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Cast and Creative Bios | Appropriate

DANIEL DALE

(Rhys) After studying at New York University, Dale appeared in the A24 film Y2K, as well as on CBS’ “Elsbeth.” In 2025 he will appear in Apple TV+ original “Your Friends and Neighbors.” Dale is also an American musician, having won accolades playing piano at several jazz festivals across the United States.

BRYNN GAUTHIER

(River) Recent: Romeo+Juliet (Juliet) with Sketchbook Theatre. NYU Grad: The Moors (Huldey), The Office Plays (Lorraine/Daphne), As You Like It (Rosalind). Vassar College: Eurydice (Eurydice), The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon-Marigolds (Tillie), member of BIG K!DZ sketch comedy group. Other: Hamlet (Hamlet), The Beauty Queen of Leenane (Mag), Arcadia (Thomasina). Education: BA Vassar, MFA NYU Graduate Acting Program.

STEVE KAZEE

(Bo) Broadway: Once (Tony Award, Grammy Award), 110 in the Shade, Spamalot, Edward Albee’s Seascape. Off-Broadway: Once (NYTW). Regional: The Subject Was Roses (Kennedy Center; Helen Hayes nomination for Best Actor in a Play), As You Like It (NYSF). Film/television: “The Rookie,” “Shameless,” “The Walking Dead,” “Nashville,” “Blindspot.” Education: MFA in Acting from NYU Tisch Graduate Acting Program; BFA from Morehead State University.

MAGGIE LACEY

(Toni) The Old Globe: debut. Broadway: Dividing the Estate, Inherit the Wind, Our Town. Off-Broadway includes: A Doll’s House in rep with The Father (TFANA), The Orphans’ Home Cycle (Signature), The Milktrain Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore (Roundabout), Big Times (co-writer, W.E.T. at WalkerSpace). Regional includes: What the Constitution Means to Me; The Little Foxes (Cleveland Playhouse), The King’s Speech (National Theatre, DC) The Marriage of Figaro (McCarter Theatre). Film/television includes: “Out and About,” “American Animals,” “Hotel Cocaine,” “Julia,” “I Know What You Did Last Summer,” “New Amsterdam.” Fox Foundation Fellowship Grant Recipient. Certified member of the National Alliance of Acting Teachers. MFA: NYU. maggielacey.com.

SERENA PARRISH

(Cassie) (she/they) A graduate of the Institute for American Musical Theater (IAMT). Off-Broadway credits include: Young Katie in SuperYou, The Girl in Not Even the Good Things, Mary in Presenting Queen of Hearts. Regional credits include: Small Allison in Fun Home (White Plains Performing Arts Center), Laura in The Glass Menagerie, and Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden. Readings: Killing and Dying, Jane in Pete(her)Pan, and Rebecca in XY. TV/Film: A Complete Unknown, “Life & Beth,” “New Amsterdam,” “Cherry Pie,” and “FBI: Most Wanted.”

DANIEL PETZOLD

(Franz) The Old Globe: Measure for Measure, Love’s Labor’s Lost, Macbeth, The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night. Off-Broadway: Sally & Tom (The Public), Switzerland (59E59), Pushkin (the american vicarious). Regional: Sally & Tom, The Importance of Being Earnest, Hamlet (The Guthrie), Airness, Holmes/Poirot (Park Square), A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati Playhouse), American Son (Florida Studio) Three Sisters (Berkeley Rep), A Bright New Boise (Aurora), Another Way Home, Any Given Day (The Magic), The Coast of Utopia (Shotgun Players), Little Brother (Custom Made). TV: “FBI.” Education: MFA from USD/The Old Globe.

CHRISTOPHER SMYRES

(Ainsley) is excited to return to The Old Globe alongside his twin brother, Daniel! In fourth grade, Christopher loves all things musical theatre and being on stage. Credits: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (The Old Globe), Nine (Coronado Playhouse), Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Grace for President (San Diego Junior Theatre), Finding Nemo (JCompany), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Roustabouts Theatre), Peter Pan (Kids on Stage Productions). @christophersmyres on Instagram.

DANIEL SMYRES

(Ainsley) is thrilled to return to The Old Globe alongside his twin brother, Christopher. Credits: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (The Old Globe) Nine (Coronado Playhouse), Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Grace for President (San Diego Junior Theatre), Finding Nemo (JCompany), Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Roustabouts Theatre), Peter Pan (Kids on Stage Productions). Daniel enjoys mountain biking, skiing, playing tennis and surfing. @danielsmyres on Instagram.

SARAH STILES

(Rachael) Broadway: Tootsie (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics noms), Hand to God (Tony nom), On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Avenue Q, The 25th…Spelling Bee. Off-Broadway: Into the Woods (The Public’s Shakespeare in Park), Vanities (Second Stage). TV: Bonnie in Showtime’s “Billions,” Beth in Netflix’s “The Crew,” Gladys in Epix’s “Get Shorty,” “I’m Dying Up Here,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “The Blacklist,” “Dietland.” Films: Transformers: Rise of the Beast, Unsane, Here Today, Brenda and Billy and the Pothos Plant. Animation: Spinel in Steven Universe the Movie and Future, Mimzy in Hazbin Hotel, Lacey in Sunny Day. Music: You Can Ukulele With Me (EP with Broadway Records), Squirrel Heart (solo show for Joe’s Pub). Sarah first short film as a screenwriter, Green Eggs for Pam, is in post-production. Say hi @lulubellestiles!

DYLAN AUGUST

(u/s Rhys) The Old Globe: What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Trevor U/S). Regional: Sweeney Todd (Anthony, Ensemble), Stranger Sings! The Musical Parody (Mike Wheeler/Beetlejuice, West Coast Premier). Education: Currently pursuing BFA in Music Theatre at AMDA. @dylanaugust2 on Instagram.

MADI GOFF

(u/s River) (they/them) Henry VIII (The Old Globe). L.A. Theatre: Shakespeare UnScripted (Mark Taper Amphitheater), Dorothy Parker UnScripted (The Broad Stage), Jane Austen UnScripted (Garry Marshall Theatre), The Groundlings Crazy Uncle Joe Show, Groundlings Sunday Company alumna. L.A. readings: Burn For You (The Road), Goatman (The Road), Lady Face (Bespoke, also writer), Systems (Bespoke, also writer), Tuck & Tami Are Okay With Gay People (The Road, also writer). Short film: Every Morning (writer, actor, producer) winner Best Acting Duo and Outstanding Achievement LGBTQ+ Short (Indie Short Fest 2023). Education: first year MFA The Old Globe and USD Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. madigoff.com, @msmadig on Instagram.

CHRIS HATHAWAY

(u/s Cassidy) Credits: Henry VIII, Henry 6 (The Old Globe); As You Like It, Julius Caesar (New Swan Shakespeare Festival). Chris has recently written and starred in their one person show Late Bloomer, and their original short film Mouse or Duck. Education: BA in Theater with Honors in Acting from University of California, Irvine.

CONNOR KEEF

(u/s Franz) Henry VIII (The Old Globe). Regional: Ken Ludwig’s The Three Musketeers (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey). National Tour: Caesar in Julius Caesar, Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, Nick in The Great Gatsby (Aquila Theatre). BFA in Acting from Western Kentucky University; MFA in Acting from University of San Diego and Old Globe Shiley Graduate Acting Program (Group 38).

JON LORENZ

 (u/s Bo) San Diego theatre: Sunday in the Park with George (ion), A New Brain (Diversionary), Chess (Barnstage), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Old Town Theatre), Amadeus, The Secret Garden, Mixtape, Hamlet, 1776, A Light in the Piazza, Detective Story (Lamb’s Players). Education: BA in Theater (Directing) from CSU Fullerton. Creations: 80s Mixtape & 90s-Palooza (book and musical arrangements), Festival of Christmas (original songs), Miracle on 34th Street – A Live Musical Radio Play (music and lyrics).

WENDY WADDELL

(u/s Rachael) San Diego theatre: The Miser, The Car Plays (La Jolla Playhouse), Company (Cygnet), Nine (CPH), The Savoyard Murders (RTC), Fiddler on the Roof (Welk), Anything Goes, Xanadu (SDMT), Carrie, Admissions (OnStage), Sunday in the Park with George (ion), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Communicating Doors (SRT), All My Sons, King John (Intrepid), American Hero, The Full Monty (NVA), Brave Smiles, Bunbury, (Diversionary), Bluebonnet Court (MOXIE/Diversionary); The Diary of Anne Frank, The Butcher of Baraboo (MOXIE). Education: BFA in Acting from NYU Tisch School of the Arts. WendyWaddellActor.com.

SHALYN WELCH

(u/s Toni) (she/any/all) Henry VIII (The Old Globe). Chicago: Fun Home (Victory Gardens Theatre), The Kid Thing (Nothing Without A Company, Non-Equity Jeff Nomination). Education: BFA Acting, Millikin University. MFA Classical Acting, The Old Globe and USD Shiley Graduate Theatre Program, candidate 2026. 


BRANDEN JACOBS-JENKINS

(Playwright) is a Brooklyn-based playwright, producer, Tony winner, and two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist. Recent theatre credits include Appropriate (Tony Award; Broadway, Second Stage), The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre), Girls (Yale Rep), Everybody (Signature Theatre), War (Yale Rep; Lincoln Center/LCT3), Gloria (Vineyard Theatre), Appropriate (Obie Award; Signature Theatre), An Octoroon (Obie Award; Soho Rep, Theatre for a New Audience), and Neighbors (The Public Theater). He currently teaches at Yale University and serves as Vice President of the Dramatists Guild council and on the boards of Soho Rep, Park Avenue Armory, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and the Dramatists Guild Foundation. Honors include a USA Artists fellowship, a Guggenheim fellowship, the MacArthur fellowship, the Windham-Campbell Prize for Drama, and the inaugural Tennessee Williams Award.

STEVE H. BROADNAX III

(Director) Thoughts of a Colored Man (Broadway) Suzan-Lori Parks’ Sally & Tom at the Guthrie Theatre and The Public in New York (world premiere); Katori Hall’s 2021 Pulitzer Prize premiere The Hot Wing King at The Signature Theatre; Lee Edward Colston’s The First Deep Breath at Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles and Chicago’s Victory Garden Theatre (premiere and winner of Jeff Awards Best New Work); Dominique Morisseau’s Sunset Baby at The Signature Theatre (NYC); Blood at the Root at the National Black Theatre (winner of Kennedy Center’s Hip Hop Theater Creator Award); and William Jackson Harper’s premiere Travisville at NYC Ensemble Studio. Associate Artistic Director at People’s Light Theatre and a Professor of Theatre at Penn State University; Co-head of MFA Directing.

ARNEL SANCIANCO

(Scenic Design) Arnel is an award-winning scenic designer with a nationally recognized portfolio. Originally a San Diego native, he now lives in the Bay Area and is the Head of Scenic Design at the University of California, Berkeley. His credits include productions at La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Muny, American Conservatory Theater, The Huntington, Goodman Theatre, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth, Writers Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Arizona Theatre Company, Court Theatre, American Players Theatre, Milwaukee Rep. For an in-depth look at his work visit ArnelDesigns.com.

CELESTE JENNINGS

(Costume Design) is a costume designer and playwright. Recent/upcoming costume design includes: Oh Happy Day and Pride and Prejudice (Baltimore Center Stage), Memnon (The Classical Theatre of Harlem at the Getty Center and Marcus Garvey Park), Rough Crossing (Resident Ensemble Players), Furlough’s Paradise (The Geffen), Minor.ity (Women’s Project Theatre). Recent produced plays: Citrus and ‘Bov Water (Northern Stage). Recent play readings: Potliqka (Public Theatre) and Contentious Woman (PlayCo). Education: MFA in costume design from NYU Tish School of the Arts. Current member of the Emerging Writer’s Group of the Public Theatre. IG: celestejenn, website: celestejenndesigns.com.

ALAN C. EDWARDS

(Lighting Design) West End: Harry Clarke. Off-Broadway: Sally & Tom (The Public); The Hot Wing King, Fires in The Mirror [Lortel nom.], Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Signature NYC); Harry Clarke [Lortel Award] (Vineyard); Kill Move Paradise [Drama Desk nom] (National Black Theatre); Bluebird Memories featuring Common (Audible Theatre). Regional: Beautiful (Asolo Rep); Gatsby: An American Myth, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (A.R.T.); Lights Out: Nat King Cole, Paradise Blue (Geffen Playhouse). Dance: In The Same Tongue (Dianne McIntyre); Artists at the Center for NYCC & Chasing Magic (Ayodele Casel); Rhythm Is Life (Dormeshia Sumbry-Edwards); and Lifted, by Christopher Rudd for American Ballet Theatre. Teaching: Lighting Design faculty at Yale School of Drama. Training: MFA from the Yale School of Drama. alancedwards.com.

CURTIS CRAIG

(Original Music and Sound Design) NYC: Signature Theatre, Classical Theatre of Harlem, Apollo Theater, New York Fringe Regional: Geffen, People’s Light, Cleveland Playhouse, Lantern Theater, Syracuse Stage, Denver Center Theatre Company, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Baltimore Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Seattle Rep, Detroit Public Theatre, American Stage, Clarence Brown Theatre, Chautauqua Theater Company, Dallas Theater Center. World premieres: Suzan-Lori Park’s Sally &Tom at the Guthrie, Dominique Morriseau’s Confederates at Signature, Mud Row at PLTC, and Lauren Yee’s The Great Leap, Denver Center. Winner of Barrymore Award for the World Premier of Bonez in 2023 and the Audelco Award for Confederates. In 2022 his composition and sound design for the American premiere of Frankenstein won the Gold Medal for Sound Design at the World Stage Design expo in Calgary. Associate Professor of Sound Design, Penn State. curtiscraig.com.

STEVE RANKIN

(Fight Director) is an Old Globe Associate Artist as an actor and Fight Director. Appropriate marks his 30th season with the Globe. As Fight Director, his work has been seen in over 40 productions, including King Lear, Hamlet, Othello, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Richard III, Richard II, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, and others. Broadway: Carousel (Drama Desk Award Best Fight Choreography), The Who’s Tommy (Drama Desk nomination), Ain’t Too Proud, Jersey Boys, Summer, Henry IV, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Memphis, Getting Away with Murder, All My Sons, The Real Inspector Hound, Dracula, Guys and Dolls, Anna Christie, The Farnsworth Invention, and Two Shakespearean Actors. 

ANDREA CABAN

(Voice and Dialect Coach) is a dialect coach for film and theatre, and a public speaking coach. She collaborated with Francis Ford Coppola on his career opus film “Megalopolis.” Notable theatre credits include several seasons at the Tony Award-winning South Coast Repertory Theatre (Absurd Person Singular, Chinglish, Death of a Salesman, The Madwoman in the Volvo, and Peter and the Starcatcher). She is the accent expert on HowCast.com, demonstrating over 30 accents. Andrea is Co- Director and designated Master Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork and is known internationally as a teacher of accent teachers. She has co-written two books on speech and accents based on that methodology: “Experiencing Speech: A Skills-based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training and Experiencing Accents: A Knight-Thompson Speechwork Guide for Acting in Accent”. She is the Head of Speech and Accents at UCSD.

CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING

(Casting) The Old Globe: Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt 2B, Fat Ham, Stir, King James, 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: Good Night and Good Luck, Eureka Day, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Grey House, Ohio State Murders, Macbeth, The Minutes, King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Ink, The Waverly Gallery, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Jitney, Blackbird, Disgraced  Additional theatre: MTC, Signature, Atlantic. Television: “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “American Odyssey” (NBC).

NORMAN ANTHONY SMALL

(Production Stage Manager) Broadway: The Shark Is Broken, Leopoldstadt, American Buffalo. Off-Broadway: Good Bones, Sally & Tom (The Public); Where We Stand (WP Theater); Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven (Atlantic Theater Company). Regional: Crossroads Theatre Company, Long Wharf Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage. Tour: Twisted Melodies (Baltimore Center Stage/Apollo Theater); Water +/- (NPR). Education: Master of Business Administration (MBA) in Media Management, Metropolitan College of New York; Bachelor of Music (BM) in Music Engineering Technology, University of Miami. Adjunct professor of stage management at Fordham University. Award: Charlie Blackwell Symposium Scholarship for Stage Managers of Color.

MARIE JAHELKA

(Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, Crime and Punishment, A Comedy, The XIXth, The Taming of the Shrew, Shutter Sisters, The Underpants, Native Gardens, The Wanderers, Red Velvet. Regional: The Ballad of Johnny and June, SUMO, Put Your House in Order, Hollywood, Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse), The Inheritance (Geffen Playhouse), Once on This Island (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), 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). Education: B.A. in Theatre Arts from University of San Diego.

JESS SLOCUM

(Stage Management Swing) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Henry 6, The Age of Innocence, 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.



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, 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, bringing with him a wealth of theatrical experience and a deep commitment to community service. Since his appointment, he has been actively involved in the San Diego community, currently serving as an executive committee member of the board of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership; as a member of the City of San Diego’s Balboa Park Committee; and as an advisory board member of the San Diego Downtown Partnership, following his term as a board member of the San Diego Regional Chamber of Commerce’s LEAD program. In his over four decades of service to non-profit theatres, Shields has held several prominent positions. He was the Managing Director of Princeton, New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre Center from 2009 to 2017, and held the same role at Milwaukee Repertory Theater from 1998 to 2009, and at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York, from 1992 to 1998. Additionally, he has held administrative roles at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis; the Denver Center Theatre Company; and earlier at McCarter Theatre Center. He has been a significant figure in the non-profit theatre field, serving as President of the League of Resident Theatres and as Vice President of the board at Theatre Communications Group, and as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Other notable roles include being the co-founder and President of Theatre Wisconsin; a member of Milwaukee’s Latino Arts Board; the Chair of the ArtPride NJ board; and being a board member of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee. Tim holds a BFA in Drama Production from Carnegie Mellon University in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and remains to this day a die-hard fan of the Steelers and Pirates.



Casting
CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
David Caparelliotis, CSA
Joseph Gery
Elena Sgouros



Arnel Sancianco, Scenic Design
ArnelDesigns.com

Celeste Jennings, Costume Design
celestejenndesigns.com, @celestejenn

Alan C. Edwards, Lighting Design
alancedwards.com

Curtis Craig, Original Music and Sound Design
curtiscraig.com



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