March 8 – April 14, 2013
(Opening Night: Wednesday, March 13)
WORLD PREMIERE
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
Book by Robert L. Freedman
Music by Steven Lutvak
Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak
Based on the Novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman
Directed by Darko Tresnjak
Choreography by Peggy Hickey
Scenic Design by Alexander Dodge
Costume Design by Linda Cho
Lighting Design by Philip S. Rosenberg
Sound Design by Dan Moses Schreier
Projection Design by Aaron Rhyne
Wig Design by Charles LaPointe
Orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick
Music Direction by Mike Ruckles
Vocal Arrangements by Dianne Adams McDowell and Steven Lutvak
Casting by Binder Casting
Stage Manager, Susie Cordon
When Monty Navarro finds out he is ninth in line to inherit a dukedom, he decides to eliminate the other eight heirs standing in his way – all played by one agile actor! A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder is a witty music hall comedy that explores how low we'll go to make it to the top. Former Co-Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak returns to the Globe to direct this World Premiere musical of merriment and murder. A co-production with Hartford Stage.
Watch a preview of The Old Globe's world premiere production of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, running March 8 - April 14, 2013.
Watch highlights (b-roll) of The Old Globe's world premiere production of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, running March 8 - April 14, 2013.
Meet the cast and creative team of The Old Globe's world premiere production of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, running March 8 - April 14, 2013.
(from left) Heather Ayers as Miss Evangeline Barley, Ken Barnett as Monty Navarro and Jefferson Mays as Asquith D'Ysquith Jr. in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Jefferson Mays as Henry D'Ysquith and Ken Barnett as Monty Navarro in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Lisa O'Hare as Sibella Hallward, Ken Barnett as Monty Navarro and Chilina Kennedy as Phoebe D'Ysquith in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Jefferson Mays as Lord Adalbert D'Ysquith in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Ken Barnett as Monty Navarro in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Lisa O'Hare as Sibella Hallward in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Ken Barnett as Monty Navarro and Chilina Kennedy as Phoebe D'Ysquith in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Ken Barnett as Monty Navarro and Jefferson Mays as Reverend Lord Ezekial D'Ysquith in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Jefferson Mays as Lady Hyacinth D'Ysquith in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Ken Barnett as Monty Navarro and Lisa O'Hare as Sibella Hallward in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Jefferson Mays as Lord Adalbert D'Ysquith and Heather Ayers as Lady Eugenia in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
The cast of the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Director Darko Tresnjak, cast members Ken Barnett and Lisa O'Hare, Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, cast members Chilina Kennedy and Jefferson Mays and Old Globe Managing Director Michael G. Murphy at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
(from left) Book writer and lyricist Robert L. Freedman, director Darko Tresnjak, choreographer Peggy Hickey and composer and lyricist Steven Lutvak at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Freedman, music by Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
(from left) Cast members Lisa O'Hare, Ken Barnett, Chilina Kennedy and Jefferson Mays at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
(from left) Cast members Ken Barnett and Jefferson Mays at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
(from left) Cast member Ken Barnett, book writer and lyricist Robert L. Freedman, composer and lyricist Steven Lutvak, cast member Jefferson Mays and Old Globe Managing Director Michael G. Murphy at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Freedman, music by Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein (center) with cast members (from left) Ken Barnett, Lisa O'Hare, Chilina Kennedy and Jefferson Mays at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
Cast member Jefferson Mays at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
Cast member Ken Barnett at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
(from left) Director Darko Tresnjak and cast members Ken Barnett and Jefferson Mays at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
(from left) Book writer and lyricist Robert L. Freedman and composer and lyricist Steven Lutvak at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Freedman, music by Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
(from left) Cast members Chilina Kennedy, Catherine Walker, Rachel Izen, Heather Ayers and Lisa O'Hare and choroegrapher Peggy Hickey at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
(from left) Director Darko Tresnjak, Old Globe Board Chair Harold W. Fuson, Jr., Pam Fuson and Old Globe Managing Director Michael G. Murphy at the opening night party for A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder on March 13, 2013. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Doug Gates.
(from left) Jefferson Mays stars as The D'Ysquiths and Ken Barnett as Monty Navarro in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
The cast of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder: (from left) Catherine Walker, Kendal Sparks, Heather Ayers, Chilina Kennedy, Kevin Ligon, Jefferson Mays, Ken Barnett, Lisa O'Hare, Price Waldman and Rachel Izen. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Composer and lyricist Steven Lutvak, director Darko Tresnjak and book writer and lyricist Robert L. Freedman. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Freedman, music by Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Jefferson Mays stars as all eight ill-fated members of the D'Ysquith family in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Ken Barnett stars as Monty Navarro in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Jefferson Mays stars as The D'Ysquiths, Chilina Kennedy as Phoebe D'Ysquith, Lisa O'Hare as Sibella Hallward and Ken Barnett as Monty Navarro in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Lisa O'Hare appears as Sibella Hallward in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Chilina Kennedy appears as Phoebe D'Ysquith in the world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Composer and lyricist Steven Lutvak and book writer and lyricist Robert L. Freedman. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Freedman, music by Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Darko Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein (far right) with (from left) composer and lyricist Steven Lutvak, book writer and lyricist Robert L. Freedman, choreographer Peggy Hickey and director Darko Tresnjak. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Freedman, music by Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
(from left) Composer and lyricist Steven Lutvak, book writer and lyricist Robert L. Freedman, choreographer Peggy Hickey and director Darko Tresnjak. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Freedman, music by Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
The cast and creative team of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder: (from left) cast members Catherine Walker, Kendal Sparks, Heather Ayers, Chilina Kennedy and Kevin Ligon, composer and lyricist Steven Lutvak, book writer and lyricist Robert L. Freedman, Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, cast member Jefferson Mays, director Darko Tresnjak, cast members Ken Barnett, Lisa O'Hare, Price Waldman and Rachel Izen and choreographer Peggy Hickey. The world premiere of A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Freedman, music by Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak, based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman and directed by Tresnjak, runs March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.
Playwright and lyricist Robert L. Freedman. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Freedman, music by Steven Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak and based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman, will run March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Composer and lyricist Steven Lutvak. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak and based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman, will run March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
Director Darko Tresnjak. Tresnjak will directA Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder, with book by Robert L. Freedman, music by Lutvak, lyrics by Freedman and Lutvak and based on the novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman, March 8 - April 14, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by The Defining Photo.
A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder. Illustration courtesy of The Old Globe.
Cast and Creative Team
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Heather Ayers (Miss Barley, Lady Eugenia) previously appeared at The Old Globe in Sammy, The Women and Ace. Her Broadway credits include Young Frankenstein, A Little Night Music and On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, and herOff Broadway credits include Five Course Love, Sarah, Plain and Tall, Forbidden Broadway Strikes Back! and five productions at City Center Encores! Ayers has appeared regionally at Yale Repertory Theatre, The O’Neill Festival, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, George Street Playhouse, the Alley Theatre and Barrington Stage Company, among others. Her television and film credits include “Lights Out,” “Z Rock,” “Scandal” and Lucky Stiff. She can be heard on the recordings for Young Frankenstein, Five Course Love and the Encores! production of Face the Music.
Ken Barnett (Monty Navarro) is very pleased to return to the role he played at Hartford Stage. He has appeared on Broadway in Wonderful Town directed by Kathleen Marshall and The Green Bird directed by Julie Taymor. His Off Broadway credits include February House (The Public Theater), Manon/Sandra, La Ronde (Best Actor, New York International Fringe Festival), Debbie Does Dallas, Susan Stroman’s A Christmas Carol and The Whore of Sheridan Square (New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination for Best Featured Actor). His regional credits include Brandon in Next Fall (Geffen Playhouse), Burton in Burn This (Mark Taper Forum), Clear (The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center), Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Adam Guettel’s Myths and Hymns (Philly Award nomination for Best Leading Actor), Frank in Merrily We Roll Along (Guthrie Theater) and Mame opposite Christine Ebersole (Paper Mill Playhouse). Barnett’s recent films include Admission, People Like Us and Friends with Kids. He has also appeared on television on“Mad Men,” “In Plain Sight,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Entourage,” “How I Met Your Mother” and “Monk.” He is a graduate of Wesleyan University. He is also the recipient of a Connecticut Critics Circle Award for February House at Long Wharf Theatre last season.
Rachel Izen (Miss Shingle) has appeared in the Broadway and U.S. Touring companies of Mary Poppins. Her extensive U.K. theater credits include Thoroughly Modern Millie, A Chorus Line, Chicago, Blondel, Lautrec, Singin’ in the Rain, Annie, Guys and Dolls, Bless the Bride, Beauty and the Beast, Follies, The Beggar’s Opera, The Witches of Eastwick, The Pajama Game, Bitter Sweet, Daisy Pulls It Off, The Winslow Boy, Gypsy, Hot Flush, Dames at Sea, The Ugly Duckling (Honk), Bad Girls: The Musical, The Lady of Larkspur Lotion and Sweeney Todd. She has been seen in film and on television in Evita, Endgame, Beg!, Jack Brown and the Curse of the Crown, “Casualty,” “Holby City,” Big Women, “The Bill,” Where There’s Smoke, Daylight Robbery and “The Queen’s Nose.” Izen is a graduate of Arts Educational Schools, London.
Chilina Kennedy (Phoebe D’Ysquith) just finished playing Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest at Neptune Theatre. She played Mary Magdalene in the recent revival of Jesus Christ Superstar on Broadway and at La Jolla Playhouse, and she also appeared in the First National Tour of Mamma Mia! Her Canadian theater credits include three seasons at the Shaw Festival, three seasons at Stratford Festival, two seasons at the Charlottetown Festival, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Canon Theatre), the world premiere of The Lord of the Rings (Mirvish Productions), Theatre Aquarius, Thousand Island Playhouse, Reprise Concerts and guest star in An Evening with Jason Robert Brown (Glenn Gould Studio). Kennedy studied at Sheridan College and the Stratford Festival Birmingham Conservatory. She has received BroadwayWorld Awards for Kiss Me, Kate, The Grapes of Wrath and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Kevin Ligon (Tour Guide, Magistrate) recently appeared in the Broadway production of The Phantom of the Opera as Firmin, the opera manager. He previously appeared on Broadway in Sister Act, Finian’s Rainbow, Young Frankenstein, The Producers, Kiss Me, Kate, 1776 and The Secret Garden. He appeared in the National Touring Companies of The Producers (also Los Angeles Company), Guys And Dolls (1992 revival, Jeff Award for Best Supporting Actor), A Grand Night for Singing, Stardust, Grease and Hello, Dolly! starring Carol Channing. Ligon’s Off Broadway credits include Forbidden Broadway, The Chosen and City Center Encores! productions of Fiorello!, Finian’s Rainbow, Carnival and The Boys from Syracuse. Some of his favorite regional theater credits are Man #2 in Five Course Love (Geva Theatre), Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha (Sacramento Music Circus), Oscar in CURTAINS (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Snake in The Apple Tree (Goodspeed Musicals), Gussie Fink-Nottle in By Jeeves (Goodspeed Musicals, Geffen Playhouse), Luther Billis in South Pacific (Dallas Theater Center), Hysterium in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (Casa Mañana) and Adolfo Pirelli in Sweeney Todd (The Kennedy Center’s Sondheim Celebration). His feature film and television work includes The Producers (2005) and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Ligon holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from Southern Methodist University.
Jefferson Mays (The D’Ysquiths) won a Tony Award for his performance in I Am My Own Wife. His other Broadway credits include Journey’s End, Pygmalion, The Best Man and Of Thee I Sing. HisOff Broadway credits include Blood and Gifts, Measure for Measure, Quills and Orestes. He has been seen regionally in My Fair Lady, Quartermaine’s Terms, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Misalliance, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Cherry Orchard, Peter Pan, She Stoops to Conquer, Tartuffe, Hamlet, Macbeth, Miss Julie and Private Lives. His television and film credits include Alfie, Kinsey, The Notorious Bettie Page, Cousin Bette, “The Good Wife,” Mildred Pierce, “Detroit 1-8-7,” “Lie to Me,” “Fringe,” “Law & Order,” “Nurse Jackie” and “The Closer”. Mays is also the recipient of Lucille Lortel, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle, Obie, Helen Hayes, Elliot Norton, Theatre World, Drama League, Jefferson, Helpmann and Patté Awards. He holds a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from UC San Diego.
Lisa O’Hare (Sibella Hallward) has U.S. theater credits that include Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (U.S. Tour, Ahmanson Theatre, Helen Hayes Award nomination, Elliot Norton Award, Denver Post Ovation Award), Sally Bowles in Cabaret (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Lead Performance) and the title role in Gigi (Reprise Theatre Company) and Guinevere in Camelot (Music Circus). Her London credits include the title role in Gigi, Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (U.K. Tour), Anything Goes (Theatre Royal Drury Lane), Copacabana (Scandinavian Tour) and the title role in Cameron Mackintosh and Disney’s Mary Poppins (London and Australia). She can be heard on the recordings for Mary Poppins (Original London Cast), Dracula (L.A. Theatre Works) and A Spoonful of Stiles and Drewe. Her television credits include “Castle,” “The Closer” and “Undercovers.” For my husband Brian, you are my rock!
Kendal Sparks (Farmer, Guard) has performed in the New York productions of Where’s Charley? (City Center Encores!), Charles Busch’s Judith of Bethulia and Bunnicula (TheatreworksUSA). He has been seen regionally in Disney’s Aladdin, The Producers, Les Misérables, Hello, Dolly!, The Pajama Game, The Wizard of Oz, Oliver!, Jesus Christ Superstar and Mame. Sparks received a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from the University of Michigan. He is a teaching artist with Artists Striving to End Poverty and the resident music director at Front & Center for Performing Arts in Springfield, New Jersey.
Price Waldman (Barber, Detective) has appeared on Broadway in The Little Mermaid, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and The Lion King. He has worked at regional theaters such as McCarter Theatre Center, Theatre for a New Audience, Red Bull Theater, York Theatre Company, Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music, Goodspeed Musicals, Weston Playhouse, Great Lakes Theatre Festival, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab (both in Utah and White Oak), California Shakespeare Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, American Musical Theatre of San Jose and TheatreWorks. He is proud to have been involved with A Gentleman’s Guide since 2006. He also appeared in the film Across the Universe. He is a graduate of University of Delaware’s Professional Theatre Training Program and received his undergraduate degree from Oberlin College and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Waldman lives in Brooklyn with his wonderful children, Jasper, Grace and Sylvia, and his amazing wife, Rebecca.
Catherine Walker (Sibella's Maid, Phoebe's Maid) is thrilled to make her Globe debut. She received her B.F.A. in Vocal Performance from Carnegie Mellon University and made her Broadway debut with the original cast of Disney and Cameron Mackintosh’s hit musical Mary Poppins, understudying the title role and later becoming Broadway’s second Mary, flying over the heads and into the hearts of Broadway audiences for over 100 performances. She left that production to join the original cast of the highly acclaimed Broadway revival of Ragtime. Most recently, Walker was seen once again on Broadway in Mary Poppins. In addition, she portrayed Maria in The Sound of Music during the 2011 holiday season, for which she garnered the prestigious Carbonell Award for Best Actress in a Musical (Fulton Theatre and Maltz Jupiter Theatre). She has also appeared on the stage of Matlz Jupiter Theatre as Hope in Anything Goes. In addition, she played Louise in Gypsy in the premiere production of the new North Shore Music Theatre. In May she will wed the love of her life, Jacques Mitchell. Love and thanks to Steven, Robert and Darko for this wonderful opportunity!
Robert L. Freedman (Book and Lyrics) was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Writers Guild Award for the ABC miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows starring Judy Davis. He won the Writers Guild Award for HBO’s A Deadly Secret and was also nominated for ABC’s Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella starring Brandy and Whitney Houston. He was a finalist for the Humanitas Prize for the GLAAD Award-winning What Makes a Family. His other films for television include What Love Sees (Silver Plaque, Chicago International Television Festival), Honor Thy Mother (Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination, Mystery Writers of America), Unlikely Angel starring Dolly Parton, In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (aka Bitter Blood), Our Son, the Matchmaker, Taken Away, Murder at 75 Birch for CBS, Woman With a Past for NBC, Murder in the Hamptons and The Pastor’s Wife for Lifetime and Broadway Sings: The Music of Jule Styne for “Great Performances” on PBS. For his musical theater work with collaborator Steven Lutvak, Freedman won the Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyric Writing and the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting. They won the California Musical Theatre Award for their musical Campaign of the Century, which has been performed at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and the Chicago Humanities Festival. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder was developed with the support of the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Ucross Foundation and Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts. He is the coauthor, with Faye Greenberg, of the one-man play The Beast of Broadway: The Life and Times of David Merrick. He is married to actress Jean Kauffman, and they are the proud parents of writer/director Max Freedman. He dedicates this production to the memory of his mother, Shirley.
Steven Lutvak (Music, Lyrics and Vocal Arrangements) was profiled in Time magazine’s People to Watch column. He also wrote the title track to Paramount’s hit film Mad Hot Ballroom. A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, written with Robert L. Freedman, was originally developed at the Sundance Institute Theatre Lab and won both the Kleban Award and the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting. Lutvak and Freedman also wrote Campaign of the Century (originally commissioned by the American Musical Theatre of San Jose), which was presented at the Chicago Humanities Festival and the New York Musical Theatre Festival, winning the California Musical Theater Award Competition from the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild. Lutvak’s other musicals include The Wayside Motor Inn (commissioned by the Harmony Project of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre), Almost September (eight San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and seven Dramalogue Awards for its West Coast premiere) and Esmeralda, for which he won a New American Works Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. Other awards include two Jonathan Larson Performing Arts Foundation Grants and the Johnny Mercer Emerging American Songwriter Award. As a singer/songwriter, Lutvak has performed at Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall and around the country. In The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote, “An upper-middlebrow Billy Joel crossed with a lower-highbrow Tom Lehrer with a pinch of Debussy: that’s how you might place the music of the singer, songwriter, pianist and raconteur Steven Lutvak in the artistic hierarchy of contemporary songwriters.” His two CDs are The Time It Takes and Ahead of My Heart (both of which are on sale in the Globe gift shop), and his songs are discussed at some length in Classic American Popular Song.
Darko Tresnjak (Director) is the fifth Artistic Director of Hartford Stage. His directing credits at Hartford Stage include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Breath & Imagination, Bell, Book and Candle and The Tempest. He was the Artistic Director of The Old Globe Shakespeare Festival from 2004 to 2009. His directing credits at the Globe include Cyrano de Bergerac, Coriolanus, The Women, The Pleasure of His Company, All’s Well That Ends Well, Bell, Book and Candle, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, The Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Noble Kinsmen and Pericles. He received four awards from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle for Outstanding Direction of Cyrano de Bergerac, The Winter’s Tale and Pericles and for Excellence in Artistic Direction. His recent credits include Titus Andronicus (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), City of Angels (Goodspeed Musicals), Twelfth Night (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) and the National Tour of The Merchant of Venice featuring F. Murray Abraham as Shylock. The production originated in 2007 at Theatre for a New Audience and transferred to the Royal Shakespeare Company as part of their Complete Works Festival. Tresnjak’s directing career began at Williamstown Theatre Festival where, over eight seasons, he directed The Skin of Our Teeth, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Love of Three Oranges, Princess Turandot, The Blue Demon, The Winter’s Tale, Moving Picture and Under Milk Wood. He has also directed at The Public Theater, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Vineyard Theatre, Blue Light Theater Company, Long Wharf Theatre and Westport Country Playhouse. From 2002 to 2004 he was Director in Residence at Boston’s Huntington Theatre Company where his productions included What the Butler Saw, Heartbreak House and Amphitryon. Tresnjak recently directed Der Zwerg, Der Zerbrochene Krug and Die Vögel for LA Opera, the inaugural productions of their acclaimed Recovered Voices cycle. The productions were released on DVD and Blu-ray by Arthaus Musik. He has also directed at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Florida Grand Opera, Sarasota Opera and Virginia Opera. Tresnjak was educated at Swarthmore College and Columbia University. Between college and graduate school, he studied at the Martha Graham School, performed with numerous Philadelphia dance and theater companies and toured across the United States and Japan with Mum Puppettheatre. He is the recipient of grants from Theatre Communications Group, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and National Endowment for the Arts, and he received the Alan Schneider Award for Directing Excellence.
Peggy Hickey (Choreography) has choreographed Maurice Sendak's Hansel and Gretel, La Rondine, The Most Happy Fella, My Fair Lady and Lucky To Be Me, the music of Leonard Bernstein, at Lincoln Center and Antony and Cleopatra Off Broadway at Theatre for a New Audience. Her regional credits include Carnival, Amour, A Little Night Music, Brigadoon, King of Hearts and On the Twentieth Century (Goodspeed Musicals), Oklahoma! (Paper Mill Playhouse), Oliver!, Fiddler on the Roof, Brigadoon and Carousel (California Musical Theatre), Curtains, The King and I, My Fair Lady, State Fair and The Music Man (Music Theatre of Wichita) and The Music Man (The Bushnell). Her opera credits include work with LA Opera, San Francisco Opera, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, New York City Opera, Chicago Lyric Opera, Dallas Opera, Houston Grand Opera, Hong Kong Arts Festival and Savonlinna Opera Festival. Her film and television credits include The Brady Bunch Movie, “Samantha Who?,” “90210,” “Hot in Cleavland,” “General Hospital” and “Day of Our Lives.” Hickey is on faculty at UCLA Theater, Film and Television’s Ray Bolger Musical Theater Program. She has received Connecticut Critics Circle Awards for Best Choreography for Brigadoon and On the Twentieth Century and an MTV Video Music Award for Best Choreography for Beck’s New Pollution.
Alexander Dodge (Scenic Design) has designed the Globe productions of Pygmalion, The Recommendation, Rafta, Rafta…, The Last Romance, Sammy, The Pleasure of His Company, Bell, Book and Candle, The Sisters Rosensweig and Moonlight and Magnolias. His Broadway credits include Present Laughter (2010 Tony Award nomination), Old Acquaintance, Butley and Hedda Gabler. His West End credits include All New People as well as Manchester and Glasgow. Off Broadway he has designed Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them, All New People, Trust and The Water’s Edge (Second Stage Theatre), Maple and Vine and Rapture, Blister, Burn (Playwrights Horizons), The Understudy (Roundabout Theatre Company), Paris Commune and Measure for Pleasure (The Public Theater), Antony and Cleopatra (Theatre for a New Audience), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Lucille Lortel Award) and Chaucer in Rome (Lincoln Center Theater) and Force Continuum and Sexual Perversity in Chicago (Atlantic Theater Company). His regional credits include productions at Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, CENTERSTAGE, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Geffen Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre. His opera credits include Il Trittico (Deutsche Oper Berlin), Così Fan Tutte (Minnesota Opera), Der Waffenschmied (Munich), The Flying Dutchman (Würzburg) and Lohengrin (Budapest). Dodge trained at the Yale School of Drama.
Linda Cho (Costume Design) previously designed the Globe productions of The Recommendation, Twelfth Night, Othello, Titus Andronicus, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Noble Kinsman, Much Ado About Nothing, All’s Well That Ends Well and Pericles. Her credits at Hartford Stage include The Whipping Man, Gee’s Bend and A Raisin in the Sun. Off Broadway she has designed The Merchant of Venice (Theatre for a New Audience), The Other Side (Manhattan Theatre Club), Some Men (Second Stage Theatre), Durango (The Public Theater), Eli’s Comin’ (Vineyard Theatre), Hurricane (Classic Stage Company), The Author’s Voice and Imagining Brad (Drama Dept.) and Wolf Lullaby (Atlantic Theater Company). Her regional credits include The Dog in the Manger (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Legacy of Light (Arena Stage), Mary’s Wedding (Westport Country Playhouse), True West (Williamstown Theatre Festival), What the Butler Saw (Huntington Theatre Company), Magnolia (Goodman Theatre) and The Two Noble Kinsmen (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Internationally she has designed The Merchant of Venice (Royal Shakespeare Company) and The Story of My Life (The Canadian Stage Company). Her opera credits include Die Vögel, Der Zwerg and Der Zerbrochene Krug (LA Opera), The Mikado and The Magic Flute (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis) and Orfeo and Euridice (Virginia Opera Association). She received an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama and was Costume Curator for the Prague Quadrennial 2011 U.S. National Pavillion. She has received a Lucille Lortel Award nomination for The Two Noble Kinsmen, a Craig Noel Award for Pericles and a Drama Desk nomination for Princess Turandot.
Philip S. Rosenberg (Lighting Design) previously designed the Globe productions of Pygmalion and The Recommendation. His Off Broadway credits include Cactus Flower. His regional credits include The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, Guthrie Theater, TheatreWorks, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Manhattan School of Music, Portland Stage, The Actors Company Theatre, Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Two River Theater Company, George Street Playhouse and Westport Country Playhouse. Over the past 12 years Rosenberg has served as associate lighting designer on over 35 Broadway plays and musicals.
Dan Moses Schreier (Sound Design) previously composed original music for Much Ado About Nothing and sound designed The Tempest and Much Ado About Nothing for the Globe’s 2011 Shakespeare Festival. He has sound designed the Broadway productions of Sondheim on Sondheim, A Little Night Music, West Side Story, Gypsy, Radio Golf, John Doyle’s production of Sweeney Todd, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Gem of the Ocean, Pacific Overtures, Assassins, Into the Woods, Topdog/Underdog, Dirty Blonde, The Diary of Anne Frank, The Tempest and Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk. His Off Broadway sound design credits include Road Show, Stuff Happens, Homebody/Kabul and Floyd Collins. He composed music for the Broadway productions of The Merchant of Venice with Al Pacino, Julius Caesar with Denzel Washington and The Tempest with Patrick Stewart and the Off Broadway production of Disfarmer at St. Ann’s Warehouse. He has received three Tony Awards nominations, three Drama Desk Awards and an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.
Aaron Rhyne (Projection Design) designed the Globe productions of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Whisper House and Working. His Broadway credits include Bonnie & Clyde and his Off Broadway credits include Water by the Spoonful, Lonely, I’m Not, The Blue Flower and All New People (Second Stage Theatre), Wild with Happy (The Public Theater), Graceland (Lincoln Center Theater), Spirit Control (Manhattan Theatre Club), Taylor Mac’s Obie Award-winning The Lily’s Revenge (HERE Arts Center) and Dutchman (Cherry Lane Theatre). His opera credits include Florencia en el Amazonas (Washington Opera, Opera Colorado, Utah Opera), La Traviata (Wolf Trap) and Jerry Springer: The Opera (Carnegie Hall, Sydney Opera House). Regionally he has designed Bonnie & Clyde (La Jolla Playhouse, Asolo Repertory Theatre), Strange Interlude (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Working (Asolo Rep, Broadway in Chicago), The Civil War (Ford’s Theatre)and The Last Five Years (Asolo Rep). Additionally, Rhyne creates videos for various television projects, including “Project Runway” and “The Marriage Ref.”
Charles LaPointe (Wig Design) has designed the Broadway productions of Motown: The Musical, Clybourne Park, Newsies, The Columnist, Magic/Bird, Bonnie & Clyde, The Mountaintop, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, The Merchant of Venice, Memphis, Henry IV, The Rivals, Cymbeline, Lombardi, Fences, Looped, The Miracle Worker, Superior Donuts, 33 Variations, Guys and Dolls, In the Heights, Jersey Boys, The Color Purple, Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me, Good Vibrations, The Apple Tree, A Raisin in the Sun, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Radio Golf, Sight Unseen, High Fidelity, Xanadu and Bring It On: The Musical. His previous credits at Hartford Stage include Gem of the Ocean, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Gee’s Bend, Noises Off! and A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Jonathan Tunick (Orchestrator) orchestrated last season’s Some Lovers at The Old Globe. A native New Yorker, Tunick holds a Masters’ degree from The Juilliard School. He studied clarinet with Joseph Allard and composition with Vittorio Giannini and Leonard Bernstein. He also studied conducting under Jorge Mester and Harold Farberman and is a Fellow of the Conductors Institute. His first major credit, Burt Bacharach’s Promises, Promises, led to a long career as orchestrator of Broadway musicals, notably those of Stephen Sondheim. These include Company, Follies, A Little Night Music, Pacific Overtures, Sweeney Todd, Merrily We Roll Along, Into the Woods, Passion, A Chorus Line, Nine, Titanic and The Color Purple. His credits as composer, arranger and conductor for film and television include Fort Apache the Bronx, Endless Love, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The Bird Cage, “Murder, She Wrote,” “Columbo” and “Smash.” He is also the arranger/conductor of recordings with Bernadette Peters, Bette Midler, Judy Collins, Kiri Te Kanawa, Placido Domingo, Neil Diamond, Johnny Mathis, Kate Bush, Barbra Streisand and Paul McCartney. He conducted Company at The Kennedy Center. He is one of only seven persons holding all four major awards: the Grammy, Emmy, Tony and Oscar. In 2009 he was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame.
Mike Ruckles (Music Director) is thrilled to be making his Old Globe debut. His New York credits include The Sound of Music (Carnegie Hall), the Drama League Tribute to Patti LuPone and At This Performance (McGinn/Cazale Theatre). His regional credits include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and Breath & Imagination (Hartford Stage), The Last Five Years (The Denver Center for the Performing Arts) and more than 15 productions with Little Theatre of the Rockies. He is the composer of Girls Only (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Main Street Theater, Denver Center, Minneapolis, Des Moines, Charlotte and Winnepeg). He received his M.M. from University of Northern Colorado. Ruckles maintains a busy private studio in New York City with students appearing in leading roles on and Off Broadway and in national tours. He has served as Private Voice Faculty for the New Studio on Broadway (New York University), Voice Faculty for Ann Reinking’s Broadway Theater Project, Musical Director for New York Film Academy and Musical Director and Private Voice Faculty for the School of Theatre Arts and Dance at University of Northern Colorado, and he is a regular clinician and lecturer for the National Association of Teachers of Singing.
Dianne Adams McDowell (Vocal Arrangements) is happy to be a part of The Old Globe’s production of A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder. A former resident of New York City, McDowell has served as composer/lyricist, arranger and musical director in a variety of media. Her composer/lyricist credits include The New Victory Theater production of The Wind in the Willows (adaptation by Gerardine Clark), written with longtime husband/collaborator James McDowell. Their more recent musical, Bookends (co-authored with Katharine Houghton), premiered at New Jersey Repertory Company. McDowell has also composed for Radio City Music Hall, was musical arranger/supervisor for the world premiere of Jam and Spice and served as associate conductor/vocal arranger of Broadway’s Tony Award-nominated Starmites. Her vocal arrangements have been performed on stages throughout the country, including Avery Fisher Hall, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Lincoln Center. Nominated for the 2002 Helen Hayes Award in the category of Outstanding Musical Direction for the production of Tazewell Thompson’s Constant Star at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, McDowell was also the recipient of the 2004 Barrymore Award (Philadelphia) and the 2006 Beverly Hills/Hollywood NAACP Award.
Binder Casting (Casting) with Jay Binder, CSA, Jack Bowdan, CSA, Mark Brandon, CSA and Jason Styres. Their Broadway credits include Nice Work If You Can Get It, Born Yesterday, The Lion King, Finian’s Rainbow, Brighton Beach Memoirs, A Chorus Line, Gypsy, The 39 Steps, White Christmas, Is He Dead?, Inherit the Wind, Journey’s End, Butley,Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Sweet Charity, Wonderful Town, Movin’ Out, 42nd Street,The Music Man,The Iceman Cometh, Beauty and the Beast, The Last Night of Ballyhoo, Chicago, The King and I, Damn Yankees, Lost in Yonkers, Jerome Robbins’ Broadway, The Goodbye Girl and every City Center Encores! production. Their film credits include Hairspray,Dreamgirls, Chicago and Nine. Binder Casting is a nine–time Artios Award winner.
Jan Gist (Dialect Consultant) has been Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach for Old Globe productions since 2002. She has coached at theaters around the country including Ahmanson Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC, The American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company. 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. She has taught workshops in Russia for the International Voice Teachers Exchange at The Moscow Art Theatre and at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. 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 is a professor in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program.
Susie Cordon (Stage Manager) previously stage managed the Globe production of Don Juan and the Hartford Stage productions of Bell, Book and Candle, Elaine Stritch Singin’ Sondheim…One Song at a Time, Motherhood Out Loud, Betty Buckley: Broadway by Request, Elaine Stritch at Liberty and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. Her other regional credits include shows at Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Lincoln Center Theater and McCarter Theatre Center. Her Broadway, Off Broadway and National Tours include the revival of Equus, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Crucible, Amy’s View, The Invention of Love and The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore. She is a recipient of the Del Hughes Award for Excellence in the Art of Stage Management.
Annette Yé (Assistant Stage Manager) served as stage manager for The Old Globe’s Pygmalion, God of Carnage, Anna Christie, Groundswell and the 2010 production of Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Her other Globe credits include Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (’11 and ‘12), Boeing-Boeing, The First Wives Club, Opus, Dancing in the Dark, Hay Fever and the Summer Shakespeare Festivals 2008 and 2010-2012. Yé’s regional credits include Peter and the Starcatchers, Tobacco Road and ¡Salsalandia! (La Jolla Playhouse). Her other credits include 9 Parts of Desire (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company).
Hartford Stage (Co-Producer), since its founding in 1963, has been known for innovative revivals of classics and the development of important new works, including 65 world or American premieres. Recent work includes the premieres of the new musical A Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder, Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful, which won the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Daniel Beaty’s Resurrection (later retitled Through the Night). Horton Foote’s The Orphans’ Home Cycle started at Hartford Stage and enjoy a celebrated run in New York during the 2009-2010 season. Other new work includes the premieres of Eve Ensler’s Necessary Targets, Edward Albee’s At Home at the Zoo, Matthew Barber’s Enchanted April and Matthew Lombardo’s Tea at Five, among many others. The theater has earned numerous distinguished honors, including a Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre, the Margo Jones Award, Obie Awards, New York Drama Critics’ Circle Awards and Drama Desk Awards. Hartford Stage is currently under the leadership of Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak and Managing Director Michael Stotts.
