(Actor, Author) Recently appeared in Broadway’s Winter Garden revival of The Music Man as Mayor Shinn opposite Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, before bounding across the Rialto to perform his Tony-nominated, one-person A Christmas Carol, directed by Michael Arden, at the Nederlander in the same season. On television, Mays can be seen as the entitled talk show host Albert Duhamel in HBO Max’s “Julia.” His adaptation and performance of A Christmas Carol garnered multiple Ovation Awards at the Geffen Playhouse in 2018, and it was streamed in the winter of 2020 to raise money for regional theatres across the country. Additionally in television, Mays plays the dyspeptic antique shop owner T. L. Gurley in “Hacks,” currently streaming on HBO Max. He also plays the eccentric coroner Virgil Sheets in “Perry Mason,” currently streaming on HBO. Mays starred as George Hodel in the TNT miniseries I Am the Night, directed by Patty Jenkins, and had a featured role in the Coen brothers’ The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. His other television credits include recurring arcs on FX’s “The Americans,” Cinemax’s “The Knick,” directed by Steven Soderbergh; and NBC’s “Law & Order: SVU” as the serial killer Dr. Rudnick; as well as a memorable guest role in the Netflix hit “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.” In theatre, Mays was nominated for a 2017 Tony Award for his role in the Tony-winning play Oslo, and is perhaps best known for his Tony Award–winning performance in I Am My Own Wife, where he played over 40 different roles. Jefferson was also Tony nominated for his performance in the Broadway musical A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.

(Director; 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, the world premiere of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, the two-part epic Henry 6, 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 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. His podcast “Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare” was produced by the Globe and Pushkin Industries. 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 a board and executive committee member 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.