Othello

June 22 - July 27, 2014
(Opening Night: Saturday, June 28)
Lowell Davies Festival Theatre

By William Shakespeare
Directed by Barry Edelstein
Scenic Design by Wilson Chin
Costume Design by Katherine Roth
Lighting Design by Stephen Strawbridge
Sound Design by Acme Sound Partners with Jason Crystal
Original Music by Curtis Moore
Music Director, Ryan Nestor
Fight Director, Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum
Voice and Dialect Coach, Ursula Meyer
Casting by Tara Rubin Casting
Stage Manager, Leila Knox

From New York’s Shakespeare in the Park to Balboa Park, Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein makes his debut on the Globe’s outdoor stage with one of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies.  Despite the prejudices in Venice, the brilliant general Othello excels both on the battlefield and in the halls of state.  But when he marries Desdemona, his envious lieutenant Iago sets in motion a diabolical plan to destroy him. With a superb cast led by Blair Underwood ("Ironside," "Sex and the City"), Richard Thomas ("The Walton," "The Americans"), and Kristen Connolly ("House of Cards"), Edelstein gives us a riveting, intense, and intimate production where poetry soars and swords clash, where true love and wrenching jealousy collide.

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Production Photos
Blair Underwood as Othello and Kristen Connolly as Desdemona (center) with the cast of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Blair Underwood as Othello and Kristen Connolly as Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Kristen Connolly as Desdemona and Blair Underwood as Othello in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Blair Underwood as Othello and Richard Thomas as Iago in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Richard Thomas as Iago and Blair Underwood as Othello in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Kristen Connolly as Desdemona and Blair Underwood as Othello (foreground) with (from left) Noah Bean as Michael Cassio and Richard Thomas as Iago in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Blair Underwood in the title role of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Richard Thomas as Iago in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Kristen Connolly as Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(foreground, from left) Blair Underwood as Othello, Mike Sears as Brabantio, and Kristen Connolly as Desdemona with the cast of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Kristen Connolly as Desdemona and Blair Underwood as Othello (center) with the cast of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Blair Underwood as Othello and Kristen Connolly as Desdemona (center) with the cast of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Richard Thomas as Iago and Jonny Orsini as Roderigo in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Richard Thomas as Iago and Noah Bean as Michael Cassio in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Mark Pinter as The Duke of Venice, Blair Underwood as Othello, Noah Bean as Michael Cassio, and Jonny Orsini as Roderigo in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Angela Reed as Emilia and Richard Thomas as Iago in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Mike Sears as Brabantio and Mark Pinter as The Duke of Venice in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(foreground, from left) Blair Underwood as Othello and Mike Sears as Brabantio with the cast of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.


Publicity Photos
(from left) Richard Thomas stars as Iago, Blair Underwood as Othello, and Kristen Connolly as Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Multi-award-winning actor Blair Underwood stars in the title role of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas stars as Iago in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Kristen Connolly stars as Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Old Globe Artistic Director and Othello director Barry Edelstein (second from right) with (from left) Richard Thomas (Iago), Kristen Connolly (Desdemona), and Blair Underwood (Othello). Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Edelstein, runs June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
The cast of Othello: (back row, from left) Robbie Simpson, Stephen Hu, Mike Sears, Jonny Orsini, Megan M. Storti, Mark Pinter, Noah Bean, Patrick Zeller, Adam Gerber, and Kushtrim Hoxha; (middle row) Lowell Byers, Charlotte Bydwell, Richard Thomas, Blair Underwood, Kristen Connolly, Angela Reed, and Jamal Douglas; (front row) Meaghan Boeing, Erin Elizabeth Adams, Lindsay Brill, and Tyler Kent. Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic director Barry Edelstein, runs June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Multi-award-winning actor Blair Underwood stars in the title role of Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Emmy Award winner Richard Thomas stars as Iago in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Kristen Connolly stars as Desdemona in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Richard Thomas stars as Iago, Kristen Connolly as Desdemona, and Blair Underwood as Othello in Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Old Globe Artistic Director and Othello director Barry Edelstein (back row, center) with the cast of Othello: (back row, from left) Robbie Simpson, Stephen Hu, Mike Sears, Jonny Orsini, Megan M. Storti, Mark Pinter, Noah Bean, Patrick Zeller, Adam Gerber, and Kushtrim Hoxha; (middle row) Lowell Byers, Charlotte Bydwell, Richard Thomas, Blair Underwood, Kristen Connolly, Angela Reed, and Jamal Douglas; (front row) Meaghan Boeing, Erin Elizabeth Adams, Lindsay Brill, and Tyler Kent. Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Edelstein, runs June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Candidates of the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program appears in Othello: (back row, from left) Lowell Byers, Robbie Simpson, Lindsay Brill, Stephen Hu, Megan M. Storti, Adam Gerber, Patrick Zeller, and Kushtrim Hoxha; (front row) Charlotte Bydwell, Meaghan Boeing, Erin Elizabeth Adams, Tyler Kent, and Jama Douglas. Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, runs June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
 
 
Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein will direct Shakespeare's Othello, June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Joseph Moran.
Shakespeare's Othello, directed by Old Globe Artistic Director Barry Edelstein, runs June 22 - July 27, 2014 at The Old Globe. Illustration courtesy of The Old Globe.
  


Cast and Creative Team

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Erin Elizabeth Adams (Bianca) was last seen in the Globe’s productions of 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. production of Measure for Measure and reading of Once in a Lifetime. She has worked in New York City on Gated (Midtown International Theatre Festival) and regionally on Heist!, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,and 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 with the Actors Theatre of Louisville. Adams received her B.A. in Theatre and Literary Arts from Brown University.
Noah Bean (Michael Cassio) has appeared in New York in One Arm (The New Group), Yellow Face (The Public Theater), Mary Rose (Vineyard Theatre), The Voyage of the Carcass (Soho Playhouse), The Rise and Fall of Annie Hall (Acorn Theater), and Kid Simple and The Map Maker’s Sorrow (Summer Play Festival), among others. Regionally he has appeared at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Mark Taper Forum, Bay Street Theatre, and Huntington Theatre Company. His films include Morning Glory, The Pill, Little Murder, Black Marigolds, and Stay. He was a series regular on the Emmy Award-nominated series “Damages” for FX and “Nikita” for The CW. He has also been seen in recurring and guest-starring appearances on many other television series. Next up, he will appear as a series regular in the upcoming television movie 12 Monkeys for SyFy. He is a graduate of Boston University’s College of Fine Arts.   
Meaghan Boeing (Ensemble) was most recently in The Old Globe’s The Winter’s Tale, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, as well as the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program productions of Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure,and Tartuffe. Her regional credits include Imagine (South Coast Repertory), Master Class (The Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum), Man of La Mancha (A Noise Within), Surf Orpheus (Getty Villa), various productions with The Antaeus Company, 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 and independent films, 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.  
Lindsay Brill (Ensemble) most recently appeared as Mopsa and Lady in The Winter’s Tale at The Old Globe. She also appeared as Antonia and Verges in Much Ado About Nothing and Pooty in Reckless with the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program. In New York, Brill has performed at The Lion’s Theatre, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, Prospect Theater Company, The Actors Studio, Nora’s Playhouse, and New York Theatre Workshop. She recently won the John Chatterton Short Play Festival award for the one-woman show Testify! in New York. She also performed sketch comedy in the Chicago Women’s Funny Festival and finished shooting the new web series “Annie and Brie.” Brill holds a B.A. in Dramatic Arts from Washington University in St. Louis.
Charlotte Bydwell (Ensemble) is a graduate of The Juilliard School and began her career as a dancer with Monica Bill Barnes Company and Keigwin + Company, performing at Jacob’s Pillow Dance, American Dance Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, and The Joyce Theater. As a member of the resident acting company at The Flea Theater she appeared in Sean Graney’s highly acclaimed These Seven Sicknesses directed by Ed Iskandar. At the 2012 Williamstown Theatre Festival, she appeared in The Importance of Being Earnest directed by David Hyde Pierce and A Month in the Country directed by Richard Nelson. Her one-woman show, Woman of Leisure and Panic, debuted in the eighth-annual soloNOVA Arts Festival (New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination), played the 2013 New York International Fringe Festival, and was translated into Spanish for performances in Mexico. Bydwell was most recently seen in the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program productions Much Ado About Nothing, Antigone, and Reckless. 
Lowell Byers (Ensemble) appeared in the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program productions of Much Ado About Nothing, Antigone, and Reckless. His Off Broadway credits include Night Float (Playwrights Horizons), Othello (Theatre Row), Balm in Gilead (New York Innovative Theatre Award for Outstanding Production of a Play), and You Never Can Tell and The Changing Room (T. Schreiber Studio). He has been seen regionally in North Shore Fish (Gloucester Stage Company), As You Like It (Vermont Stage Company), and SMILE: The Musical (Deane Center for the Performing Arts). He played the title role in Caligula: 1400 Days of Terror (History Channel) and appeared in the films Chilling Visions: 5 Senses of Fear (Chiller/NBC Universal), Brewsie and Willie (Rocam Productions), and Things I Don’t Understand (Best Feature Film winner, Burbank International and Philadelphia Independent Film Festivals). His original play, Luft Gangster, had its 2013 world premiere at Abingdon Theatre Company directed by Austin Pendleton. A New York City native, he received a B.A. in Theatre from Denison University where he competed as a 26-time All-American Swimmer. 
Kristen Connolly (Desdemona) is making her Globe debut, having worked with Barry Edelstein on King Lear, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure, all at The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival. She most recently completed work on the History Channel miniseries Houdini opposite Adrien Brody and is best known for playing Christina Gallagher on Netflix’s series “House of Cards.” Her other film credits include The Cabin in the Woods, The Bay, The Happening, Revolutionary Road, Certainty, and the soon-to-be-released A Good Marriage, written by Stephen King. Her television credits include “Nurse Jackie,” “The Good Wife,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Mercy,” and the web series “iChannel.” She is a graduate of Middlebury College (B.A.) and the Yale University School of Drama (M.F.A.).
Jamal Douglas (Othello’s Aide-de-Camp) is an M.F.A. candidate with the Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program. He was recently seen in the Globe’s production of The Winter’s Tale. He also appeared in the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program productions of Reckless and Much Ado About Nothing. Douglas has worked with Philadelphia Young Playwrights, PlayPenn, Simpatico Theatre Project, Delaware Shakespeare Festival, Arden Theatre Company, Plays & Players, and the National Constitution Center, among others. In his spare time, he teaches with SAY (The Stuttering Association for the Young) in New York City. He holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Arcadia University.   
Adam Gerber (Ensemble) was last seen in The Old Globe’s productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, and Pygmalion, and the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. production of Measure for Measure. His New York credits include As You Like It and the Off Broadway revival of Lebensraum (Harold Clurman Lab Theatre). He has also worked in Tokyo, Japan on Hikobae (The Actors Clinic, Will Do). Gerber has performed in numerous other productionsincluding Sex and the Holy Land (New York International Fringe Festival) and Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, In the Boom Boom Room,and Dancing at Lughnasa (Stella Adler Studio of Acting), and he has been featured in various national commercials. He is a graduate of the Stella Adler Studio of Acting and received his B.A. from The George Washington University where he appeared in The Winter’s Tale and Metamorphosis.  
Kushtrim Hoxha (Montano) was recently seen at The Old Globe in The Winter’s Tale and the 2013 Shakespeare Festival productions of 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 (Ensemble) 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 A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead for the Globe’s 2013 Shakespeare Festival. 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. 
Tyler Kent (Ensemble) is currently a candidate of the Old Globe/USD M.F.A. program, where he has recently appeared in Much Ado About Nothing, Antigone, and Reckless. His regional credits include The Arabian Nights (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Eugene O’Neill Foundation), A Doctor in Spite of Himself and The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Berkeley Rep), Much Ado About Nothing (Extant Arts Company), Twelfth Night (The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival), MEDEAStories (SITI Company), Little Shop of Horrors (Broadway By The Bay), Snapshots and Auctioning the Ainsleys (TheatreWorks Silicon Valley), Finian’s Rainbow (Woodminster), Vera Wilde (Shotgun Players), and What the Butler Saw (Pacific Repertory Theatre). Kent was among the American participants in Kevin Spacey’s international Bridge Project with The Old Vic. His cabarets Nobody’s Hart and Give Me the Simple Life toured China in 2009 and 2011. He is a graduate of Whitman College and also trained with CAP21, SITI Company, and the British American Drama Academy. 
Jonny Orsini (Roderigo) made his Broadway debut last year opposite Nathan Lane in The Nance, for which he received an Outer Critic’s Circle Award nomination and won Theater World’s Dorothy Loudon Award for Excellence in the Theater and the Clive Barnes Award. The Nance was recorded and will play movie theatres across the country this summer and on PBS in fall 2014. His other theatre credits include the Broadway revival of Macbeth (Lincoln Center Theater) and the Off Broadway productions of An Early History of Fire (The New Group), Be a Good Little Widow (Ars Nova). He has appeared regionally in The Little Dog Laughed (Hartford TheaterWorks), and After Ashley (Company One, IRNE Award nomination for Best Actor). His film work includes Generation Um..., Girl Most Likely, Beneath, King Kelly, Rocksteady,and Cigarette Candy, winner of Best Short Film at South by Southwest (SXSW), Palm Springs, and Cleveland International Film Festivals, as well as Outstanding Performance at the Florida Film Festival for his portrayal of a young Marine suffering from PTSD.
Mark Pinter (The Duke of Venice) appeared in The Old Globe’s 1977 Summer Shakespeare Festival as Horatio in Hamlet and Jack Chesney in Charley’s Aunt. His Off Broadway credits include My Sweetheart’s the Man in the Moon (Hypothetical Theatre Company) and Three on the Couch (Soho Repertory Theater). Regionally he has been seen in Book of Days (Arena Stage), Clybourne Park (San Diego Repertory Theatre), The Price (Northern Stage), The Sound of Music (Syracuse Stage), West Side Story (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera), Victor/Victoria (North Shore Music Theatre), Equus (Arizona Theatre Company), and The Lion in Winter (North Coast Repertory Theatre). Pinter has appeared in the world premieres of Anna Ziegler’s Another Way Home (Magic Theatre), and Richard Montoya’s Federal Jazz Project (San Diego Repertory Theatre), and Melinda Lopez’s Becoming Cuba (North Coast Rep). His television credits include “Mad Men,” “NCIS: Los Angeles,” “Cold Case,” “Law & Order,” “All My Children,” and “Another World.” His films include Other People’s Money, Vanilla Sky, The Eden Myth, Season of Youth, and the short Play. He received his M.F.A. from Hilberry Theatre/Wayne State University.   
Angela Reed (Emilia) is thrilled to return to the Globe, where she played Barbara in August: Osage County. Her credits include Broadway’s The Country Girl, Rock ‘n’ Roll, and The Rainmaker, first national tours of War Horse and Spring Awakening, and Off Broadway productions at Mint Theater Company, Keen Company, The Actors Company Theatre, Classic Stage Company, and Primary Stages. Her regional credits include The Whale, After Ashley, and Map of Heaven (The Denver Center for the Performing Arts), Time Stands Still (City Theatre), Rabbit Hole (Cleveland Play House), Olly’s Prison (American Repertory Theater), Talley’s Folly (Pasadena Playhouse), The Real Thing and Crimes of the Heart (Syracuse Stage), Proof (Coconut Grove Playhouse), How I Learned to Drive, Angels in America, Othello, The Triumph of Love, Dracula,and In Her Sight (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Center Stage, Round House Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, Two River Theater Company, and The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Her television credits include “The Blacklist,” “Believe,” all the “Law & Order” series, “Third Watch,” and “Blue Bloods.” 
Mike Sears (Brabantio, Gratiano) has appeared Off Broadway in When Words Fail (John Houseman Theater), Leap (Abingdon Theatre Company), and To Have and to Hold (Phil Bosakowski Theatre). His Off Off Broadway credits include American Globe Theatre, Boomerang Theatre Company’s Summer Shakespeare, New Dramatists, New York International Fringe Festival, The Present Company, Musical Theatre Works, Producer’s Club Theatres, and The Duplex. His regional credits include Sideways, His Girl Friday, Hands on a Hard Body, and Bonnie & Clyde (La Jolla Playhouse), A Behanding in Spokane and Man from Nebraska (Cygnet Theatre Company), Tortilla Curtain (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Killer Joe (Compass Theatre), The Foreigner, The Glory Man, and Rehearsal for Murder (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Birds of a Feather (Diversionary Theatre), Simpatico (New Village Arts),Good Boys (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company), and Tuesdays with Morrie (North Coast Repertory Theatre). Sears is a graduate of the William Esper Studio in New York City.
Robbie Simpson (Ensemble) was most recently seen at The Old Globe in Barry Edelstein’s inaugural production of The Winter’s Tale. His other Globe credits include 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. 
Megan M. Storti (Ensemble) is excited to be back at The Old Globe after appearing last fall as Bazira in Much Ado About Nothing. Her other credits with The Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program include Rachael in Reckless and Ismene in Antigone. Her Chicago credits include The Liar (Writers’ Theatre), As You Like It (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), The Woman in White and The City & the City (Lifeline Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Metropolis Performing Arts Centre), Marat/Sade (The Right Brain Project), Romeo and Juliet (Glass Onion Theatre), and Titus Andronicus (DreamLogic Theatreworks). Her regional credits include Shakespeare Festival St. Louis, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, Heartland Theatre Company, Phoenix Theatre Ensemble, and Putnam County Playhouse. Storti received her B.A. in Acting from Illinois State University. 
Richard Thomas (Iago) starred in the award-winning series “The Waltons,” for which he won an Emmy Award for Best Lead Actor in a Drama Series, and has continued to star in series, films, plays, and over 50 movies for television. His theatre career began at age seven in 1958 with Broadway’s Sunrise at Campobello and continued with Fifth of July, The Seagull, The Front Page, Tiny Alice, Peer Gynt, Richard II, Richard III, Hamlet, The Stendhal Syndrome, Democracy, and A Naked Girl on the Appian Way, as well as the Broadway national tour of 12 Angry Men and Terrence McNally’s Unusual Acts of Devotion. His recent projects include David Mamet’s Race (Broadway), Timon of Athens (The Public Theater), Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays, and An Enemy of the People (Manhattan Theatre Club). Thomas starred in the series “Just Cause,” “It’s a Miracle,” and “The Adventures of Swiss Family Robinson.” His television films include Stephen King’s Nightmares & Dreamscapes and It, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Red Badge of Courage, The Master of Ballantrae, Johnny Belinda, Berlin Tunnel 21, Living Proof: The Hank Williams, Jr. Story, Hobson’s Choice, Roots: The Next Generations, Go Toward the Light, The Christmas Secret, Beyond the Prairie: The True Story of Laura Ingalls Wilder, Annie’s Point, Wild Hearts, and Hallmark’s Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow. Thomas produced What Love Sees and For All Time for television and appeared in the films The Wonder Boys, Battle Beyond the Stars, The Todd Killings, Last Summer, Winning, Red Sky at Morning, Ang Lee’s Taking Woodstock, and the forthcoming Anesthesia. He most recently appeared as Jimmy Carter in Camp David at Arena Stage and can currently be seen as Agent Frank Gaad on FX’s “The Americans.”
Blair Underwood (Othello) is an award-winning actor/writer/director/producer. Underwood has received two Golden Globe Award nominations, 10 NAACP Image Award nominations (six wins), and was awarded a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for former Vice President Al Gore’s album An Inconvenient Truth. His theatre credits include the recent Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’s A Streetcar Named Desire, which garnered him a 2012 Drama League Distinguished Performance Award nomination; his one-man show IM4: From the Mountaintop to Hip Hop; and Purlie, New York Shakespeare Festival’s Measure for Measure, The Game of Love and Chance, and Love Letters. His television credits include “Ironside,” The Trip to Bountiful, “The Event,” “In Treatment,” “Dirty Sexy Money,” “The New Adventures of Old Christine,” “Sex and the City,” Mama Flora’s Family, Murder in Mississippi, Soul of the Game, “City of Angels,” The Wishing Tree, Heat Wave, and “L.A. Law.” His film credits include The Art of Getting By, Madea’s Family Reunion, Something New, Full Frontal, Rules of Engagement, Deep Impact, Just Cause, Posse, Set It Off, The Second Coming (director, executive producer, writer, and star), and The Bridge to Nowhere (directorial debut). Underwood earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Carnegie Mellon University. He has served as an artist-in-residence at Harvard University and holds two honorary doctorates, from Emerson College and Xavier University.   
Patrick Zeller (Lodovico) is thrilled to be at The Old Globe again. He was last seen as Jailer in The Winter’s Tale and Borachio in Much Ado About Nothing. Zeller’s classical theatre credits include The Mysteries (Shakespeare & Company), The Comedy of Errors (New York Classical Theatre), Edward II (Pet Brick Productions), Hamlet (Maine Shakespeare Festival), and Romeo and Juliet and Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company). Zeller has appeared on “Law & Order,” “Medium,” “All My Children,” “One Life to Live,” and “The Young and the Restless.” He also co-starred in the award-winning feature film Virgin Alexander. His other film credits include No Reservations, End of the Spear,and A Totally Minor Motion Picture. Most recently Zeller has worked as a mentor and teaching artist with The Unusual Suspects Theatre Company in Los Angeles. 
  Barry Edelstein (Director, Old Globe Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. Widely recognized as one of the leading authorities on the works of Shakespeare in the United States, he has directed nearly half of the Bard’s works. He recently made his Globe directorial debut with Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale starring Billy Campbell, the first Shakespeare to be staged in the company’s indoor theatre in over a decade. As Director of the Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2008-2012), he oversaw all of the company’s Shakespearean productions, as well as its extensive educational, community outreach, and artist-training programs. At The Public, Edelstein 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.
  Wilson Chin (Scenic Design) returns to The Old Globe after designing The Winter’s Tale, Anna Christie (Craig Noel Award nomination), Engaging Shaw,and The American Plan. His New York credits include Next Fall (Broadway, Naked Angels), Too Much, Too Much, Too Many (Roundabout Theatre Company), The Jammer (Atlantic Theater Company), Len, Asleep in Vinyl (Second Stage Theatre), Dark Matters (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), Boom (Ars Nova), As You Like it (Poortom Productions), and King of Shadows (Working Theater). His opera designs include Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Eine Florentinische Tragodie and Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera Company, Dora Award), The Saint of Bleecker Street (Central City Opera), and Don Giovanni (San Francisco Opera Merola). Regionally, he has designed at American Conservatory Theater, Barrington Stage Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Geffen Playhouse, Guthrie Theater, Hartford Stage, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse, and Yale Repertory Theatre. Chin is a graduate of UC Berkeley and Yale School of Drama.
  Katherine Roth (Costume Design) recently designed the Globe production of The Rainmaker. She designed the Broadway and international tour productions of Twyla Tharp’s Come Fly Away and the recent New York production of The Twenty-Seventh Man directed by Barry Edelstein at The Public Theater. She has designed costumes for many regional and New York theaters. Roth’s film credits include Neil LaBute’s Some Velvet Morning, and her television credits include “All My Children” (two Daytime Emmy Awards). She received her M.F.A. from Yale University School of Drama.
  Stephen Strawbridge (Lighting Design) previously designed The Old Globe’s production of Double Indemnity. He has designed more than 200 productions on and Off Broadway and at most leading regional theatres and opera houses across the U.S. His international credits include major premieres in Bergen, Copenhagen, The Hague, Hong Kong, Linz, Lisbon, Munich, Naples, Sao Paulo, Stockholm, and Vienna. His recent credits include Henry IV Parts I and II (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Antony and Cleopatra, (The Public Theater, Royal Shakespeare Company), Marie Antoinette (Soho Repertory Theater), Proof (McCarter Theatre Center), The Happy Ones (Magic Theatre), The Dining Room (Westport Country Playhouse), The Train Driver and The Blood Knot (Signature Theatre Company), Rigoletto (Dallas Opera), Madame Butterfly (Houston Grand Opera), and Azimuth (Pilobolus Dance Theatre). He has received American Theatre Wing, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, Connecticut Critics Circle, Dallas-Fort Worth Theater Critics Forum, Helen Hayes, Henry Hewes Design, and Lucille Lortel Awards and nominations. He is Co-Chair of the design department at Yale University School of Drama and Resident Lighting Designer for Yale Repertory Theatre.
  Acme Sound Partners (Sound Design)is pleased to be returning to The Old Globe where they designed Dirty Rotten Scoundrels. Acme has designed sound for over 30 Broadway shows, including The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Tony Award nomination, Drama Desk Award), The Merchant of Venice (Drama Desk nomination), Ragtime (Drama Desk Award), Hair (Tony nomination), In The Heights (Tony and Drama Desk nominations), Spamalot, andBaz Luhrmann’s La Bohème (Drama Desk and Ovation Awards). Acme is Tom Clark, Mark Menard, and Sten Severson.
  Jason Crystal (Sound Design) is proud to be making his Old Globe debut. His recent designs include Somewhere (Hartford Stage) and Lady Day (Little Shubert). Crystal’s Broadway associate work includes Mothers and Sons, Rodgers + Hammerstein’s Cinderella, The Performers, Magic/Bird, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Broadway and national tour), Venus in Fur, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, Lombardi, and The Addams Family (Broadway, national tour, and four international companies). Crystal works in the sound and media departments of the Metropolitan Opera House.
  Curtis Moore (Original Music) is a composer, songwriter, and musician in New York. He recently composed the music for Venice with Matt Sax and Eric Rosen, which had a sold-out extended run at The Public Theater, as well as for Nora Ephon’s play Lucky Guy starring Tom Hanks in his Broadway debut. In collaboration with Thomas Mizer, he was awarded the 2009 Jonathan Larson Grant. Together they wrote the musicals Triangle (Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma), The Legend of Stagecoach Mary (National Alliance for Musical Theatre), and The Bus to Buenos Aires (The Ensemble Studio Theater). He conducted and performed the music in The Bridge Project’scritically acclaimed world tour of Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes and starring Kevin Spacey, and composed the score for Barry Edelstein’s production of Timon of Athens at The Public Theater. With Matthew Brookshire, he wrote and performed the music for Todd Solondz’s film Palindromes (Venice, Toronto, Telluride, New York Film Festivals).
  Ryan Nestor (Music Director) is a percussionist specializing in classical music of the 20th century. Currently a candidate for the Doctorate in Contemporary Music Performance at UC San Diego, Nestor is active with the percussion group red fish blue fish and was recently the principal percussionist of the La Jolla Symphony Orchestra. Nestor has performed at the Sweet Thunder Festival, Monday Evening Concert Series, Ojai Music Festival, Carlsbad Music Festival, Aspen Music Festival, and Bang on a Can Marathon. He was an adjunct lecturer in music at Queensborough Community College in New York City and has presented master classes and performances at universities around the country. Nestor earned his Master’s degree in Percussion Performance at Stony Brook University and his Bachelor’s degree in Music Education from University of Kentucky. Nestor is originally from Indianapolis, Indiana.
  Jacob Grigolia-Rosenbaum (Fight Director) is honored to return to the Globe after 2013’s The Last Goodbye. His credits as fight director include Peter and the Starcatcher (Broadway, New York Theatre Workshop, New World Stages, national tour), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Broadway, The Public Theater, Williamstown Theatre Festival), Cyrano de Bergerac (Broadway), Here Lies Love (The Public Theater and its commercial remount), Sailor Man (also co-creator, New York International Fringe Festival, winner of Best Play), The Buccaneer (also playwright, The Tank, Fight Fest), and Bill W. and Dr. Bob (Soho Playhouse). Grigolia-Rosenbaum has been fight director for numerous regional and touring companies including Connecticut Free Shakespeare and National Theater for Arts and Education and was stunt coordinator on the forthcoming film Dark Was the Night (Caliber). He was a Junior Olympic fencer and Division 1 varsity fencer at Yale University. When not making art out of violence, he can be found living in Brooklyn with his wife and son.
  Ursula Meyer (Voice and Text Coach) has studied voice with Cicely Berry, Patsy Rodenburg, Andrew Wade, Arthur Lessac, and Kristin Linklater. She graduated with distinction from the Advanced Voice Studies Program at the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama in London and is a designated Linklater teacher. Her regional credits include The Old Globe, the Guthrie Theater, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, South Coast Repertory, Yale Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, and the Idaho, Santa Cruz, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals, as well as 15 seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Meyer is currently on the faculty at UC San Diego. In 2007, she was a recipient of UCSD’s Saltman Distinguished Teacher of the Year Award.
  Jason McDowell-Green (Assistant Director) is a director hailing from Brooklyn, New York. He was last at The Old Globe as the assistant director on Nicholas Martin’s production of Pygmalion. His other recent work has been seen with Huntington Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Two River Theater Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New York International Fringe Festival, and the Atlantic Acting School. He is an alumnus of The Acting Company, where he toured for two years with productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Comedy of Errors. His training comes from Boston University, London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts, and American Conservatory Theater.
  Tara Rubin Casting (Casting) previously cast the Globe productions of Dog and Pony, A Room with a View, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Sammy, and The First Wives Club. Their selected Broadway credits include Bullets Over Broadway, Aladdin, Mothers and Sons, Les Misérables, Big Fish, The Heiress, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Promises, Promises, A Little Night Music, Billy Elliot, Shrek, The Farnsworth Invention, Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, Spamalot, Jersey Boys, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Pirate Queen, Imaginary Friends, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, The Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma!, The Frogs, Contact, and Thou Shalt Not. Their Off Broadway credits include Love, Loss, and What I Wore and Old Jews Telling Jokes. Regionally they have cast for Yale Repertory Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse, and Bucks County Playhouse.
  Leila Knox (Stage Manager) has previously worked on the Globe productions of Cornelia, The American Plan, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ace, The Violet Hour, Himself and Nora, Take Me Out, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2004-2013), the 2004 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Resurrection Blues, Bus Stop, Much Ado About Nothing, Dirty Blonde,and Thinking Shakespeare Live! Her Broadway credits include Dirty Blonde, Amour,and One Mo’ Time. Her regional credits include production supervisor of Dirty Blonde (national tour and West Yorkshire Playhouse); shows at Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, SITI Company, Playwrights Horizons, Huntington Theatre Company; and 11 seasons with Williamstown Theatre Festival. She received her education at Northwestern University.
  Jess Slocum (Assistant Stage Manager) has previously worked at The Old Globe on Water by the Spoonful, The Winter’s Tale, A Doll’s House, Pygmalion, A Room with a View, Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, the 2011-2013 Shakespeare Festivals, Rafta, Rafta…, Robin and the 7 Hoods, Alive and Well, Sammy, Cornelia, Since Africa, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!,and The Glass Menagerie. Her Broadway credits include In the Heights. Her regional credits include Side Show, Ruined, The Third Story, Memphis,and Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse), Post Office (Center Theatre Group), and Tranquility Woods (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Her San Diego credits include Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, North Coast Repertory Theatre, and Lamb’s Players Theatre. She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.