Kailey Madoka Agpaoa, (she/they) Understudy

La Jolla Playhouse: Abeba and the Tall Grass (2024 POP Tour) and Jin vs. the Beach (2023 POP Tour). Regional: Chronicles of Kalki (Moxie Theatre); Pásale, Pásale (TuYo Theatre). Education: National Theatre Institute at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center (Miranda Family Fellow). Upcoming: Heart Sellers (North Coast Rep). 

Marco Barricelli*, Scrooge

La Jolla Playhouse: to the yellow house. Broadway: Tamara. Off-Broadway: Agamemnon. Artistic Director, Shakespeare Santa Cruz (2008-2014). Associate Artist at the American Conservatory Theatre, and many seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Theatre credits also include: Subaru Theatre, Tokyo; Guthrie Theatre, Center Theatre Group, The Old Globe Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arizona Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, among many others. Screen credits include Pixar’s Luca, Ciao, Alberto, The Book of Daniel, Holy Silence, L.A. Law, Romeo and Juliet, Manhunt 2 and 11^th Hour. Member of acting faculty, UC San Diego. Education: The Juilliard School. 

Juliet Brett*, (she/her) Lucy Cratchit

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Last seen in San Diego in Crime and Punishment: A Comedy (The Old Globe). Select TV/Film: Nicole Fosse in Fosse/Verdon (FX), The Walking Dead (AMC), New Amsterdam (NBC), Red Oaks (Amazon), CSI: NY, Law & Order: SVU, Adrian Lyne's Deep Water (20^th Century), Noah Baumbach's Mistress America (Searchlight), J.C Chandor's A Most Violent Year (A24). NY Theatre: Napoli, Brooklyn (Roundabout); The Orchard (Baryshnikov Center); The Jacksonian (The New Group); What I Did Last Summer (Signature); Desire (59e59). Regional: Mr. Wolf (by Rajiv Joseph; world premiere, Cleveland Play House). Socials: @julietbrett 

Xavier J. Bush, (they/he) Fred

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Sparky in Plaid Tidings, Sweeney Todd (San Diego Musical Theatre); Richie in A Chorus Line, Angel in Kinky Boots (Moonlight Amphitheatre); Cosmo in Singin’ in the Rain (New Village Arts); Benny in In the Heights (Palos Verdes Performing Arts). Special thanks to Jacole, Les and Anna for this opportunity. All the love to Van Angelo. 

Miles G. Jackson*, (he/him) Eddie

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Chicken & Biscuits. Off-Broadway: Stargazers (Page 73); Pay the Writer (Signature Theatre); Three Sisters (Sheen Center); Endlings (NYTW). Regional: Endlings (ART); Hand to God (TheaterWorks Hartford); Typhoid Mary, Tribes (Barrington Stage); Miss Bennet...Pemberley (Repertory Theatre of St. Louis); Mama's Boy, My Name Is Asher Lev (George Street Playhouse); 4000 Miles (Capital Rep); Mad Forest (Williamstown Theatre Festival). TV: The Other Two (HBO Max), Hunters (Amazon), The Last O.G. (TBS), Monsterland (Hulu), Lisey’s Story (Apple TV). Film: A Different Man (A24), Problemista (A24). 

Tony Larkin*, (he/him) Bob Cratchit

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: The Lehman Trilogy (Guthrie Theatre); Carapace (Alliance Theatre); Hamlet, A Midsummer Night's Dream (GA Shakespeare); Romeo and Juliet (Gray Mallard Theater Co.); Indulgences (New Rep); The Wanderers, Significant Other, The People's Violin (Six Points Theater); Moxie (Theatrical Outfit); End of the Rainbow (Highlands Playhouse); Shear Madness, It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Penobscot Theater Co.); Clyde & Bonnie: A Folktale (Aurora Theater). Guthrie Teaching Artist. Upcoming: Appropriate (Gable Stage). TV: Monk, I Was There, GA Lottery, Quilted Northern, Drop Dead Diva, Ben 10. Education: B.F.A. from FSU.

Victor A. Morris*, (he/him) Understudy

La Jolla Playhouse: His Girl Friday, A Lonely Boy’s Guide to Survival (and Werewolves) (POP Tour). Regional: Henry VI, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Trouble in Mind (The Old Globe); 1222 Oceanfront: A Black Family Christmas (New Village Arts); Storyville (San Diego Rep); All Is Calm (San Diego Opera). Principal Tubist, Westminster Orchestra. Franco Corelli, Grace Bumbry, voice. Michael Russell, tuba. 

Maria Elena Ramirez*, (she/her) Mrs. Cratchit

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Fish in the Dark with Larry David, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. National Tours: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time and War Horse, both with the National Theatre of Great Britain. Off-Broadway: 72 Miles to Go (Roundabout); Mary Page Marlowe and Living Out (Second Stage); Important Hats… (MTC); The Thugs (Soho Rep). Regional includes: Guthrie Theatre, Berkeley Rep, ART, Alley. Film/Television: St. Vincent, The Women, Blue Bloods, New Amsterdam, The Blacklist, Defending Jacob, FBI, Elementary, The Other Two, Person of Interest, Army Wives, Law & Order(s), The Sopranos. M.F.A.: NYU. 

Karson St. John, (she/her) Understudy

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Emcee in Cabaret (Cygnet Theatre; SD Critics Circle Award); How I Learned to Drive (Backyard Renaissance); Little Dog Laughed (SD Critics Circle Award), [title of show] (Diversionary Theatre); In the Wake, Threepenny Opera (San Diego Rep); Brownie Points (Lamb’s Players); Ten Cent Night (Moxie Theatre); As You Like It (New Village Arts/Moonlight). 

Jared Van Heel*, (he/him) Understudy

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. International Tour: Walking with Dinosaurs (The Arena Spectacular). Off-Broadway: The Awesome ‘80’s Prom (Davenport Theatrical). Regional: Tartuffe, Don’t Dress for Dinner (Laguna Playhouse & North Coast Rep); Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Julius Caesar, As You Like It, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Old Globe); The Liar, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Cmplt Wrks of Wlm Shkspr (Abridged) (Texas Shakespeare Festival); The Trip to Bountiful, Frankenstein Unplugged, Betty’s Summer Vacation, Cyclone, Breach (Montana Repertory Theatre); Antony & Cleopatra (Harlequin Productions); American Midget (Trembling Stage/FringeNYC). 

Seth Weaver, (he/him) Understudy

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Juice (Wayward Artist); Macbeth (Will Geer’s Theatrical Botanicum); Orange Flower Water (Little Theater). Education: B.F.A. CSU-Fullerton. Thanks to my family, Jess, and my agent Ed. (MAG Talent). @sethweaver98

Anna Ouyang Moench, Playwright

is an award-winning playwright and screenwriter. Her plays include Man of God, Birds of North America, Mothers and Sin Eaters. Anna’s work has been produced at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, East West Players, Playwrights Realm, NAATCO at the Public Theater, Mosaic Theater Company, InterAct, Theater Mu, and many others. She is a former Jerome Fellow at the Playwrights’ Center, Van Lier Fellow at the Lark, and Page One Fellow at the Playwrights Realm. She is the recipient of two 2023 WGA Awards for her work on Severance (Apple TV+), the 2020 Steinberg Playwright Award, the Gerbode Special Award in the Arts, the Paul Stephen Lim Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, and the NYFA Award in Playwriting/Screenwriting. Anna received her M.F.A. in Playwriting from UC San Diego and now lives in Los Angeles with her family. 

Les Waters, Director

is an Obie Award-winning and Tony-nominated director. His productions have been seen on Broadway, Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, Signature Theatre Company, The Public Theater, Second Stage Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, National Asian American Theatre Company, Clubbed Thumb, Soho Rep and Brooklyn Academy of Music, and regionally at La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Berkeley Rep, American Conservatory Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre and Yale Rep. From 1995-2003, he was head of the M.F.A. directing program at UC San Diego; 2003-2012 Associate Artistic Director of Berkeley Rep; and 2012-18 Artistic Director of Actors Theatre of Louisville. He is both the subject and co-author of The Theatre of Les Waters: More Like the Weather, edited by Scott T. Cummings, published by Routledge (2022). This will mark his sixth Playhouse production.

dots, Scenic Designers

is an award-winning design collective based in NYC. Originally from Colombia, South Africa, and Japan, they are Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa. Recent highlights include the Broadway productions of Romeo + Juliet, An Enemy of the People (Tony Award nomination for Best Scenic Design of a Play); Appropriate (Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations for Outstanding Scenic Design); The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window; and Oh, Mary! Recent awards include a 2024 Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Design, 2023 and 2024 Henry Hewes Design Award. designbydots.com. 

Annie Smart, Costume Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: Sheridan, Going to St Ives, The Importance of Being Earnest, Nora, Loot, Wintertime. Broadway: In the Next Room. National Theatre, London: The Skriker, The Mountain Giants, The Father, Black Snow. Off-Broadway: Othello, Fen, Big Love, Ice Cream with Hot Fudge, Danny Hoch’s Taking Over. Credits include Berkeley Rep, California Shakespeare Festival, ACT San Francisco, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, The Guthrie, Long Wharf Theatre, Steppenwolf, Magic Theater, etc.; also many regional UK theatres and The Royal Court London. Most recently: Don Giovanni for the Merola Project, San Francisco Opera. Professor at UC San Diego and Continuing Lecturer at UC Berkeley, recently retired. 

Yi Zhao, Lighting Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Theatre: Broadway: I Need That, The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony Award nomination). New York: Lincoln Center Theater, Signature Theatre, NYTW, Soho Rep, Manhattan Theatre Club. Regional: Guthrie Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Theatre (DC), Mark Taper Forum, Dallas Theater Center, Wilma Theater, A.C.T., Berkeley Rep. Opera: Metropolitan Opera, Norwegian National Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Opera Colorado, Detroit Opera, Opera Omaha. Dance: Sasha Waltz & Guests (Germany), Ballet de Lorraine (France). Upcoming: Purple Rain (Minneapolis, Broadway), Lincoln in the Bardo (LA Opera, Met Opera). www.yi-zhao.com 

Ryan Rumery, Composer/Sound Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: The Luckiest.  Broadway: Stereophonic, Between Riverside and Crazy, Be More Chill, Fool for Love, Thurgood.  Film: Food and Country (2023 Sundance), Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles (2020 Tribeca), America’s Pandemic (2020 WaPo). Additional music for City of Gold (2015 Sundance), Awake: A Dream From Standing Rock (2017 Tribeca), How to Let Go of the World (2016 Sundance) and When We Walk (2019 Hot Docs). 2017 alum of the Sundance Institute Music and Sound Design Lab: Documentary. Music and mixer for “This American Life."

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

La Jolla Playhouse: Derecho, The Ballad of Johnny and June, SUMO, The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, Bhangin’ It, to the yellow house, The Last Tiger in Haiti (makeup). Broadway: The Outsiders (+ National Tour 2025). Off-Broadway: SUMO (The Public; 2025). Regional: La Cage aux Folles (Pasadena Playhouse); Clyde’s (Moxie Theatre); A Transparent Musical (CTGLA; Makeup); La Boheme, Barber of Seville (SDO); Sweeney Todd, Little Women, Kiss Me, Kate (Seagle Music Colony). Education: B.A., SDSU. Mi familia: Gracias for your unwavering support. I’m here to amplify underrepresented voices. YOUR story matters. 

Taylor Williams, CSA, Casting

is an Artios Award-winning Casting Director. Film: Good One (Sundance Selection 2024), The Front Room (A24), Omni Loop (2am Films), Rocky’s Deli (Ben Cohen), What the Constitution Means to Me (Amazon Prime). Broadway: Romeo and Juliet, All In, Stereophonic, Illinoise, An Enemy of the People, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, POTUS: Or, Behind Every Great Dumbass Are Seven Women Trying to Keep Him Alive, Slave Play, Is This a Room & Dana H, What the Constitution Means to Me. Taylorwilliamscasting.com 

Kasson Marroquin*, (they/he) Stage Manager

La Jolla Playhouse: Kill Local. Off-Broadway: Orlando (Signature Theatre); Wet Brain (Playwrights Horizons & MCC); The Thin Place (Playwrights Horizons); Wolf Play, The Light, Charm (MCC); Montag (Soho Rep.); Hamlet, Oresteia (Park Avenue Armory); Out of Time (NAATCO & The Public Theater); BLISS (Breaking the Binary Theatre); Make Me Gorgeous! (triangle productions!). Regional: Quixote Nuevo (Hartford Stage). Dance/Touring: DESCENT (Kinetic Light); The Big Five-OH!, Come to Your Senses, Shadowland, Shadowland the New Adventure, Pilobolus at The Joyce Theater (Pilobolus); On Their Bodies, Footprints (The American Dance Festival). Music/Opera: The Marriage of Figaro (Little Island); Path of Miracles, Tree of Codes (Spoleto Festival USA). Events: MCC Theater’s Miscast, Primary Stages Gala, San Diego Comic-Con’s The Good Place Activation, Yo-Yo Ma’s Day of Action, Queer Liberation March Rally, and many readings, workshops, and corporate events. Education: B.A., University of North Texas, M.F.A., UC San Diego.

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 & 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.