Kirk Brown*, Understudy

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Monsters of the American Cinema, The Glass Menagerie (Diversionary Theatre); A Black Man’s Song (The Old Globe); The Color Purple (New Village Arts). Off-Off-Broadway: Kane and Habil (La MaMa); Life Is Short Cherish Every Moment (The Producers Club). Television: First Wives Club, The Last One. Film: The Recipe, Napkins. Education: University of Pennsylvania, The Wharton School. hisnameiskirk.com

Caleb Eberhardt*, Kenneth

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: An Enemy of the People (Drama League Award nomination), Choir Boy (MTC). Off-Broadway: The Comeuppance (Signature Theatre—Drama League Award nomination, OBIE), On Sugarland (NYTW — AUDELCO Award nomination), Is God Is (Soho Rep), Esai's Table (Cherry Lane Theatre). Regional: Choir Boy (Alliance Theatre, Geffen Playhouse). Select Film/TV: Rob Peace (Sundance Official Selection), Manodrome (Berlinale Official Selection), Chestnut, Judas and the Black Messiah, Betty (HBO), Demascus (SXSW Official Selection). Education: B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase. @rosehardt

Rebecca S'Manga Frank*, Corrina and others

La Jolla Playhouse: Althea Gibson in Love All by Anna Deavere Smith. Off-Broadway: At the Wedding (Lincoln Center LCT3), The Berlin Diaries (59E59), Is Edward Snowden Single? (The New Ohio), Coriolanus (Red Bull Theatre). Regional: Indecent (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), we, the Invisibles (Humana at Actors Theatre of Louisville), Sundance Morocco. TV: Prodigal Son (FOX), Lisey's Story (Apple TV), Elementary (CBS). Education: M.F.A. NYU Grad Acting. rebeccasmanga.com

Morgan Hollingsworth (he/him), Understudy Musician (Sept 24 – Oct 6)

Morgan is a San Diego composer and actor/musician. Performance credits: La Jolla Playhouse: The Farnsworth Invention, The Scottish Play. Regional: Once (CCAE Theatricals, Laguna Playhouse, Broadway Rose), Nickel Mines (ACT of CT, NYMF). Composing credits: Musicals: The House of Edgar Allan Poe (NYMF, Weber State University), More Than All the Sky (The Green Room 42, Eugene O’Neill semi-finalist), Call Your Mother (readings at The Chance Theater and CCAE Theatricals). TV/Film: Fracture (20th Century Fox/Hulu), Let There Be Light (Seattle Film Fest). Alumnus of the 2018 Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project. B.F.A. in Music Theater from UC Irvine. @morganhollingsworth www.morganhollingsworth.com

Scott Striegel*, Understudy

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: High Strung Quartet, Y2Gay. Regional: Trouble in Mind (The Old Globe); Mother Road, Long Story Short (San Diego Rep); Oxford's Will (Colony Studio - LA). Education: American Academy of Dramatic Arts, New York. 

James Udom*, Bert

Off-Broadway: The Rolling Stone (Lincoln Center); The Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (Playwrights Realm); Miss Julie (Classic Stage Company); Macbeth (Public Theatre); The Winter’s Tale (Pearl Theatre); Tamburlaine (Theatre for a New Audience). Select Regional: The Taming of the Shrew (The Old Globe); Father Comes Home From the Wars (Yale Rep, American Conservatory Theatre; Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Best Actor); Julius Caesar (Shakespeare and Company); Romeo and Juliet (Elm Shakespeare Company). Film: Macbeth (A24), Judas and the Black Messiah (Warner Bros), Murder City (Village Roadshow), Crown Heights (Amazon Studios). TV: Upcoming Apple TV series Chief of War, Echo 3 (Apple TV), The Sandman (Netflix), Accused (Hulu), Chicago PD, Law & Order: SVU, Evil (NBC). Education: M.F.A., Yale School of Drama (Princess Grace Award, Hershel Williams Prize for Excellence in Acting).

James Urbaniak*, Clay and others

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: The Rivals. Off-Broadway: Originated the title role in Will Eno’s Thom Pain (based on nothing) (Drama Desk Award nomination), Richard Foreman’s The Universe (Obie Award). Off-Off-Bway: Clubbed Thumb, Target Margin, Elevator Repair Service, co-founder Arden Party. Regional: Travesties (McCarter Theatre); John Ross Bowie’s Brushstroke (Odyssey, L.A.). Film & TV: Oppenheimer, The Fabelmans, American Splendor, Henry Fool, Difficult People, Review, The Office, For All Mankind, Better Call Saul, Palm Royale and The Venture Bros. With Brie Williams he co-wrote the scripted podcasts Getting on with James Urbaniak, A Night Called Tomorrow and I Will Never Lie to You. 

Luke Wygodny*, Musician / Original Music

La Jolla Playhouse: Hundred Days. Singer-Songwriter/Actor based in NY’s Hudson Valley. Luke composed and performed the music for the world-premiere Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Primary Trust at Roundabout and is now honored to bring it over to the West Coast! National Tours: Once, American Idiot and Soul Doctor. Regional Credits: Godspell as Judas (PCLO); Disappearing Man as Jack (St. Louis Rep) and more. Wygodny writes and performs with his Americana/Folk band The Heartstrings Project. Follow for updates! @Lukewygodny @Theheartstringsproject 

Dianne Yvette, Understudy

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: The Colored Museum (Common Ground Theatre); The COVID Monologues (online/Breath of Fire Latina Theater Ensemble); Old Globe Community Voices series. Selected Regional: Man in Love (Kansas City Rep); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Eclipsed (Unicorn Theatre); Nine Who Dared, Miracle Worker (Coterie); Hamlet (Kansas City Actors Theatre). Education: Theatre and Film, University of Kansas.

Eboni Booth, Playwright

is a writer and actor from New York City. Her plays include Primary Trust (Roundabout Theatre; Pulitzer Prize for Drama, Outer Circle Critics Award) and Paris (Atlantic Theater). For television, she has written for Hulu’s We Were the Lucky Ones and HBO Max’s Julia. As an actor, Eboni has appeared in productions at Playwrights Horizons, LCT3, Manhattan Theater Club, Ars Nova, WP Theater, Page 73, Soho Rep., Clubbed Thumb and more. Eboni is a resident playwright at New Dramatists, and the recipient of a Dramatists Guild Horton Foote Award, a Steinberg Playwright Award and a Helen Merrill Award for Playwriting. She is a graduate of Juilliard’s playwriting program and the University of Vermont.

Knud Adams, Director

is an Obie Award-winning director of artful new plays, based in NYC. His world-premiere productions include the consecutive Pulitzer Prize winners English and Primary Trust, and this season, he will direct English on Broadway. His shows have been lauded by critics as “cinematically precise” and “customarily gorgeous,” and have been celebrated on Best of the Year lists by The New York Times, New York Magazine, The New Yorker and The Washington Post. Knud is an alumnus of the Drama League Next Stage Residency and Fall Directing Fellowship, Soho Rep Writer/Director Lab, Playwrights Horizons Directing Residency, and Kenyon College. www.knudadams.com.

Marsha Ginsburg, Scenic Designer

is a visual artist and stage designer working between performance, opera and photo/installation formats. She received her M.F.A. from NYU Tisch and B.F.A. from the Cooper Union School of Art and post-grad Whitney Museum Independent Study Program. She has designed spaces and clothes for theaters and museums in NYC, regionally throughout the United States and internationally (Germany, Switzerland, France, Greece, UAE). Recent US work: The Lehman Trilogy (Shakespeare DC/Guthrie Theater); Primary Trust (Roundabout); English, I’m Revolting (Atlantic Theater); A Tender Thing (Barrington Stage); Treemonisha (Opera Theater Saint Louis). Upcoming: English at Roundabout; Data (Arena Stage); Don Pasquale (Opera Theater Saint Louis). Grants/Awards: Obie Award for the Creative Team of English; Obie Award for durational installation Habit (with David Levine); multiple residencies at MacDowell Colony and Robert Wilson's Watermill Center. Rome Prize, the American Academy in Rome. A dedicated educator, she is currently an Associate Arts Professor at NYU Abu Dhabi.

Sophia Choi, Costume Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: KPOP (Tony Award nomination). Off-Broadway: White Rose: The Musical (LDK Productions), Notes on My Mother’s Decline (The Play Company & ABTC). Regional: Cult of Love (Berkeley Rep), An Enemy of the People (Yale Rep). Other selected theatre credits: Intelligence (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Anna May Wong: The Actress Who Died a Thousand Deaths (Mabou Mines). Assistant design credits: Sinking Spring (Apple TV+), Kaleidoscope (Netflix), White House Plumbers (HBO). Education: M.F.A. in Design from Yale School of Drama, B.F.A. in Theatre Design & Production from VCU School of the Arts. @sophiachoi 

Masha Tsimring, Lighting Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: to the yellow house. Off-Broadway: Six Characters (LCT3); Staff Meal (Playwrights Horizons); Grief Hotel (Clubbed Thumb); Sad Boys in Harpy Land (Playwrights Horizons/Abrons Art Center); Terce (Prototype); Self Portraits (Bushwick Starr); Montag (Soho Rep). Regional: English (Barrington Stage Company); Eternal Life, Part 1 (The Wilma); The Appointment (Lightning Rod Special); Vietgone (Guthrie); Tick, Tick…Boom! (Portland Center Stage). Dance/Opera: Me. You. We. They. (LA Dance Project); Deepe Darknesse (Lisa Fagan/Lena Engelstein); The Hunt (Miller Theater); Rodelinda (Hudson Hall); Der Freischütz (Wolf Trap Opera). She is a proud member of USA829. More info at www.mashald.com. 

Mikaal Sulaiman, Sound Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Enemy of the People, Doubt, The Thanksgiving Play, Fat Ham, Death of a Salesman, Cost of Living [Composer], Macbeth, Thoughts of a Colored Man. Off-Broadway: pray (Ars Nova), Primary Trust (Roundabout), On Sugarland (NYTW), Sanctuary City (NYTW), Fairview (Soho Rep), Underground Railroad Game (Ars Nova), among others. Awards: Tony Award nom, Drama Desk nom(s), Obie Award(s), Creative Capital Award, Henry Hewes Award(s), Audelco Award and CTG Sherwood Award. www.mikaal.com 

tbd casting co., Casting

(Margaret Dunn, Tanis Parenteau, Nia Smith & Stephanie Yankwitt, she/her)

For La Jolla Playhouse: Velour: A Drag Spectacular, Derecho, Babbitt, to the yellow house, Here There Are Blueberries and The Coast Starlight, as well as many readings and workshops. Select credits, theater: Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (Broadway), Fairview (2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Soho Rep, TFANA, Berkeley Rep), Here There Are Blueberries (Shakespeare Theatre Company, NYTW and the upcoming National Tour) and Public Obscenities (Soho Rep, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, TFANA). tbd casting co. cast the award-winning film In the Summers, written/directed by Alessandra Lacorazza, which won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival and was an official selection of Tribeca, Cartagena, LA Liff Film Festivals). It will be released in select cities this fall. @tbdcastingco 

Dean Remington*, Stage Manager

La Jolla Playhouse: The Ballad of Johnny and June, The Outsiders, The Luckiest, Annual Gala, WOW Festival. National Tours: The Lion King, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast. Regional: Outside Mullingar, Manifest Destinitis (San Diego Rep); The Outsider (North Coast Rep); Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Pride and Prejudice, When the Rain Stops Falling, Every Brilliant Thing, Sharon, The Virgin Trial, The Wind and the Breeze, The Effect of Gamma Rays..., Shockheaded Peter, A Christmas Carol (Cygnet Theatre). International: Cameron Mackintosh’s Hey, Mr. Producer!, Grease, 42nd Street, Anything Goes, A Chorus Line, Meet Me in St. Louis. 

Alexa Burn*, (she/her) Assistant Stage Manager

La Jolla Playhouse: Derecho. Select credits include Clyde’s (ASM) at the Denver Center; The Royale (SM) at American Players Theatre; Bald Sisters (SM) at San Jose Stage; Intimate Apparel (ASM), The Three Musketeers (ASM), Chicken and Biscuits (ASM), The Great Leap (ASM), Grand Horizons (ASM) and Hood (ASM) at the Asolo Repertory Theatre; and The Code (SM) at American Conservatory Theatre SF. Alexa was also a stage manager at the Disneyland Resort for many years, working with the Disneyland Band, Dapper Dans, and many more. 

Lily Fitzsimmons^‡, Stage Management Resident

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: The Seagull (Steppenwolf); King Lear, Love's Labour’s Lost (St. Louis Shakespeare Festival). UC San Diego: Cancelina, X, The Promise, I Found a Zipper, Blu, Machinal. Other: COVID Safety Manager (Steppenwolf, The Muny), Production Coordinator for Pam Farr Summer Shakespeare Studio (The Old Globe), Event Coordinator for The Polar Express Train Ride St. Louis (SLAY Events). Education: M.F.A. candidate from UC San Diego.