Much Ado About Nothing Press Page

Much Ado About Nothing

May 29 - Sept. 24, 2011
Lowell Davies Festival Theatre

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Ron Daniels
Scenic Design by Ralph Funicello
Costume Design by Deirdre Clancy
Lighting Design by Alan Burrett
Original Music and Sound Design by Dan Moses Schreier
Music Direction by Charlie Reuter
Fight Direction by Steve Rankin
Movement by Liz Shipman
Dialect Coach, Jan Gist
Stage Manager, Bret Torbeck

One of the most popular and charming of Shakespeare's comedies, Much Ado About Nothing features Benedick, an arrogant and confirmed bachelor, and Beatrice, his favorite sparring partner. While Beatrice and Benedick hide their infatuation beneath witty barbs, young love blossoms as Hero and Claudio race to the altar. When the wicked Don John conspires to break up the wedding will false accusations and misunderstandings prevent the young couple's happy ending? Witty wordplay, passionate poetry and clever plot twists make this the perfect romantic evening under the stars.

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Georgia Hatzis as Beatrice and Jonno Roberts as Benedick in The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ron Daniels, May 29 - Sept. 24, 2011 in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Winslow Corbett as Hero and Kevin Alan Daniels as Claudio in The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ron Daniels, May 29 - Sept. 24, 2011 in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Jonno Roberts as Benedick and Georgia Hatzis as Beatrice in The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ron Daniels, May 29 - Sept. 24, 2011 in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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(foreground, from left) Jonno Roberts as Benedick, Kevin Alan Daniels as Claudio and the cast of The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ron Daniels, May 29 - Sept. 24, 2011 in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

The cast of The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ron Daniels, May 29 - Sept. 24, 2011 in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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Jay Whittaker as Don John (foreground) in The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ron Daniels, May 29 - Sept. 24, 2011 in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

(from left) Winslow Corbett as Hero and Georgia Hatzis as Beatrice in The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ron Daniels, May 29 - Sept. 24, 2011 in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Photo by Jeffrey Weiser.

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John Cariani as Dogberry and Michael Stewart Allen as Borachio in The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ron Daniels, May 29 - Sept. 24, 2011 in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Photo by Jeffrey Weiser.

Jay Whittaker as Don John and Michael Stewart Allen as Borachio in The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing, directed by Ron Daniels, May 29 - Sept. 24, 2011 in the Lowell Davies Festival Theatre. Photo by Jeffrey Weiser.

Publicity Photos

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Georgia Hatzis will appear as Beatrice and Jonno Roberts will appear as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing in the 2011 Shakespeare Festival, May 29 – Sept. 25 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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Georgia Hatzis will appear as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing and as a Venticella in Amadeus in the 2011 Shakespeare Festival, May 29 – Sept. 25 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.

Jonno Roberts will appear as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing and as Caliban in The Tempest in the 2011 Shakespeare Festival, May 29 – Sept. 25 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.

Jay Whittaker will appear as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Amadeus and as Don John in Much Ado About Nothing in the 2011 Shakespeare Festival, May 29 – Sept. 25 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.

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Ron Daniels will direct the 2011 Shakespeare Festival production of Much Ado About Nothing at The Old Globe, May 29– Sept. 24, 2011. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.

The cast of the 2011 Shakespeare Festival, which will feature Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest and Amadeus in rotating repertory May 29 – Sept. 25 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Festival Artistic Director Adrian Noble and director Ron Daniels (front left and right) with the cast of the 2011 Shakespeare Festival, May 29 – Sept. 25 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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Kevin Alan Daniels, Georgia Hatzis, Jonno Roberts, Winslow Corbett, Jay Whittaker and Miles Anderson will appear in the 2011 Shakespeare Festival, May 29 - Sept. 25 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Much Ado About Nothing. Illustration courtesy of The Old Globe.

Cast and Creative Team

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	Michael Stewart Allen (Borachio, Much Ado About Nothing; Sebastian, The Tempest; Baron van Swieten, Amadeus) was last seen at the Globe in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival (San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award nomination). He has been in several Off Broadway productions, most recently Margaret (Red Bull Theater), and including Moby Dick Rehearsed, The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Love, Shakespeare (The Acting Company) and the title role in Don Carlos (Prospect Theater Company). His recent credits include The Foreigner (Festival Stage of Winston-Salem), Hamlet (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey), A Tale of Two Cities (People’s Light & Theatre Company), King Lear and Much Ado About Nothing (North Carolina Shakespeare Festival), Doubt (Hippodrome State Theatre), The Tempest (Folger Theatre) and Of Mice and Men and The Grapes of Wrath (Arkansas Repertory Theatre). He has performed at theaters all over the country, including Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, The Festival Stage of Winston-Salem, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Contemporary American Theater Festival and 12 Miles West Theater Company, and he has spent 11 seasons as a company member at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. His film and television credits include “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” and voice work on Cold Mountain.
	Miles Anderson (Prospero, The Tempest; Antonio Salieri, Amadeus) starred in last season’s production of The Madness of George III (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award), whichreunited Anderson with Adrian Noble after their work at the Royal Shakespeare Company, which included Macbeth and The Comedy of Errors. Other appearances include his Olivier-nominated Sigismund in Life’s a Dream, Twelfth Night and Volpone and the receipt of three British Theatre Awards. His West End appearances include The Weir, Oliver! and The Rehearsal. His film work includes Cry Freedom! and The Shepherd. Anderson’s television appearances include “Criminal Minds,” and U.K. credits including Dempsey in ITV’s “Ultimate Force,” Roger O’Neill in BBC’s award-winning “House of Cards” and Dan Fortune in the hit series “Soldier, Soldier.” He has worked with such directors as Richard Attenborough, Trevor Nunn, Max Stafford-Clark and Sam Mendes.
	Shirine Babb (Woman in Leonato’s House, Much Ado About Nothing; Iris, Spirit, The Tempest; Teresa Salieri, Citizen of Vienna, Amadeus) previously appeared at The Old Globe in The Madness of George III, King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew. She recently appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Her London credits include Widows,and her New York credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Pulse Ensemble Theatre), Trickle (The Ensemble Studio Theatre), Single Black Female (The Duke on 42nd Street), Aliens with Extraordinary Skills (Women’s Project), A Role Once Played (29th Repertory Theatre, 2004 AUDELCO nominee) and American Girls Revue (American Girl Place). Babb’s regional credits include Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, Antony and Cleopatra, She Stoops to Conquer, A Christmas Carol, Omnium Gatherum, Play to Win: The Jackie Robinson Story, Almost Heaven: The John Denver Story and Bessie: Life & Music of Bessie Smith. Her television and film credits include “All My Children” and Picture Perfect.
	John Cariani (Dogberry, Much Ado About Nothing; Trinculo, The Tempest) was last seen at The Old Globe in The Mystery of Irma Vep. He has appeared on Broadway (Motel in Fiddler on the Roof) and Off Broadway (New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater, Transport Group, Arclight Repertory Theatre and New World Stages). He has worked regionally at Ahmanson Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival and Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. His film work includes the forthcoming independent feature Elephant Sighs starring Ed Asner. He has appeared in several films and television shows (most people know him as CSU tech Beck on “Law & Order”) and is also a playwright (Almost, Maine).
	Donald Carrier (Don Pedro, Much Ado About Nothing; Alonso, The Tempest; Joseph II, Emperor of Austria, Amadeus) was last seen at The Old Globe in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival, appearing in King Lear, The Madness of George III and The Taming of the Shrew. His regional credits include Joseph Surface in The School For Scandal (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Ferdinand in The Duchess of Malfi (The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Helen Hayes Award nomination), Frederick in Noises Off and Francis in Lincolnesque (Cleveland Play House), Ian in Shining City (The Studio Theatre), Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival) and the title role in Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde (Huntington Theatre Company). He most recently played Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol at Great Lakes Theatre Festival and directed The Two Gentlemen of Verona for the University of Notre Dame. Other theater credits include Maltz Jupiter Theatre, The Wilma Theater, Intiman Theatre and TheatreWorks. Carrier spent nine seasons at Stratford Shakespeare Festival appearing as Orlando in As You Like It, Charles Surface in The School for Scandal, Peter Quince in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, John Worthingin The Importance of Being Earnest, Siciniusin Coriolanus, Bassanio in The Merchant of Venice and Lucio in Measure for Measure. His television and film credits include The Time Traveler’s Wife, The Passion of Ayn Rand, “Earth: Final Conflict,” Dead by Monday and 54. His writing credits include the musical Evangeline, written with Anaya Farrell.
	Anthony Cochrane (Friar Francis, Sexton; Much Ado About Nothing; Antonio, The Tempest; Count Orsini-Rosenberg, Amadeus) is an actor/composer from Scotland who now resides in New York. Cochrane’s Broadway acting credits include the Tony Award-winning trilogy The Coast of Utopia by Tom Stoppard and Cymbeline at Lincoln Center Theater. His Off Broadway credits include Othello, Cyrano de Bergerac, Much Ado About Nothing (also at La Jolla Playhouse and The White House), Julius Caesar, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Iliad, The Man Who Would Be King, The Invisible Man and the European Tour of Romeo and Juliet (Aquila Theatre Company), Doug Varone and Dancers’ Dense Terrain (Brooklyn Academy of Music) and Médéé (Carnegie Hall). His regional credits include Henry VIII (2011 Helen Hayes Award nomination), The Winter’s Tale and Julius Caesar (Folger Theatre) and Hamlet, All’s Well That Ends Well and Lettice and Lovage (Alabama Shakespeare Festival). His U.K. credits include The Broken Heart, The Wives’ Excuse, Coriolanus and Julius Caesar (Royal Shakespeare Company), The Merchant of Venice, Measure for Measure and Hiawatha (Royal Lyceum Theatre Edinburgh), Hamlet and The Jungle Book (The Lyric Theatre, Belfast). Cochrane’s films include Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and The Apocalypse Watch. His television credits include “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Benjamin Franklin (PBS) and “Taggart” (STV). Cochrane was Associate Director and Composer/Musical Director of the Aquila Theatre Company for 12 years. In this capacity he has written musical scores and collaborated on the creation of more than 20 productions. Cochrane’s film scores include Alex Webb’s Pizza, the award-winning The Girl in 2C and Hove (The Wind).
	Winslow Corbett (Hero, Much Ado About Nothing; Miranda, The Tempest; Constanze Weber, Amadeus) appeared as Elaine Robinson in the National Tour of The Graduate, Nora Ephron’s Love, Loss, and What I Wore (Geffen Playhouse), Private Lives (Laguna Playhouse), Noises Off (South Coast Repertory), You Can’t Take It With You (Rubicon Theatre Company, Independent Theatre Award), Trying (Rubicon Theatre, StageSceneLA Award), David Copperfield (Westport Country Playhouse, directed by Joanne Woodward and Anne Keefe), The Underpants (PlayMakers Repertory Company, directed by Gene Saks), The Importance of Being Earnest (Pittsburgh Public Theater), The Learned Ladies and The Mother of Us All (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Arcadia and Grand Magic (A Contemporary Theatre), Private Lives (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre), Ah, Wilderness! (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Doubt (Capital Repertory Theater), Born Yesterday (Garvin Theatre), Pericles (Shakespeare & Company), Arcadia (Portland Repertory Theatre), Twelfth Night (Tygre’s Heart Shakespeare Company), The Skin Game (Mint Theater Company), the premiere of Romulus Linney’s Lark (The Ensemble Studio Theatre) and Noises Off, Born Yesterday and the premiere of Fabuloso (Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater). Corbett’s television work includes A Change of Heart for Lifetime and Comedy Central's “Stand-Up Nation with Greg Giraldo.”
	Kevin Alan Daniels (Claudio, Much Ado About Nothing; Ferdinand, The Tempest) was last seen in The Nacriema Society by Pearl Cleage (directed by Susan V. Booth), which premiered at Alabama Shakespeare Festival before moving to the Alliance Theatre. Some roles while attending Yale University are Vershinin in Three Sisters (directed by Ron Van Lieu), Macduff in Macbeth (directed by Devin Brain) and Dr. Kori Shah and Munkrat in Homebody/Kabul (directed by Joan MacIntosh). He was a 2009 ensemble member of the Chautauqua Theater Company where he was Jim in The Glass Menagerie (directed by Ethan McSweeny) and Cleomenes in The Winter's Tale (directed by Anne Kauffman). He has written two rap theater plays that both premiered at the Yale Cabaret, one being honored as one of the Best Theatre of New Haven in 2008.
	Adam Daveline (The Watch, Soldier, Much Ado About Nothing; Shipmaster, Spirit, The Tempest; Salieri's Cook, Citizen of Vienna, Amadeus) recently made his Globe debut in Jane Austen's Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy and also appeared as The Shepherd in the Globe/USD M.F.A. production of The Winter's Tale. Some of his regional credits include Bruce in Finding Nemo – The Musical (Walt Disney Creative Entertainment), Javert in Les Misérables, David in Company, Peter in Jesus Christ Superstar, Carl in Bus Stop, Zoser in Elton John and Tim Rice's Aida, Adam in Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Smudge in Forever Plaid and The Baker in Into the Woods. His film work includes Fire Creek (Lifesong Productions). His recordings include the concept albums of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and Savior of the World. He has also performed as a featured soloist in Carnegie Hall with the National Alliance for Excellence.
	Grayson DeJesus (Soldier, Much Ado About Nothing; Francisco, Spirit, The Tempest; Citizen of Vienna, Servant, Amadeus) has appeared at The Old Globe in The Madness of George III, The Taming of the Shrew and King Lear. He was last seen as Algernon in The Importance of Being Earnest with The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. program where he was also seen in The Winter's Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona. His regional credits include Romeo and Juliet, All's Well That Ends Well and The Antiquarian's Family (Shakespeare Santa Cruz). His National Tours include Winnemucca (three days in the belly) (San Jose Stage Company, New York International Fringe Festival and Minnesota Fringe Festival), and his West Coast credits include Film (Theatre of NOTE) and New Playwrights Project(TheatreWorks). His New York credits include Here I Go Boys, A Diner, a Shiner and New Beulah (Shelby Company).
	Ben Diskant (Balthasar, Soldier, Much Ado About Nothing; Ariel, The Tempest; Citizen of Vienna, Servant, Amadeus) has previously appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter's Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Country Wife and The Chekhov/Carver Project. At the Globe he has appeared in Death of a Salesman, King Lear, The Madness of George III and The Taming of the Shrew. His regional credits include Speech and Debate (TheaterWorks, Hartford), The History Boys (The Studio Theatre), Anything Goes (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and the National Tour of Freedom Train (TheatreworksUSA).
	Christian Durso (The Watch, Soldier, Much Ado About Nothing; Adrian, Spirit, The Tempest; A Majordomo, Citizen of Vienna, Amadeus) was last seen in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter’s Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona. His New York credits include Nocturne (UNDER St. Marks), Cinephilia (Theatre Row), Spring Awakening (Blue Heron Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Ensemble Studio Theatre), Julius Caesar (Theater for the New City), Shoe Polish (13th Street Repertory Company) and Crazy Gary’s Mobile Disco (The Tank). Durso’s regional credits include Macbeth and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Santa Cruz), Macbeth (Royal Academy of Dramatic Art) and Minnesota Moon (Boulder International Fringe Festival). His television credits include “One Life to Live” and “Guiding Light.”
	Georgia Hatzis (Beatrice, Much Ado About Nothing; Venticella, Amadeus) has appeared in IRNE Award-nominated performances as Ophelia in Hamlet and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Her regional credits also include Anne Bogart’s La Dispute, Andre Serban's Pericles and Janos Szasz’ Uncle Vanya (American Repertory Theater), Macbeth and Henry V (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company) and A Bright Room Called Day, Ghetto, Malady of Death and God’s Country (Theatre Outlet). Hatzis has worked extensively in New York with Greek-language ensemble KEP Theatre Company and has toured Russia and Europe with Robert Woodruff's Phaedra 4:48, based on the writings of Sarah Kane. Her film and television credits include Adam Sandler’s upcoming feature Jack and Jill, Bunker Hill, BTK, HBO’s “Hung,”“The Defenders,” “The Whole Truth,” “CSI: NY,” “Medium,” “Lie to Me,” “Without a Trace,” “Numb3rs” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”
	Andrew Hutcheson (The Watch, Soldier, Much Ado About Nothing; Boatswain, Spirit, The Tempest; Salieri's Valet, Citizen of Vienna, Amadeus) was last seen in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Importance of Being Earnest, The Winter's Tale, The Country Wife and The Two Gentleman of Verona, as well as last summer's productions of The Madness of George III, King Lear and The Taming of the Shrew. His New York credits include Elizabeth Rex, Kosher Harry and Richard III (Nicu's Spoon Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Staten Island Shakespeare) and Titus Andronicus (Rising Phoenix Productions). His National Tours include Julius Caesar and A Midsummer Night's Dream (The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey) and Beauty and the Beast (American Family Theatre). His regional credits include Much Ado About Nothing, The Crucible, The Lion in Winter, As You Like It and Jungalbook (Austin Live Theatre) and Julius Caesar, Twelfth Night, 1776, Tartuffe, Romeo and Juliet and Love's Labour's Lost (Texas Shakespeare Festival).
	Charles Janasz (Antonio, Verges, Much Ado About Nothing; Gonzalo, The Tempest; Count von Strack, Amadeus) is an Associate Artist and has been seen in 23 Old Globe productions including Pericles and the Summer Festivals of 1985 and 2004-2010. He was seen on Broadway in Amadeus ('99-'00 revival) and has been a leading company member and returning guest artist of both Guthrie Theater and Arena Stage. Janasz's other credits include work at Ahmanson Theatre, New York Shakespeare Festival, Playwrights Horizons, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Geffen Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, Empty Space Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Walker Art Center, and Loring Playhouse. He trained at the University of Washington and The Juilliard School.
	Rachael Jenison (Woman in Leonato's House, Much Ado About Nothing; Spirit, The Tempest; Citizen of Vienna, Amadeus) was last seen in the Globe/USD M.F.A. production of The Importance of Being Earnest. Other Globe/USD M.F.A credits include The Winter's Tale. Her Chicago credits include Magnolia (Goodman Theatre), Wood Demon (The Library Theatre) and Hedda Gabler and Misanthrope, or the Impossible Lovers (Vintage Theater Collective). Her regional credits include Almond and the Seahorse (Madison Repertory Theatre) and Twelfth Night (Great River Shakespeare Festival).
	Jesse Jensen (The Watch, Soldier, Much Ado About Nothing; Spirit, The Tempest; Citizen of Vienna, Servant, Amadeus) was recently featured at The Old Globe in Death of a Salesman, directed by Pam MacKinnon. He has also appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter’s Tale and Dear Harvey. His regional credits include The Heiress (Long Beach Playhouse), West Side Story (Musical Theater Los Angeles), The Merry Wives of Windsor (Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival) and the National Tour of The Art of Being (Adriana Garza Productions). His Los Angeles credits include Brilliant Traces, Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll and Feeding the Moonfish (Front Porch Players) and the title role in Hamlet (Loyola Marymount University). His film and television credits include Wasted, Annabelle, Nomad and Charley as well as primetime roles on “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Cane” and “Cold Case.” In addition to acting Jensen has written, produced, and directed for theater and film.
	Jason Maddy (The Watch, Soldier, Much Ado About Nothing; Spirit, The Tempest; Citizen of Vienna, Servant, Amadeus) has San Diego theater credits that include performances with Premiere Productions, Welk Resorts Theatre, San Diego Musical Theatre, Moonlight Stage Productions, Intrepid Shakespeare Company and North Coast Repertory Theatre. Outside of San Diego Maddy has performed with Utah Shakespeare Festival, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Theatrical Arts International Productions and Kingsmen Shakespeare Festival. Selected roles include Iago in Othello, Touchstone and also Trinculo in As You Like It, Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris and Voice of the Prairie.
	Allison Spratt Pearce (Woman in Leonato's House, Much Ado About Nothing; Ceres, Spirit, The Tempest; Katherina Cavalieri, Citizen of Vienna, Amadeus) was recently seen in the Globe production of Jane Austen's Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy and the Globe/USD M.F.A. production of The Winter's Tale. Her Broadway and Off Broadway credits include Cry-Baby, Curtains, Good Vibrations and originating the role of Miss B. in Enter Laughing. She has appeared in National and European Tours as Sally in Cabaret and Sandy in Grease. She has played the leading roles regionally in My Fair Lady (Capital Repertory Theater), The Girl in the Frame (Goodspeed Musicals and Manhattan Theatre Club), Cinderella (Arkansas Repertory Theatre), Oklahoma! (Casa Mañana), Barnum, Footloose and Singin' in the Rain (Westchester Broadway Theatre), Thoroughly Modern Millie and Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (Flat Rock Playhouse). In film and television her roles include The Smurfs (summer 2011), He Got Game, NY-70 (NBC pilot) and hosting on HSN.
	Deborah Radloff (Ursula, Much Ado About Nothing; Juno, Spirit, The Tempest; Citizen of Vienna, Servant, Amadeus) made her Globe debut in Death of a Salesman and was recently seen in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. staging of The Winter's Tale. Her Off Broadway credits include Girls Night: The Musical (Sophia's Downstairs Cabaret), and her Off Off Broadway credits include Dance Dance Revolution (Les Freres Corbusier). Her other New York credits include Mosheh: A Video (HERE Arts Center) and Powerhouse (New York International Fringe Festival). She has appeared regionally in The Yiddish Are Coming: The Chosen Musical (world premiere, Denver Civic Theatre), Pericles, Othello, Richard III, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Twelfth Night and Measure for Measure (Nebraska Shakespeare Festival) and A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park).
	Jonno Roberts (Benedick, Much Ado About Nothing; Caliban, The Tempest) appeared at The Old Globe last year as Petruchio in The Taming of the Shrew and Edmund in King Lear. His other major credits include the original Broadway production of Take Me Out and the Off Broadway productions of Bug, Monster and Uncle Vanya. His regional credits include King Lear (Goodman Theatre and The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Mother Courage and Her Children, Richard II and Antigone (American Repertory Theater), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Huntington Theatre Company), The Taming of the Shrew (Dallas Theater Center), A Streetcar Named Desire (Intiman Theatre) and Much Ado About Nothing, Twelfth Night, Henry V and Hamlet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Roberts has also toured or created performances in theaters in Canada, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, Russia and extensively back home in New Zealand. His television credits include “CSI: Miami,” “Detroit 187,” “The Flight of the Conchords,” “Lie to Me,” “Medium,” “Without a Trace,” “CSI:NY,” “NCIS: Naval Criminal Investigative Service,” “Numb3rs,” “The Unit,” “Brotherhood,” “Love Monkey,” “Shark,” “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Jericho,” “As the World Turns,” “Xena: Warrior Princess,” “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys,” “Shortland Street,” “A Bit of a Hoot” and “In Search of the Kiwi Male.” Roberts’ film credits include The Elephant King, Downstream, Footsteps and BTK.
	Ryman Sneed (Margaret, Much Ado About Nothing; Spirit, The Tempest; Venticella, Amadeus) has appeared in The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter's Tale, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Country Wife and The Chekhov/Carver Project and in The Old Globe productions of Death of a Salesman, King Lear and The Madness of George III. Her Off Broadway and other New York credits include None of the Above and The Tempest.
	Adrian Sparks (Leonato, Much Ado About Nothing; Stephano, The Tempest) was most recently seen at the Globe as Uncle Ben in Death of a Salesman. He was also recently seen in the 2010 Shakespeare Festival playing Baptista in The Taming of the Shrew and the dual roles of Sir Boothby and Dr. Pepys in The Madness of George III. He also performed the role of Kent for the final performance of King Lear. Sparks first came to The Old Globe in 1976 playing the roles of Corin in As You Like It, Gratiano in Othello and Diomedes in Troilus and Cressida. Since then he has played leading roles in a wide variety of theater classics at such theaters as Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Stage West, CENTERSTAGE, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Laguna Playhouse and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. His extensive Shakespearean credits include acting or directing assignments in Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer's Night Dream, Macbeth, Troilus and Cressida, Love's Labour's Lost, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Othello, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, The Tempest, As You Like It, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard II, Henry IV (Parts I and II), Henry V, Henry VI (Parts I, II and III) and Richard III. His 2009 portrayal of Sharky in The Seafarer for Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati led to Best Actor Awards from both the Acclaim and Cincinnati Entertainment Awards. In 2005, Sparks was honored by the highly-respected Ovation Awards Committee with a Best Actor nomination for his portrayal of Ernest Hemingway in the one-man show Papa by Pulitzer Prize-winning author John deGroot. He has since performed this solo show at numerous venues across the United States and across the world with an extended tour of major theaters and universities throughout Turkey. Sparks has also appeared in more than 75 film and television projects.
	Jonathan Spivey (Conrade, Much Ado About Nothing; Spirit, The Tempest; Kapellmeister Bonno, Citizen of Vienna, Amadeus)was recently seen at the Globe in Death of a Salesman (Howard Wagner)and The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. productions of The Winter's Tale, The Importance of Being Earnest and Dear Harvey. His New York credits include The Naked Side of Grace and The Last Chanukah. His regional credits include The Merchant of Venice, The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Romeo and Juliet (Richmond Shakespeare), Cyrano de Bergerac, Souvenir and Anything Goes (Barksdale Theatre), Around the World in 80 Days (Sierra Repertory Theatre), Black Gold (Phoenix Theatre), Dogpark: The Musical (Milwaukee Repertory Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Theatre IV), Gypsy (Modlin Center for the Arts), and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Imaginary Invalid, Shakespeare in Hollywood, Room Service, The Foreigner, Kiss Me, Kate, She Loves Me, Oliver!, Forever Plaid and A Year with Frog and Toad (Hope Summer Repertory Theatre). Spivey is a Second City-trained improv artist, a jazz pianist, the co-author of the musical comedy Murphy's Law and the recipient of the 2011 Craig Noel MFA Fellowship.
	Jay Whittaker (Don John, Much Ado About Nothing; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Amadeus) appeared in the 2010 Festival productions of King Lear (Edgar), The Taming of the Shrew (Lucentio) and The Madness of George III (William Pitt), for which he received the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award honoring his work in all three productions. He has been seen Off Broadway in Frank’s Home at Playwrights Horizons and Rose Rage at The Duke on 42nd Street. His other credits include Old Masters, Mother Courage and Her Children and David Copperfield (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Sense and Sensibility, directed by Jon Jory, and Awake and Sing!, directed by Amy Morton (Northlight Theatre), Shining City (Huntington Theatre Company), Tamburlaine and Edward II (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Shining City and Frank’s Home (Goodman Theatre), The Merchant of Venice, All’s Well That Ends Well, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure, Julius Caesar, Love’s Labour’s Lost and The Tempest (Chicago Shakespeare Theater) and Henry IV (Royal Shakespeare Company). Whittaker’s film and television credits include Dustclouds, Let’s Go to Prison, Death of a President, “Prison Break” and “Early Edition.”
	Peter Shaffer (Playwright, Amadeus) wrote his first play, The Salt Land, about the foundation of the state of Israel, and it was produced for television in 1955. Three years later his play Five Finger Exercise was successfully directed by Sir John Gielgud at the Comedy Theatre in London and transferred to Broadway in 1959. Two one-act comedies, The Private Ear and The Public Eye, followed as a double bill at the Globe Theatre in London in 1962, both featuring Maggie Smith. The Royal Hunt of the Sun, an epic play concerning Spain's conquest of Peru in the 16th century, became a smash hit at London's National Theatre and consequently appeared on Broadway starring Christopher Plummer. The piece was revived at the National in 2006. Equus was also produced by the National Theatre and on Broadway, where it ran for more than 1,200 performances and won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1975. Amadeus, concerning the rivalry between the composers Antonio Salieri and Wolfgang Mozart, opened in London to great acclaim starring Paul Scofield in 1979 and transferred to Broadway the following year starring Sir Ian McKellan. Amadeus won the Tony Award for Best Play in 1981 and the 1984 film won Shaffer one of its eight Oscars. Yonadab, set at the court of King David, and Lettice and Lovage, which won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy in London and Tony Awards for Dame Maggie Smith and Margaret Tyzak. His other plays include Black Comedy, Whom Do I Have the Honour of Addressing? and The Gift of the Gorgon. Shaffer was awarded the prestigious Shakespeare Prize in 1987 and was made a Commander of the British Empire in the same year. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2001 for Services to Drama.
	Adrian Noble (2011 Shakespeare Festival Artistic Director; Director, The Tempest, Amadeus) is currently the Artistic Director of The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival. He led the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) as Artistic Director and Chief Executive from 1990-2003, where he produced nearly 300 productions. Noble's most recent theater productions include King Lear and The Madness of George III (The Old Globe,) Hamlet (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), Kean (West End), Hedda Gabler (Theatre Royal Bath), Summer and Smoke and A Woman of No Importance (West End), The Home Place by Brian Friel at Gate Theatre and the West End, Brand by Henrik Ibsen starring Ralph Fiennes and Pericles at (Roundhouse and Stratford) and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang starring Michael Ball (The London Palladium and on Broadway). In 1980 he joined the RSC as Assistant Director, becoming an Associate Director almost immediately. His first production for the RSC was Ostrovsky's The Forest,which transferred first to the Warehouse Theatre Company and then to the Aldwych Theatre and was named Best Revival at the 1981 Drama Awards. In 1988 he was appointed Artistic Director of the RSC's Stratford season and in 1989 went on to be Artistic Director of the RSC London season. His RSC productions include A Doll's House, A New Way to Pay Old Debts, The Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure, King Lear, Antony and Cleopatra, The Winter's Tale, Henry V with Kenneth Branaugh, As You Like It, Macbeth, Kiss Me, Kate, The Art of Success, The Plantagenets and The Master Builder. Noble's opera credits include Alcina at the Wiener Staatsoper, Vienna, Macbeth at the Metropolitan Opera, Carmen in Paris and Mozart's Da Ponts Trilogy in Lyon. His film of A Midsummer Night's Dream was released in 1995, and his book, How to do Shakespeare, was published in 2010.
	Ron Daniels (Director, Much Ado About Nothing) was a founding member of the Teatro Oficina in São Paulo. He is a former Artistic Director of Royal Shakespeare Company’s experimental theater, The Other Place, at Stratford-upon-Avon, England. After 15 years with the company, directing many Shakespeare plays, including two productions of Hamlet (one with Roger Rees and the second with Mark Rylance, the “pajama Hamlet”) as well as works by contemporary British writers, Daniels was appointed an Honorary Associate Director. He is a former Associate Artistic Director of the American Repertory Theater and is now a freelance director. He has worked in many theaters and opera houses across the U.S., in Japan and in Brazil, where he staged King Lear in his own translation into Portuguese. At The Old Globe, he directed last season’s Festival production of The Taming of the Shrew and the hip hop musical Kingdom, which was performed at both the Lincoln High School Center for the Arts and at the Globe. His production of Il Postino for LA Opera opened in Los Angeles in 2010 starring Plácido Domingo. The production has since been seen in Paris and Vienna. Daniels’ first feature film, The War Boys, is being distributed by Maya Entertainment.
	Ralph Funicello (Scenic Design) is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe and has designed the Summer Shakespeare Festivals 2004-2010, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers, Restoration Comedy, The Constant Wife, The Lady with All the Answers, Julius Caesar, Pericles, The Taming of the Shrew, The Trojan Women, Henry V, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Hostage, Paramour, Romeo and Juliet, Othello, The Comedy of Errors, Pride's Crossing, Macbeth, American Buffalo, Private Lives, The Gate of Heaven, Mister Roberts, Henry IV, Dancing at Lughnasa, Hedda Gabler, The Way of the World, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Ghosts, Interior Decoration, From the Mississippi Delta, The Winter's Tale, Mr. Rickey Takes a Meeting, Bargains, The Tempest, The Merchant of Venice, The White Rose, Hamlet, Our Town, Driving Miss Daisy and Measure for Measure. Elsewhere, Funicello has designed scenery on and off Broadway and for many theaters across the country, including Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, American Conservatory Theater, A Contemporary Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Arizona Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, South Coast Repertory, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Intiman Theatre, Stratford Shakespeare Festival, Royal Shakespeare Company, New York City Opera, LA Opera and San Diego Opera. He currently holds the position of Powell Chair in Set Design at SDSU.
	Deirdre Clancy (Costume Design) began her career as house designer for the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1960s with such cutting-edge authors as Edward Bond, Joe Orton and D.H. Lawrence. She went on to design all over the world for the stage, opera, film and television. Among Clancy's many successes were costumes for Kiri Te Kanawa in Cosí Fan Tutte at The Metropolitan Opera, Ian McKellen in Wild Honey at The National Theatre, Los Angeles and Broadway and Glenda Jackson in Strange Interlude in the West End and on Broadway. She won a BAFTA Best Costume Design Award for Mrs. Brown featuring Dame Judi Dench and Billy Connolly and Olivier Awards for her work on Twelfth Night and Love's Labour's Lost, both for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She returned to RSC with costume designs for All's Well That Ends Well with Dame Judi Dench, for which Clancy received another Olivier nomination, and Romeo and Juliet,directed by Peter Gill. In 2011 Clancy completed the trilogy of Mozart operas for Opera de Lyon, directed by Adrian Noble, with costumes for Cosí Fan Tutte, The Marriage of Figaro and Don Giovanni. Clancy has written and illustrated Costume Since World War Two.
	Alan Burrett (Lighting Design) recently designed the 2010 Shakespeare Festival and The Savannah Disputation at The Old Globe. Burrett's work has been seen in over 30 countries. His theater work has included 15 productions for the Royal Shakespeare Company as well as at The Royal National Theatre, Royal Opera House, The Paris Opera, Munich Opera, Burgtheater in Vienna and 25 productions for LA Opera. He lit large-scale arena productions of the operas Carmen and Tosca in London, Germany, Australia and Japan and the complete works of Beckett for Gate Theatre in Dublin, New York and London. Later this year he will collaborate with Adrian Noble on the opera Xerxes in Vienna. Burrett is Professor of Design at UC San Diego.
	David Bullard (Sound Design, Amadeus) has sound designed One Night Only: A Night with Al Pacino (International Tour), On Golden Pond (National Tour) and The Unexpected Man (New York and Los Angeles). His regional credits include associate sound designs for Little Miss Sunshine (La Jolla Playhouse) and Whisper House and A Catered Affair (The Old Globe). His Broadway associate sound design credits include Sondheim on Sondheim, West Side Story (New York and National Tour), Xanadu (New York and National Tour), A Catered Affair, Gypsy, Radio Golf, The Gem of the Ocean, Sweeney Todd and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. He has designed live and studio work for Steve Reich and Meredith Monk.
	Dan Moses Schreier (Original Music, Much Ado About Nothing; Sound Design, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest) has worked on 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 Tempest and Bring in ‘Da Noise, Bring in ‘Da Funk. His Off Broadway credits include Road Show, Stuff Happens, Homebody/Kabul, Floyd Collins and others. He recently composed scores for the Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino and Dan Hurlin’s Disfarmer at St. Ann’s Warehouse. He has received three Drama Desk Awards, three Tony Award nominations and an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence.
	Shaun Davey (Original Music, The Tempest) was born in Belfast and lives in Dublin. His concert music includes the widely performed “The Brendan Voyage” (the first work for an Irish traditional musician and orchestra), “The Deers' Cry” (St. Patricks' prayer) and “Suite for the Dublin Special Olympics.” His “Relief of Derry Symphony” was part of the early Northern Ireland Peace Process. His work features in the Irish schools syllabus and can be heard on seven albums on the Tara label, the most recent being Voices from the Merry Cemetery. His international credits include the music for the BBCs' Ballykissangel (BAFTA nomination) and “The Hanging Gale”(Ivor Novello Award and BAFTA nomination) and scores for the feature films Waking Ned Devine, The Tailor of Panama and Twelfth Night (Ivor Novello nomination) and Hallmarks' David Copperfield. In theater he has worked both on and off Broadway, including the musical James Joyce’s The Dead (Tony nomination for Best Original Musical Score). In the U.K. he composed for many Royal Shakespeare Company productions including A Winter’s Tale, King Lear, The Tempest, Pericles, Fair Maid of the West and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, and in Ireland at Abbey Theatre he composed for The Silver Tassie, Well of the Saints, Angels from America, The Crucible and Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme.
	Steve Rankin (Fight Director) is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe as an actor and fight director. This is his 25th season staging fights for the Globe, including the 2004-2010 Summer Shakespeare Festivals, The First Wives Club – A New Musical, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, In This Corner, Pig Farm, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, Twelfth Night, Cymbeline, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Antony and Cleopatra, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew, King Lear, Hamlet, White Linen, Julius Caesar, Henry V and Richard II. His Broadway credits include Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 (directed by Jack O'Brien), Memphis, Jersey Boys, Guys and Dolls, Twelfth Night, Getting Away with Murder, Dracula, The Who's Tommy, Anna Christie, The Real Inspector Hound and Two Shakespearean Actors. His Off Broadway credits include The Third Story, Pig Farm, The Night Hank Williams Died and Richard Dresser's Below the Belt. Regionally he has worked at La Jolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Ahmanson Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, Geva Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Philadelphia Drama Guild, Virginia Stage Company and Actors Theatre of Louisville. Rankin's films include Renaissance Man, Human Error and Tumbleweeds. His other credits include the Stratford Shakespeare Festival as well as Seattle, San Diego and Metropolitan Opera companies. Rankin plays mandolin with the Appalachian Roots artist Susie Glaze and the Hilonesome Band.
	Liz Shipman (Movement, Much Ado About Nothing) was Co-Founder/Artistic Director for Kings County Shakespeare Company (KCSC) in New York City from 1983 to 2001. Shipman has directed and/or choreographed productions for KCSC (over 50 productions), New Avenue Theatre Project, Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, The Old Globe, Playwright's Project, New Village Arts and lots of little loft-type theaters throughout New York. She has directed, choreographed and taught movement and acting at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Technique for the Whole Actor Studio, T. Schreiber Studio, Manhattan Marymount College, Atlantic Theater Company, Webster Conservatory of Theatre Arts, University of San Diego's Undergraduate Theatre Arts Department and The Old Globe/USD Graduate Acting Department where she serves as a member of the core faculty. Her favorites projects include Genet/Hamlet, The Winter's Tale, Rough Crossing, Love's Labour's Lost, A Midsommer Night's Dreame, The Taming of the Shrew, As You Like It, Aphra Behn's The Rover, Blood Wedding, On the Verge, Lysistrata, O Jerusalem, Fifth of July, The Water Engine, An Experiment with an Air Pump and The Creation Project.
	Charlie Reuter (Music Director) received a Master of Fine Arts degree in musical theater from San Diego State University after earning a degree in music education from the University of Central Florida. In New York, he served as a pianist for New York University, accompanist for Chelsea Opera, music director for the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and studied conducting at The Juilliard School. He served as music director for Moonlight Stage Productions' Miss Saigon and is an Associate Artist of Lamb's Players Theatre, where he conducted the regional premiere of The Light in the Piazza. At The Old Globe, he was assistant to the conductor of Sammy. Most recently, he conducted Cygnet Theatre Company's Sweeney Todd and frequently assists the music staff at La Jolla Playhouse.
	Joe Fitzpatrick (Puppet Advisor, The Tempest) began performing puppets with San Diego Museum of Art's “Art Rig.” From 1992 to 1995, Fitzpatrick toured San Diego schools with a mobile art exhibit titled “Extended Personae: The Art of Puppetry.” Through his work with this exhibit, he has now performed puppetry throughout the San Diego area at Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater, North Coast Repertory Theatre, San Diego Children's Museum, San Diego Model Railroad Museum, San Diego Nighttime Zoo and many schools, libraries, parades and special events such as “KidzArtz” in Balboa Park. Since 2001, Fitzpatrick has been the theater manager and a resident puppeteer at Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater in Balboa Park.
	Jan Gist (Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach) has been Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach for Old Globe productions since 2002. Previously she was Head of Voice and Speech for Alabama Shakespeare Festival for nine years and 140 productions. She has coached at theaters around the country including Ahmanson Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, 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. Recently she was invited to Russia to teach in the International Voice Teachers Exchange at The Moscow Art Theatre and to London’s Central School of Speech and Drama to teach Shakespeare. 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 teaches in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program.
	Snehal Desai (Assistant Director, Much Ado About Nothing) has directed productions of Baal, Edward II, FOB: Fresh Off the Boeing, One Night with Rael, Booty Fire, Cabaret and Marisol. Desai has worked at theaters across the county including The Public Theater, The Old Vic, Dad's Garage Theatre Company, Alliance Theatre, HERE Arts Center, Ars Nova and Theatre Rhinoceros. He has performed his solo show, Finding Ways to Prove You're NOT an Al-Qaeda Terrorist When You're Brown, to great acclaim in San Francisco, New York, New Haven and Philadelphia. He is the inaugural recipient of The Drama League's Classical Fellowship for Directors of Color. He received a B.A. from Emory University and an M.F.A. from Yale University.
	C.J. Keith (Assistant Director, The Tempest, Amadeus) has worked for six years with the Shakespeare Festival. Her Festival assistant director credits are Hamlet, Othello, All's Well That Ends Well, Coriolanus, Cyrano de Bergerac and The Taming of the Shrew. Her extensive regional directing credits include Eurydice, The Clean House, The Laramie Project, Side Man, The Maids, Present Laughter, The Fantasticks, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Cherry Orchard, The Miracle Worker and Eleemosynary. During the year, Keith is the undergraduate advisor at San Diego State University's School of Theatre, Television, and Film where she teaches acting, script analysis and voice and speech. She is the executive producer of the independent film company Jabronie Pictures. Keith trained at HB Studio in New York, is an alumna of the National Theatre Conservatory and holds a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from Berkeley and an M.F.A. in Drama from SDSU. Her next directing project is John Patrick Shanley's Doubt.
	Bret Torbeck (Stage Manager) is very happy to return to The Old Globe after working here on The Women, The Sisters Rosensweig and Take Me Out. In Seattle, he has worked on A Christmas Story, Candide, Catch Me If You Can, Sunday in the Park with George, Cabaret and Into the Woods (The 5th Avenue Theatre) and The Brothers Size, Fences, Doubt, Restoration Comedy, Topdog/Underdog, Wit, Sisters Matsumoto and The Time of Your Life,among others (Seattle Rep). His other regional theater work includes on The Wiz and Around the World in 80 Days (CENTERSTAGE), Uncle Vanya and The Triumph of Love (Long Wharf Theatre), the world premiere of Jeffrey Hatcher's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Arizona Theatre Company), When Grace Comes In (La Jolla Playhouse), American Conservatory Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre and Pittsburgh Public Theater. He has worked on the National Tours of Proof, Spamalot and The Phantom of the Opera. Torbeck also volunteers for the Cascade Bicycle Club in Seattle and teaches for the University of Washington School of Drama.
	Deirdre Rose Holland (Assistant Stage Manager) has previously worked at The Old Globe on Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2010), Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Lost in Yonkers, The Mystery of Irma Vep and The Pleasure of His Company. Her regional credits include Legacy of Light (San Jose Repertory Theatre) and the world premiere of Bonnie & Clyde and The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (La Jolla Playhouse). Holland's additional credits include Opera San José, La Jolla Music Society, Palo Alto Children's Theatre and Summer Repertory Theatre.
	Jess Slocum (Assistant Stage Manager) has previously worked on the Globe productions of Rafta, Rafta…, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Alive and Well, Sammy, Cornelia, Since Africa, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (’07-‘09) and The lass Menagerie. Her Broadway credits include In the Heights. Regional credits include Ruined, The Third Story, Memphis and Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse), Post Office (Center Theater Group), Yellow Face (Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company) and Tranquility Woods (Steppenwolf Theatre Company).
	Annette Yé (Assistant Stage Manager) recently was the Stage Manager for The Old Globe's Groundswell and the 2010 production of Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Her other Globe credits include Boeing-Boeing, The First Wives Club, Opus, Dancing in the Dark, Hay Fever and the 2008 and 2010 Summer Shakespeare Festivals. 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), Honky Tonk Angels, Baby and No Way to Treat a Lady (North Coast Repertory Theatre) and Forbidden Broadway: Special Victims Unit (Theatre in Old Town).