(Thea Elvsted) The Old Globe: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Uncle Vanya. Off Broadway: Anatomy of a Suicide (Atlantic Theater Company), Superstitions (New Ohio/Pool Plays), Uncle Vanya (Hunter Theater Project), The Three Seagulls or MASHAMASHAMASHA! (HERE Arts Center/TRE). Regional: The Fairytale Lives of Russian Girls (Yale Rep). Film: The Post, The Big Sick, Rebel in the Rye, Kate Can’t Swim. TV: “Paper Girls” (Amazon), “NOS4A2” (AMC), “Evil,” “The Code,” “Bull,” “The Good Wife” (CBS). B.F.A. New York University, M.F.A. Yale School of Drama.

(George Tesman) is honored to be performing at The Old Globe for the first time. And he is loving San Diego! Notable TV: “Chicago Fire” (Mills), “Tales of The City” (Ben), “Arrow” (Diggle Jr.), “YOU” (Gabe), “The Acolyte” (Yord), and most notably the Emmy and TCA-winner “Russian Doll” (Alan). Film: Dreams in Nightmares (Reece; Berlin Best Film nominee), Imposters (Paul), Men in Black 3. Education: B.F.A. Juilliard. 

(Aunt Julie Tesman) The Old Globe: debut. Broadway: Well. Off Broadway: Ruined (MTC); An American Daughter (Williamstown); Othello, Unconditional, Well, The Square, Romeo and Juliet (Public Theater/NYSF); The Thugs (Soho Rep); Fabulation (Playwrights Horizons); A Streetcar Named Desire (NYTW); more. Film: Life of Chuck, Amber Alert, Raccoons, Righteous Kill, Taking of Pelham 123, more. TV: “Bob ♥ Abishola,” “A League of Their Own,” “Better Call Saul,” “The Haunting of Hill House,” more. Honors: Obie Award, Lucille Lortel Award, more. Education: B.A. and Honorary Doctorate from Albright College, M.F.A. in Acting from University of Minnesota. @ms.saidah on Instagram.

(Hedda Gabler) made her Broadway debut in Arthur Miller’s All My Sons, later returning in Dead Accounts and The Wanderers. She most recently appeared in the Tony-nominated 2024 revival of Our Town. Her television credits include “Dawson’s Creek,” “Ray Donovan,” and “Poker Face,” and her film work includes Pieces of April, Go, and Batman Begins. Under her Noelle Productions banner, she stars in the upcoming film Happy Hours, which she also wrote and directed. She recently released Rare Objects and previously wrote, directed, produced, and starred in Alone Together, which premiered at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival.

(Ejlert Lövborg) recently starred in Larry Fessenden’s film Blackout and was also recently seen in Maria Schrader’s film She Said. In television, he was a regular in the hit Netflix series “Bonding.” Other TV credits include “Homeland,” “Super Pumped,” “Billions,” “Law & Order: SVU,” and “The Good Fight.” He was nominated for an Emmy for Lead Actor in a Digital Drama Series for “The Rehearsal.” Broadway: Peter Morgan’s Patriots. Off Broadway: Wild Duck directed by Simon Godwin, Scenes from a Marriage directed by Ivo Van Hove, Hamish Linklater’s The Whirligig, Placebo directed by Daniel Aukin, Mike Bartlett’s Love, Love, Love directed by Michael Mayer, and Continuity directed by Rachel Chavkin.

(Berte) The Old Globe: Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, All’s Well…, Cyrano, All in the Timing. London: A Chaste Maid in Cheapside (Shakespeare’s Globe). Broadway: The Green Bird, Two Shakespearean Actors. Off Broadway: Cider House Rules, King John, The Food Chain. Regional: The Waverly Gallery (Backyard Renaissance), Fallen Angels (Pasadena Playhouse), The Molière Comedies (Mark Taper Forum), Good People (La Mirada), North Coast Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Denver Center, Yale Rep, Williamstown, Westport, McCarter. Education: NYU Experimental Theatre Wing. Podcast: Act Like A Mother, @actlikeamotherpodcast.

(Judge Brack) (he/him) Broadway: Time and the Conways, A Streetcar Named Desire (Roundabout), The Motherf@#er with the Hat (The Public/LAByrinth). Off Broadway: Measure for Measure, Chair, The Merchant of Venice (TFANA), Moscow Moscow… (MCC), Red Dog Howls, Misanthrope (NYTW), Tiny Beautiful Things (The Public), Drunken City (Playwrights Horizons), Chimichangas & Zoloft (Atlantic), The Ugly One (Soho Rep/Play Company), The Good Mother (New Group), more. Film/TV: Our Son, A Stage of Twilight, Demolition, The Dark Tower, “The Summer I Turned Pretty,” “Manifest,” “Star Trek: Discovery,” “Elsbeth,” “Homeland,” “House of Cards,” “Jessica Jones,” more. Proud member of LAByrinth Theater, Ensemble Studio Theatre, and The Actor’s Studio. alfredonarciso.com, @alfredo.narciso on Instagram.

(Pianist) (she/her) Regional: White Christmas, Phantom (Gateway Playhouse), Beth Malone: So Far (Diversionary), Everybody’s Talkin’: The Music of Harry Nilsson, Violet, The Who’s Tommy (San Diego Rep), Fun Home, Singin’ in the Rain (New Village Arts). Film/TV: VO Music Direction on “Blippi,” “Cocomelon Lane” (Netflix). Original works: White Space: A Song Cycle. Education: M.F.A. in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University. korrieyamaoka.com, @korrieyamaoka on Instagram.

(u/s George Tesman) The Old Globe: The Comedy of Errors, All’s Well That Ends Well. The Old Globe/USD Shiley M.F.A. Program: Titus Andronicus, Orlando, Tiger at the Gates, Henry VIII. NYC: Iphigenia Among the Taurians (Mabou Mines), Overdose (Playwrights Horizons), Grace’s Birthday (HERE Arts Center). Education: B.A. The New School; The Old Globe and USD Shiley Graduate Theatre Program, second year. @LanceDBush.

(u/s Judge Brack) The Old Globe: debut. Laguna Playhouse: Beside Myself, The Angel Next Door. North Coast Rep: Beside Myself, The Angel Next Door. New Village Arts: The Ferryman. National tour: Ragtime, Showboat. Kennedy Center: Bounce. Goodman: All’s Well That Ends Well, Bounce. Chicago Shakespeare: As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, Troilus and Cressida. Drury Lane Theatre: 1776, The Foreigner. Marriott Theatre: Houdini. Montana Shakespeare in the Parks: Macbeth, Country Wife. Education: B.F.A. MT, University of Michigan; J.D, Loyola University Chicago School of Law. 

(u/s Ejlert Lövborg) The Old Globe/USD Shiley M.F.A. Program: Titus Andronicus. Off Broadway: The Second Woman (BAM), Blood, Sweat, and Queers (Bohemian National Hall), Murder on the Links (The Players Theatre). Off-Off Broadway: Shylock and the Shakespeareans (New Ohio Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Players Theatre), Titus Andronicus (The Gene Frankel), Experiments in Afropessimism (Hi-Arts), These and Those (Teatro LATEA). Honors: Molly Thacher-Kazan Memorial Prize. Education: B.A. in Drama from Vassar College. @3thanfox.

(u/s Thea Elvsted) The Old Globe: All’s Well That Ends Well (u/s Helena, performed), The Comedy of Errors, Empty Ride (u/s). Theatre: Titus Andronicus (Tamora), Wolf Play (Wolf), Orlando, Tiger at the Gates, Henry VIII (The Old Globe/USD Shiley M.F.A. Program), Year of the Solar Eclipse (The Wild Project), I Met You On TV (The Tank), Into the Woods (Rauh Studio Theatre). Film/TV: “Do It to Me If You Want” (Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival). Education: The Old Globe and USD Shiley M.F.A. Program second-year candidate. Maggie Flanigan Studio Conservatory in NYC. B.S. in Psychology from University of Pittsburgh. @stenck on Instagram.

(u/s Hedda Gabler) Broadway: John Proctor is the Villain. New York: Confederates (Signature Theatre), Big Hunk O’ Burnin’ Love (Roundabout), Three Texas Women (Teatro LATEA), The Bacchae (La MaMa). Regional: Rope, All My Sons (Hartford Stage), True Art (Dorset Theatre Festival), A Midwinter Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Titus Andronicus (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Chessman (B Street Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Dallas), Easter (Undermain Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Dallas Theater Center). Film: Plano (dir. Danya Taymor). Education: B.F.A. from NYU Tisch and M.F.A. from The Juilliard School (Group 50). fionarobberson.com, @fionamr on Instagram.

(u/s Pianist) (she/her) Performances: Red Rocks Music Festival, Keys Fest, Cornish-American Song Institute, the Gilmore. Honors: Yamaha 40 under 40, Canada Council for the Arts grant awardee, Keys to Inclusion faculty founder. Education: B.Mus. in Piano Performance from the University of South Carolina, M.Mus. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Michigan, D.M.A. in Piano Performance and Pedagogy from the University of Michigan. sonyaschumann.com.

(u/s Aunt Julie Tesman, u/s Berte) is a San Diego based actor and director who has worked with The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, The Shakesepare Center of Los Angeles, Cygnet Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, The San Diego Symphony, Moxie Theatre, The Colony Theatre, Open Fist Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Gaslamp Quarter Theatre, and Sledgehammer Theatre. While living in Los Angeles, she co-hosted the nationally syndicated radio show, “Women Aloud” with actor/comedienne Mo Gaffney. Shanawride.com.

BARRY EDELSTEIN

(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. 

(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.