Cast
Longshoreman
Bryan Banville
Bryan Banville (Longshoreman) is thrilled to be making his Globe debut. His San Diego credits include 42nd Street (Coronado Playhouse) and Little Shop of Horrors (Scripps Performing Arts Academy). His other theatre credits include Once on This Island, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Schoolhouse Rock Live! He competed as a Top 16 finalist as part of NBC’s singing competition show “The Sing Off.” Mr. Banville will next appear in Cygnet Theatre Company’s revival of Man of La Mancha. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut.
Chris Christopherson
Bill Buell
Bill Buell has appeared on Broadway in Equus, The History Boys, Inherit the Wind, Urinetown, 42nd Street, Titanic, The Who’s Tommy, Taking Steps, Big River, Annie, Once a Catholic, The First, Welcome to the Club, The Miser and Anna Karenina. His Off Broadway credits include The Fourth Sister and Eight Days Backwards (Vineyard Theatre), Andorra and Waste (Theatre for a New Audience), Bad Habits and Aristocrats (Manhattan Theatre Club), Queens Boulevard (Signature Theatre Company), Kin, On the Bum and a concert of Violet (Playwrights Horizons) and Picasso at the Lapin Agile, The Common Pursuit, The Mysteries and The False Servant (Classic Stage Company). With The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, he has appeared in Tartuffe, The Winter’s Tale and Twelfth Night. His film and television credits include Across the Universe, Spy Game, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Love Letter, Requiem for a Dream, Quiz Show, Palindromes, Kinsey, Dark Water, The Box, “Boardwalk Empire,” “30 Rock,” “Blue Bloods,” “The Bronx is Burning,” John Adams, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “The Jamie Kennedy Experience,” “Law & Order,” “Ed,” “100 Centre Street” and “Cosby.”
Longshoreman, Johnson
Chance Dean
Chance Dean, an Orange County native, is thrilled to be making his San Diego debut at The Old Globe. His recent performances include Luke in Next Fall (Actors Theatre Phoenix), Eddie Cochran in Be Bop A Lula (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Ethan in Jesus Hates Me (South Coast Repertory), Dennis in Loot (Arden Theatre Company) and Dexter in Four (Azuka Theatre). He will next be performing in the West Coast Premiere of Reborning at the Chance Theater, where he is a company member and resident fight choreographer. He received a B.A. in Theatre from USC and an M.F.A. in Acting from Temple University in Philadelphia.
Mat Burke
Austin Durant
Austin Durant makes his Globe debut in Anna Christie. His previous theatre credits include War Horse (Lincoln Center Theater), Death of a Salesman and Passion Play (Yale Repertory Theatre), A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Intiman Theatre), The Illusion and One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Berkshire Theatre Festival), The Fantasticks (Mum Puppettheatre), Othello, Jelly’s Last Jam and Romeo and Juliet (Yale School of Drama) and The Who’s Tommy and The Mystery of Irma Vep (Yale Summer Cabaret). He has also appeared on the television program “Nurse Jackie.” He received his B.A. from Temple University and his M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.
Johnny-the-Priest
John Garcia
John Garcia is making his Globe debut. His San Diego regional credits include Peter in Desire Under the Elms and Malcolm and Evers in The Curse of the Starving Class (Cygnet Theatre Company), Harvey Milk and Stuart Milk in Dear Harvey (Diversionary Theatre), Boon in You Never Can Tell (Avo Playhouse), Solyony in Three Sisters (New Village Arts), Milt in Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Mr. Krauler in The Diary of Anne Frank, Carlino in Wait Until Dark, Simeon in Desire Under the Elms and Man in Holiday Memories (North Coast Repertory Theatre), Uncle John in The Grapes of Wrath and Sergio in La Gaviota (ion theatre company), Dean in Bets and Blue Notes, Jack in Black in The Mutilated (The Fritz Theatre), Ensemble in The Whole World Is Watching (San Diego Repertory Theatre) and Mr. Adams in A Member of the Wedding and The Irrigator in Sinker (The Muse Theatre).
Larry
Brent Langdon
Brent Langdon has appeared in New York in the American Premiere of Howard Barker’s The Europeans (Atlantic Theater Company Stage 2) and Couldn’t Say (Abingdon Theatre Company). His regional credits include The Crucible (Hartford Stage), She Stoops to Conquer and Twelfth Night (McCarter Theatre Center), Richard II (Yale Repertory Theatre), A Streetcar Named Desire and Henry V (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Philadelphia Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Gulfshore Playhouse, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, B Street Theatre, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati and Kentucky Shakespeare Festival. His television credits include “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “Conviction.” He is a graduate of the University of Evansville and University of North Carolina.
Anna Christopherson
Jessica Love
Jessica Love is over the moon to be making her Globe debut. Originally from Santa Barbara, Ms. Love studied printmaking at UC Santa Cruz before attending The Juilliard School for acting. Since graduating in 2009 she has worked regionally at The Denver Center for the Performing Arts on two World Premieres, When Tang Met Laika and Map of Heaven. In New York she has performed in Lucy Thurber’s Bottom of the World (Atlantic Theater Company) and Kay Matschullat’s Don’t Fuck with Love (Red Bull Theater). After Anna Christie, she will be going to The Studio Theatre to perform in Bachelorette. When she isn’t acting, Ms. Love works as an artist and illustrator. She lives in Brooklyn. www.missjessicalove.org.
Postman
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.
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Kristine Nielsen
Kristine Nielsen has appeared in the Broadway productions of Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, To Be Or Not To Be, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Spring Awakening, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Greenbird, Jackie and The Iceman Cometh. Her Off Broadway credits include Love, Loss and What I Wore, Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (Drama League, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), Crazy Mary, Our Leading Lady, Miss Witherspoon, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations) and Dog Opera (Obie Award). She has appeared regionally at The Old Globe, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Bay Street Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Alley Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, Edinburgh International Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre and Philadelphia Theatre Company. Her films include Morning Glory, That’s What She Said, The Savages, Adelaide and Small Time Crooks. Her television credits include “Smash,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “Third Watch.” She received her M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama.
Team
Director
Daniel Goldstein
Daniel Goldstein is making his Globe debut. He is the director of the current Broadway revival of Godspell. His other recent credits include God of Carnage (Huntington Theatre Company), The Unauthorized Autobiography of Samantha Brown (Goodspeed Musicals and Broadway Across America) and Artificial Fellow Traveler with Ethan Sandler (Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York City, The Black Dahlia Theatre and Red Dog Squadron). As a writer, his musical Unknown Soldier (written with Michael Friedman for a Huntington Theatre Company Calderwood Commission) was developed at the O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference this past summer. His other projects include the Huntington Theatre Company productions of Falsettos (IRNE Award), Les Liaisons Dangereuses and The Cry of the Reed. He also directed Golden Boy (The Juilliard School), Annie (The Muny), Clear (O’Neill Theater Center’s National Music Theater Conference and Dixon Place), True West (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Miss Margarida’s Way with Julie Halston (Bay Street Theatre), A New Brain (Toho Theater in Tokyo), Mary’s Wedding (Two River Theater Company), a highly praised revival of Godspell (Paper Mill Playhouse), Beau Willimon’s Lower Ninth (The Flea Theater and Summer Play Festival), the Off Broadway commercial production of the hit New York International Fringe Festival musical Walmartopia, Kenny Finkle’s Indoor/Outdoor (Daryl Roth Theatre and SPF), But I’m a Cheerleader (New York Musical Theatre Festival) and Bathsheba Doran’s Living Room in Africa (Gloucester Stage). He is the Creative Director of THE RIDE NYC. He has served as the Associate Director for All Shook Up and Fully Committed and Resident Director for the First National Tour of Mamma Mia!
Scenic Design
Wilson Chin
Wilson Chin returns to The Old Globe after designing Engaging Shaw and The American Plan. His New York credits include Next Fall (Broadway, Naked Angels), 10 Things to Do Before I Die, Len, Asleep in Vinyl and The Dear Boy (Second Stage Theatre), Dark Matters and Boise (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Boom and Holy Cross Sucks! (Ars Nova), Masked (Daryl Roth Theatre) and King of Shadows (Working Theater). His opera designs include Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago), The Saint of Bleecker Street (Central City Opera) and Don Giovanni (San Francisco Opera Merola). Regionally, he has designed at American Conservatory Theater, Barrington Stage Company, Geffen Playhouse, Geva Theatre, Hangar Theatre, Hartford Stage, Indiana Repertory Theatre, People’s Light & Theatre Company, Portland Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre Company, Studio Arena Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, Two River Theater Company, Weston Playhouse, Westport Country Playhouse and Yale Repertory Theatre. His current projects include the American premiere of Conor McPherson’s The Birds (Guthrie Theater) and Eine Florentinische Tragödie and Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera Company). Mr. Chin is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Yale School of Drama. www.wilsonchin.com.
Costume Design
Denitsa Bliznakova
Denitsa Bliznakova is happy to return to The Old Globe where she has designed Anne Christie, Groundswell, Jane Austen’s Emma — A Musical Romantic Comedy, The Whipping Man, Opus and The Merry Wives of Windsor. She has upcoming productions at San Jose Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House and San Diego Opera. Her design work elsewhere includes productions at A Noise Within, New Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival and others. Her previous work also includes touring shows for Kaiser Permanente’s Educational Theater Program and projects for The Santa Fe Opera, San Diego Opera and “Law & Order.” Her design and stylist credits for other media include music videos for various artists and films. A Bulgarian-born costume designer, her academic background includes a B.F.A. in Fashion Design at the Parsons School of Design in Paris and New York and an M.F.A. in Theatre Arts from Brandeis University. Ms. Bliznakova is currently an Associate Professor at San Diego State University where she leads the M.F.A. Costume Design program. www.Denitsa.com.
Lighting Design
Austin R. Smith
Austin R. Smith is making his Globe debut. His Off Broadway and regional credits include Three Pianos (American Repertory Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Incubator Arts Project), Rocky: The Musical directed by Alex Timbers (Stage Entertainment), Beckett (Creative Insteps Inc.), Balm in Gilead directed by Brian Mertes (Chashama), Sleep No More (Punchdrunk), Allegiance — A New American Musical (The Old Globe workshop) and Clear (Dixon Place). He has done various associate work at The Public Theater, Vineyard Theatre, Second Stage Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Center Theater Group. His ongoing productions include Futurity (American Repertory Theater) and Massacre (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater). www.AustinRSmith.com.
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.
Vocal 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.
Original Music
Chris Miller
Chris Miller has composed The Burnt Part Boys (Playwrights Horizons/Vineyard Theatre, May 2010), the song cycle Fugitive Songs (2008 Drama Desk Award nomination), The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Barrington Stage Company) and Mary’s Wedding (Two River Theater Company). He served as co-composer with Michel Friedman on Angels in America directed by Michael Greif (Signature Theatre Company). He is currently working with lyricist Nathan Tysen on commissions from Lincoln Center Theater and Playwrights Horizons/TheatreWorks in addition to Tuck Everlasting with writer Claudia Shear (Broadway Across America/Barry Brown) and an original work entitled American Musical Voices Project: The Next Generation (Signature Theatre Company). Mr. Miller is a proud Graduate of Elon University and New York University.
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
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).
