THE COMPANY
 | Bianca Amato, Ilana Kloss/Alice Marble/Others La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Macbeth, Arcadia, The Coast of Utopia. Off-Broadway: Stupid Fucking Bird, The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek, King Lear, The Broken Heart, Neva, The Importance of Being Earnest, Trumpery, Mr. Fox: A Rumination. Regional: Private Lives (Elliot Norton, Emory Battis Awards), The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Arcadia, As You Like It, Pygmalion, Pride and Prejudice, Topgirls, Proof, Greek, Kindertransport, A Doll’s House, Under Milk Wood. Television/Film: Xpats, Binnelanders, Warrior, The River, The Kissing Booth, Our Girl, Elementary, Law and Order: SVU, Powers, Alpha House, Unforgettable, The Big C, Blue Bloods, The Good Wife, Sex and the City, Isidingo, The Adventures of Sinbad, Gegen Den Wind. Bianca is an Audie Award-winning narrator of more than 100 audiobooks. |
 | Summer Broyhill, Understudy La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Hairspray. National Tours: Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, Hairspray. Off-Broadway: Killer Therapy (Players Theatre), The Independents (Soho Playhouse), The Day Before Spring (York). Regional: The Last Five Years (Virginia Stage, Weathervane), Tarzan (Tuacahn), Kiss Me, Kate opposite Davis Gaines (concert) and Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Twelfth Night and Julius Caesar, all at The Old Globe. Education: M.F.A from Old Globe/USD, B.M. from FSU. She is also a playwright. summerbroyhill.com, @summerbroyhill on Instagram.
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 | Geno Carr, Understudy La Jolla Playhouse/Original Broadway Cast: Come From Away. Off-Broadway: Bush Wars. National Tours: Come From Away, Grease, Buddy Holly Story, Phantom. Favorite Regional: Allegiance, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (The Old Globe); Tateh in Ragtime (Moonlight); Leo in The Producers, Harold in The Full Monty (Merry-Go-Round Playhouse); Charlie Baker in The Foreigner (Lamb’s Players); Dr. Madden in Next to Normal (San Diego Musical Theatre); Orin in Little Shop of Horrors, Guiteau in Assassins (Cygnet Theatre); Thurio in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Maine Shakespeare Festival). Education: M.F.A., Acting/Directing, Sarah Lawrence College; Dual B.A., Music and Theatre, Hartwick College. Awesome Wife and Son: Nancy and Elliott. |
 | Rebecca S’Manga Frank, Althea Gibson La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: At The Wedding (Lincoln Center); Is Edward Snowden Single (New Ohio Theatre); Coriolanus (Red Bull Theatre); The Broken Record (Fringe Festival). Regional: Indecent (Oregon Shakespeare) We, The Invisibles (Victory Jory Theatre); Twelfth Night (African American Shakespeare Company); Intimate Apparel (Alter Theater); This World in a Women’s Hands (Shotgun Players); and ….And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi (Cutting Ball Theater). TV/Film: Prodigal Son (FOX), Faces (Apple TV+), Elementary (CBS). M.F.A., NYU Tisch. |
 | Wynn Harmon, Psychiatrist/Merv Rose/Ted Tinling/Others La Jolla Playhouse: Silent Edward. Broadway: Porgy and Bess (broadcast "Live from Lincoln Center" on PBS). International: Candide, The Music Man, West Side Story (France, Sardinia, Oman). Off-Broadway: The Lucky One (Mint Theatre). Regional: The Constant Wife, plus ten Shakespeares (Old Globe); Candide, Show Boat, Lost in the Stars (Kennedy Center); Love's Labour's Lost, The Alchemist (Shakespeare Theatre Company); A Moon for the Misbegotten (Long Wharf/Hartford Stage/Alley); The Habit of Art (Studio Theatre); The Heidi Chronicles (Arena Stage); The Music Man, Lost in the Stars, Carousel, Camelot, Ariadne in Naxos (Glimmerglass Festival). TV: Law & Order: SVU, Madam Secretary, The Knick. |
 | Spencer McCabe Hunsicker, Understudy La Jolla Playhouse: The Outsiders. Regional: Mary Stuart (Pioneer Theatre Company); Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Noorda Center). UC San Diego: Hells Canyon, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity. |
 | Elena Hurst, Rosie Casals La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (Lucille Lortel Winner, Best Revival), Summer & Smoke, LULU. Regional: Tina Modotti, A Christmas Carol. International Tour: Andalé Raul!, Pizcas. TV/Film: Homeland, Elementary, Tales from the City, The Changeling, Pottersville, Home. Video Games and Cartoons: Get Rolling with Otis, Grand Theft Auto, Mafia, Gotham Knights. Narration for Smithsonian Channel and Tubi. Education: B.S. Radio, TV, Film from UT Austin. |
 | Ben Jacoby, Bill Moffitt/Jack Kramer/Others La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: over three years as Barry Mann in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Off-Broadway: The Streets of New York (Mark Livingstone, Irish Rep.), world premiere of Penelope, or How the Odyssey Was Really Written (Odysseus, York Theatre, Cast Album). National Tour: 25th Anniversary production of The Phantom of the Opera (Raoul, original tour cast). Regional: Milwaukee Rep., Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Ogunquit Playhouse, Marriott Lincolnshire, Gulfshore Playhouse, Weston Playhouse and more. TV: When They See Us (Netflix), The Good Wife (CBS), Madame Secretary (CBS). M.F.A.: UC Irvine. |
 | Chilina Kennedy, Billie Jean King La Jolla Playhouse: Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar. Broadway: Annie in Paradise Square, Carole in Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Mary in Jesus Christ Superstar. National Tours: Dina in The Band's Visit (Toronto Theatre Critics Award), Sophie in Mamma Mia!. Off-Broadway: Binky in This Ain't No Disco. Regional: The Grapes of Wrath, Kiss Me, Kate (Stratford Festival); Major Barbara, Summer and Smoke (Shaw Festival); A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (The Old Globe, CT and Hartford Outer Critics nominations); The Importance of Being Earnest (Neptune Theatre). Film/TV: The 2015 Kennedy Center Honors (as Carole King), With Me (BravoFact, NY Shorts and Whistler Film Festivals), The Human Voice (Toronto OIC). Education: Bermingham Conservatory for Classical Theatre (Stratford), Sheridan College Musical Theater Performance. Other: Lyricist/Composer for With(out) Her, Artistic Producer for Eclipse Theatre Company, Toronto. Winner of two Toronto Theatre Critics Awards and four Broadway World Awards. |
 | Noah Keyishian, Understudy Noah Keyishian is a recent M.F.A. graduate from UC San Diego. La Jolla Playhouse credits: Here There Are Blueberries. UC San Diego credits: Thicker Than; The Winter's Tale; Dance Nation; Hells Canyon; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity; Twelfth Night; Prepared; A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Other theater credits: Are You There? (Humana Festival of New American Plays); Tell the Truth; A Christmas Carol; Dracula; The Brief History of Francois Le Chou Chou (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and Favors (Manhattan Repertory Theater). Film credits: Happy Yummy Chicken. |
 | Lenne Klingaman, Frankie Durr/Betty Moffitt/Others La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Waitress (Dawn). 1st National Tour: Waitress (Dawn). Off-Broadway: The Underlying Chris. Regional: Hamlet in Hamlet (Colorado Shakespeare); Fingersmith (A.R.T.); Romeo & Juliet, Appoggiatura (Denver Center); Tartuffe (Berkeley Rep/Shakespeare Theatre/South Coast); Murder on the Orient Express (Cincinnati Playhouse); Anna Karenina (Capital Stage); Richard III, The Rehearsal (A Noise Within); To Kill a Mockingbird (St. Louis Rep); Twelfth Night (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). Media: FBI: Most Wanted, Chicago Med, Cold Case, Welcome to Sanditon. Education: M.F.A., University of Washington. The Heart Is the Hunter on Spotify/Apple Music; upcoming second album and a new play. She’s workshopped Love All for the last year and is thrilled to be part of its world premiere. Thanks to Karyn & The Telsey Office. @lenneklingaman |
 | John Kroft, Larry King La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Dan Cody’s Yacht (MTC), The Weak and the Strong (La Mama). Regional: The Tempest (Guthrie), Dutch Masters (Northern Stage), Lifespan of a Fact (Pioneer Theater Company), The Great Gatsby (Bay Street), and Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Williamstown Theater Festival). TV: Blue Bloods (CBS), Red Oaks (Amazon), Andy Warhol Diaries (Netflix). Film: Master (Amazon), Maestro (upcoming) and other shorts. Narration: for Audible.com and Recordedbooks.com. Education: B.F.A. Juilliard. |
 | Nancy Lemenager, Gladys Heldman La Jolla Playhouse: How to Succeed… starring Matthew Broderick. Broadway: Chicago, Movin’ Out, Never Gonna Dance, Kiss Me, Kate, Dream, How to Succeed…, Guys and Dolls and Meet Me in St. Louis. Lincoln Center: How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, by Sarah Ruhl. TV: Girls on the Bus (HBO), Poker Face (Peacock), City on a Hill (Showtime), For Life (ABC), WeCrashed (Apple TV), FBI (CBS). Film: Oceans 8, The First Purge. Nancy is a professor at Pace University where she teaches theater, dance and acting. |
 | Mikaela Macias, Understudy La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Chronicles of Kalki, Mother of the Maid (Moxie Theatre); Into the Breeches (North Coast Repertory Theatre); The Mad Ones (Wildsong Productions); SD Fringe Festival: Body Talk, Songs for a New World (Teatros San Diego); Noel, Noel (San Diego Symphony); Ofrendas en Pandemia (TuYo Theatre). Education: B.A. in Theatre Performance at San Diego State University (upcoming). |
 | Colby Muhammad, Understudy Colby is thrilled to be making her La Jolla Playhouse debut! UC San Diego credits: Just the Two of Us, Bunny, Bunny, Dance Nation, Nonna Kills the President, and In the Red and Brown Water. Select Theatre credits: Anything Goes, Spunk!, and Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine. Education: Musical Theatre BFA from Howard University, MFA Acting candidate at UC San Diego class of '24. @colbynatasha |
 | Ellen Nikbakht, Understudy La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Fun Home (Kansas City Rep); Peter and the Starcatcher, Urinetown, Candide, Mr. Burns: a Post Electric Play, Threepenny Opera (Clarence Brown Theatre). Other: Indecent (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Currently a UC San Diego M.F.A. Acting Candidate. |
 | Kate Rockwell, Marilyn Barnett La Jolla Playhouse: Hollywood (Mabel Normand). Broadway: OBC Mean Girls: the Musical (Karen Smith, Drama Desk & Helen Hayes nominations), OBC Bring It On: the Musical (Skylar), Legally Blonde (Margot), Rock of Ages (Sherrie Christian), and Hair. Regional: The MUNY (Tarzan, Beauty and the Beast, The Sound of Music), Arena Stage (Carousel). TV/Film: Tick, Tick…Boom (Netflix), Harlem (Amazon Prime), Blue Bloods (CBS), Almost Family (Fox), Deadbeat (Hulu), High Maintenance (HBO), Sex and the City: the Movie. Her album Back to My Roots was released on Broadway Records in 2018. Follow her for cute baby & dog pictures @katerockwellnyc |
 | Allison Spratt Pearce, Margaret Court La Jolla Playhouse: Janice in Come From Away, Victoria in Sideways and Cry-Baby. Broadway & Off-Broadway: Curtains, Good Vibrations, Cry-Baby, Enter Laughing, and Cabaret (national tour). Regional: Jane in Emma, Phoebe in As You Like It (The Old Globe); Emily in Disgraced, Suzanna in Black Pearl Sings (SDREP); Eliza in My Fair Lady, Katherine Parr in The Last Wife (Cygnet); Reno in Anything Goes, Maria in The Sound of Music (SDMT). Appears in numerous commercials & ads. M.F.A in Drama from USD/Old Globe, B.F.A. in Music Theatre from Elon University. www.allisonsprattpearce.com. Love All! |
 | Justin Withers, Arthur Ashe La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Days of Rage (Second Stage Theater, Dir. Trip Cullman). Regional: American Underground (Barrington Stage Company), Thirst (Contemporary American Theater Festival). TV: The Good Fight. Film: A Shot through the Wall. Education: B.F.A. from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University; Studied abroad at Shakespeare’s Globe in London. |
 | Shana Wride, Understudy La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: The Old Globe, The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, The Colony Theatre, Open Fist Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Cygnet Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Intrepid Theatre, Moxie Theatre, Compass Theatre, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Gaslamp Quarter Theatre and Sledgehammer Theatre. She is the recipient of a San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for her solo performance in 2.5 Minute Ride (Diversionary Theatre) and for her role as Amanda in Private Lives (Cygnet Theatre). She co-hosted the nationally syndicated radio show, Women Aloud, with actor/comedienne Mo Gaffney. shanawride.com |
 | Anna Deavere Smith, Playwright is a writer and actress. She’s credited with having created a new form of theater, under the banner: On the Road: A Search for American Character. Using verbatim excerpts of interviews about current social issues, she constructs and performs dramas that tell the stories of our time from multiple points of view. Plays and films based on them, include Fires in the Mirror and Twilight: Los Angeles, Let Me Down Easy, and Notes from the Field. Her work as an actress on television includes Inventing Anna, The West Wing, Nurse Jackie, and black-ish. Mainstream movies include The American President, Rachel Getting Married, and Ghosted. President Obama awarded Smith the National Endowment for the Humanities Medal. She’s the recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship, several Obie awards, two Drama Desk awards, the George Polk Career Award in Journalism, and the Dean’s Medal from the Stanford University School of Medicine. She was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize and nominated for two Tony Awards. She’s a University Professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has several honorary doctorate degrees including those from Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Spelman College, Prairie View University, and Oxford. She will be the 73rd Andrew W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art in 2024. She was recently appointed to the President’s Committee on the Arts and the Humanities by President Biden. |
 | Marc Bruni, Director most recently directed the critically-acclaimed Guys and Dolls at the Kennedy Center, where he also directed The Music Man, How to Succeed…, and 50 Years of Broadway. He directed the Tony, Grammy and Olivier Award-winning Beautiful: The Carole King Musical on Broadway, in the West End, US/UK Tours, and in Australia, winning the Helpmann and Green Room Awards for Best Direction of a Musical. His production of Trevor: The Musical (Off Broadway’s Stage 42) is currently streaming on Disney+. Other selected credits include The Explorers Club (Manhattan Theater Club), Ordinary Days (Roundabout), Old Jews Telling Jokes (Westside Theatre and Royal George - Jeff Award nomination for Direction), Other People’s Money (Long Wharf - CCC Award nomination), I Hate Hamlet (Bucks County), The Sound of Music (Chicago Lyric Opera), The Tale of Despereaux (with PigPen Theatre Co.- Old Globe, Berkeley Rep), The Nutty Professor (Ogunquit), Hey, Look Me Over!, Paint Your Wagon, Pipe Dream and Fanny for NY City Center Encores! and seven shows for the St. Louis MUNY. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College. |
Billie Jean King Named one of the “100 Most Important Americans of the 20th Century” by Life magazine and the first female athlete to receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom, Billie Jean King is the founder of the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative, the Women’s Tennis Association and the Women’s Sports Foundation, and part of the ownership groups of the Los Angeles Dodgers, Angel City FC and the Los Angeles Sparks. In her legendary tennis career, King captured 39 Grand Slam singles, doubles and mixed doubles titles, including a record 20 Wimbledon championships. Her historic win over Bobby Riggs in the 1973 Battle of the Sexes, is one of the greatest moments in sports history. In June 2022, she received France’s highest order of merit, the Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur, from President Macron, and was inducted into the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee Hall of Fame as a special contributor. In 2020, Fed Cup, the world cup of women’s tennis, was renamed the Billie Jean King Cup, making it the first global team competition to be named after a woman. In 2019, King’s Southern California roots were recognized with the opening of the Billie Jean King Main Library in her hometown of Long Beach, California. In 2006, the home of the US Open was renamed the USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center in honor of her accomplishments on and off the court. In 2018, King received a Lifetime Achievement Award as part of the prestigious BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards. In 2021, she received the Laureus Lifetime Achievement Award and the Sports Illustrated Muhammad Ali Legacy Award. King serves on the board of the Women’s Sports Foundation, is an adidas Global Ambassador and is the Honorary Lifetime President of the Elton John AIDS Foundation and a past member of the President’s Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. King is a New York Times best selling author and her memoir, ALL IN: An Autobiography, was published by Knopf in 2021 and released in paperback in 2023. |
Robert Brill, Scenic Designer Mr. Brill's designs for the Playhouse include Bhangin' It, SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, Chasing the Song, His Girl Friday, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Jesus Chris Superstar, The Wiz and many others. Broadway credits include Dancin', Ain't Too Proud: The Life and Times of The Temptations (Tony nomination), Thoughts of a Colored Man, Assassins (Tony nomination), the set and club design for the critically acclaimed revival of Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar, Guys and Dolls (Tony nomination), Design for Living, Buried Child and others. His recent credits include Frozen for Disney Creative Entertainment, and numerous opera world premieres, including Moby-Dick, Cold Mountain, Everest and The Manchurian Candidate. A graduate of UC San Diego and a founding member of Sledgehammer Theatre, he is a recipient of the Michael Merritt Award for Excellence in Design and Collaboration, and a 2011 La Jolla Playhouse Honors Award. Mr. Brill has been a La Jolla Playhouse Artist in Residence, and is a member of the design faculty at UC San Diego. |
Ann Hould-Ward, Costume Designer La Jolla Playhouse: Merrily We Roll Along (1985), Going to St Ives (2000). Broadway: The Color Purple, The Visit, The People in the Picture, A Free Man of Color, A Catered Affair, Company, Dance of the Vampires, Little Me, More to Love, Dream, On the Waterfront, The Molière Comedies, Beauty and the Beast (Tony Award), Timon of Athen, In the Summer House, Three Men on a Horse, Saint Joan, Falsettos, Into the Woods (Tony nom), Harrigan 'n Hart, Sunday in the Park with George (Tony nom). West End London: Beauty and the Beast (revival), Prince of Egypt, Notes from the Field, Dear World, Imagine This, Beauty and the Beast (original; Olivier Award nomination). International: Mikhailovsky Ballet, Russia; Salzburg Festival, Austria; Ben Hur Live, Schu Des Manitu, Berlin. Dance: Norwegian National Ballet, ABT, San Francisco Ballet, Lar Lubovitch Company, Alvin Ailey Dance Theater. Circus: Ringling Brothers/Barnum and Bailey 2001 & 2003. Off-Broadway: 100+ shows. Regional: 250+ shows. |
Jiyoun Chang, Lighting Designer La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: KPOP, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf (Tony Award nomination), Slave Play (Tony, Drama Desk, Henry Hewes Award nominations). Off-Broadway: The Far Country (Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Award nominations), Marys Seacole (Henry Hewes nomination), The World Is Round (Obie Award). Regional: Ride the Cyclone (Arena Stage); The Factotum (Chicago Lyric Opera); Bina’s Six Apples (Suzi Bass Award); The Public, Roundabout, NYTW, MCC, Signature, ATC, Guggenheim, Berkeley Rep, CalShakes, Guthrie, The Old Globe, OSF. Education: M.F.A. from Yale.
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Darron L. West, Sound Designer is a Tony and two-time OBIE award-winning sound designer whose 30-plus-year career spans theater and dance, Broadway and Off-Broadway. La Jolla Playhouse: Healing Wars, American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, The Seven, The Adoration of the Old Woman, The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union, BOY. His work has been heard in over 700 productions all over the United States and internationally in 15 countries. Additional honors: the Drama Desk, Lortel, Audelco awards and the Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award, among many others. Thirty-year company member designing the productions of Anne Bogart’s SITI company. His soundscapes for Photograph 51, Paradise Blue and Coal Country can be heard on Audible.
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S. Katy Tucker, Projection Designer La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Letters from Max, a Ritual (Signature), Confidence & the Speech (Theater Row), underneath the bed (Rattlestick). Opera: Medeá, Eurydice, Verdi’s Requiem, Peter Grimes, Prince Igor (Metropolitan Opera); Florencia en el Amazonas (Chicago Lyric Opera, LA Opera, Houston Grand Opera); The Ring Cycle, Heart of a Soldier, The Flying Dutchman, Two Women (San Francisco Opera); The Ring Cycle, Elektra, il Trovatore, Written in Stone, Cosi Fan Tutti, Don Giovanni, Samson and Delilah (Washington National Opera); Orpheus and Eurydice (Seattle Opera). International: Rebecca Das Musical (Vereingte Bühnen Wien), Artus Excalibur (Theater St Gallen), En Hunds Hartja (Uppsala Stadsteater).
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Jared Janas, Hair, Wig, and Make-Up Designer La Jolla Playhouse: The Year to Come, Queens and The Squirrels. Broadway: Good Night, Oscar, Sweeney Todd, Ohio State Murders, Kimberly Akimbo, & Juliet, Topdog/Underdog, American Buffalo, How I Learned to Drive, Jagged Little Pill, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, Gettin’ the Band Back Together, Bandstand, Indecent, Sunset Boulevard, The Visit, The Real Thing, Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Motown, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess, and All About Me. |
Cassie J. Williams, Hair, Wig, and Make-Up Designer La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Design credits include Otherworld (Delaware Theatre Company), Glimmerglass Opera Festival 2021 Summer Season, No Cowards in Our Band (Syracuse Opera and WCNY), Deathtrap (The Cape Playhouse), Ragtime (Theatre Under the Stars), A Doll’s House Part 2 (Long Wharf Theatre). Associate Design credits include Once Upon a One More Time (Broadway), Be More Chill (Broadway/London), Cruel Intentions (Maximum Entertainment), The Lighting Thief: The Percy Jackson Musical (Theatre Works), Kleptocracy (Arena Stage), Clue (Cleveland Play House) and many more. Education: B.F.A. Costume Design at State University of New York at Fredonia. |
Alisa Solomon, Dramaturg has worked as dramaturg on many projects with Anna Deavere Smith over the last two decades. A professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, she directs its concentration in Arts and Culture. She has written for The Nation, NY Times, NewYorker.com, Jewish Currents, Theater, American Theater, among others, and Village Voice, where she was on staff for 21 years. Alisa is the author of the award-winning books, Re-Dressing the Canon: Essays on Theater and Gender and Wonder of Wonders: A Cultural History of Fiddler on the Roof. Thanks to Title IX, she was a college scholarship athlete.
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Ann James, Sensitivity Specialist made her debut as the first Black Intimacy Coordinator of Broadway in 2021 for Antoinette Nwandu’s Pass Over. James serves as an intimacy and sensitivity consultant for Hamilton (USA) and Hamilton (UK), and is currently serving as an Intimacy/Cultural consultant in New York City for Parade, Sweeney Todd, White Girl in Danger, How to Defend Yourself, Amani and La Jolla Playhouse’s The Outsiders. Ann has served as Intimacy Director and Sensitivity Specialist® for the provocative Off-Broadway productions of Moisés Kaufman’s Seven Deadly Sins and Here There Are Blueberries by Tectonic Theatre Project, Seize the King, produced by Classical Theatre of Harlem, Twilight: Los Angeles,1992 and Dominique Morisseau's compelling play Confederates at Signature Theater. Her company, Intimacy Coordinators of Color, has partnerships with Adelphi University, New York University, Columbia University, American Conservatory Theater, Brown University, Trinity Repertory Theater, A.R.T./New York, and The American Repertory Theater at Harvard. |
Amy Stoller, Dialect Coach 2023 recipient, Ruth Morley Design Award for outstanding work in the field of theatrical design. La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Beautiful: The Carole King Musical. Projects with Anna Deavere Smith include Notes from the Field and Let Me Down Easy, among others. Dialect design and dramaturgy for 40+ shows at Off-Broadway’s Mint Theater Co., most recently Betty Smith’s Becomes a Woman (world premiere; Outer Critics’ Circle Award nominee for Outstanding New Off-Broadway Play); Noël Coward’s The Rat Trap (US premiere). Also this season: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (American Repertory Theater). Last season: American Jade (Bucks County Playhouse); Islander (Playhouse 46, NYC); Ann (Cape May Stage); Fires in the Mirror (Theatrical Outfit). |
The Telsey Office, Casting With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, The Telsey Office casts for theater, film, television and commercials. The Telsey Office is dedicated to creating safe, equitable and anti-racist spaces through collaboration, artistry, heart, accountability and advocacy.
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Brian Bogin, Stage Manager La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Mike Birbiglia: The Old Man and the Pool, Hello, Dolly!, My Fair Lady, Clyde’s, Frankie & Johnny…, The Waverly Gallery, Straight White Men, …The Great Comet of 1812, Allegiance, Constellations, War Horse, Elf, The People in the Picture, Wicked, Phantom…, Good Vibrations, Soul Doctor. Tours: Hello, Dolly!, The Book of Mormon, On Your Feet, …The Grinch, Chicago, Spamalot, Urinetown, Phantom… Off-Broadway: Trevor, the Musical, The Toxic Avenger Musical, Heart, To My Girls, Heisenberg, The Ruins of Civilization. Regional: Robin and the Seven Hoods (The Old Globe), White Christmas (Boston Wang Center). Love to Colin. |
Topaz Cooks, Assistant Stage Manager La Jolla Playhouse: to the yellow house, Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord. Regional: Cymbeline, Intimate Apparel (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Akeelah and the Bee (Children's Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet (The Old Globe); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Clarence Brown Theater); Miracle on 34th Street, Memphis, Something Rotten! (Moonlight Stage Productions). M.F.A. from UC San Diego. |