Cast and Creative Bios | House of India
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TOMMY BO
(Jacob) The Old Globe: debut. Off Broadway: Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company). Regional: The Far Country (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Brothers Paranormal (Olney Theatre Center), The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage). Film/television: Boogie, Master, “Law & Order: Organized Crime,” “FBI: Most Wanted,” more. @prettydumbboys on Instagram. |
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SUPRIYA GANESH
(Vaidehi) This is Supriya’s theatre debut. TV: “The Pitt” (Max), “Grown-ish” (Freeform), “Billions” (Showtime), “Everything’s Trash” (Freeform), more. Film: Pinball: The Man Who Saved the Game, Spoiler Alert. Education: B.A. from Columbia University. @supriyaganesh_ on Instagram, @SupriyaGanesh on X. |
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MAHIRA KAKKAR
(Ananya) The Old Globe: Henry 6, The Age of Innocence, 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: A.R.T., McCarter, Berkeley Rep, Huntington, 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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DEVEN KOLLURI
(Vikram) The Old Globe debut! Off Broadway: Monsoon Wedding (St. Ann’s Warehouse), Drunk Enough to Say I Love You? (The Drama League), The Boy Who Danced on Air (Abingdon). Select regional: Queen (TheatreWorks; SFBATCC nom), She Loves Me (Signature), Camelot (Bay Street), A Christmas Carol (Geva), Working (Berkshire Theatre Festival). TV/VO/film: “Daredevil: Born Again,” “I Think You’re Projecting,” “Insomnia.” Writing: Sodara (Kesselring nom), Dev (BlueCat semifinalist). @devenkolluri on Instagram. |
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PARTH KICHLOO
(u/s Vikram): Regional: Ganesh in A Perfect Ganesh (Lamplighters Community Theatre), Rawdon Crawley and Mr. Sedley in Vanity Fair (Scripps Ranch Theatre), Ensemble in The Full Monty (Tenth Avenue Arts Center). TV: “Deli Boys” (Hulu and Disney+). Film: Big Mike’s Cabin, God is Good, more. @thatparthh on Instagram. |
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GIANCARLO LUGO
(u/s Jacob) The Old Globe: Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express. Regional: The Weather Busters of Beachcastle, Abeba in the Tall Grass (La Jolla Playhouse POP Tour), Urinetown the Musical, Legally Blonde, Fiddler on the Roof (San Diego Musical Theatre), La Lucha (La Jolla Playhouse WOW/MCASD), The Pros and Cons of Feeding Stray Cats (Playwrights Project), Pásale Pásale (TuYo Theatre), Spring Awakening (SDCC). Film: Why the Nativity. Education: San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. @giancarlo.lugo. |
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SUTHESHNA MANI
(u/s Vaidehi) Bharatanatyam dance was how Sutheshna touched the stage for the first time, and it’s felt like home ever since. Since 2017, she has starred in plays, staged readings and musical productions across San Diego, with some of her favorite roles being Janet in Rocky Horror at OB Playhouse, Bianca in The Taming at Scripps Ranch Theatre and swinging in as Mopsa in Head Over Heels at Diversionary Theatre. Recently she has also taken to the camera through commercials, short films, feature films and television. |
DEEPAK KUMAR
(Playwright) Theatre: Baked! The Musical (Prospect Musicals, Theo, Village Theatre, NAMT Festival of New Musicals, Chicago Musical Theatre Festival). Commissions: Audible Theatre, Arena Stage. Other: MacDowell Colony Fellow, Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center National Playwrights Conference Selection, Musical Theatre Factory Makers III Cohort, Assistant Professor in Computer Science and Engineering at UC San Diego. Education: B.S.E. in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Michigan, Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.
ZI ALIKHAN
(Director) (he/him) is a queer, first-generation South Asian-American, culturally Muslim theater director. Directing: On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages, Drama Desk Nomination Outstanding Director, Lucille Lortel Nomination Outstanding Director), Sanctuary City (Pasadena Playhouse, LA Times “Best of the Year”), The Band’s Visit (Writers Theatre/TheatreSquared, Chicago Tribune “Best of the Year”), You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World! (South Coast Rep), RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse), Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage Company), Frou Frou (Boston Court Pasadena), The Wizard of Oz, Somewhere (Geva Theatre Center), The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage), A Nice Indian Boy (Olney Theatre Center), and Ragtime (Playmakers Repertory Company).
CHIKA SHIMIZU
(Scenic Design) is a New York based scenic designer. Regional: Furlough’s Paradise (Geffen Playhouse), Soft Power, Pacific Overtures (Signature Theatre, DC), The Great Wave (Berkeley Rep), Sanctuary City (Pasadena Playhouse), Hamlet (DCPA), RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse), Moriarty (Cleveland Playhouse), Somewhere (Geva Theatre), The Great Leap (Portland Center Stage), Business Ideas (Alliance Theatre), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Yale Rep, CT Critics Circle Award nom). Off Broadway: Salesman之死 (Yangtze Rep, Henry Hewes Award nom), Bite Me (WP Theatre), Belfast Girls (Irish Rep). Installation: Un(re)solved AR installation (Ado Ato Pictures, SXSW Innovation Award, Emmy Award). M.F.A: Yale School of Drama. chikashimizu.com.
(Costume Design) is a NY based designer, originally from Mexico City. Recent credits: Sally & Tom (Drama Desk, Audelco Nominee), Plays for the Plague Year (The Public); What Became of Us (Atlantic Theatre); Bernarda’s Daughters (The New Group); Sorry For Your Loss (Minetta Lane Theatre); RENT (Paper Mill Playhouse); Divinity (Apollo Theatre); La Rondine (Manhattan School of Music); Notes From Now (Prospect Theater Company); This Space Between Us (Theater Row); Preparedness (Bushwick Starr); Volpone, The Revenger’s Tragedy (Red Bull Theater); Mother Road (Berkeley Rep); The Bluest Eye (Huntington Theatre), Red Velvet (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Dial M for Murder, Torera (Alley Theatre); Cabaret (Barrington Stage Company); The Palacios Sisters (Gala Theatre); Hot Wing King (Denver Center); Somewhere (Geva Theatre); How to Make an American Son (Arizona Theatre Company); Mushroom (People’s Light); Fall of the House of Usher (Boston Lyric Opera); Bad Dates (Portland Stage); Jazz Singer (Abrons Arts Center). B.F.A. in Scenography, The National School of Theatre and Arts (Mexico), M.F.A. in Costume Design, NYU Tisch School of the Arts. rodrigomunozdesign.com and @rodrigomu.mo.
(Lighting Design). The Old Globe: Stir, Exotic Deadly; Broadway: Oh Mary!; Off Broadway: Liberation (Roundabout); Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons, Obie Award Special Citation recipient); On that Day in Amsterdam (Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Award nominations); Jordans (The Public); You Will Get Sick (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Seagull, NY, one in two (The New Group; AUDELCO nom.); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Playwrights Horizons/BAM); soft (MCC). Education: M.F.A. from NYU Tisch. @seethruuu.
(Sound Design) The Old Globe: Exotic Deadly. Off Broadway: Trophy Boys (MCC), Good Bones, Jordans (Public), The Far Country (Atlantic), At the Wedding (Lincoln Center), This Land Was Made (Vineyard), Snow in Midsummer (Classic Stage), Paris (Atlantic), Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Second Stage & WP), Pumpgirl (Irish Rep), Suicide Forest (Ma-Yi), Behind the Sheet (Ensemble Studio). Regional: Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Rep, Arena Stage, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Milwaukee Rep, A.R.T., A.C.T., Long Wharf, Portland Center Stage, Studio Theatre D.C., Two River Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Yale Rep, and Huntington Theatre. Professor at Purdue University. Education: M.F.A. Yale School of Drama. fanzhangsound.com
(Casting) Resident casting office for Soho Rep., where past productions include Give Me Carmelita Tropicana, Public Obscenities, and The Great Privation. Select upcoming film projects include the feature film “Still Life” and “The Year of the Monarchs” (Alex Dinelaris, Wr./Dir., Lexicon)). Recent/upcoming theater includes Bus Stop (CSC/NAATCO), Indian Princesses (La Jolla Playhouse), and Here There are Blueberries (National tour). tbd casting co. cast the award winning film “In The Summers”, which won the 2024 Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, and was an official selection of Tribeca, Cartagena, and LA Liff Film Festival. @tbdcastingco
(Production Stage Manager) (she/her) The Old Globe: Henry 6, Fat Ham, Globe for All’s As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Henry V. La Jolla Playhouse: The Garden, POP Tour (Hoopla!), POP Tour (Pick Me Last), POP Tour x National Disability Theatre (Emily Driver’s Great Race Through Time and Space). North Coast Repertory: What the Constitution Means to Me, Sense of Decency, Pippin. Grand Central Art Center: Savage in Limbo. Hollywood Fringe Festival: The First and the Last (Encore Award). Young Theatre: Bell, Book, and Candle (Kennedy Center Excellence in Stage Management Award).
(Stage Management Swing) The Old Globe: Henry 6, Ride, Destiny of Desire, Come Fall in Love, Life After, The Blameless, October Sky, Rain, The Metromaniacs, The White Snake, Inherit the Wind, over 40 more productions. Regional: Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin (La Jolla Playhouse), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), The Foreigner, See How They Run, The Rivalry (Lamb’s Players Theatre). Education: UC San Diego.
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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, 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.
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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 B.F.A. 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
tbd casting co.
Margaret Dunn, Tanis Parenteau, Nia Smith & Stephanie Yankwitt
TAKING PHOTOS IN THE THEATRE
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Chika Shimizu, Scenic Design
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Rodrigo Muñoz, Costume Design
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Cha See, Lighting Design
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Fan Zhang, Sound Design
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