America Covarrubias (Understudy: Hazel/Lily) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. A proud Mexican-American artist raised in Baja California. Regional: La Lucha (Optika Moderna); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Coronado Playhouse). Staged Readings: Tuyo Pa’ Letras (Tuyo Theatre); San Diego Latinx New Play Festival. Educational: In the Corner, By the Door (San Diego City College). Education: Current student in the MCIAT 10-Month Comprehensive Certificate Program.

Anissa Marie Griego she/her (Lily) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut! Ainadamar (The Metropolitan Opera), 1776: First National Tour (Networks); West Side Story (Houston Grand Opera); The Prom (Sharon Playhouse); The Hunchback of Notre Dame (REV Theatre Company). Education: Arizona State University. Proud descendant of the Yaqui Tribe! All my love and thanks to the DGRW squad, Brian, Amanda, Mom, Dad, Mia, and Elise. Community is everything, so remember to nourish it. @anissagriego 

Jason Heil he/him (Understudy: Chris/Glen/Mac/Wayne) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Bhangin’ It, Zhivago. Off-Broadway: Sea of Souls. Regional: Twelfth Night, Plaid Tidings (Old Globe); Mother Road, Sweat, Beachtown, Hand to God, Violet, Clybourne Park, A Christmas Carol (SD Rep); Curious Incident…(CCAE); Laguna Playhouse, Arkansas & Tennessee Repertory Theatres, Capital Stage, A.C.T., A Noise Within, and 9 seasons with the Utah, Lake Tahoe, Marin and Texas Shakespeare Festivals. Other San Diego: Lamb’s Players Theatre (Associate Artist), North Coast Rep, Cygnet Theatre, Moonlight Stage Productions, Intrepid. www.jasonheil.com 

Rebecca Jimenez (Andi) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP/Second Stage), Comedy of Errors (The Public Theater), Superstitions (New Ohio), Sketchy Eastern European Show (The Players Theatre). Regional: The Other Americans (Arena Stage), Leveling Up (New Theatre), Women Playing Hamlet (New Theatre), A Chorus Line (Delray Performing Arts Center). She has developed new work with New York Theatre Workshop, Roundabout Theater Company, Page73, Playwrights Horizons, Ojai, Playwrights Realm, and others. Education: B.F.A. from SUNY Purchase. 

Greg Keller (Chris) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Greg was born and raised in New York City and has spent most of his career there, originating roles in new plays. This past year he received an Obie Award for Sustained Achievement in Performance, a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Featured Performance in Marin Ireland’s pre-existing condition, and was in Yellow Face on Broadway, which received a Tony nomination for Best Revival of a Play. 

Patrick Kerr (Glen) 
La Jolla: Hollywood, His Girl Friday and Mother Courage. Broadway: Travesties, You Can’t Take It with You and The Ritz. Tours of My Fair Lady and The Lion King. Off Broadway: Playwrights Horizons, New York Theater Workshop, B.A.M., Minetta Lane. Select regional: The Guthrie, Yale Rep, The Old Globe, Berkeley Rep, South Coast Rep. Many TV roles: Friends, Seinfeld, Will and Grace, ER, recurring roles on Frasier, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and recently two seasons on Apple TV’s The Big Door Prize. 

Mikaela Macias (Understudy: Andi) 
La Jolla Playhouse: The Weather Busters of Beachcastle, Love All. Regional: Little Women the Musical and Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (in rep), Chronicles of Kalki, Mother of the Maid (Moxie Theatre, Craig Noel Award nomination); Vanity Fair (Scripps Ranch Theatre); Seasons: A New Musical Song Cycle (Oceanside Theatre Company); Into the Breeches (North Coast Repertory Theatre); West Side Story, Songs for a New World (Teatros San Diego); Noel, Noel (San Diego Symphony). Mikaela won the SD Critics Circle 2024 Actor of the Year award. Education: SDSU, BADA (upcoming). Instagram: @mikaelarmacias 

Jason Maddy he/him (Wayne) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. San Diego theatre credits: Productions at San Diego Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Cygnet Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Moonlight Stage Productions, San Diego Musical Theater, Lamb’s Players Theatre, Ion Theatre Company, and was seen most recently in True West at Roustabouts Theatre Company. Regional credits: Utah Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, and Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival. Jason holds an M.F.A. from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is currently the Head of the Acting program at San Diego School for the Creative and Performing Arts. 

Serenity Mariana she/her (Hazel)
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. National Tour: Peter Pan. Regional: Can’t Drink Salt Water (Montana Repertory Theatre); The Guy Who Didn't Like Musicals (CJ Productions); The Tempest (Classic Theatre of Maryland). Education: B.F.A. in Drama from NYU Tisch (2025). 

Mai Lan Nguyen she/her (Understudy: Samantha) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. UC San Diego credits: Dirty Martini, Nerve Endings, Rogues’ Trial, Vinegar Tom, Cancelina, The Comedy of Errors, Orlando. Select credits: peerless, Everybody, Measure for Measure, and Midsummer Night’s Dream. Education: M.F.A. Candidate from UC San Diego; M.S. in Computer Science, B.A. in Theater and B.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Instagram: @iammaia123, website: https://nmailan.github.io. 

Mike Sears (Mac) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Sideways, His Girl Friday, Hands on a Hardbody, Bonnie and Clyde. NYC: When Words Fail (Houseman Theatre); Leap (Abingdon Theatre); To Have and to Hold (Phil Bosakowski Theatre). Off-Off Broadway: The American Globe Theatre, Boomerang Theatre Summer Shakespeare, New Dramatists, New York Fringe Festival, The Present Company, NY Musical Theatre Works, The Producer’s Club and The Duplex. Henry 6, Trouble in Mind, What You Are, Rain, Kiss Me, Kate, Othello, Henry V/GFA, Twelfth Night/GFA (The Old Globe); Parlour Song (Backyard Renaissance, Critics Circle Award); A Behanding in Spokane (Critics Circle Award), Man from Nebraska (Cygnet Theatre); The Mystery of Love and Sex, Birds of a Feather (Diversionary Theatre); Tuesday’s with Morrie (North Coast Rep). TV: Law & Order: SVU. Training: William Esper Studio in New York City. www.mikesears.org, @Mike.Sears.5050

Kennedy Tolson she/her (Understudy: Maisey) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Marble Rooftop, Emma Has Church (DNA New Work Series). Film/TV: Pvalley (Starz). UC San Diego: Refuse It, Gone Missing, Vinegar Tom, Cancelina, X, Orlando. Education: M.F.A. Candidate at UC San Diego. 

Clarissa Vickerie (Maisey) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: The Great Privation (How to Flip Ten Cents into a Dollar), Push Party. Education: M.F.A. from The Juilliard School (Group 54), B.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

Haley Wong (Samantha) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: The Welkin (Atlantic Theater Company); Mary Gets Hers (The Playwrights Realm/MCC). Also in New York: Button Lake Band Camp (Clubbed Thumb); Events (The Hearth). Regional: John Proctor is the Villain (The Huntington). Education: B.A. from Brown University.

Eliana Theologides Rodriguez (Playwright) 
is a writer and dancer whose plays include Indian Princesses (2024 Terrence McNally Fellowship, 2023/2024 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellowship), Marble Rooftop (2024 DNA New Work Series), Poor Queenie (Subtext Studio 2023), and Juniperfect (2021 commission with Adventure Theatre MTC). She is currently under commission at South Coast Repertory and is a proud member of EST Youngblood and the Clubbed Thumb Early Career Writers Group 24/25. Eliana wants to thank the incredible staff at the Playhouse for making all of this possible. elianatheologidesrodriguez.com

Miranda Cornell (Director) 
is a Jewpanese director with a passion for the dialectic, the sincere, and the strange. She has directed and developed work with Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Clubbed Thumb, Cleveland Play House, Stages Houston, Playwrights Realm, Ma-Yi and the Asian American Arts Alliance, among others. Associate and assistant directing credits with directors such as Danya Taymor, Robert Icke, Chay Yew, Michael Greif and Rachel Chavkin. Miranda is a former Van Lier Fellow in Theater at A4, a member of the Roundabout Directors Group Cohort 2, a 2022/23 2050 Artistic Fellow at NYTW, and a 2023/24 Clubbed Thumb New Play Directing Fellow. She is thrilled to return to La Jolla Playhouse after serving as the associate director on Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord and The Outsiders in the 2022/23 season, and is currently the Associate and Resident Director of The Outsiders on Broadway and upcoming North American tour. B.A.: Vassar College. mirandacornell.com 

Emmie Finckel they/them (Scenic Designer) 
La Jolla Playhouse: As You Like It. Off-Broadway: In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot (Playwrights Horizons), Comedy of Errors (Public Theater: Mobile Unit), Medea: Re-Versed (Red Bull), See What I Wanna See (Out of the Box), 53% Of (2nd Stage), The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre), In the Penal Colony (NYTW Next Door). Regional: Ragtime (Goodspeed); Becoming a Man (A.R.T.); Problems Between Sisters (Studio Theater); She Loves Me (Long Wharf); The Hot Wing King (Hartford Stage); Sanctuary City (TheaterWorks Hartford); the ripple, the wave that carried me home (Yale Repertory Theater). B.A.: Wesleyan University; M.F.A.: Yale School of Drama. www.efinckel.com 

Samantha C. Jones she/her (Costume Designer) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut! Previous design credits include Off-Broadway: The Lonely Few (MCC); King James (Manhattan Theatre Club). Regional theatre credits include work at Center Theatre Group, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Huntington Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, McCarter Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Jackalope Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Seattle Children's Theatre, First Stage Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Peninsula Players Theater and others. Upcoming productions: The Color Purple (Goodman Theatre); Play On! (Signature Theatre). Her work can be viewed at samanthacjones.com.

Mextly Couzin (Lighting Designer)
Credits include: Broadway: JOB. Off-Broadway: N/A, Fiasco Theatre’s Pericles, A Good Day to Me Not to You, Here We Are (ALD), Straight Line Crazy, peerless, Tambo & Bones. Regional: Mexodus (Berkeley Rep, Baltimore Center Stage/Mosaic), Henry VI (The Old Globe); Das Rheingold (Seattle Opera); Incendiary (Woolly Mammoth); West Side Story (Centro de Bellas Artes Puerto Rico); La Belle et la Bête (Opera Paralléle). International: Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Nuits de Fourvière. 2023 recipient of The 1/52 Project grant. M.F.A.: University of California, San Diego ’20. mextlycouzin.com 

Salvador Zamora he/him (Sound Designer) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off-Broadway: The Fires, Sumo (assoc.), Here There Are Blueberries (assoc.). Regional: Primary Trust (Barrington Stage Co.). Select designer credits: How to Put on a Sock (LJP WOW Festival); Bunny Bunny (Invisible Dog); Carrie: The Musical (Loyola Marymount University); The Grown Ups (Baby Teeth LA); Tick, Tick…Boom! (Cygnet Theatre); The Importance of Being Earnest, Everybody (Antaeus Theatre Co.). Select assistant credits: Derecho, Babbitt, The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, Love All (LJP); Destiny of Desire (The Old Globe). www.suavecito.design @suavecito_sounddesign

Sierra Rosetta (Dramaturg) 
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Inherit the Wind (Goodman Theatre); The Matriarchs (Eugene O'Neill Theater Center); Literary Associate (Native Voices). Education: Pending Ph.D. in Theatre and Native American Studies from Northwestern University, B.A. in Theatre from Northwestern College.

tbd casting co.; Stephanie Yankwitt, CSA (Casting)
For La Jolla Playhouse: Primary Trust, 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 

Alexa Burn she/her (Stage Manager) 
La Jolla Playhouse: 3 Summers of Lincoln, Your Local Theater Presents..., Derecho, Primary Trust. 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), 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. 

Jack Ganguly he/they (Assistant Stage Manager)
La Jolla Playhouse: Debut! Broadway credits include: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Our Town, The Outsiders, MJ. Off-Broadway credits: Gatz, Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge (The Public Theater & Elevator Repair Service); I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan, I’m Revolting, The Far Country, Cornelia Street (Atlantic Theatre Company); Breaking the Story (Second Stage), The Connector (MCC); Monsoon Wedding (St. Ann’s Warehouse); Public Obscenities (Soho Rep). Regional: Ulysses (Elevator Repair Service & Bard Fisher Center), Fiddler on the Roof (Paper Mill Playhouse). Events: MisCast ‘25, Joe’s Pub, Broadway Backwards, Broadway Inspirational Voices. Education: B.F.A.: NYU Tisch. Love to Mom, Priya, and Lalo.