Maya Sofia Enciso (Understudy: Nora/Carrie) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: One of the Good Ones, Murder on the Orient Express (The Old Globe), Fragmentos De Aire, Star of Ocotillo (Onstage Playhouse), Pásale Pásale (Tuyo Theatre), West Side Story (Teatro San Diego), Rent (San Diego Musical Theatre), Cinderella: A Salsa Fairytale (The Coterie), Oy to the World! Christmas with a Twist (El Portal Theatre). 

Petey Gibson (Understudy: Ty) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Becoming a Man (American Repertory Theater); TV: Alert, Broad City, Grace & Frankie, Transparent, NCIS: New Orleans.

Kineta Kunutu she/her (Nora) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off Broadway: Malvolio (Classical Theatre of Harlem). Off-Off-Broadway: But I Cd Only Whisper (The Flea). Regional: Slave Play (Center Theatre Group); A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival). TV credits include: Before, Citadel, The Blacklist and The Good Fight. Voice Over: Kung Fu Panda: Dragon Knight. Audiobooks: various. Education: M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. 

Linda Libby she/her (Understudy: Dale)  

La Jolla Playhouse: Babbitt u/s, Put Your House in Order, Ether Dome. Regional: Oklahoma!, Rocky Horror Show, Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812, Cabaret, Gypsy, Company, Importance of Being Earnest (Cygnet), Guys and Dolls (The Old Globe), An Iliad (New Village Arts), Persuasion (Lamb's Players). Education: Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, M.F.A. from Temple University.   

Richard Lozano, Jr. he/him (Understudy: First)  

La Jolla Playhouse: Mother of God, The Jersey Devil Is a Papi Chulo (Latinx New Play Festival). Regional: Thomas! (Mill Mountain Theatre); Hoy No Me Puedo Levantar (Cultural Center); Black and Latino Playwrights Conference. Education: M.F.A. in Acting from UC San Diego, B.F.A. in Acting and a B.A. in Dance from Texas State University. 

Keren Lugo she/her (Carrie) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off Broadway: Much Ado About Nothing, Comedy of Errors, Romeo y Julieta, Privacy (Public Theater); The Irrepressible Magic of the Tropics (INTAR); Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!  (Soho Rep); Stargazers (Page 73); At the Wedding (LCT3); Actually, We’re F*cked  (Cherry Lane); Two Mile Hollow (WP Theater). Regional: Yale Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Two River, Baltimore Center Stage, Chautauqua. TV: New Amsterdam (NBC), Orange Is the New Black (Netflix), The Americans (FX). Education: The University of Puerto Rico, NYU Graduate Acting. 

John Padilla he/him (Third) 

La Jolla Playhouse: El Henry (Without Walls co-production with San Diego Repertory). Regional: Bad Hombres/Good Wives, Manifest Destinitis, Zoot Suit, Water & Power, Bandido, Marriage Is Forever, Burning Patience (San Diego Repertory); White Linen, Comedy of Errors, Macbeth, The Relapse, Night of the Iguana (The Old Globe); The Madres, References To Salvador Dali Make Me Hot (Moxie); Elliot: a Soldier’s Fugue (Ion); Man of La Mancha, Oklahoma (Lyric); The Fantasticks (Coronado Playhouse); Vagabond King, Pirates of Penzance (SD Civic Light Opera). 

Armando Riesco he/him (Second) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Junk (Raul Rivera). Off-Broadway: Deep Blue Sound, Toast (Public Theater); Water by the Spoonful (Second Stage); The Happiest Song Plays Last (Second Stage, Lortel nomination - Outstanding Lead Actor); Sonia Flew (SPF); Four (MTC); Evolution (Culture Project); Elliot: A Soldier's Fugue (Page 73); Balm in Gilead (Lake Lucille). Regional credits include The Happiest Song PlaysL ast (Goodman Theatre); Becky Shaw (Wilma Theater); Eleven Rooms of Proust (Lookingglass); This Is Our Youth, The Fundamentals (Steppenwolf Theatre); Stupid Kids (Victory Gardens Theatre); Bash (About Face). Education: BSSP, Northwestern University. 

Richard Rivera (Understudy: Third) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. San Diego Theatre: It’s a Wonderful Vida, Going to a Place Where You Already Are (Onstage Playhouse); King Charles III (Coronado Playhouse). Feature films: Demise, As Real As You Make It. Appeared in 30+ vertical web series on ReelShort, Sereal+, GoodShort and other web platforms.

Leonardo Romero he/him (First, Understudy: Second)

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Leonardo Romero is an emerging Mexican American actor from Southern California. An alumnus of the National Theatre Institute, he was honored as a recipient of the Lin-Manuel Miranda Family Fellowship. Recent stage credits include Nepantla (Playwrights Project), Dad, Are You There? (Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), and La Havana Madrid (New Village Arts). 

Dale Soules (Dale)

La Jolla Playhouse: Paris Commune, Hands on a Hardbody. Broadway: Hair, Dude, The Magic Show, Whose Life Is It Anyway, The Crucible, Grey Gardens, Hands on a Hardbody. Off-Broadway: The Welkin, Posterity (Atlantic Theatre Co.); The Lucky Star (59 E. 59th); Getting Out (Lucille Lortel Theatre); Shows for Days (Lincoln Center); Lotta, New Jerusalem (Public Theater). Regional: Candide (Guthrie); All's Well That Ends Well (Yale Rep); I Remember Mama (Two River Theatre). Recent film credits include: Lightyear (Pixar), Skeleton Crew (Disney). TV: The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Orange Is the New Black (Netflix) 6 seasons, 3 SAG Awards. VO: Digman!. Currently writing about her rough-and-tumble life and life-saving career.

Hennessy Winkler he/him (Ty) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Sweeney Todd revival (original cast). National Tours: Oklahoma! (Daniel Fish adaptation). Off-Broadway: By Jupiter (City Center reading), Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil workshop (with Jason Robert Brown), Concert 4 America (Town Hall), Ampersand (La MaMa). Regional: Pipe Dream (Berkshire Theatre Group), Far From Canterbury (Barnstormers Theater). Featured in the film No Ordinary Man. Acting/song coach and song-prep teacher at GeVa Theater Summer Academy. Reps: Blue Ridge Entertainment and SAKS&. Education: B.F.A. from Marymount Manhattan. Trained with Sue Ann Loudon. Raised on Maui, HI and is the second out trans man on Broadway. Hennessy.NYC 

Noah Diaz (Playwright)  

is a writer from the Iowa/Nebraska border. His plays have been produced by Roundabout Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Baltimore Center Stage, The Sol Project, and The Playwrights Realm, where he was a Page One Resident Playwright. Commissions from Studio Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Studio Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Roundabout Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club/Sloan, Baltimore Center Stage, Audible/Amazon Studios, and Arena Stage. Noah is a recipient of the ASCAP Cole Porter Prize, a six-time recipient of playwriting awards from The Kennedy Center, and a nominee for an Outer Critics Circle Award. In television, he has written on Nine Perfect Strangers (Hulu), Up Here (Hulu), and Joe vs. Carole (Peacock), among others, and has developed projects for ABC, Hulu, 20th Television, The Walk-Up Company, Nyle DiMarco, and Eva Longoria. His debut picture book Inky Iggy will be published by Little Bee Books in 2027. M.F.A.: Yale School of Drama. noahdiaz.me / @itsnoahdiaz

Kat Yen (Director) 

is a Taiwanese-American theater director, based in NYC and Hawai‘i. Recent productions include The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh at North Coast Rep, The Weather Busters of Beachcastle by Christin Eve Cato at La Jolla Playhouse (POP Tour), a re-envisioned and re-orchestrated Pipe Dream by Rodgers and Hammerstein at Berkshire Theatre Group, Heart Strings by Lee Cataluna at Atlantic Theater for Kids, and Happy Life by Kathy Ng at Walker Space/The Hearth. Recent associate directing credits include Redwood, written and directed by Tina Landau, and The Untitled Unauthorized Hunter S. Thompson Musical, by Joe Iconis, directed by Christopher Ashley (La Jolla Playhouse), and The Comeuppance by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, directed by Eric Ting (Signature Theatre). Kat is the inaugural Directing Fellow at La Jolla Playhouse, a former Resident Director at The Flea Theater, a Van Lier Directing Fellow at Second Stage Theater and was the co-founder and Artistic Director of Spookfish Theatre Company. M.F.A. in Directing: Yale School of Drama. katyen.com / @katkoral

Adam Rigg (Scenic Designer) 

Broadway: The Skin of Our Teeth (Tony Award nom, Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk Award), Illinoise (also Park Avenue Armory). Off-Broadway includes Teeth (New World Stages/Playwrights Horizons); Blood Quilt (Lincoln Center Theatre); On Sugarland (Lucille Lortel Award), The House That Will Not Stand (NYTW); White Girl in Danger (Second Stage/The Vineyard); Cullud Wattah (The Public); Fefu and Her Friends (Special Citation, Henry Hewes Design Award; TFANA); Soft, Which Way to the Stage? (MCC); Is God Is, Revolt.She Said.Revolt Again. (Soho Rep); Fabulation, or the Re-Education of Undine (Signature); Continuity, Actually (MTC); and Blue Ridge (Atlantic). Opera includes El Niño (Met Opera); The Lord of Cries (Santa Fe Opera); The Listeners (Norwegian National/Opera Philadelphia); Breaking the Waves (Opera Philadelphia), Giustino (Theater An Der Wien) and Prism (LA Opera). Upcoming projects: Nacht ohne Morgen (Berlin Staatsoper/Paris Opera Comique), Lincoln In The Bardo (Met Opera), BOWL EP (Vineyard Theatre/National Black Theater/New Group).

Jennifer Brawn Gittings (Costume Designer) 

La Jolla Playhouse: The Grift, El Henry (in association with San Diego REP), Honey Bo and the Gold Mine. Old Globe Theatre: Henry V (Globe for All), Native Gardens, Skeleton Crew, Knowing Cairo. Cygnet: Rocky Horror, La Cage Aux Folles, Legend of Georgia McBride, Animal Crackers, Dirty Blonde. 17 seasons at San Diego REP. 13 seasons with MOXIE. Regional: A Noise Within, Crossroads Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre New Jersey, The Western Stage. Accolades include four Craig Noel Awards, a Patté Award, and the NAACP Theatre Award. JBG is full-time costume faculty and head of technical theatre at Grossmont College.

Carolina Ortiz Herrera (Lighting Designer) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Good Night, Oscar. Regional selective credits: December (Alley Theatre); Death of a Salesman (Playmakers Repertory); American Mariachi (Alley Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company); Born with Teeth (Guthrie Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alley Theatre); Native Gardens (Dallas Theatre Center). Off-Broadway: Amerikin (Primary Stages); La Paloma Prisoner (Chelsea Factory); Hedda Gabler, Winter’s Tale (Bedlam Theatre Company); Yellowman (Billie Holiday Theatre; Audelco Awards nominee, Best Lighting Design). Dance and Opera: Cruzar la Cara de la Luna (Minneapolis Opera); Super Nothing (NY Live Arts); I as Another (BAC); Florencia en el Amazonas (Shubert Theatre). M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. 

UptownWorks (Sound Design and Composition) 

UptownWorks is a collaborative sound design team specializing in theater, film, podcasts, installations and other media. La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Credits include Becoming Eve (NYTW); Wipeout (Studio Theatre DC); Grandiloquent (Lortel); Franklinland (EST); I’m Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter (DCPA); tiny father (Geffen Playhouse); Dangerous Days (Miami New Drama); Murder on the Orient Express (Syracuse Stage); Pipe Dream (Berkshire Theatre); Lady Day (Baltimore Center Stage); Avaaz (South Coast Rep); Black Odyssey (Classic Stage); Espejos: Clean (Hartford Stage); the ripple, the wave...(Berkeley Rep/Goodman). This design was led by Daniela Hart (uptownworksnyc.com), Noel Nichols (noelnicholsdesign.com) and Bailey Trierweiler (btsounddesign.com). 

Madeline Charne (Dramaturg) 

La Jolla Playhouse: DNA New Work Series workshop of All The Men Who Frighten Me. You Will Get Sick (Roundabout Theatre Company); Fields of Flowers (PlayPenn); Creature Feature (Colorado New Play Festival); Manahatta (Yale Repertory Theater). Madeline is the Director of Education and Programs at Philadelphia Young Playwrights and has had her writing published in Theater Magazine and Upstage Guide. 

Michael Raine (Movement Consultant)

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. NYC: Joe's Pub, Theater Row, The Flea, Ars Nova, Lincoln Center Jazz, Jewish Rep, The Pit, Theater for a New City, EST, 92nd St Y, National Queer Theater. Regional: Yale Rep, Wolftrap Opera, Le Petit Theater, Weston Playhouse. Education: M.F.A., Brooklyn College.

tbd casting co.; Stephanie Yankwitt, CSA (Casting) 

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 

Heather M. Brose (Stage Manager) 

Recent SM credits include: Jin vs. the Beach, Alice Chan (La Jolla Playhouse); Sister Act, Water by the Spoonful and It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center); Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors, Globe for All - Shakespeare Call & Response (ASM) (The Old Globe); The Little Prince (European Tour); Once on This Island (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); 13 seasons at SD Rep which included In the Heights, Million Dollar Quartet, Noises Off; Big Fish, West Side Story (Lamb’s Players Theatre); The Little Fellow, The Great Leap, Pageant, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, It’s a Wonderful Life (Cygnet Theatre); Salome and The Father, directed by Estelle Parsons for The Actors Studio starring Al Pacino and Dianne Wiest; and Stephen Sondheim’s 70th Birthday Bash at the Hollywood Bowl. Proud member of Actors' Equity Association, where she serves our members as a Western At Large Councilor. 

Katie Chiyoko Davis she/her (Assistant Stage Manager) 

is from La Crescenta, CA. Select credits include: Derecho, Indian Princesses (La Jolla Playhouse), The Hot Wing King (Cygnet Theatre), The Glass Menagerie (Diversionary Theatre), Disney’s The Little Mermaid, The Circuit (PCPA - Pacific Conservatory Theatre), Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, A.D. 16, and The Music Man (Olney Theatre Center), नेहा & Neel, Dead Girl’s Quinceañera, and Hedda Gabler (UCSD). Education: B.F.A. Stage Management, University of Miami; M.F.A. Stage Management, UC San Diego.