however, he's the managing director as well as the graphics überlord of Impact Theatre. By day and night, he's the smitten husband of Impact's legal counsel, Sarah.

He was an Impact junkie for a couple of years before doing his first poster for an Impact show back in 2001. Since then he’s designed oodles of posters for Impact, not to mention the brochures and programs and website and, well, everything else. You know the ticket you get when you come to an Impact show? Yeah, he does those, too. Plus he wrote two short plays for our Briefs series, and even made his stage debut in Briefs 7. We can’t really shake him. Sometimes he shows up with yummy baked things, so we’re keeping him around for a while.

Cheshire has created more than 100 posters for theatre since he began his career in 1992. Besides Impact and Berkeley Rep, he's worked for A.C.T., Cal Shakes, Traveling Jewish Theatre, Theatre Rhino, UC Berkeley's Department of Theatre, Dance and Performance Studies, TANTA Productions, TheatreFIRST, Rough & Tumble, and several independent producers. He owes his career to John Fisher.

He is the creator of the two animated shorts "Behind the Typeface: Cooper Black" (a finalist in the 2003 SXSW Web Awards) and "Etched in Stone."

He’s also halfway two thirds three quarters nine-tenths 100% of the way through writing a novel, and he needs to finish editing it before he can create the follow-up to his old journal, Mastication Is Normal, which has been laying dormant for a couple of a few several years. But hey, it's probably new to you.