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CALLUM ADAMS
(Newland Archer) Theatre: Teenage Dick (Donmar Warehouse), Sweat (Pioneer Theatre Company). Television: “City on a Hill,” “FBI,” “Blue Bloods,” “Episodes,” “The Blacklist,” “Humans,” “Berlin Station.” Upcoming: “Sugarland” (Audible). Training: Drama Centre London. | |
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SHEREEN AHMED
(Ellen) Broadway: My Fair Lady. National tour: Eliza in My Fair Lady. Off Broadway: Franca in The Light in the Piazza (New York City Center), Adele in A Man of No Importance (Classic Stage Company), Esther in Meet Me in St. Louis (Irish Rep). Concert: Iolanthe in Gilbert and Sullivan’s Iolanthe (Carnegie Hall). Television/podcasts: “New Amsterdam,” “Beltline to Broadway,” “The Broadway Show with Tamsen Fadel.” Honors: guest speaker for the United Nations, “40 Under 40” most accomplished Arab Americans in the U.S. Education: B.S. in Criminal Justice from Towson University. shereenahmed.com, @shereen_ahmed on Instagram. | |
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BARZIN AKHAVAN
(Beaufort) Broadway: Network, The Kite Runner. Off Broadway: Macbeth (CSC), Fuente Ovejuna (TFANA), Hamlet (Waterwell), Richard II (WNYC/Public). Regional: Seattle Rep, Arena Stage, Guthrie, ACT SF, Berkeley Rep, Huntington, Lookingglass, Folger, Merrimack Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Center Stage, CATF, San Jose Rep, Marin Theatre, Arizona Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, Colorado Shakes, four seasons with Lake Tahoe Shakes, five seasons with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where his upcoming solo show Behfarmaheen (If You Please) will play this summer. Film: Ezra, Funny Face, The Jew of Malta, Joyful. Television: “Law & Order: CI,” “Smash,” “The Blacklist,” “Girls5eva,” “Chicago Med.” Education: M.F.A. from University of Washington’s PATP. | |
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DELPHI BORICH
(May) The Old Globe: debut. Broadway: Into the Woods, Camelot. Off Broadway: Arms and the Man. National tour: R+H’s Cinderella. Regional: Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid (Theatre Under the Stars), Twelfth Night (Dallas Theater Center), Our Town (Lyceum Theatre), Gloria (Asolo Rep), Austen’s Pride (5th Avenue), Peter and the Starcatcher (Barn Stage Company), more. Television: WeCrashed (Apple TV), The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel (Netflix). Education: Syracuse University. @delphiborich on Instagram. | |
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MAHIRA KAKKAR
(Mrs. Welland, Medora Manson) The Old Globe: Rafta, Rafta…. Broadway: Life of Pi. Off Broadway: Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, Primary Stages, Waterwell, Rattlestick, Atlantic Theater Company, TFANA, EST, NAATCO, The New Group. Regional: ART, McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Huntington Theatre, Denver Center, OSF, CPH, Hartford Stage. Television/film: “A Suitable Boy,” “Manifest,” “New Amsterdam,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Blacklist,” “Louie,” “Odd Mom Out,” Bite Me, “Law & Order,” “Orange Is the New Black,” Sweet Refuge, Hank and Asha. Training: Juilliard. mahirakakkar.com. | |
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EVA KAMINSKY
(Narrator) The Old Globe: Good People, The Few. Broadway: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, The Lyons. Off Broadway: A Bright New Boise (Signature), The Lucky Star (The Directors Company), Rape of the Sabine Women… (Playwrights Realm), Made in Poland (Play Company), The Language Archives (Roundabout), The Groundling (Axis). National tour: The Syringa Tree. Selected regional: Long Wharf, Baltimore Center Stage, Alley Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, CATF, Syracuse Stage, many others. Film: The Dark Tower, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. Recent television: “FBI: Most Wanted,” “Manifest,” “New Amsterdam,” “Chicago Med,” “The Sinner,” “Younger.” Audiobooks: over 300 titles. Other: member of The Actors’ Center. @evakaminsky1. | |
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RAMI MARGRON
(Mrs. Archer, Regina Beaufort) (they/them) The Old Globe: Hurricane Diane. Off Broadway: Angry Young Man (Urban Stages), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Shake & Bake). Regional: As You Like It (La Jolla Playhouse), Angels in America (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Hurricane Diane (Huntington Theatre), Pericles, Macbeth (Berkeley Rep), Three Sisters (Two River Theater), The Tempest (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Lady Windermere’s Fan, Twelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors (Cal Shakes), Pride and Prejudice (Long Wharf). Television: “Manifest,” “New Amsterdam,” “For Life,” “FBI,” “Bull,” “High Maintenance,” “Ray Donovan,” “That Damn Michael Che,” “Extrapolations,” “Law & Order,” “Wedding Season,” “Bedlam.” ramimargron.com, @ramimargron on Instagram. | |
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SOPHIA OBERG
(Janey Archer, Opera Singer, Nastasia) (she/her) Regional theatre: debut. Credits: Hereville (San Diego JFEST), Six Characters Looking for an Author (British American Drama Academy), The War of the Worlds (UC San Diego). Education: B.A. in Theatre from UC San Diego. @sophiaiceberg on Instagram. | |
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SOCORRO SANTIAGO
(Granny Mingott, Mrs. van der Luyden) (she/her/hers) The Old Globe: Two Sisters and a Piano. Broadway: The Bacchae (Circle in the Square). Off Broadway: The Public Theater, Delacorte Theatre, Roundabout Theater, Ma-Yi Theater, Page 73, Clubbed Thumb, INTAR, others. Regional: Victory Gardens, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie, Long Wharf, ACT, Broad Stage, Huntington Theatre (IRNE nomination). Touring: Small Mouth Sounds directed by Rachel Chavkin. Television: “What We Do in the Shadows,” “Chicago P.D.,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Characters,” all the “Law & Orders,” “All My Children” (ALMA Award). Films: Christmas with You, iGilbert, Vampires vs. the Bronx, The Devil’s Advocate, All Good Things, Widows directed by Steve McQueen. | |
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MIKE SEARS
(Sillerton Jackson, Mr. Letterblair, Mr. van der Luyden) The Old Globe: Trouble in Mind, What You Are, Rain, Kiss Me, Kate, Othello, Globe for All’s Henry V, GFA’s Twelfth Night. Off Broadway: When Words Fail (Houseman), Leap (Abingdon), To Have and to Hold (Bosakowski Theatre). Regional: Little Women (Dallas Theater Center), Sideways, His Girl Friday, Hands on a Hard Body, Bonnie & Clyde (LJP), Birds of North America (MOXIE), Parlour Song (Backyard Renaissance; Critics Circle Award), A Behanding in Spokane, Man from Nebraska (Cygnet), Mystery of Love and Sex, Birds of a Feather (Diversionary), Killer Joe (Compass Theatre), Tuesdays with Morrie (North Coast Rep). Television: “Law and Order: SVU.” Education: William Esper Studio NYC. mikesears.org, @mike.sears.5050. | |
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MICHAEL UNDERHILL
(Dallas) The Old Globe/USD Shiley M.F.A. Program: Measure for Measure, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Mother Courage, 12 Ophelias. The Old Globe: The Merry Wives of Windsor; understudy for Twelfth Night, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, The XIXth, Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show. Regional: Witch (Elliot Norton nomination for Best Actor), Man in the Ring, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Huntington), Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Cymbeline, Richard III, Othello (Commonwealth Shakespeare), Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth (CSC2), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Gamm Theatre), King John (Praxis Stage). Education: Northeastern University. michaeljunderhill.com. |
Karen Zacarías
(Playwright) The Old Globe: Destiny of Desire, Native Gardens. Other world premieres: Shane (Cincinnati Playhouse, Guthrie); the upcoming Five Notes with Gloria Estefan (New York), Destiny of Desire (New York), Waiting for Snow Havana (New York), two other Broadway-bound musicals, two studio films, more. Other plays: The Good One, The Copper Children, The Book Club Play, Legacy of Light, Mariela in the Desert, The Sins of Sor Juana, Just Like Us, Into the Beautiful North. Other work/honors: one of American Theater magazine’s “most produced playwrights,” core founder of Latinx Theatre Commons, American Artist Fellow, Washingtonian of the Year, Sine Institute Fellow for Policy Innovation at American University, Lee Reynolds Award for “social, cultural, or political change with theatre,” Medallion Award by Children’s Theatre Foundation of America, speaker at TEDxBroadway. KarenZacarias.com.
chay yew
(Director) The Old Globe: Dishwasher Dreams. New York credits: The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, City Center Encores!, Playwrights Realm, Audible Theater, Rattlestick Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, National Asian American Theatre, Ma-Yi Theater Company. Regional credits: Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, South Coast Rep, Center Theatre Group, Denver Center Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Seattle Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Kennedy Center, Humana Festival, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Portland Center Stage, East West Players, Singapore Repertory Theatre, others. Honors: Obie Award for Direction. chayyew.com.
arnulfo maldonado
(Scenic Design) The Old Globe: Macbeth. Broadway: A Strange Loop (Tony Award nomination), 20th anniversary production of Topdog/Underdog, Broadway premiere of Alice Childress’s Trouble in Mind. Off Broadway: Atlantic, CSC, Lincoln Center, MCC, MTC, New Group, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theater, Roundabout, Second Stage, Signature, Soho Rep. Regional: Alley Theatre, Berkeley Rep, CTG, Guthrie, Steppenwolf, Woolly Mammoth. International tour: The Magnetic Fields: 50 Song Memoir. Honors: Obie for Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Special Citation Obie for A Strange Loop, Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Award, multiple Henry Hewes Design nominations. arnulfomaldonado.com, @arnulfo.maldonado.design on Instagram.
susan e. mickey
(Costume Design) The Old Globe: Sense and Sensibility. Theatre: 15 productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, eight productions at Huntington Theatre Company, 11 productions at Chicago Shakespeare Theater, 58 productions at Alliance Theatre; Playboy of the Western World (Guthrie Theater). Television: Miss Evers’ Boys (HBO), Mama Flora’s Family (CBS). Opera: Marriage of Figaro (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Rigoletto (Opera på Skäret, Sweden). Honors: three Joseph Jefferson Awards, Carbonell Award for Outstanding Costume Design, Merritt Award for Collaboration. Current: Director of the School of Theatre at Boston University.
lee fiskness
(Lighting Design) The Old Globe: debut. Off Broadway: King James (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional: Steppenwolf, Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Kennedy Center, Mark Taper Forum, Cincinnati Playhouse, Emerson Colonial Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Milwaukee Rep. Opera: Chicago Lyric, San Jose, Dallas, Colorado, Portland, Kentucky, Florentine Opera. International: Jurassic World: The Exhibition (China), The Marriage of Figaro (Japan), Movement Stories (Abu Dhabi). Television: worked on lighting teams with “The Oprah Winfrey Show,” “The Rosie Show,” “The Steve Harvey Show,” FOX Sports, NBC, Chicago Bears. Other: served as Lighting Director at The Santa Fe Opera and worked with the company for 18 seasons. leefiskness.com.
darron l west
(Sound Design) The Old Globe: Jitney, The Gods of Comedy, The Twenty-Seventh Man, Into the Woods. Tony and Obie Award–winning sound designer whose work has been heard in over 600 productions all over the United States and in 15 countries. Additional honors: Drama Desk, Lortel, AUDELCO, Princess Grace Foundation Statue Awards, many others. Other: 30-year company member designing the productions of Anne Bogart’s SITI Company. Audible: soundscapes for Photograph 51, Paradise Blue, Coal Country.
ursula meyer
(Voice and Dialect Coach) The Old Globe: The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, The Comedy of Errors, more. Other: Head of Graduate Acting at UC San Diego, Chair of Mentorship Committee for Voice and Speech Trainers Association, over 35 years teaching voice and coaching Shakespeare, TEDx speaker for “Shakespeare Plays with Words.” Education: graduated with distinction from Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, designated Linklater teacher. Credits: La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Yale Rep, Guthrie, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, 16 seasons with Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Awards: UCSD Distinguished Teaching Award, Anti-Racist Changemaker Fellow, Sanford Compassionate Communication Academy Fellowship.
CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
(Casting) The Old Globe: The Age of Innocence, English, Exotic Deadly, Under a Baseball Sky, 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: Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Grey House, Ohio State Murders, Macbeth, The Minutes, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Ink, The Waverly Gallery, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Jitney, The Glass Menagerie, Blackbird, Disgraced. Additional theatre: MTC, Signature, Atlantic, Vineyard. Television: “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “American Odyssey” (NBC).
Kelly Gillespie, csa
(Casting) The Old Globe: Trouble in Mind. Manhattan Theatre Club: Casting Director; Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, The Best We Could, Skeleton Crew, Prayer for the French Republic, Ink, Choir Boy, more. Arena Stage: Exclusion. WP Theater: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord, What We’re Up Against, Sundown Yellow Moon, Ironbound. 13P: Melancholy Play, A Map of Virtue, The Zero Hour, Monstrosity. Foundry, Public Theater: Good Person of Szechwan. Ensemble Studio Theatre: Photograph 51. Actors Theatre of Louisville: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Angels in America, Residence, Seven Guitars, 4000 Miles, Dot, The Roommate, Eat Your Heart Out. Others: TACT, Keen Company. Education: B.A. from University of Michigan.
jess slocum
(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Twelfth Night, Under a Baseball Sky, 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: The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical; Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Indecent; Side Show; Ruined; The Third Story; Memphis (La Jolla Playhouse), Noura (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Education: Vanderbilt University.
kendra stockton
(Assistant Stage Manager) 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! 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).
anjee nero
(Stage Management Swing) The Old Globe: Cabaret, 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).
Casting
CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
David Caparelliotis, CSA
Joseph Gery
Elena Sgouros
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.
Arnulfo Maldonado, Scenic Design
www.arnulfomaldonado.com
@arnulfo.maldonado.design
Susan E. Mickey, Costume Design
Lee Fiskness, Lighting Design
www.leefiskness.com
Darron L West, 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.
special thanks
Ingrid Helton
Maria De La Mora