Cast
Nick
Ron Choularton
THE OLD GLOBE:
Moon for the Mis-begotten, Da. RE-GIONAL: A Christ- mas Carol, The Clean House, San Diego Rep. ELSE-WHERE: M. Butter- fly, Breaking the Code, The Foreigner, Terra Nova, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Jacob Marley's Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol, North Coast Rep; Gangster No. One, Baltimore Waltz, The Lover, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Reckless, *Vigil, The Fritz Theatre and *Edinburgh Fringe Festival; Breaking the Code, Diversionary Theatre; Ring Round the Moon, Enchanted April, Lambs Players; My Fair Lady, St. Nicholas, Cygnet Theatre; Camelot, Scarlet Pimpernel, Oliver!, Starlight Theatre; Waiting for Godot, The Caretaker, Renaissance Theatre; Three Sisters, New Village Arts. TV: The Dark, Splitsville, Pensacola, Renegade. Ron has been awarded numerous Dramalogue, San Diego Critic's Circle, Patte, and San Diego Playbill Awards.
Jonathan
Anthony Crane
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. BROADWAY: Butley, Sight Unseen. OFF-BROAD- WAY: Modern Orthodox (directed by James Lapine), The Brothers Kara-mazov, The Diction-ary of the Khazars. REGIONAL: Spamalot, Wynn Las Vegas; Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Los Angeles, Beyond Therapy, Closer, The Scarecrow, Pacific Resident Theatre; The Glass Menagerie, Pasadena Playhouse; The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Canon Theatre; Our Country’s Good, The Recruiting Officer, Medea, Twelfth Night, Lonesome Traveler, (a one person show on the life of Jack Kerouac), Chicago. FILM: SimOne, March, Slice and Dice, Hearsay, Down With The Joneses, The War of the Roses. TV: The Big Easy (series lead), Six Degrees, Third Watch, Judging Amy, The Practice, Girls Club, C.S.I., She Spies, JAG, Wasteland, Frasier, Savannah, The Untouchables. TRAINING: BS, Theatre, Northwestern University; Royal National Theatre of London. Member of AEA. Tony is thrilled to be working at The Old Globe. For Susan.
Grete
Katie Fabel
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. RECENT CREDITS:The Sound of Music, London’s West End; Amadeus, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey; Arsenic & Old Lace, UK National Tour; The Wind in the Willows, Royal National Theatre; Schaden-freude, WOW Theatre; The Fear Brigade, Global Village UK; O What a Lovely War, Intimate Theatre; Orpheus Descending, Nine, She Loves Me, The Royal Acdemy of Music. She has also appeared in numerous operas with the English National Opera as part of the young chorus. TV: Zen & The Art of Fantasy Football. EDUCATION/ TRAINING: MFA in music theatre, Royal Academy of Music.
Patricia
Kelly McAndrew
Kelly McAndrew is thrilled to be returning to The Old Globe, having last appeared in Sight Unseen. Her Broadway credits include Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Her Off Broadway credits include Still Life (MCC); Lyric is Waiting (Irish Repertory Theatre); Trout Stanley (Culture Project); The Cataract (The Women's Project); Greedy (Clubbed Thumb); Topsy Turvy Mouse (Cherry Lane Mentor Project) and Book of Days (Signature Theatre). McAndrew’s regional credits include Holiday (Olney Theatre, Helen Hayes nomination for Best Actress); The Miracle Worker and The Great White Hope (Arena Stage); Talley's Folly (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Cincinnati Playhouse); Proof (George Street Playhouse) as well as world premieres at The Huntington Theatre Company, CENTERSTAGE, Denver Center Theatre and Arizona Theatre Company. Her film and television credits include Everybody's Fine (with Robert DeNiro), Superheroes, New Guy, “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: SVU,” “Gossip Girl” and “As the World Turns.” She received her MFA from UMKC and her B.A. from University of San Diego.
Team
Playwright
Donald Margulies
Donald Margulies’s plays include Brooklyn Boy, Dinner with Friends, Sight Unseen, Collected Stories, The Loman Family Picnic, God of Vengeance, The Model Apartment, What’s Wrong with this Picture?, Found a Peanut and the upcoming, Geffen-commissioned Time Stands Still. He has won a Lucille Lortel Award, an American Theatre Critics Award, two Los Angeles Drama Critics Awards, two OBIE Awards, two Dramatists Guild Hull-Warriner Awards, five Drama Desk Award nominations, two Pulitzer Prize nominations and one Pulitzer Prize. His works have been performed on and off- Broadway; at major theatres across the United States including South Coast Repertory, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse and Joseph Papp's New York Shakespeare Festival; and in Paris, London, Rome, Madrid, Tel Aviv, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Sydney, Berlin, Vienna and many other cities around the world. Mr. Margulies has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, The New York Foundation for the Arts, and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. In 2005 he was honored by the American Academy of Arts and Letters with an Award in Literature and by the National Foundation for Jewish Culture with its Cultural Achievement Award and was the recipient of the 2000 Sidney Kingsley Award for Outstanding Achievement in the Theatre by a playwright. Mr. Margulies is an alumnus of New Dramatists and serves on the council of The Dramatists Guild of America. He is an adjunct professor of English and Theatre Studies at Yale University.
Director
Esther Emery
Emery was recently named the first recipient of the “Jack O’Brien Excellence in Directing” Award, given by the San Diego Critics Circle at their 2007 ceremony in January. The award recognizes a local director who demonstrates O’Brien’s exceptional breadth of work. In 2007 Emery directed three notably different productions at Cygnet (Yellowman, which won the Critics Circle “Best Play” Award, and Communicating Doors) and MOXIE (Devil Dog Six) Theatres. She has also won three Patte Awards for her direction of Yellowman, Communicating Doors and Chrysalis: Rapechild. Emery has long been associated with The Old Globe, having served as stage manager for many productions, most recently Pig Farm and Trying. An Artistic Associate at MOXIE Theatre, her work was named three times on the 2007 San Diego Union-Tribune ten best list. Her directing credits include Yellowman and Communicating Doors at Cygnet Theatre, Dancing at Lughnasa at New Village Arts, Limonade Tous Les Jours and Devil Dog Six (co-directed with Jennifer Eve Thorn) at MOXIE Theatre, Bunbury at Diversionary, and the world premiere of Chrysalis: Rapechild with Sledgehammer Theatre. Esther has also directed Hecuba (6th@Penn), Soul Fire (Playwrights Project), Cool as We Fly (Ruff
Yeager), Tongue of a Bird and Love’s Fire (Stone Soup), as well as one-acts for Playwrights Project Plays by Young Writers and play readings for Diversionary, Moonlight, Mo'olelo and others. Emery has taught acting and playwriting, and her first full length play, Rhubarb, was produced by MOXIE this spring.
Costume Design
Laurie Churba
The Old Globe: The Comedy of Errors. BROADway: The Price (directed by James Naughton). How Shakespeare Won the West (upcoming world premiere), Cry of the Reed (world premiere), Rabbit Hole,Huntington Theatre; The Book Club Play, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Coastal Disturbances, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Hot and Cole, The Pavilion, Relatively Speaking, The Drawer Boy, Member of the Wedding, Master Harold and the Boys, Westport Country Playhouse; Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge in repertory, Arena Stage; The Threepenny Opera, Loot, The Price, Johnny on a Spot, Buffalo Gal and Horse Heavens, Williamstown Theatre Festival.
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.
Stage Manager
Tracy Skoczelas
THE OLD GLOBE: Sight Unseen, Dancing in the Dark, A Catered Affair, Hay Fever, Two Trains Running, The Four of Us, The Times They Are A-Changin’, Summer Shakespeare Festivals (‘04 - ‘06, ‘08), Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Food Chain, Two Sisters and a Piano, Bus Stop, Rough Crossing, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, Dirty Blonde, Pentecost, Loves & Hours, Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All, Splendour, Pericles, All My Sons, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Betrayal, Smash, Memoir, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘01-’07), Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Henry V, The Trojan Women. EDUCATION: BFA, University of North Carolina at Greensboro.
Casting By
Samantha Barrie, CSA
