Cast
Jack Jerome
David Bishins
David Bishins was recently seen at the Globe as Jack Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound. His New York theater credits include The Glass House with Harris Yulin (Clurman Theatre), We Declare You a Terrorist (Summer Play Festival at The Public Theater), Incident at Vichy andHenry Miller in Anais Nin: One of Her Lives (The Beckett Theatre), Catch-22 (Lucille Lortel Theatre), A Mother, a Daughter and a Gun with Olympia Dukakis (Dodger Stages), Sympathetic Magic by Lanford Wilson (Second Stage Theatre), Bad Girls (The Directors Company), The Nest (directed by Moisés Kaufman), The Boys in the Band (WPA Theatre and Lucille Lortel Theatre), Teibele and Her Demon (Jewish Repertory Theatre) and Tower of Evil (Classic Stage Company). His regional credits include Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird (Intiman Theatre), Place Setting (directed by Evan Bergman), The Great Game (directed by Wilson Milam), Lee in True West (Vermont Stage Company), Rag and Bone (directed by Tina Landau), A Month in the Country (Long Wharf Theatre), As Bees in Honey Drown (directed by Evan Bergman), Arcadia (The Wilma Theater), The Dybbuk (Pittsburgh Public Theater) and Reckless (Hartford Stage). Bishins’ film and television credits include Salt, The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon, Henry’s Crime with Keanu Reeves, Sorry, Haters, The War Within, Tracks, “Liberty! The American Revolution” (PBS), A Magic Helmet, “Fringe,” “Babylon Fields,” “Law & Order,” "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and "Law & Order: Trial by Jury."
Blanche Morton
Bonnie Black
Her Off Broadway and NYC credits include HB Playwrights Foundation Theatre, the musical The Fan Tan King (NY International Fringe Festival), Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Horton Foote’s The Roads to Home (78th Street Theatre Lab), The Comedy of Errors (Equity Library Theatre) and recently, The Usher’s Ball (CAP21). Other theatre work includes residency with Adrian Hall’s Trinity Square Repertory Company (notably Cordelia in King Lear with Richard Kneeland) and company membership of both the Alley Theatre (notably Regina in the production and tour of Another Part of the Forest) and Great Lakes Theater Festival (notably Kate Nickleby in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby). Her guest appearances with regional and stock theatres throughout the country include Last of the Red Hot Lovers with Gary Burghoff, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre), The Love of the Nightingale at L.A. Theatre Works with Robert Foxworth and the one-woman show When Something Wonderful Ends (Playwright’s Theatre of New Jersey). Her television credits include “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” several soap operas, recurring as Cathy Wilson on “Loving,” and Life Among the Lowly and The Grimke Sisters for PBS.
Ben Epstein
Howard Green
Mr. Green has been seen in Richard III and the Henry VI cycle (New York Shakespeare Festival), The Ceremony of Innocence (American Place Theatre), The Silent Partner (The Actor’s Studio), Cyrano de Bergerac (Lincoln Center Theater), Troilus and Cressida and The Winter’s Tale (Washington Shakespeare Festival), Family Business (Berkshire Theatre Festival), The Poison Tree (Philadelphia Playhouse in the Park), Waiting for Godot (Theatre at St. Clement’s), The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare on the Sound) and Imagining Madoff (Stageworks on the Hudson). He was a founding member of the Counterpoint Theater Company in New York City, appearing in Awake and Sing, Rocket to the Moon and Uncle Vanya. His television credits include “Paradise Lost” and “The Ceremony of Innocence” (PBS).
Stanley Jerome
Joseph Parks
Off Broadway: Eurydice (Second Stage Theatre). Regional: The History of Invulnerability and Love Song (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Eurydice and Richard II (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and Slay the Dragon (American Conservatory Theater), The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (Magic Theatre), Wintertime (San Jose Repertory Theatre), In the Red and Brown Water, Run, Mourner, Run, The Ghost Sonata and Venus (Yale School of Drama). Television: "Law & Order.” Mr. Parks received his MFA from Yale School of Drama and is a co-founding member of New Theater House.
Eugene Jerome
Brandon Uranowitz
His theatre credits include Rent - The Broadway Tour starring Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, directed by Michael Greif (Ensemble; u/s Mark), Feste in Twelfth Night (Off Broadway; 2009 Falstaff Award nominee for Best Supporting Performance by a male), Mercutio/Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Lake George Theater Lab), Art in F*cking Art (winner of the 2009 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival), King of France in All’s Well That Ends Well (directed by Tim Carroll), The Tale of the Good Whistleblower of Chaillot’s Caucasian Mother and Her Other Children of a Lesser Marriage Chalkcircle (Theatre Askew), the Little Boy in Ragtime (world premiere cast), A Christmas Carol (directed by Susan Stroman), Evita (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Broadway Kids (Off Broadway; original cast recording). His television credits include “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “As the World Turns.”
Kate Jerome
Karen Ziemba
Karen Ziemba previously appeared at the Globe in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Six Degrees of Separation and The First Wives Club. She received the Tony Award along with the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for her portrayal of The Wife in Contact at Lincoln Center Theater. Her other appearances on and Off Broadway include Curtains (Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk and Tony nominations), Never Gonna Dance (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination), Steel Pier (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), And the World Goes ‘Round (Drama Desk Award), I Do! I Do! (Drama Desk nomination), Chicago, A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Crazy for You, New York City Opera’s 110 in the Shade and The Most Happy Fella and, for City Center Encores!, Allegro, Bye Bye Birdie, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 and The Pajama Game. Regionally she has appeared in Much Ado About Nothing (The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hartford Stage), The Threepenny Opera (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Sylvia (Long Wharf Theatre), Steel Magnolias (Cape May Stage) and Boeing Boeing (Riverside Theatre). Her film and TV appearances include The Producers, Once More with Feeling, “Scrubs,” several of the New York “Law & Order” series, “The Kennedy Center Honors” in tributes to Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris and, for PBS’ “Great Performances,” My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies, Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall. Ms. Ziemba has recorded many audiobooks and original cast albums and received an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Niagara University.
Team
Playwright
Neil Simon
has been represented on Broadway by Come Blow Your Horn, Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, The Old Couple, Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, The Good Doctor, God’s Favorite, California Suite, Chapter Two, They’re Playing Our Song, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Fools, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues (1985 Tony Award), the female version of The Odd Couple, Broadway Bound, Rumors, Lost in Yonkers (1991 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award), Jake’s Women, The Goodbye Girl, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Proposals, The Dinner Party and 45 Seconds from Broadway. Off Broadway: London Suite. Films include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners, Plaza Suite, The Heartbreak Kid, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Murder by Death, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, The Cheap Detective, California Suite, Chapter Two, Seems Like Old Times, Only When I Laugh, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Max Dungan Returns, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Lost in Yonkers.
Director
Scott Schwartz
Scott Schwartz directed the Broadway productions of Golda’s Balcony and Jane Eyre (co-directed with John Caird). He recently directed Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound in repertory and Lost in Yonkers at The Old Globe. His Off Broadway work includes Bat Boy: The Musical (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), tick, tick… BOOM! (Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), Rooms: A Rock Romance, The Foreigner starring Matthew Broderick (Roundabout Theatre Company), Franz Kafka’s The Castle (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Outstanding Director of a Play), Miss Julie and No Way to Treat a Lady. He also directed Golda’s Balcony on tour, in London, in Los Angeles at the Wadsworth Theatre and in San Francisco at American Conservatory Theater. He directed the World Premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon at Opera Santa Barbara and subsequently at New York City Opera. Mr. Schwartz’s other recent credits include Arsenic and Old Lace starring Tovah Feldshuh and Betty Buckley (Dallas Theater Center), Othello and Much Ado About Nothing (Alley Theatre), My Fairytale (Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts), Reckless (The Denver Center for the Performing Arts) and a re-envisioning of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Paper Mill Playhouse, Theatre Under The Stars, Theatre on the Square and North Shore Music Theatre; 2008 IRNE Award, Outstanding Director of a Musical). Mr. Schwartz is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an Associate Artist at the Alley Theatre and a graduate of Harvard University.
Scenic Design
Ralph Funicello
Ralph Funicello is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe and has designed the sets for over 60 productions for the company including the Summer Shakespeare Festivals 2004-2011. Elsewhere, Mr. Funicello has designed scenery on and off Broadway and for many theatres across the country, including Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, American Conservatory Theater, A Contemporary Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Arizona Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company, New York City Opera, LA Opera and San Diego Opera. He currently holds the position of Powell Chair in Set Design at SDSU.
Costume Design
Alejo Vietti
Alejo Vietti has designed the Globe productions of Engaging Shaw, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound and Lost in Yonkers. His New York credits include works for New York City Opera, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, MCC Theater, the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, Irish Repertory Theatre, The New Group, Cherry Lane Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Soho Repertory Theater and The Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. Regionally, has designed at Alley Theatre (over 18 productions), Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Colorado Ballet, Minnesota Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Guthrie Theater, Ford’s Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Signature Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrington Stage Company, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Wolf Trap Opera Company and Opera Santa Barbara, among others. His other work includes Donetsk Opera in Ukraine, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Boom a Ring. His upcoming projects include the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes’ Spring Show. He is a TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award recipient.
Lighting Design
Matthew McCarthy
recently designed Lost in Yonkers at The Old Globe. He has designed several Off Broadway productions including Blue Man Group in New York, Boston and Chicago, The Odyssey, A Stage Version by Derek Walcott for Willow Cabin Theatre Company, and Rum & Coke and Texas Homos for Abingdon Theatre Company. His opera credits include Juilliard Opera Company, Opera Columbus, Connecticut Opera and Arizona Opera. Mr. McCarthy’s regional credits include Florida Repertory Theatre, Stages St. Louis, Contemporary Stage Company, New Harmony Theatre, and Cumberland County Playhouse. He has served as Lighting Director for extensive tours of Poland, Brazil and Austria with several modern dance companies.
Sound Design
Paul Peterson
Paul Peterson has designed over 100 productions at The Old Globe, including The Brothers Size, God of Carnage, Nobody Loves You, Anna Christie, Odyssey, Engaging Shaw, Life of Riley, Plaid Tidings — A Special Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Last Romance, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, The Women, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, and many more. His regional credits include designs for Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, San Diego Repertory Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Malashock Dance, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and Freud Playhouse at UCLA. Mr. Peterson received his B.F.A. in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University.
Original Music
Michael Holland
Composer/lyricist: Hurricane (2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival), Believe in Me…A Bigfoot Musical (New York Times’ #1 pick, FringeNYC 2004), Mikey Writes It! (2002 MAC Award, Best Revue), Times Square Association Centennial Celebration, Kelly Kinsella Live Under Broadway (FringeNYC 2007) and The Girl Most Likely To (American Cancer Society Benefit, Brooklyn, CT 1999). He received BackStage Magazine’s Ira Eaker Special Achievement Award in 2006 (“Outstanding performer/songwriter on the rise”). Composer: Incidental music for Alley Theatre, Playwrights Horizons (A.R. Gurney’s Crazy Mary, world premiere), Colorado Shakespeare, The Juilliard School and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Orchestrator/Arranger: dance arrangements for All that Glitters (workshop 2010), New York City Gay Men’s Chorus (ongoing), arrangements/musical direction for countless NYC cabarets. Performer/arranger/musical director of downtown critical favorite Gashole (2001-present; 5 MAC Awards, BackStage Bistro Award [Best Duo]). Recordings: 4 self-produced original CDs, including Darkness Falls (2001 Blockbuster/MP3 Award) and Beach Toys Won’t Save You (2004 OutMusic Award, Songwriter of the Year), world premiere of “Another Day in the Modern World” on The Maury Yeston Songbook (ps classics, 2004); arrangements/production/session work on numerous recordings. Current/Upcoming: The Nightmare Before Christmas for Disney Theatricals (new lyrics, new songs, orchestrations), Godspell, Broadway revival in Winter 2010-11 (orchestrations/vocal arrangements) and Hurricane (in development — music/lyrics/co-librettist).
Dialect Coach
Jan Gist
Jan Gist has been Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach for Old Globe productions since 2002. She has coached at theatres around the country including Ahmanson Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC, The American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company. Ms. 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. She has taught workshops in Russia for the International Voice Teachers Exchange at The Moscow Art Theatre and at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. She has been published in VASTA Journals, and 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 is a professor in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program. www.jangistspeaking.com.
Stage Manager
Diana Moser
Diana Moser recently stage managed The Brothers Size, The Recommendation, August: Osage County, Rafta, Rafta…, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound and The Whipping Man at The Old Globe. Her additional credits at the Globe include Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Price, Opus, Six Degrees of Separation, The Pleasure of His Company, The Glass Menagerie, In This Corner, 2007 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Restoration Comedy, Christmas on Mars, A Body of Water, Lobby Hero, Fiction and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Ms. Moser’s regional credits include La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Children’s Theatre Company and Arizona Theatre Company. Ms. Moser received her B.A. from Bard College and her M.F.A. in Directing from Purdue. When not doing theatre, she splits her time between Nova Scotia and the classic wooden sailboat Simba I. Ms. Moser is a strong supporter of the Bard Prison Initiative, which provides a college education to inmates.
Assistant Stage Manager
Erin Gioia Albrecht
Erin Gioia Albrecht previously worked on the Globe productions of Dividing the Estate, August: Osage County, Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Madness of George III, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Working and Bell, Book and Candle. Her regional credits include Hands on a Hardbody, Milk Like Sugar, Creditors, The Third Story and No Child… (La Jolla Playhouse). Her New York credits include The Third Story (MCC Theater), Marvin’s Room (T. Schreiber Studio), The Great American Desert (78th Street Theatre Lab) and The Chekhov Dreams (Manhattan Theatre Source). Ms. Albrecht obtained her M.F.A. in Stage Management from UC San Diego.
