Cast
Lili Adler
Kate Arrington
THE OLD GLOBE: Kate Arrington is very happy to be returning to the Old Globe where she performed as Jessica in Hold Please last season. Most recently, she performed in the new play, When the Messenger is Hot, both at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago and off-Broadway at 59 East 59 in New York. Also at Steppenwolf, Kate has performed in The Violet Hour and The Well-Appointed Room (also by Richard Greenberg) and The Pain and the Itch. Other NY Theatre: Lincoln Center Theatre, Soho Rep, HERE Arts Center, The Mint Theatre, Classic Stage Company. Regional: The Goodman Theatre, South Coast Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Maine State Shakespeare, North Carolina Theatre. Film: The Missing Person, The King of Irontown. Kate is a graduate of Northwestern University and a member of Steppenwolf Ensemble since 2007.
Olivia Shaw
Sharon Hope
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. NEW YORK: Missing Celia Rose, Summer Play Festival, Samuel Beckett Theatre; American Menu, New Federal Theatre. NATION-AL TOUR: Having Our Say — The Delany Sisters’ First 100 Years. REGIONAL: Permanent Collection, Floria Studio Theatre; Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville; Lesson Before Dying, American Negro Playwrights Theatre and Stamford Theatre Works; Flyin’ West, Studio Arena and Geva Theatre; Little Foxes, Denver Center Performing Arts; Hibernatus Interruptus Festival, Geva Theatre; Christmas Carol, McCarter Theatre; From the Mississippi Delta, Arkansas Rep Theatre and Asolo Center for Performing Arts; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Alabama Shakespeare Festival; Yerma, Indiana Rep Theatre; Wedding Band, Milwaukee Rep Theater. FILM/TV: Little Senegal, Law & Order, Law & Order: CI.
Gil Harbison
Michael Kirby
THE OLD GLOBE: The American Plan, 2007 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Othello. THE OLD GLOBE/USD PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAIN-ING PROGRAM: Pericles, Marat/Sade, The Laramie Project, Much Ado About Nothing. ELSEWHERE: A Tale of Charles Dickens, LA Theatre Works; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, Kingsmen Shakes-peare Festival; Don Juan, Spite for Spite, Siglo de Oro Festival with Andak Stage Company (founding member); Chekhov x 4, Loves’ Fire, Nora, Antaeus Theatre Company. OTHER: Hamlet, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Mineola Twins, San Fran Scapin. FILM: The Diamond Nose, Passing Normal, Kiss Chase. TELE-VISION: Appearances on Boston Public, Unsolved Mysteries and MTV. Michael holds a BA in Theatre from Cal State Fullerton.
Eva Adler
Sandra Shipley
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: Pygmalion, Retreat from Moscow, Vincent in Brixton, Indiscretions, The Deep Blue Sea. OFF-BROADWAY: Arms and the Man, Suddenly Last Summer, Roundabout Theatre; Stuff Happens, Venus, The Public Theatre; Hannah and Martin, Epic Theatre; Once Around the City, Second Stage; The Clearing, Blue Light Theatre Co; Phaedra in Delirium, Classic Stage Co; Kindertransport, Manhattan Theatre Club. REGIONAL: Three-year member, American Repertory Theatre; Three-year company member, Boston Shakespeare Company; Act A Lady, Humana Festival, Actors Theatre of Louisville; Sheridan, La Jolla Playhouse; Major Barbara, Oedipus, Guthrie Theater; Anything Goes, Romeo and Juliet, On the Razzle, Lady Windermere’s Fan, The Rivals, Williamstown Theatre Festival; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Long Wharf Theatre; You Never Can Tell, Way of the World, The Adventures of Amy Bock, Yale Rep; Undiscovered Country, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Huntington Theatre; Medea, Shirley Valentine, Filumena, The Illusion, Merrimack Repertory; A Moon for the Misbegotten, Long Days Journey Into Night, Benefactors, Hard Times, Talking Heads, Gloucester Stage Company. INTERNATIONAL: Major Barbara, London Assurance, Twelfth Night, When Thou Art King, Royal Shakespeare Company; Private Lives, UK Tour; Look Back in Anger, Royal Court and West End; Mary Stuart, Edinburgh Festival; Six Characters In Search of an Author, King Stag, Teatro Español (Madrid). FILM/TV: Monument Avenue, Mermaids, Sovereignty,The John Lennon Story, Paul and Nancy, Lipstick Jungle, Law & Order, L aw & Order: SVU, Third Watch, All My Children. AWARDS: Elliot Norton Medal: Sustained Theatre Excellence; New England Theatre Conference Award for Theatre Excellence; LA Robbie Award Best Actress in a Drama.
Nick Lockridge
Patrick Zeller
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. NEW YORK: The Comedy of Errors, New York Classical Theatre; Corpus Christi, KEF Productions; Redevelopment, Nomad Theatricals (Havel Festival). REGIONAL: The Mysteries, Shakespeare & Company; Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Maine Shakespeare Festival; The Violet Hour, As Bees in Honey Drown, Stoneham Theatre Company; Last Train to Nibroc, Old Lyric Repertory Company; The Last Schwartz, Florida Studio Theatre; Proof, The Redhouse Theatre. FILM: No Reservations; End of the Spear. TV: Kidnapped; Six Degrees; Law & Order; As the World Turns; All My Children; One Life to Live; Guiding Light. Education: Patrick received a BFA in Acting from Emerson College and continued on to train with Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA.
Team
Playwright
Richard Greenberg
Richard Greenberg is the author of Take Me Out (Drama Desk Award; NY Drama Critics Circle Award; Outer Critics Circle Award; Lucille Lortel Award; Tony Award for Best Play), which received an acclaimed production on Broadway after successful runs at The Donmar on London’s West End and The Public Theater in New York City. Other works include The Injured Party, My Mother’s Brief Affair, The House in Town, The Well-Appointed Room, Bal Masque, A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, The Violet Hour, The Dazzle (Outer Critics Circle Award: John Gassner, Lucille Lortel nominations), Everett Beekin, Three Days of Rain (L.A. Drama Critics Award; Pulitzer finalist; Olivier, Drama Desk, Hull-Warriner nominations; Broadway revival starring Julia Roberts), Hurrah At Last, Night and Her Stars, The American Plan, Life Under Water, and The Author's Voice, among many other plays. His adaptation of Strindberg's Dance of Death was seen on Broadway starring Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, and David Straithairn. Mr. Greenberg received the Oppenheimer Award for a new playwright as well as the first PEN/Laura Pels Award for a playwright in mid-career. He is an associate artist at South Coast Repertory and a member of Ensemble Studio Theater.
Director
Kim Rubinstein
THE OLD GLOBE: The Savannah Disputation,The American Plan. Ms. Rubinstein was most recently Long Wharf Theatre's Associate Artistic Director where she directed Guys and Dolls, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Private Lives, The Santaland Diaries and The Cocktail Hour. REGIONAL: Romeo and Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare Santa Cruz; The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Portland Center Stage and San Jose Repertory Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Chicago Shakespeare Company; Love’s Labour’s Lost, Next Theatre Company; The Tempest, Southwest Repertory; The American Plan, Eloise and Ray, Roadworks Productions; Old Times, Court Theatre; Pan and Boone, Running with Scissors; Baby with the Bathwater, Round House Theatre and Berkshire Theatre Festival; Beckett Shorts, Berkshire Theatre Festival and The Buckets O'Beckett Festival. She was Associate Director with Michael Mayer and Tour Director of the national tour of Angels in America. Rubinstein is on the Acting Faculty at UCSD; other teaching credits include ten years on the acting/directing faculty at Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Brown/Trinity Consortium, Wesleyan University, NTI at The O'Neill Center and the School at Steppenwolf. She has been very active in the development of new plays and has directed many readings and workshops at places like New Dramatists, Inc and Long Wharf Theatre. Amongst other awards for her directing and teaching, Rubinstein was a recipient of the TCG/NEA directing fellowship and was nominated for the Alan Schneider Directing Award.
Scenic Design
Wilson Chin
NEW YORK: Masked, Daryl Roth Theatre; Widows, 59E59 Theatre; Dark Matters, Rattlestick Theatre; The Dear Boy, Second Stage Theatre; Christine Jorgensen Reveals, New World Stages; Holy Cross Sucks!, Ars Nova; As You Like It, HERE Arts Center. REGIONAL: Some Things Are Private, Trinity Rep; Bad Dates, Indiana Rep; Iron Kisses, Geva Theatre; The Importance of Being Earnest and Candida, ACT; Three Days of Rain, Studio Arena; Breath, Boom, Yale Rep. OPERA: Don Giovanni, San Francisco Opera; The Saint of Bleecker Street, Central City Opera; Dido and Aeneas, New York Chamber Opera; L’Italiana in Algeri, Berkeley Opera. BROADWAY (associate designer): Three Days of Rain, Shining City, The Times They Are A-Changin’ ) Glengarry Glen Ross. MFA: Yale School of Drama. www.wilsonchin.com
Costume Design
Emily Pepper
THE OLD GLOBE: Bell, Book and Candle. NEW YORK: Frankenstein, 37 Arts; Golden Boy, Atlantic Acting Co.; Fizz, Ohio Theatre; Evensong, TBG Arts Center; Shoes, Slant Theatre Project. REGIONAL: The Diary of Anne Frank, Driving Miss Daisy, Delaware Theatre; Villa America, Williamstown Theatre Festival; Our Town, Two River Theater; Blood Wedding, 10 Thousand Things; Frankenstein, NJPAC; workshop production of Zhivago dir. Des McAnuff, Paris Commune, La Jolla Playhouse; La Dispute, A Streetcar Named Desire, Richard III, The Seagull, Desperadoes In Dreamland, Two Hands Very Tired and 500 Words, University of California, San Diego. Assisted on Meditations on Virginity (Ninth International Theatre “Confrontations” Festival Lublin, Poland). Emily holds an MFA in design from University of California San Diego.
Lighting Design
Chris Rynne
has designed several shows for The Old Globe including Boeing-Boeing, I Do! I Do!, Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Opening Gala, The Price, Sight Unseen, The American Plan, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Lincolnesque (San Diego Critics Circle Award), Pig Farm, Trying, Vincent in Brixton (San Diego Critics Circle Award), The Lady with All the Answers, The Food Chain, Two Sisters and a Piano, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Knowing Cairo, Beyond Therapy, The Santaland Diaries and was the Associate Lighting Designer for Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Mr. Rynne has also designed productions for The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program including A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, All in the Timing, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Macbeth and Getting Married. His other credits include San Diego Opera, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Madison Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Diversionary Theatre and Starlight Theatre.
Sound Design
Paul Peterson
has designed over 85 productions at The Old Globe, including The Last Romance, Alive and Well, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Savannah Disputation, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, The Price, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, Since Africa, The Women, Sight Unseen, The Pleasure of His Company, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, The Sisters Rosensweig, Trying, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. His regional credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, The Wilma Theater, L.A. Theatre Works, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Malashock Dance Company, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and the Freud Theatre at UCLA. He received his BFA in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University.
Voice and Dialect Coach
Jan Gist
has been Voice, Speech, and Dialect Coach for The Old Globe since 2002. Previously she was Head of Voice and Speech for the Alabama Shakespeare Festival for nine years and 140 productions. She has coached at theatres around the country including: Ahmanson Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre (DC), American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Arena Stage, Milwaukee Rep, PlayMakers Rep, Indiana Rep, American Players Theatre, and Mo’olelo. Gist has been a guest on KPBS radio’s A Way With Words, narrated San Diego Museum of Art documentaries, coached dialects for the film The Rosa Parks Story, and recorded dozens of Books To Listen To. She is a founding member of The Voice and Speech Trainers Association and has presented at many national and international conference workshops for them and for The Voice Foundation. Recently she was invited to Russia to teach in the International Voice Teachers Exchange at The Moscow Art Theatre, and to London’s Central School of Speech & Drama to teach Shakespeare. She has been published in VASTA Journals; chapters in books include: The Complete Vocal Warm-Up, More Stage Dialects, and an interview in Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium: Conversations With Master Teachers. She teaches in The Old Globe/ USD Graduate Theatre Program.
Stage Manager
Leila Knox
THE OLD GLOBE: The American Plan, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ace, The Violet Hour, Himself and Nora, Take Me Out, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘04 -‘08), 2004 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Resurrection Blues, Bus Stop, Much Ado About Nothing, Dirty Blonde. BROADWAY: Dirty Blonde, Amour, One Mo’ Time. REGIONAL: Production Supervisor of the National Tour and West Yorkshire Playhouse productions of Dirty Blonde; Observe the Sons of Ulster, Lincoln Center; Mislansky/Zilinsky or Schmucks, Red, The Memory of Water, Manhattan Theatre Company; All My Sons, The Mineola Twins, Roundabout Theatre; A Madhouse in Goa, Second Stage; Twilight, Los Angeles, 1992, Berkeley Rep; Alice’s Adventures Underground, Cabin Pressure, SITI; Demonology, Playwrights Horizons; The Woman Warrior, Huntington Theatre and Berkeley Rep; 11 seasons with the Williamstown Theatre Festival. EDUCATION: Northwestern University.
Assistant Director
Johanna Gruenhut
Assistant Director
Alyson Roux
Production Assistant
Marie Natoli
