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George Abud, Nixon

is a proud Arab-American actor. La Jolla Playhouse: Marinetti in Lempicka (dir. Rachel Chavkin; Craig Noel nom.). Broadway: The Band’s Visit starring Katrina Lenk and Tony Shalhoub (Daytime Emmy Award, OBC Recording); The Visit starring Chita Rivera and Roger Rees (OBC Recording). Off-Broadway: The Beautiful Lady directed by Anne Bogart (La MaMa); Cornelia Street opposite Norbert Leo Butz (Atlantic Theater Company); Nerd Face in Emojiland (Drama Desk nom., OOBC Recording; The Duke on 42nd); The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui alongside Raúl Esparza, Nathan the Wise opposite F. Murray Abraham, Peer Gynt opposite Gabriel Ebert, Allegro directed by John Doyle (Classic Stage Company); Lolita, My Love opposite Robert Sella (York Theatre Company).

Josh Alvarez (he/him), Understudy: Oscar, Juan, Puppeteer

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. National Tours: Cirque Du Soleil 2021, 2022. Regional: Damn Yankees and 9 to 5 (Musical Theatre West); Tarzan (Moonlight Amphitheater); The King and I (Alaska Center for the Performing Arts); Footloose (Taylor Performing Arts Center); Pippin (Regional Theatre of Palouse); Saturday Night Fever (Candlelight Pavilion); West Side Story (Gem Theatre). TV/Film: Disney+ and Babylon. Social Media: @officialjoshalvarez.

Jeannette Bayardelle, Jann

La Jolla Playhouse: Freaky Friday. Broadway: Girl from the North Country (Mrs. Neilsen/Tony nomination), Hair (Dionne), The Color Purple (Celie). Off Broadway: The Harder They Come and Girl from the North Country (The Public Theater), Rock of Ages (New World Stages), SHIDA (Ars Nova). National Tours/Regional: SHIDA (London), The Color Purple, Deaf West’s Big River, Rent. Film: Disney’s Little Mermaid: Ariel’s Beginning.

Summer Broyhill (she/her), Understudy: Flower Child, Virginia

La Jolla Playhouse: Love All. 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.

Josiah Cajudo, Puppeteer/Understudy: The Kid

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: The Little Mermaid (Performance Riverside). UC San Diego: 900 Years, The Winter's Tale, Bach at Leipzig, Hells Canyon, Everybody. UC Riverside: Little Shop of Horrors, Birthmark, Love's Labour's Lost. Other: The Two Kids That Blow Shit Up (Endless Summer Productions), The Sound of Music (La Sierra University). Education: B.A. from UC Riverside, current M.F.A. candidate at UC San Diego.

Giovanny Diaz de Leon (he/him),  The Kid

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Witnesses (CCAE Theatricals); The Ferryman (New Village Arts); Lost in Yonkers (Scripps Ranch Theatre). Featured actor in Hershey Felder’s The Assembly. Education: Graduate from the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts majoring in Musical Theatre.

Gabriel Ebert, Hunter

La Jolla Playhouse Debut. Broadway: Matilda The Musical (Tony Award winner - Best Featured Actor), Pass Over (Lortel Award winner), Casa Valentina, Brief Encounter, Time and the Conways, Therese Raquin, Red. Off-Broadway: 4,000 Miles (OBIE Award winner), Preludes, Gently Down The Stream, Local Hero, Peer Gynt, Prometheus Bound, Suicide Incorporated, The Heart of Robin Hood. Film/TV: News of the World, Dickinson, I Am a Seagull, Mr. Mercedes, Sinking Spring, The Mandalorian, Hello Tomorrow!, Ricki and the Flash, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, The Interestings, Compliance. As a singer, he has performed at Carnegie Hall, The Royal Albert Hall and with the New York Philharmonic. 

Marcy Harriell, Sandy

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Music was mandatory as air for the daughter of a truck-driving trumpeter and a gardening fine artist; drilling coloratura runs while rock legends played full blast was the norm. That musical playground extended onto the stage, jumping from Broadway’s Rent, to City Center’s operatic Kismet, the Latin-infused In the Heights, to Lennon’s primal scream. As lead vocalist for MMDG’s newest work The Look of Love, The Washington Post praised her jazz renderings of a dozen Bacharach hits: "Hariell's voice ranges masterfully from hushed intimacy to a desperate, raging plea, making you feel the destruction of a soul." Offstage, she creates couture garments for everyday life, using technicolor armor to inspire an audience alongside her partner-in-everything, Rob, in the YouTube series @TheHandmadeHarriells. Find her on your social of choice @marcyharriell.

Lorinda Lisitza, Virginia

is from Porcupine Plain, Saskatchewan. La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. New York: Mother Courage and The Threepenny Opera with the Jean Cocteau Repertory. Lorinda is a long-time member of the Joe Iconis Family as well as the Theater 20/20 Family. Her cabaret work has garnered three MAC Awards, a Bistro Award, a Nightlife Award and the Patrick Lee Independent Theater Blogger Award. She also appears with symphonies all over North America alongside her Spot-On Entertainment family. She loves poker, The Price Is Right and pierogies. Thank you to Chris & Joe for this opportunity! 

Lauren Marcus, Flower Child

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Be More Chill (original cast). Select credits: White Girl in Danger (Second Stage/The Vineyard); Sarah Silverman’s The Bedwetter (The Atlantic); Fiddler on the Roof (Lyric Opera of Chicago); Little Shop of Horrors (Pittsburgh Public); The Humans (St. Louis Rep); Company (Barrington Stage). Film: tick, tick…BOOM! As a writer, Lauren developed her original television pilot at New York Stage and Film. Her new musical, Lauren and The Case of The Missing Hair (book/music/lyrics), is a 2022 Relentless Award Finalist. Lauren is currently in the process of recording her first full-length album, to be released this winter.

Kürt Norby (he/him), Understudy: Nixon, Steadman

La Jolla Playhouse: Miss You Like Hell, Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, Zhivago. World Premieres: Allegiance (Old Globe), Everbody's Talkin': The Music of Harry Nilsson starring alongside Alice Ripley and Gregory Jbara (San Diego Rep). Regional: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Old Globe); Company, Assassins, Man of La Mancha, Sweeney Todd (Cygnet Theatre); Mixtape, Leaving Iowa (Lamb’s Players Theatre); Cats (SDMT). www.kurtnorby.com

Nio Russell (they/them), Understudy: Jann, Sandy, Flower Child

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Muir Musical UC San Diego: The Rocky Horror Show. Zorina Productions: Heathers. Nio is incredibly appreciative of this opportunity to work with a talented creative team and cast in bringing the life of Hunter S. Thompson to the stage in an innovative way. They are looking forward to future endeavors into other exciting new shows and continuing to fulfill their passion to perform.

George Salazar (he/him), Oscar

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Be More Chill (Drama Desk/Outer Critics Circle nominations); Godspell. National Tour: Spring Awakening. Off-Broadway: Be More Chill (Lucille Lortel Award); The Lightning Thief (Drama Desk nomination); tick, tick… BOOM!; Here Lies Love. Regional: Little Shop of Horrors (Pasadena Playhouse); The Bottoming Process (IAMA); Head Over Heels (Pasadena Playhouse); Broadway Bounty Hunter (Barrington Stage). TV: Superstore; American Crime Story: Impeachment. Albums: Be More Chill; Two-Player Game (with Joe Iconis); The Jonathan Larson Project; The Lightning Thief. Endlessly grateful for Joe Iconis. For Oscar and Sam.

Ryan Vona, Juan

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Parade, Once, Beautiful, Cirque du Soleil’s Paramour. Off Broadway/Regional: Love in Hate Nation (Two River); Streets of New York (Irish Rep); Jesus Christ Superstar (Connecticut Rep); You I Like (Pasadena Playhouse, 92Y); Little Shop of Horrors (Sharon Playhouse). Symphony: Grand Teton & Lakes Area Music Festivals, Detroit, Baltimore, Sioux Falls Symphony Orchestras. Original music streaming everywhere. Thanks to Artists & Rep and Ann Kelly. For Papa & Coxy. www.RyanVona.com; @ryanvona

Jason SweetTooth Williams (he/him), Steadman

La Jolla Playhouse: Freaky Friday. Broadway: Be More Chill. Off-Broadway: Be More Chill, Bloodsong of Love, ReWrite, Crossing Brooklyn, Once Upon a Mattress (opposite Jackie Hoffman). Regional: Benny and Joon (The Old Globe), Trouble with Doug (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley), Disney's Freaky Friday (Signature Theater, Alley Theater, Cleveland Play House). Recordings: Be More Chill (Original Broadway Cast Recording), Disney's Freaky Friday, MonsterSongs. Film/TV: WeCrashed (opposite Jared Leto), FBI, BULL, Zoo, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, American Horror Stories.  Writer: Broadway Bounty Hunter (Book), In the Holiday Trenches (Book). Education: B.F.A. from Emerson College. Family: Amazing, beautiful wife and two brilliant, adorable daughters!

Joe Iconis, Music and Lyrics/Book

is a musical theatre writer and performer. He has been nominated for a Tony Award, four Drama Desk Awards, two Lucille Lortel Awards, two Outer Critics Circle Awards, and is the recipient of an Ed Kleban Award, a Jonathan Larson Award and a Richard Rodgers Award. His musical Be More Chill (with Joe Tracz) has played Broadway, London and Tokyo. Joe is the author of Love in Hate Nation (directed by John Simpkins; Two River), Broadway Bounty Hunter (with Lance Rubin and Jason SweetTooth Williams; Barrington Stage Company and Greenwich House Theater Off-Broadway), Bloodsong of Love (Ars Nova, NAMT), Punk Rock Girl! (for Lively McCabe), The Black Suits (with Robert Maddock; Center Theatre Group, Barrington Stage Company), ReWrite (Urban Stages, Goodspeed), Things to Ruin (Second Stage Theater, The Zipper Factory) and Theaterworks USA’s The Plant That Ate Dirty Socks and We the People. His music appeared on season two of NBC’s Smash and he frequently performs at 54 Below and the Laurie Beechman Theater. Albums: Album (Joe Iconis & Family), Be More Chill (OCR and OBCR, which have been streamed over 500 million times); Broadway Bounty Hunter (OCR); Things to Ruin (OCR); Two-Player Game (with George Salazar) and The Joe Iconis Rock & Roll Jamboree, all available on Sh-K-Boom/Ghostlight Records. Joe is hugely inspired by Robert Altman, Dolly Parton, The Muppets, and the Family of artists he frequently surrounds himself with.  

Gregory S. Moss, Book

is a MacDowell Fellow and the recipient of a Jerome Fellowship and a McKnight Fellowship. He is the recipient of the Reva Shiner Comedy Prize and an Edgerton Foundation New Play Award. He’s an Affiliated Artist with Clubbed Thumb, and he has served as a mentor for Clubbed Thumb’s early career playwrights’ group, Columbia University’s MFA in Playwriting Program, and through the Playwrights’ Center. His work is published by Overlook Press, Dramatists Play Service, Dramatic Publishing Company, Playscripts and in the journals Play: A Journal of Plays and n+1. He is the Head of Theatre at the University of New Mexico and Director of the MFA Dramatic Writing Program. Recent productions include the world premiere of Indian Summer at Playwrights Horizons, NYC (Critics’ Pick, Time Out New York; The 2016 Edgerton Foundation New Play Award); the UK Premiere of punkplay at The Southwark Theatre; House of Gold at La Comédie Française, Paris (Winner, Prix du Public), and at EST-LA, Los Angeles (LA Times and LA Weekly Critics’ Pick) and at Square Product Theater, Boulder CO.; “I Promised Myself to Live Faster”: A Queer Space Opera in the Decadent Style, with Pig Iron Theater Company, Humana Festival of New American Plays, Actors Theatre of Louisville; Reunion at South Coast Rep, Costa Mesa, CA (Best New Play of 2014, OC Weekly and StageSourceLA); La Brea, Clubbed Thumb, NYC. Current projects include Feral, Minnesota, a live serialized comedy written and produced with his partner Rhiannon Frazier, and Ok Now Hear Me Out: a drama with ventriloquism. He is currently at work on his first novel.

Christopher Ashley (he/him), Director

has served as La Jolla Playhouse’s Artistic Director since 2007. During his tenure, he directed the world premieres of Come From Away, Diana: The Musical, Memphis, Escape to Margaritaville, The Squirrels, A Dram of Drummhicit, Restoration and Chasing the Song, as well as As You Like It, His Girl Friday, Glengarry Glen Ross, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Freaky Friday and Xanadu. He also spearheaded the Playhouse’s Without Walls (WOW) initiative, the DNA New Work Series and the Resident Theatre program. Mr. Ashley recently directed Come From Away for AppleTV+ and Diana: The Musical for Netflix. Other screen credits include the feature films Jeffrey and Lucky Stiff, and the American Playhouse production of Blown Sideways Through Life for PBS. Mr. Ashley’s Broadway credits include Come From Away (Tony and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Diana: The Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, Memphis (Tony Award nomination), Xanadu, Leap of Faith (Drama Desk Award nomination), All Shook Up and The Rocky Horror Show (Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle Award nominations). He also helmed productions of Come From Away in London (Olivier Award nomination), Toronto, Australia and on national tour. Other national tours include Escape to Margaritaville, Memphis, Xanadu, All Shook Up and Seussical: The Musical. Additional New York stage credits include Blown Sideways Through Life, Jeffrey (Lucille Lortel and Obie Awards), The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told, Valhalla (Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Regrets Only, Wonder of the World, Communicating Doors, Bunny Bunny, The Night Hank Williams Died and Fires in the Mirror (Lucille Lortel Award), among others. Mr. Ashley is the recipient of the Princess Grace Award, the Drama League Director Fellowship and an NEA/TCG Director Fellowship.

Jon Rua, Choreographer

The recipient of the 2022 SDCF Breakout Award, Jon Rua is recognized as a “rising star” creative director and choreographer for his innovative work on stage. He has helmed Phish’s sold-out “Send in the Clones” performance at the Madison Square Garden, co-choreographed individual production numbers for Broadway’s The Cher Show, SpongeBob SquarePants, SpongeBob Musical Live on Nick, the rom-com Isn’t It Romantic, and regional productions such as Rent (OSF), West Side Story (Milwaukee Rep), Godspell (PCLO), The Hombres (Two River), Jesus Christ Superstar & Aida (Muny). Crossing all mediums, Jon has conceived music videos, commercials, and performed live for Coheed and Cambria (“Old Flames”), Lawrence (“More”), and the New York Lotto, to name a few. Later this year, Jon is the associate choreographer for BOOP! The Musical set to world premiere in Chicago. As a performer, Jon has originated roles in the Tony and Grammy Award-winning hit musical Hamilton, SpongeBob Squarepants, Hands on a Hardbody and In The Heights. On screen, he has guest-starred on Blacklist, Blue Bloods, Law & Order, and worked in the films Fall to Rise, First Reformed and Isn’t It Romantic.  Jon's short film Unknown, was selected for the 2022 New York Latino Film Festival. And First Gen, his new play with movement and music, aims for a 2025 world premiere. As a Director/Choreographer, Jon's associate, Brianna Mercado, has been integral to the success of each project. This one of a kind musical is no different. Brianna Mercado is a Dance Artist & Choreographer whose work is featured on TEDx. She was the Associate Choreographer for Godspell (PCLO) and First Gen, the associate choreographer and cast member for West Side Story (Milwaukee Rep), PHISH NYE 2020, Isn’t It Romantic, Jesus Christ Superstar & Aida (Muny). @bripositive.

Rick Edinger (he/they), Music Supervisor/Vocal Arranger/Conductor

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Recent Music Supervisor/Conductor credits include (in development): Trading Places (Alliance Theater; Kenny Leon, director), In the Mood (CM Stage Productions; Kenny Leon, director), The Amazing Mister X  (Michael Cassel Group; Jenny Koons, director). Recent Music Director credits include: The Visitor (The Public Theater; Daniel Sullivan, director), Joy: A New Musical (George Street Playhouse; Casey Hushion, director), Songs for a New World (New City Music Theater; Miles Sternfeld, director), Godspell, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812 (Carnegie Mellon University; Tomé Cousin, director), et al. Faculty: Associate Professor of Musical Theatre and Chair of Acting & Music Theater at Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. Website: www.rickedinger.com. Instagram: @rickedingernyc.

Wilson Chin, Scenic Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: Wild Goose Dreams, Kill Local, Hollywood. Broadway: Cost of Living, Pass Over (Drama Desk and Lortel Award nominations), Next Fall. Off-Broadway: A Bright New Boise (Signature), The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Space Dogs (MCC; Lortel Award nomination), Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/Public), This Land Was Made (Vineyard). Opera: Turandot (Washington National Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Eine Florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera; Dora Award winner). Film/television: Pass Over (dir. Spike Lee), “Game Theory with Bomani Jones” (HBO). Eastern Region Board member of Local USA 829. Instagram: @wilsonchindesign

Toni-Leslie James, Costume Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: Come From Away, Glengarry Glen Ross, Milk Like Sugar. Broadway: Birthday Candles, Paradise Square, Thoughts of a Colored Man, Bernhardt/Hamlet, Come From Away, Jitney, Amazing Grace, Lucky Guy, The Scottsboro Boys, Finian’s Rainbow, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, King Hedley II, One Mo’ Time, The Wild Party, Marie Christine, Footloose, The Tempest, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992, Angels in America, Chronicle of a Death Foretold, Jelly’s Last Jam and The Old Man and the Pool. Awards: four Tony nominations, Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award and two Hewes Design Awards.

Amanda Zieve, Lighting Designer

is thrilled to be back at La Jolla Playhouse after designing Put Your House in Order. Her Playhouse Associate credits include: Fly, Escape to Margaritaville, Hollywood, Hunchback of Notre Dame, Midsummer's Night's Dream and Chasing the Song. Other recent designs include: Tommy (Goodman); Cabaret (Goodspeed); American Jade (Buck’s County Playhouse); I Hate Hamlet (Maltz Jupiter); Into the Woods, Billy Elliot, Titanic (Signature Theatre); Sweeney Todd and Roof of the World (KC Rep); Approval Junkie (Off Broadway, Alliance Theatre). Other San Diego credits include: Crime and Punishment, A Comedy, Dial M for Murder, Hair, Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big San Diego Christmas Show, Tiny Beautiful Things, Barefoot in the Park, Native Gardens, The Wonderers and Rich Girl (The Old Globe); Evita, Cabaret, Rock of Ages (Cygnet). She received her B.A. in Theatre from California State University Northridge. amandazieve.com.

Justin Stasiw, Sound Designer

is an NYC-based sound designer and engineer. La Jolla Playhouse: Lempicka. Broadway (as associate): Moulin Rouge!, Beetlejuice, Frozen, Something Rotten!, Side Show, It’s Only a Play. Off-Broadway: The View Upstairs, Songbird. Regional: A Christmas Story, Jasper in Deadland, How to Succeed… (5th Avenue Theatre); Paint Your Wagon (5th Avenue, Ordway); The Secret Garden (STC, 5th Avenue); Josephine, Beatsville (Asolo Rep). International: Sweeney Todd (Manila, Singapore), Jersey Boys (Manila), Ghost (Manila). Justin is a proud member of IATSE and of USA/829.

Alberto "Albee" Alvarado (he/him), Wig and Hair Designer

La Jolla Playhouse design credits: Bhangin’ It, to the yellow house, The Last Tiger in Haiti (makeup design) and SUMO (upcoming). Favorite LJP Supervisor credits: Lempicka, Fly, Cambodian Rock Band and Side Show. Albee’s additional regional design credits include work for San Diego Opera, San Diego Junior Theatre and, most recently, Transparent (makeup design, Mark Taper Forum). When he is not in the theatre, Albee enjoys creative activities, spending time with his hubby Daniel, Gigi (pup) and “framily.” “I’m here to amplify underrepresented voices because representation matters…YOU matter.”

Animal Cracker Conspiracy, Puppet Designer 

San Diego-based artists Bridget Rountree and Iain Gunn are Animal Cracker Conspiracy, a contemporary hybrid puppet company whose ongoing practice is based on a shared interest and exploration of where fine art, puppetry, performance art, physical theatre, film and mixed media intersect. Credits include: La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls (WOW) productions of TransMythical, The Society of Wonder, Gnomesense and Paper Cities. Touring Productions: The Collector, Paper Cities, TransMythical. Regional: SD Opera's Hansel & Gretel (Civic Center Theater), Breakfast with Beuys (Mingei International Museum), SD Ballet Carnival of the Animals (Balboa Theater), Circus Hilarious (Carlsbad Village Theater), The Myth Project (Centro Cultural De La Raza). Education: B.A. from UC Santa Barbara (Bridget) and B.F.A. from University of British Columbia (Iain).

Charlie Rosen, Orchestrations

is a two-time Tony and Grammy Award-winning composer and orchestrator. Some recent credits include for Miss You Like Hell at La Jolla Playhouse; Broadway: Some Like It Hot, A Strange Loop, Be More Chill (Music Sup/Orchestrations), Moulin Rouge! (Tony Award), Prince of Broadway, American Psycho (Assoc MD/Keys), The Visit (Guitar/Zither), Honeymoon in Vegas, Cyrano de Bergerac (Composer), One Man, Two Guv’nors (Music Director, Bass), 13 The Musical (Guitars, Bass, Keys), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Assoc. MD, Bass, additional orchestrations). Off Broadway/Regional: Guys and Dolls at The Bridge Theatre London, Love in Hate Nation at Two River Theater, Broadway Bounty Hunter at Greenwich House Theater, A Legendary Romance (MD/Orchestrations) at Williamstown Theater Festival, The Public Theater. In addition to his theatre credits, Charlie is the bandleader for the Grammy Award-winning Video Game Music Jazz orchestra “The 8-Bit Big Band”

Shirley Fishman, Dramaturg

during her twenty-one seasons at La Jolla Playhouse as Associate Artistic Director, Director of New Play Development and Dramaturg, has worked with many playwrights and directors on productions of new plays and musicals, including Tony Award-winning shows Come from Away and Indecent, the Playhouse’s annual POP Tour that brings new plays to elementary schools in San Diego County, as well as workshops and readings of projects in development for the DNA New Work Series and beyond. At New York’s Public Theatre as Literary Manager and Dramaturg, she worked on new plays, classics, musicals, projects in development and as co-curator of the New Work Now! new play reading series.  Other Affiliations:  Huntington Theatre Company, Denver Center Theatre, San Diego Rep, Magic Theatre, New Village Arts, New York Stage and Film, Sundance Theatre Lab, Native Voices at the Autry, USC Theatre Dept., Chapman University, UC San Diego Dept. of Theatre and Dance, among others. M.F.A.: Columbia University.

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 served 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.  

The Telsey Office, Casting

With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, The Telsey Office casts for theatre, film, television and commercials. The Telsey Office is dedicated to creating safe, equitable and anti-racist spaces through collaboration, artistry, heart, accountability and advocacy.

Jess Slocum, Stage Manager

La Jolla Playhouse: Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, Indecent, Side Show, Ruined, The Third Story, Memphis, Most Wanted. Regional: Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Under a Baseball Sky, Twelfth Night, Dial M for Murder, El Borracho, Hurricane Diane, Noura, They Promised Her the Moon, Familiar, The Imaginary Invalid, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Love’s Labour’s Lost, tokyo fish story, In Your Arms, Bright Star, Othello, Water by the Spoonful, Pygmalion, A Room with a View, Robin and the 7 Hoods, dozens more (The Old Globe); Noura (Shakespeare Theatre Company). Education: Vanderbilt University.

Topaz Cooks (she/her), Assistant Stage Manager

La Jolla Playhouse: to the yellow house; Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord, Love All. Regional: Cymbeline, Intimate Apparel (Utah Shakespeare Festival); Akeelah and the Bee (Children's Theatre Company); Romeo and Juliet, How The Grinch Stole Christmas! (The Old Globe); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Trouble in Mind (Clarence Brown Theater); Miracle on 34th Street, Memphis, Something Rotten! (Moonlight Stage Productions). B.F.A. from U of MN, Duluth.  M.F.A. from UC San Diego.

Nicholas Lambros Smith (he/they), Assistant Stage Manager

La Jolla Playhouse: Put Your House in Order. Circus: O, Mystère (Cirque du Soleil); Absinthe (Spiegelworld), Return to the Elements (IGNITE). Touring: Menopause the Musical (GFour Productions). Regional: A Kind of Weather (Diversionary Theater); Tenderly, the Rosemary Clooney Musical (North Coast Rep); Stand Down (The Old Globe). Education: UC San Diego (M.F.A.).