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UNDERSTUDIES

Production Stage Manager
Anjee Nero*

Setting
Aan Diego, California

There will be no intermission. 

Production Staff

Assistant Scenic Design Eileen McCann

Associate Costume Design Charlotte Devaux

Production Assistant Talon Cooper

   Stage Management Swing Kendra Stockton*

*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.

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EBENEZER SCROOGE'S BIG SAN DIEGO CHRISTMAS SHOW CAST AND CREATIVES

	BILL BUELL (Ebenezer Scrooge) The Old Globe: Scrooge, Anna Christie. Broadway: Ink, Cyrano, Equus, History Boys, Inherit the Wind, Urinetown, 42nd Street, Titanic, Tommy, Taking Steps, Big River, Annie, Once a Catholic. Off Broadway: Bad Habits, Rancho Viejo, Kin, On the Bum, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Common Pursuit, Tumacho. Shakespeare in the Park: Tartuffe, The Winter’s Tale, Twelfth Night. Film/television: Seven Seconds, “Sneaky Pete,” God’s Pocket, Across the Universe, Spy Game, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Love Letter, Requiem for a Dream, Quiz Show, Palindromes, Kinsey, “Boardwalk Empire,” “30 Rock,” “Blue Bloods,” John Adams, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Law & Order.”
	ELIZABETH NESTLERODE (Prudence Saint, Lavinia, Ghost of Christmas Present, Archibald, etc.; Music Director) Off Broadway/New York: Diane Cohen, Woman 1 understudy in The Other Josh Cohen, Louise in Gypsy, Meanest Birthday Girl in The Meanest Birthday Girl. Regional: Girl in four productions of Once (Cape Playhouse, Actors’ Playhouse, more), June Carter Cash in two productions of Ring of Fire, Violet in Violet, Olive in …Spelling Bee, Vi Petty in Buddy Holly directed by Hunter Foster, 54 Forever directed by Tommy Tune, Mary Bailey, Evelyn in It’s a Wonderful Life. Readings: Clue, One Hit Wonder, Battlefield. Television: “Late Show with David Letterman.” Education: B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from University of Miami. Member of Actors’ Equity Association. elizabethnestlerode.com, @elizabethnestlerode.
	CHRISTOPHER M. RAMIREZ (Bob Cratchit, Jacob Marley, Charles, Mr. Fezzi, etc.) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Hair, Thinking Shakespeare LOVE!, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Twelfth Night. Off Broadway: Touchstone in As You Like It (Shakespeare in the Park/The Public Theater). Regional: Disney’s Freaky Friday (La Jolla Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Alley Theatre), Quixote Nuevo (Denver Center), Lookingglass Alice (Baltimore Center Stage), Man of La Mancha (Barrington Stage Company), The Count of Monte Cristo (Pioneer Theatre Company), In the Heights, Fun Home (SpeakEasy Stage Company), Violet (Clarence Brown Theatre Company). Television: “Instinct” (CBS), “FBI” (CBS). Education: B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Boston Conservatory, M.F.A. from Globe/USD Shiley Program. @c_rambrothaman on Instagram.
	DAN ROSALES (Fred, Young Scrooge, Medium Scrooge, Tiny Tim, etc.) The Old Globe: original cast of Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show. Off Broadway: Trevor (Stage 42), Spamilton (47th Street Theatre), Dog Man (Lucille Lortel). National tour: Peter Pan in Peter Pan 360. Regional: 50 Years of Broadway (The Kennedy Center), Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (Capital Rep), Nutty Professor (Ogunquit Playhouse), We the People (Paper Mill Playhouse), You Are Here (Goodspeed), A Walk on the Moon (George Street Playhouse), Godspell (Berkshire Theatre Group). Television: “Evil” (CBS), “The Good Fight” (CBS), Trevor: The Musical (Disney+). Other: “Rolling Calls” (Broadway Podcast Network). Education: B.F.A. from Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music. DanRosales.net, @DanRosales.
	JACQUE WILKE (Gertrude Saint, Ghost of Christmas Past, Mrs. Cratchit, Jennie, etc.) The Old Globe: Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show. Regional: Pride and Prejudice, Stupid F***ing Bird, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, Mistakes Were Made (Cygnet), Yoke/The Car Plays (La Jolla Playhouse), Human Error, Moon Over Buffalo, The Father, Don’t Dress for Dinner (North Coast Rep), The Happiest Place on Earth, Ballast, Next Fall, Fair Use, The New Century (Diversionary), Honky (San Diego Rep). Honors: Charles Jehlinger Award, Craig Noel Award. Training: American Academy of Dramatic Arts, The Groundlings Theatre. jacquewilke.com.

GORDON GREENBERG 

(Co-Writer, Director) The Old Globe: Working, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Crime and Punishment, A Comedy (upcoming). Broadway: Holiday Inn (as director/co-writer, Roundabout, Universal, PBS “Great Performances”), Secret of My Success (Universal). Off Broadway: Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (upcoming), Jacques Brel… (Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics noms), Working (Drama Desk), Single Girls Guide (Ars Nova). London: Guys and Dolls starring Rebel Wilson (Savoy Theatre; six Olivier Award noms), Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory). Toronto: Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish; Dora Award), Tangled (Disney Theatrical). Regional: Williamstown, Huntington, Geffen, Paper Mill, Signature, Goodspeed, Chicago Shakes, MUNY, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Asolo, NY Stage and Film, Capital Rep, Bucks County, Chichester (UK). Television: original movies for Disney Channel, Nickelodeon. Education: Stanford, NYU Film, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. 

STEVE ROSEN 

(Co-Writer) Upcoming: Crime and Punishment, A Comedy (The Old Globe). Selected co-writing/composing: The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation (co-book, music, and lyrics); The Other Josh Cohen (co-book, music, and lyrics); The Secret of My Success (co-book); Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors; Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG Playhouse Christmas Show; “Rolling Calls” (Broadway Podcast Network). Award nominations: six Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, an Off-Broadway Alliance Award, a Joseph Jefferson Award. Education: NYU/Tisch. @stevierosen.

ADAM KOCH 

(Scenic Design) International: Dreamgirls (Seoul). U.S.: Off Broadway, national tours, productions at Signature Theatre, Goodspeed, Ford’s Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, Miami New Drama, Westport Country Playhouse, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Cincinnati Playhouse, Maltz Jupiter, Great Lakes Theatre, Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma, Ogunquit, Syracuse Stage, Music Theatre Wichita, Fulton Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Tuacahn, Portland Stage. Awards: Suzi Bass Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for the immersive outdoor production of Titanic (Serenbe Playhouse), Helen Hayes Award nominations for Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Signature Theatre) and Bat Boy (First Stage). Event designs: annual festivities for New York City Pride (Heritage of Pride). Education: Carnegie Mellon University.  adamkochassociates.com, @instadamkoch on Instagram.

DAVID ISRAEL REYNOSO

(Costume Design) The Old Globe: Midsummer, El Borracho, Scrooge, Hair, As You Like It, The Tempest, The Wanderers, Red Velvet, The Blameless, tokyo fish story, Constellations, Twelfth Night, Arms and the Man, Water by the Spoonful, Time and the Conways, Double Indemnity, Be a Good Little Widow. Theatre: Optika Piñata, Portaleza, Las Quinceañeras, Waking La Llorona (as creator/director, Optika Moderna/La Jolla Playhouse), Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), ACT, ART, Arena, Finnish Ballet, Portland Center Stage, WP, Seattle Rep, others. Further work: Teatro Piñata (New Children’s Museum), Hostile Terrain 94, PostSecret, Living with Animals (Museum of Us). Obie Award, Creative Catalyst Grant. davidreynoso.com, @designreynoso on Instagram.

AMANDA ZIEVE 

(Lighting Design) The Old Globe: Dial M for Murder, Hair, Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show, Tiny Beautiful Things, Barefoot in the Park, Native Gardens, The Wanderers, Rich Girl. Other theatre: Off Broadway, Goodspeed, La Jolla Playhouse, Signature Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Maltz Jupiter Theatre, Bucks County Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Music Theater Heritage, San Diego Symphony, Cygnet Theatre. Broadway: 19 productions; associate on Escape to Margaritaville, Bright Star, Allegiance; assistant on Hamilton. Education: B.A. in Theatre from CSU Northridge. amandazieve.com.

BART FASBENDER

(Sound Design) The Old Globe: Scrooge, Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery, The Rainmaker. Broadway: Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Off Broadway: The Confession of Lily Dare (Primary Stages), Soft Power (as sound effects designer, The Public Theater), The Other Josh Cohen, Who’s Holiday (Westside Theatre), Harry Clark (Audible at Minetta Lane/Vineyard Theatre). Regional: KC Rep, Guthrie Theater, Idaho Shakespeare, Lake Tahoe, Great Lakes Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Bucks County Playhouse, Rep Theatre of St. Louis, Geva Theatre, ACT, Center Theatre Group, Philadelphia Theatre Co. Proud member USA 829 and Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association.

TARA RUBIN CASTING

(Casting) The Old Globe: Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, 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, How to Succeed, Billy Elliot, others. 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.

ANJEE NERO

(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Come Fall in Love, Almost Famous, The Gardens of Anuncia, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Bright Star, Allegiance, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Benny & Joon, October Sky, The Rocky Horror Show, Life After, The Wanderers, Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show, The Twenty-Seventh Man, A Room with a View, Kingdom, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Be a Good Little Widow, more. Broadway: Bright Star. Regional highlights: Bright Star (Kennedy Center), Fly, Sideways, Ruined, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Herringbone, The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse), Ruined (Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), Venice (Center Theatre Group, Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Antigone (SITI Company). 

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, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, 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;
Claire Burke, CSA; Peter Van Dam, CSA;
Felicia Rudolph, CSA; Xavier Rubiano, CSA;
Kevin Metzger-Timson, CSA;
Spencer Gualdoni; Olivia Paige West; Frankie Ramirez

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.

Adam Koch, Scenic Design
www.adamkochassociates.com

David Israel Reynoso, Costume Design
@designreynoso

Amanda Zieve, Lighting Design
www.amandazieve.com

Bart Fasbender, Sound Design

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.

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