Cast
(in ALPHABETICAL order)
DEBBIE
Rebecca Creskoff*
MARK
Greg Hildreth*
PHIL
Joshua Malina*
TREVOR
Nathan Salstone*
LAUREN
Sophie von Haselberg*
UNDERSTUDIES
for Trevor – Dylan August; for Debbie, Lauren – Becca Lustgarten†; for Mark, Phil – John Tessmer
Production Stage Manager
Alyssa Escalante*
Setting
South Florida, 2019.
There will be no intermission.
Production Staff
Assistant Director Yolanda Franklin
Assistant Scenic Design Eileen McCann
Assistant Costume Design Katie Knox
Production Assistant Anna Klevit
Script Assistant Stephanie Carrizales
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
†Student in The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program.
Becca Lustgarten appears in this production courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association.
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If you would like a synopsis of this production in English or Spanish, please request it from an usher.
| WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT ANNE FRANK CAST AND CREATIVES |
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 | REBECCA CRESKOFF (Debbie) Broadway: Losing Louie. Off Broadway: Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Promenade), All-American (LCT3), The Sleeping Hippo (Theatre Row). Regional: Arms and the Man, Our Town, Downed American (Williamstown), Miss Julie, Enter Laughing (Berkshire), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Baltimore Center Stage). Film: I Melt with You, Friends and Family, Finding North, Knucklehead, The Suspect, ClearMind (upcoming). Television: “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Justified,” “Mad Men,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Party Down,” “Parenthood,” “The West Wing,” “Claws,” “Single Parents,” “Bates Motel,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Hung.” Education: B.A. from University of Pennsylvania, M.F.A. from NYU Graduate Acting Program. |
 | GREG HILDRETH (Mark) The Old Globe: Love’s Labor’s Lost, Arms and the Man. Broadway: Company, The Rose Tattoo, Frozen, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Peter and the Starcatcher, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Off Broadway: Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow (MCC), The Robber Bridegroom (Roundabout; Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Peter and the Starcatcher (New York Theatre Workshop), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (The Public), Hell House (St. Anne’s Warehouse). Film/television: Maestro, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, “The Americans,” “The Good Wife,” “Royal Pains,” “Kings,” “Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.” Education: Boston University, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. |
 | JOSHUA MALINA (Phil) Broadway: A Few Good Men. Los Angeles: Distant Fires, Pillow Talk, Hidden in This Picture, Snuff. Film: Bulworth, The American President, A View from the Top, In the Line of Fire, The First Time, The Young Kieslowski, Knights of Badassdom, A Few Good Men. Television: Inventing Anna, “Shameless,” “Scandal,” “The West Wing,” “The Big Bang Theory,” “Sports Night.” Education: Yale University Theater Studies. chutzpod.com, @joshmalina on Twitter. |
 | NATHAN SALSTONE (Trevor) Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (original Broadway cast). First national tour: Hadestown. Regional: world premiere of Knoxville (Asolo Rep, original cast album), Rags (Goodspeed), Hair (Weston Playhouse), Rock of Ages (Pittsburgh CLO), Spring Awakening (TUTS). Training: Carnegie Mellon University. @Nathan_Salstone on Instagram. |
 | SOPHIE VON HASELBERG (Lauren) Off Broadway: Billy & Ray (Vineyard). Regional: The Cat and the Canary (Berkshire Theatre Festival), A Streetcar Named Desire (Yale Repertory Theatre). Film/television: Equity, Irrational Man, Ask for Jane, A Woman A Part, Halston, “Pose,” “American Crime Story: Versace,” “American Princess,” The Wizard of Lies, “House of Cards.” Upcoming film: Give Me Pity!, Love... Reconsidered, The Raging Heart of Maggie Acker. Education: B.A. from Yale University, M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. |
NATHAN ENGLANDER
(Playwright) Theatre: The Twenty-Seventh Man (The Public, 2012, The Old Globe, 2015). Books: kaddish.com, Dinner at the Center of the Earth, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, The Ministry of Special Cases, For the Relief of Unbearable Urges (all from Knopf). Selected honors: Guggenheim Fellowship, PEN/Malamud Award, Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, Pulitzer Prize finalist, Premio Fernanda Pivano, Berlin Prize. Teaching: Distinguished Writer in Residence (New York University). @nenglander on Instagram.
 | barry edelstein (Director, 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. |
PAUL TATE DEPOO III
(Scenic Design) Scenic, projection, production designer based in New York. The Old Globe: debut. Recent/selected credits: production designer for Usher’s Las Vegas residency; scenic and projection resident designer for Broadway Center Stage series (The Kennedy Center); Helen Hayes Award recipient for Grand Hotel (Signature Theatre); designer of the world’s largest opera Turandot (Vienna, 2021); creative director for the digital production of The Great Work Begins: Scenes from Angels In America, benefitting amfAR’s Fund to Fight COVID-19 (The New York Times top 10 productions of 2020). pauldepoo.com.
KATHERINE ROTH
(Costume Design) The Old Globe: Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Rain, The Twenty-Seventh Man, Othello, The Rainmaker, Dracula, Rough Crossing (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award). Broadway: Come Fly Away. New York: Alliance Theatre, Encore Theatre at Wynn Las Vegas, People’s Light, Signature Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Vineyard, TFANA, Cherry Lane, Women’s Project, Primary Stages, INTAR, Bat Theatre Company, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. Regional: California Shakespeare Theater (San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award), Dallas Theater Center (Leon Rabin Award), many more. Film/television: two Daytime Emmy Awards for Costume Design for “All My Children.”
RUSSELL H. CHAMPA
(Lighting Design) The Old Globe: The Imaginary Invalid, The Twenty-Seventh Man, Rain, The Winter’s Tale, Back Back Back, The Four of Us. Recent: Romeo y Juliet (Cal Shakes), Fefu and Her Friends (ACT), Wintertime (Berkeley Rep), About Alice (TFANA), Everest (Kansas City Opera), Thresh|Hold (Pilobolus). Broadway: China Doll (Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre), In The Next Room, or the vibrator play (Lyceum Theatre/Lincoln Center Theater), Julia Sweeney’s God Said “Ha!” (Lyceum Theatre). New York: Playwrights Horizons, Lincoln Center Theater, The Public, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC, Julliard, New York Stage and Film. Regional: Steppenwolf, The Wilma, Trinity Rep, Mark Taper Forum, The Kennedy Center.
LINDSAY JONES
(Original Music and Sound Design) Broadway: Slave Play (Tony nominations for Best Original Score, Best Sound Design of a Play), The Nap, Bronx Bombers, A Time to Kill. Off Broadway: Privacy (Public Theater), Bootycandy (Playwrights Horizons), Feeding the Dragon (Primary Stages), many others. Regional: Guthrie, Center Stage, ACT, Hartford Stage, Alliance, Goodman, Arena Stage, Chicago Shakespeare, Steppenwolf, many others. International: Stratford Festival (Canada), Royal Shakespeare Company (England), many others. Audio dramas: Marvel, Audible, Next Chapter Podcasts, award-winning “The Imagine Neighborhood.” Film/television scoring: HBO Films’s A Note of Triumph (2006 Academy Award for Best Documentary, Short Subjects). Other: Co-Chair of Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA). lindsayjones.com.
CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
(Casting) The Old Globe: Dial M for Murder, Mala, 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).
ALYSSA ESCALANTE
(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: debut. Regional: A Wicked Soul in Cherry Hill (Geffen Playhouse), Spamilton (Musical Theatre West), All’s Well That Ends Well (A Noise Within), The Bacchae (Guthrie), Lizastrata, The Bacchae, Haunted House Party, Mojada, A Medea in Los Angeles (Getty Villa), Hold These Truths (San Diego Repertory), Fireflies, M Butterfly, Photograph 51, Culture Clash (Still) in America (South Coast Repertory), A Streetcar Named Desire, Happy Days, RII (Boston Court Pasadena), Criers for Hire (East West Players). Touring: Hamilton (Eliza Tour). Education: Occidental College.
 | 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. |
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.
Casting
CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
David Caparelliotis, CSA
Joseph Gery
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.
Paul Tate dePoo III (Scenic Design)
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Katherine Roth (Costume Design)
Russell H. Champa (Lighting Design)
Lindsay Jones
(Original Music and Sound Design)
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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.