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UNDERSTUDIES

Production Stage Manager
Marne Anderson*

Assistant Stage Manager
Amanda Salmons*

This production contains one act with no intermission.

Production Staff

Assistant Scenic Design Eileen McCann

Associate Costume Design Charlotte Devaux

Assistant Lighting Design Winston Limauge

   Assistant Sound Design Marilynn Do

   Stage Management Swing Anjee Nero*

   Stage Management Apprentice Jiawei Pei

*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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THE NOTEBOOKS OF LEONARDO DA VINCI CAST AND CREATIVES

	ADEOYE (Leonardo) (he/him/his) Regional: Shakespeare Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Lookingglass Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts, Arizona Theatre Company, Clarence Brown Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, Spooky Action Theater, Steppenwolf Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater. Film: #Vengeance Is Mine, Chicago Overcoat. Television: “Detroit 1-8-7,” “Leverage,” “Prison Break.” Teaching Artist: Lookingglass Theatre. Training: M.F.A. in Classical Acting from The George Washington University, B.A. in Law, Letters, and Society from The University of Chicago. @deosluciddream on Instagram.
	CHLOE BALDWIN (Understudy) The Old Globe: debut. Goodman Theatre: The Winter’s Tale, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci. National tour: The Woman in Black. Regional: Rosalind in As You Like It, Lennox, fight captain in Macbeth (Kingsmen), Macduff, fight choreographer in Macbeth (BRSP); shows at Pasadena Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse, Seattle Rep, more. Television: “Shining Girls,” “Chicago Fire,” Utopia, “Code-Switched,” Brujos. Film: Widows, The Spirit Became Flesh. Honors: Sarah Siddons Society scholarship, Curious Elixirs grant. Education: B.F.A. in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul. chloebaldwin.net, @chloeglowyflowy on Instagram.
	JACK DECESARE (Understudy) Theatre credits: STC, Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Steppenwolf, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company, Porchlight Music Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre. Television: NBC’s “Chicago Justice.” Education: B.F.A. in Acting from The Theatre School at DePaul University.
	CHRISTOPHER DONAHUE (Leonardo) The Old Globe: debut. New York: Circle in the Square, Classic Stage Company, Lincoln Center’s Serious Fun! Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theater/NYSF, Second Stage. Regional: Alliance Theatre, American Repertory Theater, Annoyance Theatre, Arden Theatre Company, Arena Stage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, City Theatre, Court Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Lookingglass Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Two River Theater, Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre.
	KASEY FOSTER (Leonardo) Performer, producer, choreographer, singer, puppeteer. Lookingglass Theatre: Ensemble Member; most recently The Steadfast Tin Soldier. Regional: Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, South Coast Rep, Alliance Theatre. Television: “Chicago Med,” IFC’s “Documentary Now!” Other: sings with bands Babelon 5, Nasty Buoy, Old Timey, This Must Be the Band; created and directed over 40 original works in Chicago; produces monthly talk show “Kasey Foster Presents.” kaseyfoster.com, @kaseyfosteriscool on Instagram, Kasey Foster on YouTube.
	john gregorio (Leonardo) The Old Globe: debut. Off Broadway: Around the World in 80 Days (Davenport Theatre), Silent Laughter (The Lamb’s Theatre), The Nuclear Family (Belt Theatre). Regional: The Steadfast Tin Soldier (Lookingglass), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Goodman), Treasure Island (Berkeley Repertory), Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Arizona Theatre Company), The Villain Supper Club (Merrimack Repertory), The Royale (Milwaukee Repertory), The 39 Steps, Little Shop of Horrors (Geva Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville), A Funny Thing Happened… (North Shore), The Legend of Pecos Bill (Alliance Theatre), The Mystery of Irma Vep (Dad’s Garage Theatre Company).
	Anthony irons (Leonardo) New York: Deep Azure (Apollo Theater). Regional: Two Trains Running (Goodman Theatre), Treasure Island (Lookingglass Theatre), Jitney, What to Send Up When It Goes Down, King Hedley II (Congo Square Theatre), Waiting for Godot (Court Theatre), How to Use a Knife (Shattered Globe Theatre), Hamlet (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Black Eagles (Penumbra Theatre). Film: Let’s Go to Prison. Television: “The Big Leap,” “South Side,” “Empire.” Awards: 3Arts, Black Theatre Alliance, African American Arts Alliance. Other: Ensemble Member of Congo Square Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre; creator of “Hit ’Em on the Blackside.” youtube.com/@congosquaretheatrecompany3744.
	louise lamson (Leonardo) The Old Globe: debut. Broadway: Metamorphoses directed by Mary Zimmerman. Off Broadway: Metamorphoses, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage). Regional: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (STC), Metamorphoses (Arena Stage), Metamorphoses, The Secret in the Wings (Berkeley Rep, Seattle Rep, McCarter), the world premiere of Plantation! directed by David Schwimmer, Hard Times, Death Tax, Ethan Frome, Brothers Karamazov (Lookingglass), The Odyssey (Goodman); productions at Mark Taper Forum, Getty Villa, Arden Theatre. International: Boys’ Life (Edinburgh Theatre Festival). Television: “Chicago Med,” “Chicago P.D.” Awards: After Dark Award, Jeff nomination for Bash (About Face Theatre). Other: ensemble member of Lookingglass Theatre. Training: B.S. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University.
	james newcomb (Understudy) The Old Globe: Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Much Ado. Off Broadway: Throne of Blood (BAM), Much Ado (Public). Regional: Duke in Measure for Measure (Goodman), Dr. Wills in The Madness of George III, Buckingham, Apemantus in Timon of Athens (Chicago Shakes), Richard III, 14 seasons (OSF), Iago, Coriolanus, Bottom (Utah Shakes), nine seasons (Denver Center), founding member (Shakespeare & Co.); productions at Berkeley Rep, SCR, Portland Center Stage, Geva, North Coast Rep. Awards: Drama-Logue Award (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Craig Noel Award for Angles in America (Cygnet Theatre), Oxford Award for Richard III (OSF). Television/film: Honky (PBS), I Want to Keep My Baby!, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Lone Wolf.
	andrea san miguel (Leonardo) (she/they) The Old Globe: debut. Regional: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Goodman Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company), As You Like It (Guthrie Theater), Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), How to Defend Yourself (Victory Gardens Theater), Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley (Northlight Theatre), The Book Club Play (Indiana Repertory Theatre), As You Like It, The Recruiting Officer, The Maids, A Flea in Her Ear, Pericles (American Players Theatre), Alias Grace (Cincinnati Playhouse). Education: B.F.A. from University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program. Representation: Paonessa Talent. AndreaSanMiguel.com, A_San_Miguel on Instagram.
	emma svitil (Understudy) The Old Globe/USD Shiley M.F.A. Program: Measure for Measure. Regional: Annie (Fox Theatre), Real Tweenagers of Atlanta (Alliance Theatre). Collegiate: Stella in A Streetcar Named Desire (Université Paris 1), Malcolm in Macbeth, Starveling, Mustardseed in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Prince in Romeo and Juliet, Ghost, Gertrude in Hamlet, Winnie in Happy Days, McShovit in Ubu Rock, Queen Gynecia in Head Over Heels, ensemble, violinist in Pippin (NYU). Education: B.F.A. in Drama from NYU Tisch: New Studio on Broadway (2022).
	michael underhill (Understudy) The Old Globe/USD Shiley M.F.A. Program: Measure for Measure. Regional: Scratch in Witch, ensemble in Man in the Ring, Tragedian in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Huntington), Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing, Ferdinand in The Tempest, Arviragus in Cymbeline, Richmond in Richard III (Commonwealth Shakespeare), Tybalt in Romeo and Juliet, Macduff in Macbeth (CSC2), Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Gamm Theatre), King John in King John (Praxis Stage), Photograph 51 (The Nora), Necessary Monsters (SpeakEasy Stage), Back the Night (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), Hotel Nepenthe (Brown Box). Honors: Elliot Norton nomination for Best Actor for Witch. Education: B.A. in Theatre from Northeastern University. michaeljunderhill.com,  @michaeljamesunderhill on Instagram.
	wai yim (Leonardo) The Old Globe: The White Snake. Regional: A Christmas Carol, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, The White Snake, The King of Hell’s Palace, Postnation, King of the Yees (Goodman Theatre), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Chimerica (TimeLine Theatre), The White Snake (McCarter Theatre, Wuzhen Theatre Festival in China), The Oldest Boy (Unicorn Theatre), Nomad Motel (Horizon Theatre Company). Film: North of the 10, Fatal Influence: Like. Follow. Survive. Television: “Work in Progress,” “Power Book IV: Force,” “neXt,” “Chicago P.D.,” “The Chi,” “Patriot.” @whyyim.

mary zimmerman 

(Writer and Director) Goodman Theatre: Artistic Associate; 17 productions in 25 years; directed and adapted Candide, The Jungle Book, White Snake, Mirror of the Invisible World, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Journey to the West, The Odyssey; directed The Music Man, Wonderful Town, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Trojan Women, Pericles, Silk. Other works as playwright/director: Arabian Nights, Argonautika, The Secret in the Wings, Treasure Island, Eleven Rooms of Proust (Lookingglass Theatre). Adapted Ovid’s Metamorphoses: originated at Northwestern and Lookingglass Theatre, ran on Broadway for year, received Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Opera directing: Galileo Galilei with Philip Glass (Goodman), Lucia de Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera, La Scala), Armida, La Sonnambula, Rusalka, Eurydice (Metropolitan Opera). Other: professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University, Ensemble Member at Lookingglass Theatre Company, recipient of 1998 MacArthur Fellowship, recipient of numerous Jeff Awards. 

scott bradley 

(Scenic Design) The Old Globe: Sea of Tranquility, Smash, Enter the Guardsman. Broadway: Seven Guitars, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Off Broadway: Eurydice, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage), Incident at Vichy (Keen). Regional: Mr. Dickens and His Carol, A Great Wilderness (Seattle Rep), Pride and Prejudice (St. Louis Rep), Fun Home (Center Stage), His Eye Is on the Sparrow (Portland Center Stage), West Side Story (Virginia Stage). Honors: Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award (Seven Guitars); Drama Desk nomination (Joe Turner’s Come and Gone); Joseph Jefferson Award (Mary Zimmerman’s Silk); Lucille Lortel nominations (The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Eurydice).

mara blumenfeld 

(Costume Design) The Old Globe: The White Snake. Broadway: Metamorphoses. Off Broadway: Trevor the Musical (Stage 42), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage), The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center), Lookingglass Alice (New Victory). Chicago: Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Writers Theatre, Court, Lookingglass Theatre Company (also ensemble member). Regional: Oregon Shakespeare, Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Rep, McCarter, Asolo Rep, Huntington. International: Stratford Festival (Canada), Donmar Warehouse, Barbican (London), K-Ballet, DisneySea (Tokyo). Opera: Rusalka, Lucia di Lammermoor, La Sonnambula (Metropolitan Opera), The Merry Widow (Lyric Opera of Chicago). Honors: four Joseph Jefferson Awards, 2012 Michael Merritt Award. marablumenfeld.com.

t.j. gerckens

(Lighting Design) The Old Globe: The White Snake. Broadway: Metamorphoses. Off Broadway: Metamorphoses, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Measure for Measure. Metropolitan Opera: Eurydice, Rusalka, La Sonnambula, Lucia di Lammermoor. Regional: Goodman Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, LA Opera, Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Repertory, Brooklyn Academy of Music. International: La Scala (Milan), The Barbican (London), Melbourne Theatre Company (Australia). Awards: Drama Desk Award (Metamorphoses), Drama Desk nomination (The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci), Lortel Award (Metamorphoses), Jeff Awards (The Odyssey, Metamorphoses). Other: faculty at Otterbein University, member of USA 829.

michael bodeen 

(Original Music and Sound Design) Broadway: music/sound for No Man’s Land, Waiting for Godot, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, The Miracle Worker; sound for Fish in the Dark, Sweat, The Price, Of Mice and Men, This Is Our Youth, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Superior Donuts, A Year with Frog and Toad, reasons to be pretty, Hollywood Arms, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Off Broadway: music/sound for The True, Gently Down the Stream, Guards at the Taj, Sticks and Bones, Checkers, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Boy Gets Girl, Red, Space, Marvin’s Room; sound for Good for Otto, The Spoils, Brundibar, Jitney; music direction/sound for Ruined.

miriam sturm

(Original Music) Broadway: The Grapes of Wrath (Cort Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Roundabout). Regional: The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Journey to the West, Gertrude Stein: Each One As She May, Black Snow, The Baltimore Waltz, The Winter’s Tale, Richard II, All’s Well That Ends Well (Goodman Theatre), Fuente Ovejuna (Court Theatre), Ring Round the Moon (Steppenwolf Theatre Company); productions at La Jolla Playhouse, Marin Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, National Theatre (London). Film: The Impostors, Ithaca. Awards: Joseph Jefferson Award for Original Music (Black Snow). Other: numerous live concert films, videos, television appearances as violinist for John Mellencamp for 25 years.

sylvia hernandez-distasi

(Acrobatic Consultant) Theatre: Steadfast Tin Soldier, Lookingglass Alice, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Moby Dick, Thadeus and Slocum: A Vaudeville Adventure, Hard Time, others (Lookingglass Theatre), Quixote (Writers Theatre), The Tempest (Steppenwolf Theatre), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, The Diver (Goodman Theatre), The Bartered Bride (Lyric Opera of Chicago). Awards: Joseph Jefferson Awards for Choreography, 3Arts Award for Design, Illinois Theatre Association Honor for Outstanding Contribution to Theatre, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Distinguished Achievement.

lauren port, csa

(Casting) Casting credits: Casting Director at Goodman Theatre since 2019; Caparelliotis Casting for 10 years, including seven seasons with The Old Globe. Broadway: Junk, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House, Part 2, The Front Page, It’s Only a Play, Disgraced, Fish in the Dark, Holler If Ya Hear Me, Trip to Bountiful, Grace, Death of a Salesman, Seminar, Stick Fly, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Lend Me a Tenor, Fences, others. Television/film: “New Amsterdam,” “American Odyssey,” Steel Magnolias. Awards: four Artios Awards, Media Access Award.

rachael jimenez, csa

(Casting) Casting credits: Goodman Theatre (eight seasons), Theater Wit, Windy City Playhouse, Remy Bumppo Theatre Company. Member: CSA (Casting Society of America), ALTA (The Alliance for Latinx Theater Artists of Chicago), casting director trainer team in Broadway for Racial Justice’s Casting Directive program. Education: B.A. in Theatre Arts, Entrepreneurship, and Comparative Religious Studies from California State University, Fullerton.

marne anderson

(Production Stage Manager) Regional: American Prophet: Frederick Douglass in His Own Words, Seven Guitars, Newsies, Jubilee, Indecent, Dave, The Great Society, Moby Dick, All the Way, Metamorphoses, Arabian Nights (Arena Stage), Jane Anger, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, The Amen Corner, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theatre Company), A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Pericles, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Folger Theatre), Angels in America, Parts I and II (Round House Theatre). Training: University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

amanda salmons

(Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Come Fall in Love, Bob Fosse’s Dancin’, Life After, The Blameless, American Mariachi, October Sky, Rain, The Metromaniacs, The White Snake, Inherit the Wind, over 30 more productions. 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. 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, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, 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.

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.

Scott Bradley, Scenic Design

Mara Blumenfeld, Costume Design based on the original design by Allison Reeds
www.marablumenfeld.com

T.J. Gerckens, Lighting Design

Michael Bodeen, Sound Design
www.milbomusic.com

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.

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