March 21 - April 26, 2015
(Opening Night: Thursday, March 26, 8:00 p.m.)
Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
Written and directed by Mary Zimmerman
Scenic Design by Daniel Ostling
Costume Design by Mara Blumenfeld
Lighting Design by T.J. Gerckens
Sound Design and Original Music by Andre Pluess
Projection Design by Shawn Sagady
Casting by Caparelliotis Casting
Stage Manager, Leila Knox
Tony Award Winner Mary Zimmerman creates an enchanting theatrical spectacle with live music and sumptuous visuals. In this visionary staging of a classic Chinese fable, a gentle serpent transforms into a beautiful woman. She falls in love with a dashing young man and decides to stay human forever, until a wicked monk discovers her true identity and vows to destroy her. NPR called The White Snake “strikingly beautiful,” and The New York Times called it “a show that doesn't want a single scene without a wow from the audience.” An unforgettable theatrical event for all ages from one of the true geniuses of the American theatre.
Watch a preview of The White Snake. The Southern California Premiere of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of Berkeley Repertory Theatre.
(from left) Vin Kridakorn, Amy Kim Waschke, Jon Norman Schneider, and Lisa Tejero in the Goodman Theatre production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by Liz Lauren.
(from left) Tanya Thai McBride and Amy Kim Waschke in the McCarter Theatre Center production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by T Charles Erickson.
Jon Norman Schneider and Amy Kim Waschke in the Goodman Theatre production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by Liz Lauren.
Amy Kim Waschke in the Goodman Theatre production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by Liz Lauren.
(from left) Amy Kim Waschke, Jon Norman Schneider, and Tanya Thai McBride in the Goodman Theatre production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by Liz Lauren.
(from left) Tanya Thai McBride and Amy Kim Waschke in the Goodman Theatre production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by Liz Lauren.
Matt DeCaro (center) with the cast of the Goodman Theatre production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by Liz Lauren.
(from left) Jon Norman Schneider, Amy Kim Waschke, and the cast of the McCarter Theatre Center production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by T Charles Erickson.
Tanya Thai McBride in the McCarter Theatre Center production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by T Charles Erickson.
(from left) Matt DeCaro, Amy Kim Waschke, and Tanya Thai McBride in the Goodman Theatre production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by Liz Lauren.
Tanya Thai McBride in the McCarter Theatre Center production of The White Snake. The Old Globe's production of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015. Photo by T Charles Erickson.
Playwright and director Mary Zimmerman. The Southern California Premiere of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015 at The Old Globe. Photo courtesy of The Old Globe.
The Southern California Premiere of The White Snake, written and directed by Mary Zimmerman, runs March 21 - April 26, 2015 at The Old Globe. Art courtesy of The Old Globe.
Cast and Creative Team
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Tessa Brinckman (Flutes) is a New Zealand flutist described as a “flutist of chameleon-like gifts” and “virtuoso elegance” (Gramophone) who enjoys a versatile career, having worked in many solo, chamber, and orchestral series in the United States and abroad. She has recorded, composed, and performed in major and small regional theatres and broadcast media across the United States and internationally. Her most recent theatrical collaboration is The White Snake, the music of which was nominated for a Joseph Jefferson Award in 2014. Brinckman currently performs in the contemporary flute/percussion duo Caballito Negro as well as with koto player Mitsuki Dazai, presenting unique traditional and contemporary chamber music concerts and commissioning a number of important American composers. Brinckman’s critically acclaimed album, Glass Sky, is featured in the South African documentary Inner Landscapes about Outsider artist Helen Martins. She has taught at various Oregon universities and currently gives master classes and private lessons in the U.S. and abroad.
Matt DeCaro (Fa Hai and others) reprises his role in The White Snake, having played with the company at McCarter Theatre Center, Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, and the Wuzhen Theatre Festival. He recently appeared in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s Oklahoma! His previous Goodman credits include Camino Real, The Play About the Baby, Romance, Heartbreak House, Boy Gets Girl, and Spinning Into Butter, among others. He reprised his roles in Spinning Into Butter and Boy Gets Girl for their New York productions at Lincoln Center Theater and Manhattan Theatre Club. DeCaro has appeared at Chicago Shakespeare Theater in Gypsy, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Richard III, and As You Like It. His other Chicago credits include The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Talley’s Folly, and Dinah Was (Northlight Theatre), Glengarry Glen Ross, Perfect Mendacity, Men of Tortuga, Our Lady of 121st Street, and Slaughterhouse-Five (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Mystery Cycle, and The House of Blue Leaves (Court Theatre). DeCaro’s regional credits include American Buffalo, Machinal, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Dark Rapture (American Conservatory Theater), as well as productions in Atlanta, Santa Fe, and Florida. His recent film credits include The Last Rites of Joe May, The Wise Kids, U.S. Marshals, Eagle Eye, and Mr. 3000. He has appeared on many television shows including “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” “House,” “CSI: Crime Scene Investigation,” and “The Office,” as well as two seasons on “Prison Break” as Officer Geary.
Dan Lin (Boatman and others) is chuffed to bits to be making his Globe debut with The White Snake, having previously understudied the show at Goodman Theatre in Chicago. His other Chicago credits include The World of Extreme Happiness (Goodman Theatre), Miss Saigon (Paramount Theatre), The Three Musketeers (Lifeline Theatre), and Julius Caesar (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). He holds a B.F.A. from the Chicago College of Performing Arts and is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy.
Ronnie Malley (Strings/Percussion) is a musician, theatrical performer, producer, and educator. His most recent credits include co-composer and performer in The White Snake (Wuzhen Theatre Festival in China, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Disney’s theatrical production of TheJungle Book (Goodman, Huntington Theatre Company), International Voices Project’s The Sultan’s Dilemma, In Search of Said Abu Al Naga, and The Castle and the Sparrow (University of Chicago, Victory Gardens Theater), The Arabian Nights (Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, and Lookingglass Theatre Company), The Band’s Visit (Playwrights Horizons), Hephaestus and Mirror of the Invisible World (Goodman). Malley composed music for the documentaries At the Gate, Modou: The Hang Player, and Jon & Davy. He conducts artist residency programs for Chicago Public Schools and is a faculty member at the Old Town School of Folk Music and the Chicago Academy for the Arts. He also performs with the music groups Allos Musica, Duzan Ensemble, Lamajamal, Mucca Pazza, and the University of Chicago Middle East Music Ensemble.
Tanya Thai McBride (Green Snake) is pleased to make her debut at The Old Globe. Her regional theatre credits include The White Snake (Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival) and A Midsummer Night's Dream and The Heart of Robin Hood (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Her Chicago theatre credits include Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (The Other Theatre Company), Walk Two Moons and The Ash Girl (Adventure Stage Chicago), Yellow Face (Silk Road Rising), punkplay (Pavement Group at Steppenwolf Garage Rep), and The Fantasticks (Porchlight Music Theatre). She has also appeared with The Neo-Futurists, Polarity Ensemble Theatre, Collaboraction, Caffeine Theatre, and Redmoon. Her television and film credits include “Chicago P.D.” and Chrysalis. She received her M.F.A. in Acting/New Works Creation from The Ohio State University and currently resides in Chicago.
Michal Palzewicz (Cello) has performed extensively throughout the United States and Europe, and he has played cello in numerous productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival and other theatres. He was the founding member of the Elsner String Quartet, which earned him the Coleman-Saunderson Award at the 52nd Coleman Chamber Ensemble Competition, and was the winner of the Young Concert Artists International Auditions in Leipzig. He studied with the Amadeus Quartet, Hugh Maguire, David Soyer, and Tomasz Strahl and attended the Academy of Music in Warsaw and the Manhattan School of Music. Palzewicz was a soloist with several orchestras including the Juneau Symphony Orchestra and the Rogue Valley Symphony Orchestra, where he is also the principal cellist. Currently he is performing classical cello and piano repertoire with pianist Chiharu Sai. In addition to the cello, Palzewicz also plays viola da gamba, violin, and electric cello in collaboration with percussionist Jason “Cedar” Miller.
Stephenie Soohyun Park (Guan Yin and others) is delighted to make her Globe debut. Her previous credits include The White Snake (Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre), The Wheel (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Drury Lane Theatre), After (Profiles Theatre), and Respiced (Silk Road Rising). Her television and web credits include “Boss” (Starz), “Chicago Fire: I Am a Firefighter” (NBC), and “America’s Next Great Restaurant” (NBC). Park is a returned Peace Corps volunteer and holds degrees from The Wharton School and Harvard Law School.
Jon Norman Schneider (Xu Xian) has appeared in the New York productions of City Of (The Playwrights Realm), The Oldest Boy (Lincoln Center Theater), The Architecture of Becoming (Women’s Project), A Map of Virtue (13P), Queens Boulevard (the musical) (Signature Theatre Company), Durango (The Public Theater), Ching Chong Chinaman (Pan Asian Repertory Theatre), Awake and Sing!, and Blind Mouth Singing (National Asian American Theatre Company), among others. His international and regional credits include London’s Paper Dolls (Tricycle Theatre), The White Snake (Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center), Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Actors Theatre of Louisville’s Humana Festival of New American Plays), Pool Boy (Barrington Stage Company), American Hwangap (Magic Theatre), Durango (Long Wharf Theatre), and Citizen 13559: The Journal of Ben Uchida (The Kennedy Center). Schneider’s film and television appearances in roles in The Girl in the Book, The Normals, The Rebound, HBO’s Angel Rodriguez, “Violet,” “Veep,” “The Electric Company,” “30 Rock,” and “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”
Eliza Shin (Acolyte and others) is making her Globe debut. She has been touring nationally and internationally with this production of The White Snake since 2013. Her Chicago theatre credits include MuChang/China Mom in Jade Heart (Chicago Dramatists), Mrs. Yojimbo in The Jammer (Pine Box Theater Company), Dr. Wally in Marvin’s Room (Circle Theatre), Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sankofa Theatre Company), and William Wordsworth in The Patriots (The Neo-Futurists). She also performs as a classical soprano and a pop acoustic cover artist. Her dance credits include The Ghost is Here and several productions of TheNutcracker. As a producer, she has worked on NoPassport’s 30/30, Stephen Cone’s independent film Henry Gamble’s Birthday Party, and her own reading series. She has appeared on television in NBC’s “Chicago Fire,” WTTW’s “Check, Please!” and several national commercials.
Shannon Tyo (Crane and others) has performed Off Broadway in Bikeman: A 9/11 Play and Dear Edwina. Regionally, Tyo has played Kim in Miss Saigon (Pioneer Theatre Company, Music Theatre of Wichita, Cape Fear Regional Theatre) and Marcy Park in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Northern Stage, Pioneer Theatre Company, Tuacahn Center for the Arts). She has also appeared on “30 Rock.” Tyo received a B.F.A. from Syracuse University.
Kristin Villanueva (Sister and others) is very delighted to be back at The Old Globe, where she recently played Julia in The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Her other favorite roles include Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well directed by Tina Packer (Shakespeare & Company), Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice directed by Timothy Douglas (PlayMakers Repertory Company), Dromio of Syracuse and Dromio of Ephesus in The Comedy of Errors (Theatreworks Colorado), and May Kasahara in The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Singapore Arts Festival). She has appeared regionally at Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and Nebraska Shakespeare Festival. Her New York credits include National Asian American Theatre Company, Theatreworks USA, and Here Lies Love lab productions at The Public Theater. Her television and film credits include “Forever,” “Gossip Girl,” Merry Christmas, Eve, and WordPlay Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo and Juliet e-books. She trained at SUNY Purchase, where she received the Chair’s Award for Achievement in Acting.
Amy Kim Waschke (White Snake) makes her debut at The Old Globe. Her New York theatre credits include Alice in Slasherland and Living Dead in Denmark (Vampire Cowboys), disOriented (Theatre C), and One Night Stand (InViolet Theater). Regionally she has appeared in The White Snake (Goodman Theatre, Guthrie Theater, McCarter Theatre Center, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Water by the Spoonful (The Studio Theatre), Fabuloso (Merrimack Repertory Theatre), Somebody/Nobody (Arizona Theatre Company), Tamburlaine and Edward II (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Cecelia’s Last Tea Party (Passage Theatre Company), and Electra (Hangar Theatre). Her film and television credits include Boystown (2013 New York Television Festival Official Selection), Eighteen Seconds (BlackMilk Productions), Choice (Wandering Scholar Productions), and “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit.” Waschke received her M.F.A. from University of Washington and is a proud company member of InViolet Theater.
Gary Wingert (Canopus and others) is pleased to be performing at The Old Globe for the first time and happy to be rejoining this show, which he appeared in previously at McCarter Theatre Center. He has also been seen in Chicago in The Great Fire, 1984 and The Baron in the Trees (Lookingglass Theatre Company), Long Day’s Journey Into Night (The Gift Theatre Company), Measure for Measure (Chicago Shakespeare Theater), The House of Lily (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), Winesburg, Ohio (About Face Theatre), and Finding the Sun, Pericles, and The Odyssey (Goodman Theatre). He also appeared in The Odyssey at Seattle Repertory Theatre. In Rockford, Illinois, he appeared in The Grapes of Wrath, The Diary of Anne Frank, and Romeo and Juliet (New American Theatre). He is an ensemble member of Artists’ Ensemble in Rockford and is a proud m ember of Actors’ Equity Association.
Wai Yim (Brother-in-Law and others) is making his Globe debut. He was last seen in China in The White Snake (Wuzhen Theatre Festival). His other theatre credits include The White Snake (McCarter Theatre Center, Goodman Theatre), Narnia and James and the Giant Peach (The Rose Theater), The Archeology of Birdsong, Full Circle, human:nature, Knives Out, and Passion.Play (ætherplough), The Taming of the Shrew, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Nebraska Shakespeare Festival), and A Christmas Carol (Nebraska Theatre Caravan). Yim is the Resident Choreographer for ætherplough.
Mary Zimmerman (Playwright, Director) is the 1998 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the 2002 Tony Award for Best Director of a Play, and many Joseph Jefferson Awards, including Best Production and Best Director. She is a member of Lookingglass Theatre Company in Chicago, an Artistic Associate of the Goodman Theatre, and a Professor of Performance Studies at Northwestern University. Works that she has adapted and directed include The Jungle Book (Goodman, Huntington Theatre Company), The White Snake (Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory, Goodman, and McCarter Theatres), Argonautika (Lookingglass, Berkeley Rep, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, McCarter), Candide (Goodman, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre Company), Mirror of the Invisible World (Goodman), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Goodman, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Seattle Rep, Second Stage Theatre), The Odyssey (Lookingglass, Goodman, McCarter, Seattle Rep), Arabian Nights (Lookingglass, Manhattan Theatre Club, BAM, Berkeley Rep, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage), Journey to the West (Goodman, Huntington, Berkeley Rep), Metamorphoses (Lookingglass, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Mark Taper Forum, Second Stage, on Broadway at Circle in the Square), The Secret in the Wings (Lookingglass, Berkeley Rep, McCarter, Seattle Rep), Eleven Rooms of Proust (Lookingglass, About Face Theatre), and a new opera with Philip Glass called Galileo Galilei (Goodman, Barbican in London, BAM). For the Metropolitan Opera she has directed Lucia di Lammermoor, Armida, and La Sonnambula, all of which have been broadcast live worldwide. She recently debuted her Lucia at La Scala in Milan.
Daniel Ostling (Scenic Design) is a San Francisco-based designer whose recent work includes the new ballet Carmen (K-Ballet Company in Tokyo), Guys and Dolls (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), both scenic and lighting designfor Title and Deed (Lookingglass Theatre Company), Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville: A Sherlock Holmes Mystery (McCarter Theatre Center, Arena Stage), and The Orphan of Zhao (American Conservatory Theater, La Jolla Playhouse). On Broadway he has designed Clybourne Park (Walter Kerr Theatre, 2012 Tony Award nomination) and Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square Theatre, 2003 Tony nomination). Ostling’s regional credits include Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York Shakespeare Festival, Lincoln Center, The Public Theater, Playwrights Horizons, Long Wharf Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Arena Stage, and Portland Center Stage, among others. His opera designs include Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Tokyo), La Sonnambula (Metropolitan Opera), The Merry Widow (Lyric Opera of Chicago), and Philip Glass’s Galileo Galilei (New York City, London, Chicago). Ostling is a Lookingglass ensemble member and teaches at Northwestern University in Chicago.
Mara Blumenfeld (Costume Design) makes her Old Globe debut. Her New York credits include Mary Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square Theatre, Second Stage Theatre), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage), The Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center Theater), and Lookingglass Alice (The New Victory Theater). Based in Chicago, she has designed numerous productions for Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Court Theatre, and Lookingglass Theatre Company (2011 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre), where she is an ensemble member. Blumenfeld’s regional credits include multiple productions for Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Mark Taper Forum, La Jolla Playhouse, Seattle Repertory Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Asolo Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, and Stratford Shakespeare Festival. Her opera credits include Lucia di Lammermoor and La Sonnambula (Metropolitan Opera) and The Merry Widow (Lyric Opera of Chicago). She is the recipient of four of Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Awards and was the 2012 recipient of the Michael Merritt Award.
T.J. Gerckens (Lighting Design) recently designed Guys and Dolls (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), The White Snake (Wuzhen Theatre Festival in China, Guthrie Theater, Goodman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Berkeley Repertory Theatre), and the world premiere of Mary Zimmerman’s adaptation of Disney’s TheJungle Book (Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company). His other notable designs include the opera Lucia di Lammermoor (La Scala), Metamorphoses (on and Off Broadway, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel Awards), La Sonnambula and Lucia di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera), Measure for Measure (New York Shakespeare Festival), The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci (Second Stage Theatre, Drama Desk nomination), and Galileo Galilei (Brooklyn Academy of Music). His design work has also been seen at theatres such as La Jolla Playhouse, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Melbourne Theatre Company, and London's Barbican Centre. Gerckens teaches lighting design at Otterbein University.
Andre Pluess (Sound Design, Original Music) has designed the Broadway productions of Metamorphoses by Mary Zimmerman, I Am My Own Wife, and 33 Variations (Drama Desk Award nomination). His credits with Goodman Theatre include The Jungle Book,Trojan Women, Pericles, and Silk (all with director Mary Zimmerman), Stage Kiss, Mariela in the Desert, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky, The Play About the Baby, Ghostwritten, The Clean House, and I Am My Own Wife. His further Chicago credits include productions at Lookingglass Theatre Company (artistic associate), Victory Gardens Theater (resident designer), Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Court Theatre, and Northlight Theatre, among others. His work has appeared regionally in Cymbeline (The Shakespeare Theatre Company), Legacy of Light (Arena Stage), Palomino (Center Theatre Group), Equivocation (Seattle Repertory Theatre), King Lear, As You Like It, and The White Snake (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Macbeth and Much Ado About Nothing (California Shakespeare Theater), Marcus; or The Secret of Sweet (American Conservatory Theater), and Eastland (Lookingglass Theatre Company).
Shawn Sagady (Projection Design) has designed the Broadway productions of All The Way (Drama Desk Award nomination, Tony Award for Best Play), Leap of Faith, Memphis (Tony Award for Best Musical). His Off Broadway and regional credits include stop. reset., Mound Builders, and Emotional Creature (Signature Theatre Company), By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (Second Stage Theatre), Father Comes Home from the War (The Public Theater), Memphis and Julius Caesar (national tours), Back Back Back (The Old Globe), Overt Political Correctness (American Repertory Theater), Brigadoon (Joseph Jefferson Award nomination) and The White Snake (Jeff nomination) (Goodman Theatre), Fingersmith, The Great Society, A Wrinkle in Time, Measure for Measure, and American Night: The Ballad of Juan José (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and Carmen (La Jolla Playhouse).He also served as Director of Photography for the film project 100 Monologues.
Caparelliotis Casting (Casting) recently cast the Globe productions of Buyer & Cellar, The Twenty-seventh Man, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, The Royale, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, 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 Fish in the Dark, It’s Only a Play, Disgraced, Holler If Ya Hear Me, 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” (upcoming, NBC series), “How to Get Away with Murder” (ABC pilot), “Ironside” (NBC), and Steel Magnolias (Sony for Lifetime).
Leila Knox (Production Stage Manager) has previously worked on the Globe productions of Othello, Cornelia, The American Plan, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Ace, The Violet Hour, Himself and Nora, Take Me Out, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2004-2014), the 2004 Summer Shakespeare Festival, Resurrection Blues, Bus Stop, Much Ado About Nothing,Dirty Blonde,and Thinking Shakespeare Live! Her Broadway credits include Dirty Blonde, Amour,and One Mo’ Time. Her regional credits include production supervisor of Dirty Blonde (national tour and West Yorkshire Playhouse); shows at Lincoln Center Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, SITI Company, Playwrights Horizons, Huntington Theatre Company; and 11 seasons with Williamstown Theatre Festival. She received her education at Northwestern University.
Amanda Salmons (Assistant Stage Manager) most recently worked on All's Well That Ends Well, The Old Globe's inaugural Globe for All tour. Her other Globe credits include The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Last Goodbye, the Shakespeare Festival (2011-2013), Anna Christie, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Somewhere, Welcome to Arroyo’s, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, 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, Prince of Tyre. 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.
Kendra Stockton (Assistant Stage Manager – April 14 to April 26) previously worked at The Old Globe as an assistant stage manager on Bright Star and Dog and Pony, as well as a production assistant on The Few and the 2013 Shakespeare Festival. She also recently assistant stage managed La Jolla Playhouse’s productions of The Orphan of Zhao and The Who and the What. Her additional production assistant credits include The Darrell Hammond Project, Sideways, A Lonely Boy’s Guide to Survival (And Werewolves), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Memphis (La Jolla Playhouse), as well as Godspell and Memphis (Broadway).
