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MELINDA LOPEZ
(Performer and Playwright) As performer: Mala (ArtsEmerson, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Audible, PBS), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Our Town, Persephone, Rose Tattoo, A Month in the Country (Huntington), Grand Concourse, Appropriate, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Theatre District, Anna in the Tropics (SpeakEasy Stage), Many Colors Make the Thunder King (Guthrie Theater), Romeo and Juliet (Portland Stage), Taming of the Shrew, Twelfth Night (Shakespeare & Company). As playwright: Mala, adaptation of Yerma, Back the Night, Becoming Cuba, Orchids to Octopi, Sonia Flew, audio series Dream Boston, Zoom play Black Beans Project. Residencies: Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Lark Play Development Center, New York Theatre Workshop. Awards: IRNE Award, Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence, October 29, 2016 declared Melinda Lopez Day in the City of Boston. Other: Artist-in-Residence at Huntington Theatre Company, professor at Northeastern University. |
YADIRA CORREA
(Understudy and Spanish Performances) The Old Globe: Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing. Regional: Mother Road (San Diego Rep), 2666 (Goodman), Comedy of Errors (OSF), Water by the Spoonful (Court), The Merchant of Venice (TheatreSquared), ENFRASCADA (Renaissance Theaterworks, 16th Street Theater). Television: “New Amsterdam,” “Chicago P.D.,” “The Punisher,” “Blindspot.” Education: M.F.A. from The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. @yadeeenyc on Instagram. |
DAVID DOWER
(Director) Boston: Artistic Director of ArtsEmerson; as director: Kiss, Mala, Mr. Joy, Breath and Imagination, Emergency. Washington DC: Associate Artistic Director of Arena Stage; as director: Citizen Josh, Andy Warhol: Good for the Jews?; as producer Tony- and Pulitzer-winning Next to Normal, Tony-winning revival of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Tony-winning 33 Variations. Co-Founder: HowlRound. San Francisco: as Executive Director and Producer of Club Fugazi: Dear San Francisco; as director: over 20 productions at Z Space, Magic Theatre, Berkeley Rep, ATJT, Marin Theatre Company. Founder and Artistic Director of Z Space. |
ALEXANDER V. NICHOLS
(Scenic Design) Broadway: Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Wishful Drinking, Latin History for Morons. Off Broadway: Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Second Stage), In Masks Outrageous and Austere, Bridge & Tunnel (Culture Project), In the Wake, Taking Over (Public), Through the Night (Daryl Roth), Los Big Names (PRTT), Horizon (NYTW). Regional: Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre, Guthrie Theater. Dance: San Francisco Ballet, American Ballet Theatre, Alvin Ailey, Joffrey Ballet, Hubbard St. Opera/music: San Francisco Opera, LA Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philip Glass, Kronos Quartet. www.alexandervnichols.com. |
FAITH A. JAMES
(Costume Design) San Diego Repertory Theatre: The Great Khan. MOXIE: Sapience, The Niceties. Diversionary Theatre: Azul. New Village Arts: Beehive – The 60s Musical. Native Voices at the Autry: Lying with Badgers (puppet design). Fort Lewis College: Chief Tenderfoot, Wild Horses (puppet design). Education: M.F.A. in Design and Technology from School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University. [email protected], @faith.a.james on Instagram. |
JASON LYNCH
(Lighting Design) The Old Globe: debut. Off Broadway: You Are Here: An Evening with Solea Pfeiffer (Audible Theater/Minetta Lane Theatre). Regional: Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, American Players Theatre, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, City Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Geva Theatre Center, Goodman Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Victory Gardens Theater, among others. Honors: 2019 Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award for emerging theatrical designers within the Chicago area. www.jasondlynch.com,
@jasonlynch.design on Instagram. |
ARSHAN GAILUS
(Original Music and Sound Design) Mala: Original composer and sound designer for world premiere at ArtsEmerson (also at Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre Company). Selected credits: world premiere of Mr. Parent, Hold These Truths (Lyric Stage Company of Boston), Lobby Hero, The Royale (Capital Repertory Theatre), world premiere of House of Joy (California Shakespeare Theater), Twelfth Night, As You Like It, The Tempest (Shakespeare & Company), Kiss (ArtsEmerson). Other: productions for Huntington Theatre Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Company One, more. Education: B.S. in Music from MIT, candidate for M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts at Goddard College. www.arshangailus.com. |
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CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
(Casting) The Old Globe: Shutter Sisters, Hurricane Diane, Noura, They Promised Her the Moon, Tiny Beautiful Things, Barefoot in the Park, The Wanderers, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Skeleton Crew. Select Broadway: Macbeth, The Minutes, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Ink, The Waverly Gallery, The Boys in the Band, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House Part 2, Jitney, The Glass Menagerie, Blackbird, Fish in the Dark, Disgraced, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Additional theatre: MTC, Signature, Atlantic, McCarter, Goodman, Berkeley Rep. Television: “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “American Odyssey” (NBC). |
JYNELLY ROSARIO
(Production Stage Manager) Tours: Oklahoma! (Broadway National Tour). Off Broadway: Killing Time, Posting Letters to the Moon, Square Go (59E59 Theaters). Regional: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, I Hate Hamlet (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), In the Heights (Puerto Rico), Anything Goes in Concert (New London Barn Playhouse), Hand to God (Florida Studio Theatre), Passionata (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse). www.jynellyrosario.com, @jynellyrosario on Instagram. |
BARRY EDELSTEIN
(Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. 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, the world premiere of The Wanderers, the American premiere of Life After, Romeo and Juliet, and, during the pandemic, Hamlet: On the Radio. He also directed All’s Well That Ends Well as the inaugural production of the Globe for All community tour, and he oversees the Globe’s Classical Directing Fellowship program. In addition to his recent Globe credits, he directed The Tempest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018, and he will next direct The Wanderers Off Broadway with Roundabout Theatre Company in 2023. 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 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. |
