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ENRIQUE ACEVEDO
(Priest, Grandfather, That Man, Moustache Brother) Off Broadway: Peron in Evita at New York City Center, Giant at The Public Theater, Antonio in The Countess of Storyville opposite Deborah Cox, Emiliano Zapata in Zapata! (NYMF Outstanding Individual Performance Award), Zorba at City Center Encores! European tours: Danny in Grease, Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar. Asian tour: Lun Tha in The King and I. National tours: Bernardo in West Side Story, Vikram understudy in Bombay Dreams. Regional: Kevin in In the Heights, Julio in Paint Your Wagon, John in Miss Saigon, Zoser in Aida, Pedro in Man of La Mancha, Camelot at Paper Mill Playhouse, Cortez in Hatuey: Memory of Fire, Carmen La Cubana at Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. @EnriqueAcevedoActor on Instagram. |
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SUMMER BROYHILL
(Rehearsal Stand-In) The Old Globe: Lady Montague in Romeo and Juliet, Amiens in As You Like It. Globe/USD Shiley Program: Feste in Twelfth Night, Calphurnia and Lepidus in Julius Caesar. Broadway: Hairspray. National tours: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Hairspray. Off Broadway: Killer Therapy (Players Theatre), The Independents (Soho Playhouse), The Day Before Spring (York). Favorite regional: The Last Five Years (Virginia Stage, Weathervane), Jane in Tarzan (Tuacahn), Lilli/Katharine in Kiss Me, Kate opposite Davis Gaines (concert). Education: M.F.A from Globe/USD Shiley Program, B.M. from FSU. She is also a playwright. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram. |
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ANDRÉa Burns
(Tía) Broadway: Daniela in In the Heights (Drama Desk Award), On Your Feet! (Outer Critics Circle nomination), The Nance, The Rose Tattoo, The Ritz, The Full Monty, Beauty and the Beast. Off Broadway: Smart Blonde, Songs for a New World, Stephen Sondheim’s Saturday Night. Digital streaming 2021: Bad Dates (George Street Playhouse). Solo album: A Deeper Shade of Red, available at psclassics.com. Film/television: Akron, “Blue Bloods,” “Kevin Can Wait,” “Jessica Jones,” “Mad About You” reboot. Upcoming: the new role Fausta in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, in movie theaters this December. andreaburns.com, @theandreaburns on Instagram. |
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Eden Espinosa
(Mamí ) The Old Globe: Rain. Broadway: Wicked, Rent, Brooklyn. National tours: Falsettos. Regional: Flora the Red Menace (Reprise), Evita (TPAC), Lizzie (Fredericia Theatre in Denmark, Greenwich Theatre in London), Merrily We Roll Along (Huntington Theatre), In the Heights (Kennedy Center), West Side Story (BBC Proms at Royal Albert Hall), Lempicka (Williamstown Theatre Festival). Television/film: “Law & Order,” “Ugly Betty,” “Elementary,” Storyteller. Voice-over: “Rapunzel’s Tangled Adventure,” “Robot Chicken,” “Mad,” “Elena of Avalor,” “Titan Maximum.” Albums: Look Around and Revelation on all streaming platforms. edenespinosa.com, @edenespinosa on Instagram and Twitter. |
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carmen roman
(Older Anuncia) Recent: Botanic Garden (16th Street), The Children (Seattle Rep), Angels in America (Berkeley), You Can’t Take It With You (Indiana Rep), Native Son (Yale Rep, American Blues, Court), My Fair Lady (Lyric Opera), Moon Over Buffalo (New Theatre). Tour: Angels in America. Off Broadway: Iphigenia Cycle (TFANA, Court), The Mysteries (CSC), Paradise (Gary Allen), Love, Sex, and Death in the Amazon (Paradise Factory). Regional: 13 seasons with Peninsula Players; Wit, Black Snow, Brutality of Fact (Goodman), Side Man (Steppenwolf), The Price (Syracuse, Geva), Sonia Flew (Huntington), Electra (Hartford), Shadowlands (Alliance). Television/film: “Proven Innocent,” ”Chicago P.D.,” “Betrayal,” “Boss,” “All My Children,” “Early Edition,” “Law & Order,” “SVU,” “Criminal Intent,” An Acceptable Loss, Savages, The Falcon. Honors: Fox Fellow, Siddons Award, Jefferson Awards. |
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Tally Sessions
(The Deer, Moustache Brother) The Old Globe: Rain, Robin and the Seven Hoods. Broadway: Company, Anastasia, War Paint, Falsettos, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour, School of Rock, Big Fish, The House of Blue Leaves. Off Broadway: Giant (The Public), Queen of the Mist (Transport Group), Anyone Can Whistle (Encores!), Yank!, Godspell, Hallelujah, Baby! (York Theatre). Regional: Leading roles at Paper Mill Playhouse, Goodspeed Musicals, Signature Theatre, The Muny, Kansas City Repertory, Asolo Repertory, Westport Country Playhouse, Olney Theatre, Studio Theatre, The Kennedy Center. Film/television: Burning Man, “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Falling Water,” “Elementary.” thetallysessions.com, @tallysessions on Instagram and Twitter. |
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mary testa
(Granmama) Awards: Legend of Off Broadway Award, three Tony nominations, two Lortel nominations, six Drama Desk nominations, two Drama League nominations, two OCC nominations, an Obie Award, a special Drama Desk Award celebrating Queen of the Mist and “three decades of outstanding work.” Broadway: Oklahoma!, Wicked, Xanadu, Chicago, 42nd Street, Forum, others. Opera: Anna Nicole (BAM). Off Broadway: Oklahoma!, Government Inspector, First Daughter Suite, Queen of the Mist, A New Brain, See What I Wanna See, others. Television/film: “The Good Fight,” The Mother (three Best Actress awards), “Divorce,” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Bull,” Big Stone Gap, “2 Broke Girls,” Eat Pray Love, “Whoopi,” others. |
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joz vammer
(Rehearsal Stand-In) The Old Globe: Thinking Shakespeare LOVE!, Another Shore, Age of Innocence. Globe/USD Shiley Program: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Oedipus Tyrannus, Measure for Measure, The Promise, The Visit, Twelfth Night. Off Broadway: Bernie and Mikey’s Trip to the Moon (Strangemen), The School for Wives (Extant Arts), The Snow Queen (The Russian Arts Theater), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (The Onomatopoeia Theatre Company). Regional: The Merchant of Venice, Fiddler on the Roof (Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre), Cyrano (Saratoga Shakespeare Company), Into the Woods (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre). Podcast: “The Film Reroll.” Education: M.F.A. from Globe/USD Shiley Program. jozvam.com, @jozvam on Instagram. |
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Kalyn West
(Younger Anuncia) Broadway: Shelby, Emma and Alyssa understudy in The Prom. Off Broadway: Marlie in Gigantic. First national tour: ensemble in Mean Girls. New York: Kat Johnson in Nikola Tesla Drops the Beat (Adirondack), Natalie in The Demise (NYMF), Katie in PopStar (Alchemy Theatre). Regional: Stubb in Moby Dick (ART), Esmerelda in Hunchback of Notre Dame, Vanessa in In the Heights (Fulton), ensemble in Prince of Egypt (TheatreWorks), Mimi in Rent (Casa Mañana), Aggie in Back Home Again (Lesher Center), Zaneeta in The Music Man (Flatrock Playbill), Ana in Ass by Ellen Simon (Pioneer Theatre). Television/film: “Blue Bloods,” Imitation Girl. kalynwest.com, @misskurlykay. |
michael john lachiusa
(Book, Music, and Lyrics) The Old Globe: world premiere of Rain. Broadway: five Tony Award noms; The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Chronicle of a Death Foretold. Off Broadway: First Daughter Suite, Giant, Queen of the Mist, Bernarda Alba, See What I Wanna See, Little Fish, Hello Again, First Lady Suite. Regional: Lovers and Friends (Chautauqua Variations) (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Send (who are you? I love you) (Houston Grand Opera). Revues: La La LaChiusa (Joe’s Pub), Hotel C’ent l’Amour (The Blank Theatre), Heartbreak Country (Jazz at Lincoln Center). Awards: Obie Award, Gilman & Gonzalez-Falla Award, Kleban Prize, two Daytime Emmy Awards. |
graciela daniele
(Direction and Co-Choreography) Directed on Broadway, at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, regional theatres; 2021 Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement, 10 additional Tony nominations, six Drama Desk nominations. Broadway: Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Annie Get Your Gun, Marie Christine, Once on This Island, The Pirates of Penzance, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Dangerous Game, Ragtime, The Goodbye Girl, Zorba, The Rink with Liza Minnelli and Chita Rivera, A New Brain (Lincoln Center Theater), The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Other awards: 1998 Mr. Abbott Award for outstanding achievement by a director/choreographer. Recent: choreography for The Visit on Broadway. |
alex sanchez
(Co-Choreography) Pre-Broadway: Roman Holiday. Off Broadway: The Public, Playwrights Horizon, Encores!, Amas Musical Theatre. Regional: Goodman, Paper Mill, Goodspeed, Williamstown, Guthrie, Stratford, Dallas Theater Center, Chicago Shakes, Marriott Theatre, Berkshire Theatre, Glimmerglass, Muny, Alabama Shakes, Kansas City Starlight, Pittsburgh CLO, Riverside Theatre, Woodminster, SDC Dancebreak. Director/choreographer: Sweet Charity, Newsies, Evita (Marriott), In the Mood (tour), The World Goes ’Round (Riverside). Awards: SDC Callaway Award, two BroadwayWorld Awards, Lucille Lortel Award nom, Connecticut Critic Circle Award nom, seven Jefferson Award noms, Dance Magazine “25 Artists to Watch 2016.” Performer: Globe’s Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, 10 Broadway shows, soloist with Ballet Chicago. alexsanc.com. |
mark wendland
(Scenic Design) The Old Globe: Rain. Broadway: Rose Tattoo, Six Degrees of Separation, Significant Other, Heisenberg, If/Then, Merchant of Venice (Tony nomination), Next to Normal (Tony nomination), Talk Radio, An Almost Holy Picture, Death of a Salesman. New York: Murder Ballad (MTC), The Mother (Atlantic), Unknown Soldier (Playwrights Horizons), Moscow Moscow Moscow..., Yen, Punk Rock (MCC), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Richard III, Hamlet (CSC), The Layover, (Second Stage), The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide..., Satellites, F***ing A, Pericles, A Dybbuk, The Winter’s Tale, Romeo and Juliet, Henry V, Cymbeline, Timon of Athens (Public Theater), Angels in America (Signature). Los Angeles: The Tempest (LA Philharmonic). markwendland.com. |
toni-leslie james
(Costume Design) Broadway: Bernhardt/Hamlet, Come from Away, Jitney, Amazing Grace, Lucky Guy, The Scottsboro Boys, Finian’s Rainbow, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, King Hedley II, One Mo’ Time, The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Footloose, The Tempest, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Angels in America, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Jelly’s Last Jam. Other work: Off Broadway, regional, West End. Honors: 38 costume design nominations and awards, including three Tony nominations, five Drama Desk nominations, two Hewes Design Awards, an Irene Sharaff Young Master Award, an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Costume Design. |
Jules fisher + peggy eisenhauer
(Lighting Design) The Old Globe: Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life with Graciela Daniele. Broadway: Marie Christine, The Dancer’s Life, Dangerous Games, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Ragtime. Off Broadway: Hello Again, Dessa Rose, A New Brain. Film: Chicago, Dreamgirls, School of Rock, Burlesque, Beauty and the Beast. Music industry: Whitney Houston, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Neil Young, Tracy Chapman, Fishbone, Parliament-Funkadelic. About: their studio, Third Eye, conceives and designs lighting for all forms of entertainment. |
drew levy
(Sound Design) The Old Globe: Hurricane Diane, Pygmalion. Broadway: Oklahoma! (Tony nom, Drama Desk nom), Honeymoon in Vegas (Drama Desk nom), Chaplin (Drama Desk Award), The Winslow Boy, The Importance of Being Earnest, Present Laughter. Off Broadway: Judgment Day (Park Avenue Armory), Oklahoma! (St. Ann’s), Cleopatra, One Day, The Weir, Why Torture Is Wrong…, Emergence-See! (Public), Dutchman (Cherry Lane). Regional: Heartbreak Hotel, ART, Williamstown, 5th Avenue Theatre, Two River Theater, Westport Country Playhouse, Huntington, Arena Stage, McCarter, George Street Playhouse, Long Wharf. Other: Reconfiguration: An Evening with Other Lives (BAM), 2014 and 2015 Drama Desk Awards, Metropolitan Opera 125th Anniversary Gala. |
michael starobin
(Orchestrations) Renascence, Once on This Island, Sunday in the Park with George, Falsettos, Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, Freaky Friday, First Daughter Suite, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Kid Victory, If/Then, Little Miss Sunshine, Annie, Dogfight, Leap of Faith, Queen of the Mist, People in the Picture, Sondheim on Sondheim, Next to Normal (Tony Award), Glorious Ones, Grinch, Adrift in Macao, Bernarda Alba, Spelling Bee, Assassins (Tony Award), Tom Sawyer, A New Brain, A Christmas Carol, Hello Again, Guys and Dolls (1992), My Favorite Year, In Trousers, Closer Than Ever, Legs Diamond, Romance Romance, Carrie, Birds of Paradise, Rags. |
deborah abramson
(Music Director) Music Director, Associate Music Director, or Children’s Music Director: Broadway’s Matilda The Musical, Spring Awakening, James Joyce’s The Dead; Off Broadway’s Bernarda Alba, Dessa Rose, The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theater), Broadbend, Arkansas (Transport Group), My Life With Albertine (Playwrights Horizons); regional theatre’s Maybe Happy Ending (Alliance Theatre). Composer: Old Older Oldest with William Finn, Young Marco Polo with Peter Mills, The History of War with Amanda Yesnowitz and Chip Zien, While I Wait with Amanda Yesnowitz. Education: B.Mus. from Wheaton College, M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU soundcloud.com/deborah-abramson/sets/songs-ive-written, @dkabramson on Instagram. |
tara rubin casting
(Casting) The Old Globe: Scrooge, Despereaux, Gods of Comedy, Life After, Heart of Rock & Roll, Much Ado, Tempest, Guys and Dolls, Othello, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Dog and Pony, Room with a View, others. Broadway: Six, Ain’t Too Proud, King Kong, Band’s Visit, Summer, Prince of Broadway, Bandstand, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, Miss Saigon, Dear Evan Hansen, Bronx Tale, Cats, Falsettos, Disaster!, School of Rock, Gigi, Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Les Mis, The Heiress, How to Succeed…, Billy Elliot, Shrek, Young Frankenstein, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Jersey Boys, Phantom. Off Broadway: Gloria: A Life, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Clueless, Here Lies Love, Love, Loss, and What I Wore. Regional: McCarter, Yale, La Jolla, Paper Mill, Berkeley, others. |
Anjee nero
(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Almost Famous, The Heart of Rock & Roll, Bright Star, Allegiance, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Benny & Joon, October Sky, The Rocky Horror Show, Life After, The Wanderers, Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show, Dog and Pony, The Twenty-Seventh Man, A Room with a View, Kingdom, The Tempest, The Winter’s Tale, Be a Good Little Widow. Broadway: Bright Star. Regional: Fly, Sideways, Ruined, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Herringbone, The Seven (La Jolla Playhouse), Ruined (Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), Venice (Center Theatre Group, Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Antigone (SITI Company). |
amanda salmons
(Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Life After, The Blameless, American Mariachi, The Heart of Rock & Roll, October Sky, Rain, The Last Goodbye, The Metromaniacs, The White Snake, Inherit the Wind, Somewhere, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Lost in Yonkers, As You Like It, Romeo and Juliet. 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), The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance, Candide, Trial by Jury (Lyric Opera San Diego). Education: UC San Diego. |
kira vine
(Assistant Stage Manager) The Old Globe: Noura, Native Gardens, Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show. Regional: The Luckiest, 2021 POP Tour Pick Me Last, DNA New Work Series’s SUMO (La Jolla Playhouse), Actually, Aubergine (San Diego Rep), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Homos, Or Everyone in America (Diversionary Theatre), Agent 355 (Chautauqua Theatre Company), Bliss (Or Emily Post Is Dead!) (MOXIE Theatre), Seven Spots on the Sun (InnerMission Productions). Other production work: The Wanderers, The Heart of Rock & Roll (The Old Globe). |
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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 most 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. |
