Stage Director
Music Director
Producer & Piratical Maid-of-all-work
David Euresti ("Davi") is a software engineer who previously worked at several tech companies and startups, including VMware, Dropbox, and Pilot. An active long-time participant in the regional arts scene, Davi performed and directed with the Stanford Savoyards, Lyric Theatre, and the Lamplighters. He also lent his financial and operational background to local education as the Treasurer for San Mateo’s Little Wonders co-op preschool.
Parker Dunbar brings an engineer's precision and a customer-success mindset that he can't turn off. His real passion started on stage. High school mock trial shaped Parker as a speaker and storyteller, from portraying a camp counselor accused of arson to delivering cross examinations and closing arguments. Parker has volunteer and professional experience with facilities management, youth programs, and balancing budgets.
Cheryl Blalock is well-known in the Bay Area and in the Opera America community nationally as a strong and innovative leader in the musical arts, as well as a fine singer and musician herself. Cheryl worked with Lamplighters Music Theatre in San Francisco from 2017 to 2024 as Executive Director, and additionally as Artistic Director from 2020 to 2023.
We decided to start this company because we both love Gilbert and Sullivan shows. Each of us were fortunate enough to have G&S groups in college, and that is how we forged our strongest friendships. In fact, we met during “strike” (set take-down) for HMS Pinafore. Now all these years later we're married with two kids and we wanted to share the joy of Gilbert and Sullivan with a new generation. Thanks to some friends on the East Coast, we discovered Methuen Young People’s Theatre and saw how they've been spreading the joy of G&S to young people for decades. So after much research and discussion, BATTY Theatre was born.
Liz & Davi
Liz and Davi - Pirates of Penzance 2007 - Stanford Savoyards