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Emily Bordley, Kaitlyn Mayse*, John Viso

Production Stage Manager
Anjee Nero*

Assistant Stage Manager
Amanda Salmons*

Setting

JOE MASTEROFF

(Book) (1919–2018) had one dream from infancy: to write for the theatre. After a four-year stint in the Air Force, he came to New York to face his future: book writer or book seller? Before long he had three shows on Broadway bearing his name: The Warm Peninsula starring Julie Harris, and two musicals, She Loves Me and Cabaret, for which he was the book writer. His other work included the libretto for 70, Girls, 70 and Desire Under the Elms, and book and lyrics for Six Wives and Paramour. Thanks to indulgent parents, the New Dramatists, Hal Prince, and many others, Masteroff retired and lived in subdued luxury until his death.

JOHN VAN DRUTEN

(Original Play) (1901–1957) was an English playwright and theatre director. He began his career in London and later moved to America, becoming a US citizen. He was known for his plays of witty and urbane observations of contemporary life and society.

CHRISTOPHER ISHERWOOD

(Original Stories) (1904–1986) was a novelist, playwright, screenwriter, autobiographer, and diarist. He was homosexual and made this a theme of some of his writing. He was born near Manchester in the north of England in 1904, became a U.S. citizen in 1946, and died at home in Santa Monica, California, in January 1986.

JOHN KANDER

(Music) is a Tony, Emmy, and Grammy Award–winning composer, recipient of the Kennedy Center Honor, and member of the American Theater Hall of Fame. With frequent collaborator Fred Ebb, he composed the scores to dozens of Broadway musicals, including Cabaret, Zorba, Chicago, The Act, Woman of the Year, The Rink, Kiss of the Spider Woman, and Steel Pier.

FRED EBB

(Lyrics) (1928–2004) Award-winning lyricist, librettist, and director who frequently collaborated with composer John Kander. Theatre: Flora the Red Menace; Cabaret; The Happy Time; Zorba; 70, Girls, 70; Chicago; The Act; Woman of the Year; 2x5; The Rink; And the World Goes ’Round; Kiss of the Spider Woman; Steel Pier; The Skin of Our Teeth; Curtains. Film: Cabaret; Norman Rockwell: A Short Subject; Lucky Lady; New York, New York; Funny Lady; Kramer vs. Kramer; A Matter of Time; Places in the Heart; French Postcards; Stepping Out; Chicago. Television: Liza with a Z; Goldie and Liza Together; Ol’ Blue Eyes Is Back; Baryshnikov on Broadway; An Early Frost; Liza in London.

JOSH RHODES

(Director and Choreographer) The Old Globe: Guys and Dolls, Baskerville, Bright Star, Working. Broadway: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, It Shoulda Been You, First Date, Bright Star. West End: Carousel, Sweeney Todd. NY City Center Encores!: Dear World, Mack & Mabel, Grand Hotel. Regional theatre: Spamalot, The Who’s Tommy (Kennedy Center), Cabaret, Hair, Evita, Guys and Dolls, Sound of Music, Knoxville (Asolo Rep), Chess, Paint Your Wagon, Jersey Boys (The Muny). Television: Sweeney Todd, Company, Sondheim! The Birthday Concert (PBS). Film: Beau, The Musical. 

TIJANA BJELAJAC

(Scenic Design) Los Angeles–based, international set designer and visual artist; works include set designs, paintings, installations, and sculptures. Selected credits: Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (Capital Rep, Off Broadway September 2023), The Little Mermaid (Sierra Rep), Cabaret (Asolo Rep), Beauty and the Beast (Misi Productions, Colombia), Othello (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), My Fair Lady (New Harmony). As associate designer: The Magic Flute (Opera Australia), The Egyptian Helen (Teatro alla Scala), Little Shop of Horrors (Westside Theatre). Honors: Kahn Award, BroadwayWorld Awards for Best Scenic Design. teeyana.com, @tijanabjelajac on Instagram.

ALEJO VIETTI

(Costume Design) The Old Globe: Crime and Punishment, A Comedy, Lost in Yonkers, Engaging Shaw, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Allegiance, Familiar, The Underpants. Broadway: Allegiance (Drama Desk nomination), Beautiful (West End, Japan, Australia, U.K. tour, U.S. tour; Olivier nomination), Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn. Selected Off Broadway: Titanique (Lucille Lortel Award), Amy and the Orphans (Roundabout), Storefront Church (Atlantic), Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Nightingale (MTC). Others: Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, Kennedy Center, City Center’s Encores!, Lyric Opera of Chicago, Minnesota Opera, Donesk Opera (Ukraine), Colorado Ballet. International: Hunchback of Notre Dame (Japan, Germany, Austria), West Side Story (world tour), Barnum & Bailey Circus. Honors: 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. @alejo_vietti_costume_design on Instagram.

CORY PATTAK

(Co-Lighting Design) The Old Globe: Dog and Pony. NYC: The Lucky Star, Final Follies, Stalking the Bogeyman, Handle with Care, Skippyjon Jones, Unlocked. Regional: Resident Lighting Designer for Broadway Center Stage at The Kennedy Center; Weston Playhouse, Portland Stage, Ordway, Goodspeed, KC Rep, Everyman, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Asolo Rep, Miami New Drama, Olney Theatre, Alabama Shakespeare, Tuacahn Center, Ogunquit Playhouse. Other: In the Heights in Puerto Rico, shows for Norwegian Cruise Line, MSC Cruises. National tour: Flashdance. International: Sunset Boulevard, Singin’ in the Rain, Pretty Woman (Brazil). Upcoming: Spamalot (Broadway), A Wonderful World (New Orleans, Chicago), The Great Gatsby (Paper Mill). corypattak.com. @corypattak on Instagram.

PAUL VAILLANCOURT

(Co-Lighting Design) Off Broadway: Off Peak (59E59). Regional: Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Kitchen Theatre Company), Soft, Fifth Planet (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Burdens (Miles Square Theatre), October Storm (Hudson Stage Company). pvaillancourtdesigns.com.

HALEY PARCHER

(Sound Design) Seattle-based sound designer. Recent design credits: Guys and Dolls, Sunset Boulevard, Spamalot (Kennedy Center), Beauty and the Beast, The Wiz, Into the Woods, Sweeney Todd, And So That Happened (5th Avenue Theatre), Mamma Mia! (Village Theatre), How Can I Love You (Cave B), American Idiot, Violet, The Nance, The Last World Octopus Wrestling Champion, We’ve Battled Monsters Before (ArtsWest).

MICHELLE HART

(Hair, Wig, and Makeup Design) (she/her) Credits: Sarasota Ballet, Palm Beach Dramaworks, freeFall Theatre, Urbanite Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Westcoast Black Theatre Troupe, Banyan Theatre, Ruth Eckerd Hall, Venice Theatre, Dorset Theatre, Barrington Stage, OpenStage Theatre. Additional hair and/or makeup: Joan Rivers, Doris Roberts, Martin Short, Jane Russell, Arlene Dahl, Soledad Villamil, Jane Pauley, Richard Dreyfuss, Castille Landon, Christopher Higgins, Mary Mara, Heather Robb, Lauren Sweetser, Justin Long, Paul Downs, Douglas Sills, Nia Hills. Music videos: “Second Chance” by Shinedown, “Reverse Cowgirl” by T-Pain. Film/TV: Lady of the Manor; Paradise, FL; The Real Stephen Blatt. Other: Resident Hair/Wig & Make-up Designer for Asolo Repertory Theatre, FSU/Asolo Conservatory.

ROBERT MEFFE

(Music Director) Broadway: associate conductor for Little Women, the last six years of Les Misérables; keyboards for the 2012 revival of Evita, Newsies, The Phantom of the Opera, Avenue Q, Spelling Bee, Grey Gardens, Bombay Dreams. National tours: music director for Evita, The Phantom of the Opera; associate conductor for Les Misérables, Sunday in the Park with George. Off Broadway: Myths and Hymns, Violet, The Prince and the Pauper, Gutenberg! The Musical! Television: “Encore!” (Disney+), Earth to America (TBS), “Live at Lincoln Center: Renée Fleming” (PBS). Other: head of the M.F.A. Musical Theatre Program at San Diego State University. 

ANGELA STEINER

(Additional Arrangements) (she/her/hers) The Old Globe: Hair. Regional: A Little Night Music, Rattlesnake Kate, Indecent, The Who’s Tommy, Oklahoma!, Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), Crazy for You, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd (Asolo Repertory), Cabaret (Barrington Stage), Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Geva Theatre). Education: B.M. in Piano Performance and Piano Accompanying from Wichita State University, M.M. in Collaborative Piano from University of Northern Colorado. angelasteiner.com.

RACHEL FLESHER

(Fight Director and Intimacy Staging) The Old Globe: Destiny of Desire, Dial M for Murder. Theatre: Cassils’s Human Measure (REDCAT), There’s Always the Hudson (Woolly Mammoth), Relentless, Twilight Bowl (Goodman Theatre), Kill Move Paradise, Rutherford and Son, In the Next Room (TimeLine Theatre), The Pillowman, Wolf Play, Hang Man (Gift Theatre), The Most Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington, I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, The Burials, Constellations (Steppenwolf Theatre). Television: intimacy coordination for shows on Netflix, FX, Fox, HBO, Paramount+, CBS, Hulu, Showtime, ABC. Honors: SAG-recognized Intimacy Coordinator, certified Intimacy Director and Intimacy Coordinator, certified Fight Instructor, Fight Director with Fight Directors Canada.

DEWANDA SMITH SOEDER

(Cultural Competency Consultant) President of Smith-Soeder Enterprises, LLC; Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility (IDEA) strategist who developed her cultural competency process based on her research thesis, “Theatre as a Diversity Intervention.” Notable consulting engagements: Hadestown (Broadway, national tour), Little Shop of Horrors (Off Broadway), Asolo Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Education: M.A. in Psychology; Certified Diversity Professional (CDP); Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, Instructional Design and Development, Human Behavior and Interaction, Emotional Intelligence; adjunct professor of Psychology.

LEE WILKINS

(Associate Director) The Old Globe: Guys and Dolls, Bright Star. Broadway, as associate choreographer: Bright Star, It Shoulda Been You, First Date, Cinderella. Other: Chess, Joseph…, Seven Brides…, Paint Your Wagon, Jersey Boys (The MUNY), Carousel (English National Opera), Dear World, Mack & Mabel, Grand Hotel, Big River (Encores!), Cabaret, Sound of Music, Evita, Guys and Dolls (Asolo), SPAMalot (5th Avenue), On the Town (LA Philharmonic), Company (Avery Fisher Hall), Minsky’s (Ahmanson). Television: “The Late Show” (CBS), “Hatfields and McCoys” (NBC pilot), “Alpha House” (Amazon). Direction: D23 (Disney), NBC Upfront (Radio City Music Hall), Little Mermaid (Casa Mañana), First Date (Straz Center). Broadway, as performer: original cast of Elf, SPAMalot, Wonderful Town, Kiss Me, Kate. leealanwilkins.com, @leeawilkins on  Instagram. 

TARA RUBIN CASTING

(Casting) The Old Globe: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, Dancin’, Scrooge, Despereaux, Gods of Comedy, Life After, Heart of Rock & Roll, Much Ado, Tempest, Guys and Dolls, Othello, Two Gentlemen, Dog and Pony, Room with a View, others. Selected Broadway: Back to the Future, Here Lies Love, Bad Cinderella, Dancin’, KPOP, Mr. Saturday Night, Six, Ain’t Too Proud, Band’s Visit, Sunset Boulevard, Dear Evan Hansen, Cats, Falsettos, School of Rock, Aladdin, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Spamalot, Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, Phantom of the Opera. Selected Off Broadway: Sing Street, Trevor, Between the Lines, Gloria: A Life. Film: Here Today.

EMMELYN THAYER

(Dialect Coach) The Old Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Dial M for Murder. Regional: Noises Off, Sweeney Todd, Man from Nebraska, Private Lives, History Boys (Cygnet Theatre), Good People (Carlsbad Playreaders), Frozen (ion theatre company). The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program: Voice and Speech faculty; Cloud 9, Rites of Passage, Measure for Measure, Mother Courage and Her Children, Thesis Night, 12 Ophelias. USD Department of Theatre: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, The Mail Order Bride, Arcadia. Honors: Horrigan Award, Craig Noel M.F.A Fellowship. emmelynthayer.com.

ANJEE NERO

(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Destiny of Desire, 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, 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, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), Venice (Center Theatre Group), Antigone (SITI Company). 

AMANDA SALMONS

(Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Destiny of Desire, 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.

KENDRA STOCKTON

(Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Destiny of Desire, 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.

ASOLO REPERTORY THEATRE

(Co-Presenter) In its 65th season, Asolo Repertory Theatre is recognized as one of the premier professional theatres in America and located in Sarasota, Florida. Operating in true rotating repertory, its skilled actors and craftsmanship breathe life into this distinctive method, allowing audiences to enjoy multiple productions within days. Presenting up to six annual shows, from classics to contemporaries and bold musicals, Asolo Rep thrives as a self-contained theatre district. Collaborating with top industry artists and nurturing emerging talents through FSU/Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training, the theatre, led by Producing Artistic Director Peter Rothstein and Managing Director Ross Egan, crafts innovative performances and inclusive community programs, securing its legacy. Explore more at asolorep.org.

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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 Wanderers Off Broadway with Roundabout Theatre Company this year and The Tempest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018. 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.

asolo repertory theatre

Peter Rothstein, Producing Artistic Director
Ross Egan, Managing Director
Corinne Deckard, General Manager
Vic Meyrich, Director of Production & Facilities
Sarah Johnson, Development Director
Eric Pugh, Marketing Director
Sara Brunow, Education & Engagement Director
Ron McDonough, Finance/HR Director
Celine Rosenthal, Associate Artistic Director
Mike Rodgers, Production Manager

special thanks

David Covach and Jordan Jeffers at Asolo Repertory Theatre

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.

Tijana Bjelajac, Scenic Design
www.teeyana.com, @tijanabjelajac

Alejo Vietti, Costume Design
@alejo_vietti_costume_design

Cory Pattak and Paul Vaillancourt, Lighting Design
www.corypattak.com, @corypattak
www.pvaillancourtdesigns.com

Haley Parcher, Sound Design

Michelle Hart, Hair, Wig, and Makeup 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.

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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;
Louis DiPaolo; Spencer Gualdoni, CSA;
Olivia Paige West; Frankie Ramirez

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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