Double Indemnity

July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013
(Opening Night: Thursday, Aug. 1)
SAN DIEGO PREMIERE
Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

Adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright
Based on the Book by James M. Cain
Directed by John Gould Rubin
Scenic Design by Christopher Barreca
Costume Design by David Israel Reynoso
Lighting Design by Stephen Strawbridge
Sound Design by Elizabeth Rhodes
Projection Design by Keith Skretch
Original Music by Kwan-Fai Lam
Casting by Caparelliotis Casting
Stage Manager, Peter Van Dyke

The classic crime novel and film noir masterpiece, reinvented for the stage! When a small-time insurance agent falls under the spell of a gorgeous femme fatale, the two conspire to murder her husband for the insurance money. It seems like the perfect crime—until it all starts to unravel. Sexy, fun and wildly theatrical, Double Indemnity is the perfect summer thriller.

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Production Photos
Angel Desai as Phyllis Nirlinger and Michael Hayden as Walter Huff in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Michael Hayden as Walter Huff and Angel Desai as Phyllis Nirlinger in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Angel Desai as Phyllis Nirlinger and Michael Hayden as Walter Huff in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Angel Desai as Phyllis Nirlinger in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Michael Hayden as Walter Huff in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Angel Desai as Phyllis Nirlinger in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Vayu O'Donnell as Sachetti, Megan Ketch as Lola Nirlinger and Michael Hayden as Walter Huff in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Angel Desai as Phyllis Nirlinger, Murphy Guyer as Herbert Nirlinger and Michael Hayden as Walter Huff in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Murphy Guyer as Herbert Nirlinger and Angel Desai as Phyllis Nirlinger in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Michael Hayden as Walter Huff and Megan Ketch as Lola Nirlinger in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Michael Hayden as Walter Huff and Murphy Guyer as Keyes in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Angel Desai as Phyllis Nirlinger and Michael Hayden as Walter Huff in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.


Publicity Photos
Angel Desai stars as Phyllis Nirlinger and Michael Hayden as Walter Huff in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Angel Desai stars as Phyllis Nirlinger and Michael Hayden as Walter Huff in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Michael Hayden stars as Walter Huff in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Angel Desai stars as Phyllis Nirlinger in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
The cast of Double Indemnity: (from left) Murphy Guyer, Michael Hayden, Angel Desai, Megan Ketch and Vayu O'Donnell. The San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, runs July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Michael Hayden stars as Walter Huff and Angel Desai as Phyllis Nirlinger in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Michael Hayden stars as Walter Huff in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Angel Desai stars as Phyllis Nirlinger in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Murphy Guyer appears as Keyes and Herbert Nirlinger in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Megan Ketch appears as Lola Nirlinger, Nettie and Nurse in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Vayu O'Donnell appears as Sachetti, Jackson and Norton in the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
John Gould Rubin directs the San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Director John Gould Rubin (seated) with the cast of Double Indemnity: (from left) Murphy Guyer, Angel Desai, Michael Hayden, Megan Ketch and Vayu O'Donnell. The San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by Rubin, runs July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Playwright David Pichette. The San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, runs July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Playwright R. Hamilton Wright. The San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, runs July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
 
 
Novelist James M. Cain. The San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, runs July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
The San Diego Premiere of Double Indemnity, adapted by David Pichette and R. Hamilton Wright, based on the book by James M. Cain, directed by John Gould Rubin, runs July 27 - Sept. 1, 2013 at The Old Globe. Illustration courtesy of The Old Globe.
  


Cast and Creative Team

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Angel Desai (Phyllis Nirlinger) has appeared in New York in the 2006 Broadway revival of Company, The Winter’s Tale (directed by Barry Edelstein) and The Tempest (Classic Stage Company), Manic Flight Reaction and The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Playwrights Horizons), The Architecture of Loss (New York Theatre Workshop), The Antigone Project and Gum (Women’s Project), This End Up: A User’s Manual for Lovers of Asians (Ma-Yi Theater Company) and Stop Kiss and Henry VIII (The Public Theater).  Her regional credits include Phaeda Backwards and A Christmas Carol (McCarter Theatre Center), Company (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), the world premieres of Riceboy (Yale Repertory Theatre) and An Infinite Ache (Long Wharf Theatre), Uncle Vanya (Arena Stage), Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, New York Stage and Film, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center and the Cape Cod Theatre Project.  Her television credits include recurring roles on “Damages,” “The Event,” “Dollhouse,” “Kings” and all three “Law & Order” series, guest spots on “Being Mary Jane,” “Do No Harm,” “The Good Wife,” “Eleventh Hour” and others.  Her film credits include The Clique, The War Within, Heights, Black Knight and Robot Stories.  She is a 52nd Street Project volunteer and holds an M.F.A. in Acting from New York University.  
Murphy Guyer (Keyes, Herbert Nirlinger) most recently appeared onstage as Doc Golightlyin the Broadway production of Breakfast at Tiffany’s.  His other Broadway roles include Baylen in Glengarry Glen Ross with Al Pacino, Chief Inspectorin Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Captain Bracketin Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific, Randolph Southardin The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial and Mr. Braddock in The Graduate.  He recently appeared in the San Diego area in the La Jolla Playhouse production of Arthur Kopit’s A Dram of Drummhicit.  His film credits include Arthur, The Feast of the Goat, The Mercy Man, Rounders, The Jackal and City Hall.  He has been featured in such television programs as “House of Cards,” “Blue Bloods,” Mildred Pierce, “Rubicon,” “The Sopranos,” “24,” Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, “Oz” and, inevitably, “Law & Order.”  A playwright as well as an actor, Murphy’s plays have been produced at theaters throughout the U.S. and Canada as well as in Ireland, Great Britain, Europe and Russia.  His produced and published works include Eden Court, The American Century, World of Mirth, The Enchanted Maze, Rendezvous with Reality, A Russian Romance and The Infinite Regress of Human Vanity. 
Michael Hayden (Walter Huff) has appeared on Broadway in Carousel (Drama Desk Award nomination, Theatre World Award), Cabaret (Studio 54), Judgment at Nuremberg (Tony Award nomination, Broadway.com Favorite Featured Actor in a Broadway Play), Enchanted April, Festen and Henry IV opposite Kevin Kline (Lincoln Center Theater).  His Off Broadway credits include Edward Albee’s The Lady from Dubuque (Signature Theatre Company), All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure for Measure (Shakespeare in the Park), Dessa Rose and Far East (Lincoln Center Theater) and All My Sons (Roundabout Theatre Company).  His London credits include Carousel (National Theatre/West End) and Cabaret (West End).  Regionally he has appeared in Merrily We Roll Along (The Sondheim Celebration at The Kennedy Center), Sweet Bird of Youth, Henry V, Richard II and The Dog in the Manger (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Playboy of the Western World and The Winter’s Tale (Guthrie Theater) and A Dybbuk (Hartford Stage).  Hayden’s film and television credits include Charming Billy (Best Actor, American Film Institute/Los Angeles Independent Film Festival), Patient 001, “Murder One,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Hack,” Far East, Bella Mafia, Texas Tragedy and “As the World Turns.”
Megan Ketch (Lola Nirlinger, Nettie, Nurse) can currently be seen in the Lionsgate film The Big Wedding.  In 2011 she starred in the Williamstown Theatre Festival production of Lewis Black’s comedy One Slight Hitch.  Her television credits include “Under the Dome,” “The Good Wife,” a recurring role on “Blue Bloods,” Gotham, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and “A Gifted Man.”  Ketch is a graduate of the New York University Graduate Acting Program. 
Vayu O’Donnell (Sachetti, Jackson, Norton) is an actor/writer based in New York.  He is a graduate of Yale University where he majored in American Studies with a concentration in Cultural Theory and minored in Theater.  He then graduated from the Tisch School of the Arts Graduate Acting program.  His Broadway credits include Driscoll in Golden Boy (Lincoln Center Theater) and Basil and Beeston understudy in Man and Boy (Roundabout Theatre Company).  His other New York credits include The Poor of New York (Connelly Theater), Jester’s Dead (The PIT), L(y)re (Ars Nova), Desperate Writers (Union Square Theatre), Tales from the Tunnel (Bleecker Street Theatre), The Picture of Dorian Gray and Perfect Harmony (Theatre Row), Dance Dance Revolution directed by Alex Timbers (Les Freres Corbusier) and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Poor Tom Productions).  Regionally he has been seen in Edward II and Tamburlaine (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), Of Mice and Men (Cleveland Play House, Buffalo Studio Arena) and Sweet Bird of Youth, This is a Play and Harmonious Pimps of Harmony (Williamstown Theatre Festival).  O’Donnell’s film and television credits include “I Just Want My Pants Back,” The Weekend, Suzanne and Sharif and USMC, and he created and co-wrote the new web series “80/20” with Christopher Oscar Peña.  Thanks to Auntie and Unkie.  
  David Pichette (Playwright) has been a fixture in the Northwest theater scene for the last 30 years.  His notable performances have included the title role in Nixon’s Nixon, Feste in Twelfth Night, Terbougie in Alan Alda’s Radiance and Noël in Oh, Coward! (Seattle Repertory Theatre), George in Jumpers, Dispatcher in Harold Pinter’s Victoria Station, The Author in David Hare’s one-man show Via Dolorosa and Mellersh in Enchanted April (A Contemporary Theatre), Voltaire and Pangloss in Candide, John Adams in 1776 and Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady (The 5th Avenue Theatre) and King Henry and Shallow in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, Polonius in Hamlet and Jaques in As You Like It (Seattle Shakespeare Company).  Around the country, he has appeared with Alliance Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage and San Jose Repertory Theatre.  A longtime love of classic American crime fiction, shared with co-author and fellow actor R. Hamilton Wright, led to a decision two years ago to give a shot at adapting James M. Cain’s Double Indemnity.  Working with Wright on a script proved to be every bit as enjoyable as working with him onstage.
  R. Hamilton Wright (Playwright) has been a professional actor for 35 years, and in that time he has appeared in over 130 productions.  He and David Pichette have written a new adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles that will be receiving its world premiere in November at Seattle Repertory Theatre.  Wright lives in a little brick house in North Seattle with his wife Katie Forgette.
  James M. Cain (Novelist), one of the creators of the roman noir genre, began his career as a police reporter for The Baltimore Sun and was a protégé of the famous critic H. L. Mencken.  As a journalist born and raised on the East Coast, Cain contributed to The Atlantic, The Nation, The New York World and American Mercury and became the managing editor of The New Yorker magazine before moving to Hollywood in 1930.  Though he tried his hand at both plays and screenwriting, Cain found his true voice and fame as a crime novelist and short story writer.  Best known for his novel The Postman Always Rings Twice, Cain is also the author of Serenade, Mildred Pierce, Sinful Woman, The Moth, Rainbow’s End and Past All Dishonor, among others.  Double Indemnity, his second novel, was first published in serial form in Liberty Magazine in 1943.  Cain died at the age of 85 in 1977.
  John Gould Rubin (Director) is a producer as well as a director and is presently the Artistic Director of The Private Theatre, for whom he directed a radical, site-specific Hedda Gabler in a townhouse for 25 and a sexually explicit production of August Strindberg’s Playing with Fire at The Box, the notorious burlesque house.  He is the former Artistic/Executive Director of LAByrinth Theater Company, for whom he directed eight shows, including premieres by John Patrick Shanley and Erin Cressida Wilson, and produced Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train (LAByrinth, Off Broadway, commercially, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Donmar Warehouse and the West End) and Our Lady of 121st Street (LAByrinth and Off Broadway).  Recent productions he has directed include The Caucasian Chalk Circle (to be remounted this coming winter), The Seagull and, last season, the musical The Fartiste.  He produced the tour of Stephen Dillane’s one-man Macbeth in London, Sydney and New Zealand.  Last summer Rubin developed a radical Peer Gynt based around the British, wheelchair-using actor Neil Hancock for The International Ibsen Festival in Oslo and a bilingual workshop of Ximena Escalante’s revolutionary Electra Despierta at California Institute of the Arts.  He is presently in development for a Broadway musical about the transition from swing to bebop via the life of Dexter Gordon and Turn Me Loose, a one-man show about Dick Gregory.  He is also developing two devised pieces, one about Sargent Shriver and the birth of the Peace Corps, and another about the contemporary American political polarization.  In addition, he is developing a reinvestigation of Bertolt Brecht’s Drums in the Night in collaboration with The Private Theatre and Classical Theatre of Harlem.
  Christopher Barreca (Scenic Design) has designed the Broadway productions of Michael John LaChiusa’s Marie Christine, Gabriel Garcia Márquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold (American Theater Wing Design Award), Richard Greenberg’s The Violet Hour, Howard Korder’s Search and Destroy (Drama-Logue Award) and Timberlake Wertenbaker’s Our Country’s Good (Prague Quadrennial).  His Off Broadway credits include Greenberg’s Everett Beekin and Three Days of Rain (Drama Desk Award nomination), LaChiusa’s Bernarda Alba, Bernard-Marie Koltes’ Roberto Zucco, Thomas Strelich’s Neon Psalms (American Theater Wing Design Award nomination) and Antonio Skarmeta’s Burning Patience.  He also designed the tour of Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: Los Angeles.  His regional credits include Culture Clash’s The Birds, Christopher d’Amboise’s The Studio, Charles Ludlam’s Hedda Gabler, Eric Overmyer’s The Heliotrope Bouquet, Dark Rapture and In Perpetuity and Stephin Merritt’s Peach Blossom Fan directed by Chen Shi-Zheng (Prague Quadrennial).  Internationally Barreca has designed Rocky Das Musical (Hamburg, Germany), King Lear (Dijon, France, Prague Quadrennial) and Stephen Dillane’s solo Macbeth (Almeida Theatre, London).  His opera credits include Leon/Soyinka’s Scourge of Hyacinths (Münchener Biennale, BMW Design Award nomination), and his dance credits include Susan Marshall’s Solo and Roman Oller’s Good Night Paradise and Tears for Violeta (The Joyce Theater).  Barreca received a 1990 NEA Arts in America Grant (Calcutta, India) and is the Head of Scenic Design at California Institute of the Arts.
  David Israel Reynoso (Costume Design) recently designed the Globe’s production of Be a Good Little Widow.  Reynoso is the Obie Award-winning costume designer of Sleep No More (Punchdrunk/Emursive).  His scenic and costume design credits include Chasing the Song (La Jolla Playhouse), Futurity, Cabaret, The Snow Queen, Alice vs. Wonderland, Trojan Barbie, Copenhagen, No Man’s Land, Hamletmachine, Ajax in Iraq and Abigail’s Party (American Repertory Theater), The Comedy of Errors and Othello (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), The Woman in Black (Gloucester Stage Company) and Dead Man’s Cell Phone (The Lyric Stage Company).  His other work includes Amanda Palmer’s “Down Under” tour, Juan Son’s “Mermaid Sashimi” tour and Gallow Green at The McKittrick Hotel.
  Stephen Strawbridge (Lighting Design) has designed more than 200 productions on and Off Broadway and at most leading regional theaters and opera houses across the U.S.  His international credits include major premieres in Bergen, Copenhagen, The Hague, Hong Kong, Linz, Lisbon, Munich, Naples, Sao Paulo, Stockholm and Vienna.  His artistic collaborators include such notable directors and choreographers as Martha Clarke, Graciela Daniele, Gordon Edelstein, Richard Foreman, Athol Fugard, Mark Lamos, Emily Mann, Bartlett Sher, John Tillinger, Robert Wilson and Robert Woodruff.  Strawbridge has numerous pieces in the repertories of Pilobolus Dance Theatre and Alison Chase/Performance.  His recent work includes Hamlet with Paul Giamatti (Yale Repertory Theatre), The Train Driver and The Blood Knot written and directed by Athol Fugard (Signature Theatre Company), Strange Interlude directed by Michael Kahn (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Krapp’s Last Tape with Brian Dennehy (Long Wharf Theatre), Madame Butterfly (LA Opera) and Rigoletto (The Dallas Opera).  He has been recognized with numerous awards and nominations including the American Theatre Wing Design, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Connecticut Critics Circle, Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum, Helen Hayes, Henry Hewes Design and Lucille Lortel Awards.  He is co-chair of the design department and resident lighting designer for Yale Repertory Theatre.
  Elizabeth Rhodes (Sound Design) has New York credits that include the world premiere of Steve Martin’s adaptation of The Underpants and the premieres of John Patrick Shanley’s Dirty Story and Sailor’s Song, as well as Stephen Belber’s A Small, Melodramatic Story and Robert Glaudini’s Dutch Heart of Man (LAByrinth Theater Company), In the Heat of the Night (Drama Desk Award nomination), Chuck Mee’s Paradise Park directed by Daniel Fish (Signature Theatre Company), Philip Roth in Khartoum and Sweet Storm (The Public Theater LAB), Future Me with original music by Stew (Summer Play Festival), The Winter’s Tale directed by Barry Edelstein (Classic Stage Company), Trial by Water (Ma-Yi Theater Company) and A Soldier’s Wife (Mint Theater Company).  Her regional credits include Clybourne Park (Long Wharf Theatre), Lee Blessing’s Winning Streak (George Street Playhouse), Stones in His Pockets (Alley Theatre) and The Colored Museum (Crossroads Theatre Company). 
  Keith Skretch (Projection Design) designs video for performance and installation.  His Los Angeles designs include Los Otros (Mark Taper Forum), Timboctou (REDCAT), A House Not Meant to Stand (The Fountain Theatre, LA Weekly Theater Award nominee) and The Anatomy of Gazellas (Playwrights’ Arena).  His East Coast work includes Amidst and Strange Cargo, Parts II and III of Palissimo’s The Painted Bird trilogy (Baryshnikov Arts Center, La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club), associate on Big Dance Theater’s Man in a Case (Hartford Stage), Addicted to Bad Ideas: Peter Lorre’s 20th Century, co-designed with director Jay Scheib (ArKtype) and Christen Clifford’s Abreactions (Dixon Place) and My Parents’ Sex Life (PS122).  He has also worked with such artists as Daniel Fish, Jessica Blank, Target Margin Theater, Mallory Catlett, Eliza Bent and Tal Yarden.  Skretch co-created and performed in Game On (The Chocolate Factory Theater) and in 2012 debuted Display Replay, an immersive video installation exploring the sports media spectacle (California Institute of the Arts).  His animated short Waves of Grain has screened at film festivals internationally, and his latest installation, Good/Bad/Ugly, was on display in New York in June (CATCH/The Bushwick Starr).  He holds an A.B. from the University of Chicago and M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts.
  Kwan-Fai Lam (Original Music) is one of the most acclaimed Hong Kong composers of his generation with a diverse repertoire that spans serious and commercial music.  He is the winner of the Hsu Tsang-Houei International Composition Competition Prize and Asian Composers League Young Composer Award.  His concert pieces have been performed by world-renowned ensembles and orchestras, including Luxembourg Contemporary Ensemble in Germany, Trey McIntyre Project Ensemble in Korea and Macro Philharmonic.  Lam’s film credits, which have screened and received awards in multiple film festivals, include Across Land, Across Sea (40th International Emmy Award nomination for Best Documentary Film), The Monk (3rd Fresh Wave Short Film Competition Grand Prize), Little by Little (Monterrey International Film Festival Best Short Fiction Film Award), and A Lost Generation (2009 IndieProducers Award forBest Animation).  His theater credits in the U.S include original music for Kenwood Wilderness directed by Lars Jan, Camino Real directed by Jessica Kubzansky (The Theatre at Boston Court), The Crucible, The Seagull and The Caucasian Chalk Circle directed by John Gould Rubin (Stella Adler Studio of Acting) and Playing with Fire, also directed by Rubin (The Private Theatre).
  Caparelliotis Casting (Casting) recently cast the Globe productions of The Rainmaker, Other Desert Cities, Be a Good Little Widow, A Doll’s House, The Brothers Size, Pygmalion and Good People.  Their Broadway casting credits include Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, The Trip to Bountiful, Grace, Dead Accounts, The Other Place, Seminar, The Columnist, Stick Fly, Good People, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The House of Blue Leaves, Fences, Lend Me a Tenor and The Royal Family.  They also cast for Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, LCT3, Ars Nova, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre and three seasons with Williamstown Theatre Festival.  Their recent television credits include HairBrained with Brendan Fraser, “Ironside” (NBC) and Steel Magnolias (Sony for Lifetime).
  Peter Van Dyke (Stage Manager) has been a stage manager for over 50 productions at The Old Globe, beginning with Foxfire in the former Cassius Carter Centre Stage in 1984 and most recently last summer’s hit Nobody Loves You in the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre.  Some of his other notable shows include Waiting for Godot, Falsettos, Forever Plaid, Blues in the Night, Pride’s Crossing, Cowgirls and nine Shakespeare plays, including Jack O’Brien’s monumental Henry IV.  Born in Chicago and raised on a dairy farm in Wisconsin, Van Dyke has been a San Diegan since 1989.  He has stage managed at Denver Center Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse and Mark Taper Forum.  He has been the production stage manager of The Phantom of the Opera, Les Misérables, Wicked and Million Dollar Quartet on tour, playing over 100 cities in 36 states and five provinces of Canada as well as Seoul and Shanghai.