CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
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Joshua Echebiri
(Shawn) The Old Globe: Henry V (Globe for All). Theatre: Partnership (Mint Theater Company), We Swim, We Talk, We Go to War (Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse), Lizardly (Media Art Exploration/New York Live Arts), Merry Wives (The Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park), Romeo N Juliet (virtual; Pittsburgh Public Theater), A Raisin in the Sun, Something Happens for Joe, Soft (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Television: “Bob Hearts Abishola” (CBS), “Dear Edward” (Apple TV), “The Good Fight” (Paramount+). Education: B.A. from Dartmouth College, M.F.A. from NYU Graduate Acting. joshuaechebiri.com. | |
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Caleb Foote
(Matt) Regional: Hand to God (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Zoot Suit (Center Theatre Group). Television: “Made for Love” (HBO), “The Kids Are Alright” (ABC), “American Horror Story” (FX), “American Crime Story: Versace” (FX), “Acapulco” (Apple TV), “9-1-1” (FX), “Grey’s Anatomy” (ABC), “Magnum P.I.” (CBS), “All Rise” (CBS), “NCIS: Los Angeles” (CBS), “Teenage Euthanasia” (Adult Swim). Honors: 2017 Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Lead Performance in a Play for Jason/Tyrone in Hand to God. Education: the best football school in the nation, the University of Michigan. @calebfoote on Instagram. |
Rajiv Joseph
(Playwright) Select theatre: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Outstanding New American Play from National Endowment for the Arts), Animals Out of Paper, All This Intimacy (Second Stage Theater), The Leopard and the Fox (AlterEgo), Huck & Holden (Cherry Lane Theatre). Other honors: Vineyard Theatre’s Paula Vogel Award, Kesselring Fellowship. The Fire Department: founding member, contributing writer on Speakeasy, At War: American Playwrights Respond to the War in Iraq. Other: Lark Playwriting Fellowship, Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Lecturer at NYU, three years in the Peace Corps in Senegal. Education: B.A. in Creative Writing from Miami University, M.F.A. in Playwriting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.
Justin Emeka
(Director) (he/him/his) The Old Globe: assistant director for Hamlet, King Richard II. Off Broadway directing: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Regional directing: Sweat (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Stick Fly (Intiman Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Harlem, Sweat, Two Trains Running (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Sunset Baby (Dobama Theatre), Detroit ’67, Paradise Blue (Karamu House), A Raisin in the Sun (ArtsWest). Educational directing: A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Juilliard), The Boogie Gentleman (NYU Grad), Macbeth, The Bluest Eye, Death of a Salesman (Oberlin College). Other: Drama League fellow, SDC Executive Board member. justinemeka.com, @jemeka1 on Instagram.
Lawrence E. Moten III
(Scenic Design) (he/him/his) Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits (Circle in the Square). New York: The White Chip (MCC), Covenant (Roundabout), Patience (2ST Uptown), STEW (Page 73). Regional: Twelfth Night, Trouble in Mind (The Old Globe), Black Cypress Bayou (Geffen), Bulrusher (McCarter, Berkeley Rep), Faust (Wolf Trap), Proof, Once Upon a Bridge, The Brothers Size (American Players), Blues for an Alabama Sky (McCarter, Guthrie), Appropriate, The Little Foxes (South Coast Rep), Christmas in Connecticut (Goodspeed), This Little Light of Mine (Santa Fe Opera), Fairview (Wilma), it’s not a trip, it’s a journey, We Declare You a Terrorist… (Round House). Member: Local USA 829. motendesigns.com, @motendesigns.
Sarita Fellows
(Costume Design) Born in Freetown, Sierra Leone. Recent: Death of a Salesman (Broadway), Drinking in America (Audible/Minetta Lane Theatre), Theater of the Mind (Denver Center), Elyria (Atlantic Theater Company), Blues for an Alabama Sky, Sweat (Guthrie Theater), Joy and Pandemic, Our Daughters Like Pillars (Huntington Theatre), Seize the King (Alliance Theatre), A Bright Room Called Day (The Public Theater), Fefu and Her Friends (American Conservatory Theater). Dance: work with choreographers such as Liz Lerman, Edisa Weeks. Awards: 2022 Outstanding Achievement in Costume Design from the National Black Theatre Festival, 2020 Lily Award. Education: M.F.A. in Design from Tisch School of Design.
Abigail Hoke-Brady
(Lighting Design) Selected work: The White Chip (MCC Theater), The Night Falls (Peak Performances), Don Pasquale (Opera Omaha), Roméo et Juliette, Otello, Kiss Me, Kate (Central City Opera), Così fan Tutte (San Diego Opera), How I Learned What I Learned (PlayMakers Repertory Company), MukhAgni (Under the Radar/The Public Theater), Portrait and a Dream (Contemporaneous), Bound (Fresh Squeezed Opera), Rigoletto (Holy City Arts & Lyric Opera), Glory Denied, Three Decembers (Tri-Cities Opera). Other: resident designer at DiMenna Center for Classical Music, member of USA 829. hokebradydesigns.com, @hokebradydesigns on Instagram.
Lindsay Jones
(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.
CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
(Casting) The Old Globe: English, The Age of Innocence, 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).
sam allen
(Production Stage Manager) (they/them/theirs) The Old Globe: Pleasant with Powers New Voices Festival, The Merry Wives of Windsor, workshop of All Day. Regional credits: Animals Out of Paper, Flowers of Hawaii (Chautauqua Theater Company), #SLACabaret (Salt Lake Acting Company), Cherry Wine in Paper Cups (Sackerson), Ain’t Misbehavin’ (West Valley Performing Arts), The Audacity, Where Are You From?, Flora Meets a Bee, P.G. Anon (Plan-B Theatre), Prometheus Bound, Women of Trachis (Classic Greek Theatre Festival). Education: B.F.A. in Stage Management and Directing from Westminster University, M.F.A. in Stage Management from University of California, Irvine.
Chandra R.M. Anthenill
(Stage Management Swing, March 9–17) (she/her/hers) The Old Globe: English, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Exotic Deadly, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Trouble in Mind, Krapp’s Last Tape, What You Are, Tiny Beautiful Things, Globe for All (2017–2023), The Lorax, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Guys and Dolls, Camp David, The Comedy of Errors. Regional: The Garden, 2020 POP Tour, Junk (La Jolla Playhouse), Fun Home, Beachtown, Roz and Ray, Into the Beautiful North, Outside Mullingar, The Oldest Boy, Oedipus El Rey, Honky (San Diego Rep), El Huracán, Mud Row, The Last Wife, Bad Jews, Sons of the Prophet, True West, Fool for Love, Spring Awakening, Assassins, Company (Cygnet), Pippin (Diversionary).
kendra stockton
(Stage Management Swing, March 18–31) 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).
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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. |
CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
David Caparelliotis, CSA
Joseph Gery
Elena Sgouros
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.
Lawrence E. Moten III, Scenic Design
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@motendesigns
Sarita Fellows, Costume Design
Abigail Hoke-Brady, Lighting Design
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@hokebradydesigns
Lindsay Jones, 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.
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