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MATTHEW MARTÍNEZ
(David) Off Broadway: Generation Rise (New Victory), 72 Miles to Go (Laura Pels). Regional: Iphigenia in Aulis (Alexander Kasser Theater). Television: “Power Book II: Ghost” (season 2, episode 8). Training: Alley Theatre, HSPVA, Montclair State University. @matthewmartinezinsta on Instagram. |
ZILAH MENDOZA
(Alma) Originated roles: Ana in Lisa Loomer’s Living Out (Second Stage, Mark Taper Forum; Obie Award, Garland Award), Electricidad in Luis Alfaro’s Electricidad (cover of American Theatre magazine), Matilde in Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House (Yale Rep), Griselda Blanco and Kathy Rundle in Billy Corbin and Aurin Squire’s Confessions of a Cocaine Cowboy (Colony Theatre’s Miami New Drama), Noelle, Bobby, Paloma, and Maria Sol in Jose Rivera’s The Untranslatable Secrets of Nikki Corona (Geffen Playhouse). Other: Associate Artistic Director of Mentor Artists Playwrights Project. mentorartists.org, zilahmendoza.com, @zilahmendoza, @mentorartistsmapp. |
JESSE J. PEREZ
(Raul) Craig Noel Distinguished Professor and Program Director of The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. The Old Globe: Romeo and Juliet. La Jolla Playhouse: Seize the King. San Diego Rep: JQA. Off Broadway: Party People (The Public Theater), The Father, A Doll’s House (Theatre for a New Audience), Informed Consent (Primary Stages), Triple Happiness (Second Stage Theater), Barrio Grrrl! (Summer Play Festival), Recent Tragic Events (Playwrights Horizons), In the Penal Colony (Classic Stage Company), Up Against the Wind (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional: many credits across the country. Education: The Juilliard School. |
TONY MENESES
(Playwright) Denver Center: twenty50. Two River Theater: The Hombres, Guadalupe in the Guest Room, The Women of Padilla. Development: The Old Globe’s Powers New Voices Festival, South Coast Rep’s NewSCRipt Series and Pacific Playwrights Festival, Berkeley Rep’s Ground Floor, Denver Center’s New Play Summit, Lark’s Playwrights’ Week. Alumnus: Soho Rep’s Writer Director Lab, Ars Nova’s Play Group, Sundance Institute’s Playwrights Retreat at Ucross, Playwrights Realm’s Writing Fellowship, EST’s Youngblood. Commissions: The Old Globe, South Coast Rep, Denver Center, Two River Theater, Juilliard. Education: UT Austin, Iowa Playwrights Workshop, Juilliard. |
EDWARD TORRES
(Director) The Old Globe: Familiar, Native Gardens, Water by the Spoonful; Powers New Voices Festival: What You Are (2017), El Borracho (2020); Classical Directing Fellow. Recent: Macbeth (Next Chapter Podcasts/Play On Podcasts). Regional: world premiere of Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Victory Gardens Theater/Teatro Vista; Best Play from Chicago Tribune, Jeff Awards for Best Production, Best Director), Geffen, Second Stage, Goodman, Public Theater, Repertorio Español, more. Other awards: Latin ACE Award, Artistas de Teatro Independiente Award. Other: Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University, Artistic Director Emeritus at Teatro Vista. Recent performing credits: Downstate (Steppenwolf, London’s National), 2021 Old Shakespeare Fellow. |
DAVID ISRAEL REYNOSO
(Scenic Design and Costume Design) The Old Globe: Scrooge, Hair, As You Like It, The Tempest, The Wanderers, Red Velvet, The Blameless, tokyo fish story, Constellations, Twelfth Night, Arms and the Man, Water by the Spoonful, Time and the Conways, Double Indemnity, Be a Good Little Widow. Other theatre: Optika Piñata, Portaleza, Las Quinceañeras, Waking La Llorona (as creator/director, Optika Moderna/La Jolla Playhouse), Sleep No More (Punchdrunk, NYC, Shanghai), ACT, ART, Arena, Finnish Ballet, Portland Center Stage, WP, Seattle Rep, others. Further work: Teatro Piñata (New Children’s Museum), Hostile Terrain 94, PostSecret, Living with Animals (Museum of Us). Obie Award, Creative Catalyst Grant recipient. davidreynoso.com, @designreynoso on Instagram. |
MEXTLY COUZIN
(Lighting Design) Mexican lighting designer based in New York and Los Angeles. The Old Globe: As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet (as assistant lighting designer). Off Broadway/New York: Tambo and Bones (Playwrights Horizons), Kimberly Akimbo, Sunday (as assistant lighting designer; Atlantic Theater Company), Temporary Occupant, The Woman’s Party (Clubbed Thumb), Indecent (Juilliard School). Regional: Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, San Diego Symphony, Malashock Dance. Education: M.F.A. from UC San Diego (2020).
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DAVID R. MOLINA
(Original Music and Sound Design) Regional: King Lear (STL Shakespeare Festival), Quixote Nuevo (Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Alley Theatre, Round House), Mojada (Rep of St. Louis, CTG, OSF), Two Trains Running (Seattle Rep, Arena Stage), Macbeth (Next Chapter Podcasts/Play On Podcasts). Resident Artist: Brava Theater, NAKA Dance Theater, Human Shakes. Awards: L.A. Ovation, Creative Capital Grant, Wattis Fund, InterMusic SF Musical Grant Program, San Francisco Arts Commission Grant (2021). Instrument design/multimedia art: SFMOMA, The Broad, Oakland Museum of California, McLoughlin Gallery. Music collaborations: Tau (Berlin), Emanative (U.K.), El Paso (Peru), The Pyramids. Bands: Impuritan, Ghosts and Strings, Transient. drmsound.com. |
CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
(Casting) The Old Globe: 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: Macbeth, The Minutes, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Ink, The Waverly Gallery, The Boys in the Band, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House Part 2, Jitney, The Glass Menagerie, Blackbird, Fish in the Dark, Disgraced, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo. Additional theatre: MTC, Signature, Atlantic, McCarter, Goodman, Berkeley Rep. Television: “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “American Odyssey” (NBC). |
JESS SLOCUM
(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Hurricane Diane, Noura, As You Like It, 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, dozens more. Regional: Noura (Shakespeare Theatre Company), Indecent, Side Show, Ruined, The Third Story, Memphis, Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse), Post Office (Center Theatre Group). Education: Vanderbilt University. |
BARRY EDELSTEIN
(Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. He has directed nearly half of the Bard’s plays. 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,
and the world premiere of The Wanderers. He also directed All’s Well That Ends Well as the inaugural production of the Globe for All community tour. In January he oversaw the Globe’s inaugural Classical Directing Fellowship program. He recently directed The Tempest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall. 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, which was rereleased in a second edition in June, 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. |
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. |
