Cast
Male Ensemble
Christian Amaraut
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Regional: A Chorus Line (Al), Charlie Brown (Schroeder), Five Guys Named Moe (Little Moe), Biloxi Blues (Selridge). Tours: Go Diego Go Live! Kaiser Permanente’s ETP. Christian is a native of San Diego, CA. This is Christian’s Ah moment, “Dreams DO come true!!” Thanks to the cast of Kingdom, The Old Globe, Cassara Casting, Friends & Family! This is for Matt & Alan! – I love you!
Hector
Joey Auzenne
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. THEATRE: Kingdom, Queens Theatre in the Park and The Public Theater; The Albee Worskhops: Psyche, Stages Rep Theatre (Houston); Drive Angry, ABC Network Diversity Showcase; Broadway Backwards 3, Offstage: The East Village Fragments, Hair (New York). NATIONAL TOURS: The Great Railroad Race, Freedom Train, Amelia Bedelia and the Baby. FILM & TV: The Unusuals, Flight of the Conchords, Castle, All My Children, Law & Order, The Cinderella Man: The Story of James Braddock, Sex and the City: The Movie. EDUCATION: BA in Vocal Performance, Minor in Theatre, Loyola University; AMDA, University of Houston. Thanks to Lu, my parents, and my talented Kingdom fam.
Andres
Kyle Beltran
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. THEATRE: Aida, West Virginia Public Theatre; When January Feels Like Summer, City Theatre of Pittsburgh; The Piano Lesson, Golden Boy, Into The Woods, The Broken Spoke, Death of Bliss, The White Devil, Carnegie Mellon University; Bubble Boy, Pittsburgh CLO/ASCAP. FILM/TV: Guiding Light, The Seed (music video). EDUCATION: BFA Musical Theatre Drama, Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. Thanks to Michael Cassara, The Old Globe,the Kingdom cast and crew, and to my wonderful family and friends for their unwavering support!
Female Ensemble
Joyelle Cabato
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. THEATRE: A Chorus Line, Miss Saigon, Aida, Ragtime, Starlight Theatre; Children of Eden, Dreamgirls, West Side Story, Moonlight; A Christmas Carol, San Diego Rep; The King and I, Lyric Opera; The Joy Luck Club, ART; Hotel Cassiopeia, SDSU. EDUCATION: Ms. Cabato will receive her B.A. in Theatre Arts from San Diego State University this coming May.
Male Ensemble
Bayardo De Murguia
THE OLD GLOBE: Titus Andronicus, Othello, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar. THEATRE: Britannicus, Compass Theatre San Diego; Gods of Hollywood, San Diego Hispanic Theatre; Besito Pa' Ti, Centro Cultural de la Raza San Diego. USD: Einstein's Dreams, Arcadia, Grapes of Wrath, Yerma. TV: Currently cast as a member of the first fully bilingual kids show called Dos Y Dos. EDUCATION: Mr. De Murguia received his BA in Theatre Arts from the University of San Diego.
Danny
Miguel Jarquin-Moreland
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. NATIONAL TOUR: Rent (Angel). REGIONAL: Godspell (Jeffrey), Olney Theatre; The Buddy Holly Story (Ritchie Valens), Toby’s Dinner Theatre; Ragtime (Tateh), Lincoln Theater; Such Sweet Thunder (Principal Dancer), Kennedy Center; Leonard Bernstein’s MASS, Kennedy Center. SYNETIC THEATRE: Dracula (Quincey Morris) Host and Guest (Aghaza’s Brother), Master and Margarita (Behemoth), Buratino: The Russian Version of Pinocchio (Buratino),. COMMERCIAL: Bloom Commercial, IWIF Car Insurance Commercial TV/FILM: America’s Most Wanted, Tribute to Mikhail Barishnikov, 25th Anniversary Kennedy Center Honors’ Gala (Chita Rivera Tribute). EDUCATION: Miguel has a BM in Musical Theater from the Catholic University of America.
Juan
Cedric Leiba, Jr.
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Off-Broadway: Kingdom (Juan), The Public Theater/ QTIP. National Tours: Rent (Angel), Go Diego Go Live! (Diego), Miss Saigon (Ensemble). Regional: Aida (Mereb), Five Guys Named Moe (Nomax), Smokey Joe’s Cafe (Ken). Featured soloist with the Boston Pops and John Williams at Symphony Hall. Education: MM in Musical Theater, The Boston Conservatory; BM in Vocal Performance,Stetson University. "Para mi Dios, mi familia y mi tierra."
Female Ensemble
Diahann McCrary
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. THEATRE: Besito Pa’ Ti, Moving Cultural Theatre; Crazy For You, Starlight Theatre; The House of Chaos (world premiere), Asian American Repertory Theatre; Dames at Sea, Lamplighters Theatre. TV: The Jungle Book. EDUCATION: BA Theatre Arts Performance, San Diego State University expected in 2009.
Cano
Gerardo Rodriguez
The Old Globe: Debut. New York: Water (Princess Grace Work-in-Progress Award) CULTUREMART at HERE; Milk-N-Honey, Lightbox Theatre; Fresh Play Festival, MCC; Kingdom, NYMF, NAMT, The Public Theater/QTIP; The Cherry Orchard, Atlantic Theater Company; With Love, Gabe, INTAR; Lobster Face, Calpulli/ Immediate Theater Company; President Harding is a Rock Star, Les Freres Corbussier, HERE; The Darius Project, 78th St. Theatre Lab; Hanjo, HERE. Regional: Three Farces and a Funeral, ART; Rope, Stoneham Theatre; Doctor’s Dilemma, Mother Courage, ART. TV/Film: Gossip Girl, OLTL, Conviction, Law & Order: CI and SVU, Jonny Zero, Cruzando, Winter of Frozen Dreams, Don’t Let Me Drown, Brothers, Dogs and God. EDUCATION: MFA, Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard/Moscow Art Theatre.
Marisa
Amirah Vann
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. Credits include: A workshop of Kingdom, The Public Theater/QTIP; Blueprint, Theatre Row Studios-SPF; A workshop of The Brother/Sister plays, McCarter Theater/The Public Theater; Laughing Pictures, Flea Theater; The Making of Eugenie Doe, Ohio Theater. FILM: Independent film Once More with Feeling. ELSEWHERE: Favorite NYU credits include A Raisin in the Sun (Ruth) and Working (Delores/Waitress). EDUCATION: MFA from NYU’s Tisch Graduate Acting Program; BA in Theater from Fordham University at Lincoln Center. She is also a recipient of the Princess Grace award in Acting. AEA, AFTRA, and SAG member.
Team
Book and Lyrics
Aaron Jafferis
Kingdom, The Weird Sisters (music by Ian Williams), Stuck Elevator: The Super-Heroic Stationary Journey of Ming Kuang Chen (music by Byron Au Yong), Kidnapping Water: Bottled Operas (music by Byron Au Yong), Shakespeare: The Remix (music by Gihieh Lee), No Lie: A Hip Hop Bus Trip (music by Alex Vittum and Liam Baum). Aaron has performed his hip hop poetry at Madison Square Garden, the Kennedy Center, and the National Poetry Slam Championships, where he was the 1997 Open Rap Slam champion. He received his BA in Arts & Social Change from the University of California at Berkeley, studied at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and received his MFA in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU. More at www.aaronjafferis.com.
Music By/Guitar
Ian Williams
Ian Williams is a composer and songwriter whose theatre credits include Kingdom, The Weird Sisters (words by Aaron Jafferis), and Story of an African Farm (words by Sophie Jaff). He composes music for the NYC-based dance company DNOdance, as well as writing and performing with the Seattle-based indie band The Thoughts, whose debut album, Consider the Bear, is being released in March 2009. He currently lives in Seattle, WA. Awards include the 2008 Richard Rodgers development award and 2006 Most Promising New Musical (for Kingdom) at NYMF.
Choreographer
Tony Caligagan
Tony Caligagan started in San Diego as a principal dancer with Patricia Rincon's “Jazz Unlimited Dance Company" and the Isaacs'McCaleb “Three's Company" dance. He quickly became known for his versatility and athleticism, receiving a number of prestigious awards from the San Diego Dance Alliance, San Diego Opera, and then into lead roles with Pacific Opera, Starlight Theater, and Sacramento Music Circus, before heading to dance on Broadway.
During his eight-year stint in New York, Tony worked directly with Jerome Robbins in both the Broadway cast and as a principal on the international tour of Jerome Robbins Broadway. The experience of working with a choreographic legend such as Robbins was inspiring. Since then Tony has won numerous awards for his own staging and choreography in the corporate entertainment industry. He has also performed in numerous television commercials, including a principal spot with Paula Abdul. He was recently featured on the PBS broadcast/DVD of Broadway, The American Musical in his original role of Bernardo in Jerome Robbins' production of West Side Story. Tony has been on faculty at University of California San Diego for over 14 years teaching Musical Theater Jazz Dance and Latin Dance. He and his partner/wife, former Broadway dancer Maria Neenan, create national corporate and commercial events with their Heatwave Productions company (www.heatwaveproductions.com) . They also are directors of one of the top latin dance companies in San Diego — Salsa Inferno Dance Company (www.salsainfernodance.com). Their work has been seen on stages across the southland and often on television. Their well-known weekly Encinitas salsa class was voted “Best Of" by San Diego Magazine in 2008. Maria and Tony are the proud parents of four very special people: Logan, Austin, Amara, and Gracie.
Scenic Design
Sean Fanning
THE OLD GLOBE/USD: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. REGIONAL: A Christmas Carol, A Little Night Music, Cygnet Theatre (Old Town), The Receptionist, The Matchmaker Cygnet Theatre (Rolando). ELSEWHERE: Zombie Prom (2008 Patte Award for Scenic Design); The Grapes of Wrath, The People v. Mona, A Man of No Importance, San Diego State University; Das Barbecu, Theatre in Old Town. Sean is the Resident Design Assistant at the Old Globe and has worked as a design assistant for productions at the San Diego Opera and the Los Angeles Opera. He holds an MFA in Scenic Design from San Diego State University.
Costume Design
Charlotte Devaux Shields
THE OLD GLOBE: Designer: Kingdom, Since Africa, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Trying, A Body of Water, The Prince of L.A., I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Fiction, Two Sisters and a Piano, Blue/Orange, Splendour, All My Sons, Betrayal, The SantaLand Diaries, Da; Resident Assistant Costume Designer: Over 35 productions including The Women, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Dancing in the Dark, A Catered Affair, The Times They Are A Changin’, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Lucky Duck, Imaginary Friends, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! and Summer Shakespeare Festival. ELSEWHERE: Miami Libre, Cuban Dance Musical, Adrienne Arscht Center for the Performing Arts (Miami), Cabaret Dances, Nyumbani Project, Trolley Dances, San Diego Dance Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: Dr. Livingstone, I Presume (premiere), London; Linnaeus, Prince of Flowers, Botanic Gardens, Christchurch, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia (winner, Fringe First, Edinburgh Festival); also in New Zealand: Suburb, Twelfth Night, Christchurch Repertory Theatre; Hopes, Dreams and Perditions, The Court Theatre; Associate Designer of The New Zealand Christchurch Drama Theatre. FILM/TV: Costume designer, stylist and wardrobe supervisor for Television New Zealand’s live children’s programming and drama series. Designed a variety of New Zealand short films.
Director
Ron Daniels
Ron Daniels was born and raised in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and was a founder member of the Teatro Oficina, in São Paulo. He is an Honorary Associate Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company and a former Associate Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theatre, in Cambridge, MA. He has directed many productions in the US, at regional theatres and in New York, including Richard II, Richard III and Macbeth for the Theatre for a New Audience, One Flea Spare for the Public Theater and Points of Departure for INTAR, the Latino theatre company. Upcoming productions include Carmen at Michigan Opera Theatre, Cosi Fan Tutte at Arizona Opera, Tosca at Colorado Opera, and Il Postino with Placido Domingo, at the LA Opera. Also in preparation is his own translation from the Portuguese of New Directives in Times of Peace, by Brazilian playwright Bosco Brasil, for INTAR.
Lighting Design
Nate Parde
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. ELSEWHERE: The Hit, Into the Woods, The Voysey Inheritance, Susan and God, Rehearsal for Murder, Cold Comfort Farm, Pump Boys and Dinettes, South Pacific, The Boys Next Door, Smoke on the Mountain, An American Christmas, Lamb’s Players Theatre; Golden Boy, New Village Arts. The Tommy Tune Awards, Theatre Under the Stars; LIVE MUSIC: House Design for many acts including Los Lonely Boys, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and John Denver Band, One World Theatre in Austin, Texas. EDUCATION: Nate received an MFA in lighting design from the University of Texas, Austin.
Sound Design
Paul Peterson
has designed over 75 productions at The Old Globe, including 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, 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, LA Theatre Works, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theater, 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.
Fight Choreography
George Yé
Music Director/Conductor/Keyboards
Cian McCarthy
BROADWAY: In The Heights. REGIONAL: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Les Miserables, Oliver, Babes in the Wood and the premiere of Dance Overtures at the Cork Opera House. Headline performances at the Guinness Jazz Festival, Sundance Film Festival and The National Concert Hall, Ireland. In the U.S.: House of Blues and S.O.B.s. Live performances on National TV with rock band Kudos. Graduate of Berklee College of Music, Major in Jazz Composition and Performance.
Bass
Zachary Lembcke-Pyke
Stage Manager
Anjee Nero
THE OLD GLOBE: The Savannah Disputation, Cornelia, Kingdom, Jerry Herman’s Broadway, 2007 Shakespeare Festival. ELSEWHERE: Herringbone starring BD Wong and directed by Roger Rees; Tobacco Road, The Seven, The Adding Machine, Mother Courage, Current Nobody, La Jolla Playhouse; Antigone, SITI Company; Post Office workshop, Center Theatre Group; Mother Courage, Berkeley Repertory Theatre; Filler Up!, Adirondack Theatre Festival; Suicide, Incorporated, Wait, Jem & I, id Theater Company/Seven Devils Playwrights Conference. DANCE: Dream Report, Allyson Green Dance, featuring Lux Borreal; Garden of Forbidden Loves, Garden of Deadly Sound, IMAGOmoves & International Hungarian Theater Festival of Cluj, Romania; Only Sound Remains, Japan America Theatre; iMan, Garden Trilogy, IMAGOmoves. OTHER: Schick Machine, The Paul Dresher Ensemble; (The New) UrSonata with Steven Schick, Let There Be Light: A Tribute to Chris Parry. EDUCATION: MFA Stage Management, UCSD.
Assistant Stage Manager
Tareena Devona Wimbish
OLD GLOBE:Debut. ELSEWHERE:Night Sky,Mo`olelo; The Tutor, Vox Nova; A Christmas Carol,Goodman Theatre; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Congo Square Theatre Company; Coronado and The Exonerated, American Stage. EDUCATION: Tareena is a MFA Stage Management candidate at UCSD, and the recipient of the San Diego Fellowship.
