Rodney "Rhoda" Taylor is the founder and Board President of Left Coast Theatre Co.
He is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a Bachelor’s degree in English/Creative writing. After having received his degree he began the next phase of life of trying to figure out what to do with his degree and an interest in writing. This desire eventually led him to a writers group called “GuyWriters” a group of playwrights that went on to produce a show that was staged in the SF Fringe Festival in 2009. This experience led Rodney and Joe Frank to establish a little theater company called Left Coast Theatre. An organization dedicated to producing the original works of local Bay Area and International LGBTQIA+ writers. As founder of the organization, he helped establish the family culture of the organization which still prevails to this day, once you become a member of the company, you’re family. Rodney’s professional life was in the hospitality business for 20 years in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, and Portland. He now lives and works in Portland in the insurance industry.

Neil Higgins is the Secretary of the Board, as well as Secretary of the Steering Committee.

Neil is a California native who graduated from San Francisco State University with B.A.’s in Theatre and English Literature. He has also undergone various theatre training at The University of Hull, UK; The Hull Truk Theatre, UK; and The Globe Theatre, UK. He has written, acted, directed, and produced with several theatre Bay Area theatre companies in the decade and a half that he has lived in SF.

Neil first worked with Left Coast Theatre as an actor after responding to an audition notice. In the following years, he has also written, directed, built props, and become a member of the steering committee and one of the original board members.

In his “civilian” life, Neil is an office administrator and has worked in as many industries as he’s had jobs. He currently works at a multi-practice law firm for the immigration practice group.

Erica Andracchio is the Executive Director of Left Coast Theatre Co and an original member of the Board as its Treasurer.

She is a graduate of San Francisco State University with a B.A. in Communication Studies and a minor in Theater Arts. Having pursued the acting career path for a number of years she lived the “starving artist” and multiple gig life, which included a handful of career experiences in customer service and performing arts. The combination of the two eventually led to her working in the theater world as the Office Manager of Curran Theater in 2018. She now works for Ambassadors Theatre Group, a global theater producer and is currently running the Curran Theater for the production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.

Having worked with Left Coast Theatre Co. behind the scenes as a stage manager in 2015, she began growing into other roles within the company, including actor, writer, director, Production Manager, and now Executive Director.

Erica is also the co-founder and Board Member of another nonprofit organization based in her hometown of Livermore, CA – Roanne’s Race. Roanne’s Race is a 5K / 10K race that raises money for awareness and research of early onset colorectal cancer in partnership with the Colorectal Cancer Association. Erica helped start this organization in 2011 with childhood friends in honor of a very close friend who passed away from colon cancer at 24 years old. To date, the organization has donated over $60,000 to the Colorectal Cancer Association.

Chris Maltby is one of the founding members of LCTC as well as a founding member of the LCTC Board.

Chris is a native of Seattle, WA, and a two-time graduate of the University of Washington. He earned his BA in Communications and returned for his MBA several years later. Since his graduation(s), Chris has moved around the country, living in New York, Washington, DC, and Minneapolis before settling in San Francisco in 2010.

While his professional life varied from banking to global health to higher education, Chris has always kept his connection with the theater, which is how he came to LCTC as it was mounting its first production, Family Programming, in 2012. Since then, Chris has performed, written, and directed for the company. And even before becoming a founding Board member, he was a founding Steering Committee member.

Chris spends a lot of time with LCTC – so it must be a fabulous place!