August: Osage County

May 7, 2011 - June 12, 2011
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

By Tracy Letts
Directed by Sam Gold
Scenic Design by David Zinn
Costume Design by Clint Ramos
Lighting Design by Japhy Weideman
Sound Design by Fitz Patton
Dialect Coach, Jan Gist
Stage Manager, Diana Moser

One of the most acclaimed plays of the last decade and winner of the 2008 Tony Award for Best Play and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, this modern classic brought Broadway audiences to their feet cheering at every performance. When their father goes missing, the huge, sprawling and completely dysfunctional Weston family reunites and sparks fly. Violet, the take-no-prisoners matriarch, struggles for control over a family set to implode over secrets, lies and betrayals. A large and complex modern-day masterpiece that the New York Times hailed as “flat-out, no asterisks and without qualifications, the most exciting new American play Broadway has seen in years.
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Production Photos
The cast of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Lois Markle as Violet Weston (center) with the cast of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
The cast of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Lois Markle as Violet Weston, Robert Foxworth as Beverly Weston and Kimberly Guerrero as Johnna Monevata in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Angela Reed as Barbara Fordham and Lois Markle as Violet Weston in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Angela Reed as Barbara Fordham, Carla Harting as Ivy Weston and Kelly McAndrew as Karen Weston in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Angela Reed as Barbara Fordham, Carla Harting as Ivy Weston and Kelly McAndrew as Karen Weston in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Robin Pearson Rose as Mattie Fae Aiken and Guy Boyd as Charlie Aiken in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
The cast of Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Angela Reed as Barbara Fordham and Joseph Adams as Bill Fordham inTracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Angela Reed as Barbara Fordham and Lois Markle as Violet Weston in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Robert Maffia as Steve Heidebrecht and Ronete Levenson as Jean Fordham in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play August: Osage County, directed by Sam Gold, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.


Publicity Photos
The Old Globe cast of August: Osage County — (from left) Robert Maffia, Kelly McAndrew, Joseph Adams, Ronete Levenson, Angela Reed, Robert Foxworth, Lois Markle, Robin Pearson Rose, Guy Boyd, Haynes Thigpen, Carla Harting, Kimberly Guerrero and Todd Cerveris. Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play runs May 7 - June 12, 2011 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
The Old Globe cast of August: Osage County — (from left) Kimberly Guerrero, Robert Maffia, Kelly McAndrew, Joseph Adams, Ronete Levenson, Angela Reed, Robert Foxworth, Lois Markle, Robin Pearson Rose, Guy Boyd, Carla Harting, Haynes Thigpen and Todd Cerveris. Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play runs May 7 - June 12, 2011 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Lois Markle (second from left) will play matriarch Violet Weston, and (from left) Angela Reed, Kelly McAndrew and Carla Harting her daughters in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, August: Osage County, May 7 - June 12, 2011 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Director Sam Gold (left, seated) with the Old Globe cast of August: Osage County — (seated) Lois Markle, Robin Pearson Rose; (from left, standing) Joseph Adams, Carla Harting, Robert Foxworth, Haynes Thigpen, Kelly McAndrew, Robert Maffia, Angela Reed, Kimberly Guerrero, Guy Boyd, Ronete Levenson, Todd Cerveris. Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play runs May 7 - June 12, 2011 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Old Globe Associate Artists Robert Foxworth and Robin Pearson Rose play Beverly Weston and Mattie Fae Aiken in Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, August: Osage County, at The Old Globe May 7 - June 12, 2011. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Tracy Letts. Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, August: Osage County runs May 7 - June 12, 2011 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
 
 
Sam Gold will direct Tracy Letts' Pulitzer Prize-winning play, August: Osage County runs May 7 - June 12, 2011 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
    


Cast and Creative Team

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Joseph Adams (Bill Fordham) is making his first appearance at The Old Globe. He was most recently seen in A Devil at Noon at the Actors Theatre of Louisville Humana Festival. His Broadway appearances include Come Back, Little Sheba, The Real Inspector Hound, A View from the Bridge and The Survivor. His Off Broadway credits include Sixty Miles to Silver Lake (Soho Repertory Theater), Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse (The Beckett Theatre), Serendib (The Ensemble Studio Theatre), The Don Juan and the Non Don Juan (Vineyard Theatre) and Balm in Gilead (Minetta Lane Theatre). Regionally he has performed at Hartford Stage, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Cleveland Play House, Westport Country Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Studio Arena Theater, Contemporary American Theatre Festival and Bard SummerScape. Mr. Adams has appeared in the films Brooklyn's Finest, Inhale and Twelve. His television credits include Iron Jawed Angels (HBO), “Gossip Girl,” “The Sopranos,” “Dirty Sexy Money,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” Point Last Seen, The Heidi Chronicles, Consenting Adult and The Private History of a Campaign That Failed (PBS).
Guy Boyd (Charlie Aiken) appeared on Broadway for seven months in August: Osage County as Charlie Aiken. His other Broadway credits are Sex and Longing with Sigourney Weaver and Rose. He is known for his dedication to new plays and his work Off Broadway with playwright Adam Rapp, appearing in his New York productions of The Hallway Trilogy and American Sligo (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), The Metal Children (Vineyard Theatre), Essential Self-Defense (Playwrights Horizons), Stone Cold Dead Serious (American Repertory Theater and Edge Theater Company) and Trublinka. Other Off Broadway productions include Chris Durang’s Betty’s Summer Vacation (Playwrights Horizons), Anne Marie Healy’s Now That's What I Call a Storm (Edge), William Hauptman’s Heat (The Public Theater) and three plays by Quincy Long, People Be Heard (Playwrights Horizons), The Joy of Going Somewhere Definite (Atlantic Theater Company) and The Lively Ladd (New York Stage and Film). He played the title role in Sam Shepard’s The Late Henry Moss (Signature Theatre Company). His regional credits include Curse of the Starving Class and The Durango Flash (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Los Angeles Theatre Center) and Twelfth Night (Long Wharf Theatre). He has appeared in over 50 films including Taking Chance, The Savages, Streamers (Golden Lion Award, Venice Film Festival), Ticket to Heaven, Sister Act, Jagged Edge and Body Double. Most recently on television he appeared on “In Treatment” on HBO.
Todd Cerveris (Sheriff Deon Gilbeau) is pleased to return to The Old Globe, where he last appeared in John Rando’s production of All in the Timing. His recent credits include the Broadway productions of South Pacific and Twentieth Century. His Off Broadway premieres include Almost, Maine, The Booth Variations, The Butcherhouse Chronicles and Somewhere, Someplace Else. He recently completed two National Tours as part of the companies of Twelve Angry Men and Spring Awakening, and he has enjoyed the opportunity to perform at Arena Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville, George Street Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Portland Stage, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Dorset Festival, Adirondack Theatre Festival and Grove Theater Center. Mr. Cerveris’ film and television credits include “White Collar,” “Nurse Jackie,” One True Thing, “Law & Order,” Living and Dining and The Rake’s Progress. Also, as writer/director, his work is the recent recipient of a 2010 Gold ADDY Award and Top Ten Honor.
Robert Foxworth (Beverly Weston) is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe and has appeared in The Madness of George III, Cornelia, Julius Caesar, Private Lives, Below the Belt, Love Letters, Antony and Cleopatra and last season in the title role of King Lear. During the winter he played Arthur in Superior Donuts at San Diego Repertory Theatre. His most recent appearance on Broadway was in August: Osage County as Charlie Aiken. Also on Broadway, Mr. Foxworth has appeared in Twelve Angry Men, Ivanov, Honour, Judgment at Nuremberg and Henry V. He won the Theatre World Award for his portrayal of John Proctor in The Crucible at Lincoln Center Theater. His television series include “Storefront Lawyers,” “Falcon Crest” and “LateLine” (with Al Franken). He has guest starred on countless television shows over the years such as a two-year stint on “Six Feet Under,” episodes of “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and recently “Chaos.” Mr. Foxworth's regional theatre work has included Cyrano de Bergerac (Great Lakes Theatre Festival), Iago in Othello and The Scottish King in Macbeth (Guthrie Theater), George in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Hartford Stage), Uncle Vanya (Geffen Playhouse) and many more. He is the voice of Ratchet in all three of the Transformers movies.
Kimberly Guerrero (Johnna Monevata) is a native Oklahoman and a graduate of UCLA who has appeared on stage in Steel Magnolias (Tennessee Performing Arts Center), Canticle of the Plains (Tapestry II), Three Sisters (Project HOOP) and most recently in The Frybread Queen (Native Voices). Ms. Guerrero originated the role of Johnna in Steppenwolf Theatre Company's August: Osage County and performed in Chicago, on Broadway, at the National Theatre in London and Sydney Theatre Company in Australia. A few of her film and television credits include “Grey’s Anatomy,” Taking Chances, “The Sopranos,” Hidalgo, Naturally Native and an immortalizing turn as Jerry’s Indian girlfriend on “Seinfeld.” Additionally, she works with youth in tribal communities across North America utilizing creative expression as a tool promoting personal development.
Carla Harting (Ivy Weston) has appeared Off Broadway in Dreams of the Washer King (The Playwrights Realm), Dead Man’s Cell Phone (Playwrights Horizons), Eurydice (Second Stage Theatre), Kid-Simple (Summer Play Festival), Valparaiso (Rude Mechanicals), Jimmy Carter Was a Democrat (Clubbed Thumb, Performance Space 122, The Kitchen), Freakshow and Late: A Cowboy Song (Clubbed Thumb), Be Aggressive (Soho Repertory Theater) and Straight Up & with a Twist (New Georges). Regionally she has appeared in Goldie, Max & Milk (Florida Stage), Becky’s New Car (North Coast Repertory Theatre), Legacy of Light, A Delicate Balance and Passion Play (Arena Stage), The Lady from Dubuque (Seattle Repertory Theatre), Eurydice (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Scene, After Ashley, Kid-Simple, Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls and The Blue Room (Humana Festival), Night and Day (The Wilma Theater), What the Butler Saw (South Coast Repertory), Uncle Vanya, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Imaginary Invalid and Zoot Suit (San Diego Repertory Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (La Jolla Playhouse), Our Country’s Good (Signature Theatre Company) and The Bright and Bold Design (The Studio Theatre). Ms. Harting’s film and television credits include Never Forever with Vera Farmiga, “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”
Ronete Levenson (Jean Fordham) has recently appeared Off Broadway in Lascivious Something (Women's Project and Cherry Lane Theatre, directed by Daniella Topol), Our Town (Barrow Street Theatre, directed by David Cromer), What Once We Felt (Lincoln Center Theater, directed by Ken Rus Schmoll), Origin Story (The Public Theater, directed by Hal Brooks), Named (Rising Phoenix Repertory and the Cino Night Series at Seventh Street Small Stage) and Stunning (New York Theatre Workshop). Regionally, she appeared in Bus Stop (2011 IRNE Award for Best Supporting Actress Drama, Huntington Theatre Company, directed by Nicholas Martin) and Argonautika (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company and McCarter Theatre, directed by Mary Zimmerman). On television and film, Ms. Levenson has appeared on “Law & Order, ” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Guiding Light,” “Possible Side Effects” (pilot) directed by Tim Robbins (Showtime) and Taking Woodstock, directed by Ang Lee.
Robert Maffia (Steve Heidebrecht) appeared on Broadway in Superior Donuts by Tracy Letts and in its premiere run at Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, directed by Tina Landau. Before moving to Los Angeles, Mr. Maffia appeared in numerous productions in Chicago including Suicide in B Flat, Stalag 17, The Petrified Forest, Nelson Algren’s Never Come Morning and the title role in the English language world premiere of Bertolt Brecht’s Fatzer: Demise of the Egotist. His television credits include “Brothers and Sisters,” “CSI: NY,” “Jericho,” “24,” “ER,” “Cold Case,” “Boston Public” and “The Guardian.” He can be seen in the new web series Fumbling thru the Pieces. His films include Hoffa, Mercury Rising, The Big Tease and most recently The Giant Mechanical Man starring Jenna Fischer.
Lois Markle (Violet Weston) is delighted to be working again at The Old Globe. Among her many stage credits are the Broadway productions of Hedda Gabler, True West and The Grapes of Wrath. Her Off Broadway credits include The American Dream, The Sandbox, Measure for Measure, Camino Real, Curse of the Starving Class, I Am a Camera, The Middle Ages and ¡Cuba Si! Her National Tours include Three Tall Women, Present Laughter, Summer, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and After the Fall. Some of Ms. Markle’s favorite regional credits include Old Times, Toys in the Attic, A Delicate Balance, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Driving Miss Daisy, The Gin Game, Lost in Yonkers, Major Barbara, Albee’s Women (at The Old Globe), An Evening with Jon Robin Baitz and Eleanor Roosevelt in Her Own Words. Among her film credits are Torn Between Two Lovers, Breaking Up, Coming Apart and The Sporting Club. Her TV work includes “The Sopranos,” “Sex and the City,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “The ABC Afternoon Playbreak.”
Kelly McAndrew (Karen Weston) is thrilled to be returning to The Old Globe, having last appeared in Alive and Well and Sight Unseen. Her Broadway credits include Maggie in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Her Off Broadway credits include Still Life (MCC Theater), Lyric is Waiting (Irish Repertory Theatre), Trout Stanley (Culture Project), The Cataract (Women’s Project), Greedy (Clubbed Thumb), Topsy Turvy Mouse (Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project) and Book of Days (Signature Theatre Company). Ms. McAndrew’s regional credits include Precious Little (City Theatre), Holiday (Olney Theatre Center, Helen Hayes nomination for Lead Actress in a Resident Play), The Miracle Worker and The Great White Hope (Arena Stage), Talley’s Folly (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Proof (George Street Playhouse) as well as world premieres at Huntington Theatre Company, CENTERSTAGE, Denver Center Theatre Company, Berkshire Theatre Festival and Arizona Theatre Company. Her film and television credits include In the Family (upcoming), Everybody’s Fine (with Robert De Niro), Superheroes, New Guy, “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Gossip Girl” and “As the World Turns.”
Angela Reed (Barbara Fordham) is thrilled to be making her debut at the Globe. She was last seen in San Diego in 2008 as The Adult Women in the First National Tour of Spring Awakening, which took her to nearly 45 cities in 20 months. Ms. Reed's Broadway credits include The Country Girl, Rock ’n’ Roll and The Rainmaker. She has worked with many Off Broadway companies, including Mint Theater Company, Keen Company, The Actors Company Theatre, Classic Stage Company and Primary Stages. She has appeared regionally in After Ashley and Map of Heaven (Denver Center Theatre Company), Rabbit Hole (Cleveland Play House), Olly's Prison (American Repertory Theater), Talley's Folly (Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company and Dorset Theatre Festival), The Real Thing and Crimes of the Heart (Syracuse Stage), Proof (Coconut Grove Playhouse, directed by David Auburn), Three Sisters and Les Liaisons Dangereuses (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Thornton Wilder Short Plays (CENTERSTAGE), Ordinary Nation (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Camille (Round House Theatre), Women Who Steal (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), The Herbal Bed (Indiana Repertory Theatre), The House of Bernarda Alba and Fefu and Her Friends (Santa Fe Stages, directed by Maria Irene Fornes), How I Learned to Drive, Angels in America, Othello, The Triumph of Love, Dracula and In Her Sight (Actors Theatre of Louisville) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (La Jolla Playhouse). Her television credits include “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" and “Third Watch.”
Robin Pearson Rose (Mattie Fae Aiken) appeared on Broadway in Holiday and The Visit (Hal Prince, director) and Off Broadway in Summer and Smoke (Roundabout Theatre Company). Some of her regional theatre roles include Vincent in Brixton, Da, All My Sons (San Diego Critics Circle Award), Voir Dire, Dancing at Lughnasa, Wonderful Tennessee and Remembrance (The Old Globe), Doubt (Ovation Award nomination), You Can't Take It With You, All My Sons (Ovation nomination) and Happy Days (Rubicon Theatre Company), Many Happy Returns (Laguna Playhouse), The Carpetbagger’s Children and Dragon Lady (South Coast Repertory), King of the Moon and Dancing at Lughnasa (La Mirada Theatre), Amy’s View (Center REP Theatre), Juno and the Paycock (American Conservatory Theater), Sylvia (Stage West) and Joined at the Head (Pasadena Playhouse). Her film credits include Something’s Gotta Give, What Women Want, Speechless, Fearless (directed by Peter Weir) and An Enemy of the People (oppositeSteve McQueen). Her recent television appearances include “NCIS,” “Enlightened,” “Life,” “Vanished,” “The Nine,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Boston Legal,” “Cold Case Files,” “Without a Trace,” “Boston Public,” “Judging Amy,” “ER,” “Party of Five,” “L.A. Law” and “My Father’s Son” (directed by Beau Bridges). Ms. Rose is an Associate Artist at The Old Globe.
Haynes Thigpen (Little Charles Aiken) has appeared on Broadway in Misalliance (Roundabout Theatre Company) and Off Broadway in Our House (Playwrights Horizons), The Duchess of Malfi and The Revenger's Tragedy (Red Bull Theater) and Nobody (Rising Phoenix Repertory). His regional theatre credits Our House (Denver Center Theatre Company), Black Sheep (Barrington Stage Company), The Black Monk (Yale Repertory Theatre), Hamlet (McCarter Theatre), Twelfth Night (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Cymbeline (California Shakespeare Festival) and Twelfth Night (Great Lakes Theatre Festival). His film and television credits include Dance 'Til Dawn, Blackbird, Terror Firmer, “Law & Order” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”
  Tracy Letts (Playwright) has been an ensemble member of Steppenwolf Theatre Company since 2002.  He was awarded the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his play August: Osage County, which played on Broadway for over a year following a sold-out run at Steppenwolf in 2007. August also enjoyed a sold-out engagement at London's National Theatre and a U.S. National Tour in summer 2009.  Other accolades include five Tony Awards (including Best Play), an Olivier Award and six Jeff Awards (including Best Play).  Letts is also the author of Superior Donuts, which had its world premiere at Steppenwolf in 2008 and opened on Broadway in 2009; Man from Nebraska, which was produced at Steppenwolf in 2003 and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Killer Joe, which has been produced in Chicago, London and New York; and Bug, which has played in New York, Chicago and London.  As an actor, he has appeared at Steppenwolf in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Betrayal, The Pillowman, Last of the Boys, The Pain and the Itch, The Dresser, Homebody/Kabul, The Dazzle, Glengarry Glen Ross (also in Dublin and Toronto), Three Days of Rain, Road to Nirvana and Picasso at the Lapin Agile.  His film and television credits include “The District,” “Profiler,” “Prison Break,” “The Drew Carey Show,” “Seinfeld,” “Home Improvement,” Guinevere, U.S. Marshals and Chicago Cab.
  Sam Gold (Director) won an Obie Award for his direction of Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons) and The Aliens (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater).  His other recent credits include Bathsheba Doran’s Kin (Playwrights Horizons), Nick Jones' The Coward (Lincoln Center Theater), Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (Ars Nova), Kim Rosenstock's Tigers Be Still (Roundabout Theatre Company), Stephen Belber's Dusk Rings a Bell (Atlantic Theater Company), Noah Haidle’s Rag and Bone (Rattlestick), Sam Marks’ The Joke (Studio Dante) and Betty Shamieh’s The Black Eyed (New York Theatre Workshop).  From 2003-2006, Gold served as the dramaturg at The Wooster Group.  He is a Roundabout Associate Artist, NYTW Usual Suspect, Drama League Directing Fellow, recipient of the Princess Grace Award and graduate of the Juilliard Directing Program.
  David Zinn (Scenic Design) is making his Globe debut. His Broadway credits include costume design for Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Good People, In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Tony, Drama Desk Award nominations), A Tale of Two Cities and Xanadu. His Off Broadway credits include scenic and costume design for Middletown (Vineyard Theatre), Circle Mirror Transformation (Playwrights Horizons) and That Face, Back Back Back and The Four Of Us (Manhattan Theatre Club), costume design for Other Desert Cities (Lincoln Center Theater) and Kin (Playwrights Horizons) and scenic design for The Coward (LCT3), The Pride (MCC Theater) and The Sound and the Fury (Elevator Repair Service and New York Theatre Workshop). Mr. Zinn’s opera credits include scenic and costume design at LA Opera, Washington National Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago. Regionally he has scenic and/or costume designed at La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, American Repertory Theater and many others.
  Clint Ramos (Costume Design) has recently designed sets and/or costumes for The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (The Public Theater), After the Revolution (Playwrights Horizons), Measure for Measure (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Angels in America (Signature Theatre Company), Puss in Boots (Tectonic Theater Project and The New Victory Theater), Ruined (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The Winter’s Tale (New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater), When the Rain Stops Falling (Lincoln Center Theater), The Temperamentals (New World Stages) and The Good Negro (The Public Theater). His other New York credits include Second Stage Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Culture Project, The Foundry Theatre, Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab, Women’s Project, New Georges, Red Bull Theater, Clubbed Thumb and others. His regional credits include American Repertory Theater, Guthrie Theater, Alliance Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, California Shakespeare Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Folger Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival and others. Mr. Ramos’ honors include 2011 Craig Noel Award, 2010 Lucille Lortel Award, 2009 Irene Sharaff Award, 2007 and 2009 Henry Hewes Awards and 2008 and 2010 Drama Desk Award nominations.
  Japhy Weideman (Lighting Designer) recently designed Thinner Than Water for LAByrinth Theater Company in New York and Don Giovanni at Opéra de Lyon in France. His recent West Coast designs include Girlfriend (Berkeley Repertory Theatre) and Creditors (La Jolla Playhouse). Selected work in New York includes Stunning and What Once We Felt (LCT3), Tigers Be Still (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Singing Forest (New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater), Jack Goes Boating, Little Flower of East Orange, Unconditional, A View From 151st Street and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (LAByrinth at The Public Theater) and Frankenstein (Soho Repertory Theater). His other regional work includes American Conservatory Theater, Houston Grand Opera, Huntington Theatre Company, Santa Fe Opera, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse and others. Internationally, Mr. Weideman designed the world premiere of David Harrower’s Blackbird at the Edinburgh International Festival and on the West End. His notable work abroad includes Troilus and Cressida (Royal Shakespeare Company and Edinburgh), Electra (Ancient Theater of Epidaurus, Greece and National Theater of Korea) and Bluebeard’s Castle/Il Prigioniero (La Scala and Nederlands Opera), all directed by Peter Stein. Upcoming, Mr. Weideman will design 4000 Miles (LCT3) and Sons of the Prophet (Roundabout). His awards and nominations for lighting design include Drama Desks, Lucille Lortel, Hewes Design, Bay Area Critics and a San Diego Craig Noel Award.
  Fitz Patton (Sound Design) composes music and designs sound fields for theatre. He has designed and scored over 200 productions in 20 cities across the U.S. In 2010 he was awarded both the Lucille Lortel and Drama Desk Awards for his design for When the Rain Stops Falling at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater. He teaches and designs at Barnard College of Columbia University where he began work on motion-activated public and environmental sound sculpture that explores the boundary between theatre and public space. His current work there explores the use of environmental sensors (temperature, light, humidity and motion) to activate sound fields. His recent article, “Rain Delay,” published by Live Design Magazine, details his process for the creation of the 32-channel environmental installation for When the Rain Stops Falling.
  Jan Gist (Dialect Coach) has been Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach for The Old Globe since 2002. Previously she was Head of Voice and Speech for Alabama Shakespeare Festival for nine years and 140 productions. She has coached at theatres around the country including Ahmanson Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company. Ms. Gist has been a guest on KPBS radio’s A Way with Words, narrated San Diego Museum of Art documentaries, coached dialects for the film The Rosa Parks Story and recorded dozens of Books To Listen To. She is a founding member of The Voice and Speech Trainers Association and has presented at many national and international conference workshops for them and for The Voice Foundation. Recently she was invited to Russia to teach in the International Voice Teachers Exchange at The Moscow Art Theatre and to London’s Central School of Speech and Drama to teach Shakespeare. She has been published in VASTA Journals, and chapters in books include The Complete Vocal Warm-Up, More Stage Dialects and an interview in Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium: Conversations with Master Teachers. She teaches in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program.
  Diana Moser (Stage Manager) recently stage managed Rafta, Rafta…, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound and The Whipping Man at The Old Globe. Her additional credits at the Globe include Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Price, Opus, Six Degrees of Separation, The Pleasure of His Company, The Glass Menagerie, In This Corner, 2007 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Restoration Comedy, Christmas on Mars, A Body of Water, Lobby Hero, Fiction and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Ms. Moser's regional credits include La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkshire Theatre Festival, The Children's Theatre Company and Arizona Theatre Company.
  Erin Gioia Albrecht (Assistant Stage Manager) has regional stage management credits that include Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, The Madness of George III, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Working and Bell, Book and Candle (The Old Globe) and Creditors, The Third Story, No Child… and a workshop of The Weathermen (La Jolla Playhouse). Her New York credits include The Third Story (MCC Theater), Marvin’s Room (T. Schreiber Studio), The Great American Desert (78th Street Theatre Lab) and The Chekhov Dreams (Manhattan Theatre Source). Her UC San Diego credits include The Misanthrope, Surf Orpheus, Medea, Red State Blue Grass, Twelfth Night and The Labyrinth of Desire.