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TOROS BY

DANNY TEJERA WITH

ABUBAKR ALI b JUAN CASTANO FRANK WOOD VERO MAYNEZ DON NOBLE TREY SANTIAGO-HUDSON SCENIC DESIGN

COSTUME DESIGN

ARNULFO MALDONADO ENVER CHAKARTASH

LIGHTING DESIGN

BARBARA SAMUELS

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

DARRON L WEST

STAGE MANAGER

GENEVIEVE ORTIZ

PRESS

SOUND DESIGN

CAROLINA ARBOLEDA

POLK & CO.

CASTING

THE TELSEY OFFICE KARYN CASL, CSA CHARLIE HANO, CSA

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DIRECTOR OF ARTISTIC PRODUCTION

SENIOR PRODUCTION MANAGER

GENERAL MANAGER

CHIEF MARKETING OFFICER

INTERIM CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER

CHIEF DEVELOPMENT OFFICER

DIRECTOR OF SALES OPERATIONS

DIRECTOR OF OPERATIONS

DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES & EDI

BENNETT LEAK

LAURA DILORENZO ARTIE SIEVERS

AKA NYC

MICHAEL CATALAN

CHRIS MCGINNIS

LYNNE PRATT JIM JOSEPH

LINDSEY FORDEN

MEGAN THIELE

DIRECTED BY

GAYE TAYLOR UPCHURCH Toros is made possible in part by the New American Voices Fund, which was established in 2016 by a lead gift from David Stone. New Play Development at Second Stage is supported by a grant from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust.

We acknowledge the land on which Second Stage Theater stands — the original homeland of the Munsee Lenape and Wappinger Lenape people — and honor and pay our respects to the many diverse indigenous peoples still connected to this land.

Abubakr Ali

b

Vero Maynez

Juan Castano

Don Noble

Frank Wood

Trey Santiago-Hudson

CAST

(in alphabetical order) Toro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ABUBAKR ALI Andrea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . b Juan. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . JUAN CASTANO Carl/Tica.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . FRANK WOOD

UNDERSTUDIES

Understudies never substitute for the listed performers unless a specific announcement is made at the time of the appearance.

For Andrea: VERO MAYNEZ For Carl/Tica: DON NOBLE For Juan, Toro: TREY SANTIAGO-HUDSON

Toros will be performed without an intermission.

SETTING

Time: Late 2010s; post-Trump, pre-Covid Place: Madrid

WHO’S WHO IN THE CAST ABUBAKR ALI (Toro) starred in Anything’s Possible (MGM/Orion) dir. Billy Porter and was the titular lead in the Netflix/Dark Horse series “Grendel.” Additional selected credits include “Walking Dead: World Beyond” (AMC), “Power Book II” (Starz), and “Katy Keene” (CW). Theater credits include We Live in Cairo (A.R.T), Kiss (Yale Rep), Twelfth Night (Yale Rep) and work with The 24 Hour Plays, Primary Stages, NYTW, Atlantic Theatre Company, The Public, and others. Abubakr is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama. b (Andrea) has made queer appearances in American (Tele)Visions (NYTW), Unprincess Non-Bride (MTC), Seven Deadly Sins (Tectonic Theater Project), Addressless (Rattlestick Theater), and two seasons at Clubbed Thumb Summerworks.

Their television appearances include “WeCrashed” (Apple TV+), “Let the Right One In” (Showtime), and “Witch Mountain” (Disney+ Pilot). b can be heard playing Azera in the hit podcast Birds Of Empire (QCode), Vanessa Garcia in Zero Tolerance (Audible Originals), and as Janessa in Love In Gravity (Harley & Co). b went to Juilliard.

JUAN CASTANO (Juan) Theatre: The Inheritance (Geffen Playhouse), Romeo Y Julieta (The Public), Transfers (MCC, Lucille Lortel Award Best Lead Actor in a Play), Parallelogram (Second Stage), Oedipus El Rey (The Public, Drama League nomination). FILM: Red, White, & Royal Blue (Amazon, upcoming), Rob Peace (Independent, upcoming), Encanto (Disney).

TV: “The Great North” (Fox), “What/If (Netflix), “Tales of The City” (Netflix), “The OA” (Netflix). Juan received the Drama Desk’s highly coveted Sam Norkin Award for Excellence in Off-Broadway Theatre.

FRANK WOOD (Carl/Tica) Tony Award, Drama League Award for Sideman.

Broadway: Great Society; Network; Iceman Cometh; Clybourne Park; August: Osage County; Born Yesterday; Hollywood Arms.

Off-Broadway: MTC; Signature; Vineyard; LCT; Atlantic; Playwrights. Film: She Said; Joker; St. Vincent; Changeling; Dan in

Real Life; Thirteen Days; In America; Down to You; Royal Tenenbaums. TV: (partial list) “Billions,” “Blacklist,” “The Night Of,” “Mozart in the Jungle,” “Newsroom,” “Girls,” “Flight of the Conchords,” “Sopranos,” “Law & Order: SVU” (recurring). Education: BA, Wesleyan; MFA, NYU Graduate Acting.

VERO MAYNEZ (U/S Andrea) is a queer, Mexican-American actor. Onscreen, one can catch Vero inaugurating @cheezit TikTok in a Cheez-It Puff’d commercial, and in the upcoming indie horror film Mr. Dust (executive producer, Eddie Linker).

Selected theatre credits include: Alma (u/s, American Blues Theater), The Snow Queen (The House Theatre), Feel the Spirit (Shotgun Players), and The Mathematics of Love (Brava Theater Center). Vero has her MFA in Acting from DePaul University and is represented by Paonessa Talent. @veronicamaynez, veromaynez.com DON NOBLE (U/S Carl/Tica). Broadway: Once, End Of The Rainbow. National Tours: An American In Paris, (M. Baurel), Mamma Mia! (Sam). Regional productions across Canada and the United States, including As You Like It (The Dukes), Woody Guthrie’s American Song, To Kill A Mockingbird (Atticus), James Joyce’s The Dead (Gabriel), Funny Girl (Nicky Arnstein), An Ideal Husband (Lord Goring), Blood Brothers (Narrator), Henry IV, The Tempest. Recent TV: “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “FBI,” “Madam Secretary,” “The Blacklist.” Proud husband of the amazing Laurie Wells.

TREY SANTIAGO-HUDSON (U/S Juan, Toro) is thrilled to be making his debut at Second Stage Theater with this production of Toros! A proud graduate of Binghamton University, he has also studied acting at Stella Adler and Oregon Shakespeare. OffBroadway credits include Jeremy in Awake (The Barrow Group) and Joe in What the Wine Sellers Buy (Segal Theatre Center).

TV Credits include “New Amsterdam” (NBC) and “The Walking Dead: Dead City” (AMC). Recent film credit: You Hurt My Feelings (A24). Trey would like to thank his family for their never-ending support and guidance. Enjoy the show!

DANNY TEJERA (Playwright) is a writer, actor and teacher from Madrid. He’s a member of EST/Youngblood and has received fellowships from MacDowell, Millay Arts, and Tofte Lake Center. He has received a commission from Second Stage Theater. Plays include Toros (Second Stage Judith Champion New Voices Series) and Scary Faces Happy Faces (Samuel French OOB Short Play Festival, The Best 10 Minute Plays 2023). He teaches with The Bushwick Starr’s Senior Storytelling program. He got a B.A. from Columbia University and a Playwriting M.F.A. at Hunter College/UTAustin, where he was mentored by Annie Baker and Branden Jacobs-Jenkins.

GAYE TAYLOR UPCHURCH (Director) is a freelance director with a background in dance. World premieres include: Sanaz Toossi’s Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons); Anna Zeigler’s The Last Match (Old Globe, Roundabout); Clare Lizzimore’s Animal (Studio Theater, Atlantic Theater); Lauren Gunderson’s The Half-Life of Marie Curie (Audible, Minetta Lane); Nick Gandiello’s The Blameless (Old Globe); Laura Marks’s Bethany (WP). Other: The Member of the Wedding (Williamstown); Year of Magical Thinking (Arena Stage); Simon Stephens’ Bluebird and Harper Regan (Atlantic); the musical Songbird (Two River); Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It and An Iliad (Hudson Valley Shakespeare). Proud member of SDC. ARNULFO MALDONADO (Scenic Design).

Broadway: A Strange Loop (Tony Nominee); Topdog/Underdog; Trouble In Mind. OffBroadway: Shhhh (Atlantic); Nollywood Dreams, School Girls... (MCC); The New Englanders, Sugar in Our Wounds (MTC; Lortel Award); Dance Nation, Wish You Were Here (Playwrights Horizons); To My Girls (Second Stage); A Case For The Existence of God, Fires in the Mirror (Signature).

2020 Obie Sustained Excellence in Set Design, Princess Grace Fabergé Theater Award, Henry Hewes Design Award nominee. IG: arnulfo.maldonado.design arnulfomaldonado.com

ENVER CHAKARTASH (Costume Design) is a British-born Turkish Cypriot. Broadway: A Doll’s House, Is This A Room. Off-Broadway: Public Obscenities (Soho Rep.), The Trees (Playwrights Horizons), Wolf Play (MCC/ Soho Rep.), Catch as Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons), English (Atlantic Theater Company/Roundabout Theatre Company), Bodies They Ritual (Clubbed Thumb). Other recent works: Tina Satter/Half Straddle’s Ghost Rings; The Wooster Group’s A Pink Chair, The B-side, The Town Hall Affair, Early Shaker Spirituals; Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group’s POWER. Film: Reality (HBO).

BARBARA SAMUELS (Lighting Design).

New York theater includes designs at LCT, Soho Rep, Ars Nova, NYTW, Playwrights Horizons, WP Theater, The Bushwick Starr, Beth Morrison Projects, New Georges, and Clubbed Thumb. Regional: Pig Iron, Bard SummerScape, The Alley, Long Wharf Theatre, A.C.T., Woolly Mammoth, Playmakers, Kansas City Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse, Shakespeare Theater Company, Trinity Rep, and Chautauqua. Education: BA, Fordham; MFA, NYU. Member USA829.

New Georges Affiliated Artist. WP Lab 202224. www.barbarasamuels.com DARRON L WEST (Sound Design) is a Tonyand Obie Award-winning sound designer whose 33-year career spans theater and dance, Broadway and Off Broadway. His work has been heard in over 650 productions all over the United States and internationally in 15 countries. Additional honors include the Drama Desk, Lortel, Audelco and Princess Grace Foundation Statue Award, among many others. His soundscapes for Photograph 51, Paradise Blue, and Coal Country can be heard on Audible.

GENEVIEVE ORTIZ (Production Stage Manager) Off-Broadway: Catch As Catch Can (Playwrights Horizons); Patience (Second Stage); Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members (Soho Rep); 7 Minutes (Waterwell); What to Send Up When It Goes Down (Playwrights Horizons, BAM, Woolly Mammoth, A.R.T, UTR at The Public, The Movement Theatre Company); Hercules (The Public); Recent Alien Abductions (The

Play Company); Is God Is (Soho Rep). Regional: Living and Breathing (Two River Theater); The Christians (Baltimore Center Stage).

CAROLINA ARBOLEDA (Stage Manager) Broadway: A Strange Loop, Slave Play. OffBroadway: This Land Was Made (Vineyard Theatre), Man Cave (Page 73), (The Movement Theatre Company, BAM, Playwrights Horizons). Regional: Fandango For Butterflies (And Coyotes) (En Garde Arts / La Jolla Playhouse), A Christmas Carol (The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), La Egoista (Actors Theatre of Louisville.) International: Festival de Teatro Alternativo, Festival de Mujeres En Escena Por la Paz. MARCUS WATSON (Fight/Intimacy Coordinator) is a fight director, intimacy coordinator, actor, movement specialist and teaching artist working in NYC. His violence and intimacy work has been seen on and off Broadway and on many streaming platforms. Marcus pulls techniques from his extensive background in physical storytelling to ensure that the story being told is clear, safe and intentional. He is honored to be a part of the creative team of Toros. Find him on IMDb or IDCProfessionals.com THE TELSEY OFFICE (Casting) With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, The Telsey Office casts for theater, film, television, and commercials. The Telsey Office is dedicated to creating safe, equitable, and anti-racist spaces through collaboration, artistry, heart, accountability, and advocacy.

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Among Second Stage’s 180 productions are the 2015 Pulitzer Prize winner Between Riverside and Crazy by Stephen Adly Guirgis; the 2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Next to Normal by Tom Kitt and Brian Yorkey; the 2012 Pulitzer Prize winner Water by the Spoonful by Quiara Alegría Hudes; Mary Page Marlowe by Tracy Letts; The Last Five Years by Jason Robert Brown; Dogfight by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul and Peter Duchan;

Dear Evan Hansen by Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, and Steven Levenson; Clyde’s and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark by Lynn Nottage; Trust and Lonely, I’m Not by Paul Weitz; Grand Horizons by Bess Wohl; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz; Everyday Rapture and Whorl Inside a Loop

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General Manager.. ........................................... .................. Chris McGinnis Associate General Manager................................ ....................... Connor Davis Interim General Management Assistant .............. ................ Onastasia Ebright Company Manager, McGinn/Cazale Theater ............ Christian Rene Palomares Company Manager, Hayes Theater...................... ....................... Ashlyn Smith Director of Operations.................................... ........................ Jim Joseph Operations Coordinator..................................... ................. Fabiana De Cicco Building Manager, Tony Kiser Theater ..................................... Steven Ganpat Chief Engineer, Hayes Theater. . ....................................... Richardo Deosarran Engineers .................................................. Kevin Beresford, NFN Deosarran, Devendra Gangaram Porter, Hayes Theater....................................... ................... Travis Chinapen House Manager, Tony Kiser Theater.................... .................. Joshua Schleifer Database Administrator......................................................... Kathleen Smith IT Help Desk Associate........................................................ Christian Frazier Director of Human Resources & EDI..................................... Megan Thiele Interim Chief Financial Officer................................................ Lynne Pratt Administrative Manager.................................... .................... John Mackessy Controller.............................................................................. Guanying Lan HR & Payroll Manager....................................... ...................... Andrew Hurst Finance Associate............................................. .............. Gabriela Hammond Finance Assistant . . ........................................... .................. Catharine Guiher Executive Assistant.................................................................... Daniel Kang Chief Development Officer................................................. Lindsey Forden Director of Institutional Partnerships................. ................ Catherine Sumner Director of Special Events.................................. ................. Brianna Sauvage Director of Strategic Partnerships...................... .............. Robert Friedlander Manager of Development Operations.................. ....................... Jose Guzman Special Events Manager..................................................... Onastasia Ebright Special Events Associate......................................................... Kayla Juntilla Manager of Institutional & Educational Partnerships................... Cassidy Kaye Membership Manager........................................ .................. Kayla Eisenberg Membership Benefits Associate............................................ Willyan Ferreira Chief Marketing Officer................................... ................. Laura Dilorenzo Associate Director of Marketing & Communications......................... Abby Hull Assistant Director of Marketing & Design............ ................. Cynthia Astmann Community Outreach & Group Sales Manager..... ......................... Stacy Leigh Digital Marketing Associate............................... ..................... Margot Trouvé Marketing Intern.. ..................................................................... Ryan Gomez Director of Sales Operations........................... ..................... Artie Sievers Ticket Operations Manager................................ ............................ Ed Precht Ticket Services Manager ....................................................... Aaron Roitman Assistant Ticket Services Manager.......................................... Audrey Adams Ticket Services Assistants................................. Sunni Day, Marleny Figueroa

ARTISTIC Director of Artistic Production........................ ...................... Bennett Leak Manager of Artistic Development.............................................. Stella Bowles Manager of Artistic Programs............................................... Will Steinberger Artistic Assistant ................................................................ Jonathan Chang

New York State Council on the Arts Commission .................... Johnny G. Lloyd Second Stage Commissions.................... Lydia R. Diamond, Larissa FastHorse, Ross Golan, Alexis Scheer, Keenan Scott II, Jen Silverman, Danielle Stagger, Anna Ziegler Kenyon Playwrights Conference Commission................................ Lauren Yee 2ST/CTG Stage-2-Stage Commissions........................ Lisa D’Amour, Lisa Kron, Young Jean Lee, Matthew Lopez, Lynn Nottage, Sarah Ruhl, Paula Vogel Stage-2-Stage Commissions are supported in part by Louise Bryson, Terry Lindsay, Chula Reynolds, Sophia Collier Peter Jay Sharp Foundation Commission................................... Danny Tejera

PRODUCTION Senior Production Manager.................................................. Michael Catalan Production Consultant............................................................. Josh Helman Assistant Production Manager........................................ Cassandra Richards Production Administrative Assistant...................................... Kathryn Turney Lead Technician................................................................... Stephen Walton

PRESS REPRESENTATIVES POLK & CO. Matt Polk Tom D’Ambrosio Lauren Duffy Emma Bird

CASTING THE TELSEY OFFICE Karyn Casl, CSA Charlie Hano, CSA

SPECIAL SERVICES Advertising Agency ...................................................................... AKA NYC Branding............................................................................................... 2x4 Attorney......................................................................... Carolyn Casselman, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP Attorney............................................................... Stephanie Grassi, Esq. P.C. Real Estate Attorney ............................................................. Robert S. Nash, Erin L. Chizner/Schulte Roth & Zabel, LLP Accountant........................................................ Withum, PC/Karen Kowgios Banking ..................... Flagstar Bank/Thomas Kasulka/Margaret M. Monigan Insurance...................................................................... DeWitt Stern Group Web Design and Development........................................................ Plusthink

STAFF FOR TOROS Company Manager............................................ Christian Rene Palomares Production Stage Manager. . ............................................. Genevieve Ortiz Assistant Stage Manager................................................... Carolina Arboleda Production Manager.......................................................... Cameron Camden Fight/Intimacy Coordinator ................................................... Marcus Watson Production Assistant................................................................. Joseph Distl Assistant Director.................................................................. Violeta Picayo Associate Scenic Designer .............................................................. Joe Burt Assistant Costume Designer .................................................... Aleta Findlay Assistant Lighting Designer.................................................. Vittoria Orlando Assistant Sound Designer................................................. Ryan Matthew Hall Production Electrician ................................................... Desi McCoy-Fischer Lighting Programmer....................................................... Evan Herman-Chin Light Board Operator........................................................... Aaliyah Stewart Production Audio................................................................... Bridget Mundy Audio Engineer — A1................................................................... Mark Rufino Props Supervisor ........................................................... Samantha Shoffner Wardrobe Supervisor................................................ Mary Margaret Powers Deck Carpenter.................................................................... Stephen Walton

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