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UNDERSTUDIES

Production Stage Manager
Jess Slocum*

This production contains one act with no intermission.

 

Production Staff

Associate Director Noelle Marion

Baseball Coach Pedro Ortiz Vásquez

Fight Consultant Eileen McCann

Assistant Scenic Design Eileen McCann

Assistant Costume Design Katie Knox

Production Assistant Andrea Fernández

   Script Assistant Jamie Boyd

   Stage Management Swing Anjee Nero*

*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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UNDER A BASEBALL SKY CAST AND CREATIVES

	ANA NICOLLE CHAVEZ (Paloma) Actress born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. Education: 2021 B.F.A. from State University of New York, Purchase College Acting Conservatory. Television: season 3 character arc on “Truth Be Told” (Apple TV+). Film: Forgotten Lovers. Theatre: Sanctuary City (Pasadena Playhouse). @ananicollechavez on Instagram.
	LAURA CROTTE (Elí) The Old Globe: debut. Chicago credits: La Ruta (Steppenwolf), Pedro Páramo, Yasmina’s Necklace, The Sins of Sor Juana, Mariela in the Desert, Electricidad, Esperanza Rising (Goodman), Into the Beautiful North (16th Street), Blind Mouth Singing, Another Part of the House (Teatro Vista). Regional: Quixote Nuevo (DCPA), Mushroom (People’s Light), On the Wings of Mariposa (First Stage). International tours: Cuarteto (La Havana/Publik), Pedro Páramo (Montreal/Buendía-Goodman), La Casa de Bernarda Alba (Perú, Argentina/Aguijón), Cuarteto, Se busca, Barbacoa (Mexico national tour/Publik). Additional international: 15+ productions in Mexico. Film credits: Startled Faction, Maydays, La Cita de Bardini, Alquimia, Out of Love. Training: IAE, UNAM Mexico. lauracrotte.org.
	DIEGO JOSEF (Teo) Theatre: stage debut. Film: There’s Someone Inside Your House, Tiger Within, The Ballad of Lefty Brown, Message from the King, Girl Flu, Walking with the Enemy, Ugly Benny, Love Thy Nature. Television: “Animal Kingdom,” “Generation,” “Breckman Rodeo,” “Goliath,” “Deadtime Stories.”
	JOSEPH MORALES (Chava) Theatre: Hamilton in Hamilton (original Chicago company, national tour/Philip Company), If/Then with Idina Menzel, Usnavi in In the Heights (first national tour), Bombay Dreams (first national tour), Rock of Ages (original L.A. company), Henry in Henry and Mudge (Lucille Lortel Theatre). Select regional: Jack Scott in High School Musical (Paper Mill Playhouse), Usnavi in the regional premiere of In the Heights (Pioneer Theatre Company), Tommy in The Who’s Tommy (East West Players). Television: “Chicago Med,” “Colony.”  @josephamorales on Instagram.
	CESAR J. ROSADO (Santiago) Broadway: Plaza Suite directed by John Benjamin Hickey (Hudson Theatre). Off Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire directed by Robert O’Hara (Williamstown Theatre Festival/Audible), Plano directed by Taylor Reynolds (Clubbed Thumb), David Greenspan’s The Things That Were There directed by Lee Sunday Evans (Bushwick Starr), Dolphins and Sharks (LAByrinth Theater), Seven Spots on the Sun (Rattlestick). Film/television: “Wu-Tang: An American Saga,” “Manifest,” “Law & Order: SVU.”

JOSÉ CRUZ GONZÁLEZ 

(Playwright) Plays: American Mariachi (The Old Globe, Denver Center Theatre Company), The Extraordinary ZLuna Captures the World (Denver Center), If by Chance (South Coast Repertory). Honors: 2022 Kennedy Center Next 50, a new initiative celebrating cultural leadership with 50 trailblazing leaders and organizations. Member: College of Fellows of the American Theatre, The Dramatists Guild of America, board the New Harmony Project, dedicated to a desire to support stories of hope, optimism, and the resiliency of the human spirit.

JAMES VÁsquez 

(Director) The Old Globe: Resident Artist; Hair, American Mariachi (world premiere), Hurricane Diane, Tiny Beautiful Things, Rich Girl (West Coast premieres), The Rocky Horror Show, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Regional: Cabaret (Goodspeed Musicals), American Mariachi (Denver Center Theatre Co.), In the Heights (Dallas Theater Center, Moonlight Stage Productions), Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax (associate director, Children’s Theatre Co.), West Side Story, Cats (SD Musical Theatre), Pageant, Hedwig... (Cygnet Theatre Co.), Next Fall, Pippin (Diversionary Theatre). Education: The Juilliard School, Drama Division. jamesvasquez.com.

ANNA LOUIZOS 

(Scenic Design) The Old Globe: Dial M for Murder, Much Ado About Nothing, Beyond Therapy. Broadway: three-time Tony Award nominee; In the Heights, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, School of Rock (sets and costumes), Avenue Q, Honeymoon in Vegas, R+H’s Cinderella, Holiday Inn, Dames at Sea, It Shoulda Been You, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, High Fidelity, Curtains. Other theatre: many productions Off Broadway, international, and regional; new world tour of West Side Story directed by Lonny Price; as well as a unique international production of West Side Story for Tokyo’s Stage Around, where the revolving audience is surrounded by scenery. Other: founder of BroadwayDesignExchange.com.

DANIELLE NIEVES

(Costume Design) Theatre: Clean/Espejos (South Coast Rep), Beauty and the Beast (5th Avenue Theatre), I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Public Works The Winter’s Tale (Seattle Rep), American Mariachi (Dallas Theater Center, Goodman Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Play House), Real Women Have Curves (Dallas Theater Center), Sense and Sensibility (Village Theatre), Behold the Dreamers (Book-It Repertory Theatre), Pity in History, No End of Blame, Gertrude – The Cry, Lovesong of the Electric Bear (Off Broadway). daniellenieves.com.

RUI RITA 

(Lighting Design) (he/him) Selected Broadway: Skeleton Crew, Velocity of Autumn, Trip to Bountiful, Present Laughter, Dividing the Estate, Enchanted April. Off Broadway premieres: Paradise Blue, Horton Foote’s Old Friends and Orphans’ Home Cycle (Hewes Award) (Signature), Happiest Song Plays Last (Second Stage), Just Jim Dale (Roundabout), Nightingale, Moonlight and Magnolias (Manhattan Theatre Club), Carpetbagger’s Children, Far East (Lincoln Center Theater), Dinner with Friends (Variety Arts Center). Off Broadway revivals: The Piano Lesson (Signature), Talley’s Folly (Roundabout), Engaged (TFANA; Obie Award). Recent regional credits: Alley, Asolo, Center Stage, Center Theatre Group, Dallas Theater Center, Ford’s, Guthrie, Huntington, Oregon Shakespeare, The Old Globe. designbyrui.com.

LEON ROTHENBERG

(Sound Design) Tony Award for Sound Design: The Nance. Recent Broadway: Hillary and Clinton, The Waverly Gallery, Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, The Boys in the Band, A Doll’s House, Part 2. Regional: The Old Globe, Barrington Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arizona Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre, Arena Stage, ACT, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, La Jolla, Two River Theater, City Theatre. NY: Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, NYCC, Primary Stages, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theater, others. International: Cirque du Soleil, National Theatre of Cyprus, Dijon International Festival. Interactive: The Sphere, Spry Fox, Netflix. klaxson.net.

CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING

(Casting) The Old Globe: What We Talk About…, 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: Ohio State Murders, 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, Goodman, Vineyard. Television: “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “American Odyssey” (NBC).

JESS SLOCUM

(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Dial M for Murder, El Borracho, Hurricane Diane, Noura, They Promised Her the Moon, Familiar, The Imaginary Invalid, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Love’s Labor’s Lost, tokyo fish story, In Your Arms, Bright Star, Othello, Water by the Spoonful, Pygmalion, A Room with a View, Robin and the 7 Hoods, over 30 more. Regional: Noura (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Indecent; Side Show; Ruined; The Third Story; Memphis (La Jolla Playhouse). Education: Vanderbilt University.

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.

Casting

Caparelliotis Casting
David Caparelliotis, CSA
Joseph Gery
Elena Sgouros

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Danielle Nieves, Costume Design
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Rui Rita, Lighting Design
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Leon Rothenberg, 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.

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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