Cast
Dwight Barnes
Jimonn Cole
Jimonn Cole (Dwight Barnes) has appeared in the Off Broadway and National Tour productions of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter directed by Doug Hughes (New York Theatre Workshop), Pudd’nhead Wilson and Taming of the Shrew (The Acting Company), Iphigenia 2.0 directed by Tina Landau (Signature Theatre Company), The Conscientious Objector, Museum, Pullman Car Hiawatha (Drama Desk nomination for Best Revival of a Play) (Keen Company), The Last Black Cowboy written by Mr. Cole (New York International Fringe Festival) and The Exonerated directed by Bob Balaban. His regional work includes A Raisin in the Sun (Crossroads Theatre Company), Ruined directed by Liesl Tommy, Twelfth Night directed by Darko Tresnjak, The Merchant of Venice directed by Bill Rauch (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Macbeth (New Jersey Shakespeare Festival), Gem of the Ocean (Arena Stage), Romeo and Juliet directed by Sir Peter Hall (Ahmanson Theatre) and Caliban in The Tempest directed by Garland Wright, Peer Gynt directed by Michael Kahn, The Merry Wives of Windsor directed by Daniel Fish and Roderigo in Othello starring Patrick Stewart (The Shakespeare Theatre Company). His film credits include Spinning Into Butter and The Exonerated. He received his B.F.A. from The Juilliard School.
Iskinder Iodoku
Brandon Gill
Brandon Gill (Iskinder Iudoku) is a graduate of The Juilliard School’s Drama Division. He is a native New Yorker who also attended LaGuardia High School of Performing Arts. He recently appeared as Franco Wicks in Superior Donuts (Pittsburgh Public Theater) and in Holler If Ya Hear Me directed by Kenny Leon. He has also appeared as Jim Crow in Neighbors (The Public Theater) and Boy Blue in Cross that River choreographed by Donna McKechnie (New York Musical Theatre Festival ’09). Mr. Gill’s most recent film credits include Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son, The Sorcerer’s Apprentice with Nicolas Cage and the upcoming horror film Foreclosure with Michael Imperioli and Wendell Pierce. His television credits include “Detroit 1-8-7” and “Are We There Yet?”
Aaron Feldman
Evan Todd
Evan Todd (Aaron Feldman) is a recent graduate of The Juilliard School. Originally from Kissimmee, Florida, Mr. Todd finished high school at the North Carolina School for the Arts before studying Shakespeare at The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. He has played Sorin in The Seagull, Lindner in A Raisin in the Sun, Sebastian in The Tempest, Porky in Broadway, Major Holmes in The Secret Garden and Matt Galloway in The Laramie Project. His film and television credits include Vulture Island (NBC), Sydney White (Warner Brothers) and various commercial work. In addition to acting, he is also the founder of artsINSIDEOUT, an arts-based outreach organization dedicated to empowering children affected by HIV/AIDS in Johannesburg, South Africa. Mr. Todd is thrilled to be making his debut at The Old Globe and to be originating a role in such an exciting new play. www.artsinsideout.org.
Team
Playwright
Jonathan Caren
Jonathan Caren (Playwright) has had his plays featured at Manhattan Theatre Club (Ernst C. Stiefel 7@7 Reading Series), The Ensemble Studio Theatre (Octoberfest), Ars Nova (OUT LOUD, ANT Fest) as well as the Lark Development Center, The Flea, The Berkshire Playwrights Lab, The Elephant Theater and The Old Vic in London. Friends in Transient Places, directed by Evan Cabnet, premiered during The Juilliard School’s 2010 Playwrights Festival and his original drama Catch the Fish, directed by Kristin Hanggi, won Most Outstanding Play in the 2007 New York International Fringe Festival. He is a 2011-12 Dramatist Guild Fellow, The 2011 New York Stage & Film Founder's Award recipient, a participant in the 2011 TS Eliot US/UK Exchange, a member of Partial Comfort Productions, a prime member of EST, a LeComte Du Nouy Prize winner and winner of the Theater Publicus Prize for Dramatic Literature. Mr. Caren is a graduate of the Lila Acheson Wallace American Playwrights Program at The Juilliard School and Vassar College. He is originally from Los Angeles and also works in television. He is grateful to be a part of this season and thanks all the incredible people who helped him develop this play.
Director
Jonathan Munby
Jonathan Munby (Director) recently directed Company (Crucible Theatre), A Number (The Fugard Theatre, Cape Town), ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore (West Yorkshire Playhouse), The Winter’s Tale (Guthrie Theater), White Devil (Menier Chocolate Factory), The Prince of Homburg and Life is a Dream (Donmar Warehouse), The Dog in the Manger (The Shakespeare Theatre Company, 2010 Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Director), 24-Hour Plays (The Old Vic), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe), Henry V and Mirandolina (Royal Exchange Theatre), The Canterbury Tales (Royal Shakespeare Company: Stratford, West End and International Tour, including the Kennedy Center), Madness In Valencia (RSC: The Other Place), A Number, The Comedy of Errors and Bird Calls (Crucible Theatre), Nakamitsu (Gate Theatre), Noises Off (Arena Stage), Journeys Among the Dead (Young Vic), Bed Show (Bristol Old Vic), The Anniversary (Garrick Theatre), John Bull’s Other Island (Lyric Theatre, Belfast), Tartuffe (also National Tour), The Gentleman from Olmedo, The Venetian Twins, The Triumph of Love and Dancing at Lughnasa (Watermill Theatre), Troilus and Cressida, Love for Love, Festen and The Way of the World (Guildhall School of Music & Drama) and Numb (C venues, Edinburgh Festival Fringe). His recent opera credits include Carmen (Opera Holland Park), Don Giovanni (English Touring Opera) and Sweetness and Badness (Welsh National Opera). He will also direct the forthcoming production of Romeo and Juliet (Akasaka Act Theater, Tokyo).
Scenic Design
Alexander Dodge
Alexander Dodge has designed the Globe productions of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Pygmalion, The Recommendation, Rafta, Rafta…, The Last Romance, Sammy, The Pleasure of His Company, Bell, Book and Candle, The Sisters Rosensweig and Moonlight and Magnolias. His Broadway credits include Present Laughter (2010 Tony Award nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley and Hedda Gabler. His West End credits include All New People as well as Manchester and Glasgow. Off Broadway he has designed Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them, All New People, Trust and The Water’s Edge (Second Stage Theatre), Maple and Vine and Rapture, Blister, Burn (Playwrights Horizons), The Understudy (Roundabout Theatre Company), Paris Commune and Measure for Pleasure (The Public Theater), Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre for a New Audience), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Lucille Lortel Award) and Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center Theater) and Force Continuum and Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Atlantic Theater Company). His regional credits include productions at Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, CENTERSTAGE, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre. His opera credits include Il Trittico (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Così Fan Tutte (Minnesota Opera), Der Waffenschmied (Munich), The Flying Dutchman (Würzburg) and Lohengrin (Budapest). Mr. Dodge trained at the Yale School of Drama.
Costume Design
Linda Cho
Linda Cho (Costume Design) previously designed the Globe productions of The Recommendation, Twelfth Night, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Noble Kinsman, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well That Ends Well and Pericles. Her credits at Hartford Stage include The Whipping Man, Gee’s Bend and A Raisin in the Sun. Off Broadway she has designed The Merchant of Venice (Theatre for a New Audience), The Other Side (Manhattan Theatre Club), Some Men (Second Stage Theatre), Durango (The Public Theater), Eli’s Comin’ (Vineyard Theatre), Hurricane (Classic Stage Company), The Author’s Voice and Imagining Brad (Drama Dept.) and Wolf Lullaby (Atlantic Theater Company). Her regional credits include The Dog in the Manger (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Legacy of Light (Arena Stage), Mary’s Wedding (Westport Country Playhouse), True West (Williamstown Theatre Festival), What the Butler Saw (Huntington Theatre Company), Magnolia (Goodman Theatre) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Internationally she has designed The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company) and The Story of My Life (The Canadian Stage Company). Her opera credits include Die Vögel, Der Zwerg and Der Zerbrochene Krug (LA Opera), The Mikado and The Magic Flute (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis) and Orfeo and Euridice (Virginia Opera Association). She received an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama and was Costume Curator for the Prague Quadrennial 2011 U.S. National Pavillion. She has received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for The Two Noble Kinsmen, a Craig Noel Award for Pericles and a Drama Desk nomination for Princess Turandot.
Associate Costume Design
Erick Sundquist
Erick Sundquist (Associate Costume Design) is delighted to join The Old Globe with Linda Cho. His Off Broadway credits include We Live Here (Manhattan Theatre Club). His associate costume design credits include Kentucky Shakespeare Festival and Allyson Green’s Los Noces. His La Jolla Playhouse design assistant credits include Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, Little Miss Sunshine, A Dram of Drummhicit, Surf Report and Ruined (also at Huntington Theatre Company and Berkley Repertory Theatre). He also served as wardrobe supervisor for the La Jolla Playhouse productions of Peter and the Starcatchers, Xanadu, Bonnie & Clyde and The 39 Steps. His other credits with Cirque du Soleil, North Shore Music Theatre, San Diego Opera, Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, Diversionary Theatre, ion theatre and Cygnet Theatre Company.
Lighting Design
Philip S. Rosenberg
Philip S. Rosenberg (Lighting Design) previously designed the Globe productions of Pygmalion and The Recommendation. His Off Broadway credits include Cactus Flower. His regional credits include The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Guthrie Theater, TheatreWorks, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Manhattan School of Music, Portland Stage, The Actors Company Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Two River Theater Company, George Street Playhouse and Westport Country Playhouse. Over the past 12 years Mr. Rosenberg has served as associate lighting designer on over 35 Broadway plays and musicals.
Original Music and Sound Design
Lindsay Jones
Lindsay Jones designed the Off Broadway productions of Through the Night (Union Square Theatre), The Brother/Sister Plays (The Public Theater), The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons), Top Secret (New York Theatre Workshop) and many others. His regional credits include McCarter Theatre, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Guthrie Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, South Coast Repertory and many others. His international credits include productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford Shakespeare Festival and shows in Austria, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Canada and Scotland. He has received five Joseph Jefferson Awards and 16 nominations, two Ovation Awards and three nominations, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle and San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Awards and nominations for Drama Desk, Henry Hewes Design, AUDELCO, Barrymore and many others awards. He was the first sound designer to win the Michael Maggio Emerging Designer Award. His recent film scoring work includes A Note of Triumph: The Golden Age of Norman Corwin (2006 Academy Award winner, Best Documentary, Short Subjects) for HBO Films. www.lindsayjones.com.
Movement
Tony Caligagan
Tony Caligagan (Movement) appeared in the Tony Award-winning Broadway show Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, and he has appeared in national commercials and Off Broadway during his eight-year stint in New York City. From 1988 to the present, Mr. Caligagan’s show choreography has been seen around the globe. He has been a part of over 1,000 corporate events, fundraisers and special event shows. His company, Event Entertainment, has received accolades from clients, organizations and institutions. His other Globe credits include dance sequences in Odyssey, Kingdom and The Taming of the Shrew. As directors and choreographers for San Diego Latin Allstars, he and his wife Maria are entering their 17th year on faculty at UC San Diego in the Department of Theatre and Dance. www.evententertainment.us.
Casting
Calleri Casting
Calleri Casting (James Calleri, Paul Davis, Erica Jensen) also cast Anna Christie and The Recommendation at the Globe. Their other credits include Venus in Fur on Broadway and the long-running Fuerza Bruta. Some past Broadway credits include 33 Variations, A Raisin in the Sun, Chicago and James Joyce’s The Dead. They have cast at Playwrights Horizons for 10 seasons and numerous seasons for Classic Stage Company. Their other theatre credits include Williamstown Theatre Festival, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, The Flea Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Naked Angels, New Georges, the stageFARM and Summer Play Festival. Their television credits include “Army Wives,” “Lipstick Jungle,” “Z Rock,” “Ed,” “Hope & Faith,” “Monk” and A Raisin in the Sun. Their film credits include Sundance Jury Prize winner Another Earth, That’s What She Said , Yearbook, Merchant Ivory’s The City of Your Final Destination, Heights, The White Countess, Lisa Picard is Famous, Ready? OK!, Trouble Every Day, Peter and Vandy and Armless. They have been awarded eight Artios Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Casting. Member CSA.
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.
