Dog and Pony

May 28 – July 6, 2014
(Opening Night: Thursday, June 5)
WORLD PREMIERE
Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

Book by Rick Elice
Music and Lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker
Directed by Roger Rees
Choreography by Lisa Shriver
Orchestrations by Larry Hochman
Scenic Design by Kris Stone
Costume Design by Emily Pepper
Lighting Design by Cory Pattak and Jeff Croiter
Sound Design by Scott Lehrer
Music Direction by Adam Wachter
Casting by Tara Rubin Casting
Stage Manager, Anjee Nero

A world premiere musical comedy romance from the award-winning talents behind Jersey Boys, Peter and the Starcatcher, and Altar Boyz. Mags and Andy are a screenwriting team with a track record of hits and a professional relationship that’s firing on all cylinders. But when Andy’s marriage hits the rocks, forever single Mags finds she wants something more. Will romance ruin their perfect relationship? A witty and irreverent look at what women want and whether men fit the bill...or don’t.

Dog and Pony is a recipient of an Edgerton Foundation New American Plays Award.



Production Photos

(from left) Jon Patrick Walker as Andy, Nicole Parker as Mags, and Eric William Morris as Joe in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Heidi Blickenstaff as Jane, Eric William Morris as Jeff, Beth Leavel as Rhoda, Jon Patrick Walker as Andy, and Nicole Parker as Mags in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Eric William Morris, Nicole Parker, Beth Leavel, Heidi Blickenstaff, and Jon Patrick Walker in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(clockwise from top left) Nicole Parker as Mags, Jon Patrick Walker as Andy, Eric William Morris as Jeff, Heidi Blickenstaff as Jane, and Beth Leavel as Rhoda in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Jon Patrick Walker as Andy and Nicole Parker as Mags in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Jon Patrick Walker as Andy and Nicole Parker as Mags in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Eric William Morris as Jeff and Nicole Parker as Mags in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Heidi Blickenstaff as Bonnie and Jon Patrick Walker as Andy in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Nicole Parker as Mags and Eric William Morris as Joe in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Heidi Blickenstaff as Bonnie and Nicole Parker as Mags in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Jon Patrick Walker as Andy, Nicole Parker as Mags, and Eric William Morris as The Host in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Nicole Parker as Mags in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Jon Patrick Walker as Andy in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Heidi Blickenstaff as Jane in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Eric William Morris as Jeff in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
   
   
Beth Leavel as Doris in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
   



Publicity Photos

Jon Patrick Walker appears as Andy and Nicole Parker as Mags in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Jon Patrick Walker appears as Andy and Nicole Parker as Mags in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Jon Patrick Walker appears as Andy and Nicole Parker as Mags in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
The cast of Dog and Pony: (from left) Heidi Blickenstaff, Jon Patrick Walker, Nicole Parker, Eric William Morris, and Beth Leavel. The World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, runs May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from top) Playwright Rick Elice, composer Michael Patrick Walker, and director Roger Rees. The World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Elice, music and lyrics by Walker, and directed by Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Playwright Rick Elice and composer Michael Patrick Walker. The World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Elice, music and lyrics by Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, runs May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Nicole Parker appears as Mags in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Jon Patrick Walker appears as Andy in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Beth Leavel appears as Rhoda and Doris; Eric William Morris as The Host, Jeff, and Joe; and Heidi Blickenstaff as Jane and Bonnie in the World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Director Roger Rees and playwright Rick Elice. The World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Rees, runs May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
The cast and creative team of Dog and Pony: (seated) cast members Jon Patrick Walker and Nicole Parker and (standing, from left) choreographer Lisa Shriver, director Roger Rees, cast member Heidi Blickenstaff, composer Michael Patrick Walker, playwright Rick Elice, and cast members Beth Leavel and Eric William Morris. The World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker, and directed by Roger Rees, runs May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
The World Premiere of Dog and Pony, with book by Rick Elice, music and lyrics by Michael Patrick Walker and directed by Roger Rees, runs May 28 - July 6, 2014 at The Old Globe. Illustration courtesy of The Old Globe.



Cast and Creative Team

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Heidi Blickenstaff (Jane, Bonnie) was a part of the original creative team of Broadway’s Tony Award-nominated [title of show] where she played herself along side her friends and collaborators. Her other Broadway credits include Alice Beineke in The Addams Family with Roger Rees, Bebe Neuwirth, and Brooke Shields, Ursula in The Little Mermaid, and The Full Monty. She has also been seen Off Broadway in Now. Here. This. and [title of show] (both at Vineyard Theatre) and as Ruth in Mosiac (Primary Stages). Some of her regional credits include Diana in Next to Normal (Weston Playhouse), First You Dream: The Music of Kander and Ebb (The Kennedy Center, Signature Theatre Company), and Ann Mitchell in Meet John Doe (Ford’s Theatre, Helen Hayes Award). Most recently Blickenstaff played Cleo in the critically acclaimed production of The Most Happy Fella (City Center Encores!). She can be heard on many original cast recordings including [title of show], Now. Here. This., Meet John Doe, and The Land Where the Good Songs Go, all available on iTunes. A Duke University graduate and California native, Blickenstaff is thrilled to be making her Globe debut.
Beth Leavel (Rhoda, Doris) is delighted to be returning to The Old Globe, where she was last seen as Lily Martin in Dancing in the Dark. Leavel has 11 Broadway shows (and counting) to her credit including The Drowsy Chaperone, for which she received Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. Her other Broadway shows include Baby It’s You! (Tony, Drama Desk, and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Emily in the original company of Elf, Donna in Mamma Mia!, Frau Blucher in Young Frankenstein, Dorothy Brock in the revival of 42nd Street, Tess in the original company of Crazy for You, Mrs. Bixby in The Civil War, Ellie in Hal Prince’s Show Boat, and Anytime Annie (her Broadway debut) in the original 42nd Street. Her credits also include numerous cast recordings, Off Broadway shows, and regional theatre roles like M’Lynn in Steel Magnolias, Dolly in Hello, Dolly!, and Lucille in the City Center Encores! production of No, No, Nanette. Leavel received an M.F.A. The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Proud mom to T.J. and Sam.   
Eric William Morris (The Host, Jeff, Joe) is thrilled to be returning to The Old Globe after playing Paris in The Last Goodbye,directed by Alex Timbers, earlier this season. He recently appeared in recurring roles as Noble Sanfino on “Blue Bloods” and Deputy Mayor Holbrook on “Golden Boy.” He has also appeared on Broadway as Sky in Mamma Mia! and Coram Boy. He frequently collaborates with composer/writer Joe Iconis, starring in the Drama Desk Award-nominated Bloodsong of Love and the Second Stage Theatre run and original cast recording of Things to Ruin,among other projects. His television and film credits include “Royal Pains,” “Law & Order,” “New Amsterdam,” “As the World Turns,” and the upcoming feature film Trust, Greed, Bullets & Bourbon. His other regional and Off Broadway credits include White Noise (Royal George Theatre), Empire (Lincoln Center Theater workshop), and Mrs. Hughes (Yale Institute).  
Nicole Parker (Mags) played Fanny Brice in Funny Girl last fall at 3-D Theatricals, for which she received BroadwayWorld and Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award nominations. She was Elphaba in Wicked on Broadway and in the First National Tour. Her other Broadway credits include Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me and The People in the Picture. Regionally, Parker has played Maria in The Sound of Music (Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre), Rosemary in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Reprise Theatre Company), and Juliet in The People vs. Friar Laurence, the Man Who Killed Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater/The Second City, Jeff Award nomination). She spent two years in Amsterdam as a performer/writer at Boom Chicago, an American sketch/improv theatre in the Netherlands. For six years, Parker was a series regular and contributing writer on Fox’s “MADtv.” She also appeared on “Bunk” for IFC, “Trust Us with Your Life” on ABC, “Key and Peele,” and “Hot in Cleveland.” Her films include Disaster Movie and Funny People directed by Judd Apatow. Parker has been a guest vocalist with Peter Nero and the Philadelphia Pops, Steve Reineke and the Houston Symphony, the Colorado Symphony, and many more. She is a founding member of Waterwell, a non-profit theatre based in New York City.
Jon Patrick Walker (Andy) is so happy to be back at The Old Globe, where he previously appeared in The Mask of Moriarty directed by Nicholas Martin and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged). His other theatre credits include High Fidelity and Young Frankenstein (Broadway), Peter and the Starcatcher (New World Stages), Twelfth Night (The Public Theater’s Delacorte Theater), Debbie Does Dallas (Jane Street Theatre), Dead End (Huntington Theatre Company), She Stoops to Conquer, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Our Town, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (all Williamstown Theatre Festival), Clear (Dixon Place), The Playboy of the Western World (Milwaukee Repertory Theater). Walker was thrilled to portray John Lennon at Carnegie Hall in a piece entitled 1969, created by the new music ensemble Alarm Will Sound. His film credits include Winter’s Tale, The Secret Lives of Dentists, and The Substance of Fire. His television credits include leading roles on “The Fighting Fitzgeralds” (NBC) and “Holding the Baby” (Fox), plus guest appearances on “Sex and the City,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Rubicon,” “Blue Bloods,” and numerous others. Last year, Walker released his first album of original rock and roll, The Guilty Party, which is available for download from Amazon and iTunes and for streaming on various sites including Spotify. 
  Rick Elice (Book) co-wrote Jersey Boys (winner 2006 Tony Award, 2007 Grammy Award, and 2009 Olivier Award for Best Musical) with Marshall Brickman, and the feature film adaptation, directed by Clint Eastwood, will be released in June. His play, Peter and the Starcatcher, received nine 2012 Tony Award nominations (including two for Elice) and won five, more than any play of the season. It is currently on tour across North America. Also on Broadway, Elice wrote The Addams Family (with Marshall Brickman, music and lyrics by Andrew Lippa), currently touring North America, with productions in Japan, Europe, and South America. His upcoming projects include a musical for Disney Theatricals with Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, based on the film Make Believe, and Mad Hot Ballroom with Jeanine Tesori, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell. His film credits include Jersey Boys directed by Clint Eastwood, coming in 2014. Elice received his M.F.A. from Yale University School of Drama. He is a teaching fellow at Harvard University and is a charter member of American Repertory Theater.
  Michael Patrick Walker (Music and Lyrics) is an award-winning composer/lyricist hailed by The New York Times as “a skilled songwriter” and by The Huffington Post as one of today’s “must-know songwriters.” His songs have been performed and recorded by a diverse group of artists including Chita Rivera, Kelli O’Hara, Cheyenne Jackson, Ana Gasteyer, and many more. With collaborators Gary Adler and Kevin Del Aguila, Walker is perhaps best known as one of the creators of the smash hit musical Altar Boyz (Outer Critics Circle Award Winner for Best Off-Broadway Musical), for which he received multiple Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding Music and Outstanding Lyrics. His other musicals include being theo, Land of Dreams, and The Distant Bells (Eugene O’Neill Festival finalist). Beyond the world of theatre, his songs can be heard on the Disney Channel’s Emmy Award-nominated “Johnny and the Sprites” and Nick Jr.’s “Olivia.” His recordings include Out of Context: The Songs of Michael Patrick Walker (co-producer), the Altar Boyz cast album, the “Johnny and the Sprites” album (co-producer), and several editions of Broadway Cares/Equity Fights AIDS’s Carols for a Cure. Walker is a proud graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.
  Roger Rees (Director) directed the Globe productions of The Merry Wives of Windsor (1999) and Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000). He received a Tony Award nomination and an Obie Award for the Broadway production of Rick Elice’s play Peter and the Starcatcher (co-directed with Alex Timbers), nominated for a remarkable nine Tony awards, winning five. Off Broadway Rees directed Lynn Nottage’s Mud, River, Stone (Playwrights Horizons), Arms and the Man (Roundabout Theatre Company), and Here Lies Jenny (The Zipper Factory, Post Street Theatre). From 1984 to 1986, he was Associate Artistic Director of the U.K.’s Bristol Old Vic, directing Julius Caesar, Turkey Time, and John Bull. He spent three happy years as Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival from 2005 to 2007, directing The Film Society, The Rivals, The Taming of the Shrew (directing and playing Petruchio opposite Bebe Neuwirth), Double Double, The Late Middle Classes, Anything Goes, and Herringbone (also at McCarter Theatre Center and La Jolla Playhouse). His regional credits include Red Memories (New York Stage and Film), The Primrose Path (Guthrie Theater), and Treemonisha, The Juniper Tree, A White House Cantata, and The Firebrand of Florence (New York’s The Collegiate Chorale). He also directed the episode “Variety” for the HBO series “Oz.”
  Lisa Shriver (Choreographer) choreographed the recent Broadway revival of Jesus Christ Superstar directed by Des McAnuff. She also choreographed the Broadway productions of Ring of Fire, The Farnsworth Invention, and The Story of My Life. Her Assistant Choreographer credits on Broadway include The Producers, Into the Woods, Titanic, Oklahoma!, Thou Shalt Not, Amour, and Sally Marr...and Her Escorts with Joan Rivers. Her regional credits include Bright Lights Big City and Fetch Clay, Make Man (New York Theatre Workshop), The Tempest, Caesar and Cleopatra (both with Christopher Plummer), Macbeth, Jesus Christ Superstar, and The Grapes of Wrath (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), Into the Woods and Fetch Clay, Make Man (McCarter Theatre Center), and The Farnsworth Invention and Sideways (La Jolla Playhouse). Shriver directed and choreographed Motherhood the Musical, performed in nine cities, and an evening of Guys and Dolls music with Tony Bennett, Vanessa Williams, Marisa Tomei, and Malcolm Gets. Her film credits include A Christmas Carol, A Beautiful Mind, Tony and Tina’s Wedding, and Hysterical Blindness. She was also the Assistant Choreographer on the films Mixed Nuts, Center Stage, and The Polar Express.
  Larry Hochman (Orchestrator) is currently represented on Broadway by The Book of Mormon, for which he won both Tony and Drama Desk Awards, and Pippin. He has been nominated for four other Tonys for The Scottsboro Boys (also seen at The Old Globe), Spamalot, Fiddler on the Roof, and A Class Act. His other Broadway orchestrations include Big Fish, The Addams Family, Chaplin,and Jane Eyre. He has won five Emmy Awards as composer of The Wonder Pets (Nickelodeon). His credits also comprise 25 regional and Off Broadway shows that include Maury Yeston’s Death Takes a Holiday, Marvin Hamlisch’s The Nutty Professor, and Dancing in the Dark at The Old Globe, for which he won the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award. He has created orchestrations for 17 films including Hamlisch’s The Informant! and Disney films such as Lady and the Tramp II: Scamp’s Adventure, Annie, and The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea. His symphonic poem In Memoriam, published by E.B. Marks, has been performed in Berlin and New York. His recordings and concerts include Barbra Streisand, Mariah Carey, Eric Idle, Hugh Jackman, Audra McDonald, Barry Manilow, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Betty Buckley, Mandy Patinkin, The Boston Pops, San Francisco Symphony, New York Philharmonic, Big Apple Circus, and Sir Paul McCartney.
  Kris Stone (Scenic Design) has designed sets that have been seen throughout the U.S., Scotland, England, Ireland, Germany, and Australia in over 200 productions. Her past Globe credits include The Four of Us directed by Pam MacKinnon and Two Sisters and a Piano directed by Karen Carpenter. Her West Coast premieres include J.T. Rogers’s Blood and Gifts directed by Lucie Tiberghien (La Jolla Playhouse), The Bengsons’s Hundred Days directed by Anne Kaufman (Z Space, San Francisco), and Dan LeFranc’s Troublemaker directed by Lila Neugebauer (Berkeley Repertory Theatre). Her designs have been seen Off Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater, Playwrights Horizon, Vineyard Theatre, The New Victory Theater, The Joyce Theater, and Primary Stages. Her regional credits include Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. Internationally she has designed for Abbey Theatre, the Dublin and Edinburgh festivals, Theatre Royal Tasmania, Traverse Theatre Edinburgh, Riverside Studios in London, and Wiesbaden International Festival. Stone has received a San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Set Design – Musical, an Irish Times Theatre Award nomination for Best Set, and a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Set Design of a Musical for Tony Kushner and Maurice Sendak’s Brundibar. Her upcoming credits include Philip Glass’s new opera In the Night Kitchen by Maurice Sendak and directed by Phelim McDermott.
  Emily Pepper (Costume Design) previously designed the Globe productions of Nobody Loves You, The American Plan, and Bell, Book and Candle. Her New York credits include Radiance (LAByrinth Theater Company), Milk (New Georges), Two-Handers and Psycho Therapy (Midtown International Theatre Festival), The Revival (Theatre Row), FUBAR (59E59 Theaters), Henry V (Walkerspace), A Slight Headache (South Street Seaport Museum), King of Shadows (Theater for the New City), Tio Pepe (Summer Play Festival), The Scariest (45 Bleecker), Frankenstein (37 Arts), Fizz (Ohio Theatre), and productions with Ars Nova. Her regional credits include Arizona Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, White Plains Performing Arts Center, Delaware Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Two River Theater Company, Ten Thousand Things, and La Jolla Playhouse. She also participated in the International Gombrowicz Festival in Lublin, Poland. Pepper holds an M.F.A. in Design from UC San Diego.
  Cory Pattak (Lighting Design) designed the New York productions of Handle with Care (Westside Theatre Downstairs), Witnessed by the World (59E59 Theaters), Skippyjon Jones (TheatreworksUSA), This Side of Paradise (Theatre at St. Clement’s), Unlocked, Nymph Errant, With Glee, and The Blue Flower (Prospect Theater Company), Hot Mess in Manhattan (Chernuchin Theatre), Ingmar Bergman’s Persona (HERE Arts Center), The Maiden’s Prayer (InProximity Theatre Company), Dreyfus in Rehearsal (The Beckett Theatre), Mercy Thieves and Ride (Outhouse Theatre Company), They’re Playing Our Song and Our Town (The Actors Fund), and Happy We’ll Be (Roseland Ballroom) His regional credits include The Fabulous Lipitones (Goodspeed Musicals), Other Desert Cities (Maltz Jupiter Theatre), A Little More Alive (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Single Girls Guide and A Christmas Carol (Capital Repertory Theatre), Liberty (Warner Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Shipwrecked! (Penguin Rep Theatre), 42nd Street (Resorts Casino), Rent, My Fair Lady, and South Pacific (John W. Engeman Theater at Northport), Disney’s High School Musical (Surflight), Les Misérables and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Northern Stage), Cats, West Side Story, Footloose, and Annie (Pittsburgh Musical Theater), and Fully Committed (Syracuse Stage). He also served as an associate or assistant on Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher (winner of the Tony Award), A Time to Kill, An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, The Story of My Life, and Irena’s Vow (Broadway), Heathers The Musical (New World Stages), Band Geeks and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (Goodspeed Musicals), and Daddy Long Legs (various regional companies and London). Pattak is the host of “in 1: the podcast,” featuring conversations with theatrical designers. He received a B.F.A. from Syracuse University.
  Jeff Croiter (Lighting Design) has designed the Broadway productions of Mothers and Sons, Newsies, Peter and the Starcatcher (Tony Award), A Time to Kill, Soul Doctor, Jekyll & Hyde, The Anarchist, The Performers, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Next Fall, and Kiki & Herb: Alive on Broadway. His other New York credits include The Great Immensity, The Comedy of Errors and Love’s Labour’s Lost at the Delcorte Theater, The Last Five Years, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Silence!, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Rapture, Blister, Burn, A Lie of the Mind, Ordinary Days, Streamers, Family Guys Sings!, The Voysey Inheritance, The Internationalist, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Almost Maine, The Dazzle, and Jennifer Muller’s The Works.
  Scott Lehrer (Sound Design) received the first Tony Award for Sound Design for the Lincoln Center Theater revival of South Pacific. He worked with Roger Rees on his production of Herringbone with BD Wong, both at McCarter Theatre Center and for recording at Dixon Place in New York. Lehrer’s recent work includes A Raisin in the Sun directed by Kenny Leon with Denzel Washington, Mike Nichols’s productions of Betrayal and Death of a Salesman (Tony nomination), Richard Nelson’s The Apple Family Plays (The Public Theater), John Doyle and Wynton Marsalis’s new Sondheim piece A Bed and a Chair, George Wolfe’s production of Lucky Guy, the Warren Carlyle-directed Chaplin (Drama Desk Award), Cotton Club Parade and Finian’s Rainbow, The Guardsman directed by Gregory Mosher (The Kennedy Center), That Championship Season and A View from the Bridge (Tony nomination), the Bartlett Sher-directed Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Tony nomination) and Walter Bobbie’s long-running revival of Chicago, as well as 45 City Center Encores! productions, including this year’s The Most Happy Fella. His projects as music engineer/producer include Loudon Wainwright III’s High Wide & Handsome (Grammy Award), Judy Kuhn’s All This Happiness, Hazmat Modine’s Cicada, Bebe Neuwirth’s Porcelain and Meredith Monk’s mercy.
  Adam Wachter (Music Director) is over the moon to be making his Old Globe debut. His New York theatre credits include The Addams Family, Peter Pan, Carrie, Unlock’d, Old Jews Telling Jokes, Yank!, In Transit, and many concerts, benefits, and cabarets. Regionally, he has conducted and played at The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Barrington Stage Company, Weston Playhouse, Theatre By The Sea, North Shore Music Theatre, Northern Stage, and The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. He recently composed the score to the indie film You Must Be Joking, and he also scored the web series “Submissions Only,” “My Day,” and “The Battery’s Down.”
  Tara Rubin Casting (Casting) previously cast the Globe productions of A Room with a View, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Sammy, and The First Wives Club. Their selected Broadway credits include Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Mothers and Sons, Les Misérables, Big Fish, The Heiress, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Promises, Promises, A Little Night Music, Billy Elliot, Shrek, The Farnsworth Invention, Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, Jersey Boys, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Pirate Queen, Imaginary Friends, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, The Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma!, The Frogs, Contact, and Thou Shalt Not. Their Off Broadway credits inculde Love, Loss, and What I Wore and Old Jews Telling Jokes. Regionally they have cast for Yale Repertory Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, and Bucks County Playhouse.
  Anjee Nero (Stage Manager) has previously worked on the Old Globe productions of The Winter’s Tale, Be a Good Little Widow, Allegiance – A New American Musical, A Room with a View, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, The Savannah Disputation, Cornelia, Kingdom,and the 2007 Shakespeare Festival. Her selected La Jolla Playhouse credits include Sideways directed by Des McAnuff, Ruined directed by Liesl Tommy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Christopher Ashley, Herringbone directed by Roger Rees and starring BD Wong, and The Seven. Nero has worked with several prominent regional theatres including Center Theatre Group, SITI Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and more. Her other selected credits include Schick Machine (Paul Dresher Ensemble), which has toured nationally and internationally for the past six years, multiple corporate events with MSI Production Services, Inc., Dream Report (Allyson Green Dance featuring Lux Borreal), and Garden of Forbidden Loves and Garden of Deadly Sound (IMAGOmoves), which toured to the International Hungarian Theatre Festival in Cluj, Romania. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.
  Kendra Stockton (Assistant Stage Manager) previously worked at The Old Globe as a production assistant on The Few and the 2013 Shakespeare Festival. She also recently assistant stage managed La Jolla Playhouse’s production of The Who and the What. Her additional production assistant credits include Sideways, A Lonely Boy’s Guide to Survival (And Werewolves), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Memphis (La Jolla Playhouse) as well as Godspell and Memphis (Broadway).