Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

May 17 – June 22, 2014
(Opening Night: Thursday, May 22)
SAN DIEGO PREMIERE
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center

By Christopher Durang
Directed by Jessica Stone
 Based on the Broadway Direction of Nicholas Martin
Scenic Design by David Korins
Costume Design by Gabriel Berry
Lighting Design by David Weiner
Original Music and Sound Design by Mark Bennett
Casting by Caparelliotis Casting
Associate Director, Bryan Hunt
Stage Manager, Annette Yé

In the funniest new American play of the year, award-winning playwright Christopher Durang (Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You) melds Chekhov with his own offbeat and hilarious sensibility to create what Newsday calls “one of the funniest comedies Broadway has seen in seasons.” Your heart has to go out to three siblings whose artsy parents named them after characters from Chekhov. Vanya and Sonia have lived at home while sister Masha has travelled the world starring in B-movies. Now Masha is back, with her boy toy Spike in tow, and she’s intent on selling the house. Farce ensues.


Production Photos
(from left) Martin Moran as Vanya, Candy Buckley as Masha, Marcia DeBonis as Sonia, and Tyler Lansing Weaks as Spike in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Tyler Lansing Weaks as Spike, Marcia DeBonis as Sonia, Candy Buckley as Masha, Allison Layman as Nina, and Martin Moran as Vanya in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Allison Layman as Nina, Martin Moran as Vanya, Candy Buckley as Masha, and Tyler Lansing Weaks as Spike in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Candy Buckley as Masha in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Martin Moran as Vanya in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Marcia DeBonis as Sonia in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Tyler Lansing Weaks as Spike in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Tyler Lansing Weaks as Spike, Haneefah Wood as Cassandra, Candy Buckley as Masha, and Martin Moran as Vanya in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Tyler Lansing Weaks as Spike and Candy Buckley as Masha in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Marcia DeBonis as Sonia, Martin Moran as Vanya, and Allison Layman as Nina in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Tyler Lansing Weaks, Marcia DeBonis, Martin Moran, Allison Layman, Candy Buckley, and Haneefah Wood in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Marcia DeBonis as Sonia, Haneefah Wood as Cassandra, and Martin Moran as Vanya in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on the direction of Old Globe Associate Artistic Nicholas Martin, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.


Publicity Photos
(from left) Martin Moran appears as Vanya, Marcia DeBonis as Sonia, Tyler Lansing Weaks as Spike, and Candy Buckley as Masha in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Tyler Lansing Weaks appears as Spike and Candy Buckley as Masha in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Tyler Lansing Weaks appears as Spike and Martin Moran as Vanya in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Director Jessica Stone (center) with the cast of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike: (from left) Haneefah Wood, Marcia DeBonis, Tyler Lansing Weaks, Allison Layman, Candy Buckley, and Martin Moran. The San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, runs May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Candy Buckley appears as Masha in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Marcia DeBonis appears as Sonia in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Martin Moran appears as Vanya in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Tyler Lansing Weaks appears as Spike in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Candy Buckley appears as Masha in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Marcia DeBonis appears as Sonia in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Martin Moran appears as Vanya in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Tyler Lansing Weaks appears as Spike in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
(from left) Marcia DeBonis appears as Sonia, Tyler Lansing Weaks as Spike, Martin Moran as Vanya, and Candy Buckley as Masha in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Tyler Lansing Weaks appears as Spike and Candy Buckley as Masha in the San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
Director Jessica Stone. The San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, runs May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Jim Cox.
 
 
Playwright Christopher Durang. The San Diego Premiere of Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, will run May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Photo by Susan Johann.
The San Diego Premiere of Christopher Durang's Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, directed by Jessica Stone, based on Nicholas Martin's Tony Award-nominated Broadway direction, will run May 17 - June 22, 2014 at The Old Globe. Illustration courtesy of The Old Globe.
  


Cast and Creative Team

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Candy Buckley (Masha) finished a run in the fall of The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters at Playwrights Horizons. Her Broadway credits include Cabaret, Scandalous, Thoroughly Modern Millie, After the Fall, and Ring Round the Moon. Her select Off Broadway credits include Shockheaded Peter, Defying Gravity, The Petrified Prince (Drama Desk Award nomination), Bernarda Alba, Valhalla, Communicating Doors, Wise Guys, View of the Dome, The Two Noble Kinsmen, and Make Me. As a company member for four years at American Repertory Theater, she has appeared in Hedda Gabler, Macbeth, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, King Lear, and Misalliance, among others. As a company member of 11 years at Dallas Theater Center, her credits include Next Fall, The Cherry Orchard, All the King’s Men, Lady Audley’s Secret, and Masha in The Three Sisters, among others. Regionally she has appeared in The Little Dog Laughed (Hartford TheaterWorks), Autumn Sonata (Yale Repertory Theatre), A Delicate Balance (Guthrie Theater), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Chautauqua Theater Company), Barefoot in the Park (Bucks County Playhouse), Doctor Cerberus (South Coast Repertory), Travesties (Williamstown Theatre Festival), All the King’s Men (Arena Stage, Helen Hayes Award nomination), Charles Busch’s The Lady in Question (Bay Street Theatre), Sweeney Todd (Casa Mañana), and Whistle Down the Wind (National Theatre). She is a recipient of the Princess Grace Statue Award for outstanding achievement in theatre. Her television credits include “Gossip Girl,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” and a recurring role on HBO’s “Treme.” Her recent film credits include Bachelorette.
Marcia DeBonis (Sonia) has appeared in New York at Ars Nova, Playwrights Horizons, New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center Theater Lab, and numerous productions with the Drama Desk Award-winning theatre company The Barrow Group, of which she is a founding member. Her regional credits include Long Wharf Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Festival, and Chautauqua Theater Company, among others. Her films include the Sundance Film Festival entry That’s What She Said co-starring Anne Heche and Alia Shawkat, Woody Allen’s Whatever Works, Bride Wars, 12 and Holding, 13 Going on 30, The Devil’s Advocate, The Truman Show, and many more. She has appeared on television in “Babylon Fields” (NBC pilot, 2014), “Homeland,” “The Big C,” “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “Lipstick Jungle” (recurring), “Law & Order,” and “Spin City.” She received her B.A. in Theater Arts from UCLA.   
Tyler Lansing Weaks (Spike) most recently made his Broadway debut in Macbeth directed by Jack O’Brien. Some of his other New York performances include Take Ten (Theatre Row), Over the Horizon (MCC Theater), and Nature’s Trace (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity). Regionally he has starred in shows including the world premiere of Sparrowgrass (Trinity Repertory Company) and as Ken Talley in Fifth of July and Peter Patrone in The Heidi Chronicles (Princeton Summer Theater). Some of his other favorite past roles are Horatio in Hamlet, Slim in Cowboy Mouth, Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Christy Mahon in The Playboy of the Western World, and Frankie Epps in Parade. He has also appeared on television in “The Good Wife” (CBS) and as Scott in the pilot “Scott Free” (Paramount). He is a graduate of Brown University/Trinity Repertory Company’s M.F.A. Program.  
Allison Layman (Nina) made her Globe debut in Pygmalion directed by Nicholas Martin, and she appeared in the 2013 Shakespeare Festival productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Merchant of Venice, and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Her Old Globe/USD M.F.A. Program credits include the title role in Antigone, Hero in Much Ado About Nothing, andFrancisca in Measure for Measure. Layman was a two-year company member of The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, where her credits include The Comedy of Errors, Timon of Athens, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Julius Caesar,and Macbeth. Her other regional work includes Petra in An Enemy of the People at Playhouse on Park in Hartford, Connecticut, and a wide range of roles in productions at the Monomoy Theatre in Chatham, Massachusetts. Layman studied with Bill Esper at his studio in New York and received her B.A. in French Language and Literature from Wesleyan University in Connecticut. Layman is in her final year of training in the Old Globe/USD M.F.A Program.
Martin Moran’s (Vanya) most recent New York work includes the Off Broadway run of his one-man play, All the Rage (Lucille Lortel Award, Outer Critics Circle Award nomination), The Cradle Will Rock (City Center Encores!), and Brecht’s A Man’s a Man (Classic Stage Company). His Broadway performances include Spamalot, Cabaret, Titanic, Bells Are Ringing, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, and Big River. He has appeared Off Broadway in Fun Home (The Public Theater), Floyd Collins (Playwrights Horizons), A Man of No Importance (Lincoln Center Theater), and The Cider House Rules and 3 Kinds of Exile (Atlantic Theater Company).He received an Obie Award and two Drama Desk Award nominations for his 2004 solo play The Tricky Part, based upon his memoir of the same title. His regional work includes La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Trinity Repertory Company, and Intiman Theatre. He has appeared on film and television in “The Newsroom,” “The Big C,” Possible Side Effects, Private Parts, “Law & Order,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Dellaventura,” and Mary and Rhoda. He wrote the book and lyrics for the 2012 Inner Voices musical Borrowed Dust withcomposer Joseph Thalken. His new memoir, All the Rage, will be released by Beacon Press next year. 
Haneefah Wood (Cassandra) is thrilled to be a part of this amazingly smart and funny play and to be making her Globe debut. Her Broadway credits include Rent, Avenue Q, and Brooklyn. Her television and film credits include “White Collar,” “Nurse Jackie,” “NYC 22,” “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Days of Our Lives,” “Strong Medicine,” and Freedomland. A recent Los Angeles transplant, Wood was a standout in the 2014 CBS Diversity Showcase. 
  Christopher Durang’s (Playwright) plays include the Broadway hit Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike (Tony Award for Best Play), The Idiots Karamazov, co-authored with Albert Innaurato, A History of the American Film (Tony Award nomination), Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You (Obie Award), Beyond Therapy (on and Off Broadway), Baby with the Bathwater, The Marriage of Bette and Boo (Obies for Playwriting, Direction for Jerry Zaks and Ensemble Performance, Dramatists Guild of America’s Hull-Warriner Award), Laughing Wild, For Whom the Southern Belle Tolls, Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obies for Playwriting, Direction for Nicholas Martin and Performance for Kristine Nielsen), Miss Witherspoon (2006 Pulitzer Prize finalist) and Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them. His cabaret credits include Das Lusitania Songspiel, co-authored and performed by Sigourney Weaver and Durang (Drama Desk Award nominations for both performers) and Chris Durang & Dawne (Bistro Award for Durang and cohorts John Augustine and Sherry Anderson). He has won the Harvard Arts Medal and the PEN/Laura Pels Award for a Master American Dramatist, and he was recently inducted into the Theater Hall of Fame. For 18 years he and Marsha Norman have been co-chairs of The Juilliard School’s Playwriting Program. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild Council.
  Jessica Stone (Director) has worked as an actress on and Off Broadway, and in television and film, for the last 20 years. Her Broadway credits include Anything Goes with Sutton Foster, Butley with Nathan Lane, The Odd Couple with Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick, The Smell of the Kill with Claudia Shear, Design for Living with Alan Cumming and Dominic West, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying with John Stamos, and Grease with Rosie O’Donnell. Her Off Broadway credits include Crimes of the Heart directed by Kathleen Turner, Krisit, The Country Club, June Moon, Tenderloin,and Babes in Arms. She has performed in regional theatres across the country including Huntington Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, Geva Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, and six seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Her favorite productions include She Stoops to Conquer, She Loves Me, Springtime for Henry, Betty’s Summer Vacation, A Midsummer Night’s Dream,and The Cherry Orchard. Concurrently, she was an assistant/associate director on and Off Broadway to Nicholas Martin, Joe Mantello, David Warren, and Christopher Ashley. Stone’s directing career began in earnest with her 2010 production of A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for the Williamstown Theater Festival’s Main Stage, which was met with critical acclaim. Her directing credits now include Neil Simon’s Last of the Red Hot Lovers (Williamstown) and Charlotte’s Web (TheatreworksUSA). Her workshops and readings include Huntington Theatre Company’s Breaking Ground Festival, Hourglass Group Ltd.’s Hot Buttons: A Political Vaudeville, and collaborations with artists such as Joy Behar and Claudia Shear. Stone’s upcoming productions include Kaufman and Lardner’s June Moon for Williamstown (2014) and Absurd Person Singular for Two River Theater Company. She currently lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons. This one is for Nicky.
  Nicholas Martin (Original Direction) is an Associate Artist of The Old Globe and previously directed the Globe productions of Pygmalion, Later Life, Full Gallop, Overtime, Macbeth,and The Mask of Moriarty. His Broadway credits include Christopher Durang’s smash hit Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Present Laughter, Butley, Match, Hedda Gabler, The Rehearsal,and You Never Can Tell. His Off Broadway credits include Saturn Returns, The New Century, Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Drama Desk Award nomination), and The Time of the Cuckoo (Lincoln Center Theater), Chaucer in Rome and Why Torture Is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them (The Public Theater), Fully Committed (Vineyard Theatre, Cherry Lane Theatre), Full Gallop (Manhattan Theatre Club, Westside Theatre), Betty’s Summer Vacation (Obie Award, Drama Desk nomination), Sophistry (Playwrights Horizons), and Bosoms and Neglect (Signature Theatre Company). Martin’s regional credits include She Stoops to Conquer (McCarter Theatre Center), The House of Blue Leaves (Mark Taper Forum), Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre), The Verizon Play (Humana Festival of New American Plays), The Circle and A Cheever Evening (Westport Country Playhouse), and My Wonderful Day (Two River Theater Company). He is the former Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival and Huntington Theatre Company.
  David Korins (Scenic Design) has designed the Broadway productions of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Motown The Musical, Annie, Bring It On The Musical, Chinglish, An Evening with Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin, Magic/Bird, Godspell, The Pee-wee Herman Show, Lombardi, Passing Strange, and Bridge & Tunnel. Korins has worked extensively both Off Broadway and regionally. His opera credits include the world premieres of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene at San Francisco Opera and Oscar at Santa Fe Opera. He served as Kanye West’s creative director, designing several concerts in the U.S. and abroad. He has received a Drama Desk Award, Lucille Lortel Award, three Henry Hewes Design Awards, and an Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Design.
  Gabriel Berry (Costume Design) designs costumes for theatre, dance, and opera. Specializing in the creation of new work, she has designed premieres of the works of artists including John Adams, David Adjmi, Samuel Beckett, Charles Ludlam, Caryl Churchill, Christopher Durang, Ethyl Eichelberger, Richard Foreman, The Five Lesbian Brothers, Maria Irene Fornes, John Guare, Lameece Issaq, Nick Jones, Craig Lucas, Naomi Wallace, Kia Corthron, Will Power, Marcus Gardley, Scott Z. Burns, Meredith Monk, Charles Mee, Tony Kushner, Peter Sellars, Philip Glass, Reinaldo Povod, Mabou Mines, Tennessee Williams, and Branden Jacob Jenkins. Her notable honors include Obie, Bessie, and Lucille Lortel Awards and a silver medal from the Prague Quadrennial for her contribution to experimental theatre. Her upcoming projects include A Midsummer Night’s Dream for the Stratford Festival, John Adam and Peter Sellars’s The Gospel According to the Other Mary for the English National Opera, and Stew and Heidi Rodewald’s The Total Bent for The Public Theater.
  David Weiner (Lighting Design) makes hid Old Globe debut with Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike. His other recent work on the West Coast includes Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, American Night: The Ballad of Juan Jose, Venice (2011 Ovation Award), and This Beautiful City (Center Theatre Group). His Broadway credits include Romeo and Juliet, Dead Accounts, Grace, Godspell, The Normal Heart, Reasons to Be Pretty, Butley, Dinner at Eight (Lincoln Center Theater), Betrayal (Roundabout Theatre Company), and The Real Thing. Off Broadway, Weiner’s work has been seen at MCC Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, The Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Theatre for a New Audience, Vineyard Theatre, and Atlantic Theater Company. Weiner has worked at theatres across the United States, including Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Goodman Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Guthrie Theater, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Huntington Theatre Company, American Repertory Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Weiner has received Lucille Lortel Awards for Through a Glass Darkly and Rodney’s Wife; a Drama Desk Award nomination for Small Fire; and American Theatre Wing Henry Hewes Design Award nominations for Reasons to Be Pretty, This Beautiful City, Pumpgirl, The Overwhelming, and The Seven.
  Mark Bennett (Original Music and Sound Design) previously composed and/or sound designed the Globe productions of Twelfth Night directed by Jack O’Brien, Golda’s Balcony directed by Scott Schwartz, and Pygmalion directed by Nicholas Martin. His recent Broadway scores include Macbeth directed by O’Brien, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Dead Accounts, Driving Miss Daisy, A Steady Rain, The Coast of Utopia (2007 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Music in a Play), Henry IV, Golda’s Balcony, and The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?, among others. Bennett’s Off Broadway credits include The City of Conversation, The New Century, Chaucer in Rome,and The Time of the Cuckoo (Lincoln Center Theater), An Iliad (Obie Award), Valhalla, Mad Forest,and My Children! My Africa! (New York Theatre Workshop), and original scores for eight Shakespeare in the Park productions as well as The Seagull and Dogeaters (The Public Theater). His scores for La Jolla Playhouse include A Midsummer Night’s Dream directed by Christopher Ashley (Craig Noel Award), An Iliad (Craig Noel Award), His Gal Friday, and, as composer and co-lyricist, the musical Most Wanted. His other regional theatre productions include As You Like It directed by Barry Edelstein (Williamstown Theatre Festival), Dead End, Without Walls,and The House of Bernarda Alba (Center Theatre Group), and Plato’s Symposium (Getty). Bennett was the composer for Sam Mendes’s The Bridge Project, 2009-2012 (Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Old Vic). He is the recipient of a 1998 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence of Sound Design, 1998 Bessie Award, Ovation Award, American Theatre Wing Award and 14 Drama Desk Award nominations.
  Caparelliotis Casting (Casting) recently cast the Globe productions of Water by the Spoonful, Time and the Conways, Bethany, The Winter’s Tale, The Few, Double Indemnity, The Rainmaker, Other Desert Cities, Be a Good Little Widow, A Doll’s House, The Brothers Size, Pygmalion, and Good People. Their Broadway casting credits include Casa Valentina, The Snow Geese, 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 film and television credits include HairBrained with Brendan Fraser, “Odyssey” (NBC pilot), “How to Get Away with Murder” (ABC pilot), “Ironside” (NBC), and Steel Magnolias (Sony for Lifetime).
  Bryan Hunt (Associate Director) was the assistant director for the world premiere of Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike at McCarter Theatre Center, Lincoln Center Theater, and on Broadway, as well as the associate director at the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles. His directing credits include Watson: The Musical (The King’s College), Alien Sex Comedy (New Light Theater Project), As You Like It and Caroling Through the Woods (Theatre-Hikes Colorado), Pretty, Smart, Poetic (Westport Country Playhouse), Henry V (Great River Shakespeare Festival’s Shakespeare for Young Actors), and Urinetown The Musical (Margo Jones Theatre). He has served as assistant director at several regional theaters including Westport Country Playhouse, Arena Stage, Center Stage in Baltimore, Goodman Theatre, and Dallas Theater Center, as well as Red Bull Theater and 92nd Street Y in New York. He is currently Producing Director of Iron Curtain Theater Company in New York City and a founding member of Island Theater Company in Chicago. Hunt holds a B.F.A. in Theatre from Southern Methodist University.
  Annette Yé (Stage Manager) served as stage manager for The Old Globe’s The Few, Pygmalion, God of Carnage, Anna Christie, Groundswell and the 2010 production of Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Her other Globe credits include A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2011-2013), Boeing-Boeing, The First Wives Club, Opus, Dancing in the Dark, Hay Fever and the Summer Shakespeare Festivals 2008 and 2010-2013.
  Amanda Salmons (Assistant Stage Manager) has worked previously at The Old Globe on The Last Goodbye, the Shakespeare Festival (2011-2013), Anna Christie, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Somewhere, Groundswell, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Savannah Disputation,and The Price. In addition, she stage managed for the Summer Shakespeare Intensive through the Globe’s education department, working with high school students on Love’s Labour’s Lost, As You Like It,and Pericles. Her other San Diego credits include The Foreigner, miXtape, See How They Run, The Music Man,and The Rivalry (Lamb’s Players Theatre), The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance, Candide, Trial by Jury,and Rumpelstiltskin (Lyric Opera San Diego), and SummerFest (La Jolla Music Society). Salmons holds a B.A. in Theatre from UC San Diego.