A Room with a View Press Page

A Room with a View

March 2, 2012 - April 15, 2012
WORLD PREMIERE
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

Book by Marc Acito
Music and Lyrics by Jeffrey Stock
Additional Lyrics by Marc Acito
Based on the Novel by E.M. Forster
Directed by Scott Schwartz
Music Director, Boko Suzuki
Scenic Design by Heidi Ettinger
Costume Design by Judith Dolan
Lighting Design by David Lander
Sound Design by Jon Weston
Orchestrations by Bruce Coughlin
Musical Arrangements by Jeffrey Stock
Musical Staging by Michael Jenkinson
Vocal and Dialect Coach, Jan Gist
Casting by Tara Rubin Casting
Stage Manager, Anjee Nero

A musical romantic comedy set amid the golden sunlight and violet-covered hills of Tuscany where sheltered English girl Lucy Honeychurch meets freethinking George Emerson. For the first time, she glimpses a world of longing and passion she never imagined. Back in her corseted Edwardian life, Lucy must decide whether to yield to convention or give up everything she has ever known. Comic, romantic, satirical and real, A Room with a View blends a gorgeous score with this timeless story that gives a new voice to these unforgettable characters.

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(from left) Kyle Harris as George Emerson, Karen Ziemba as Charlotte Bartlett and Ephie Aardema as Lucy Honeychurch in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Ephie Aardema as Lucy Honeychurch in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Kyle Harris as George Emerson and Ephie Aardema as Lucy Honeychurch in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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(from left) Ephie Aardema as Lucy Honeychurch and Karen Ziemba as Charlotte Bartlett in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Ephie Aardema as Lucy Honeychurch and Kyle Harris as George Emerson in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

The cast of the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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Kyle Harris as George Emerson in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Karen Ziemba as Charlotte Bartlett in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

(from left) Ephie Aardema as Lucy Honeychurch, Edward Staudenmayer as Reverend Mr. Beeber and Karen Ziemba as Charlotte Bartlett in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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Will Reynolds as Cecil Vyse and Ephie Aardema as Lucy Honeychurch in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

(from left) Edward Staudenmayer as Reverend Mr. Beeber, Etai BenShlomo as Freddy Honerchurch and Kyle Harris as George Emerson in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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(from left) Kyle Harris stars as George Emerson, Ephie Aardema as Lucy Honeychurch and Will Reynolds as Cecil Vyse in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

(from left) Ephie Aardema stars as Lucy Honeychurch, Karen Ziemba as Charlotte Bartlett and Kyle Harris as George Emerson in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

(from left) Will Reynolds stars as Cecil Vyse, Ephie Aardema as Lucy Honeychurch, Kyle Harris as George Emerson and Karen Ziemba as Charlotte Bartlett in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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Kyle Harris stars as George Emerson and Ephie Aardema as Lucy Honeychurch in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Karen Ziemba stars as Charlotte Bartlett in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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Ephie Aardema stars as Lucy Honeychurch in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Kyle Harris stars as George Emerson in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Will Reynolds stars as Cecil V/yse in the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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Scott Schwartz directs the World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Composer and lyricist Jeffrey Stock and playwright and lyricist Marc Acito. The World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Acito, music and lyrics by Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, runs March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Director Scott Schwartz, composer and lyricist Jeffrey Stock and playwright and lyricist Marc Acito. The World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Schwartz, runs March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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The cast and creative team of A Room with a View: (back row, from left) Actors Edward Staudenmayer and Kurt Zischke, director Scott Schwartz, composer and lyricist Jeffrey Stock, playwright and lyricist Marc Acito and actors Gina Ferrall, Glenn Seven Allen and Jacquelynne Fontaine; (front row) music director Boko Suzuki and actors Will Reynolds, Ephie Aardema, Karen Ziemba, Etai BenShlomo and Kyle Harris. The World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, runs March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

The cast of A Room with a View: (back row, from left) Glenn Seven Allen, Kyle Harris, Ephie Aardema, Etai BenShlomo, Karen Ziemba, Will Reynolds and Edward Staudenmayer; (front row) actors Kurt Zischke, Gina Ferrall and Jacquelynne Fontaine. The World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Scott Schwartz, runs March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

Director Scott Schwartz, playwright and lyricist Marc Acito, composer and lyricist Jeffrey Stock and music director Boko Suzuki. The World Premiere of A Room with a View, a new musical with book by Marc Acito, music and lyrics by Jeffrey Stock, additional lyrics by Acito, directed by Schwartz, runs March 2 - April 15, 2012 at The Old Globe. Photo by Henry DiRocco.

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A Room with a View. Illustration courtesy of The Old Globe.

Cast and Creative Team

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	Ephie Aardema (Lucy Honeychurch) is elated to be a part of the A Room with a View family. Her national tours include Chava in Fiddler on the Roof and Liesl in The Sound of Music (Theatre of the Stars). She appeared Off Broadway as Edwina in Dear Edwina at Daryl Roth Theatre and reprised the role at Guild Hall. Her regional roles include Natalie in Next to Normal (Pioneer Theatre Company), Logainne in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Paper Mill Playhouse, Philadelphia Theatre Company) and also Olive (The Media Theatre for the Performing Arts), Adele Astaire in the World Premiere of Let’s Face the Music and Patsy in Crazy for You (Maine State Music Theatre, Cape Playhouse), Peggy Sawyer in 42nd Street, Sheila in Hair, Little Red in Into the Woods, Gertrude in Seussical and Luisa in The Fantasticks. Aardema is an international award-winning tap dancer and received a Congressional Medal for Outstanding Youth. She is the youngest-ever graduate of Circle in the Square Theatre School.
	Glenn Seven Allen (Italiano, Albert) has been hailed by The New York Times for his “strong voice and presence” and has appeared on Broadway and at major theater, concert and opera venues throughout the United States. His Broadway and New York credits include The Light in the Piazza (Lincoln Center Theater), Girl Crazy (City Center Encores!), Casino Paradise (Lincoln Center’s American Songbook) and A Fine and Private Place (York Theatre Company). His other highlights include Alexius in The Chocolate Soldier (Bard SummerScape), for which Opera News praised him as “an Edwardian matinee idol, giving by far the most detailed dramatic performance,” Rutledge in 1776 (Goodspeed Musicals), Frederic in The Pirates of Penzance (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Pontius Pilate in Jesus Christ Superstar (North Carolina Theatre), Cliff in Cabaret (Arena Stage, Helen Hayes nominee for Outstanding Lead Actor, Resident Musical) and Giuseppe in The Light in the Piazza (Intiman Theatre, Goodman Theatre). His operatic roles include Il Duca in Rigoletto, Alfredo in La Traviata, Roméo in Roméo et Juliette, Don José in Carmen, Almaviva in Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Tamino in Die Zauberflöte, Rodolfo in La Bohème, Ernesto in Don Pasquale and Rodolpho in William Bolcom’s A View from the Bridge under the supervision of the composer. Allen trained at the University of Washington (M.F.A. in Acting) and the University of Michigan (B.F.A. in Musical Theatre).
	Etai BenShlomo (Freddy Honeychurch, The Other Miss Alan) comes directly from the Broadway production of Wicked, where he played the role of the lovelorn munchkin Boq. He is thrilled to be in warm San Diego, working with a remarkable cast and creative team on this beautiful piece – and happily playing a young English boy, an Italian thug and an 80-something-year-old grand dame – typecast as usual. His other credits include Les Misérables, Annie and High School Musical (The Muny), Fiddler on the Roof (Kansas City Starlight Theatre) and developmental workshops of Little Miss Sunshine, Newsies and A Room with a View. He is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan.
	Gina Ferrall (Miss Lavish, Mrs. Honeychurch) most recently starred as Rosie in Mamma Mia! on Broadway. Her past Broadway credits include Madame de la Grande Bouche in Beauty and the Beast, Widow Douglas in Big River, Mrs. Reed in Jane Eyre, Sister Berthe in The Sound of Music, Domina in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and Madame Thénardier in Les Misérables. Ferrall has had the pleasure of working with Patti LuPone in Passion (“Live from Lincoln Center”), Elaine Stritch in Sail Away (Carnegie Hall), Candide (New York City Opera) and New York Philharmonic. Some of her Off Broadway credits include The Castle with director Scott Schwartz (Manhattan Ensemble Theater). Her regional theater credits include Beauty and the Beast (North Shore Music Theatre), Man of La Mancha (Pittsburgh Public Theater), Into the Woods (Theatre Under The Stars) and The Music Man (Music Circus). She was given the Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Side by Side by Sondheim. Ferrall is a graduate of the American Conservatory Theater Advanced Training Program and went on to become a company member from 1986-1990.
	Jacquelynne Fontaine (Ragazza, Minnie) is a Southern California native and has performed in concerts and operas in the United States and beyond. This summer she will perform as Anna in The King and I (Opera North). In Italy, she appeared as Donna Anna in Mozart’s Don Giovanni to great acclaim in Viterbo and in an Italian touring production of The Magic Flute in Pamina. Called a “charming and vivacious actress,” Fontaine recently made her operetta debut with the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera as Kathie in Sigmund Romberg’s The Student Prince. This past season saw her debut as Violetta in La Traviata (Rogue Opera). She holds a B.A. in Music from California Lutheran University and an M.M. and partial D.M.A. from the Thornton School of Music at the University of Southern California. In 2006, Fontaine was crowned Miss California and placed in the Top 10 at Miss America 2007, also winning the talent award for her performance of Puccini’s “Vissi d’arte.”
	Kyle Harris (George Emerson), originally from Orange County, is incredibly grateful to be working so close to home at The Old Globe. His Broadway and National Tour credits include Sondheim on Sondheim and Tony in West Side Story. His television and web credits include “Guiding Light”, “My Broadway Debut” (CBS), Tony in “Web Site Story” (CollegeHumor) and “Submissions Only.” His other credits include Mrs. Sharp (Playwrights Horizons), Hair (Arizona Theatre Company), Dream a Little Dream (Florida Stage)and Urinetown (Arizona Repertory Theatre). Harris received a B.F.A. from the University of Arizona. Love to the cast and creative team, Nicolosi & Co., Russell at Regarding Entertainment, my family and Stef. For Grandma.
	Will Reynolds (Cecil Vyse, Miss Alan) couldn’t be happier to be returning to The Old Globe after appearing last season as Frank Churchill in Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy. His New York credits include The Illusion by Tony Kushner (Signature Theatre Company) and George Bailey in A Wonderful Life (John W. Engeman Theater at Northport). His National Tours include Mamma Mia! He has appeared regionally as Huck Finn in Big River (Goodspeed Musicals), Jason in Ordinary Days (Adirondack Theatre Festival), the title role in Candide and Curly in Oklahoma! (Chicago Light Opera Works) and Gerald in A Woman of No Importance (Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theatre). He has also appeared in the film The Good Shepherd directed by Robert De Niro. As a writer, Reynolds was honored to be selected by ASCAP for the Johnny Mercer Songwriters Project, and his musical The Greenwood Tree, with text by Shakespeare, was featured in the New York Musical Theatre Festival and The Kennedy Center’s Page-to-Stage festival. He trained at Carnegie Mellon University.
	Edward Staudenmayer (Reverend Mr. Beeber) starred on Broadway in Wonderland as The White Rabbit and opposite Martin Short (at certain performances) in Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me. He has had a 17-year association with Forbidden Broadway, taking him Off Broadway, around the world, onto three cast recordings and, recently, a stint as director for the Tampa production. He starred in Monty Python’s Spamalot in Las Vegas and toured in The Scarlet Pimpernel, later playing the title character for local audiences in San Diego and Riverside. His other credits include Beauty and the Beast (National Theater Award nomination), Cats, Noises Off, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, On the Twentieth Century, Bye Bye Birdie, 1776, Jane Eyre, Gigi, Children of Eden and The Producers. He has also appeared in the World Premieres of Cy Coleman’s Exactly Like You and The Great Ostrovsky (Barrymore Award nomination), Maury Yeston’s In the Beginning, Disney’s Hercules (New Amsterdam Theatre), Neil Sedaka’s Breaking Up is Hard to Do and the new Alessandrini/Tchaikovsky holiday hit The Nutcracker and I. Staudenmayer has performed in concerts with New York City’s The Town Hall and with the Baltimore, Syracuse, Bartlesville and Adelaide, Australia Symphonies. He has also provided voices for MTV’s “Celebrity Deathmatch.” He is a UCLA graduate and a recipient of the Carol Burnett Award. He is currently the Associate Director of Off Broadway’s Sistas.
	Karen Ziemba (Charlotte Bartlett) previously appeared at the Globe in Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound, Six Degrees of Separation and The First Wives Club. She received the Tony Award along with the Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Awards for her portrayal of The Wife in Contact at Lincoln Center Theater. Her other appearances on and Off Broadway include Curtains (Outer Critics Circle Award, Drama Desk and Tony nominations), Never Gonna Dance (Outer Critics Circle Award, Tony nomination), Steel Pier (Tony, Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), And the World Goes ‘Round (Drama Desk Award), I Do! I Do! (Drama Desk nomination), Chicago, A Chorus Line, 42nd Street, Crazy for You, New York City Opera’s 110 in the Shade and The Most Happy Fella and, for City Center Encores!, Allegro, Bye Bye Birdie, Ziegfeld Follies of 1936 and The Pajama Game. Regionally she has appeared in Much Ado About Nothing (The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Hartford Stage), The Threepenny Opera (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Sylvia (Long Wharf Theatre), Steel Magnolias (Cape May Stage) and BOEING BOEING (Riverside Theatre). Her film and TV appearances include The Producers, Once More with Feeling, “Scrubs,”several of the New York “Law & Order”series,“The Kennedy Center Honors”in tributes to Angela Lansbury and Julie Harris and, for PBS’ “Great Performances,” My Favorite Broadway: The Leading Ladies, Ira Gershwin at 100: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall and Sondheim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall. Ziemba has recorded many audiobooks and original cast albums and received an Honorary Doctorate in Fine Arts from Niagara University.
	Kurt Zischke (Mr. Emerson) on Broadway, Off Broadway and in National Tours including Signs of Life, Whistle Down the Wind, The Buddy Holly Story, Three Sisters, Antigone, King Lear, A Doll’s House, The Beaux’ Stratagem, George Abbott’s Broadway, Barbara’s Blue Kitchen and Ulysses in Nighttown, among others. Regionally he has appeared in over 90 productions ranging from Jack Lawson in Race to Henry Higgins in My Fair Lady at such theaters as the Contemporary American Theater Festival, Pioneer Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Huntington Theatre Company, Pittsburgh Public Theater, Alliance Theatre, Delaware Theatre Company, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Dallas Theater Center, Papermill Playhouse, American Shakespeare Theatre, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Westport Country Playhouse, Barrington Stage Company, Connecticut Repertory Theatre, The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Marin Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival and the Alabama, New Jersey, and Utah Shakespeare Festivals. His television and film credits include “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “All My Children,” Sanford Meisner: The Theatre’s Best Kept Secret and many voiceovers and commercials. He is a graduate of Stanford University and The Neighborhood Playhouse, where he studied under Sanford Meisner. His wife, Victoria Adams Zischke, is an actor and a professor of theater at Indiana University—Purdue University Fort Wayne. He is most proud of their seven-year-old daughter, Alexandra.
	Marc Acito (Book and Additional Lyrics) wrote the popular comic novel How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater, which won the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction and was Editors’ Choice by The New York Times and a Top Teen Pick by the American Library Association. Translated into five languages, it also inspired a sequel, Attack of the Theater People. Acito’s comedy Birds of a Feather, which tells the true story of the nationwide controversy caused by gay penguins in the Central Park Zoo, received its World Premiere at The Hub Theatre in July 2011. He also cowrote the Christmas comedy Holidazed, which ran for two seasons at Artists Repertory Theatre, and Bastard Jones, a rock musical adaptation of Henry Fielding’s The History of Tom Jones. A former professional opera singer, Acito regularly performs “singing commentaries” on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered”and has written about theater for The New York Times and Playbill. A product of the musical theater program at Carnegie Mellon University, Acito graduated from Colorado College, which in 2009 awarded him an honorary doctorate. A book doctor to writers of all mediums, Acito teaches story structure at New York University.
	Jeffrey Stock (Music and Lyrics) composed the music for the Tony Award-nominated Broadway musical Triumph of Love starring Betty Buckley, F. Murray Abraham and Susan Egan. Triumph has received over 100 productions at theaters around the country, as well as in Europe and Japan. His symphonic and choral work, Lulie the Iceberg, premiered at Carnegie Hall with renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Orchestra of St. Luke’s, narrated by Sam Waterston. Among the awards he has received are the Guggenheim Fellowship for music composition, an NEA grant and the Jonathan Larson Grant for the performing arts. Stock was one of the composers of the acclaimed Off Broadway musical Songs from an Unmade Bed presented at New York Theatre Workshop. He wrote the score and libretto for The Voice of Temperance, a musical about Prohibition commissioned by The Public Theater. He was resident composer at the Pacific Music Festival in Sapporo, Japan, where he studied with the celebrated composer Toru Takemitsu. Stock has taught musical master classes at the Shanghai Theatre Academy and at Beijing’s Central Academy of Drama. He has won residencies at artist colonies including McDowell, Millay and Blue Mountain Center. He received a B.A. in music from Yale University.
	Scott Schwartz (Director) directed the Broadway productions of Golda’s Balconyand Jane Eyre(co-directed with John Caird). He recently directed Brighton Beach Memoirsand Broadway Bound in repertory and Lost in Yonkersat The Old Globe. His Off Broadway work includes Bat Boy: The Musical(Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk Award nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), tick, tick… BOOM!(Outer Critics Circle Award, Outstanding Off Broadway Musical; Drama Desk nomination, Outstanding Director of a Musical), Rooms: A Rock Romance, The Foreignerstarring Matthew Broderick (Roundabout Theatre Company), Kafka’s The Castle(Outer Critics Circle nomination, Outstanding Director of a Play), Miss Julieand No Way to Treat a Lady. He also directed Golda’s Balconyon tour, in London, in Los Angeles at the Wadsworth Theatre and in San Francisco at American Conservatory Theater. He directed the World Premiere of Séance on a Wet Afternoon at Opera Santa Barbara and subsequently at New York City Opera. Schwartz’s other recent credits include Arsenic and Old Lacestarring Tovah Feldshuh and Betty Buckley (Dallas Theater Center), Othelloand Much Ado About Nothing(Alley Theatre), My Fairytale (Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts), Reckless (The Denver Center for the Performing Arts) and a re-envisioning of Seven Brides for Seven Brothers(Paper Mill Playhouse, Theatre Under The Stars, Theatre on the Square and North Shore Music Theatre; 2008 IRNE Award, Outstanding Director of a Musical). Schwartz is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, an Associate Artist at the Alley Theatre and a graduate of Harvard University.
	Boko Suzuki (Music Director) has served as music director for both the First and Second National Tours of the hit musical Wicked as well as the San Francisco production. He recently music directed the World Premieres of And the Curtain Rises (Signature Theatre Company) and the new Off Broadway musical The Kid. Suzuki spent three years music directing Rent on Broadway after having music directed both National Tours, as well as supervising the Australian production. He also music directed the National Tour of Swing!, for which he was nominated for an Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, and the First National Tour of Mamma Mia! His other credits include Cats, Les Misérables, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, The Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon, The Who's Tommy and Sunset Boulevard, as well as appearing as guest conductor with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.
	Heidi Ettinger (Scenic Design) is a theatrical designer and producer and principal of Ettinger & Sons, a theatrical design firm. Ettinger has designed sets in London, Berlin and in theaters throughout the United States. During her 30-year career, she has garnered many awards, among them two Tony Awards for the Broadway productions of The Secret Garden and Big River, two OBIE Awards for Painting Churches and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, numerous Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards and the Marahan Award for Design. Her Broadway shows include The Sound of Music, Smokey Joe’s Cafe, Triumph of Love, ‘night Mother, Moon Over Buffalo, Dracula, the Musical and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. She has designed opera at New York City Opera and LA Opera. She currently sits on the boards of the Municipal Arts Society, the Hudson Valley Shakepeare Festival and on the board of advisors for Yale School of Drama. She has a B.A. from Occidental College and an M.F.A. from Yale School of Drama. She is also married to the playwright Jonathan Reynolds.
	Judith Dolan (Costume Design) has designed costumes for several productions for director Harold Prince including Candide (Tony Award). Another collaboration with Mr. Prince, the musical The Petrified Prince, earned her the Lucille Lortelle Award and a 1995 Drama Desk Award nomination. Her other theatrical credits include costumes for The Miser (American Repertory Theater), The Magic Flute (Cleveland Orchestra), Idomeneo (Wolf Trap Opera Company) and the original Broadway production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Her designs have been seen in numerous international companies including Abbey Theatre, Clwyd Theatr Cymru, The Old Vic and the Iasi National Theatre in Romania where she recently designed The Misanthrope. Venues in the U.S. include The Kennedy Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Alley Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, New York City Opera and Houston Grand Opera. Her recent Broadway work includes the musicals Parade and LoveMusik (Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award nominations). Dolan is a professor of Design at UC San Diego’s Department of Theatre and Dance.
	David Lander (Lighting Design) previously designed the Globe production of Dirty Blonde with Kathy Najimy. His Broadway credits include Master Class with Tyne Daly, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo with Robin Williams (Drama Desk Award, Tony and Outer Critics Circle Award nominations), 33 Variations with Jane Fonda (Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations), I Am My Own Wife (Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle nominations), A Man for All Seasons with Frank Langella, Dirty Blonde (Drama Desk nomination) and Golden Child. His selected Off Broadway credits include work at New York Theatre Workshop, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, Signature Theatre Company and Vineyard Theatre. His regional credits include Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo at the Mark Taper Forum (Garland Award, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award nomination), Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre, The Kennedy Center, Long Wharf Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Papermill Playhouse and Philadelphia Theatre Company. His films include The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. He has created architectural lighting and public art installations in Denver, Houston, New York City, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Providence and San Diego.
	Jon Weston (Sound Design) has designed the Broadway productions of How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, 13, Les Misérables, The Color Purple, The Glass Menagerie, Caroline, or Change (AUDELCO Award), Nine, Imaginary Friends, Thoroughly Modern Millie, The Green Bird, It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, On the Town, Company in concert Lincoln Center Theater and Man of La Manchastarring Raul Julia and Sheena Easton. His Off Broadway and regional credits include The First Wives Club directed by Francesca Zambello (The Old Globe), Dangerous Beauty (Pasadena Playhouse), Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin directed by Warren Carlyle (La Jolla Playhouse), Parade directed by Rob Ashford (Mark Taper Forum), Rooms – A Rock Romance directed by Scott Schwartz, A Little Night Music (Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award), Himself and Nora, The Thing About Men, tick, tick… BOOM!, Bright Lights, Big City and Family Guy Sings! (Carnegie Hall).
	Bruce Coughlin (Orchestrator) has orchestrated many shows on Broadway and regionally. His Broadway shows includeJeffrey Stock’s Triumph of Love, 9 to 5, The Light in the Piazza (Tony and Drama Desk Awards), Guys and Dolls (2009 revival), Grey Gardens, Urinetown, The Wild Party, Annie Get Your Gun, On the Town, The Sound of Music, Once Upon a Mattress and The King and I. His Off Broadway credits include Floyd Collins, The Burnt Part Boys, Children of Eden, Happiness directed by Susan Stroman, Mother Courage with Meryl Streep and See What I Wanna See. Among his many regional productions are Tales of the City, Giant, Saving Aimee, The Grapes of Wrath (opera by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie) and Candide (National Theatre). His film credits include Hairspray (“Miss Baltimore Crabs” with Marc Shaiman) and Fantasia 2000 (principal arranger). He is the winner of a Tony, a Drama Desk and an OBIE Award. He has also received three additional Tony nominations and six additional Drama Desk nominations. Coming up is Far from Heaven by Scott Frankel and Michael Korie, directed by Michael Greif.
	Michael Jenkinson (Musical Staging) currently resides on the Central Coast of California where he is in residence at Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts Theaterfest. For PCPA Jenkinson serves as an Equity actor, director, choreographer and teacher (movement for the actor and musical theater styles). For PCPA he has choreographed and acted in over 40 productions including Les Misérables, Ragtime and The Hot Mikado and, most recently, he choreographed the American Premiere of Stephen Schwartz’s musical My Fairytale directed by Scott Schwartz. As a director for PCPA, Jenkinson has staged The Music Man, West Side Story (Santa Barbara Independent Award, StageSceneLA Award), Hairspray (StageSceneLA Award) and Legally Blonde (summer of 2012). He has also worked with other theaters including A Contemporary Theatre, Balagan Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, Delaware Theatre Company, North Shore Music Theatre, Gateway Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Sierra Repertory Theatre and Sacramento Theatre Co. He has also been a part of the national touring companies of Fame, Grease, the Macau, China International Arts Festival tour of Grease and the Korean tour of Fame (choreographer and dance supervisor). Jenkinson is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
	Jan Gist (Vocal and Dialect Coach) has been Voice, Speech and Dialect Coach for Old Globe productions since 2002. She has coached at theaters around the country including Ahmanson Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC, The American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre and Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company. Gist has been a guest on KPBS radio’s “A Way with Words,” narrated San Diego Museum of Art documentaries, coached dialects for the film The Rosa Parks Story and recorded dozens of Books To Listen To. She is a founding member of The Voice and Speech Trainers Association and has presented at many national and international conference workshops for them and for The Voice Foundation. She has taught workshops in Russia for the International Voice Teachers Exchange at The Moscow Art Theatre and at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama. She has been published in VASTA Journals, and chapters in books include The Complete Vocal Warm-Up, More Stage Dialects and an interview in Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium: Conversations with Master Teachers. She is a professor in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program.
	Tara Rubin Casting (Casting) previously cast the Globe productions of Robin and the 7 Hoods, Sammy and The First Wives Club. TheirBroadway credits include Ghost, Hugh Jackman, Back on Broadway, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Promises, Promises, A Little Night Music, Billy Elliot: The Musical, Shrek, Guys and Dolls, The Country Girl, Rock ‘n’Roll, The Farnsworth Invention, Young Frankenstein, The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins, My Fair Lady, The Pirate Queen, Les Misérables, The History Boys, Spamalot, Jersey Boys, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Producers, Mamma Mia!, Imaginary Friends, The Phantom of the Opera, Oklahoma!, Happiness, The Frogs, Contact and Thou Shalt Not. Their Off Broadway credits include Love, Loss, and What I Wore andSecond Stage Theatre. Regionally they have cast at Yale Repertory Theatre, The Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse and Dallas Theater Center.
	Anjee Nero (Stage Manager) has previously worked on the Globe productions of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, The Savannah Disputation, Cornelia, Kingdom and the 2007 Shakespeare Festival. Her selected La Jolla Playhouse credits include the World Premiere of Arthur Kopit’s play A Dram of Drummhicit, Ruined directed by Liesl Tommy, A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Christopher Ashley, Herringbone starring BD Wong, The Seven and The Adding Machine, to name a few. Nero has worked with a number of prominent regional theaters including Center Theater Group, SITI Company, Huntington Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre and the Adirondack Theatre Festival, among others. Her other selected credits include the long-running production of Schick Machine with The Paul Dresher Ensemble (touring to Hong Kong later this year), multiple corporate events with MSI Production Services, Inc., Dream Report with Allyson Green Dance featuring Lux Borreal, as well as iMan and Garden Trilogy with San Diego-based dance company IMAGOmoves, including Garden of Forbidden Loves and Garden of Deadly Sound, both of which toured to the International Theatre Festival in Cluj, Romania.
	Jess Slocum (Assistant Stage Manager) has previously worked at the Globe on Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show, 2011 Shakespeare Festival, 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 Glass Menagerie. Her Broadway credits include In the Heights. Her regional credits include Ruined, The Third Story, Memphis and Most Wanted (La Jolla Playhouse), Post Office (Center Theater Group) and Tranquility Woods (Steppenwolf Theatre Company). Her San Diego credits include Yellow Face (Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company) and Festival of Christmas 2011 (Lamb’s Players Theatre). She is a graduate of Vanderbilt University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity.
	Evangeline Rose Whitlock (Assistant Stage Manager) has worked regionally on Odyssey and Engaging Shaw (The Old Globe), Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, HOOVER COMES ALIVE! and A Dram of Drummhicit (La Jolla Playhouse), What is the Cause of Thunder? (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and miXtape (Lamb’s Players Theatre). Her dance credits include Michigan Ballet Academy, Eveoke Dance Theatre, Malashock Dance and Grand Rapids Ballet Company. Whitlock recently returned from a tour to the Dominican Republic with Eveoke’s Las Mariposas. She is an avid runner and figure skater and a UC San Diego M.F.A.