Barry Edelstein
ERNA FINCI VITERBI ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Timothy J. Shields
AUDREY S. GEISEL MANAGING DIRECTOR
PRESENTS
BY GORDON GREENBERG AND STEVE ROSEN
SCENIC DESIGN Wilson Chin
COSTUME DESIGN Alejo Vietti
LIGHTING DESIGN Amanda Zieve
ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN Lindsay Jones
CASTING Calleri Jensen Davis
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER Marie Jahelka
DIRECTED BY GORDON GREENBERG
Cast
ACTOR 1
Vincent Randazzo*
ACTOR 2
Juliet Brett*
ACTOR 3
Stephanie Gibson*
ACTOR 4
Orville Mendoza*
ACTOR 5
Nik Walker*
ACTOR 4
(AUGUST 8–20)
Andrew Polec*
UNDERSTUDIES
for Actor 5 – Cody Ingram;
for Actor 2, Actor 3 – Jasmine January;
for Actor 1, Actor 4 – Zakk Mannella
Production Stage Manager
Marie Jahelka*
This production contains one acts with no intermission.
Production Staff
Fight Director Jake Millgard
Assistant Director Pete Dickey
Associate Scenic Design Bridget Lindsay
Resident Associate Costume Design Charlotte Devaux
Assistant Costume Design Regan McKay
Production Assistant Stephanie Carrizales
Script Assistant Andrea Fernández
Stage Management Swing Kendra Stockton*
Fight Captain Vincent Randazzo*
Crime and Punishment, A Comedy was originally commissioned by The Old Globe.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Si desea una sinopsis de esta obra en Español o en Inglés, favor de pedírsela al acomodador que le entregó este programa. If you would like a synopsis of this production in English or Spanish, please request it from an usher.
July 15 – August 13, 2023
Sheryl and Harvey White Theare
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
| CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, A COMEDY CAST AND CREATIVES |
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JULIET BRETT
(Actor 2) NY theatre: Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout), The Orchard (Baryshnikov Arts Center), The Jacksonian (The New Group), What I Did Last Summer (Signature), Desire (59E59). Regional: world premiere of Rajiv Joseph’s Mr. Wolf (Cleveland Play House).Selected television/film: Nicole Fosse in “Fosse/Verdon” (FX), “The Walking Dead” (AMC), “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “Red Oaks” (Amazon), “CSI: NY,” “Law & Order: SVU,” Adrian Lyne’s Deep Water (20th Century), Noah Baumbach’s Mistress America (Searchlight), J.C. Chandor’s A Most Violent Year (A24). @julietbrett |
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STEPHANIE GIBSON
(Actor 3) The Old Globe: Robin and the 7 Hoods. Broadway: Gabrielle in Cinderella, Cherry in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The Addams Family, Spamalot. National tour: Judy in A Chorus Line. NY: original one-woman shows Glitter, Goblets and Gatos and GGG2: Electric Boogaloo (Feinstein’s, 54 Below), Anyone Can Whistle (Encores!), Skittles Commercial: The Broadway Musical (Town Hall). Regional: Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof directed by Judith Ivey (Baltimore Center Stage), Into the Woods (TUTS), Cabaret (Cape Playhouse), Murder on the Orient Express (Paper Mill), Young Frankenstein (Muny), Guys and Dolls (Arkansas Rep Theatre), Rocky Horror Show (Bucks County). Television/film: Pixley on “Happy!,” Run the World, Andy Warhol Diaries, “Person of Interest,” “Up All Night.” Education: CCM. @StephGib1. |
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ORVILLE MENDOZA
(Actor 4) The Old Globe: The Taming of the Shrew, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show. Broadway: Pacific Overtures, Peter and the Starcatcher. Off Broadway: Plays for the Plague Year, Road Show, Romeo and Juliet, Timon of Athens (The Public/NYSF), Passion, Pacific Overtures (Classic Stage), Found (Atlantic), Adrift in Macao (Primary Stages; Drama Desk nomination). Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, East West Players, ACT, 5th Avenue, The Muny, Goodspeed, Bay Street, Long Wharf, others. Television: “Billions,” “Dead Ringers,” “The Blacklist,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” John Mulaney & the Sack Lunch Bunch, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel.” orvillemendoza.com. |
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VINCENT RANDAZZO
(Actor 1) The Old Globe: As You Like It. Regional: Vanity Fair (ACT, STC; Helen Hayes Award), A Walk on the Moon, Hamlet, A Christmas Carol (ACT), Washed Up on the Potomac (San Francisco Playhouse), Orson Welles/Shylock: A Docu-Fantasy Radio Play (Franklin Stage Company, Montreal Fringe, Toronto Fringe), Savannah (Lanes Coven Theater), Stranger Things: The Experience (Mycotoo). Film/television: WeCrashed, “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU.” Honors: Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Supporting Performer. Education: M.F.A. in Acting from American Conservatory Theater, B.A. in Theater from Le Moyne College. @vinnyrand on Instagram. |
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NIK WALKER
(Actor 5) (he/him) The Old Globe: 2013’s The Last Goodbye. Broadway: Aaron Burr in Hamilton, Ain’t Too Proud, Motown. Off Broadway: Peter and the Starcatcher (NWS). Regional: Spamalot (Kennedy Center), Sweeney Todd (Hangar Theatre), One Night in Miami (Denver Center), Yoshimi Battles... (La Jolla). Television/film: “Blue Bloods,” “Law & Order: SVU,” upcoming Apple TV film The Instigators starring Matt Damon and Casey Affleck. As writer: new cartoon Cleaners, co-created with writing partner Alex Brightman, in development with Warner Bros. Animation; original musical Whiskeyland, world premiere at Orlando Fringe this May. Other: current professor, proud alum of NYU; husband to Globe/USD Shiley M.F.A. graduate Sarah Joyce (class of 2023). @nikkywalks. |
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ANDREW POLEC
(Actor 4, August 8–20) The Old Globe: The Grinch in Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Berger in Hair. West End: Strat in Bat Out of Hell (London Coliseum, Dominion Theatre; The Joe Allen Best West End Debut Award). Off Broadway: The Beautiful Lady (La MaMa), The Fantasticks (Theatre Center). Regional: Legacy of Love (Bucks County Playhouse), The General from America (Hudson Valley Shakespeare), Ivanov, A Christmas Carol (Trinity Repertory Company), Where the Wild Things Are (Providence Fringe Festival). Film/television: “Katy Keene,” “Prodigal Son.” Other: Kurt Weill/Lotte Lenya Artist, 2021 First Prize Winner of the Lotte Lenya Competition. Education: B.A.s in English, Music from University of Rochester, M.F.A. in Theatre from Brown University. @andrewpolec. |
GORDON GREENBERG
(Co-Writer, Director) The Old Globe: Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Working. Selected work: Picasso starring Antonio Banderas (director; co-writer with Stephen Schwartz and Caridad Svich; Trafalgar Entertainment), “Most Talkative” (co-creator; NBCUniversal TV/Andy Cohen/Blumhouse), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Geffen Playhouse; LA Drama Critics Circle Award for Revival), Guys and Dolls starring Rebel Wilson (Savoy Theatre, London; six Olivier Award noms), Barnum (Menier Chocolate Factory, London), Piaf/Dietrich (Mirvish, Toronto; Dora Award for Outstanding Production), Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors (director; co-writer with Steve Rosen; upcoming at New World Stages), Holiday Inn (director, co-writer; Broadway, PBS’s “Great Performances”); new works at Ars Nova, Williamstown, Huntington, Paper Mill, Signature, Goodspeed, Chicago Shakes, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Asolo, NY Stage and Film. Education: Stanford, NYU Film, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
STEVE ROSEN
(Co-Writer) The Old Globe: Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show. Additional co-writing/composing credits: The Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation (co-book, music, lyrics); The Other Josh Cohen (co-book, music, lyrics); The Secret of My Success (co-book); Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors; the podcast “Rolling Calls” (Broadway Podcast Network), the acclaimed Off Broadway variety show Don’t Quit Your Night Job. Award nominations: five Drama Desks, two Lucille Lortel Awards, an Off-Broadway Alliance Award, a Joseph Jefferson Award. Education: NYU/Tisch. He is also an actor. @stevierosen.
WILSON CHIN
(Scenic Design) The Old Globe: 12th show; favorites include The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, Anna Christie (Craig Noel Award nomination). Broadway: Cost of Living, Pass Over (Drama Desk, Lortel Award nominations), Next Fall. Off Broadway: A Bright New Boise (Signature), The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Space Dogs (MCC; Lortel Award nomination), Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/Public), This Land Was Made (Vineyard). Opera: Turandot (Washington National Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Eine Florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera; Dora Award). Film/television: Pass Over directed by Spike Lee, “Game Theory with Bomani Jones” (HBO). Other Eastern Region Board member of Local USA 829. @wilsonchindesign on Instagram.
ALEJO VIETTI
(Costume Design) The Old Globe: Lost in Yonkers, Engaging Shaw, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Allegiance, Familiar, The Underpants. Broadway: Allegiance (Drama Desk nomination), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (West End, Japan, Australia, U.K. tour, U.S. national 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.
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, Goodman, 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.
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), others. Regional: The Old Globe, Guthrie, Center Stage, ACT, Hartford Stage, Alliance, Goodman, Arena, Chicago Shakespeare, Steppenwolf, others. International: Stratford Festival (Canada), Royal Shakespeare Company (England), others. Audio dramas: Marvel, Audible, Next Chapter Podcasts, award-winning “The Imagine Neighborhood.” Film/television scoring: HBO’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.
CALLERI JENSEN DAVIS
(Casting) (James Calleri, Erica Jensen, and Paul Davis) Recent Broadway: Topdog/Underdog, The Piano Lesson, For Colored Girls..., Thoughts of a Colored Man, Burn This, Fool for Love, Venus in Fur, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Elephant Man, Of Mice and Men, 33 Variations, A Raisin in the Sun, Chicago, James Joyce’s The Dead. Selected television credits: “Love Life,” “Dickinson,” “The Path,” “Lipstick Jungle.” Selected film: Love Is Blind, I Origins, Another Earth, Heights, Refuge, Peter and Vandy.
MARIE JAHELKA
(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: The XIXth, The Taming of the Shrew, Shutter Sisters, The Underpants, Native Gardens, The Wanderers, Red Velvet. Regional: The Inheritance (Geffen Playhouse), Once on This Island (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Put Your House in Order, Hollywood, Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse), A Chorus Line (Moonlight Stage Productions), The Humans, Aubergine, Evita, Violet (San Diego Repertory Theatre), The Last Five Years, HIR, Shakespeare’s R&J, Mistakes Were Made (Cygnet Theatre Company), Hairspray, The Full Monty (San Diego Musical Theatre). Education: B.A. in Theatre Arts from University of San Diego.
KENDRA STOCKTON
(Stage Management Swing) The Old Globe: The XIXth, Come Fall in Love, The Taming of the Shrew, Trouble in Mind, Hair, Almost Famous, As You Like It, The Gods of Comedy, Familiar, Clint Black’s Looking for Christmas, Much Ado About Nothing, Benny & Joon, October Sky, Bright Star, Dog and Pony, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (as production assistant). Regional: House of Joy (San Diego Rep), Home of the Brave, #SuperShinySara, Guards at the Taj, The Orphan of Zhao, The Who & The What (La Jolla Playhouse), The Loneliest Girl in the World (Diversionary Theatre), miXtape (Lamb’s Players Theatre), White Christmas (San Diego Musical Theatre).
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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. |
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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.
Wilson Chin, Scenic Design
@wilsonchindesign
Alejo Vietti, Costume Design
@alejo_vietti_costume_design
Amanda Zieve, Lighting Design
www.amandazieve.com
Lindsay Jones, Sound Design
www.lindsayjones.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.









