Carmen Khan and Jack Armstrong co-founded the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre in 1996. Carmen is the Artistic Director, and has personally directed almost all of the company's sixty productions. She holds a Bachelor of Education from St Mary's College, University of London, England, and a Master of Fine Arts in Acting from The Catholic University of America, Washington, DC. Carmen has been a professional actor, director and producer for over thirty years. She co-founded The Laughing Stock Theatre, an all-comedy theatre, and was Artistic Director of The Red Heel Theatre, which was devoted to the little-known classics of the Jacobean era, both in Philadelphia. Carmen Khan and Jack Armstrong co-founded the Philadelphia Shakespeare Theatre in 1996. Jack has written or edited most of the company's proposals and strategy papers over the years. He has also written two novels, two screenplays, several stage plays and scores of essays and poems on a wide range of topics. As the technologist of Reliance Graphics, Jack invented the Election Views ballot typesetting software, and has created the ballots for tens of millions of votes, across thousands of elections. Jack loves climbing, hiking, paddling and sailing, photography, composing and performing music, and studying languages.