Cast
Borachio
Michael Stewart Allen
Michael Stewart Allen was last seen at the Globe in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival (San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award nomination). He has been in several Off Broadway productions, most recently Margaret (Red Bull Theater), and including Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Love, Shakespeare (The Acting Company) and the title role in Don Carlos (Prospect Theater Company). His recent credits include The Foreigner (Festival Stage of Winston-Salem), Hamlet (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), A Tale of Two Cities (People’s Light & Theatre Company), King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival), Doubt (Hippodrome State Theatre), The Tempest (Folger Theatre) and Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath (Arkansas Repertory Theatre). He has performed at theatres all over the country, including Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, The Festival Stage of Winston-Salem, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival and 12 Miles West Theater Company, and he has spent 11 seasons as a company member at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. His film and television credits include “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and voice work on Cold Mountain.
Woman in Leonato's House
Shirine Babb
Shirine Babb previously appeared at The Old Globe in The Madness of George III, King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew. She recently appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Her London credits include Widows, and her New York credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pulse Ensemble Theatre), Trickle (The Ensemble Studio Theatre), Single Black Female (The Duke on 42nd Street), Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Women’s Project), A Role Once Played (29th Repertory Theatre, 2004 AUDELCO nominee) and American Girls Revue (American Girl Place). Ms. Babb’s regional credits include Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, She Stoops to Conquer, A Christmas Carol, Omnium Gatherum, Play to Win: The Jackie Robinson Story, Almost Heaven: The John Denver Story and Bessie: Life & Music of Bessie Smith. Her television and film credits include “All My Children” and Picture Perfect. Her commercial work includes WE tv, Optimum Light Path and Fair Housing Act. Ms. Babb holds an M.A. from East 15 Acting School, U.K. and a B.F.A. from SUNY Fredonia.
Dogberry
John Cariani
John Cariani was last seen at The Old Globe in The Mystery of Irma Vep. He has appeared on Broadway (Motel in Fiddler on the Roof) and Off Broadway (New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Transport Group, Arclight Repertory Theatre and New World Stages). He has worked regionally at Ahmanson Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. His film work includes the forthcoming independent feature Elephant Sighs starring Ed Asner. He has appeared in several films and television shows (most people know him as CSU tech Beck on “Law & Order”) and is also a playwright (Almost, Maine).
Don Pedro
Donald Carrier
Donald Carrier was last seen at The Old Globe in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival, appearing in King Lear, The Madness of George III and The Taming of the Shrew. His regional credits include Joseph Surface in The School For Scandal (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi (The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Award nomination), Frederick in Noises Off and Francis in Lincolnesque (Cleveland Play House), Ian in Shining City (The Studio Theatre), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival) and the title role in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Huntington Theatre Company). He most recently played Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol at Great Lakes Theatre Festival and directed The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the University of Notre Dame. Other theatre credits include Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The Wilma Theater, Intiman Theatre and TheatreWorks. Mr. Carrier spent nine seasons at Stratford Shakespeare Festival appearing as Orlando in As You Like It, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, John Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest, Sicinius in Coriolanus, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice and Lucio in Measure for Measure. His television and film credits include The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Passion of Ayn Rand, “Earth: Final Conflict,” Dead by Monday and 54. His writing credits include the musical Evangeline, written with Anaya Farrell.
Friar Francis, Sexton
Anthony Cochrane
Anthony Cochrane is an actor/composer from Scotland who now resides in New York. Mr. Cochrane’s Broadway acting credits include the Tony Award-winning trilogy The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard and Cymbeline at Lincoln Center Theater. His Off Broadway credits include Othello, Cyrano de Bergerac, Much Ado About Nothing (also at La Jolla Playhouse and The White House), Julius Caesar, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Iliad, The Man Who Would Be King, The Invisible Man and the European Tour of Romeo and Juliet (Aquila Theatre Company), Doug Varone and Dancers’ Dense Terrain (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Médéé (Carnegie Hall). His regional credits include Henry VIII (2011 Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Winter’s Tale and Julius Caesar (Folger Theatre) and Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well and Lettice and Lovage (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). His U.K. credits include The Broken Heart, The Wives’ Excuse, Coriolanus and Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure and Hiawatha (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), Hamlet and The Jungle Book (The Lyric Theatre, Belfast). Mr. Cochrane’s films include Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Apocalypse Watch. His television credits include “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Benjamin Franklin (PBS) and “Taggart” (STV). Mr. Cochrane was Associate Director and Composer/Musical Director of the Aquila Theatre Company for 12 years. In this capacity he has written musical scores and collaborated on the creation of more than 20 productions.
Hero
Winslow Corbett
Winslow Corbett appeared as Elaine Robinson in the National Tour of The Graduate, Nora Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Geffen Playhouse), Private Lives (Laguna Playhouse), Noises Off (South Coast Repertory), You Can’t Take It With You (Rubicon Theatre Company, Independent Theatre Award), Trying (Rubicon Theatre, StageSceneLA Award), David Copperfield (Westport Country Playhouse, directed by Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe), The Underpants (PlayMakers Repertory Company, directed by Gene Saks), The Importance of Being Earnest (Pittsburgh Public Theater), The Learned Ladies and The Mother of Us All (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Arcadia and Grand Magic (A Contemporary Theatre), Private Lives (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre), Ah, Wilderness! (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Doubt (Capital Repertory Theater), Born Yesterday (Garvin Theatre), Pericles (Shakespeare & Company), Arcadia (Portland Repertory Theatre), Twelfth Night (Tygre’s Heart Shakespeare Company), The Skin Game (Mint Theater Company), the premiere of Romulus Linney’s Lark (The Ensemble Studio Theatre) and Noises Off, Born Yesterday and the premiere of Fabuloso (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater). Ms. Corbett’s television work includes A Change of Heart for Lifetime and Comedy Central’s “Stand-Up Nation with Greg Giraldo.”
Claudio
Kevin Alan Daniels
Kevin Alan Daniels is proud to make his Globe debut and share in its theatrical history. He was last seen in The Nacriema Society by Pearl Cleage (directed by Susan V. Booth), which premiered at Alabama Shakespeare Festival before moving to the Alliance Theatre. An alumnus of the Yale School of Drama, he received his M.F.A. in Acting in 2010. Some roles while attending Yale are Vershinin in Three Sisters (directed by Ron Van Lieu), Macduff in Macbeth (directed by Devin Brain) and Dr. Kori Shah and Munkrat in Homebody/Kabul (directed by Joan MacIntosh). He was a 2009 ensemble member of the Chautauqua Theater Company where he was Jim in The Glass Menagerie (directed by Ethan McSweeny) and Cleomenes in The Winter’s Tale (directed by Anne Kauffman). In 2007 he received a B.F.A. in Acting from Southern Methodist University’s Meadows School of the Arts. A writer of the verse himself, he has written two rap theatre plays that both premiered at the Yale Cabaret, one being honored as one of the Best Theatre of New Haven in 2008. He is an avid student of hip hop, drawn more specifically to the aesthetics of rap music.
The Watch, Soldier
Adam Daveline
Adam Daveline has appeared in the Globe productions of The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Amadeus and Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy and also appeared as Sir Toby Belch in the Globe/USD M.F.A. production of Twelfth Night. Some of his regional credits include Bruce in Finding Nemo – The Musical (Walt Disney Creative Entertainment), Javert in Les Misérables, David in Company, Peter in Jesus Christ Superstar, Carl in Bus Stop, Zoser in Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida, Adam in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Smudge in Forever Plaid and The Baker in Into the Woods. His film work includes Fire Creek (Lifesong Productions). His recordings include the concept albums of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Savior of the World. He has also performed as a featured soloist in Carnegie Hall with the National Alliance for Excellence in Art. Mr. Daveline received his B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from Brigham Young University and his M.F.A. in Dramatic Arts from the University of San Diego/Old Globe. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Soldier
Grayson DeJesus
Grayson DeJesus has appeared at The Old Globe in The Madness of George III, The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear. He was last seen as Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest with The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. program where he was also seen in The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona. His regional credits include Romeo and Juliet, All’s Well That Ends Well and The Antiquarian’s Family (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). His National Tours include Winnemucca (three days in the belly) (San Jose Stage Company, New York International Fringe Festival and Minnesota Fringe Festival), and his West Coast credits include Film (Theatre of NOTE) and New Playwrights Project (TheatreWorks). His New York credits include Here I Go Boys, A Diner, a Shiner and New Beulah (Shelby Company). Mr. DeJesus received his B.A. in Theatre from Occidental College.
Balthasar
Ben Diskant
Ben Diskant has previously appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Country Wife and The Chekhov/Carver Project. At the Globe he has appeared in Death of a Salesman, King Lear, The Madness of George III and The Taming of the Shrew. His regional credits include Speech and Debate (TheaterWorks, Hartford), The History Boys (The Studio Theatre), Anything Goes (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and the National Tour of Freedom Train (TheatreworksUSA). Mr. Diskant holds a Bachelor’s of Music and a B.A. in Sociology from Northwestern University.
The Watch, Soldier
Christian Durso
Christian Durso was last seen in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona. His New York credits include Nocturne (UNDER St. Marks), Cinephilia (Theatre Row), Spring Awakening (Blue Heron Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Ensemble Studio Theatre), Julius Caesar (Theater for the New City), Shoe Polish (13th Street Repertory Company) and Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (The Tank). Mr. Durso’s regional credits include Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Macbeth (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and Minnesota Moon (Boulder International Fringe Festival). His television credits include “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light.” Mr. Durso holds a B.F.A. from the Tisch School of the Arts. www.christiandurso.com.
Beatrice
Georgia Hatzis
Georgia Hatzis has appeared in IRNE Award-nominated performances as Ophelia in Hamlet and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Her regional credits also include Anne Bogart’s La Dispute, Andre Serban’s Pericles and Janos Szasz’ Uncle Vanya (American Repertory Theater), Macbeth and Henry V (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company) and A Bright Room Called Day, Ghetto, Malady of Death and God’s Country (Theatre Outlet). Ms. Hatzis has worked extensively in New York with Greek-language ensemble KEP Theatre Company and has toured Russia and Europe with Robert Woodruff’s Phaedra 4:48, based on the writings of Sarah Kane. Her film and television credits include Adam Sandler’s upcoming feature Jack and Jill, Bunker Hill, BTK, HBO’s “Hung,” “The Defenders,” “The Whole Truth,” “CSI: NY,” “Medium,” “Lie to Me,” “Without a Trace,” “Numb3rs” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.” Ms. Hatzis received her M.F.A. from Harvard University/Moscow Art Theatre School.
The Watch, Soldier
Andrew Hutcheson
Andrew Hutcheson was last seen in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona, as well as last summer’s productions of The Madness of George III, King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew. His New York credits include Elizabeth Rex, Kosher Harry and Richard III (Nicu’s Spoon Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Staten Island Shakespeare) and Titus Andronicus (Rising Phoenix Productions). His National Tours include Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) and Beauty and the Beast (American Family Theatre). His regional credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Crucible, The Lion in Winter, As You Like It and Jungalbook (Austin Live Theatre) and Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, 1776, Tartuffe, Romeo and Juliet and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Texas Shakespeare Festival). Mr. Hutcheson received his B.A. in Acting from The University of Texas at Austin.
Antonio, Verges
Charles Janasz
Charles Janasz is an Associate Artist and has appeared in 26 Old Globe productions including Pericles and the Summer Shakespeare Festivals of 1985 and 2004-2011. He appeared on Broadway in the 1999-2000 revival of Amadeus and has been a leading company member and returning guest artist of both Guthrie Theater and Arena Stage. His other credits include work at Ahmanson Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, Empty Space Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Walker Art Center and Loring Playhouse. He trained at the University of Washington and The Juilliard School and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association since 1980.
Woman in Leonato's House
Rachael Jenison
Rachael Jenison has appeared at the Globe in The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and Amadeus. She was last seen in the Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of Fathers and Sons and Twelfth Night. Her other Globe/USD M.F.A. credits include The Importance of Being Earnest and The Winter’s Tale. Her Chicago credits include Magnolia (Goodman Theatre), Wood Demon (The Library Theatre) and Hedda Gabler and Misanthrope, or the Impossible Lovers (Vintage Theater Collective). Her regional credits include Almond and the Seahorse (Madison Repertory Theatre) and Twelfth Night (Great River Shakespeare Festival). Ms. Jenison has a B.F.A. in Acting from The University of Minnesota/Guthrie Theater Actor Training Program.
The Watch, Soldier
Jesse Jensen
Jesse Jensen was recently featured at The Old Globe in The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing and Amadeus as well as Death of a Salesman directed by Pam MacKinnon. He has also appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of Fathers and Sons, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale and Dear Harvey. His regional credits include The Heiress (Long Beach Playhouse), West Side Story (Musical Theater Los Angeles), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival) and the National Tour of The Art of Being. His Los Angeles credits include Brilliant Traces, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Feeding the Moonfish (Front Porch Players) and the title role in Hamlet (Loyola Marymount University). His film and television credits include Wasted, Annabelle, Nomad and Charley as well as primetime roles on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Cane” and “Cold Case.” In addition to acting Mr. Jensen has written, produced, and directed for theatre and film. He received a B.A. in Film Production with a minor in Theater Arts from Loyola Marymount University. www.jessejensen.net.
The Watch, Soldier
Jason Maddy
Jason Maddy recently appeared at the Globe in the 2011 Summer Shakespeare Festival, a childhood dream come true, and has worked with many San Diego theatre companies in his time here, including Premiere Productions, Moonlight Stage Productions, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Welk Resort Theatre, San Diego Musical Theatre, Intrepid Shakespeare Company and ion theatre company. His regional work includes Utah Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival and Theatrical Arts International Productions. Some of his favorite roles include Iago in Othello, Touchstone and later Trinculo in As You Like It, Louis in Angels in America (another dream come true) and, most recently, Geoffrey in The Lion in Winter. Mr. Maddy received his M.F.A. from the University of Illinois Urban-Champaign. He has taught for theatre companies and colleges across the country including Mt. San Jacinto College, University of Illinois Urbana- Champaign, La Jolla Playhouse, Utah Shakespeare Festival and right here at The Old Globe.
Woman in Leonato's House
Allison Spratt Pearce
Allison Spratt Pearce (Grown-Up Who Ensemble, u/s Grandma Who) was recently seen at The Old Globe as Phoebe in As You Like It, Ceres in The Tempest, Katherina in Amadeus and Jane in Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy. She also appeared in Globe/USD M.F.A. productions as Anna in Fathers and Sons and Viola in Twelfth Night. She was in the original Broadway and Off Broadway productions of Cry-Baby, Curtains and Good Vibrations and originated the role of Miss B. in Enter Laughing. Her favorite leading roles include My Fair Lady (Capital Repertory Theater), The Girl in the Frame (Goodspeed Musicals and Manhattan Theatre Club), Thoroughly Modern Millie (Flat Rock Playhouse), Cabaret (National Tour) and Grease! (European Tour). In film and television, she has appeared in The Smurfs, He Got Game, “NY-70” (NBC pilot), hosting on HSN and numerous national commercials. Mrs. Pearce can be seen in the national Lee Riders Jeans ads and Empire City Casino commercials. She received her B.F.A. in Music Theatre from Elon University and M.F.A from The Old Globe/USD in Drama. Mrs. Pearce is a coach for Musical Theatre College Auditions, which provides college audition preparation for musical theatre and acting programs. www.allisonsprattpearce.com.
Ursula
Deborah Radloff
Deborah Radloff has previously appeared at The Old Globe in The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Amadeus and Death of a Salesman and was also seen in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. stagings of Twelfth Night, Fathers and Sons and The Winter’s Tale. Her Off Broadway credits include Girls Night: The Musical (Sophia’s Downstairs Cabaret) and Dance Dance Revolution (Les Freres Corbusier). She has appeared regionally in The Yiddish Are Coming: The Chosen Musical (world premiere, Denver Civic Theatre), Pericles, Othello, Richard III, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure (Nebraska Shakespeare Festival) and A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). She received her B.F.A. in Acting from The University of Nebraska–Omaha.
Benedick
Jonno Roberts
Jonno Roberts is thrilled to be back at The Old Globe this summer after appearing here last year as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and Edmund in King Lear. His other major credits include the original Broadway production of Take Me Out and the Off Broadway productions of Bug, Monster and Uncle Vanya. His regional credits include King Lear (Goodman Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Mother Courage and Her Children, Richard II and Antigone (American Repertory Theater), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Huntington Theatre Company), The Taming of the Shrew (Dallas Theater Center), A Streetcar Named Desire (Intiman Theatre) and Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Henry V and Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Mr. Roberts has also toured or created performances in theatres in Canada, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Russia and extensively back home in New Zealand. His television credits include “CSI: Miami,” “Detroit 187,” “The Flight of the Conchords,” “Lie to Me,” “Medium,” “Without a Trace,” “CSI:NY,” “NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service,” “Numb3rs,” “The Unit,” “Brotherhood,” “Love Monkey,” “Shark,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Jericho,” “As the World Turns,” “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” “Shortland Street,” “A Bit of a Hoot” and “In Search of the Kiwi Male.” Mr. Roberts’ film credits include The Elephant King, Downstream, Footsteps and BTK.
Margaret
Ryman Sneed
Ryman Sneed has appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Country Wife and The Chekhov/Carver Project and in The Old Globe productions of Death of a Salesman, King Lear and The Madness of George III. Her Off Broadway and other New York credits include None of the Above and The Tempest. Ms. Sneed holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Marymount Manhattan College. www.RymanSneed.com.
Leonato
Adrian Sparks
Adrian Sparks has, over the past 40 years, played leading roles in a wide variety of theatre pieces across the country, appearing on the stages of such theatres as Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Stage West, CENTERSTAGE, Indiana Repertory Theatre, PAF Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. This is Mr. Sparks’ third year as a member of Adrian Noble’s Festival company at the Globe. During the 2011 season he performed the roles of Leonato in Much Ado About Nothing and Stephano the drunken butler in The Tempest. In addition to his 2010 Festival assignments in Taming of the Shrew, King Lear and The Madness of George III, Globe audiences have seen him portray Uncle Ben in Death of a Salesman. Mr. Sparks first came to The Old Globe in 1976 doing Troilus and Cressida, Othello and playing Corin in As You Like It (a role he is reprising over 35 years later). His most recent theatrical engagement was playing Leonato in Ethan McSweeney’s version of Much Ado About Nothing with The Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. For the camera, Mr. Sparks has portrayed cowboys, doctors, soldiers, professors, dads, best friends and evil villains in more than 75 film and television projects. www.AdrianSparks.com.
Conrade
Jonathan Spivey
Jonathan Spivey was recently seen at the Globe in The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Amadeus and Death of a Salesman and in the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, The Importance of Being Earnest and Dear Harvey. His New York and regional credits include The Merchant of Venice, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Cyrano de Bergerac, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), Around the World in 80 Days (Sierra Repertory Theatre), Black Gold (Phoenix Theatre), Dogpark: The Musical (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), Souvenir, The Imaginary Invalid, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Room Service, The Foreigner, Kiss Me, Kate and Forever Plaid (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre). Mr. Spivey is a Second City-trained improv artist, a jazz pianist, the co-author of the musical comedy Murphy’s Law and the recipient of the 2011 Craig Noel MFA Fellowship. He is a narrator and voice actor for Vivabook’s e-books.
Don John
Jay Whittaker
Jay Whittaker appeared in the Globe’s 2011 Shakespeare Festival as Mozart in Amadeus and Don John in Much Ado About Nothing. He also appeared in the 2010 Festival as Edgar in King Lear, Lucentio in The Taming of the Shrew and William Pitt in The Madness of George III, for which he received the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award honoring his work in all three productions. He has been seen Off Broadway in Frank’s Home at Playwrights Horizons and Rose Rage at The Duke on 42nd Street. His other credits include Old Masters, Mother Courage and Her Children and David Copperfield (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Sense and Sensibility, directed by Jon Jory, and Awake and Sing! directed by Amy Morton (Northlight Theatre), Shining City (Huntington Theatre Company), Tamburlaine and Edward II (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Shining City and Frank’s Home (Goodman Theatre), The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 (Royal Shakespeare Company). Mr. Whittaker’s film and television credits include Dustclouds, Let’s Go to Prison, Death of a President, “Prison Break” and “Early Edition.”
Team
Director
Ron Daniels
Ron Daniels was a founding member of the Teatro Oficina in São Paulo. He is a former Artistic Director of Royal Shakespeare Company’s experimental theatre, The Other Place, at Stratford-upon-Avon, England. After 15 years with the company, directing many Shakespeare plays, including two productions of Hamlet (one with Roger Rees and the second with Mark Rylance, the “pajama Hamlet”) as well as works by contemporary British writers, Mr. Daniels was appointed an Honorary Associate Director. He is a former Associate Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater and is now a freelance director. He has worked in many theatres and opera houses across the U.S., in Japan and in Brazil, where he staged King Lear in his own translation into Portuguese. At The Old Globe, he directed last season’s Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew and the hip hop musical Kingdom, which was performed at both the Lincoln High School Center for the Arts and at the Globe. His production of Il Postino for LA Opera opened in Los Angeles in 2010 starring Plácido Domingo. The production has since been seen in Paris and Vienna. Mr. Daniels’ first feature film, The War Boys, is being distributed by Maya Entertainment.
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
Deirdre Clancy
Deirdre Clancy is in her third year designing all three Shakespeare Festival shows at The Old Globe. She began her career as house designer for the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1960s with such cutting-edge authors as Edward Bond, Joe Orton and D.H. Lawrence. She went on to design all over the world for the stage, opera, film and television. Among Ms. Clancy’s many successes were costumes for Kiri Te Kanawa in Cosí Fan Tutte at The Metropolitan Opera, Ian McKellen in Wild Honey at The National Theatre, Los Angeles and Broadway and Glenda Jackson in Strange Interlude in the West End and on Broadway. She won a BAFTA Best Costume Design Award for Mrs. Brown featuring Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly and Olivier Awards for her work on Twelfth Night and Love’s Labour’s Lost, both for the Royal Shakespeare Company. In 2011 Ms. Clancy completed the trilogy of Mozart operas for Opera de Lyon, directed by Adrian Noble, with costumes for Cosí Fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. Ms. Clancy has written and illustrated Costume Since World War Two. www.clancy.uk.com.
Lighting Design
Alan Burrett
Alan Burrett designed the 2010 and 2011 Shakespeare Festivals and The Savannah Disputation for The Old Globe. Mr. Burrett’s designs for theatre, opera and dance are seen regularly in many parts of the world in venues from San Diego Opera to the Opéra national de Paris. His theatre work includes 15 productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company and 25 productions for LA Opera. Mr. Burrett is Professor of Design at UC San Diego. www.burrett.com.
Original Music and Sound Design
Dan Moses Schreier
Dan Moses Schreier (Sound Design) previously composed original music for Much Ado About Nothing and sound designed The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing for the Globe’s 2011 Shakespeare Festival. He has sound designed the Broadway productions of Sondheim on Sondheim, A Little Night Music, West Side Story, Gypsy, Radio Golf, John Doyle’s production of Sweeney Todd, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Gem of the Ocean, Pacific Overtures, Assassins, Into the Woods, Topdog/Underdog, Dirty Blonde, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Tempest and Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk. His Off Broadway sound design credits include Road Show, Stuff Happens, Homebody/Kabul and Floyd Collins. He composed music for the Broadway productions of The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington and The Tempest with Patrick Stewart and the Off Broadway production of Disfarmer at St. Ann’s Warehouse. He has received three Tony Awards nominations, three Drama Desk Awards and an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. danmosesschreier.com.
Fight Director
Steve Rankin
Steve Rankin is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe as an actor and fight director. This is his 26th season staging fights for the Globe, including the 2004-2011 Summer Shakespeare Festivals, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, In This Corner, Pig Farm, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Hamlet, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Henry V, Richard II, Titus Andronicus and Cyrano De Bergerac. His Broadway credits include Henry IV, Memphis, Jersey Boys, Twelfth Night, Getting Away with Murder, Dracula, The Who’s Tommy, Anna Christie and Two Shakespearean Actors. His Off Broadway work includes The Third Story, Pig Farm, The Night Hank Williams Died and Below the Belt. His Stratford Shakespeare Festival credits include Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, Caesar and Cleopatra and Henry V. His film work includes Renaissance Man, Human Error and Tumbleweeds. He has worked with the Seattle, San Diego and Metropolitan Opera companies. Mr. Rankin plays mandolin with the Appalachian Roots artist Susie Glaze and the Hilonesome Band.
Movement
Liz Shipman
Liz Shipman was Co-Founder/Artistic Director for Kings County Shakespeare Company (KCSC) in New York City from 1983 to 2001. Ms. Shipman has directed and/or choreographed productions for KCSC (over 50 productions), New Avenue Theatre Project, Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Old Globe, Playwright’s Project, New Village Arts and lots of little loft-type theatres throughout New York. She has directed, choreographed and taught movement and acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Technique for the Whole Actor Studio, T. Schreiber Studio, Manhattan Marymount College, Atlantic Theater Company, Webster Conservatory of Theatre Arts, University of San Diego’s Undergraduate Theatre Arts Department and The Old Globe/USD Graduate Acting Department where she serves as a member of the core faculty. Her favorites projects include Genet/Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale, Rough Crossing, Love’s Labour’s Lost, A Midsommer Night’s Dreame, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Aphra Behn’s The Rover, Blood Wedding, On the Verge, Lysistrata, O Jerusalem, Fifth of July, The Water Engine, An Experiment with an Air Pump and The Creation Project.
Music Director
Charlie Reuter
Charlie Reuter (Musical Director) served as music director for The Old Globe’s 2011 Shakespeare Festival and most recently served as associate conductor for Dreamgirls starring Jennifer Holliday (The Muny). His credits as music director include Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir (La Jolla Playhouse), Miss Saigon (Moonlight Stage Productions), The Light in the Piazza (Lamb’s Players Theatre) and Sweeney Todd (Cygnet Theatre Company), for which he won a San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Musical Direction. For The Walt Disney Company, he has performed in the theme parks and on the Disney Cruise Line and has helped develop the Broadway show Peter and the Starcatcher with Disney Theatrical Group. In New York, he served as a pianist for New York University and music director for the Lee Strasberg Institute, and he studied orchestral conducting at The Juilliard School. He holds an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre from San Diego State University.
Voice, Speech and 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.
Assistant Director
Snehal Desai
Snehal Desai has directed productions of Baal, Edward II, FOB: Fresh Off the Boeing, One Night with Rael, Booty Fire, Cabaret and Marisol. Mr. Desai has worked at theatres across the county including The Public Theater, The Old Vic, Dad’s Garage Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova and Theatre Rhinoceros. He has performed his solo show, Finding Ways to Prove You’re NOT an Al-Qaeda Terrorist When You’re Brown, to great acclaim in San Francisco, New York, New Haven and Philadelphia. He is the inaugural recipient of The Drama League’s Classical Fellowship for Directors of Color. He received a B.A. from Emory University and an M.F.A. from Yale University.
Stage Manager
Bret Torbeck
Bret Torbeck is excited to return to The Old Globe where his previous credits are the 2011 Shakespeare Festival, The Women, The Sisters Rosensweig and Take Me Out. In Seattle, he has worked on Cinderella, A Christmas Story, Candide, Catch Me If You Can, Sunday in the Park with George, Cabaret and Into the Woods (The 5th Avenue Theatre) and The Brothers Size, Fences, Doubt, Restoration Comedy, Topdog/Underdog, Wit, Sisters Matsumoto and The Time of Your Life (Seattle Repertory Theatre), among others. He has spent time working at regional theatres such as CENTERSTAGE, Actors Theatre of Louisville (most recently as part of the 2012 Humana Festival), Long Wharf Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, American Conservatory Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater. He has worked on the National Tours of Proof, Spamalot and The Phantom of the Opera. He also looks forward to volunteering for the ALS Association, and he teaches for the University of Washington School of Drama.
Assistant Stage Manager
Deirdre Rose Holland
Deirdre Rose Holland has previously worked at The Old Globe on Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2010), Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers, The Mystery of Irma Vep and The Pleasure of His Company. Regional credits include Legacy of Light (San Jose Repertory Theatre) and the world premiere of Bonnie & Clyde and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (La Jolla Playhouse). Her additional credits include Opera San José, La Jolla Music Society, Palo Alto Children’s Theatre and Summer Repertory Theatre. Ms. Holland holds a B.A. from California State University, Chico, and she received her M.F.A. in Stage Management from UC San Diego. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
Assistant Stage Manager
Jess Slocum
Jess Slocum has previously worked at the Globe on Pygmalion, A Room with a View, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, the 2011 and 2012 Shakespeare Festivals, Rafta, Rafta…, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Alive and Well, Sammy, Cornelia, Since Africa, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘07-’09) and The Glass Menagerie. Her Broadway credits include In the Heights. Her regional credits include Ruined, The Third Story, Memphis and Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse), Post Office (Center Theatre Group) and Tranquility Woods (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Her San Diego credits include Yellow Face (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company), Words By (North Coast Repertory Theatre) and Festival of Christmas 2011 (Lamb’s Players Theatre). She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.
Assistant Stage Manager
Annette Yé
Annette Yé (Assistant Stage Manager) served as stage manager for The Old Globe’s Pygmalion, God of Carnage, Anna Christie, Groundswell and the 2010 production of Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Her other Globe credits include Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (’11 and ‘12), Boeing-Boeing, The First Wives Club, Opus, Dancing in the Dark, Hay Fever and the Summer Shakespeare Festivals 2008 and 2010-2012. Ms. Yé’s regional credits include Peter and the Starcatchers, Tobacco Road and ¡Salsalandia! (La Jolla Playhouse). Her other credits include 9 Parts of Desire (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company).
