Arts educator and advocate Susan Stauter is currently the Artistic Director for the San Francisco Unified School District.  She served on the Steering Committee and was instrumental in the creation of SFUSD's internationally recognized Arts Education Master Plan.  An award winning credentialed teacher of Theatre and English, she was the founding Chair of the Department of Theatre for the Los Angeles County High School of the Arts, and went on to serve as Conservatory Director for the Tony Award winning American Conservatory Theater, (A.C.T.), in San Francisco, where she oversaw all educational programs.  Ms. Stauter also works throughout the U.S. and internationally as a keynote speaker, workshop leader, teacher, writer and trainer in the area of arts education.  She has consulted for the North Carolina School for the ARts, Great River Shakespear Festival in Minnesota, the Grammy Foundation, and the Leonard Bernstein Center for Education at Gettysburg College.  In March of 2007 she was presented with both the San Francisco Ballet's prestigious Choose to Move Award and the LEAP... Imagination in Learning Award, both presented as recognition for excellence as an arts educator.