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Genevieve Angelson, Tanis Judique/Zilla Riesling/Eunice Littlefield/Storyteller 5

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Off Broadway/Regional: The Cake (Manhattan Theatre Club), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Drury Lane, Broadway World Best Actress), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (McCarter Theatre). TV includes: The Handmaid’s Tale, New Amsterdam, The Afterparty, Flack, This Is Us, Titans, House of Lies, Backstrom. Film: The Upside, True Story, Top Five, Spare Room and the upcoming Which Brings Me to You. M.F.A.: NYU Grad Acting. IG: @genevieveangelson

Matthew Broderick, George Babbitt

La Jolla Playhouse: How to Success in Business... Broadway: Plaza Suite, Brighton Beach Memoirs (Tony, OCC, Theatre World Awards), Biloxi Blues, How to Succeed in Business… (Tony, DD, OCC Awards), Night Must Fall, Taller Than a Dwarf, The Producers (Tony, DD, OCC nominations), The Foreigner, The Philanthropist, The Odd Couple, Nice Work If You Can Get It, Sylvia and It’s Only a Play. Off-Broadway: The Seafarer, The Closet, Evening at the Talk House, Shining City (Obie Award), Torch Song Trilogy (OCC, Villager Awards), The Widow Claire and Valentine’s Day. West End: The Starry Messenger. Upcoming: Plaza Suite in the West End. Television: Painkiller, Daybreak, The Music Man, “Master Harold”…and the Boys. Films include: No Hard Feelings, Max Dugan Returns, War Games, Ladyhawke, On Valentine’s Day, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Biloxi Blues, Glory, The Freshman, The Lion King, The Cable Guy, Infinity, Election, You Can Count on Me, Wonderful World, Margaret, Tower Heist, Rules Don’t Apply, Manchester by the Sea and To Dust. 

Anna Chlumsky, Seneca Doane/Tinka Babbitt/Lucille McKelvey/Storyteller 4

Broadway: Living on Love, You Can’t Take It with You. Off-Broadway: Cardinal (Second Stage); 3C (Rattlestick); Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Westside Theatre); So Help Me God (Mint); Unconditional (Labyrinth Theater). Regional: Living on Love (Williamstown); Darwin in Malibu (Bay Street). Television: Inventing Anna (Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series), Veep (6x Emmy nominee for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy), Rugrats, Halt and Catch Fire, Hannibal, Law & Order: SVU, White Collar, Covert Affairs, Cupid, 30 Rock, Law & Order. Film: The End of the Tour, The Pill, In the Loop, Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship, The Good Guy, Blood Car, Gold Diggers, My Girls I and II, Hala, They/Them and the upcoming movie, Bride Hard. 

Jalen Davidson, Understudy: Ted Babbitt/Stanley Graf/Fabio/Storyteller 7

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. UC San Diego: Boxed, Raja Feather Kelly’s Bunny Bunny, Dance Nation, Nona Kills the President, In the Red and Brown Water. Education: M.F.A. Acting Candidate, UC San Diego, B.A. from Kennesaw State University.

Iris (Liting) Feng, Understudy: Tanis Judique/Zilla Riesling/Eunice Littlefield/Storyteller 5

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. UC San Diego: Grippy Sock Vacation, The Winter’s Tale, Dance Nation, Fifty Boxes of Earth, Everybody. Select Credits: Romeo and Juliet and Blank (Guildhall School of Music and Drama), Cymbeline (RADA), Aloha Attire (Kumu Kahua Theatre), Sganarelle (Hawaii Shakespeare Festival). Education: M.F.A. Candidate from UC San Diego; B.A. from Harvard College. @iris__feng

Victor Flores (he/him), Understudy: Paul Riesling/Doc Littlefield/ Charles McKelvey/Storyteller 2 & 3

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. UCSD: A Flea in Her Rear, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, Machinal, Thicker Than, Fifty Boxes of Earth. SHSU: Richard III, Cloud Tectonics. Education: M.F.A Acting Candidate UC San Diego; B.F.A. Sam Houston State University. Instagram: @Victor.J.Flores

Julie Halston, Mrs. Frink/Mrs. Bumbleworth/Opal Mudge/Miss McGoun/Storyteller 6

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Tootsie, You Can't Take It with You (Richard Seff Award), Gypsy, Hairspray, Anything Goes, On the Twentieth Century and others. Founding member of Charles Busch's legendary theatre company. Four Drama Desk Award nominations, 2021 recipient of the Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award. Television credits include Gossip Girl (Sharon, recurring), Law & Order: SVU (Cassie Muir), Divorce (Sharon), The Good Fight (Rita). She is most known, however, as Bitsy Von Muffling on Sex and the City and And Just Like That.... Recent Films: The Sixth Reel, Simchas and Sorrows and Chosen Family with Heather Graham. @actressjuliehalston on Instagram.

Ann Harada (she/her), Myra Babbitt/Storyteller 1

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Avenue Q (also London’s West End), Into the Woods, Cinderella, Les Miserables, 9 to 5, Seussical and M. Butterfly. Recent Off-Broadway: Dear World, Fairycakes, Emojiland, I Married an Angel, Pacific Overtures, Brooklynite, Falsettoland. TV: Schmigadoon! (Florence Menlove and Madam Frau), Smash (Linda), Blue Bloods, House of Cards, Master of None, Younger, 30 Rock, The Good Wife, Jim Gaffigan Show. Film: Sisters, Hope Springs, Admission, Jerry and Marge Go Large, Disenchanted. Insta: @iamannharada 

Francis Jue (he/him), Paul Riesling/Doc Littlefield/Storyteller 2

La Jolla Playhouse: Wild Goose Dreams, Thoroughly Modern Millie. Broadway: Pacific Overtures, Thoroughly Modern Millie, M. Butterfly. National tours: Cambodian Rock Band, M. Butterfly. Recent Off-Broadway: Good Enemy, Cambodian Rock Band (Lucille Lortel Award), Soft Power (Outer Critics Circle Award), Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Wild Goose Dreams (Obie Award). Recent regional: Today Is My Birthday (Yale Rep), The Language Archive (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Bay Area Critics Circle Award), King of the Yees (SF Playhouse, Bay Area Critics Circle Award). TV/Film: Madam Secretary, Hightown, Law & Order: SVU, White Noise, Our Son, Joyful Noise.

Kyá Lee, Understudy: Seneca Doane/Tinka Babbitt/Lucille McKelvey/Storyteller 4

Hailing from Brooklyn, New York, Kya Lee is excited to make her La Jolla Playhouse debut. Regional: From Out Beyond My Shame (Garry Marshall Theatre). UC San Diego credits: Thicker Than, Black Girl Joy, Bunny Bunny, Limp Wrist on the Lever. Education: M.F.A. Candidate from UC San Diego.

Linda Libby, Understudy: Mrs. Frink/Mrs. Bumbleworth/Opal Mudge/Miss McGoun/Myra Babbitt/Storyteller 1 & 6

La Jolla Playhouse: Put Your House in Order, Ether Dome. Regional: Guys & Dolls (The Old Globe); Cabaret, Gypsy, Company, The Importance of Being Earnest (Cygnet); Handbagged (Moxie); An Iliad (New Village Arts); Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Diversionary); A Doll's House Part 2 (San Diego Rep); Grey Gardens, Gypsy, Request Programme (Ion); How I Learned to Drive (Arizona Theater Co. & San Diego Rep). Linda is proud to be a San Diego-based theatre artist and she is delighted to be on the Babbitt team. Look for her in Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 at Cygnet Theater this spring. https://lindalibby.wixsite.com/lindalibby

Matt McGrath, Charles McKelvey/PJ Maxwell/Storyteller 3

La Jolla Playhouse: His Girl Friday. Broadway: Girl from the North Country, Cabaret, A Streetcar Named Desire. Robert Wilson’s The Black Rider in LA, SD, London and Sydney. Recent Off-Broadway: Jerry Springer Opera, Lonely Planet, The Legend of Georgia McBride (Lucille Lortel Award), Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Film: The Chaperone, Full Grown Men, Boys Don't Cry, The Notorious Bettie Page, The Anniversary Party, The Broken Hearts Club, The Impostors. TV: The Undoing, Pose, Modern Family, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Cruel Doubt. Award: Lucille Lortel.

Chris Myers, Ted Babbitt/Stanley Graf/Fabio/Storyteller 7

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: How I Learned to Drive (MTC). Selected NY Theatre: Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (MTC); BLKS (MCC); An Octoroon (Soho Rep; Obie Award); Whorl Inside a Loop (Second Stage); The Winter's Tale, On the Grounds of Belonging (The Public); Little Children Dream of God (Roundabout); Julius Caesar (Shakespeare in the Park); War, Brownsville Song (LCT3). Selected regional: Henry IV (Shakespeare Center LA with Tom Hanks), Fences (McCarter/Long Wharf; dir. Phylica Rashad), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Shakespeare Theatre DC). TV: Merry Happy Whatever (Netflix), The Resident (FOX), Sneaky Pete (Amazon), The Good Fight (CBS), She's Gotta Have It (Netflix; dir. Spike Lee), The Breaks (VH1). Training: Juilliard. @chrismyersinc  

Joe DiPietro, Playwright

has won two Tony Awards, a Drama Desk Award and three Outer Critics Circle Awards. He is thrilled to return to La Jolla Playhouse. His newest musical, Sinatra, recently premiered at Birmingham Rep to critical acclaim. Some of his other shows include Memphis (2010 Tony Award for Best Musical); Nice Work If You Can Get It (which starred Matthew Broderick and received 10 Tony nominations); The Toxic Avenger (OCC Award - Best Off-Broadway Musical); Ernest Shackleton Loves Me (Off-Broadway Alliance Award - Best Musical); I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (longest-running musical revue in off-Broadway history); as well as the much-produced comedies Clever Little Lies and Over the River and Through the Woods, among others. His last LJP premiere, the musical Diana, can be seen on Netflix and will make its UK premiere in a special concert presentation this December in the West End.

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, The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, 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.

Stephen Buescher (he/him), Choreographer

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Stephen recently directed the developmental workshop of York Walker’s Soul Records at the Vineyard Theatre and Manhattan Theatre Club. Off Broadway choreography credits include Covenant (Roundabout). Regional credits include Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (Center Theatre Group); A Thousand Splendid Suns, Hamlet, The Orphan of Zhao, Monstress, Underneath the Lintel, Let There Be Love, Stuck Elevator (ACT); Copper Children (OSF); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Private Lives (Long Wharf); Imaginary Invalid (Fiasco); Blues for an Alabama Sky (Lorraine Hansberry Theater); The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (San Diego Rep). Stephen graduated from CalArts, Dell’Arte, and is a member of SDC.

Walt Spangler, Scenic Designer

designs for theatre, opera and dance across the nation and around the globe. He is delighted to be back at La Jolla Playhouse, where he previously designed the world premiere of Jimmy Buffett's Escape to Margaritaville. On Broadway Walt designed the critically-acclaimed Between Riverside and Crazy, Desire Under the Elms, Tuck Everlasting, A Christmas Story The Musical, Escape to Margaritaville, Scandalous and Hollywood Arms.

Linda Cho, Costume Designer

Most recently at La Jolla Playhouse: Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord and Bhangin’ It. Broadway: Harmony; Summer, 1976; Take Me Out; Grand Horizons; Anastasia (Tony nomination); The Great Society; A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder (Tony & Henry Hewes Design Awards, Outer Critics Circle nomination); The Lifespan of a Fact; Velocity of Autumn. Her extensive body of work includes productions at acclaimed theatres and opera companies across the country and around the world. Currently residing in New York City, this Korean-born designer is on the Advisory Committee of the American Theatre Wing. Education: M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. 

Cha See, Lighting Designer

From Manila, Philippines. Obie Award Grantee, Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk nomination. As You Like It and Is It Thursday Yet? (La Jolla Playhouse). Off-Broadway: On That Day in Amsterdam (Primary Stages); You Will Get Sick (Roundabout Theatre Company); The Seagull/Woodstock, NY, One in Two (The New Group); Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons); The Fever, Lucy, Sorry for Your Loss (Audible Theater); Exception to the Rule, Covenant (Roundabout Underground); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Playwrights Horizons, BAM); Soft (MCC). Regional: Rent (Paper Mill Playhouse), among others. Upcoming: Becoming A Man (A.R.T), LOVE LOVE LOVE (Studio Theatre, DC), Oh Mary! (Lucille Lortel). Training: M.F.A. from NYU Tisch. seelightingdesign.com, @seethruuu.

Leon Rothenberg, Sound Designer

Broadway: Hillary and Clinton, The Waverly Gallery, Mike Birbiglia’s The New One, The Boys in the Band, A Doll’s House, Part 2, others. Regional: La Jolla Playhouse, Westport, Geva, The Old Globe, Barrington Stage, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Arizona Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre, Arena Stage, ACT, Pasadena Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Seattle Rep, Two River Theater, City Theatre. NY: Playwrights Horizons, Classic Stage Company, NYCC, Primary Stages, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Public Theater, others. International: Cirque du Soleil, National Theatre of Cyprus, Dijon International Festival. Interactive: MSG’s The Sphere, Spryfox/Netflix. Tony Award for Sound Design: The Nance. Info at klaxson.net.

Charles G. LaPointe, Hair and Wig Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: Over 10 productions including Side Show, SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, Blueprints to Freedom, Fly, His Girl Friday. Numerous Broadway, Touring, West End and International productions, including: Hamilton (Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award), MJ The Musical, SIX, How to Dance in Ohio (upcoming), The Cher Show (Drama Desk Award), The Band’s Visit, Beautiful, Ain’t Too Proud, Beetlejuice, SpongeBob SquarePants (Drama Desk Award), Jersey Boys, A Gentleman’s Guide…, Anastasia, In the Heights. Television: The Wiz Live! (Emmy Award nomination), Jesus Christ Superstar Live! (Emmy Award nomination and Make-Up Artists & Hair Stylist Guild Award).

Mark Bennett, Original Music

La Jolla Playhouse (partial): Queens, His Girl Friday, A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Craig Noel Award), An Iliad (Craig Noel Award), Most Wanted (commission), Dogeaters, Wonderland, The Country, Cloud Tectonics, The John Birch Society Musical (commission). Broadway (partial): JUNK, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Driving Miss Daisy, The Coast of Utopia (Drama Desk Award), Golda’s Balcony, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf. BAM/Old Vic: THE BRIDGE PROJECT: The Cherry Orchard, A Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The Tempest and Richard III. West Coast: Romeo and Juliet, Arms and the Man, Pygmalion, Twelfth Night (The Old Globe), King Charles III, Yerma (A.C.T commission), The Good Book, Our Town, Mad Forest (Berkeley Rep). Awards: 1998 OBIE (Sustained Excellence in Sound Design), Ovation and Garland Awards, 14 Drama Desk nominations.  

Wayne Barker,  Original Music

La Jolla Playhouse: Peter and the Starcatchers, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hollywood. New York: Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance!; Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony nomination, Drama Desk Award); Sister’s Follies (Basil Twist); I Love Bob (Parallel Exit). Regional: A Confederacy of Dunces (Huntington Theater); Laugh (Studio Theater); Sing for Your Shakespeare (Westport Country Playhouse); The Primrose Path, The Great Gatsby (Guthrie); Twelfth Night, The Three Musketeers (Seattle Rep); Mr. Holland’s Opus (Ogunquit Playhouse). Television: A Little Curious (HBO Family). Frequent soloist with the San Francisco Silent Film Festival (2018-present). Concert music: Encyclopedia Pandemica; Hotel Galapagos. waynebarkercomposer.com.

Gabriel Greene, Dramaturg

joined La Jolla Playhouse’s artistic staff in 2007 and currently serves as Director of Artistic Development. He has dramaturged more than thirty new plays and musicals for the Playhouse, in addition to shows at Berkeley Rep, New York Stage & Film, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf, and on Broadway and the West End. Goosebumps Alive, his immersive adaptation of R.L. Stine’s best-selling novels (co-written by Tom Salamon) premiered in 2016 at The Vaults (London). With Alex Levy, he co-wrote Safe at Home, which premiered at Mixed Blood Theatre in 2017 (Ivey Award) and has since been produced at Arizona State University and Kitchen Dog Theatre (upcoming). B.A.: University of Michigan. M.Phil: Trinity College Dublin. B.F.F.: Mia Fiorella. www.gabrielgreene.com. 

TBD Casting Co.; Stephanie Yankwitt, C.S.A., Casting 

Casting for La Jolla Playhouse includes the world premieres of The Coast Starlight, to the yellow house, Here There Are Blueberries, SUMO and Babbitt, and multiple staged readings/workshops. Current/upcoming: The Fires (Soho Rep), Here There Are Blueberries (Tectonic Theater Project & New York Theatre Workshop), Sanctuary City (TheaterWorks Hartford) and Public Obscenities (Woolly Mammoth & TFANA). Film/TV includes In the Summers (Exile/Lexicon), ReEntry (PlotNaut), and Ladies First (Culture House/Netflix). Stephanie sits on the CSA's Equity in Entertainment committee.

Martha Donaldson, Stage Manager

La Jolla Playhouse: Diana: The Musical, Come From Away. Broadway: Leopoldstadt, Diana: The Musical, The Lifespan of a Fact, The Children, The Glass Menagerie, The Crucible,  A View from the Bridge, You Can’t Take It with You, Next to Normal, [title of show], Top Girls, The Year of Magical Thinking. Off Broadway: Shows at New York Theater Workshop, The Public Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, and many others.

Kelly A. Martindale, Assistant Stage Manager

Broadway (selected): KPOP; Slave Play; Matilda, the Musical; Jesus Christ Superstar; The Farnsworth Invention; Dracula the Musical, Baz Luhrmann’s La Bohème; The Who’s Tommy. Off-Broadway (selected): Boseman & Lena; Let Me Down Easy; Hedwig & the Angry Inch. Regional: Many productions at La Jolla Playhouse, including Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Memphis and The Wiz.