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Production Staff

The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
 
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	Ioana Alfonso (The Company) Broadway: Wicked (OBC), 9 to 5 (Maria; OBC). Film/television: In the Heights, The Binge, “Orange Is the New Black,” “Broad City,” “Nurse Jackie,” “Smash,” “The Big C,” “Law & Order: SVU,” Across the Universe, Isn’t It Romantic, Winter’s Tale, The Wackness. Off Broadway: Bare (Vanessa), La Llorona (Irma; world premiere). National tours/regional: Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away (Slim), Saturday Night Fever (Shirley, u/s Maria), Golden Boy (featured ensemble). Associate director/choreographer: American Son (Broadway), Holler If Ya Hear Me (Broadway), The Wiz Live! (NBC), Hairspray Live! (NBC), Bare (Off Broadway), Smart People (Off Broadway), Mia Michaels (multiple projects). ioanaalfonso.com.
	Yeman Brown (The Company) (he/they) Broadway: swing, dance captain in Jagged Little Pill. Regional theatre: Alien/Nation (Williamstown Theatre), Jagged Little Pill (ART). Off Broadway: As Much I Can (movement direction; Public). Music videos: “Woman” by Mumford & Sons, “Only Human” by Jonas Brothers, “Drowning” by Amanda Palmer. Concert dance: Reggie Wilson, Raja Feather Kelly, Stefanie Batten Bland, Kristin Sudeikis, Ralph Lemon. Honors: Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch,” Bessie Award nomination. Education: B.F.A. in Dance from Florida State University. @brownyeman.
	LAUREN CANNON (The Company; Assistant Musical Stager/Additional Choreographic Reconstruction) Broadway: Wicked. National tours: Wicked, West Side Story. International: tour of West Side Story. Regional: West Side Story (as Associate Choreographer; John W. Engeman Theater). Other New York credits: Christmas Spectacular (Radio City), Tony Awards with James Corden. @itslaurencannon.
	Peter John Chursin (The Company) Broadway: King Kong: Alive on Broadway, Wicked (Chistery, Broadway, LA, first national tour), On the Town, West Side Story revival. Off Broadway: Brigadoon (NY City Center), Nikolai and the Others (LCT). Regional: Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, West Side Story (Muny), Tommy Djilas in The Music Man (TUTS). Television: Halston, Christopher Chadman in Fosse/Verdon, “Dancing with the Stars,” Flesh and Bone, “America’s Got Talent.” Dance company: Twyla Tharp Dance, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Barak Ballet. @pjchursin.
	Dylis Croman (The Company) The Old Globe: Dancing in the Dark. Broadway: Chicago (Roxie Hart), A Chorus Line (standby Cassie/Sheila), Sweet Charity (Rosie, u/s Charity), Oklahoma!, Thou Shalt Not (u/s Thérèse Raquin), Fosse (trumpet solo, filmed for PBS’s “Great Performances: Dance in America”). National tours: Movin’ Out (Brenda), Chicago (Roxie Hart), Thoroughly Modern Millie, Applause. New York Stage and Film: In Your Arms. Concert dance: The Feld Ballet. Television: “Guiding Light” (Andrea Daniels), “Smash” on NBC. @dycro33 on Instagram.
	Tony d’Alelio (The Company) Off Broadway: This Ain’t No Disco (Atlantic). National tours: Mungojerrie in Andy Blankenbuehler’s Cats revival, Michael Wormwood in Matilda, Angel in Kinky Boots, LeFou in Beauty and the Beast. Regional: Cats, Matilda (The Kennedy Center), South Pacific (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), La Cage (The Wick), Gypsy (Harbor Lights Theater Company). Film: Cyberlesque (as director), Mishandled directed by Samantha Marie Ware (as choreographer). Web series: “Daydream” directed by Joey the Alchemist, “PennyWildWednesdays.” @tonydalelio.
	Jōvan Dansberry (The Company) Broadway: King Kong (King’s Company, OBC). The Metropolitan Opera: Fire Shut Up in My Bones, Porgy and Bess, La Traviata. Television/live performance: “Saturday Night Live,” “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” “The Tony Awards,” “Dancing with the Stars,” “Pose,” “Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade,” Target, Hermès, Swarovski. Theatre: I Married an Angel (City Center Encores!), Memphis (Riverside Theatre), Hairspray (Dallas Theater Center). Honors: Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Ensemble, Outer Critics Circle Award for Special Achievement. Education: Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. @jovan_dansberry.
	Karli Dinardo (The Company) Broadway: Nini understudy, DC, swing in Moulin Rouge! The Musical! (OBC). Off Broadway: Revolution… (Minetta Lane). Tours: Peggy/Maria understudy, DC, swing in the first national tour of Hamilton (OC), Alex Owens in Flashdance The Musical. Regional: West Side Story (Carnegie Hall), Anita in West Side Story (John W. Engeman, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Festival), Anita in West Side Story (Opera Australia; Helpmann nomination), Phyllis Dale in 42nd Street (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina), The Pajama Game (Gallery Players), The Music Man (John W. Engeman). Representation: CESD. @karlidinardo on Instagram.
	Ashley Blair Fitzgerald (The Company) Broadway/Off Broadway: The Cher Show (Dark Lady, u/s Georgia; 2019 Chita Rivera Award winner), Trip of Love (u/s Jennifer), On the Town (u/s Ivy), Gigi. Tours/regional: Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Arena Stage), Come Fly Away (Helen Hayes nominee), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Dirty Dancing, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Fosse. Film/television credits: Isn’t it Romantic, “Smash,” Company, “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon,” “Last Week Tonight.” @ashleyblairfitzgerald.
	Jacob Guzman (The Company) Broadway: Chino in West Side Story, Bottle Dancer in Fiddler on the Roof, Sniper in Newsies. Tours: dance captain, swing in the first national tour of Hamilton. Film/television: Junior/Shark in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, Twin Lost Boy in Peter Pan Live!, Mike in the Newsies film. Training: The Gold School (dance), Deric Rosenblatt (vocal), Brian Carter (acting). @J_dawg87 on Instagram.
	Manuel Herrera  (The Company) (he/him/his) Broadway: West Side Story (2009 revival OBC), Legally Blonde (OBC), Sweet Charity (2005 revival OBC), Wicked (Chistery, OBC), The Music Man. Off Broadway/regional: Bull Durham, West Side Story, Miss Abigail’s Guide, The Seven. Film/television: I’m Not Gay, Either Side of Midnight, “One Dollar,” Ma, “Odd Mom Out,” “Blue Bloods,” “Power,” Winter’s Tale, Knucklehead, Sex and the City 2, “Smash,” “Modern Love.” Training: Ted Sluberski (acting), School of American Ballet (The Rudolf Nureyev Foundation Scholarship). @therealmannyherrera on Instagram and TikTok.
	Gabriel Hyman  (The Company) Broadway: King Kong (OBC). National tour: Hamilton (Phillip Tour). Regional/international: world premiere of The Prince of Egypt. Television: “Super Bowl LV Halftime Show” with The Weeknd, “Pose” (FX), “Succession” (HBO). Concert dance: dancer with Ailey II, performed with Jeremy McQueen’s The Black Iris Project for Ballet Across America at The Kennedy Center. Honors: Chita Rivera Award (Outstanding Ensemble), Bill and Melinda Gates Millennium Scholar, Glorya Kaufman Dance Scholar. Education: B.F.A. in Dance from The Ailey School/Fordham University at Lincoln Center. @gabehyman.
	Kolton Krouse (The Company) Broadway: Cats. Regional: Freddie Falls in Love (The Joyce). Film/television: Cats, Fosse/Verdon, “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” Music videos: “Rebound” by Tayla Parx, “Boo Riley” by Boo Riley. Education: The Juilliard School. @KoltonKrouse on Instagram, Twitter, TikTok.
	Mattie Love (The Company) Broadway/New York: Wicked (North American tour), Christmas Spectacular (Radio City). Television: Fosse/Verdon, “Fox’s New Year’s Eve with Steve Harvey” (as assistant choreographer). Education: B.F.A. from Marymount Manhattan College, Springboard Danse Montréal. @mattildalove_.
	Krystal Mackie (The Company) National tour: Hamilton. Off Broadway: This Ain’t No Disco. Regional: In the Heights (Engeman), After Midnight (NCL). Education: B.F.A. in Contemporary Dance from UNC School of the Arts. @krystalmackie on Instagram.
	Yani Marin (The Company) The Old Globe: debut. Broadway: Wicked, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (OBC), West Side Story (2009 revival OBC). Regional: Kiss My Aztec (La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Rep), Hair (Hollywood Bowl), Christmas Spectacular (Radio City). Concerts: The Beyoncé Experience (world tour), A Broadway Celebration at the White House, Sondheim! The Birthday Concert. Television: “The Blacklist,” “Tommy,” “Jack Ryan,” “Empire,” “Blue Bloods,” “NCIS: LA,” “Criminal Minds,” “One Bad Choice,” “Smash.” B.F.A. in Dance from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. @iamyanimarin.
	Nando Morland (The Company) Broadway: West Side Story. National tour: Fiddler on the Roof. Dance companies: Gallim, Madboots Dance, Rashaun + Silas, Stefanie Batten Bland. Music video: “Rare Changes” by Mayer Hawthorne. Honors: Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch.” Education: B.F.A. in Dance from NYU Tisch. @nandomorland on Instagram.
	Khori Michelle Petinaud (The Company) Broadway: Aladdin (OBC), Moulin Rouge! (OBC). Tours: The Color Purple, Roman Holiday. Off Broadway: Sweet Gwen Suite (NY City Center), Freddie Falls in Love (Signature), American Dance Machine (The Joyce). Regional: Tommy, In the Heights (Kennedy Center), Memphis (TUTS), Evita (Flat Rock Playhouse), Sweet Charity (Engeman). Film/television: “Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (season 3, episode 1), Rent: Live, “Z: The Beginning of Everything,” “Vinyl,” “The Knick.” Education: B.F.A. in Dance from New York University. @kmr8787 on Instagram.
	Ida Saki (The Company) Film/television: In the Heights, Cats, Birds of Paradise, “ZIWE,” Halston. Off Broadway: Sleep No More (The McKittrick Hotel), The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova), You’ll Still Call Me by Name (Jacob’s Pillow). Regional: The Scarlet Stone (La Jolla Playhouse). Music videos: “Cry, Cry, Cry” by Coldplay, “Win It” by Lola Kirke, “Stop Making This Hurt” by The Bleachers. Companies: Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet. Honors: Presidential Scholar in the Arts, Dance Magazine’s “25 to Watch,” NFAA YoungArts Modern Dance winner. Education: Booker T. Washington HSPVA, Dance Industry, NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
	Ron Todorowski (The Company) Broadway: Angels in America, Cats, Finding Neverland, Wicked, Come Fly Away, Guys and Dolls, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Movin’ Out (also National Theatre; Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lead Actor), Footloose. Off Broadway: Brigadoon (City Center), The Wild Party (MTC). Dance companies: Twyla Tharp, Complexions, Cedar Lake, David Parsons, Mia Michaels. Film/television: Winter’s Tale, “SNL,” “VMAs.” Choreography: Celestia (The STRAT; 2019 Best of Las Vegas Award for Best New Show), Pride and Prejudice (Rep of St. Louis), Step One Dance Company (RWS), “AhHa” by Nate Ruess (music video). Associate choreography: Celine Dion’s A New Day (Colosseum). Co-owner: The Fête, a production company in upstate New York.

Bob Fosse 

(Original Broadway Production Creator, Director and Choreographer; Choreography) was nominated for 20 Tony Awards and was the first director in history to win the Oscar, the Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award, and Emmy Awards in a single year, for the film version of Cabaret, the Broadway musical Pippin, and the NBC television special Liza with a Z, respectively. Learn more about Fosse and his work in The Life of Bob Fosse article in this digital program. 

Wayne Cilento 

(Director and Musical Stager) One of Broadway’s most prolific and honored choreographers. Directed and choreographed Dream on Broadway, Spirit: A Journey in Dance, Drums & Song for PBS, American Dance Machine. Won the 1993 Tony Award for Best Choreography for The Who’s Tommy. Other Tony nominations: Best Choreography for Wicked, Baby, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Dream, Sweet Charity, and Best Featured Actor in a Musical for Dancin’. Inspired and originated the role of Mike in Tony Award–winning Best Musical A Chorus Line. Resides in Mamaroneck, New York with his wife Cathy.

Robert Brill 

(Scenic Design) The Old Globe: Robin and the 7 Hoods, Oleanna, many others. Broadway: Ain’t Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (Tony nomination), Thoughts of a Colored Man, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Assassins (Tony nomination), Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls (Tony nomination), Design for Living, Buried Child, others. Recent credits: Bhangin’ It (La Jolla Playhouse), Frozen (Disney Creative Entertainment). Opera world premieres: Moby-Dick, Cold Mountain, Everest, The Manchurian Candidate. Other: founding member of Sledgehammer Theatre, recipient of the Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration, professor of Scenic Design at UC San Diego. robertbrilldesign.com.

Harriet Jung and Reid Bartelme 

(Costume Design) Design credits: New York City Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, San Francisco Ballet, The National Ballet of Canada, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Grand Théâtre de Genève, Opéra National de Bordeaux, Ballett am Rhein Düsseldorf. Commissions: Museum of Arts and Design in New York, Guggenheim Museum. reidandharriet.com, @reidandharriet on Instagram. 

David Grill 

(Lighting Design) Honors: thirteen-time Emmy Award nominee, five-time Primetime Emmy Award winner, 2015 and 2016 Telly Award winner. Dance credits: works for Milwaukee Ballet, Colorado Ballet, Ballet Met, Kansas City Ballet, Northern Ballet Theatre, numerous choreographers. Television/video: “The Drew Barrymore Show,” New York Philharmonic. Other: lighting direction for the National Memorial Day, July 4th Concerts, over 17 Super Bowl halftime shows. Teaching: associate professor and co-chair of Theatre Design/Technology Program at Purchase College, State University of New York.

Peter Hylenski 

(Sound Design) Tony Award–winning, Grammy- and Olivier-nominated. The Old Globe: Almost Famous, In Your Arms. Selected Broadway designs: Moulin Rouge!, Frozen, Anastasia, Beetlejuice, Once on This Island, Something Rotten!, King Kong, Rock of Ages, After Midnight, Motown, The Scottsboro Boys, Side Show, Rocky, Bullets Over Broadway, Shrek The Musical, On a Clear Day, Lend Me a Tenor, Elf. Other: Le Rêve, Lake of Dreams at Wynn Las Vegas. Other: designed for Carnegie Hall, Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, The Kennedy Center.

Finn Ross

(Video Design) Honors: two Olivier Awards, one Tony Award, three Drama Desk Awards. Recent work: Back to the Future, Bat out of Hell (West End), Anna Karenina (Joffrey Ballet), Frozen (international), Mean Girls (Broadway), Tempest (RSC), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Broadway, West End), American Psycho (Broadway, Almeida), Mahagonny (Royal Opera House), Frankenstein (Royal Ballet), Jagged Little Pill (ART), Chimerica (Almeida, West End), The Death of Klinghoffer, Damnation of Faust, Magic Flute (English National Opera), Master and Margarita, All My Sons, Shun-kin (Complicité), Hansel and Gretel, A Dog’s Heart, Magic Flute (Netherlands Opera).

Jim Abbott 

(Orchestrations, Music Supervision, Vocal and Incidental Music Arrangements) As musical director: Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Rent, Aida, Bombay Dreams, Women on the Verge, Tarzan. As dance arranger: Tarzan, Aida, Bombay Dreams, Sweet Charity, Guys and Dolls, Wicked. As synthesizer design: Spamalot, Avenue Q, The Addams Family, Big Fish, The Prom, Something Rotten! As contributing orchestrations: Aida, Bombay Dreams, Wicked, The Addams Family, On the 20th Century, Women on the Verge (Drama Desk nomination). Other: performances with Aretha Franklin, Dennis DeYoung, Shirley Bassey, Bob Hope, Phil Collins, Elton John; musical supervisor for Tarzan international companies and Disney’s Broadway Hits, performing with orchestras around the world.

Darryl Archibald 

(Music Director) Upcoming: Some Like It Hot (Broadway, fall 2022), new Angelique Kidjo musical Yemandja (as music supervisor; world tour), Duke Ellington’s Nutcracker (as vocal arrangements/associate music supervisor; tour, fall 2022). Other: Ragtime episode of “Encore!” (Disney+), The Color Purple (2015 tour, Paper Mill Playhouse), Motown The Musical (Broadway 2016), Wicked (as substitute conductor; Pantages Theater), Memphis (Broadway tour), Disney’s The Lion King (as vocal coach/assistant conductor; Broadway tour), Ragtime, Little Shop of Horrors with Michaela Jaé Rodriguez (Pasadena Playhouse), Dear World with Tyne Daly (VPAC), Passion (Boston Court), Jonathan Dove’s Innocence (Banff Centre), A Hollywood Holiday Christmas television special (as dance arrangements and orchestrations). darrylarchibald.com.

David Dabbon 

(Dance Arrangements and Additional Music) Emmy nomination: “Eat S***, Bob!” for HBO’s “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver” (as composer). Broadway: Beetlejuice, Funny Girl, Disaster! (as dance arranger); Sondheim on Sondheim (as additional orchestrations; Grammy nomination). HBO: documentary Six by Sondheim (as arranger). Pittsburgh CLO: Game On (as composer). Playwrights Horizons: The Christians (as music supervisor). NYTW: Love and Information (as music director), The Events (as music supervisor). Seattle Children’s Theatre: The Little Prince (as composer). Wagner College/Northwestern University: Our New Town (as composer). Audra McDonald/New York Philharmonic: Sing Happy, Audra McDonald: Go Back Home (as orchestrator). Education: B.M. from The Hartt School, M.M. from Carnegie Mellon University. @daviddabbon on Instagram.

Tara Rubin Casting 

(Casting) The Old Globe: Scrooge, Despereaux, Gods of Comedy, Life After, Heart of Rock & Roll, Much Ado, Tempest, Guys and Dolls, Othello, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Dog and Pony, Room with a View, others. Broadway: Six, Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, Band’s Visit, Summer, Prince of Broadway, Bandstand, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Gigi, Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Les Mis, The Heiress, How to Succeed…, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Young Frankenstein, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, Phantom. Off Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Clueless, Here Lies Love, Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Regional: McCarter, Yale, La Jolla, Paper Mill, Berkeley, others.

Beverly Jenkins 

(Production Stage Manager) Awards: 2020 Tony Honors for Excellence in the Theatre. Select Broadway: Hadestown, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, A Bronx Tale The Musical, Fully Committed, Amazing Grace, Living on Love, Holler If Ya Hear Me, Machinal, Godspell, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, In the Heights, Shrek The Musical, Avenue Q, Aida, Sweet Charity, Oklahoma!, The Lion King, Bring in ’Da Noise, Bring in ’Da Funk, Miss Saigon. Member: board of trustees of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS, Beyond the Stage Door, D.I.V.A., Inc. Education: Howard University. Other: co-founder of Broadway & Beyond: Access for Stage Managers of Color.

Christine Colby Jacques 

(Reproduction of Mr. Fosse’s Choreography) Broadway: Bob Fosse’s Dancin’ (OBC), Ursula understudy in Sweet Charity (revival OBC). First national tours: Ursula in Sweet Charity, Fosse. Rockettes: Radio City Music Hall, tour with Peter Allen. National spokesperson: Danskin, Dame Margot Fonteyn’s The Magic of Dance. Film: A Chorus Line, Annie. Music videos: Billy Joel, Barry Manilow. Television: Placido Domingo special, “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” Bob Hope’s Happy Birthday, Bob special featuring the cast of Dancin’. Artist in residence: Stephens College, Interlochen Arts Academy, CCM University of Cincinnati, Wolf Trap Farm Park for the Performing Arts. Education: B.F.A. in Dance from University of Kansas. @cc.jacques on Instagram. 

Corinne McFadden Herrera 

(Associate Director/Musical Stager and Additional Choreographic Reconstruction) As associate choreographer: Sweet Charity (2005 Broadway revival), Wicked (Broadway) with Wayne Cilento. As co-choreographer: the film Winter’s Tale. As performer: Broadway’s Sweet Charity, original Broadway companies of Aida, Wicked. Other: Jonas Brothers concert (Radio City). Music videos: Ricky Martin, Limp Bizkit. 

Kirsten Childs 

(Text Consultant and Additional Material) (she/her/hers) Theatre: Fly (as co-lyricist; La Jolla Playhouse), The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Playwrights Horizons; Obie, Kleban, Audelco, Richard Rodgers, Gilman Gonzalez-Falla Awards; Rockefeller, Jonathan Larson Grants; Lortel, NAACP, Drama Desk Award nominations), Bella: An American Tall Tale (Playwrights Horizons, Dallas Theater Center; Frederick Loewe Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize finalist, Audelco Awards), Miracle Brothers, Family Portraits: Aunt Lillian (Vineyard Theatre), Edge of Night (Playwrights Horizons Soundstage podcast series). Other: Dramatists Guild Council member, professor at NYU Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Musical Theatre Writing Program.

Heather Hogan 

(Assistant Stage Manager) Broadway: In the Heights, On Your Feet! The Story of Emilio & Gloria Estefan, Hamilton, The Ferryman. Regional: Carmen, After the Quake (La Jolla Playhouse), bilingual Fame (GALA Hispanic Theatre). International: Candela (Pura Vibra), India (Dragone), Oedipus Rex (SCOT, Japan). Other: stage director and line producer for events and concerts, working with Diana Ross, Lauryn Hill, Daddy Yankee, J Balvin, others.

Amanda Salmons 

(Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: The Gardens of Anuncia, Life After, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Blameless, American Mariachi, The Heart of Rock & Roll, October Sky, Rain, The Metromaniacs, The White Snake, Inherit the Wind, Somewhere, Lost in Yonkers, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet. Regional: Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin (La Jolla Playhouse), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), The Foreigner, See How They Run, The Rivalry (Lamb’s Players Theatre), The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance, Candide, Trial by Jury (Lyric Opera San Diego). Education: UC San Diego.

barry edelstein (Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. He has directed nearly half of the Bard’s plays. His Globe directing credits include The Winter’s Tale, Othello, The Twenty-seventh Man, the world premiere of Rain, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Hamlet, and the world premiere of The Wanderers. He also directed All’s Well That Ends Well as the inaugural production of the Globe for All community tour. In January he oversaw the Globe’s inaugural Classical Directing Fellowship program. He recently directed The Tempest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall. As Director of the Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2008–2012), Edelstein oversaw all of the company’s Shakespearean productions as well as its educational, community outreach, and artist-training programs. At The Public, he staged the world premiere of The Twenty-seventh Man, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, and Steve Martin’s WASP and Other Plays. He was also Associate Producer of The Public’s Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. From 1998 to 2003 he was Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company. His book Thinking Shakespeare, which was rereleased in a second edition in June, is the standard text on American Shakespearean acting. He is also the author of Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions. He is a graduate of Tufts University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.

Timothy j. Shields (Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director) joined The Old Globe as Managing Director in 2017. In his time in San Diego, he has enjoyed becoming involved in the community. He currently serves as a board member of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce’s LEAD program; an advisory board member of the San Diego Downtown Partnership; and Vice President of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership. He brings to San Diego many decades of not-for-profit theatre experience. He was Managing Director of Princeton, New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre Center (2009-2017); Milwaukee Repertory Theater (1998–2009); and Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York (1992–1998). He has also held administrative positions at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Denver Center Theatre Company, and McCarter Theatre Center in an earlier period of his career. He served as President of the League of Resident Theatres and as Vice President of the board at Theatre Communications Group. He has been the Chair of the ArtPride NJ board; a member of Milwaukee’s Latino Arts Board; and a board member of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee. He holds a B.F.A. in Drama Production from Carnegie-Mellon University in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Casting

Tara Rubin Casting
Tara Rubin, CSA;
Merri Sugarman, CSA; Laura Schutzel, CSA;
Claire Burke, CSA; Peter Van Dam, CSA;
Felicia Rudolph, CSA; Xavier Rubiano, CSA;
Kevin Metzger-Timson, CSA;
Louis DiPaolo; Spencer Gualdoni

taking Photos in the theatre

Audience members may take photos in the theatre before and after the performance and during intermission. If you post photos on social media or elsewhere, you must credit the production’s designers by including the names below.

Robert Brill (Scenic Design)
robertbrilldesign.com

Reid Bartelme and Harriet Jung
(Costume Design)
@reidandharriet, @missharriets, @reidbartelme

David Grill (Lighting Design)

Peter Hylenski (Sound Design)

Finn Ross (Video Design)
@fray_studio

Please note: Photos are strictly prohibited during the performance. Photos of the stage are not permitted if an actor is present. Video recording is not permitted at any time in the theatre.

This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.

The Directors are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union.

This Theatre operates under an Agreement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local No. 122.

The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.

The musicians are represented by the American Federation of Musicians, Local 325 San Diego.

Additional Scenery and Automation: Showmotion Inc.
Additional Costumes:
Arel Studio Theatrical Costume
Daddy Dalrymple Inc.
Eric Gorsuch
High Society Bespoke
Jill Courtemanche Millinery
LaDuca Productions
Esther Skandunas
Teri Tavares
Worldtone Dance
Additional Properties: BrenBri Props
Additional Lighting: PRG
Additional Sound and Video: Sound Associates
Additional Drums and Percussion: Pearl Musical Instrument Company
Music Clearances: Linda Osher
Video Clearances: Lisa Savage
Merchandise: Creative Goods

Special Thanks

Kyle Bonder
Marina Hyson
Larry Morley & Katherine Dumais
Hummingbird Humanity
SpotCo
O&M
Sandahl Bergman
Ken Bloom
Spence Ford
Zelda Pulliam

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