Globe for All

Tour begins Tuesday, October 28, 2014
Public performances Friday, November 7; Saturday, November 8; and Sunday, November 9, in the Globe’s Hattox Hall

The Old Globe invites your participation and coverage as it begins presenting shows through an exciting new producing platform, Globe for All. This free-of-charge tour of a professional production of Shakespeare will allow the theatre to serve more communities throughout San Diego by collaborating with a diverse range of local organizations. Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein directs the first production, Shakespeare’s fascinating romance All’s Well That Ends Well. He has cast local professional actors, including recent graduates of the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program. The first Globe for All free Shakespeare tour will begin October 28 and will culminate in three low-cost performances on November 7 – 9 in the Globe’s Hattox Hall, part of the Karen and Donald Cohn Education Center in the Conrad Prebys Theatre Center.

Please contact Susan Chicoine or Mike Hausberg to join us on a ride-along – see for yourself exactly what happens as the tour reaches out into the San Diego community!  Venues approved for media coverage include Naval Base San Diego, George L. Stevens Senior Center, Morgan Kimball Towers, Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation, and San Diego Central Library.

The Globe for All tour will present Shakespeare in a variety of community venues including military bases, recreation centers, libraries, centers for the elderly, homeless shelters, and correctional facilities. The emphasis will be on reaching underserved communities and multigenerational audiences. Globe for All employs a model of community outreach designed to make theatre matter to audiences who, for whatever reason, have not enjoyed regular access to the professional performing arts. The tour will play in non-theatrical venues such as gymnasiums, cafeterias, and multipurpose rooms. With production values scaled to those spaces, the tour will give audiences an intimate, up-close, and visceral experience of live performance and will foster a shared sense of community between performer and spectator.

What does a woman do when the only man she wants to marry won’t have her, even when the king commands it? In All’s Well That Ends Well (last seen in the Globe’s 2008 Shakespeare Festival), Shakespeare pits the wise and witty Helena against the hotheaded courtier Bertram in a clash of wills filled with comic surprises and passionate poetry.


Production Photos
Kushtrim Hoxha as King and Erin Roché as Helena (center) with (at left) Stephen Hu as Lafeu and Adam Gerber as Bertran and (at right) Christopher Salazar as First Lord Dumaine performing for the audience at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. The inaugural production of The Old Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Barry Edelstein, began its tour of community venues on October 28 and ran through November 9. Photo by Ken Jacques.
Adam Gerber as Bertram (foreground) with (from left) Albert Park as Second Lord Dumaine and Christopher Salazar as First Lord Dumaine performing for the audience at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. The inaugural production of The Old Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Barry Edelstein, began its tour of community venues on October 28 and ran through November 9. Photo by Ken Jacques.
The cast of All's Well That Ends Well performing for the audience at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. The inaugural production of The Old Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Barry Edelstein, began its tour of community venues on October 28 and ran through November 9. Photo by Ken Jacques.
Erin Roché as Helena and Adam Gerber as Bertram performing for the audience at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. The inaugural production of The Old Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Barry Edelstein, began its tour of community venues on October 28 and ran through November 9. Photo by Ken Jacques.
Allison Layman as Diana and Adam Gerber as Bertram performing for the audience at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. The inaugural production of The Old Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Barry Edelstein, began its tour of community venues on October 28 and ran through November 9. Photo by Ken Jacques.
Kushtrim Hoxha as King (center) with (at left) Stephen Hu as Lafeu and Adam Gerber as Bertran and (at right) Albert Park as Second Lord Dumaine performing for the audience at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. The inaugural production of The Old Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Barry Edelstein, began its tour of community venues on October 28 and ran through November 9. Photo by Ken Jacques.
(from left) Albert Park as Second Lord Dumaine, Christopher Salazar as First Lord Dumaine, and Adam Gerber as Bertram performing for the audience at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. The inaugural production of The Old Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Barry Edelstein, began its tour of community venues on October 28 and ran through November 9. Photo by Ken Jacques.
(from left) Erin Roché as Helena, Allison Layman as Diana, and Monique Gaffney as Renata performing for the audience at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. The inaugural production of The Old Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Barry Edelstein, began its tour of community venues on October 28 and ran through November 9. Photo by Ken Jacques.
Robbie Simpsons as Parolles (center) with (from left) Albert Park, Kushtrim Hoxha, Stephen Hu, and Meaghan Boeing performing for the audience at the Jacobs Center for Neighborhood Innovation. The inaugural production of The Old Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Barry Edelstein, began its tour of community venues on October 28 and ran through November 9. Photo by Ken Jacques.


Publicity Photos
Old Globe Managing Director Michael G. Murphy (back row, far left) and Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein (back row, far right) with the cast and community partners of the inaugural production of the Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by, beginning Oct. 28, 2014. Photo by Mike Hausberg.
Artistic Director Barry Edelstein (seated, center) with the cast of the inaugural production of the Globe's new touring program Globe for All, Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, directed by Edelstein, beginning Oct. 28, 2014. Photo by Mike Hausberg.
Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein will direct the touring production of Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, the inaugural production of the Globe's new touring program Globe for All, beginning Oct. 28, 2014. Photo by Joseph Moran.
   
   
The inaugural production of the Globe's new touring program Globe for All will perform Shakespeare's All's Well That Ends Well, beginning Oct. 28, 2014. Art courtesy of The Old Globe.
    


Cast and Creative Team Bios

Meaghan Boeing (Countess, Soldier, Priest, Mariana) was most recently seen as a member of the Old Globe Shakespeare Festival casts of 2013 and 2014, as well as playing Emilia in The Winter’s Tale directed by Barry Edelstein. While attending the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program, Boeing starred as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and Elmire in Tartuffe and was featured as Mistress Overdone in Measure for Measure. Her favorite regional theatre credits include Imagine (South Coast Repertory), Master Class (The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum), Man of La Mancha (A Noise Within), Surf Orpheus (Getty Villa), and various productions with The Antaeus Company, as well as roles in King Lear, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It, The Misanthrope, Sunday in the Park with George, The Pirates of Penzance, The Sound of Music, and a world premiere translation of Don Juan. Boeing has appeared in national commercials, performs vocal music of various styles, and is a teacher of piano and voice. Boeing received her Bachelor of Music in Voice Performance from Ithaca College.
Monique Gaffney (Renata, Widow, Physician) was last seen as Francine/Lena in Clybourne Park at San Diego Repertory Theatre. She is a resident artist at Cygnet Theatre Company and a member of Omo Aché Afro-Cuban Dance & Music Co. Her San Diego credits include The Tragedy of the Commons, The Piano Lesson, Man from Nebraska, Yellowman (2008 Craig Noel Award), Bug, and Las Meninas (Cygnet), In the Next Room, or the vibrator play and Doubt (San Diego Rep), Heddatron, A Streetcar Named Desire, and A Raisin in the Sun (ion theatre company), Hoodoo Love (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company), Brownie Points (Lamb’s Players Theatre), No Exit (Diversionary Theatre), Medea (2009 Craig Noel Award) and I Have Before Me a Remarkable Document Given to Me By a Young Lady from Rwanda (Patté Award) (6th @ Penn Theatre), Gibson Girl and Blue Bonnet Court (MOXIE Theatre), and Gee’s Bend, Story Theatre, Stories About the Old Days, and The African Company Presents Richard III (North Coast Repertory Theatre). Gaffney’s New York credits include Mamba’s Daughters (International Spoleto Festival), and American Silents directed by Anne Bogart. She received her B.A. from UC San Diego and her M.F.A. from Columbia University, and she is a member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA.   
Adam Gerber (Bertram) has been a part of many productions at The Old Globe, where he had the pleasure of playing Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Lorenzo in The Merchant of Venice, Sir Eglamour in The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and the Taxi Man in Pygmalion directed by Nicholas Martin. His Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program credits include Claudio in Measure for Measure and Dogberry and Don John in Much Ado About Nothing. Gerber’s Off Broadway debut came in the revival of Israel Horvitz’s Lebensraum (Harold Clurman Laboratory Theater Company). He has had the privilege of working on The Actor’s Clinic and Will Do’s Hikobae, a touring production, in Japan and the U.S., raising awareness and bringing relief to villages and cities affected by the March 2011 earthquake. His other credits include Orlando in As You Like It (Harold Clurman Lab) and Sex and the Holy Land (New York International Fringe Festival), and he has been featured in various national commercials. Gerber studied at the Stella Adler Studio of Acting in New York, and he received his B.A. in Theatre from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and his M.F.A. in Acting from The Old Globe/University of San Diego.  
Kushtrim Hoxha (King, Interpreter) was recently seen at The Old Globe in Othello, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and The Merchant of Venice. He also appeared in the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program productions Much Ado About Nothing, Tartuffe,and Measure for Measure. He has appeared in Rock ‘n’ Roll, King Lear, Sun Monkey, The Glass Menagerie, and Hamlet (National Theater of Kosovo), Patriotic Hypermarket (Bitef Theater, Belgrade), and Yue Madeline Yue (Multimedia Center, Kosovo and Volkstheater, Vienna). He has performed in numerous theatre festivals in Columbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Italy, Sweden, Serbia, South Africa, Macedonia, and Kosovo. His film and television credits include Human Zoo, I Need You, and “Familja Moderne.” Hoxha studied at Kosovo’s University of Prishtina/Academy of Dramatic Arts and received a B.A. in Theater Performance from Greensboro College.
Stephen Hu (Lafeu, Soldier) was last seen in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program’s Antigone, Much Ado About Nothing, Tartuffe, and Measure for Measure. He also appeared in the 2014 Shakespeare Festival productions of Othello and The Two Gentlemen of Verona and the 2013 Festival productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead. His Los Angeles credits include Macbeth and Richard III (The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum) and the title role in Ching Chong Chinaman (Artists at Play). Some of his Bay Area credits include Over the Asian Airwaves (Ferocious Lotus Theatre Company), Concerning Strange Devices from the Distant West (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and Beijing, CA (Asian American Theater Company). Hu holds a B.A. in Theater Performance Studies from UC Berkeley. 
Allison Layman (Diana, Physician, Soldier) was most recently seen at The Old Globe as Nina in Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. Layman played the Parlor Maid in Pygmalion,directed by Nicolas Martin, and was a member of the 2013 Shakespeare Festival company.Her Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program credits include the title role in Antigone, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, andFrancisca in Measure for Measure. Layman was a two-year company member of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, where her credits include The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar,and Macbeth. Her other regional work includes Petra in An Enemy of the People at Playhouse on Park in Hartford, Connecticut, and a wide range of roles in productions at the Monomoy Theatre in Chatham, Massachusetts. Layman studied with Bill Esper at his studio in New York, received her B.A. from Wesleyan University in Connecticut, and just graduated with her M.F.A. from The Old Globe/USD.
Albert Park (Second Lord Dumaine) is delighted to return The Old Globe where he was most recently seen in The Winter’s Tale. His other featured roles include Ensemble in An Evening of Community Voices (The Old Globe), Duan in Jade Heart and Gabe in A Man, His Wife, and His Hat (MOXIE Theatre), He in The Car Plays (2013) and Cuong in The Car Plays (2012) (La Jolla Playhouse), Sopoan in Extraordinary Chambers and HYH in Yellow Face (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company), Roy in The Odd Couple and Bellhop in Lend Me a Tenor (North Coast Repertory Theatre), Tieng-Bin in Golden Child (Chinese Pirate Productions), and Chi-Yang in Flower Drum Song and Lefty in BFE (San Diego Asian American Repertory Theater). Park has been a teaching artist for Playwrights Project, Write Out Loud, Christian Youth Theater, and San Diego County Library. He is grateful to Barry Edelstein and the cast and crew of All’s Well That Ends Well for a most memorable experience, and his wonderful wife and son, Jenny and Felix, for their boundless support.   
Erin Roché (Helena) was last seen in The Old Globe’s 2014 Shakespeare Festival as Bianca in Othello and Lucetta in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Her other Old Globe credits include The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Pygmalion, as well as the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of Much Ado About Nothing (Margaret) and Measure for Measure (Juliet). In New York she performed in Gated (Midtown International Theatre Festival) and The One-Minute Play Festival (Primary Stages). Her regional credits include Heist!, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Post Wave Spectacular (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Henry IV Parts I and II (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), and Done (Providence Black Repertory Company). She is a former Acting Apprentice at the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Roché holds a B.A. with Honors in Theatre and Literary Arts with a focus in Playwriting from Brown University.  
Christopher Salazar (First Lord Dumaine) previously appeared at The Old Globe in both the 2012 and 2013 Shakespeare Festivals, playing Silvius in As You Like It, Rivers in Richard III, and Prince of Aragon in The Merchant of Venice. He also performed in the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program productions of Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night,and Tartuffe. His recent Los Angeles credits include Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest (A Noise Within) and Demetrius in Andronicus (Coeurage Theatre Company). His New York credits include the world premiere of Thieves (The Public Theater), Hamlet (Gorilla Repertory Theater Company, Inc.), The Tempest (Brave New World Repertory Theatre), and Big Love (Columbia University Stage). His regional credits include Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles), Saint Joan and Peter Pan (Barter Theatre), Deathtrap (The Barnstormers Theatre), The Winter’s Tale, Antony and Cleopatra,and Love’s Labour’s Lost (American Shakespeare Center), and understudying the East Coast premiere of Outrage (The Wilma Theater). Salazar holds an M.F.A. in Acting from The Old Globe/USD and has a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Robbie Simpson (Parolles) was most recently seen at The Old Globe in The Two Gentlemen of Verona directed by Mark Lamos, covering and performing the lead role of Proteus. His other Globe credits include Othello and The Winter’s Tale, both directed by Barry Edelstein, the 2013 Shakespeare Festival, and Freddy Eynsford Hill in the 100th anniversary production of Pygmalion directed by Nicholas Martin. Simpson’s Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program credits include Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing as well as Measure for Measure. His U.K. and New York credits include Orlando in As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe), A Class Act directed by Bob Moss (Playwrights Horizons), and Hanschen in Spring Awakening directed by Lauren Coulson (Roy Arias). His favorite regional credits include A Class Act (Berkshire Theatre Festival), Rent and Almost, Maine (Papermill Theatre), The Sisters Rosensweig (New Century Theatre), and Miss Saigon, Inherit the Wind, and Lost in Yonkers (The Majestic Theatre). Simpson holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Syracuse University and an M.F.A. in Acting from The Old Globe/USD. He is a proud member of AEA. 
  Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein (Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. Widely recognized as one of the leading American authorities on the works of Shakespeare, he has directed nearly half of the Bard’s plays. His directing credits include his Globe directorial debut with The Winter’s Tale starring Billy Campbell, the first Shakespeare to be staged in our indoor theatre in over a decade, and his 2014 Summer Shakespeare Festival production of Othello starring Blair Underwood, Richard Thomas, and Kristen Connolly in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. As Director of the Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2008-2012), Edelstein oversaw all of the company’s Shakespearean productions, as well as its extensive educational, community outreach, and artist-training programs. At The Public, he staged Julius Caesar starring Jeffrey Wright for Shakespeare in the Park and The Merchant of Venice featuring Ron Leibman’s Obie Award-winning portrayal of Shylock. He was also Associate Producer of The Public’s Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. From 1998-2003 he was Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company, where he produced and directed some of New York’s most memorable classical productions. Edelstein’s Shakespearean directorial credits include The Winter’s Tale with David Strathairn, Timon of Athens with Richard Thomas, As You Like It with Gwyneth Paltrow, and Richard III with John Turturro. His additional credits include the Lucille Lortel Award-winning revival of Arthur Miller’s All My Sons; the world premiere of Steve Martin’s The Underpants, which he commissioned; Molière’s The Misanthrope starring Uma Thurman in her stage debut; and the world premiere of novelist Nathan Englander’s play The Twenty-Seventh Man. Edelstein has taught Shakespearean acting at The Juilliard School, NYU’s Graduate Acting Program, and the University of Southern California. His book Thinking Shakespeare (called by New York Magazine “a must-read for actors”) was published in 2007 and is now the standard text on American Shakespearean acting. He is also the author of Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions.
  Sean Fanning (Scenic Design) is a San Diego-based set designer with a career spanning over 40 productions across local stages. His previous Globe credits include A Doll’s House, Plaid Tidings – A Special Holiday Edition of Forever Plaid,and Kingdom. For the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program he has designed Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona,and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is a Resident Artist at Cygnet Theatre Company, where his credits include Pageant, Maple and Vine, Shakespeare’s R&J, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, Man of La Mancha, Parade, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, The Norman Conquests, Noises Off, Mauritius, and A Little Night Music. His other credits include In the Heights and Walter Cronkite is Dead (San Diego Repertory Theatre), The Full Monty (New Village Arts), A Raisin in the Sun (MOXIE Theatre), Hamlet (Intrepid Shakespeare Company), Birds of a Feather, Pippin,and Harmony, Kansas (Diversionary Theatre). Fanning is in his sixth season as the Resident Design Assistant at The Old Globe, where he has assisted designers on over 60 productions. He holds an M.F.A. in Scene Design from San Diego State University.
  Michelle Hunt Souza (Costume Design) has previously designed the Globe productions of The Brothers Size, Pericles, and Romeo y Julieta and the Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program productions of Twelfth Night, The Winter’s Tale, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Her San Diego credits include Miss Electricity (La Jolla Playhouse), The Tempest (MiraCosta College), Rabbit Hole, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Dresser, A Christmas Carol, Don’t Dress for Dinner, String of Pearls, and Dracula (North Coast Repertory Theatre), Christmas on My Mind and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Dog Act (MOXIE Theatre), A Bright Room Called Day (Diversionary Theatre), and The Playboy of the Western World (New Village Arts). Her UC San Diego credits include A Lie of the Mind, Good Breeding, The Love of the Nightingale, and Measure for Measure. Souza’s designs for Dog Act, A Bright Room Called Day, and The Love of the Nightingale earned Patté Awards for Theater Excellence. Souza is a graduate of the M.F.A. program at UC San Diego.
  Kevin Anthenill (Original Music) previously designed sound for The Old Globe/USD’s Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, and The Winter’s Tale. He has designed sound for the Globe’s Summer Shakespeare Intensive four times and was theSound Design Assistant for the Globe’s Summer Shakespeare Festival three times. He is theResident Sound Designer at San Diego Repertory Theatre, designing sound for Red and Zoot Suit and composing music for Detroit, Boom,and In the Next Room, or the vibrator play. His other design and music credits include Shakespeare’s R&J, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, and Maple and Vine (Cygnet Theatre Company), Regrets Only, Bare: A Pop Opera, Thrill Me, She-Rantulas from Outer Space in 3D, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, Birds of a Feather, Next Fall, Harmony, Kansas, Pippin, and Marry Me a Little (Diversionary Theatre), A Raisin in the Sun and The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (MOXIE Theatre). He holds a B.A. in Theater Design from San Diego State University.
  Diana Moser (Stage Manager) recently stage managed Time and the Conways, Bethany, Other Desert Cities, and The Brothers Size at The Old Globe. Since 2004 she has worked on over 25 shows at the Globe including August: Osage County, The Recommendation, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound, The Whipping Man, I Do! I Do!, Opus, Six Degrees of Separation, The Pleasure of His Company, In This Corner, the 2007 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Restoration Comedy, and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. Moser’s regional credits include La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, New York Theatre Workshop, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Children’s Theatre Company of Minneapolis, and Arizona Theatre Company. Moser received her B.A. from Bard College and her M.F.A. in Directing from Purdue. She lives in Nova Scotia, Canada and sails on the classic wooden sailboat, Simba I. This marks her 25th year as a proud member of Actors’ Equity.
  Amanda Salmons (Assistant Stage Manager) has worked previously at The Old Globe on The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Last Goodbye, the Shakespeare Festival (2011-2013), Anna Christie, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Somewhere, Groundswell, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Savannah Disputation,and The Price. In addition, she stage managed for the Summer Shakespeare Intensive through the Globe’s education department, working with high school students on Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It,and Pericles. Her other San Diego credits include The Foreigner, miXtape, See How They Run, The Music Man,and The Rivalry (Lamb’s Players Theatre), The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance, Candide, Trial by Jury,and Rumpelstiltskin (Lyric Opera San Diego), and SummerFest (La Jolla Music Society). Salmons holds a B.A. in Theatre from UC San Diego.