Cast
The Nameless One/Movement Coordinator
Kristin D. Carpenter
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. THEATRE: Pitched, Fringe Festival,Remembering We Selves,Elegba Crossings. CONCERTS: Purelements Dance Company, Thelma Hill Performing Arts Center, Entering the Holy of Holies, Circle of Light Productions, Ohio Dance Festival, M’Zawa Danz Company, Women DanceMakers Series, Mother’s Rites, Peace on Earth. FILM: Before Dawn. EDUCATION/ TRAINING: BA,Black Studies, The City College of New York, Oberlin College; Alvin Ailey American Dance Center, Dance Theatre of Harlem, Martha Graham School of Contemporary Dance.
Reggie Hudson
Willie C. Carpenter
THE OLD GLOBE: Two Trains Running. BROADWAY: Musical Comedy Murders of 1940. OFF-BROADWAY/ REGIONAL: Blue, Paper Mill Playhouse; Mr. Rickey Calls a Meeting, A Cup of Coffee, Pasadena Playhouse; Sleep Deprivation Chamber, Signature Theatre; White People Christmas, Zephyr Theater; Up the Mountain, Theatre Geo; The Seagull, Rose Theatre; Two Trains Running, Doolittle Theatre; The Forbidden City, Public Theater; The Task, Mark Taper Too; Two Gentlemen of Verona, Nameless Theatre. TV: Las Vegas, Shark Swarm, The Unit, Capital Law (pilot), General Hospital, NCIS, Boston Legal, The Practice, The Big House, Gilmore Girls, The District, Kate Brasher, Spin City, Welcome to New York, C-16. FILM: The Underground, Hunter’s Moon, The Insider, The Best Man, Men in Black, White Man’s Burden, Mi Familia, Full Eclipse, The Followers, Hard Target, Little Giants, Amityville V, Grand Canyon, Twice As Hard. AWARDS: Drama-Logue Award, Best Actor; NAACP Award, Best Supporting Actor.
Eve MacIntyre
Ashley Clements
THE OLD GLOBE: Since Africa, Sea of Tranquility, 2008 Summer Shakespeare Festival. THE OLD GLOBE/USD PROFESSIONAL ACTOR TRAINING PROGRAM: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pericles, Stuff Happens. ELSEWHERE: Arcadia, ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, An Ideal Husband, Fiddler on the Roof, A Christmas Carol, Captain Manly. EDUCATION: Ashley holds a BA in Drama from Ithaca College.
Diane MacIntyre
Linda Gehringer
THE OLD GLOBE: The Women. REGIONAL: Hamlet, Doubt, The Piano Teacher, Retreat from Moscow, Relatively Speaking, Getting Frankie Married, Hold Please, A Delicate Balance, All My Sons, But Not for Me, As Good as New, South Coast Rep; Picnic, Center Stage; The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Atlantic Theatre Company; Be Aggressive (world premiere), Light up the Sky, La Jolla Playhouse; The Poison Tree, Be Aggressive, Mark Taper Forum; The Batting Cage, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Breaking and Entering, New York Stage and Film; Arcadia, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Little Foxes, Huntington Theatre; The Waiting Room, Arena Stage; The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Shakespeare Festival of Dallas; A Streetcar Named Desire, All the King’s Men, Temptation, The Three Sisters, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and others, Dallas Theater Center. FILM: The Last Producer, As Good as It Gets, American Pie, Dead Man on Campus, Ninth Life. TV: Weeds, Women’s Murder Club, Cold Case, Close to Home, Without a Trace, Boston Legal, Frasier, Gilmore Girls, The West Wing, Evening Shade.
Ater Dahl
Warner Miller
THE OLD GLOBE: Debut. REGIONAL: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, Syracuse Stage; The Piano Lesson, GEVA Theatre and Indiana Repertory Theater; False Creeds, The Alliance; A Raisin In The Sun, Hartford Stage. FILM: American Gangster. TV: CSI-NY; Everyday People (HBO Original); Wyclef Jean In America (pilot). EDUCATION: Mr. Miller received a BFA in Music Business from Five Towns College (Dix Hills, Long Island, NY).
Team
Playwright
Mia McCullough
Mia McCullough's plays have been produced around the country at theatres that include Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Stage Left Theatre, and Chicago Dramatists in Chicago; Actors' Express in Atlanta, InterAct in Philadelphia, Mo'olelo Performing Arts Company in San Diego, the Victory Theatre in Los Angeles, and Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. Her breakthrough play Chagrin Falls garnered many awards including the American Theatre Critics Association Osborn Award, first prize in the Julie Harris Playwriting Competition, and a Joseph Jefferson Award for New Work. Since Africa was originally commissioned by the Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival and was a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and a nominee for a Joseph Jefferson Award for Best New Play. Ms. McCullough's plays Echoes of Another Man and Taking Care are published by Broadway Play Publishing and Chagrin Falls was published in the anthology “New Playwrights: Best Plays of 2001." Most recently, Mia's newest play Lucinda's Bed was workshopped at Ensemble Studio Theatre in NY, and her play Household Spirits was included in new work festivals at both Steppenwolf and the Goodman Theatre in Chicago. Ms. McCullough is currently adjunct faculty at Northwestern University where she teaches playwriting and screenwriting to students in the Creative Writing for the Media program. She lives just outside Chicago with her husband, son, and small menagerie.
Director
Seema Sueko
THE OLD GLOBE: This is Seema's Directorial Debut at The Old Globe. She performed here in The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow. SAN DIEGO: Seema is the Co-Founder and Artistic Director of Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company (www.moolelo.net) where she directed Permanent Collection, The Adoption Project: Triad, and Since Africa. REGIONAL: As an actor, Seema has been seen at Yale Repertory Theatre, Seattle's 5th Avenue Theatre, San Diego Repertory, and Indiana Repertory among others, and she is a three-time recipient of the Chicago Jeff Citation Award. As a playwright, Seema's script remains received the McDonald Playwriting Award and the Anti-Discrimination Committee Award. She was commissioned by Mixed Blood Theatre in Minneapolis to co-write Messy Utopia, which received the Ivey Award 2007, and was recently commissioned by Mixed Blood again to write Hijab Tube, a play for young audiences on the theme of Islam in America. Seema's next project is to direct Good Boys, a play that deals with the aftermath of a school shooting, for Mo’olelo in May 2009. EDUCATION: Seema received her MA in International Relations – Middle East Politics from The University of Chicago, and her BA from the University of Puget Sound.
Scenic Design
Nick Fouch
THE OLD GLOBE: Sight Unseen, Christmas on Mars, Lobby Hero. ELSEWHERE: Yellowman, Communicating Doors, Dying City, Love Song, Cygnet Theatre; Macbeth, Kid Simple, When the World Was Green, Chiang Kai Chek, Sledgehammer Theatre; The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia, Romance, Miss Witherspoon, Don Quixote, San Diego Rep; Limonade Tous les Jours, Devil Dog Six, Moxie Theatre; Chrysalis: Rapechild, produced and directed by Esther Emery; Smokey Joe’s Café, I Left My Heart, The Buddy Holly Story, Welk Resort Theatre; Sailor’s Song, True West, Dancing at Lughnasa New Village Arts. EDUCATION: Nick holds a BFA in Scenic Design and Technical Direction from The University of Idaho.
Costume Design
Charlotte Devaux Shields
THE OLD GLOBE: Designer: Kingdom, Since Africa, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Trying, A Body of Water, The Prince of L.A., I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Fiction, Two Sisters and a Piano, Blue/Orange, Splendour, All My Sons, Betrayal, The SantaLand Diaries, Da; Resident Assistant Costume Designer: Over 35 productions including The Women, Chita Rivera: The Dancer’s Life, Dancing in the Dark, A Catered Affair, The Times They Are A Changin’, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Lucky Duck, Imaginary Friends, Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! and Summer Shakespeare Festival. ELSEWHERE: Miami Libre, Cuban Dance Musical, Adrienne Arscht Center for the Performing Arts (Miami), Cabaret Dances, Nyumbani Project, Trolley Dances, San Diego Dance Theatre. INTERNATIONAL: Dr. Livingstone, I Presume (premiere), London; Linnaeus, Prince of Flowers, Botanic Gardens, Christchurch, New Zealand and Sydney, Australia (winner, Fringe First, Edinburgh Festival); also in New Zealand: Suburb, Twelfth Night, Christchurch Repertory Theatre; Hopes, Dreams and Perditions, The Court Theatre; Associate Designer of The New Zealand Christchurch Drama Theatre. FILM/TV: Costume designer, stylist and wardrobe supervisor for Television New Zealand’s live children’s programming and drama series. Designed a variety of New Zealand short films.
Lighting Design
Jason Bieber
THE OLD GLOBE: Since Africa. OLD GLOBE MFA: Richard III, An Absolute Turkey, Marat/Sade, Uncle Vanya. ELSEWHERE: Cowboy Versus Samurai (2007 Patté Award), Permanent Collection, Night Sky (2008 Patté Award), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company; Sweet 15 Quinceñera, San Diego Repertory Theatre; Nine, My Fair Lady, Starlight Theatre; Bluebonnet Court, No Exit, Scrooge in Rouge, Diversionary Theatre; Bleeding Kansas, Moxie Theatre; Charlie’s Aunt, A Christmas Carol, North Coast Repertory Theatre; A Midsummer Night's Dream, Orphans, Prelude to a Kiss, New Village Arts; Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Muertos, The Crucible, Songs for a New World, American Song, Einstein's Dreams, University of San Diego; Young Playwrights Project: Plays by Young Writers 2002, 2004, 2005, and 2007; Henry and Ramona, Suds, Seussical the Musical, J-Company; Once on this Island, Macbeth, Carnegie Mellon University; Blood Wedding, You Can’t Take it With You, LA County High School for the Arts. AWARDS: Has received two Patté Awards for lighting design. EDUCATION: BFA, Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama.
Sound Design
Paul Peterson
has designed over 85 productions at The Old Globe, including The Last Romance, Alive and Well, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, The Savannah Disputation, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Cornelia, The Price, Kingdom, Six Degrees of Separation, Since Africa, The Women, Sight Unseen, The Pleasure of His Company, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Bell, Book and Candle, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Two Trains Running, Hold Please, Restoration Comedy, Pig Farm, The Sisters Rosensweig, Trying, Moonlight and Magnolias, Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Lucky Duck, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Blue/Orange, Time Flies, Pentecost, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Boswell Sisters and Crumbs from the Table of Joy. His regional credits include Milwaukee Repertory Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, CENTERSTAGE, La Jolla Playhouse, Sledgehammer Theatre (Associate Artist), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, The Wilma Theater, L.A. Theatre Works, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Diversionary Theatre, Cape Fear Regional Theatre, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Malashock Dance Company, University of San Diego, San Diego State University and the Freud Theatre at UCLA. He received his BFA in Drama with an emphasis in Technical Design from San Diego State University.
Voice and Speech Coach
Claudia Hill-Sparks
has coached over 60 productions as Voice and Speech Coach from 1993-2001. Her most recent work for The Old Globe includes The Whipping Man, Cornelia, Working, Since Africa and the 2008 and 2009 Shakespeare Festivals. Her Broadway credits include Dance of the Vampires. Her Off Broadway credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Public Theater), Polish Joke (Manhattan Theatre Club), Time and the Conways (The Epic Theater Company) and Stone Cold Dead Serious (The Edge Theater Company). Her regional credits include Travesties, Arms and the Man, A Christmas Carol, The Little Foxes and The Way of the World (Huntington Theatre Company), A Christmas Carol (North Shore Music Theatre). Her television credits include Dialect Coach for Richard Easton as Ben Franklin for PBS. She was on the faculty of The Old Globe/USD Professional Actor Training Program from 1993-2001, Boston University BFA Professional Actor Training Program from 1988-1993, The American Academy of Dramatic Arts and The Wilma Theater. She received her MFA in Acting from Temple University.
Stage Manager
Moira Gleason
has stage managed several shows at The Old Globe including Alive and Well, Whisper House, Since Africa, Back Back Back, Sea of Tranquility, The Sisters Rosensweig, The Constant Wife, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (‘05), Summer Shakespeare Festivals (2005, ‘07, ‘08 and ‘09), Vincent in Brixton, I Just Stopped By to See the Man, Fiction, The Full Monty, as Douglas Pagliotti Stage Management Intern: Old Wicked Songs. She has also been the Stage Manager for Adoption Project: Triad (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company), Miss Witherspoon (San Diego Repertory Theatre) and Fathom (Malashock Dance, ‘06). Ms. Gleason has held many different positions at The Old Globe from House Manager to Carpenter, Master Sound Technician to Education Coordinator. She holds a BA from Southern Oregon University and is a proud member of The Actors’ Equity Association.
