The Rainmaker

July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013
(Opening Night: Thursday, July 18)
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

By N. Richard Nash
Directed by Maria Mileaf
Scenic Design by Neil Patel
Costume Design by Katherine Roth
Lighting Design by Japhy Weideman
Sound Design by Bart Fasbender
Vocal and Dialect Coach, Ryan Beattie Scrimger
Casting by Caparelliotis Casting
Stage Manager, Monica A. Cuoco

A classic romantic comedy set against the sweeping landscape of the American Midwest. On her family’s drought-ridden ranch, Lizzie’s hopes and dreams have run as dry as the barren fields. When the irresistible Starbuck arrives in town, selling the promise of rain, Lizzie must decide: is he a con man, or does he hold the key to everything she desires?

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Production Photos
Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry and Gbenga Akinnagbe as Bill Starbuck in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry and Gbenga Akinnagbe as Bill Starbuck in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Gbenga Akinnagbe as Bill Starbuck in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry and Tug Coker as File in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Tug Coker as File in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Gbenga Akinnagbe as Bill Starbuck, John Judd as H. C. Curry and Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Tug Coker as File, Kyle Harris as Jim Curry and John Judd as H. C. Curry in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry, John Judd as H. C. Curry, Peter Douglas as Noah Curry, Gbenga Akinnagbe as Bill Starbuck and Kyle Harris as Jim Curry in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Peter Douglas as Noah Curry (standing), John Judd as H. C. Curry, Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry, Tug Coker as File and Kyle Harris as Jim Curry in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Herbert Siguenza as Sheriff Thomas and Tug Coker as File in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Gbenga Akinnagbe as Bill Starbuck and Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.


Publicity Photos
Danielle Skraastad appears as Lizzie Curry and Gbenga Akinnagbe as Bill Starbuck in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Gbenga Akinnagbe appears as Bill Starbuck and Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
The cast of The Rainmaker: (back row, from left) Kyle Harris, Peter Douglas, Tug Coker and Herbert Siguenza; (front row) Gbenga Akinnagbe, Danielle Skraastad and John Judd. N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, runs July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Danielle Skraastad appears as Lizzie Curry in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Gbenga Akinnagbe appears as Bill Starbuck in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Tug Coker appears as File in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Director Maria Mileaf (back row, center) with the cast of The Rainmaker: (back row, from left) Kyle Harris, Peter Douglas, Tug Coker and Herbert Siguenza; (front row) Gbenga Akinnagbe, Danielle Skraastad and John Judd. N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Mileaf, runs July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Gbenga Akinnagbe appears as Bill Starbuck, Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry and Tug Coker as File in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Peter Douglas appears as Noah Curry, Danielle Skraastad as Lizzie Curry, Kyle Harris as Jim Curry and John Judd as H. C. Curry in N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
 
 
Director Maria Mileaf. Mileaf directs N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
N. Richard Nash's The Rainmaker, directed by Maria Mileaf, runs July 13 - Aug. 11, 2013 at The Old Globe. Illustration courtesy of The Old Globe.
  


Cast and Creative Team

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Gbenga Akinnagbe (Bill Starbuck) grew up in the Washington, DC area.  His first role was at The Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC as a soldier/servant in The Oedipus Cycle, followed by Henry V at Shakespeare in the Park in New York.  On the hit HBO series “The Wire,” he went from being an extra to a recurring role to the lead role of Chris Parlow by the end of the series.  His first film was the Oscar Award-nominated The Savages with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Laura Linney.  Next he appeared in The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 with Denzel Washington, followed by Edge of Darkness with Mel Gibson.  Akinnagbe recurred on “The Good Wife” and “Nurse Jackie” and is currently on the USA show “Graceland.”  Akinnagbe’s most recent play was the one-person show The Thin Place at Intiman Theatre.  He has produced a number of critically acclaimed films including the 2013 Sundance hit Newlyweeds and Dances With Film’s 2013 Industry Choice Award-winning Home, in which he also stars.  As a writer Akinnagbe freelances for The New York Times in various sections and was one of the writers on Sony’s record-breaking web series “The Unknown.”  He is also a frequent guest on HuffPost Live.  This spring Akinnagbe launched Liberated People, an eco-friendly, socially conscious brand that celebrates the liberation dates of nations around the world and partners with non-profits around the world. 
Tug Coker (File) is delighted to be making his Globe debut.  His most recent theater work was on Broadway portraying basketball legend Larry Bird in Magic/Bird directed by Thomas Kail.  His other theater credits include Lisa D’Amour’s The Cataract (Women’s Project), A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Snow in June (American Repertory Theater), Take Me Out (The Studio Theatre) and You Can’t Take It with You (Capital Repertory Theatre).  His television credits include “The Office,” “How I Met Your Mother,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Raising Hope,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” “Torchwood” and “Chuck.”  Coker will next be seen in The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  He received a B.A. in History from the University of Virginia and an M.F.A. from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theater School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University. 
Peter Douglas (Noah Curry) is a Maryland native and Juilliard School graduate who has been performing for more than 20 years and is proud to be joining the Globe family in this production of The Rainmaker.  His theatrical work includes the title roles in Hamlet and Henry V (Interlochen Center for the Arts), Agrippa in Antony and Cleopatra (Washington Shakespeare Company), Herakles in Prometheus (The Studio Theatre), Hal in Picnic (The American Century Theater), Oberon and Theseus in Joe Dowling’s production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Canterbury in Sam Gold’s production of Edward II (Lincoln Center Theater, REDCAT).  While at Juilliard, Douglas originated the role of Max in Mark Wing-Davey’s production of Craig Lucas’ musical The Listener and was privileged to study with the likes of John Stix, Brian Mertes, Michael Kahn and Moni Yakim.  He recently appeared on ABC’s “Modern Family” and just wrapped filming the Fox Digital feature ETXR.  He gratefully acknowledges the support of his family, his parents John and Peggy Douglas, his manager Chris Wright and his true love and best friend, Brittney Lane.
Kyle Harris (Jim Curry), originally from Orange County, is incredibly grateful to be back at The Old Globe where he was previously seen in the world premiere musical A Room with a View.  His Broadway and National Tour credits include Sondheim on Sondheim and Tony in West Side Story.  He recently recurred as Seth throughout the first season of “The Carrie Diaries” on The CW and guest stars on the critically acclaimed web series “High Maintenance.”  His other television and web credits include “Blogger Girls” (MTV), “Guiding Light,” Tony in “Web Site Story” (CollegeHumor) and “Submissions Only.”  His Off Broadway and other regional theater credits include Mrs. Sharp (Playwrights Horizons), Hair (Arizona Theatre Company) and Dream a Little Dream (Florida Stage).  He received a B.F.A. from the University of Arizona.   
John Judd (H. C. Curry) makes his Globe debut with The Rainmaker.  His Chicago credits include Measure for Measure, Sweet Bird of Youth, The Iceman Cometh, A Christmas Carol, Magnolia and Shining City (Goodman Theatre), Three Sisters, Clybourne Park, Last of the Boys, The Dresser, The Butcher of Baraboo, Orson’s Shadow, Our Town and Golden Boy (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), The Feast: an intimate Tempest and Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), Othello, Crime and Punishment and The Price (Writers’ Theatre), Great Men of Science Nos. 21 and 22 (Lookingglass Theatre Company), Lettice and Lovage and Gross Indecency (Court Theatre), The Lieutenant of Inishmore and The Cripple of Inishmaan (Northlight Theatre), Gagarin Way (A Red Orchid Theatre), A Number (Next Theatre Company), Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika (The Journeymen Theater Company), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Irish Repertory of Chicago), Come Back, Little Sheba (Shattered Globe Theatre) and many others.  Judd’s Off Broadway appearances include Crime and Punishment (59E59 Theaters) and Orson’s Shadow and An Oak Tree (Barrow Street Theatre).  His other regional and international appearances include the Steppenwolf Theatre Company production of American Buffalo (McCarter Theatre Center), Shining City (Huntington Theatre Company), Orson’s Shadow (Beaver Creek Theatre Festival), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Town Hall Theatre, Ireland) as well as Williamstown Theatre Festival and Westport Country Playhouse. 
Herbert Siguenza (Sheriff Thomas) is a founding member of the performance group Culture Clash, the most produced Latino theater troupe in the United States.  Siguenza has co-written and/or performed in the Culture Clash plays American Night (commissioned by Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Palestine, New Mexico, Water and Power and Chavez Ravine (all commissioned by Mark Taper Forum), Peace (commissioned by the Getty Villa), Zorro in Hell (commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theatre), The Birds (commissioned by Berkeley Repertory Theatre and South Coast Repertory), Bordertown (commissioned by San Diego Repertory Theatre), Radio Mambo, Nuyorican Stories, Anthems, S.O.S., A Bowl of Beings, The Mission and others.  As a solo writer Siguenza is currently touring his one-man show A Weekend with Pablo Picasso.  He is a recent recipient of Theatre Communications Group’s New Generations grant and is being mentored by San Diego Repertory Theatre’s Artistic Director Sam Woodhouse (2012-13).
Danielle Skraastad (Lizzie Curry) is proud to make her debut at The Old Globe.  Her Broadway credits include All My Sons, and her Off Broadway credits include Baby Screams Miracle (Clubbed Thumb), The Mound Builders (Signature Theatre Company), The Intelligent Homosexual’s Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures (Signature Theatre Company/The Public Theater), In the Wake (The Public Theater), Anon (Atlantic Theater Company), The Pain and the Itch (Playwrights Horizons), the world premiere of The Eyes of Others (New Ohio Theatre), Lidless (Page 73 Productions), Carrie: A Period Piece (Theatre Couture/PS122), Lascivious Something (Cherry Lane Theatre Mentor Project) and Big Times (Women’s Expressive Theater).  She has appeared regionally in the world premiere of In the Wake (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group), for which she received an LA Stage Alliance Ovation Award nomination, the world premiere of Tomorrow in the Battle (Stageworks/Hudson), Death Tax (Humana Festival of New American Plays), Magnetic North (Portland Stage) and Becky Shaw and Big Love (The Wilma Theater).  Regionally Skraastad has also worked at Hartford Stage, A Contemporary Theatre, Capital Repertory Theatre and Two River Theater Company.  Her film and television credits include 27 Dresses, Michael Clayton, The Business of Story, “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” “Unforgettable,” ”Mercy” and “Fringe.”  Skraastad received a Master’s degree from New York University. 
  N. Richard Nash (Playwright) was born Nathaniel Richard Nusbaum on June 7, 1913, in Philadelphia.  He studied philosophy and literature at the University of Pennsylvania and earned his bachelor’s degree in 1934.  While in school he directed plays at Bryn Mawr, a nearby women’s college, and received great reviews for a play he wrote featuring only female characters.  Nash received the Maxwell Anderson Verse Drama Award for Parting at Imsdorf (1940).  His other notable theatrical plays include Second Best Bed (1946), The Young and Fair (1948), See the Jaguar (1952), Girls of Summer (1956), Handful of Fire (1958) and the musical Wildcat (1960).  During the 1950s, Nash was one of six writers selected by producer Fred Coe to create serious drama for television.  His most famous play, The Rainmaker, appeared in all three mediums: on Broadway in 1954, as a motion picture starring Katharine Hepburn in 1956 and as a television production in 1982.  A musical version of The Rainmaker, entitled 110 Degrees in the Shade, debuted on Broadway in 1963.  Among Nash’s screenplay credits are Nora Prentiss (1946), Dear Wife (1950) and Top of the World (1955).  Adapting the works of others, he wrote the script for The Sainted Sisters (1948) and Porgy and Bess (1959).  Later in his career, Nash focused on writing novels.  East Wind, Rain (1977), inspired by his time serving with the Office of War Information during World War II, took seven years to research.  Other novels include Cry Macho (1975) and Radiance (1983).  Nash also lectured on drama and philosophy at colleges and universities throughout the United States.  He died on Dec. 11, 2000, in New York City at the age of 87.
  Maria Mileaf (Director) has directed the New York productions of Lee Blessing’s Body of Water (Primary Stages) and Going to St. Ives (Outer Critic Circle Award for Best New Play, 2005), Alexandra Gerston-Vassilaros’ The Argument (Vineyard Theatre), Kira Obolensky’s Lobster Alice (Playwrights Horizons), Vijay Tendulkar’s Sakharam Binder and Eric Emmanuel-Schmidt’s Monsieur Ibrahim and the Flowers of the Koran (The Play Company), Brooke Berman’s A Perfect Couple (DR2 Theatre), Oren Safdie’s Private Jokes, Public Places (Center for Architecture), Erik Ehn’s ‘Maid (Lincoln Center Festival), Neena Beber’s Hard Feelings (Women’s Project), Julia Cho’s 99 Histories (Cherry Lane Theatre) and Dawn Saito’s HA (Dance Theater Workshop).  Regionally, Mileaf’s favorite directing credits include Patricia Wettig’s F2M and Joanna Murray-Smith’s Ninety (New York Stage and Film), Going to St. Ives (La Jolla Playhouse), Lucy Prebble’s The Sugar Syndrome, John Belluso’s A Nervous Smile and Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Neil LaBute’s reasons to be pretty and Tracey Scott Wilson’s The Story (Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrymore Award for Outstanding Direction of a Play), Wendy Wasserstein’s The Heidi Chronicles (Berkshire Theatre Festival) and Wasserstein’s Third with Christine Lahti (Geffen Playhouse).  On the West End, Mileaf directed Richard Schiff in Glen Berger’s Underneath the Lintel.  She received her M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego.  She lives in New York City with her husband, set designer Neil Patel, and their two children.
  Neil Patel (Scenic Design) is pleased to be making his Globe debut with The Rainmaker.  His recent productions with Maria Mileaf include F2M (New York Stage and Film) and A Body of Water (Primary Stages).  Patel’s work is well known on and Off Broadway and in regional theaters and opera houses in the U.S. and abroad.  His film and television credits include “In Treatment” (HBO) and Neil LaBute’s Some Velvet Morning, featured in the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival.
  Katherine Roth (Costume Design) designed the Broadway and National 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.  Her other New York credits include La Mama, Vineyard Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, New York Stage and Film, Theatre for a New Audience, The Play Company, New York Theatre Workshop, Primary Stages and Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.  Regionally she has worked at The Old Globe, Signature Theatre Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Alley Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Alliance Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Intiman Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, Huntington Theatre Company, California Shakespeare Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Dallas Theater Center, La Jolla Playhouse, CENTERSTAGE, South Coast Repertory and Milwaukee Repertory Theater.  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.
  Japhy Weideman (Lighting Design) previously designed lighting for the Globe production of August: Osage County.  His notable West Coast designs includeGirlfriend (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Jesus in India (Magic Theatre) and Creditors (La Jolla Playhouse).  His recent Broadway projects include Cyrano de Bergerac and The Nance directed by Jack O’Brien, for which he received a Tony Award nomination.  Weideman’s other projects in New York include 4000 Miles and Slow Girl (Lincoln Center Theater), Sons of the Prophet and Tigers Be Still (Roundabout Theatre Company), Wild With Happy (New York Shakespeare Festival/The Public Theater) and Jack Goes Boating and The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (LAByrinth Theater Company).  His other regional credits include American Conservatory Theater, Arena Stage, Alley Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Houston Grand Opera, Huntington Theatre Company, Santa Fe Opera, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Westport Country Playhouse and others.  Internationally, Weideman designed the world premiere of David Harrower’s Blackbird directed by Peter Stein (Edinburgh International Festival and the West End).  His other work with Peter Stein includes Troilus and Cressida (Royal Shakespeare Company, Edinburgh International Festival), Electra (Ancient Theater of Epidaurus, Greece, National Theater of Korea) and the double bill opera Bluebeard’s Castle/Il Prigioniero (La Scala, Nederlands Opera).  His awards and nominations for lighting design include Tony, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Hewes Design, San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle and San Diego Craig Noel Awards.
  Bart Fasbender (Sound Design) is very happy to be at The Old Globe.  His previous designs for Maria Mileaf include Reasons to Be Pretty and Ruined (Philadelphia Theatre Company), F2M (New York Stage and Film), A Body of Water (Primary Stages) and Sakharam Binder (The Play Company).  His New York credits include Alex Timber’s Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Broadway), Jesse Eisenberg’s The Revisionist and Asuncion (Rattlestick Playwrights Theater), John Patrick Shanley’s Storefront Church (Atlantic Theater Company) and Paul Weitz’s Lonely, I’m Not (Second Stage Theatre).  Fasbender’s other credits include designs for Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, Women’s Project, LAByrinth Theater Company, Cherry Lane Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, The New Group, Ars Nova, Clubbed Thumb, Page 73 Productions, Les Freres Corbusier, Lincoln Center Theater, The Juilliard School and Brooklyn Academy of Music.  Regionally he had designed for Kirk Douglas Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Virginia Shakespeare Festival, Two River Theater Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, TheaterWorks, Barrington Stage Company and Berkshire Theatre Festival.
  Ryan Beattie Scrimger (Vocal and Dialect Coach), M.F.A., is nearly tongue-tied at joining The Old Globe for The Rainmaker and Double Indemnity.  She is on University of San Diego’s Theatre Arts and Performance Studies faculty, teaching acting and theater classes.  She specializes in acting and audition techniques; musical theater, voice, dialect and singing techniques; and career entrepreneurship.  Scrimger is a member of Voice and Speech Trainers Association and a private coach for public speakers, singers and actors, and she has received awards for her performances in musicals, Shakespearian comedies and contemporary dramas in San Diego, the Bay Area and New York City.  Locally, she has performed with New Village Arts, Moonlight Stage Productions, Diversionary Theatre, San Diego State University and Cygnet Theatre Company.  Her favorite roles include Libby in The Maiden’s Prayer, Fefu in Fefu and Her Friends, Meredith in Bat Boy: The Musical, Betty Blake in The Will Rogers Follies, Diana Morales in A Chorus Line, Miss Flannery in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing.  Her other professional credits include vocal and dialect coach for La Jolla Playhouse’s 2012 production of Glengarry Glen Ross and musical director for San Diego Coastal Rotary and Jack in the Box.  Scrimger is directing The Spitfire Grill at University of San Diego this fall.
  Caparelliotis Casting (Casting) recently cast the Globe productions of Double Indemnity, Other Desert Cities, Be a Good Little Widow, A Doll’s House, The Brothers Size, Pygmalion and Good People.  Their Broadway casting credits include Lyle Kessler’s Orphans, The Trip to Bountiful, Grace, Dead Accounts, The Other Place, Seminar, The Columnist, Stick Fly, Good People, Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The House of Blue Leaves, Fences, Lend Me a Tenor and The Royal Family.  They also cast for Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, Atlantic Theater Company, LCT3, Ars Nova, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre and three seasons with Williamstown Theatre Festival.  Their recent television credits include HairBrained with Brendan Fraser, “Ironside” (NBC) and Steel Magnolias (Sony for Lifetime).
  Monica A. Cuoco (Stage Manager) previously worked at The Old Globe on Oscar and the Pink Lady, Hold Please, Ace, Lincolnesque, The Violet Hour, The Prince of LA, Moonlight and Magnolias and the2004 Shakespeare Festival.  Her Broadway credits include Memphis, A Catered Affair, Cymbeline, South Pacific, The Lion King and Gypsy.  Her Off Broadway credits include productions with The Public Theater, including Barry Edelstein’s production of The Twenty-Seventh Man, as well as Rent, Angels in America, Part One: Millennium Approaches and Part Two: Perestroika and My First Time.  She has stage managed regionally at Dallas Theater Center, Long Wharf Theatre, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Signature Theatre Company, San Diego Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse and Shakespeare on the Green.  Her touring credits include work with Aquila Theatre Company.  Cuoco received a B.A. from Western Michigan University and M.F.A. from University of California, San Diego.
  Tarin Hurstell (Assistant Stage Manager) previously worked at The Old Globe on A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder.  Her selected credits include Chasing the Song, Glengarry Glen Ross, Little Miss Sunshine, Peer Gynt and Surf Report (La Jolla Playhouse), American Night: The Ballad of Juan José (La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theatre Group), The Sound of Music, Rent, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (San Diego Musical Theatre), miXtape and The Servant of Two Masters (Lamb’s Players Theatre), SummerFest 2011 (La Jolla Music Society), The Tempest (North Coast Repertory Theatre) and To Kill a Mockingbird and Rabbit Hole (Indiana Repertory Theatre).  Hurstell has also worked in stage management for Moonlight Stage Productions, Marin Theatre Company, PCPA Theaterfest, Utah Festival Opera & Musical Theatre and Illinois Shakespeare Festival.  She holds a B.A. in Theatre from James Madison University.