Brighton Beach Memoirs

By Neil Simon
Directed by Scott Schwartz
September 14 - November 7, 2010
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Old Globe Theatre

Coming of age is never easy—but it can be hilarious. Meet Eugene Morris Jerome: he’s 15, living in late-1930s Brooklyn, and thinks of little else but playing for the Yankees . . . and girls. But he’s more suited to being a writer than a shortstop, and the girl of his dreams could never be the girl of his reality. His witty, perceptive commentary about his life, and the struggles of his overworked father, overbearing mother, overconfident brother, overcrowded house, and overly-gorgeous cousin, make this journey through puberty poignant, insightful and delightful.

Broadway Bound

By Neil Simon
Directed by Scott Schwartz
September 17 - November 7, 2010
Old Globe Theatre

Should Eugene Morris Jerome, of the Brighton Beach Jeromes, put family ahead of career? The career path he’s on is writing rather than baseball, but he is still obsessed with un-gettable girls, and what were once the innocent musings of a teenage boy are now the bread and butter of his writing career. When he and his brother Stanley get their big break as radio writers, and their family’s struggles become writing-fodder for anyone to hear, he is forced to face the reality that even living at home, with adulthood, comes consequences.

Brighton Beach Memoirs Production Photos
Sloan Grenz as Stanley Jerome and Austyn Myers as Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, at The Old Globe Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Brighton Beach Memoirs plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Austyn Myers as Eugene Jerome and Karen Ziemba as Kate Jerome in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, at The Old Globe Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Brighton Beach Memoirs plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Sloan Grenz as Stanley Jerome and Austyn Myers as Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, at The Old Globe Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Brighton Beach Memoirs plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Austyn Myers as Eugene Jerome and Karen Ziemba as Kate Jerome in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, at The Old Globe Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Brighton Beach Memoirs plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Karen Ziemba as Kate Jerome and David Bishins as Jack Jerome in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, at The Old Globe Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Brighton Beach Memoirs plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Austyn Myers stars as Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs, at The Old Globe Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Brighton Beach Memoirs plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Broadway Bound. Photo by Henry DiRocco.


Broadway Bound Production Photos
Brandon Uranowitz as Eugene Jerome and Karen Ziemba as Kate Jerome in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, at The Old Globe Sept. 17 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Broadway Bound plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(l. to r.) Joseph Parks as Stan Jerome and Brandon Uranowitz as Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, at The Old Globe Sept. 17 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Broadway Bound plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Karen Ziemba as Kate Jerome and Brandon Uranowitz as Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, at The Old Globe Sept. 17 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Broadway Bound plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Karen Ziemba as Kate Jerome and Brandon Uranowitz as Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, at The Old Globe Sept. 17 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Broadway Bound plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(l. to r.) Brandon Uranowitz as Eugene Jerome and Joseph Parks as Stan Jerome in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, at The Old Globe Sept. 17 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Broadway Bound plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(l. to r.) Joseph Parks as Stan Jerome and Brandon Uranowitz as Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, at The Old Globe Sept. 17 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Broadway Bound plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(l. to r.) Brandon Uranowitz as Eugene Jerome, Joseph Parks as Stan Jerome and David Bishins as Jack Jerome in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, at The Old Globe Sept. 17 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Broadway Bound plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(l. to r.) Brandon Uranowitz as Eugene Jerome and Joseph Parks as Stan Jerome in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, at The Old Globe Sept. 17 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Broadway Bound plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Brandon Uranowitz stars as Eugene Jerome in Neil Simon's Broadway Bound, at The Old Globe Sept. 17 - Nov. 7, 2010. Directed by Scott Schwartz, Broadway Bound plays in repertory with Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs. Photo by Henry DiRocco.


Publicity Photos

My Four Sons: Tony Award winner Karen Ziemba will play Kate Jerome, mother to Eugene and Stanley, in Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, to be performed in repertory at The Old Globe, Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. (from left) Joseph Parks will play Stanley and Brandon Uranowitz will play Eugene in Broadway Bound, and (from right) Sloan Grenz will play Stanley and Austyn Myers will play Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.

  
Eugene Morris Jerome x2: Brandon Uranowitz (left) will play Eugene as an adult in Broadway Bound and Austyn Myers (right) will play the younger Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs. The classic Neil Simon plays will run in repertory at The Old Globe, Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Karen Ziemba will play Kate Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound at The Old Globe in repertory, Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Photo by Laura Rose.
Karen Ziemba as Annie in the world premiere of The First Wives Club – A New Musical, directed by Francesca Zambello, book by Rupert Holmes, and music and lyrics by Brian Holland, Lamont Dozier and Eddie Holland, at The Old Globe July 17 – Aug. 23, 2009. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
Karen Ziemba as Ouisa, with Thomas Jay Ryan (behind) as Flan in Six Degrees of Separation by John Guare, directed by Trip Cullman, at The Old Globe January 10 – February 15, 2009. Photo by Craig Schwartz.
Karen Ziemba will play Kate Jerome in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound at The Old Globe in repertory, Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Scott Schwawrtz will direct Neil Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound at The Old Globe in repertory, Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Pulitzer and Tony Award-winning playwright Neil Simon. Simon's Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound will be performed at The Old Globe in repertory, Sept. 14 - Nov. 7, 2010. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.


Cast and Creative Team

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David Bishins (Jack Jerome) New York theatre credits include The Glass House with Harris Yulin (Clurman Theatre), We Declare You a Terrorist (Summer Play Festival at The Public Theater), Incident at Vichy, Henry Miller in Anais Nin: One of Her Lives (Beckett Theatre), Catch-22 (Lucille Lortel Theatre), A Mother, a Daughter and a Gun with Olympia Dukakis (Dodger Stages), Sympathetic Magic by Lanford Wilson (Second Stage), Bad Girls (The Directors Company), The Nest (directed by Moses Kaufman), The Boys in the Band (WPA Theatre and Lucille Lortel Theatre), Teibele and Her Demon (Jewish Repertory Theater) and Tower of Evil (Classic Stage Company). His regional credits include Atticus in To Kill a Mockingbird (Intiman Theatre), Place Setting (directed by Evan Bergman), The Great Game (directed by Wilson Milam), Lee in True West (Vermont Stage Company), Rag and Bone (directed by Tina Landau), A Month in the Country (Long Wharf Theatre), As Bees in Honey Drown (directed by Evan Bergman), Arcadia (Wilma Theater), The Dybbuk (Pittsburgh Public Theater) and Reckless (Hartford Stage). Mr. Bishins’ film and television credits include Salt, The Adjustment Bureau with Matt Damon (spring 2011), Henry’s Crime with Keanu Reeves (late 2010), Sorry, Haters, The War Within, Tracks, “Liberty! The American Revolution” (PBS), A Magic Helmet, “Fringe,” “Babylon Fields,” “Law & Order,” "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Law & Order: SVU" and "Law & Order: Trial by Jury." He is a graduate of The Juilliard School and a member of the AEA since 1989.
Bonnie Black (Blanche Morton) is delighted to be making her Old Globe debut. Her Off Broadway and NYC credits include HB Playwrights Foundation Theatre, the musical The Fan Tan King (NY International Fringe Festival), Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Horton Foote’s The Roads to Home (78th Street Theatre Lab), The Comedy of Errors (Equity Library Theatre) and recently, The Usher’s Ball (CAP21). Other theatre work includes residency with Adrian Hall’s Trinity Square Repertory Company (notably Cordelia in King Lear with Richard Kneeland) and company membership of both the Alley Theatre (notably Regina in the production and tour of Another Part of the Forest) and Great Lakes Theater Festival (notably Kate Nickleby in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby). Her guest appearances with regional and stock theatres throughout the country include Last of the Red Hot Lovers with Gary Burghoff, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre), The Love of the Nightingale at L.A. Theatre Works with Robert Foxworth and the one-woman show When Something Wonderful Ends (Playwright’s Theatre of New Jersey). Her television credits include “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” several soap operas, recurring as Cathy Wilson on “Loving,” and Life Among the Lowly and The Grimke Sisters for PBS.
Howard Green (Ben Epstein) returned to an acting career (after a stint as a senior executive at Paramount and Fox) that now spans 50 years in theatre and television. Mr. Green has been seen in Richard III and the Henry VI cycle (New York Shakespeare Festival), The Ceremony of Innocence (American Place Theatre), The Silent Partner (The Actor’s Studio), Cyrano de Bergerac (Lincoln Center Theater), Troilus and Cressida and The Winter’s Tale (Washington Shakespeare Festival), Family Business (Berkshire Theatre Festival), The Poison Tree (Philadelphia Playhouse in the Park), Waiting for Godot (Theatre at St. Clement’s), The Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare on the Sound) and Imagining Madoff (Stageworks on the Hudson). He was a founding member of the Counterpoint Theater Company in New York City, appearing in Awake and Sing, Rocket to the Moon and Uncle Vanya. His television credits include “Paradise Lost” and “The Ceremony of Innocence” (PBS).
Sloan Grenz (Stanley Jerome/Brighton Beach Memoirs) was last seen at The Old Globe in Six Degrees of Separation, Sea of Tranquility and the 2008 and 2009 Summer Shakespeare Festivals. His other credits include a season at Weathervane Theatre, Hamlet and Romeo and Juliet (Whit & Will Players), Cinderella (Lycian Centre for the Performing Arts), Meaningless (Bailiwick Repertory Theatre), the premiere of Henry & Mudge and Huckleberry Finn (Theatreworks/USA), Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge (The Gallery Players), Robin Hood (Park Playhouse), Tradition (Fringe NYC) and Little Shop of Horrors (Jewish Theatre Ensemble). He has appeared in multiple industrials for NYU, Bellevue and various police departments. As a singer, he's performed at CBGB, The Knitting Factory, Pianos, the Chicago Humanities Festival and in his own one-man show at The Duplex. He received his undergraduate degree from Northwestern University’s Theatre/Music Theatre program and his MFA in Acting from The Old Globe/USD.

Austyn Myers (Eugene Jerome/Brighton Beach Memoirs) recently appeared at The Old Globe in Lost in Yonkers and The First Wives Club – A New Musical. He was part of the Lost in Yonkers cast at McCoy Rigby Entertainment. Mr. Myers appeared on Broadway in the revival of Les Misérables and was also in the National Tour. His regional credits include The Secret Garden (Lamb’s Players Theatre), A Christmas Carol (North Coast Repertory Theatre), The Roar of the Greasepaint—The Smell of the Crowd (Starlight Theatre), Big River, Seussical the Musical, Ragtime and Les Misérables (California Youth Conservatory Theatre), Li’l Abner (American Rose Theatre), Seussical (J*Company Youth Theatre), Celebrity Sonnets (San Diego Shakespeare Society) and King John (Intrepid Shakespeare Company). His film and television roles include Meet Dave, Moonrock & Lighter Fluid and “Bommi and Friends.” He is an Associate Artist with California Youth Conservatory Theatre.
Joseph Parks (Stanley Jerome/Broadway Bound) Off Broadway: Eurydice (Second Stage Theatre). Regional: The History of Invulnerability and Love Song (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Eurydice and Richard II (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Goat, or Who is Sylvia? and Slay the Dragon (American Conservatory Theater), The Sweetest Swing in Baseball (Magic Theatre), Wintertime (San Jose Repertory Theatre), In the Red and Brown Water, Run, Mourner, Run, The Ghost Sonata and Venus (Yale School of Drama). Television: "Law & Order.” Mr. Parks received his MFA from Yale School of Drama and is a co-founding member of New Theater House.
Allie Trimm (Nora Morton) s a San Diego native and honored to be a part of Brighton Beach Memoirs! She has been seen as Kim MacAfee in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2009 Broadway revival of Bye Bye Birdie with John Stamos and Gina Gershon. Prior to that, she made her critically acclaimed Broadway debut as Patrice in Jason Robert Brown’s new musical 13. Her other credits include 13 (Patrice) at Goodspeed Opera House, The Secret Garden (Mary Lennox) at Lamb’s Players Theatre, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (Phyllis Who) at The Old Globe, The Will Rogers Follies and Annie Get Your Gun at Moonlight Stage. She recently guest starred on “30 Rock” and is currently in production on Disney’s feature film Prom. Ms. Trimm has performed in various concerts and galas across the country with some of her favorite composers. She has been a part of many readings and workshops including The Water, On a Glorious Day and the 2012 Broadway bound production of Allegiance with Lea Salonga and George Takei.
Brandon Uranowitz (Eugene Jerome/Broadway Bound) is honored to be making his Old Globe debut playing this role. His theatre credits include Rent - The Broadway Tour starring Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, directed by Michael Greif (Ensemble; u/s Mark), Feste in Twelfth Night (Off Broadway; 2009 Falstaff Award nominee for Best Supporting Performance by a male), Mercutio/Capulet in Romeo and Juliet (Lake George Theater Lab), Art in F*cking Art (winner of the 2009 Samuel French Off Off Broadway Short Play Festival), King of France in All’s Well That Ends Well (directed by Tim Carroll), The Tale of the Good Whistleblower of Chaillot’s Caucasian Mother and Her Other Children of a Lesser Marriage Chalkcircle (Theatre Askew), the Little Boy in Ragtime (world premiere cast), A Christmas Carol (directed by Susan Stroman), Evita (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Broadway Kids (Off Broadway; original cast recording). His television credits include “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and “As the World Turns.”
Julia Vanderwiel (Laurie Morton) is making her Old Globe debut. Her previous credits include Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Moonlight Stage Productions), Little Shop of Horrors and Bye Bye Birdie (Stagedoor Manor), 13 (American Rose Theatre) and High School Musical, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and Bye Bye Birdie (Actors’ Conservatory Theatre, San Diego).
Karen Ziemba (Kate Jerome) Broadway: Contact (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards), Curtains (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award), Steel Pier (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Never Gonna Dance (Tony Award nomination, Outer Critics Circle Award), Chicago, 42nd Street, A Chorus Line and Crazy for You. Off Broadway: And the World Goes ‘Round (Drama Desk Award); I Do! I Do! (Drama Desk nomination). New York City Opera: 110 in the Shade, The Most Happy Fella. City Center Encores!: Bye Bye Birdie, The Pajama Game, Allegro. Regional: Six Degrees of Separation, The First Wives Club (The Old Globe), Much Ado About Nothing (The Shakespeare Theatre Company; Hartford Stage), Sylvia (Long Wharf Theatre), Leading Ladies (Ford’s Theatre), House and Garden (Geva Theatre Center), The Threepenny Opera (Williamstown Theatre Festival), The Opposite of Sex (Magic Theatre), Shooting Star (Penguin Rep Theatre). Television and film: The Producers, “Scrubs,” all three “Law & Order” series, The Kennedy Center Honors and for PBS, “My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies,” “Gershwin at 100” and “Stephen Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall.”
  Neil Simon (Playwright) has been represented on Broadway by Come Blow Your Horn, Little Me, Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, Sweet Charity, The Star-Spangled Girl, Plaza Suite, Promises, Promises, Last of the Red Hot Lovers, The Gingerbread Lady, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Sunshine Boys, The Good Doctor, God’s Favorite, California Suite, Chapter Two, They’re Playing Our Song, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Fools, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues (1985 Tony Award), the female version of The Odd Couple, Broadway Bound, Rumors, Lost in Yonkers (1991 Pulitzer Prize, Tony Award), Jake’s Women, The Goodbye Girl, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Proposals, The Dinner Party and 45 Seconds from Broadway.  Off Broadway: London Suite.  Films include Barefoot in the Park, The Odd Couple, The Out-of-Towners, Plaza Suite, The Heartbreak Kid, The Prisoner of Second Avenue, Murder by Death, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, The Cheap Detective, California Suite, Chapter Two, Seems Like Old Times, Only When I Laugh, I Ought to Be in Pictures, Max Dungan Returns, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Lost in Yonkers.
  Scott Schwartz (Director) directed the Broadway productions of Golda’s Balcony and Jane Eyre (co-directed with John Caird). He recently directed Lost in Yonkers at The Old Globe starring Judy Kaye. His Off Broadway work includes Bat Boy: The Musical (Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), Tick, Tick… Boom! (Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), Rooms: A Rock Romance, The Foreigner starring Matthew Broderick for Roundabout Theatre Company, Kafka’s The Castle (Outer Critics Circle nomination, Outstanding Director of a Play), Miss Julie and No Way to Treat a Lady. He also directed Golda’s Balcony on tour, in London, in Los Angeles at the Wadsworth Theater and in San Francisco at American Conservatory Theater. He directed the world premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon, a new opera starring Lauren Flanigan, at Opera Santa Barbara and will restage this production at New York City Opera in the Spring of 2011. Mr. Schwartz’s other recent credits include Othello and Much Ado About Nothing at the Alley Theatre; Backwards in High Heels, a new musical about Ginger Rogers, at the Asolo Repertory Theatre in Florida; and a reinvisioning of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers at Paper Mill Playhouse, Theatre Under The Stars, Theatre on the Square and North Shore Music Theater (2008 IRNE Award, Outstanding Director of a Musical). Mr. Schwartz is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an Associate Artist at the Alley Theatre, and a graduate of Harvard University.
  Ralph Funicello (Scenic Design) The Old Globe: Summer Shakespeare Festivals 2004-2010, Lost in Yonkers, Restoration Comedy, The Constant Wife, The Lady with All the Answers, Julius Caesar, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, The Trojan Women, Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Hostage, Paramour, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Comedy of Errors, Pride’s Crossing, Macbeth, American Buffalo, Private Lives, The Gate of Heaven, Mister Roberts, Henry IV, Dancing at Lughnasa, Hedda Gabler, The Way of the World, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Ghosts, Interior Decoration, From the Mississippi Delta, The Winter’s Tale, Mr. Rickey Takes a Meeting, Bargains, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, The White Rose, Hamlet, Our Town, Driving Miss Daisy and Measure for Measure. Elsewhere: Mr. Funicello has designed scenery on and off Broadway and for many theatres across the country, including Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, American Conservatory Theater, A Contemporary Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Arizona Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Theatre, Guthrie Theater, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, Stratford Festival in Ontario, The Royal Shakespeare Company, New York City Opera, LA Opera and San Diego Opera. He currently holds the position of Powell Chair in Set Design at SDSU..
  Alejo Vietti (Costume Design) has designed costumes for several shows in New York including Secrets of the Trade (Primary Stages), Manhattan Theatre Club’s Nightingale and MCC Theater’s Grace both staring Lynn Redgrave, Rooms, William Finn’s Make Me a Song, Tryst, Roulette starring Anna Paquin, The Last Sunday in June, 16 Wounded, Two by Tennessee, Servicemen directed by Sean Mathias, Five Flights, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Measure for Measure and Of a White Christmas. His regional credits include over 11 productions at the Alley Theatre including Cyrano de Bergerac, A Christmas Carol, Eurydice, Othello and Rock ‘n’ Roll, Meet John Doe and A Christmas Carol (Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C.), Our Town starring Hal Holbrook, The Mystery of Irma Vep, The Dying City, Bad Dates, Mistakes Were Made (Hartford Stage), the world premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s opera Séance on a Wet Afternoon (Opera Santa Barbara) The Witches of Eastwick (Signature Theatre), Altar Boyz and The Last Train to Nibroc (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), John Patrick Shanley’s Romantic Poetry (New York Stage and Film), Camelot, Big River and 1776 (Goodspeed Opera), over 25 productions of the Ella Fitzgerald biographical play Ella and Enchanted April (Pasadena Playhouse, Ovation Award nomination). He also works at Arena Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Cleveland Play House, Colorado Ballet, Columbia University, Florida Stage, Guthrie Theater, Hangar Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, San Diego Repertory Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Theatreworks Hartford, Westport Country Playhouse and Williamstown Theatre Festival. His international credits include The Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the Donetsk Opera in the Ukraine. Mr. Vietti’s additional credits include Ringling Brothers Barnum & Bailey Gold Unit 08/09.
  Matthew McCarthy (Lighting Design) recently designed Lost in Yonkers at The Old Globe. He has designed several Off Broadway productions including Blue Man Group in New York, Boston and Chicago, The Odyssey, A Stage Version by Derek Walcott for Willow Cabin Theatre Company, and Rum & Coke and Texas Homos for Abingdon Theatre Company. His opera credits include Juilliard Opera Company, Opera Columbus, Connecticut Opera and Arizona Opera. Mr. McCarthy’s regional credits include Florida Repertory Theatre, Stages St. Louis, Contemporary Stage Company, New Harmony Theatre, and Cumberland County Playhouse. He has served as Lighting Director for extensive tours of Poland, Brazil and Austria with several modern dance companies.
  Paul Peterson (Sound Design) has designed over 85 productions at The Old Globe, including The Last Romance, Alive and Well, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Savannah Disputation, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, The Price, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, Since Africa, The Women, Sight Unseen, The Pleasure of His Company, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, The Sisters Rosensweig, Trying, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. His regional credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, The Wilma Theater, L.A. Theatre Works, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Malashock Dance Company, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and the Freud Theatre at UCLA. He received his BFA in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University.
  Michael Holland (Original Music) Composer/lyricist: Hurricane (2009 New York Musical Theatre Festival), Believe in Me…A Bigfoot Musical (New York Times’ #1 pick, FringeNYC 2004), Mikey Writes It! (2002 MAC Award, Best Revue), Times Square Association Centennial Celebration, Kelly Kinsella Live Under Broadway (FringeNYC 2007) and The Girl Most Likely To (American Cancer Society Benefit, Brooklyn, CT 1999). He received BackStage Magazine’s Ira Eaker Special Achievement Award in 2006 (“Outstanding performer/songwriter on the rise”). Composer: Incidental music for Alley Theatre, Playwrights Horizons (A.R. Gurney’s Crazy Mary, world premiere), Colorado Shakespeare, The Juilliard School and NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Orchestrator/Arranger: dance arrangements for All that Glitters (workshop 2010), New York City Gay Men’s Chorus (ongoing), arrangements/musical direction for countless NYC cabarets. Performer/arranger/musical director of downtown critical favorite Gashole (2001-present; 5 MAC Awards, BackStage Bistro Award [Best Duo]). Recordings: 4 self-produced original CDs, including Darkness Falls (2001 Blockbuster/MP3 Award) and Beach Toys Won’t Save You (2004 OutMusic Award, Songwriter of the Year), world premiere of “Another Day in the Modern World” on The Maury Yeston Songbook (ps classics, 2004); arrangements/production/session work on numerous recordings. Current/Upcoming: The Nightmare Before Christmas for Disney Theatricals (new lyrics, new songs, orchestrations), Godspell, Broadway revival in Winter 2010-11 (orchestrations/vocal arrangements) and Hurricane (in development — music/lyrics/co-librettist).
  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 the 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 (DC), American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Arena Stage, Milwaukee Rep, PlayMakers Rep, Indiana Rep, American Players Theatre, and Mo’olelo. 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 & Drama to teach Shakespeare. She has been published in VASTA Journals; 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 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 of Minneapolis and Arizona Theatre Company. Ms. Moser received her MFA in directing from Purdue University. When not doing theatre, she splits her time between Nova Scotia and the classic wooden sailboat, Simba I.
  Erin Gioia Albrecht (Assistant Stage Manager) regional stage management credits include The Madness of George III, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Cyrano de Bergerac, Twelfth Night, Coriolanus, Working, Bell, Book & Candle (The Old Globe) and Creditors, The Third Story, No Child and 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 St Theatre Lab), 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. Ms. Albrecht received her MFA in Stage Management from UC San Diego.