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Cast

(in alphabetical order)

MYKAL Terry Burrell*

MICHAEL Shana Wride*

UNDERSTUDIES for Mykal – Brittney M. Caldwell; for Michael – Jacqui Dupr醠

Production Stage Manager Marie Jahelka*


SETTING

Atlanta, 2019.


There will be no intermission. 


Production Staff

Assistant Director Jersten Seraile 

Assistant Scenic Design Eileen McCann 

Assistant Costume Design Katie Knox 

Associate Sound Design Mikaela Fraser 

Production Assistant Alexis Ellis-Alvarez


*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. 

†Student in The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program.



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SHUTTER SISTERS CAST AND CREATIVES

TERRY BURRELL
(Mykal) The Old Globe: Good Sister in Thunder Knocking at the Door, Teacher in Time and Again. Broadway: Eubie, Dreamgirls, Honky Tonk Nights, Swinging on a Star, Threepenny Opera, Into the Woods, Thoroughly Modern Millie. Off Broadway: And the World Goes ’Round, Almost Heaven, Taking a Chance on Love. Other theatre: Ethel, Candide, Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Alliance), Johnny Mercer – For the Record (Georgia Ensemble), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Theatrical Outfit), The Wiz (Music Circus), Kink in Our Hair (Horizon), Oklahoma! (Goodspeed, Arena Stage), Show Boat (Prince Edward), Cinderella (Olney, Wichita), Copacabana (Pittsburgh CLO), Crowns (Indiana Rep). terryburrell.com, @burrell5905 on Instagram.

SHANA WRIDE
(Michael) Local and regional: actor and director with The Old Globe, Diversionary Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Intrepid Theatre, MOXIE Theatre, Compass Theatre, The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, The Colony Theatre, Open Fist Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Gaslamp Quarter Theatre, Sledgehammer Theatre. Awards: San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for her solo performance in 2.5 Minute Ride (Diversionary Theatre) and as Amanda in Private Lives (Cygnet). Los Angeles: co-hosted the nationally syndicated radio show “Women Aloud” with actor/comedienne Mo Gaffney.

mANSA RA
(Playwright) Born Jiréh Breon Holder in Memphis, Tennessee. He made his debut with Too Heavy for Your Pocket. The New York Times named him a “Marquee Name, Now in the Making,” while New Yorker praised him as “a gifted writer who will be amazing to watch as his work grows.” Shutter Sisters explores a path to racial reckoning through the tale of an adoption reversed. Television: Seasons 1 and 2 of NBC’s hit show “New Amsterdam.” Also this season: In the Southern Breeze & What to Do About It (Rattlestick) and …what the end will be (Roundabout).

dONYA K. WASHINGTON
(Director) (she/her) Most recent: reading of King Margaret by Tira Palmquist (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Theatre: University of Arizona, Actor’s Express, Alliance Theatre, Seven Devils New Play Foundry, Amphibian Stage, The Playwrights Realm, Theatreworks USA, Rising Circle, Culture Project/Women Center Stage, Target Margin Theater, Fire This Time Festival, Shakespeare in Paradise (Bahamas), Penobscot Theatre. Other work: 2008–2010 Women’s Project Lab, 2009 Second Stage Theater Van Lier Directing Fellow. M.F.A. in Directing from Brown University/Trinity Rep, B.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

WILSON CHIN
(Scenic Design) The Old Globe: Tiny Beautiful Things, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville, Rich Girl, Othello, The Winter’s Tale, Anna Christie (Craig Noel Award nomination). Broadway: Pass Over (Lortel Award nomination), Next Fall. Off Broadway: Cost of Living (Manhattan Theatre Club), Wild Goose Dreams (The Public Theater, La Jolla Playhouse), The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi Theater Company, The Public Theater), My Mañana Comes (The Playwrights Realm). Opera: Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Eine Florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera Company; Dora Mavor Moore Award). Film/television: Pass Over directed by Spike Lee, “Blindspot” (NBC). @wilsonchindesign.

KARA HARMON
(Costume Design) Off Broadway: Dot (Vineyard Theatre), Lockdown (Rattlestick). Regional: Eclipsed (Milwaukee Rep), Steel Magnolias, Guys and Dolls (Guthrie Theater), The Wiz (Ford’s Theatre; Helen Hayes Award Costume Design), The Purists, The Niceties, A Guide for the Homesick (Huntington Theatre), Nina Simone: Four Women (Arena Stage), The Color Purple (Portland Center Stage), Barbecue (Geffen Playhouse; NAACP Award for Outstanding Costume Design), Much Ado, The Comedy of Errors (OSF), world premieres of Darlin’ Cory, Goodnight, Tyler, Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Alliance Theatre). Television: assistant costume design for “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” (Amazon), “Daredevil” (Netflix), “Boardwalk Empire” (HBO). Training: NYU Tisch School of the Arts. KaraHarmonDesign.com.

ZACH MURPHY
(Lighting Design) Credits: An Octoroon (Actor’s Express), Requiem for Tesla (Rude Mechanicals), Sacai NY Nike fashion show (Nike). As associate: Falling & Loving (SITI/STREB), A Thousand Thoughts (Kronos Quartet), Beyond Babel (Hideaway Circus), From Up Here, The Pitmen Painters (MTC). Other work: Creative Director of Bang Interrobang. banginterrobang.com.

CHRIS LANE
(Sound Design) Regional: Data, Ghost, A Very Terry Christmas, Sounds of the West End, Knock, Knock, In My Granny’s Garden (Alliance Theatre), Four Women, Skeleton Crew, Paradise Blue (True Colors Theatre Company), Skeleton Crew (Westport Country Playhouse), Too Heavy for Your Pocket (George Street Playhouse), Four Little Girls, Ruby (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), The Royale (Geva Theatre Center), Detroit ’67 (Virginia Stage Company), Incendiary (The Kennedy Center). Other work: Executive Director/Co-Founder of Multiband Studios. multibandstudios.com.

CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
(Casting) The Old Globe: Hurricane Diane, Noura, They Promised Her the Moon, Tiny Beautiful Things, Barefoot in the Park, The Wanderers, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Skeleton Crew. Broadway: 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, Junk, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House Part 2, The Front Page, The Glass Menagerie, Jitney, Blackbird, Fish in the Dark, Disgraced, Holler If Ya Hear Me, The Trip to Bountiful, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Fences. Television: “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “American Odyssey” (NBC).

MARIE JAHELKA
(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: The Underpants, Native Gardens, The Wanderers, Powers New Voices Festival (2016–2018), Red Velvet, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Regional: Put Your House in Order, Hollywood, Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse), 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), Hairspray, The Full Monty (San Diego Musical Theatre). Education: B.A. in Theatre Arts from University of San Diego.

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.