Winter Mead was a Visiting Lecturer and Guest Artist at Stanford for five years and has taught at Dartmouth, SUNY- Purchase, San Jose State, and the MFA Program at ACT. He trained in Character Mask with their creator Pierre LeFevre and apprenticed with Pierre at The Juilliard School in 1989. Winter is a proud recipient of the Bay Area Drama-Logue Award for directing, the proud co-writer (with cartoonist Jim Toomey) of Sherman's Lagoon -- The Musical, the proud father of twin 15 year-old girls, and the proud owner of a budding ulcer... see 15 year-old twin girls.