Jill Abramovitz (Simca and others)

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Beetlejuice, All In: Comedy About Love, Fiddler, 9 to 5, Cinderella, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. Off-Broadway: Joy (Laura Pels), Sweeney Todd (NY Phil), Yentl (Folksbiene). Regional: Fiddler (Papermill, MUNY), A Walk on the Moon (George Street), God of Carnage (Cape Playhouse), Ever After (Paper Mill) and others. TV/Film: Stevie on The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Susan Charles on Chicago Med, Blue Bloods, The Blacklist, FBI: Most Wanted, Daughter of the Bride, Unholy and others. Education: University of Pennsylvania. Also an award-winning writer, Jill was a contributing lyricist on Broadway’s It Shoulda Been You and has several projects in development. jillaonline.com

Norbert Leo Butz (Paul Child) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Rent, Thou Shalt Not (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC noms), Wicked (original Fiyero), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC, Drama League Awards), Enron, Is He Dead, Dead Accounts, Catch Me If You Can (Tony, Drama Desk Awards), Speed-the-Plow, My Fair Lady (Tony, Drama Desk, OCC noms). Off-Broadway: The Last Five Years (original cast), Juno and the Paycock, How I Learned to Drive (Second Stage); Vladimir (MTC); Cornelia Street (Atlantic Theater). Select TV/Film: Bloodline, Justified, Fosse/Verdon, The Girl from Plainville, Trust, Mercy Street, Blue Bloods, Madam Secretary, Gladiator: American Sports Story, A Complete Unknown, Dan in Real Life, Flag Day, Give or Take, upcoming: Heartland, opposite Jessica Chastain. B.F.A.: Webster University. M.F.A.: ASF.

Jason Heil he/him (Understudy)

La Jolla Playhouse: Indian Princesses, 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 and Tennessee Repertory Theatres, Capital Stage, A.C.T., A Noise Within, and nine 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

Christina Kirk (Julia Child) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Suitcase (or those that resemble flies from a distance) and Current Nobody. Other theatre credits include Infinite Life (Atlantic Theater Company/ National Theatre London), Clybourne Park (Broadway/Playwrights Horizons), Well (Broadway), God’s Ear (New Georges/The Vineyard) and [sic] (Soho Rep). She is an affiliated artist of Clubbed Thumb and a founding associate artist of the Civilians. Film and television credits include Fatal Attraction, Goliath, The Mysterious Benedict Society, Powerless, A to Z, Girls and Love Is Strange.

Germainne Lebrón he/him (Ensemble) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Derecho. UC San Diego credits include: One Flea Spare, Hedda Gabler, The Promise by Jose Rivera, The Rogue’s Trial, 809 Almond (Wagner New Play Festival 2024). Regional credits include: Execution of Justice, August Strindberg’s Pariah (Chautauqua Theater Company); La Gringa (American Stage); Native Gardens (The Warehouse Theatre); The Inheritance (Trinity Rep); Eight Tales of Pedro (The Secret Theatre); Dracula, A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Are You There (Humana Festival of New American Plays 2020). Education: 3rd year M.F.A. Actor at UC San Diego.

Rami Margron they/them (Madame Brassart and others)

La Jolla Playhouse: As You Like It. Off- Broadway: Have You Met Jane Goodall and Her Mother? (Ensemble Studio Theatre); Angry Young Man (Urban Stages); Love’s Labour's Lost (Shake and Bake). Regional credits include: Hurricane Diane, The Age of Innocence (The Old Globe); Angels in America, King John (Actors Theater of Louisville); Coriolanus (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Pericles, Macbeth (Berkeley Repertory Theatre); Hurricane Diane (Huntington Theatre and People’s Light Theatre); Three Sisters (Two River Theater); The Tempest (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); Lady Windermere’s Fan, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Comedy of Errors (California Shakespeare Theater). IG: ramimargron

Amanda Naughton (Understudy) 

La Jolla Playhouse: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Come From Away, DNA New Work Series. Broadway: Into the Woods, The Secret Garden. National Tours: Fun Home, The Secret Garden. Off-Broadway: Romance in Hard Times, 3Postcards, Hundreds of Hats, Mr. President. Regional credits include Follies (Cygnet); Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare Theatre Company); Head Over Heels (Diversionary); Fun Home (SD Rep); Bethany, A Doll’s House, Emma, The Women, The Constant Wife, Lost in Yonkers, Grinch, Loves and Hours, Paramour (The Old Globe); A Little Night Music, Amour (Goodspeed). Film: The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Mexico City. TV: Remember WENN (as Betty Roberts), Law & Order: SVU, Payne, Chappelle’s Show.

Michael Park (McWilliams and others)

La Jolla Playhouse: Redwood. Broadway: Redwood, Carousel, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Little Me, H2$, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Tuck Everlasting, Dear Evan Hansen. Off- Broadway: Hello Again, Violet, Burnt Part Boys. TV: As the World Turns, The Good Wife, House of Cards, Mindhunter, You, Stranger Things Season 3, Tales of the City, The Family, Dash & Lily, Blue Bloods, The Time Traveler’s Wife, Bull, Saint X, Law & Order, Special Ops: Lioness.

Torkan Omari she/her (Ensemble)

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Theatre credits include People, Places & Things, Auto da Compadecida, Shar-e-Naw, Orlando, The Comedy of Errors and 809 Almond (world premiere). A former law student turned poet turned actress, she is a member of the UC San Diego M.F.A. Acting Class of 2026. On screen, she appeared in the feature film No Good Men, the opening film of the Berlin International Film Festival, directed by Cannes Award–winning director Shahrbanoo Sadat. She also starred in the short film Will You Be Me Levantine, for which she won the Best Actress Award at the Amsterdam New Cinema Festival.

Kenneth Ray (Ensemble) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Red Taxi (DNA New Work Series). Kenneth is an actor and educator whose performance credits include regional theatres across the country and The Kennedy Center. He trained at Howard University, the British American Drama Academy and is currently an M.F.A. candidate at UC San Diego. Kenneth serves on faculty at Circle in the Square Theatre School and The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City. You can learn more about his work on his website thebespokemethod.net.

Ariel Shafir (Tom and others) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Off- Broadway: Richard III (Shakespeare in the Park); The Merchant of Venice (TFANA - Royal Lyceum Edinburgh); Henry V (The Public); Mankind (Playwrights Horizons); Medea in Jerusalem (Rattlestick). Regional: Hamlet (Mark Taper); Macbeth (Denver Center); Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakes); A Streetcar Named Desire (Williamstown); Marie Antionette (Steppenwolf); Disgraced (Arena Stage - China Tour). Film: Bride Wars, What Happens in Vegas, Don Peyote. TV: Only Murders in the Building, When They See Us, The Sinner, The Blacklist, Bull, Blue Bloods, Law and Order: SVU, Orange Is the New Black, 30 Rock.

Drew Springer-Miller (Understudy: Julia Child) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: The Cottage, Cabaret, Gruesome Playground Injuries, Love/Sick. Producing: Our Town (Broadway). Training: B.F.A. from Pace University, The Actors Center, Circle in the Square.

Jim Stanek (Understudy: Paul Child) 

La Jolla Playhouse: Thoroughly Modern Millie (Jimmy). Broadway: Into the Woods (Revival/Tour), Fun Home, A Gentleman’s Guide…, The Story of My Life, Lestat, Little Women, The Rivals, …Forum, Indiscretions. Off-Broadway: Freud’s Last Session, Jacques Brel… TV/Film: Blue Bloods, Mr. Robot, The Good Wife, Bella, Borough of Kings. Cast Recordings: Goldstein, Frankenstein, The 3hree Musketeers, ...Forum. Lives in NYC with wife, Beth. Their three boys (all grown) often stay at the 450 sq ft, 1BR where they were raised! Jim loves Pro Wrestling, collecting action figures, Pokemon Go and concert-going! Recently: Elf (Tuacahn), Barnum (The REV). Education: Carnegie Mellon. Unions: AEA, SAG-AFTRA.

Saisha Talwar she/her (Louise and others)

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: McNeal. Education: M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and B.A. from the University of Chicago. IG: @saishatalwar.

Claudia Shear (Playwright) 

Broadway credits include The Smell of the Kill (dir. Christopher Ashley; Drama League Award), Dirty Blonde (dir. James Lapine; Tony and Drama Desk Award nominations for Best Play and Best Actress, Drama League Award, Theatre World Award). London/West End: Dirty Blonde, Chicago. Off-Broadway: Blown Sideways Through Life (dir. Christopher Ashley; Obie Award, Drama Desk Award nomination), Dirty Blonde, Restoration (New York Theatre Workshop); Evening at the Talk House (The New Group). Regional: The Smell of the Kill (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Dirty Blonde (Kennedy Center; Helen Hayes Award nominations for Best Play and Best Actress; West Yorkshire Playhouse); Dirty Blonde, End of the Day (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Blown Sideways Through Life (Coronet Theatre); Restoration (La Jolla Playhouse). TV: Friends, Earthly Possessions (dir. James Lapine), Blown Sideways Through Life (dir. Christopher Ashley; winner, Montreux Rose d'Or). Film: Living Out Loud, It Could Happen to You, The Opportunists. Ms. Shear has also written for various publications, including The New York Times, New York Magazine, Vogue and Travel & Leisure. She is a member of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, NYTW’s Usual Suspects and The Dramatists Guild. She’s been wild about Harry since 2004.

Lisa Peterson (Director) 

is delighted to be back at La Jolla Playhouse, where she directed An Iliad, Mother Courage, Surf Report, Be Aggressive, Good Person of Szechuan, Valley Song, Triumph of Love, Arms and the Man and The Swan. Lisa co-wrote An Iliad with Denis O’Hare (NYTW; Obie and Lortel Awards), as well as The Good Book (Court Theatre, Berkeley Rep) and Song of Rome (Spoleto Festival). Recent directing work includes the world premiere of Doug Wright's Good Night, Oscar at the Goodman, on Broadway and in the West End; As You Like It at Oregon Shakespeare Festival; her adaptation of Homer's Odyssey for The Acting Company; and the musical memoir F*ck 7th Grade by Jill Sobule and Liza Birkenmeier. Lisa has directed world premieres by Tony Kushner, Beth Henley, Donald Margulies, Naomi Wallace, Luis Alfaro, Chay Yew, Culture Clash, Miranda Rose Hall, Jose Rivera and many others at theaters across the country, including New York Theater Workshop, The Vineyard, Primary Stages, Manhattan Theatre Club, WP, The Guthrie, Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Seattle Rep, ACT and South Coast Rep. She served as Associate Director at La Jolla Playhouse for three years, Associate Director at Berkeley Rep for three years, and Resident Director at CTG for ten years. She has developed many new plays at the Sundance Theatre Lab, where she served as the Guest Artistic Director in 2019, as well as at O’Neill Playwrights Conference, Playwrights’ Center and Ojai Playwrights Conference. She is a recent recipient of the Gordon Davidson Award for Lifetime Achievement.

David Neumann (Choreographer)  

is an award-winning choreographer and movement director. His work includes Hadestown and Swept Away on Broadway; Grounded at The Kennedy Center and the Metropolitan Opera; Die Schweigsame Frau at Bard Summerscape; Stew’s The Total Bent at The Public Theater; Annie Baker’s The Antipodes at Signature Theatre; Branden Jacob-Jenkins’s An Octoroon at Soho Rep and Theater for a New Audience; and Geoff Sobelle’s The Object Lesson (which he also directed) at BAM and NYTW. In film and television, Neumann was choreographer and movement director for I Am Legend, Kindred and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story, White Noise and Jay Kelly. As artistic director of Advanced Beginner Group, his Bessie and Obie Award-winning original work has been presented at Performance Space New York, New York Live Arts and the Whitney Museum. For Hadestown, Neumann received the 2019 Chita Rivera Award for Outstanding Choreography of a Broadway Musical, a 2019 Tony Award nomination and the 2022 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Choreography. In 2024, he also received the Chita Rivera Critics Choice Award for Swept Away. Upcoming projects include Galileo, which premiered at Berkeley Rep in 2024, The Reservoir at Atlantic Theater, and Begin Again, a new musical coming to The Old Globe this summer.

Rachel Hauck (Scenic Design) 

Previously for La Jolla Playhouse: Is It Thursday Yet?, The Garden, Mother Courage, Surf Report, Be Aggressive, An Iliad and Wonderland. Rachel's Broadway credits include Hadestown, Swept Away, Good Night Oscar, How I Learned to Drive, What the Constitution Means to Me, Latin History for Morons, and the upcoming Cats: The Jellicle Ball. Recent work also includes Ceilidh, The Staircase (SCR), Galileo (BRT), F*ck 7th Grade (Wild Project) and Destiny of Desire (Old Globe). Rachel’s work has been recognized with Princess Grace and Lilly Awards, as well as an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence. She is honored to have received UCLA’s Distinguished Alumni Award, Tony Award nominations for Good Night Oscar and Swept Away, and a Tony Award for her design of Hadestown.

Linda Cho (Costume Design)

La Jolla Playhouse: Working Girl; Babbitt; Bhangin’ It; Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord; Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin; The Orphan of Zhao; Wild Goose Dreams. Broadway: Schmigadoon; Art; The Great Gatsby (Tony Award; West End, London, South Korea); Pirates! The Penzance Musical; Doubt; Summer, 1976; Take Me Out; Grand Horizons; Anastasia (Tony nomination); POTUS; Harmony; The Great Society; A Gentleman's Guide… (Tony and Henry Hewes Awards; Outer Critics Circle nomination); The Lifespan of a Fact; Velocity of Autumn. Numerous Off-Broadway, international, regional theatre, opera and dance productions. Serves on the Advisory Committee of the American Theatre Wing. M.F.A.: Yale School of Drama. Linda@LindaCho.com

Ben Stanton (Lighting Design)

is a five-time Tony Award nominee as well as an Obie, Lortel, Hewes, IRNE and Ovation Award winner. His work is currently represented on Broadway in Maybe Happy Ending and Marjorie Prime; in the off-Broadway immersive experience Masquerade; and on the national tour of The Notebook. Additional Broadway credits include: The Notebook, Mary Jane, Days of Wine and Roses, Good Night, Oscar, The Collaboration, A Christmas Carol, The Rose Tattoo, Derren Brown: SECRET, Regina Spektor: Live at the Lunt-Fontanne, Junk, Six Degrees of Separation, Deaf West Theater’s Spring Awakening, Fully Committed and Fun Home (Broadway, Off-Broadway, 1st National Tour, London). www.benstanton.com

André Pluess (Sound Design and Original Music)

La Jolla Playhouse: Milk Like Sugar, 33 Variations, after the quake. Broadway: Good Night, Oscar (Belasco), The Minutes (Studio 54), 33 Variations (Eugene O'Neill), I Am My Own Wife (Lyceum), Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square), as well as the world premiere of The Clean House (Yale Repertory/Lincoln Center). Based in Chicago, he's worked frequently with Northlight, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Court, Chicago Shakespeare, and Lookingglass, where he is an ensemble member. Regional credits include multiple productions with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group, McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre, and South Coast Repertory.

Tom Watson (Wig and Hair Design)

Originally from N. Ireland, he headed the wig/makeup department at the Metropolitan Opera for 17 years. He has designed more than 100 Broadway productions including Wicked, Rock of Ages, The King and I, Fiddler on the Roof, Oslo, Falsettos, The Little Foxes, Junk, My Fair Lady, King Kong, All My Sons, Great Society, Harmony, Spamalot, Plaza Suite, Parade, Just in Time and Ragtime.

Edward Sobel (Dramaturg)

Broadway: The Minutes, Linda Vista, Superior Donuts, August: Osage County. Off-Broadway: Data. Formerly, Director of New Play Development (Steppenwolf) and Associate Artistic Director (The Arden), overseeing development of over forty new plays, including Mary Page Marlowe, Sunset Limited, The Pain and the Itch, Red Light Winter, Man from Nebraska. Recent directing credits include world premieres of A Puppeteer with the Palsy Performs Scenes from Shakespeare, Uninvited, Moon Man Walk, and The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington. Recipient of the Elliot Hayes Award from the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas for outstanding contribution to the field.

Andrea Caban she/they (Dialect Coach) 

is a dialect coach for film and theatre. She collaborated with Francis Ford Coppola on his career opus film Megalopolis. Other coaching includes 3 Summers of Lincoln, The Heart (La Jolla Playhouse); Appropriate, Deceived (The Old Globe); The Thing About Jellyfish (Berkeley Rep); Absurd Person Singular, Chinglish, Death of a Salesman, Madwomen in a Volvo, Peter and the Starcatcher (South Coast Rep) and Dangerous Games to Play (Scott Strauss, Badlands). Books: Experiencing Speech: A Skills-based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training and Experiencing Accents: A Knight-Thompson Speechwork Guide for Acting in Accent. Andrea is new faculty in UC San Diego’s Theatre & Dance Department, leading Speech & Accents training. Education: M.F.A. from UC Irvine.

Caparelliotis Casting, David Caparelliots, CSA (Casting) 

Select Broadway: Punch, Good Night and Good Luck, Eureka Day, Mary Jane, Jaja's African Hair Braiding, Cost of Living, Macbeth, Skeleton Crew, The Minutes, The Boys in the Band, Jitney. Off-Broadway: MTC, Signature (NYC), Atlantic, Ars Nova. Select Regional: The Old Globe, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep. Donmar Warehouse (consulting US casting director). TV/Film: New Amsterdam (NBC, series casting), Boys in the Band (Netflix, original casting).

Dean Remington (Stage Manager)  

La Jolla Playhouse: The Outsiders, The Ballad of Johnny and June, Primary Trust, The Luckiest, 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: Working Girl, The Heart, Indian Princesses, Your Local Theater Presents..., Derecho, Primary Trust, 3 Summers of Lincoln. 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.