Performances Magazine San Diego | The Old Globe, September 2025
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6 In the Wings
Broadway San Diego’s Les Miserables at Civic Theatre; Huzzah! and SMALL at The Old Globe; The Heart at La Jolla Playhouse; and exhibits at Oceanside Museum of Art, Comic-Con Museum and MOPA@SDMA.
8 Feature: “ The Joan” Opens at Liberty Station
The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center opens at the Arts District Liberty Station as the new home of Cygnet Theatre.
13 Dining
A few of our favorite fall food finds, including The Henry in Carlsbad (pictured), Mastro’s Ocean Club San Diego, Juni, The Witherby and more.
24 Parting Thought
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CLASSICS & PREMIERES
RETURNING TO THE Civic Theatre Sept. 16-21, Les Miserables—presented by Broadway San Diego—is Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg’s Tony Award-winning musical phenomenon. Imprisoned for 19 years, Jean Valjean is freed by officer Javert—who vows to bring Valjean back to prison after Valjean breaks parole, then later uses money from stolen silver to reinvent himself as a mayor and factory owner. Eight years later, Valjean becomes the guardian of a young child, Cosette, after her mother’s death, amid Javert’s relentless pursuit. broadwaysd.com At The Old Globe, catch the world-premiere musical, Huzzah!, Sept. 13-Oct. 19; and West Coast premiere of SMALL, written and performed by former horse jockey Robert Montano, Sept. 27-Oct. 19. theoldglobe.org La Jolla Playhouse stages the world-premiere musical, The Heart, through Sept. 28; the story follows a heart on a truly life-saving journey, after a young surfer’s life is cut short, and a stranger receives a second chance at life. lajollaplayhouse.org
National tour of Les Miserables; Robert Montano, playwright and performer of SMALL
From top: art from Tokidoki: 20 Years of Kawaii & Chaos at Comic-Con Museum; “Seven Sisters” by artist Mirae kh RHEE at MOPA@SDMA; “Architecture of Tangible Memory” by Hammad Abid, on view at Oceanside Museum of Art.
Constellations to Comics
MUSEUMS
A CELEBRATION OF of all things “fiber art,” the Oceanside Museum of Art presents Fabulous Fiber through Nov. 2. The exhibit comprises unique pieces by SoCal artists that meld contemporary artworks and tactile creations with beading, weaving, crochet, quilting, felting, basketry and more. oma-online.org MOPA@SDMA presents Mirae kh RHEE: Constellations through Jan. 4, 2026. Born in Seoul and raised in the U.S. after her adoption, Berlin-based artist Mirae kh RHEE brings us an immersive installation charting a course through the universe’s vast unknown—infusing her personal journey with ancient myths, Korean objects and constellations. mopa.org Comic-Con Museum unveils Tokidoki: 20 Years of Kawaii & Chaos, spotlighting Japanese-inspired pop culture brand Tokidoki; and Growing Up Luann: 40 Years of Comics, centered on an ‘80s comic strip about a 13-year-old girl named Luann. comic-con.org
A New Home for Cygnet Theatre
WELCOME TO THE JOAN AND IRWIN JACOBS PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
by STEPHANIE SAAD
WHEN THE BELOVED local theater company Cygnet Theatre opens Follies—its inaugural show at its new home, The Joan, at Liberty Station, on Sept. 10—it will mark the culmination of years of planning, dreaming and fundraising in a unique collaboration.
The Joan and Irwin Jacobs Performing Arts Center, known as “The Joan” in honor of Joan Jacobs, is the first live performance building at Arts District Liberty Station, and a permanent home for Cygnet—San Diego’s third-largest theater company. It features two theater
spaces—the 289-seat Joseph Clayes III proscenium theater and the 150-seat flexible Dorothea Laub Theater (“the Dottie”)—as well as dressing rooms, two green rooms, a costume shop, dedicated rehearsal and orchestra spaces, and office space for the company. For patrons, there are two refreshment areas, indoor and outdoor lobby spaces, ADA accessibility, concessions, restrooms, a box office, lots of free parking, and proximity to Liberty Station’s dining options.
“It’s very exciting, brand-new and beautiful!” says
Bill Schmidt, executive director. Schmidt co-founded Cygnet Theatre with artistic director Sean Murray 22 years ago. Originally performing in a 165-seat space in Rolando, Cygnet moved to the 246-seat Old Town Theatre in 2008; and had been operating on 10-year leases. “This is Cygnet’s long-term plan for my lifetime. With the move to The Joan, we can diversify our programming. We can rightsize: do more intimate and more challenging work in the studio, and more bigger shows in the
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Step into the brilliantly inventive world premiere BESIDE MYSELF, where modern anxiety meets magical possibility, as a revolutionary medical procedure creates an unexpected double dose of identity crisis. This witty, surreal comedy sparkles as two versions of one woman, trapped in a single body, wrestle for control with hilarious and profound results. From Paul Slade Smith, the clever mind behind The Angel Next Door, The Outsider, and Unnecessary Farce, comes a comedic exploration where finding your best life means learning to embrace both sides of yourself.
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large space. The building allows us to consolidate all our staff in one place. In Old Town, we had offices off-site, a rehearsal space two miles away. Now everyone is in the same building. It makes a huge difference, and helps create cohesiveness and team-building.”
For Arts District Liberty Station (formerly known as the NTC Foundation)— the 25-year-old nonprofit tasked with running the arts and entertainment portion of Liberty Station—the renovation of historical Naval Building 178 into The Joan is a great example of the nonprofit’s mission of adaptive reuse. “It is a unique building, built by the Navy in 1942,” says Lisa Johnson, president and CEO of Arts District Liberty Station. “Its design was about function, not form. The original, historic part of the building was what we had to retain. The Navy added on two other sections, including a part in the back which we were
able to salvage for the rehearsal space.” Johnson says the building’s partly flat roof and some water intrusion over the years led to some of the addition being demolished and rebuilt into the mainstage theater. “But from the outside it looks just like it did before, retaining its historical integrity.”
When the Navy announced the Navy Training Center’s closure in 1997, and the City of San Diego developed the NTC Master Plan, 26 buildings were set aside for arts and cultural uses. With 18 of the 26 historical buildings renovated, Arts District Liberty Station is now home to more than 100 tenants— including artists, galleries, creative outfits, museums, dining, retail and nonprofits—and sees millions of visitors each year.
As is always the case with historical renovation, once the construction began on Building 178, there were surprises. “We
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Joseph Clayes III Theater at The Joan
Welcome to The Old Globe and this production of Deceived. Our goal is to serve all of San Diego and beyond through the art of theatre. Below are the mission and values that drive our work. We thank you for being a crucial part of what we do.
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The mission of The Old Globe is to preserve, strengthen, and advance American theatre by: Creating theatrical experiences of the highest professional standards; Producing and presenting works of exceptional merit, designed to reach current and future audiences; Ensuring diversity and balance in programming; Providing an environment for the growth and education of theatre professionals, audiences, and the community at large.
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The Old Globe believes that theatre matters. Our commitment is to make it matter to more people. The values that shape this commitment are:
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Theatre cultivates imagination and empathy, enriching our humanity and connecting us to each other by bringing us entertaining experiences, new ideas, and a wide range of stories told from many perspectives.
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The communities of San Diego, in their diversity and their commonality, are welcome and reflected at the Globe. Access for all to our stages and programs expands when we engage audiences in many ways and in many places.
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We are making theatre matter to more people on the ancestral home and unceded lands of the Kumeyaay, also known as Tipai-Ipai, a tribe of Indigenous peoples who live at the northern border of Baja California in Mexico and the southern border of California in the United States. The Kumeyaay have stewarded through generations the lands and waterways of what is now known as San Diego.
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Christian Buckley† INCOMING CHAIR
DIRECTORS
Jules Arthur†
Terry Atkinson†
Valerie A. Attisha
Richard M. Brenner
Eleanor Y. Charlton
Nicole A. Clay†°
Elaine Bennett
Darwin†°
Ann Davies†°
George S. Davis†
Mark Delfino
Pamela A. Farr†
Harold W. Fuson Jr.†°
Jennifer Greenfield†
Nishma Held†
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
George C. Guerra† CHAIR
Paula Powers† SECRETARY
Susan Hoehn
Dana Hosseini
Jeff Hughes
Daphne H. Jameson
Peter Landin
Evelyn Olson Lamden†°
Keven Lippert
Noelle Norton, Ph.D.
David Jay Ohanian
Deirdra Price, Ph.D.
Jeffrey J. Redondo
Sue Sanderson†
Karen L. Sedgwick†
Jean Shekhter
Steven J. Stuckey
Karen Tanz†
Committee member
Keiko Green
Shelley Butler
Aaron Coleman
Inda Craig-Galvan
Bernardo Cubria
Justin Emeka
Nathan Englander
Fiasco Theatre
Keelay Gipson
Debra Turner
Alison Valentine
Vladimir Victorio
Pamela J. Wagner
Cassandra Weinlein
Sheryl White†°
Margarita Wilkinson
Karin Winner
Vicki L. Zeiger†°
Kathie Zortman
HONORARY DIRECTORS
Anthony S. Thornley† TREASURER
EMERITUS
DIRECTORS
Mrs. Richard C. Adams*
Clair Burgener*
Mrs. John H. Fox*
Audrey S. Geisel*
Paul Harter*
Gordon Luce*
Dolly Poet*
Sandra Redman
Deborah Szekely
Hon. Pete Wilson
Garet B. Clark
J. Dallas Clark*
Donald L. Cohn°*
Bea Epsten*
Sally Furay, R.S.C.J.°*
Kathryn Hattox°*
Bernard Lipinsky*
Delza Martin*
Conrad Prebys*
Darlene Marcos Shiley
Patsy Shumway
Harvey P. White
Carolyn YorstonWellcome*
Chair
RESIDENT ARTISTS
Lawrence E. Moten III
COMMISSIONED ARTISTS
Keiko Green
Dea Hurston*
Tony Meneses
Richard Nelson
Katya Ojeda and Luis Gerardo Villegas
Marisela Treviño Orta
Joel Perez
Kemp Powers
Heather Raffo
Tori Sampson
Eddie Torres
Daniel J. Watts
Sam White
ASSOCIATE ARTISTS
memoriam
Eddie Torres
Whitney White
Laura Winters
Craig Wright
Powers Playwriting Fellows
Mathilde Dratwa
Nimisha Ladva
Seayoung Yim
In recognition of their unique contribution to the growth of The Old Globe and their special talent, we take great pride and pleasure in acknowledging as Associate Artists the following individuals who have repeatedly demonstrated, by their active presence on our stages and in our shops, that wherever else they may work, they remain the heart and soul of the Globe.
William Anton
Gregg Barnes
Jacqueline Brookes*
Lewis Brown*
Victor Buono*
Wayland Capwell*
Kandis Chappell
Eric Christmas*
Patricia Conolly
George Deloy
Tim Donoghue
Richard Easton*
Tovah Feldshuh
Monique Fowler
Robert Foxworth
Ralph Funicello
Lillian Garrett-Groag
Harry Groener
A.R. Gurney*
Joseph Hardy*
Mark Harelik
Bob James
Charles Janasz
Peggy Kellner*
Tom Lacy*
Diana Maddox
Nicholas Martin*
Dakin Matthews
Deborah May
Katherine McGrath*
John McLain
Jonathan McMurtry*
Stephen Metcalfe
Robert Morgan
Patrick Page
Ellis Rabb*
Steve Rankin
William Roesch*
Robin Pearson Rose
Marion Ross
Steven Rubin
Ken Ruta*
Douglas W. Schmidt
Seret Scott
Richard Seer
David F. Segal
Richard Seger*
Diane Sinor*
Don Sparks
David Ogden Stiers*
Conrad Susa*
Deborah Taylor
Irene Tedrow*
Sada Thompson*
Paxton Whitehead*
James Winker
Robert Wojewodski
G. Wood*
*In memoriam
FROM BARRY
I’ve written previously in this space about how much I love the way that each play The Old Globe produces brings me new opportunities to learn. So far this year I’ve been able to delve into, among many other fascinating areas, the history of the antebellum South; the sociology of the British theatre of the 1970s; the emotional tolls taken by both the 2011 Fukushima tsunami and also the 9/11 attacks; and the culture of South Asian immigrant communities of the Midwest. I don’t know what other life pursuit could have exposed me to such a range of fascinating subject matter, and I’m grateful to the theatre for doing so. But with tonight’s play, Deceived, I’ve been able to learn about something more arcane—and in this case also more impactful—than anything I’ve looked into before: international copyright law.
Deceived is based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play Gaslight, which later inspired the famous George Cukor film of 1944, and which contributed an all-too familiar verb to our lexicon. When someone gaslights us, they are nodding to this play, whether they know it or not. In 2022, at Canada’s wonderful Stratford Festival, Johnna Wright and Patty Jamieson adapted Hamilton’s play for a new generation of theatregoers. That Canadian adaptation is proudly and logically entitled Gaslight. Alas, we cannot call it that.
Why not?
Because of a little-known but consequential detail of international copyright law. In Canada, works enter the public domain 50 years after their author’s death if their author died prior to 1972; the rule is called “Life Plus 50.” In the United States, all works enter the public domain 70 years after their author’s death: “Life Plus 70.” (Three years ago Canada changed its rule to “Life Plus 70” for authors who died after 1972.) Since Patrick Hamilton died in 1962, Gaslight entered the public domain in Canada in 2012. Here, it won’t do so until 2032. So while tonight’s play is very much Gaslight, and it would be so named if it were performed this very night at theatres in Toronto, Vancouver, or Calgary, in San Diego we must pretend not to know this, and instead christen it Deceived
Well, that which we call a rose by any other word would smell as sweet, and that which we call Deceived is
every bit as suspenseful and engaging as its alternate namesake. Wright and Jamieson’s version blows the dust off its surface and crucially—and necessarily, and wonderfully—lends agency to the woman at its center, who, in the original, is basically a passive femme fatale. In Wright and Jamieson’s version, she is transformed into the key driver of the play’s events. This simple act of recentering totally remakes the play, and injects into it a contemporary energy and sense of urgency that Hamilton’s original no longer provides. In this sense, Wright and Jamieson have done for Gaslight what Jeffrey Hatcher did on this very stage for Dial M for Murder a few seasons ago. These authors have met their predecessors with respect and even reverence, and then taken them by the hand and gently escorted them through a time machine that has reinvented their work for a new era.
When seeking a director for this show, it was an easy decision to invite Delicia Turner Sonnenberg. A San Diego-based treasure, she is an artist Globe audiences know well. Delicia’s defining characteristic as a director is her range. She can do comedy and drama, classic work and contemporary. She’s brilliant with actors, and her sense of mise en scene is elegant, detailed, and refined. Also, like the adapters whose work we present tonight, Delicia is committed to putting women at the center of the stories she tells. She’s assembled a stellar creative team and powerhouse cast to tell a story sure to send chills and keep you on the edge of your seat. I’m very grateful to her.
We are extremely proud that our production of Deceived is the West Coast premiere of this adaptation, and we are certain that like Dial M before it, the play will have a long and productive trajectory through the American regional theatre. I’ll even venture that its life in our country will be long enough to see its name change back to Gaslight!
Thanks for coming. Enjoy the show.
Barry Edelstein
ERNA FINCI VITERBI ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
PRESENTS
Timothy J. Shields AUDREY S. GEISEL MANAGING DIRECTOR
BY
JOHNNA WRIGHT PATTY JAMIESON
ADAPTED FROM GASLIGHT BY PATRICK HAMILTON
Paige Hathaway SCENIC DESIGN
Nicole Jescinth Smith COSTUME DESIGN
Andrea Caban DIALECT COACH
Bryan Ealey LIGHTING DESIGN
Caparelliotis Casting CASTING
Fitz Patton ORIGINAL MUSIC AND SOUND DESIGN
Marie Jahelka PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER
DIRECTED BY
DELICIA TURNER SONNENBERG
August 9 – September 7, 2025
Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
This adaptation based on Patrick Hamilton’s Gaslight was originally produced at the Shaw Festival Theatre (Ontario, Canada) in 2022. It received its US premiere at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre (Florida, USA) in 2024.
Deceived is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
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What first drew you to Gaslight as a text worth revisiting and adapting for contemporary audiences?
Johnna Wright (JW): I always really liked an old-fashioned genre story—a thriller, a mystery— especially the ones where so much of it is about atmosphere and style. I was always interested in Gaslight, but there seemed to be an inherit problem with the way the wife was portrayed. If you’ve read the original or seen the movie—which is actually not that much like the play—in both cases, she just doesn’t have as much agency as we would want.
Patty and I decided to work on a project together because we both had small children and needed to talk to another adult regularly. We thought, “Let’s look at Gaslight,” and the important thing we wanted to address was how not to sideline the woman, but how to put her at the center of her own story.
Patty Jamieson (PJ): It’s such a good story, it’s worth telling! But there’s that problem. Neither of us — and none of our friends—would sit idly by and accept what happens to Bella. So why should she? It just made sense in adapting, to write it with a modern lens and let the people who have voices be heard.
This adaptation reframes Bella not as a helpless victim but as her own rescuer. What were the biggest structural or tonal shifts you had to make to support that evolution?
PJ: If you know the original, you know we left a character out—the police detective who comes in and explains everything.
1938
Patrick Hamilton’s original play Gas Light premiered in London’s West End.
1940
The first film adaptation of Gaslight (now one word) was released in the UK, directed by Thorold Dickinson.
1941
Gas Light made its Broadway debut at the Belasco Theatre, retitled Angel Street for U.S. audiences. It ran for 1,295 performances— one of the longest-running non-musical plays in Broadway history.
JW: Yes, so in the original, there isn’t really a step-by-step process of someone figuring things out. Someone just shows up and says, “Let me tell you what’s happening.” We had to ask: If no one comes to rescue Bella, what will she do? How will she figure it out herself? Where will she start? That part was actually really fun to work through.
PJ: Structurally, we had to ask, who is she going to talk to? How is the audience going to get access to the story going on in her head? We had to play around with that a lot.
JW: That meant Bella’s relationships with the household staff are different in our version. They’re not confidants, but they are people she can talk to. Those relationships developed new meaning.
Can you describe your collaboration process as co-adapters? How did you divide the work, or did you write everything together?
PJ: We often get asked that, even by writer friends: How do you write a play together? For us, it’s kind of like having a gym buddy. It keeps us both moving forward. We think of what needs to be done, and one of us says, “I’ll do that,” and then we come back and look at it and improve it.
You can keep writing and rewriting forever, so there’s a generosity in our process—like, maybe I don’t love that word choice, but I trust Johnna, and maybe it’ll fall away on the next pass anyway. That kind of generosity is really key to how we work.
JW: Yeah, we don’t debate too much, because sometimes the whole thing just gets rewritten. And usually the better idea comes through in the end. I think the best of both of us winds up in the play.
And because there are two of us, we have to talk through the big ideas out loud. We had a moment with another play where we asked, “Why are we telling this story?” And when we pulled that thread, the whole ending had to be rewritten. If you write by yourself, maybe you can be more intuitive with that. But we have to put it into words because there’s two of us, and that shared sense of purpose is really helpful to our process.
1944
MGM’s Hollywood adaptation of Gaslight premiered, starring Ingrid Bergman, Charles Boyer, and Angela Lansbury. Lansbury earned her first Oscar nomination at just 17 years old for her performance as the maid Nancy, and Bergman won her first Academy Award (Best Actress) for her role as Bella.
1961
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, this year marked the first recorded use of gaslighting as a verb, derived from the title of the play and films.
British medical journal The Lancet published the article “The Gas Light Phenomenon,” which drew directly on the plot of Gaslight to detail two real-life cases.
1969
What kinds of audience responses have surprised or moved you the most since the premiere?
JW: I was really surprised by the second act—there’s a moment when Bella knows what’s going on, but she pretends she doesn’t. I wasn’t prepared for the audience to relate to that with audible laughter, and even with cheers. People were so excited not only that she started figuring things out, but also that she was smart enough to keep her cards close.
PJ: We saw it in Brisbane, in the balcony, surrounded by students. They were levitating in their seats. It was wild. When we were writing, we kept saying: We have to keep it moving forward, but we can’t let the audience get ahead of Bella. That was our metric. If they were surprised along with her, we were doing okay.
If Deceived helps expand or redefine how we view women in classic thrillers, what kind of legacy would you hope it leaves behind?
JW: I think there’s this baked-in idea that female stories are about emotion and male stories are about action. If a story is exciting, it must be a male story. I hope Deceived shows that you can put a woman at the center of a story, and it’s still a great story.
PJ: A colleague described it as bit of a Trojan horse—you come expecting a classic thriller, and out comes this more feminist story. But you don’t need to know that going in. It just works. People ask what we changed from the original, and the truth is not that much, in some ways. The bones are still there. But the perspective has shifted. And that makes all the difference.
Before it became one of the most talked-about terms of the 21st century, gaslight was just that: a light powered by gas.
In the 1800s, gas lighting revolutionized cities and homes. But there was a side effect: whenever someone turned on a gas lamp in one room, the lights would dim slightly throughout the house. It’s this flicker that gave rise to one of the most enduring metaphors for psychological manipulation.
That metaphor was born on stage. In Patrick Hamilton’s 1938 play, a husband slowly convinces his wife that she’s losing her mind: hiding objects, denying events, and pretending to leave home in the evenings while secretly being at work in hidden parts of the house. Bella’s awareness that the gaslights are dimming, and the ways in which she is forced to question her own perception, form the heart of the metaphor.
Today, the term gaslighting is used to describe a wide range of behaviors in both personal relationships and public discourse. But its roots remain in the flickering shadows of a gas-lit room, and in a theatrical thriller that first imagined what it might feel like when the lights dim… and no one believes you.
BRITTANY BELLIZEARE
(Bella) The Old Globe: debut. Broadway: McNEAL. Off Broadway: FLEX (Lincoln Center Theater), Scarlett Dreams (Greenwich House Theater), sandblasted (Vineyard Theatre), Fat Ham (The Public), RETREAT (National Black Theatre). Regional: Create Dangerously (Miami New Drama), Blues for an Alabama Sky, The Bluest Eye (Guthrie), Wine in the Wilderness, King Hedley II, Seven Guitars (Two River Theater), Romeo & Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare Theatre), The Magician’s Daughter (The Geva), Skeleton Crew (Baltimore Center Stage), Sunset Baby (TheaterWorks Hartford), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Radio Play, Mountaintop (Northern Stage), The Last Tiger in Haiti (La Jolla Playhouse/ Berkeley Rep). TV: “The Equalizer,” “American Rust,” “The Blacklist,” “The Knick.” Short film: “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul,” “Everything Absolutely.” Education: M.F.A. in Acting, The New School for Drama; B.S. in Mathematics, Spelman College.
MAGGIE CARNEY
(Elizabeth) The Old Globe:
Pygmalion. Backyard Renaissance: Misery, August: Osage County La Jolla Playhouse: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter and the Starcatcher. Cygnet Theatre: Sons of the Prophet, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, A Christmas Carol Intrepid: The Quality of Life Diversionary: Divine Sister. Mo’olelo: Yellow Face; Milvotchkee, Visconsin. Seattle Rep: Bill Irwin’s Largely/New York, The Tempest Writers Theatre: A Phoenix Too Frequent, Spite for Spite Famous Door Theatre Company: Ghetto. BoarsHead Theater: Bad Dates. Touchstone Theatre: Bedroom Farce, Into the Woods Bailiwick: Smash Currently, Maggie can be seen on the long-running “Days of Our Lives,” playing Rita Lesley, wily executive assistant to the DiMera Family.
KENNEDY TOLSON
(Nancy) Regional: Indian Princesses (La Jolla Playhouse), Marble Rooftop, Emma Has Church (La Jolla Playhouse: DNA New Play Festival).
TV: “P-Valley” (Starz). UC San Diego: Refuse It, Gone Missing, Vinegar Tom, Cancelina, X, Orlando. Education: M.F.A. Acting, UC San Diego. Kennedy is proud to make her professional debut in this show. kennedytolson.com, @kennedy.tolson on Instagram.
TRAVIS VAN WINKLE
(Jack) Regional: Death on the Nile (Arena Stage; world premiere), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Stella Adler Theatre). Television series regular roles include “FUBAR,” “You,” “The Last Ship,” and “Instinct.” Recurring roles on “Made for Love,” “Hart of Dixie,” and “Happy Endings.” Film credits include Road House, Friday the 13th, Meet the Spartans, Transformers, and Accepted. Travis is a proud mentor with Big Brothers and serves as a Global Ambassador for the non-profit BuildOn, helping build schools in Haiti, Malawi, Nepal, Nicaragua, and Senegal. IG: @travisvanwinkle.
MORGAN CARBERRY
(u/s Elizabeth) (she/her) The Old Globe: Twelfth Night. Regional: Mother of God (La Jolla Playhouse Latinx New Play Festival), Memphis (Moonlight), Cabaret (ion; SDCC nomination), BLISS (or Emily Post is Dead!) (MOXIE; dir. Delicia Turner Sonnenberg), Billy Elliot (SDMT), understudy for Alice Ripley in the world premiere of Everybody’s Talkin’ (SD Rep). Honors: Marshall Scholarship. Education: M.A. in European Classical Acting from Drama Centre London, M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Performance from Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. @morgancarberry on Instagram.
JUSTIN LANG
(u/s Jack) The Old Globe: understudy in The Janeiad, understudy in Empty Ride, understudy in Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt 2B. Select credits: Clyde’s (MOXIE), August: Osage County (Backyard Renaissance; Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Dramatic Production), George Milton in Of Mice and Men (New Village Arts), Eddie Fenton in Trouble In Mind (MOXIE). Other credits: Backyard Renaissance, Common Ground, Diversionary, ion, Lamb’s, MOXIE, New Fortune, North Coast Rep, Playwrights Project, Poor Players, Roustabouts, Sierra Rep. Founding member of Craig Noel Award-winning New Fortune Theatre Company and teaching artist with La Jolla Playhouse.
LILIANA TALWATTE
(u/s Bella, u/s Nancy) The Old Globe: debut. Theatre: Mary’s Wedding (Scripps Ranch Theatre), Thanksgiving Play (Carlsbad Playreaders), Twelfth Night of the Living Dead, We Lovers (Loud Fridge Theatre Group), The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Roustabouts), The 39 Steps (New Village Arts), Proof, Steel Magnolias, Abigail’s Party, Witchland (Backyard Renaissance), PoeFest, TwainFest (Write Out Loud). Education: B.F.A. Theatre from the
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University of Michigan. lilianatalwatte.com, @liliana_zt on Instagram.
JOHNNA WRIGHT
(Playwright) grew up and began her career in Western Canada. In 1990 she co-founded Vancouver’s Bard on the Beach Shakespeare Festival. Johnna received her B.A. in Theatre from UBC, and M.F.A. in Directing from the University of Alberta. She then co-founded and ran Vancouver’s Solo Collective Theatre, premiering more than 25 new works by Western Canadian playwrights. Johnna is a two-time recipient of Vancouver’s Jessie Richardson Awards for both Outstanding Direction and Outstanding Production, as well as other directing awards. Directing projects include Much Ado About Nothing (Bard on the Beach), The Rivals (Blackbird Theatre), and The (Post) Mistress (Gordon Tootoosis Nīkānīwin Theatre). As a dramaturg, Johnna has supported the development of dozens of new Canadian plays and playwrights. She also works as an editor for writers of long-form fiction and memoir.
PATTY JAMIESON
(Playwright) has worked as an actor, singer, dancer, musician, and teacher at theatres across Canada, the U.S. and Germany. Notably, she has been a member of the Acting Ensemble at the Shaw Festival for 26 seasons. There she has played roles in over 60 plays, including Ragtime, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Light in the Piazza, The Sea, Sunday in the Park with George, Sweeney Todd, Rope, Happy End, Cabaret, The Women, Major Barbara and Pygmalion. Patty works with many local arts organizations in her hometown as producer, writer and performer, and teaches arts, music and theatre for Brock University, Music Niagara, and Yellow Door Theatre Project. She received her M.Ed. in 2018.
DELICIA TURNER SONNENBERG
(Director) is a San Diego-based director whose work has been celebrated for its boldness, creativity, and commitment to diverse storytelling. Delicia has directed Skeleton Crew and Trouble in Mind for The Old Globe. Other credits include the Alley Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, South Coast Rep, Utah Shakespeare, Theatre Squared, Island City Stage, Two River Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Theatre Calgary, Roundhouse Theatre, Center Rep, and San Diego Rep, among others. She is a founder and former Artistic Director of MOXIE Theatre, which she helmed for 12 acclaimed seasons. Deliciaturnersonnenberg.com
PAIGE HATHAWAY
(Scenic Design) The Old Globe: debut. Regional: The Mirror Crack’d (Alley Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors, Sister Act (Ford›s Theatre), Rent, Assassins (Arden), Sojourners, The Mountaintop (Round House), Frozen (Olney Theatre Center), Hair, Penelope, No Place to Go, Rent (Signature), Primary Trust, And Then There Were
None (Everyman Theatre), Dial M for Murder (Village Theatre), A New Brain (Barrington Stage), The... Untruths of Juan Garcia, Miss Molly (Amphibian Stage), A Distinct Society (Writers Theatre), Mary Poppins, The Sound of Music, Matilda, Cinderella (The Muny), The High Ground (Arena). Education: M.F.A. University of Maryland, College Park; B.F.A. University of Oklahoma. paigehathawaydesign.com. Instagram: @paigehathawaydesign.
NICOLE JESCINTH SMITH
(Costume Design) The Old Globe: Trouble in Mind. Recent theatre credits include Mirror Crack’d (The Alley Theatre), A Room in The Castle (Folger Theatre/CSC), and Gem of the Ocean (Two River Theatre). Ms. Smith has worked on everything from “America’s Got Talent” to the Metropolitan Opera. She was also the costume designer on the new HBO original series “The Chair Company” starring Tim Robinson and is lead stylist for brands such as Adidas and Zillow. Upcoming: collaboration with Oscar-nominated director and writer RaMell Ross. Education: M.F.A (Univ. of Tennessee) and B.F.A. (Univ. of Miami) in Theatrical Costume Design.
BRYAN EALEY
(Lighting Design) The Old Globe: Trouble In Mind (Asst. Lighting Designer). Broadway: The Wiz (Asst. Lighting Designer). Off Broadway/New York: The Fires (Soho Repertory Theatre; world premiere), Bunny Bunny (The Feath3r Theory). Regional: Sharon (Cygnet Theatre; world premiere), Everybody (Antaeus Theatre), The Royale (Creede Repertory Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors (Stages), Fefu and Her Friends (Catastrophic Theatre), Camp Logan (The Ensemble Theatre), Topdog/Underdog (4th Wall Theatre), Primary Trust (TheatreWorks Hartford) Honors: 2024 Henry Hewes Design Award nomination for The Fires, 2023 Craig Noel Award Winner for Outstanding Lighting Design for Sharon. M.F.A. Lighting Design, UCSD. bryanealey.com.
FITZ PATTON
(Sound Design and Original Music) Broadway: I Need That, The Rose Tattoo (Tony nomination), Choir Boy (Tony, Drama Desk Awards), Bernhart/Hamlet, Three Tall Women, Meteor Shower, Present Laughter, The Little Foxes, The Humans (Drama Desk Award), Our Mother’s Brief Affair, Blackbird, The Father, An Act of God (Drama Desk nomination), It’s Only a Play, Airline Highway, The Other Place, Outside Mullingar, Casa Valentina. Select Off Broadway: HEART; The Perplexed; Greater Clements; The Mother; Torch Song; Napoli, Brooklyn; Yen; Prodigal Son; The Other Place (Drama Desk nomination); When the Rain Stops Falling (Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel Awards). He is the founding editor of Chance Magazine, a serialized art book about performance and design.
ANDREA CABAN
(Dialect Coach) The Old Globe: Appropriate. La Jolla Playhouse: Three Summers of Lincoln. Berkeley Rep: The Thing About Jellyfish. South Coast Rep: Absurd Person Singular, Chinglish, Death of a Salesman, Madwomen in a Volvo, Peter and the Starcatcher Film: Megalopolis (dir. Francis Ford Coppola), Dangerous Games to Play (Badlands, Scott Strauss). Co-director and designated Master Teacher of Knight-Thompson Speechwork; she is known internationally as a teacher of accent teachers. She has co-written two books on speech and accents: Experiencing Speech: A Skills-based, Panlingual Approach to Actor Training and Experiencing Accents: A KnightThompson Speechwork Guide for Acting in Accent. Speech and Accents Professor, UCSD. andreacaban.com.
CAPARELLIOTIS CASTING
(Casting) The Old Globe: The Janeiad, One of the Good Ones, Empty Ride, Appropriate, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson - Apt 2B, Fat Ham, Stir, King James, English, The Age of Innocence, Exotic Deadly, Under a Baseball Sky, What We Talk About…, Dial M for Murder, Mala, Shutter Sisters, Hurricane Diane, Noura, They Promised Her the Moon, Tiny Beautiful Things, Barefoot in the Park, The Wanderers, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Skeleton Crew. Select Broadway: Good Night and Good Luck, Eureka Day, Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, Grey House, Ohio State Murders, Macbeth, The Minutes, King Lear, Hillary and Clinton, Ink, The Waverly Gallery, Meteor Shower, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Jitney, Blackbird, Disgraced Additional theatre: MTC, Signature, Atlantic. TV: “New Amsterdam” (NBC), “American Odyssey” (NBC).
MARIE JAHELKA
(Production Stage Manager) The Old Globe: The Janeiad, Appropriate, Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, Crime and Punishment, A Comedy, The XIXth, The Taming of the Shrew, Shutter Sisters, The Underpants, Native Gardens, The Wanderers, Red Velvet. Regional: The Ballad of Johnny and June, SUMO, Put Your House in Order, Hollywood, Ether Dome (La Jolla Playhouse), The Inheritance (Geffen Playhouse), Once on This Island (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), A Chorus Line (Moonlight Stage Productions), The Humans, Aubergine, Evita, Violet (San Diego Repertory Theatre), The Last Five Years, HIR, Shakespeare’s R&J, Mistakes Were Made (Cygnet Theatre Company) Education: B.A. in Theatre Arts from University of San Diego.
KENDRA STOCKTON
(Stage Management Swing) The Old Globe: Noises Off, Regency Girls, Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, Henry 6, The Age of Innocence, The XIXth, Come Fall in Love, The Taming of the Shrew, Trouble in Mind, Hair, Almost Famous, As You Like It, The Gods of Comedy, Familiar, Looking for Christmas, Much Ado About Nothing, Benny & Joon, October Sky, Bright Star, Dog and Pony, Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Regional: House of
Joy (San Diego Rep), Home of the Brave, #SuperShinySara, Guards at the Taj, The Orphan of Zhao, The Who & The What (La Jolla Playhouse), The Loneliest Girl in the World (Diversionary), miXtape (Lamb’s Players), White Christmas (San Diego Musical Theatre).
BARRY EDELSTEIN
(Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director) is a stage director, producer, author, and educator. His Globe directing credits include The Winter’s Tale, Othello, The Twenty-Seventh Man, the world premiere of Rain, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Hamlet, the world premiere of The Wanderers, the American premiere of Life After, Romeo and Juliet, the world premiere of What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank, the two-part epic Henry 6, and, during the pandemic, Hamlet: On the Radio. He also directed All’s Well That Ends Well as the inaugural production of the Globe for All community tour, and he oversees the Globe’s Classical Directing Fellowship program. In addition to his recent Globe credits, he directed The Tempest with the Los Angeles Philharmonic at Walt Disney Concert Hall in 2018 and The Wanderers Off Broadway with Roundabout Theatre Company in 2023. As Director of the Shakespeare Initiative at The Public Theater (2008–2012), Edelstein oversaw all of the company’s Shakespearean productions as well as its educational, community outreach, and artisttraining programs. At The Public, he staged the world premiere of The Twenty-Seventh Man, Julius Caesar, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, and Steve Martin’s WASP and Other Plays. He was also Associate Producer of The Public’s Broadway production of The Merchant of Venice starring Al Pacino. From 1998 to 2003 he was Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company. His book Thinking Shakespeare is the standard text on American Shakespearean acting. He is also the author of Bardisms: Shakespeare for All Occasions. His podcast “Where There’s a Will: Finding Shakespeare” was produced by the Globe and Pushkin Industries. He is a graduate of Tufts University and the University of Oxford, where he studied as a Rhodes Scholar.
TIMOTHY J. SHIELDS
(Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director) joined The Old Globe as Managing Director in 2017, bringing with him a wealth of theatrical experience and a deep commitment to community service. Since his appointment, he has been actively involved in the San Diego community, currently serving as an executive committee member of the board of the Balboa Park Cultural Partnership; as a member of the City of San Diego’s Balboa Park Committee; and as an advisory board member of the San Diego Downtown Partnership, following his term as a board member of the San Diego Regional Chamber of
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Commerce’s LEAD program. In his over four decades of service to non-profit theatres, Shields has held several prominent positions. He was the Managing Director of Princeton, New Jersey’s McCarter Theatre Center from 2009 to 2017, and held the same role at Milwaukee Repertory Theater from 1998 to 2009, and at Geva Theatre Center in Rochester, New York, from 1992 to 1998. Additionally, he has held administrative roles at the Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis; the Denver Center Theatre Company; and earlier at McCarter Theatre Center. He has been a significant figure in the non-profit theatre field, serving as President of the League of Resident Theatres and as Vice President of the board at Theatre Communications Group, and as a grant panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. Other notable roles include being the co-founder and President of Theatre Wisconsin; a member of Milwaukee’s Latino Arts Board; the Chair of the ArtPride NJ board; and being a board member of the Cultural Alliance of Greater Milwaukee. Tim holds a B.F.A. in Drama Production from Carnegie Mellon University in his hometown of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and remains to this day a diehard fan of the Steelers and Pirates.
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Caparelliotis Casting Joe Gery
PATRON INFORMATION
For more information about ticket policies and patron services, please visit TheOldGlobe.org.
This theatre operates under an agreement between the League of Resident Theatres and Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
The Directors are members of the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers, an independent national labor union.
This Theatre operates under an Agreement with the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees Local No. 122.
The Scenic, Costume, Lighting and Sound Designers in LORT Theatres are represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829, IATSE.
TAKING PHOTOS IN THE THEATRE
Audience members may take photos in the theatre before and after the performance and during intermission. If you post photos on social media or elsewhere, you must credit the production’s designers by including the names below.
Please note: Photos are strictly prohibited during the performance. Photos of the stage are not permitted if an actor is present. Video recording is not permitted at any time in the theatre.
Enjoy a free Shakespeare production in your neighborhood!
By Stephanie Ochoa
Our Globe for All Tour (GFA for short) helps make theatre more accessible to our entire community. It’s the signature effort of The Old Globe’s arts engagement work, and a springboard to deeper conversation with neighbors and partner organizations.
Every year the Globe takes a professional theatre production on the road and visits community partners in San Diego and Tijuana, offering free performances, workshops, talkbacks, and catered meals. This fall brings a bold and visually stunning production of William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar to venues near you!
This year, Arts Engagement held a community-wide poster competition inviting artists from San Diego and Tijuana to submit their designs to be considered for show art.
“It’s amazing to have a visual representation of Julius Caesar be created by local community members themselves, and I can’t wait to showcase it all over San Diego County once the tour begins” said Adena Varner, Director of Arts Engagement
Mark your calendars! The 2025 Globe for All Tour of Julius Caesar will run October 28 through November 22. Make sure to sign up for the Globe’s newsletter and be the first to get additional details!
Julius Caesar was actually the first play staged in 1935 as part of the California Pacific International Exposition.
The plays are performed “in the round,” which gives audiences an opportunity to enjoy the show in an intimate space and interact with the actors.
Since the inception of the Globe for All Tour in 2014, approximately 16,000 community members have experienced a performance.
Marcela Lorca (The Old Globe’s Stir) will direct the multitalented company of artists in the upcoming, action-packed Julius Caesar
Tours are professionally staged, and have included Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Winter’s Tale, Shakespeare: Call and Response, Henry V, The Comedy of Errors, and As You Like It.
(from left) Audience members at the Globe for All tour of Shakespeare’s Henry V, 2022. The cast of the Globe for All Tour of Shakespeare’s The Comedy of Errors, 2023. Anthony Green as Antigonus in the Globe for All tour of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale, 2019. Photos by Rich Soublet II.
CELEBRATING 90 YEARS AT THE OLD GLOBE
BY KATIE RODRIGUEZ
In honor of The Old Globe’s 90th anniversary, each program will highlight milestones and memories that have shaped our history. This is a look at the 1970s and 1980s, two decades defined by both profound loss and unparalleled resilience.
THE GLOBE FIRE AND THE FIRST FESTIVAL STAGE
Tragedy struck on March 8, 1978 when an arson fire engulfed the Old Globe Theatre, leaving only the original concrete stage floor buried in the ashes. Thankfully, the administrative offices, rehearsal hall, dressing rooms, storage areas, scenery and costume shops, as well as the Cassius Carter Theatre (now the Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre) were all left standing and no one got hurt.
Swiftly springing into action, the Globe’s Board of Directors struck a deal with the San Diego City Council to build a temporary theatre in the canyon just east of the Carter. Built in under two months and opening only 100 days after the Globe fire, the Festival Theatre allowed for the 29th San Diego National Shakespeare Festival to carry on uninterrupted. The festival kicked off with a production of Henry V co-directed by Artistic Director Craig Noel and Globe-veteran Eric Christmas.
THE FUNDRAISING CAMPAIGN
To rebuild the lost theatre, a fundraising campaign was launched with a lofty goal of $6.3 million. Never to be deterred in the face of adversity, Craig Noel rallied constituents from all across San Diego County, determined to remind the public of the value of theatre and the profound importance of the spaces that bring it to life. Telethons, galas, community bake sales, and car washes cropped up around the city in support of the fundraising efforts, along with major gifts from generous local philanthropists. Just as they did in 1936 when the theatre was originally set to be demolished and in 1947 after the end of World War II, the community once again showed up for The Old Globe when it mattered most.
REBIRTH, REOPENING, AND A VISIT FROM THE QUEEN
The rebuilt Old Globe Theatre opened in January 1982 with a production of As You Like It directed by Craig Noel. That following year, Queen Elizabeth II visited the theatre to unveil a sculpture of Shakespeare that is on display in the upstairs lobby to this day.
Not only was this era marked with celebration for the restored theatre but it also represented a major turning point in the artistic life of the institution, with the Globe also becoming a year-round professional Actors’ Equity theatre.
INTRODUCING JACK O'BRIEN
Craig Noel brought Jack O’Brien to San Diego to make his Globe debut directing the 1969 production of The Comedy of Errors. By 1975, O’Brien was directing Noel himself, having cast him as the Stage Manager in Our Town. This project marked Noel’s long awaited return to the stage and a landmark collaboration between the visionary artistic duo.
With numerous Globe productions and his first Tony nomination for the 1976 revival of Porgy and Bess under his belt, O’Brien rightfully secured himself a reputation as a leading artistic luminary from coast to coast. So when Craig Noel stepped down in 1981 after nearly four decades leading the institution, O’Brien was personally selected to be his successor. O’Brien’s ability to marry the profound classics that the Globe was built upon with the innovative new era of American musical theatre would go on to redefine The Old Globe and the regional theatre ecosystem at large.
With Noel now in the role of Executive Director and Tom Hall as Managing Director, the trio ushered in a new era of artistic excellence on the stages of The Old Globe. In June 1984, O’Brien and Hall accepted the Regional Theatre Tony Award, which honored the Globe’s “notable past achievements and continuing dedication to theatre artistry” and cemented the theatre’s reputation as a nationally important artistic space.
THE FESTIVAL FIRE
In October 1984, a second devastating fire destroyed the temporary outdoor Festival Stage. Though originally designed to be a mere placeholder in the absence of the Old Globe Theatre, the space had grown to be beloved by both artists and audiences alike in its few short years. The Globe community responded with characteristic swiftness to rebuild a new, permanent outdoor structure in its footprint. The Lowell Davies Festival Theatre, named for a former Board President in honor of his 44 years of steadfast commitment, was completed in time for the 1985 summer Shakespeare Festival to run as originally scheduled.
SONDHEIM AND THE REGIONAL OUT-OF-TOWN TRYOUT
In 1986 the Globe turned the regional theatre world on its head with the original production of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s Into The Woods. Prior to the 1960s, new works were largely developed by East Coast commercial theatres. However, after the successful development and landmark Broadway transfer of The Great White Hope from Arena Stage in 1968, discussion sparked as to whether regional nonprofit theatres could play a cost-effective role in producing the next big Broadway hits.
Seeing Arena’s success, O’Brien and Hall brought that nonprofit model into the world of musical theatre, and with it, Into The Woods was born. They drafted an agreement that allowed the creative team to produce the show on a regional budget, reducing labor and technical expenses, and invited commercial producers to “enhance” the production with additional funds.
The Globe retained artistic control and would receive a royalty if the subsequent Broadway production succeeded, as Into the Woods ultimately did.
Pioneered at The Old Globe, this development model is now standard around the world and integral to how our theatre continues to operate these many decades later.
OUR THANKS
Please join The Old Globe’s generous family of donors and help create theatre that lives beyond the stage. For more information on how to get involved with the Friends of The Old Globe, contact Dillon Hoban at (619) 684-4142 or dhoban@TheOldGlobe.org. To get involved as a Circle Patron with a gift of $3,000 or above, contact Bridget Cantu Wear at (619) 684-4144 or CirclePatrons@TheOldGlobe.org. Make a gift at any level online at TheOldGlobe.org/Donate. In appreciation of your generosity and impact, all donors receive special benefits and behind-the-scenes experiences that bring you closer to the theatre you love.
LEAD PRODUCTION SPONSORS
Financial support is provided by The City of San Diego. The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund provides leadership support for The Old Globe’s year-round activities.
TERRY ATKINSON
PAMELA FARR AND BUFORD ALEXANDER
ANN DAVIES
The Old Globe is deeply grateful to our Artistic Angels and Benefactors, whose vital support of the Annual Fund helps us make theatre matter to more people. For additional information on how to support the Globe at these extraordinary levels, please contact Lauren Bergquist at (619) 684-4141 or lbergquist@TheOldGlobe.org.
Artistic Angels ($200,000 and higher annually)
THE ESTATE OF DAVID J.
THE DONNA VAN EEKEREN FOUNDATION
THE HENRY DONALD WOLPERT AND BARBARA WOLPERT FAMILY TRUST
Benefactors ($100,000 to $199,999)
In Memoriam
TERRY ATKINSON THE KAREN AND DONALD* COHN† FUND FOR EMERGING ARTISTS
THE BERNARD J. EGGERTSEN, M.D. FUND
THE THEODOR AND AUDREY GEISEL FUND
THE KATHRYN HATTOX CHARITABLE TRUST
PAULA AND BRIAN POWERS THE JEANNIE POLINSKY RIVKIN ARTISTIC FUND
THE ERNA FINCI VITERBI ARTISTIC DIRECTOR FUND In memory of Erna Finci Viterbi THE ESTATE OF CAROLYN YORSTON-WELLCOME
ELAINE BENNETT DARWIN ANN DAVIES
PAMELA FARR AND BUFORD ALEXANDER
HAL AND PAM FUSONGEORGE C. GUERRA
JOAN* AND IRWIN JACOBS FUND OF THE JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
JEAN AND GARY SHEKHTER
DARLENE MARCOS SHILEY† In memory of Donald Shiley
KAREN AND STUART TANZ
GILLIAN AND TONY THORNLEY
EVELYN MACK TRUITT* TRUST VICKI AND CARL ZEIGER
EDUARDO CONTRERAS/ THE SAN DIEGO U-T
JO BOBBIE MACCONNELL TRUST
NOVICK AND CAROL L. NOVICK
EXTRAORDINARY LEADERSHIP
Since the founding of The Old Globe in 1935, heroic leadership has made the theatre a cultural icon in San Diego and a leader in the American theatre. The following individuals and organizations, recognized for their tremendous cumulative giving, comprise a special group of friends who have played leading “behind-the-scenes” roles, helping to create productions on our three stages and our programs in the community.
— $25 million and higher —
The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund
Donald* and Darlene Shiley
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$11 million and higher — Conrad Prebys*
City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture
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$10 million and higher —
Karen and Donald* Cohn
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$9 million and higher —
Sheryl and Harvey White
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$7 million and higher — Kathryn Hattox*
Viterbi Family and The Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Fund
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$4 million and higher —
The James Irvine Foundation
Paula and Brian Powers
The Shubert Foundation
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$3 million and higher — David C. Copley Foundation County of San Diego
— $1 million and higher —
Mary Beth Adderley
Terry Atkinson
Bank of America
Bentivoglio Family Fund
Diane and John* Berol
Stephen and Mary Birch Foundation, Inc.
California Arts Council, A State Agency
California Bank & Trust
California Cultural & Historical Endowment
J. Dallas and Mary Clark*
The Roy Cockrum Foundation
Joseph Cohen and Martha Farish
Peter Cooper and Erik Matwijkow
Valerie and Harry Cooper
Elaine and Dave* Darwin
Ann Davies
Una Davis and Jack McGrory
Silvija* and Brian Devine
Helen Edison*
Pamela Farr and Buford Alexander
Hal and Pam Fuson
Globe Guilders
HM Electronics, Inc.
Joan* and Irwin Jacobs
The Kresge Foundation
The Lipinsky Family
Estate of Beatrice Lynds*
Peggy and Robert Matthews Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
Victor H.* and Jane Ottenstein
The Parker Foundation
(Gerald T. and Inez Grant Parker) Prebys Foundation
Price Philanthropies
Estate of Dorothy S. Prough*
Qualcomm
Jeannie and Arthur Rivkin*
Jean and Gary Shekhter
Karen and Stuart Tanz
Theatre Forward
Gillian and Tony Thornley
Evelyn Mack Truitt*
United Wells Fargo
Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome*
The Henry Donald Wolpert and Barbara Wolpert Family Trust
Vicki and Carl Zeiger
Anonymous (1)
*In memoriam
THE ARTS ENGAGEMENT GIVING CIRCLE
Thank you to members of The Arts Engagement Giving Circle for ensuring the continued vibrancy and accessibility of the arts by supporting programs that engage, inspire, and make a lasting impact on youth, young adults, and families throughout San Diego and beyond.
Dede Alpert
Terry Atkinson
Beth and Rich Brenner
Julia Carrington Hall
Nikki and Ben Clay
Dale Connelly
David C. Copley Foundation
Cox Communications
Elizabeth Cushman
Elaine Bennett Darwin
Ann Davies
Steve and Susan Davis
Pamela Farr and Buford Alexander
Elaine Galinson and Herb Solomon
Robert and Dorothy Ganz
George C. Guerra
Jill Holmes
Marguerite Jackson Dill
Jerri-Ann and Gary Jacobs
The Jules and Gwen Knapp
Charitable Foundation
Michael Kossman
Drs. Janice and Matt Kurth
Benjamin and Kimberly Lee
Peggy and Robert Matthews Foundation
Marcia A. Mattson
National Alliance for Musical Theatre
Nordson Corporation Foundation
The Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation
Michael and Christine Pack
Susan Parker
Patrons of the Prado
Barbara J. Petersen
David and Mary Ann Petree
PNC Bank
Price Philanthropies
Qualcomm
Julia and Alexa Querin
ResMed Foundation
Russ and Marty Ries
Nancy J. Robertson
Sue and Duff Sanderson
Sing Your Song, Inc.
Kathleen and Al Steele
University of San Diego U.S. Bank
The Donna Van Eekeren Foundation
Viasat
Chris and Pat Weil
Jennifer Jackson Werner
Laura Williams
Anonymous (2)
INSTITUTIONAL DONORS
Artistic Angels
($200,000 and higher annually)
Benefactors
($100,000 to $199,999)
Ovation Circle
($75,000 to $99,999)
Artist Circle ($25,000 to $49,999)
Director Circle ($10,000 to $24,999)
Founder Circle
Producer Circle
($50,000 to $74,999)
($5,000 to $9,999)
Higgs Fletcher & Mack, LLP
Impact Visual Arts The Westgate Hotel
Craig Noel Circle ($3,000 to $4,999)
Goldman, Sachs & Co.
Northern Trust Bank
Ranch & Coast Magazine
RKG Wealth Management
Become a Corporate Partner of The Old Globe. Contact Lauren Bergquist at (619) 684-4141 or lbergquist@TheOldGlobe.org.
OUR THANKS ANNUAL FUND DONORS
In order to make theatre matter in the lives of more people, The Old Globe—a not-for-profit theatre—relies on the support of our community. We thank our Circle Patrons and Friends of The Old Globe members for these generous annual fund gifts that help us deliver great theatre and life-changing arts engagement programs.
Artistic Angels ($200,000 and higher annually)
Terry Atkinson
California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation
The City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture
The Karen and Donald* Cohn Fund for Emerging Artists
The Estate of Bernard J. Eggertsen, M.D.
The Theodor and Audrey Geisel Fund
Kathryn Hattox
Charitable Trust
HM Electronics, Inc.
The Estate of David J. Novick and Carol L. Novick
Benefactors ($100,000 to $199,999)
Elaine Bennett Darwin
Ann Davies ♥
Pamela Farr and Buford Alexander ♥
Hal and Pam Fuson ♥
George C. Guerra
Joan* and Irwin Jacobs Fund of the Jewish Community Foundation
The Jo Bobbie MacConnell Trust
Jean and Gary Shekhter ♥
Ovation Circle ($75,000 to $99,999)
Diane Berol in memory of John Berol
Paula and Brian Powers ♥
Prebys Foundation
Price Philanthropies
The Jeannie Polinsky Rivkin Artistic Fund
The Shubert Foundation
The Donna Van Eekeren Foundation
The Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Fund ♥
The Henry Donald Wolpert and Barbara Wolpert Family Trust
The Estate of Carolyn Yorston-Wellcome
Darlene Marcos Shiley, in memory of Donald Shiley
Karen and Stuart Tanz ♥
Gillian and Tony Thornley
The Estate of Evelyn Mack Truitt
Elizabeth Cushman United Qualcomm
Producer Circle ($50,000 to $74,999)
Jules and Michele Arthur
The Geno Barcone and Ed Hastings Fund for Artistic Excellence
Beth and Richard Brenner
Nikki and Ben Clay ♥
The Joseph Cohen and Martha Farish New Play Development Fund ♥
Leonard Hirsch, in memory of Elaine Hirsch
Carol and George Lattimer
Artist Circle ($25,000 to $49,999)
Alicia and Jonathan Atun
Break-Away Tours
California Bank & Trust
Ric and Eleanor Charlton
City National Bank
David C. Copley Foundation
Cox Communications
George Davis
Brian K. Devine, The Devine Family Fund in memory of Silvija Devine
Elaine Galinson and Herb Solomon
Richard and Jennifer Greenfield
Deborah A. and David* A. Hawkins
Hervey Family NonEndowment Fund at
The San Diego Foundation
Thao and Jeff Hughes
Gail and Doug Hutcheson
Patrons of the Prado
Sue and Duff Sanderson
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Debra Turner
Urban Kitchen Catering
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Wilkinson Family Charitable Fund
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Hutchins Family Foundation
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Laurents / Hatcher Foundation
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Family Foundation
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Viasat
Anonymous (2)
Director Circle ($12,500 to $24,999)
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Family Foundation
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Elizabeth Bluhm
Bright Event Rentals
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In memory of James Jessop Hervey
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Charitable Foundation
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Anonymous (2)
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Champion ($1,000 to $2,999)
Scott • Jennifer and Kenneth Sghia-Hughes • Michele and John Shumate • Lupe Smith • Snake Oil Cocktail Company • John and Lynn Spafford • Mark Luers and Kent Springer • Steve Steinke • Paul Strand and Sarah Hillier • Louise and Jack Strecker • Lisa Striebing • Serve to Lead Foundation • Clifford and Kay Sweet • David Sweet • John and Gail Tauscher • The Three Tigers Fund, in memory of Alan Gary • Casey and Julie Tibbitts • Teresa Ann Trucchi • Dean Ujihara • Natalie C. Venezia and Paul A. Sager • Gretchen Vik • Vino Carta • Diana Weinrieb and John Flannery • J.D. and Linda Wessling • Drs. Christine White and Joseph Traube • Shelley White • Carol and Dennis Wilson • Carole Wilson • Cass Witkowski Family • Joseph and Mary Witztum • Tatiana Zunshine and Miles Grant • Anonymous (9)
Advocate ($500 to $999)
Mio Aldana • Matthew and Melissa Allen • Robin Allgren • Debra and Dave Alpert • Weston Anson • Mr. Alexander S. Ardwin • Frank Armijo • J.M. Ascenzi, Ph.D. • Uma and Raghu Ayer • Chris Babcock and Megan Freitas • Kelli Bailey • Sharon Beamer • Jane Benton • Blue Family • Joyce and Bob Blumberg • Gaylyn Boone • Stewart Bornhoft and Stephen McNabb • Nina and Tony Borwick • Rick and Aletta Bostock • Cherisse and Edward Brantz • Julio Bravo • Mary Brewer • Cliff and Lorie Briggs • Beth Bruton • Terri Bryson • Gordon Carrier, FAIA • Margaret Carroll • Paul Chambers and Kate Belan • Alan Charles • Tracy Cummings and Rita Jeffries • Nancy Cunningham • Michael Stetz and Jennifer Davies • Steve and Susan Davis • Don and Julie DeMent • Steven Diamond • Mary Donnelly • Denis and Joan Dowd • Carol L. Dunbar • Gary and Rachel Edwards • Jay Evarts • Cheryl and Chris Farber • Isabella Ferrera and Jody Rogers • Monica Singh Foerster • Julie and Randy Forehand • Betsy Frank and John Kafka • Caroline Frederick • Judith and Dr. William Friedel • Dr. Richard and Randee Friedman • John and Natalie Fulton • Grant Gelvin and Kat Vaughan • Lawrence and Nancy Goldstone • George D. Hardy • Karen Hartz • Kaaren Henderson Kerlin • Robert and Sabine Hildebrand • Margaret Holl • David and Corinne Hollings • Tom Horvath and Claudia Baranowski • Ken Jackson • Nora Taylor Jaffe • Kenneth Janda • Kenneth and Catherine Jones • David and Susan Kabakoff • Nan and Gery Katona • Chuck and Laurie Katz • Drs. Irvin and Nancy Kaufman • Kay Krueger and John Krueger • Robert and Elena Kucinski • Ellie Kussman • Christopher and Monica Lafferty • Marsha and Karl Landgraf • Larios Consulting Services, LLC • Alexis Lasheras • Ira Levine • Marshall and Judy Lewis • Zita Liebermensch • Jim and Virginia Lloyd • Eric and Lori Longstreet • Sande L. Hall and Kyle E. Lovel • Leanne Lynn in memory of Dr. David Lynn • Pamela Partlow and Bruce Maigatter • Mercy and Ron Mandelbaum • Richard Manion • Scott Markus and Luci Lander • Wendy Martinez • Harold and Beverly Martyn • Joanne Marugg • Rev. Stephen J. Mather • Andrea Mathews • Jessica Woodward Mazalewski • Ronald McCaskill and Robyn Rogers • Wallace McCloskey • Douglas and Edie McCoy • Mac George McKay • Maggi McKerrow • Laura and John McWilliams • Emma Melton • Nathan Meyers and Vicki Righettini • Jenifer Miller • Thomas Moore • JR Morgan • Dr. Robert and Ms. Anne Morrison • Charles and Susan Muha • Rich and June Nygaard • Fi and Jim O’Brien • Thomas and Tanya O’Donnell • Stephen O’Neill and Judy O’Neill • Barbara L. Parry, M.D. • Gigi and Jeffrey Pincus • Kathleen and Cameron Jay Rains • Leslie Reed • Ann Regan • Dr. and Mrs. Louis and Nancy Regas • The Regnery Family • Vivien Ressler • Patrick and Marti Ritto • John and Johanna Roach • Steve Rosen and Jamie Wood • Mary Rossi • Dr. Norman and Barbara Rozansky • Ted Rutter • Susan Salt • Lillian Schafer • Shari and Frederick Schenk • Connie Schroeder in memory of Martin Schroeder, Jr. • Jonathan Schuhl • Sharry Seal • Natalie H. Service • Georgina and Lu Sham • Dr. Katharine Sheehan and Dr. Frederick Walker* • Debra Siegel • Mitchell and Elizabeth Siegler • Beverly and Howard Silldorf • Anne and Ronald Simon • Malcolm E. Smith • Mark and Elaine Smith • Norman and Judith Solomon • Alan and Eve Stall • John and Gail Steel • Hilton and Deb Stemwedel • Nancy Stirling • Shauna Stokes • Jill Stone • Ronald and Susan Styn • Eric and Marian Suggs • Dan and Katie Sullivan • Norm and Laura Swauger • Laurel Trujillo and Dennis MacBain • Melissa Usher • Gladfred Viery • Karen Walker • John Robert Wallace • John Walsh • Rex and Kathy Warburton • Ken and Susan Watson • Rosanne and Dean Weiman • Drs. Miles and Leslie Weinberger • Michael S. and Paula D. West • Francis and Leslie Wiegand • Daniel Wojta • Chuck and Curry Wolfe • Maggie Wolfe-Johnson • Wright Family • Brendan M. and Kaye I. Wynne • Helena Yao • James and Suzy Yates • Anonymous (26)
*In memoriam ♥ Globe Sustainers: donors who have pledged multiyear gifts
This list is current as of July 21, 2025. We regret any omissions or errors. Please contact Janet Myott at jmyott@TheOldGlobe.org to make a correction to this list.
Jamila Demby · Director of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Access
FINANCE
Michelle Yeager · Director of Finance
Miranda Osguthorpe · Accounting Manager
Eugene Landsman · Payroll Manager
Trish Guidi · Accountant
Lisa Sanger-Greshko · Accounts Payable/Payroll Assistant
GENERAL MANAGEMENT
Alexander Orbovich · General Manager
Alexandra Hisserich · Associate General Manager
Jeff Sims · Assistant General Manager
Carolyn Budd · Assistant to the Artistic and Managing Directors
Tim Cole · Receptionist
FACILITIES
Crescent Jakubs · Facilities Director
TJ Miller · Custodial Supervisor
Patrick Aguayo, Raul Alatorre, Arturo Barajas, Natalie Alatorre, Violanda Corona, Milton Johnson, Carolina Lopez de Orellana, Steve Navarro, Kevin Ortiz, Carlos Perez, Victor Quiroz, Carlos Ragsdale, Vicente Ramos, Laura Vela, Ellie Webb · Building Staff
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Dean Yager · Information Technology Director
Justin Brown · Systems Administrator
Brittany Summers · Information Technology Assistant
PATRON SERVICES
Katie Lugo · Patron Services Director
Oliver de Luz · Associate Front of House Manager
Alex Bezdeka, Emily Bruning, Mags Holcomb, Jillian Jones, Sydney Villa, Victoria Weller, Arianna Yunker · House Managers
Shea Husted · Public Safety Supervisor
Dan Steinshouer · Public Safety Team Lead
Ethan Aguayo, Perla Aguilera, Michelle Ambriz, Ashley Bob, Joe Lams, Janet Larson, Megan Mair, Chris Moore, Omar Ortega, Aisha Parker, Andrew Vargas · Public Safety Team
HELEN EDISON GIFT SHOP
Barbara Behling, Joey Ramone Ugalde, Chris Woodward · Gift Shop Supervisors
LADY CAROLYN’S PUB
Patrice Aguayo · Pub Manager
Darlene Barnes, Deborah Montes, Rashad Williams · Pub Shift Supervisors
Andres Arias, Cole Christensen, Laci Covington, Sade Espinoza, Elizabeth Herrera, Lachlan MacDonald, Lea Rodriguez, Bert Rotzler · Pub Staff
HUMAN RESOURCES
Sandy Parde · Director of Human Resources
Lorraine Gutierrez · Human Resources Generalist
MARKETING
Dave Henson ·
Timothy J. Shields
Audrey S. Geisel Managing Director
Director of Marketing and Communications
Patty Onagan Consulting · Public Relations Director
Nina Garin · Associate Director of Marketing and Communications
Joyelle Cabato · Marketing Manager
Chanel Cook · Digital and Print Publications Designer
Rita Corona · Communications Associate
Hotaru Morita · Marketing Database Analyst
Stephanie Ochoa · Public Relations Associate
Katie Rodriguez · Communications Assistant
Shoshi Fleury · Marketing Assistant
SUBSCRIPTION SALES
Scott Cooke · Subscription Sales Manager
Catherine Andrews, Arthur Faro, Janet Kavin, Ken Seper, Grant Walpole · Subscription Sales Representatives
TICKET SERVICES
Brianne Siegel · Director of Ticket Services
Cynthia Navarro · Assistant Director of Ticket Services
Mio Rose Aldana, Junior Denton, Veronica Gehlken · Lead Ticket Services Representatives
Matt Pequeno · Group Sales Manager/Lead Ticket Services Representative
Manuel Aguilar, Charlie Amon, Jessica Angione, Kari Archer,Tyler Blevins, Blair Brightwell, Alex Gehrdau, Kelsey Gonzalez, Caroline Hyatt, Melyssa Mason, Cyrille Morales, Alexa Oviedo, Brenda Temple · Ticket Services Representatives
NEW PLAYS AND DRAMATURGY
Danielle Mages Amato · Director of New Plays and Dramaturgy
Rebecca Myers · Interim Literary Associate
Leo Angulo · Literary Associate
PHILANTHROPY
Lauren Bergquist · Director of Philanthropy
Bridget Cantu Wear · Deputy Director of Philanthropy
Anne Myers · Associate Director of Philanthropy, Major Gifts
Sydne Sullivan · Associate Director of Philanthropy, Operations
Jes Wade · Associate Director of Philanthropy
Dillon Hoban · Annual Giving and Donor Engagement Manager
Janet Myott · Philanthropy Administrator
Kathy Fineman · Donor Stewardship Coordinator
Caren Dufour · Philanthropy Assistant
Jerilyn Hammerstrom · Special Projects Manager
Bianca Dueno Acero · Interim Events Associate
Kaya Ortega · Institutional Giving Manager
Frankie Mananzan · Institutional Giving Associate
DONOR SERVICES
Corinne Bagnol, Adriane Carneiro, Felicita Johnson, Robert Lang, Emilie Le Saux, Isabella Pimentel, Josh Rodriguez, Kate Roe, Barry Rose, Jesabel Seguin, Vanessa Vargas · Suite Concierges
PRODUCTION
Robert Drake · Senior Producer
Benjamin Thoron · Production Manager
Leila Knox · Associate Production Manager and Production Stage Manager
Debra Pratt Ballard · Producing Associate
Ron Cooling · Company Manager
David McMaines · Assistant Company Manager
Luna Camitan · Company Management Assistant
Kevin Sakrekoff · Production Office Coordinator
TECHNICAL
Joe Powell · Technical Director
Capri Agresta, Lucas Skoug · Assistant Technical Directors
Eileen McCann · Charge Scenic Artist
Audrey Casteris · Resident Design Assistant
Diana Rendon · Scenery Office Coordinator
Gillian Kelleher · Head Shop Carpenter
Matt Giebe · Head Shop Carpenter, LDF Brandon Resenbeck · Stage Carpenter/Head Rigger, OGT
Jason Chohon · Charge Carpenter, SHW
Justin Allen, Jason Foster, Sam Gillespie, Evan Gove, Kevin Hall, Sloan Holly, Michael Lovett, Michael Przybylek, Albert Rubidoux, James Seiveno, Richard Siaba, William Slaybaugh, Jazen Sveum, Joe Valencia, Matthew Worden · Carpenters
W. Adam Bernard · Lead Scenic Artist
Jessica Amador, Sami Leon, HannaH Murdoch, Archi Rozas, Brenda Salamone, Courtney Ware · Scenic Artists
Sharon Granieri, Christian Woods · Lead Craft Artisans
Sadie Rothenberg · Craft Artisan
Megan Woodley · Wig, Hair, and Makeup
Designer and Supervisor
Colin Grice, Stephanie Kwik · Wig Assistants
Beth Merriman · Wardrobe Supervisor
Kelly Marie Collett-Sarmiento · Wardrobe Crew Head, OGT
Jazmine Choi · Wig Crew Head, OGT
Ruby Hays · Wardrobe Crew Head, SHW
Brooke Rutherford · Wig Crew Head, SHW
Keola Nii · Wardrobe Crew, SHW
Terrie Cassidy · Wardrobe Swing, SHW
Chanel Mahoney · Wardrobe Crew Head, LDF
Teresa Jove · Wig Crew Head, LDF
Max Callahan, Jacob Cooper, Lisa Fang, Raven Winter · Wardrobe Crew, LDF
Teresa Jove · Wig Crew, LDF
PROPERTIES
David Buess · Properties Director
Kayleb Kirby, Carolina Lopez
Assistant Properties Directors
Jeff Rockey · Supervising Lead Properties Artisan
Kevin Hoffman, Heather Larsen
Lead Properties Artisans
Asher Feinstein, Ryan Grant, Marie Mateo, Trish Rutter · Properties Artisans
James Ramirez · Properties Head, OGT
Richard Rossi · Stage and Properties Head, SHW
Val Philyaw · Properties Head, LDF
Prosper Phongsaiphonh · Properties Run Crew, SHW Kendell Northrop, Kevin Orlof · Properties Run Crew, LDF
Lauren Richards · Properties Design Assistant
Tyler Dean, Isabella Horie, Robert Martinez · Properties Run Crew Swing
Delaney Hall, Serina Lim · Properties Interns
LIGHTING
Stevie Agnew · Lighting Director
Stephanie Lasater · Assistant Lighting Director
Deanna Trethewey · Lighting Assistant
Ryan Osborn · Head Electrician, OGT
Jessica Dean · Head Electrician, SHW
Michael Anderson · Head Electrician, LDF
Ugo Akabike, Brycen Deters, James Doe, Krisjana Dunn, Sandra Navarro, Helen Strickland, Robert Thoman · Electricians
SOUND
Erin Paige-Bhamrah · Sound Director
Evan Eason · Assistant Sound Director
Jennifer Lopez · Head Sound Technician, OGT
Matt Lescault-Wood · Head Sound Technician, SHW
Brandon Ali Boomizad · Head Sound Technician, LDF and Audio Swing
Marilynn Do · Deck Audio, OGT
Maggie Allen, Chloe Lias · Deck Audio, LDF
James Asio, Aaron DeMuth, Pablo Sepulveda, Aiko Whitmore · Sound Technicians
PROFESSIONAL TRAINING
Jesse Perez · Director of Professional Training
Nicole Ries · Program Coordinator
Danielle Mages Amato, Sherri Barber, Ray Chambers, Nathan Crocker, Gerhard Gessner, Jenn Harris, Alex Henrikson, Ka'imi Kuoha, Jesse Marchese, Emmelyn Thayer, Eileen Troberman, James Vásquez · M.F.A. Faculty
Elisa Benzoni, Jacob Bruce, Ellie Evans, Nate Parde · M.F.A. Production Staff
Jack O’Brien · Artistic Director Emeritus
Craig Noel · Founding Director
OGT = Old Globe Theatre
SHW = Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre LDF = Lowell Davies Festival Theatre
FALL FOOD FINDS
TAKING OVER THE former Del Frisco’s space at InterContinental San Diego, the highly anticipated Mastro’s Ocean Club San Diego has opened directly across from San Diego Bay. Boasting glass-enclosed indoor dining and an outdoor patio looking out to the Embarcadero, Mastro’s offers its renowned fine-dining service, ambiance and cuisine—spanning Prime steaks and Australian and Japanese A5 wagyu; sushi and seafood, from jumbolump crab cakes to caviar-topped oysters to jerk-spiced mahi mahi to
herb-roasted branzino; sides such as wild mushroom and black truffle gnocchi, and white-cheddar lobster mac ‘n’ cheese; and cocktails like Mastro’s signature smoking Lemon Drop and Cosmo martinis. Plus: an exceptional wine list, offering 50 wines by the glass and a vast Bordeaux section. 901 Bayfront Court, Suite 105, Embarcadero, 619.272.5060, mastrosrestaurants.com
The Beau Hotel in the Gaslamp Quarter has debuted its onsite cocktail bar and restaurant, The Witherby. Offering a full-day menu
crafted by executive chef Robin James, the new outpost serves breakfast, midday bites, happy hour and dinner. The menu for the latter spotlights American comfort food dishes like duck potpie, whole roasted branzino and braised pork shank; while the cocktail list comprises nostalgic libations such as the 1886 Old Fashioned and The Beau Bloom (a subtle floral gin sour). The space itself emanates a nostalgic, speakeasy charm—with dark green banquettes, marble-topped tables, brick-trimmed walls and an 1880s
From Fine Dining by the Embarcadero to Sicilian Delights in North Park by SARAH DAOUST
Sushi offerings at Mastro’s Ocean Club San Diego
original oak bar. 927 Sixth Ave., Gaslamp Quarter, thebeauhotel.com/ witherbyrestaurant
Little Italy’s staple finer-dining outpost, Juniper and Ivy, brings us a “little sister,” Juni. The relatively more casual, no-reservations bar and lounge (nestled within the restaurant’s existing bar area) has become a destination unto its own, welcoming walk-ins and serving an exclusive bar menu of shareable dishes and new signature cocktails. Standouts include the Elote Arancini, Miche-
Clockwise: Communal Coffee; Juni at Juniper and Ivy; Sunday brunch at The Cork & Craft.
lada Ceviche, and wagyu sliders with cheddar on sesame buns; plus libations like the new Letters
Never Sent with Italian gin, and the rum-based Jungle Hijinx. 2228 Kettner Blvd., Little Italy, 619.269.9036, juniperandivy.com/juni
Inspired by a recent trip to Italy to visit family and the farm he grew up on, Chef Accursio Lota (Barilla World Pasta Champion) has crafted a new seasonal menu at his North Park hot spot, Cori Pastificio Trattoria. Infusing Sicilian recipes with SoCal produce, the menu features
offerings such as Ricciola with Hamachi, sweet stone fruit, and savory onion-balsamic sorbet; prosciutto di Parma with heirloom melon, balsamic and crisp sourdough; hand-cut Tonnarello (local egg pasta) with basil and tomatoes in three forms: Grammatico sauce, tomato confit and tomato tartare; slow-cooked, crispy-skin porchetta; and new seasonal cocktails like the gin-based Isotta. 2977 Upas St., North Park, 619.573.6159, coripasta.com
An eatery, winery and brewery all under one roof (sharing a space with Abnormal Beer Co.), The Cork & Craft has launched a new Sunday brunch menu, dreamt up by executive chef Bryan Garcia. Feast on globally
inspired dishes such as the Japanese-style, fluffy egg sandwich, huevos rancheros, breakfast fried rice, corned beef hash, banana-split waffles, berry pancakes, churro doughnut holes and more. The Cork & Craft also boasts 40 beers on tap and an extensive wine list. 16990 Via Tazon, Rancho
Bernardo, 858.618.2463
With a popular location in Coronado, Fox Restaurant Concepts (whose sister concepts include Culinary Dropout, Blanco and Flower Child) opens its second S.D. County outpost of The Henry The neighborhood-style restaurant offers all-day dining with classic morning dishes for breakfast; sushi, salads, and entrees like Scottish Salmon and roasted chicken and frites for lunch and dinner; and desserts such as warm croissant bread pudding; plus craft cocktails. Return for weekend brunch and try the Huevos Rancheros Enchiladas. 1935 Calle Barcelona, Suite 170, Carlsbad, 760.764.9993, thehenryrestaurant.com
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renovation and branding refresh, Sally Waterfront Dining (located marinaside at the Manchester Grand Hyatt Dan Diego) has launched a new weekend brunch menu, spotlighting local ingredients. Indulge in brunch dishes like the Baja Chilaquiles with birria, queso fresco and lime crema; Tres Leches French Toast; skirt steak with cage-free eggs; and the lobster roll with Meyer lemon aioli on garlic bread; plus sea fare including oysters, crab cakes and grilled octopus. 1 Market Place, downtown, 619.358.6740, sallyssandiego.com
With locations in North Park, South Park and Oceanside, Communal Coffee has opened its newest outpost in the heart of Bankers Hill. Known for its craft coffees, specialty lattes, espresso drinks, matcha and teas, seasonal food dishes, fresh flowers and retail
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Breakfast dishes and espresso drinks at The Henry; The Night Porter cocktail at The Witherby.
items—Communal is nestled inside the Brazilianinspired lobby of the new Kaya mid-rise building. Nosh on treats such as the hot-honey prosciutto toast and caramelized-bacon avocado sandwich with cheddar; while sipping the Golden Coast Latte with honey and sea salt. 2710 Third Ave., Suite 101, Bankers Hill, 619.907.7020, communalcoffee.com
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did a lot of cleanup before starting construction,” Johnson says. “There were a variety of critters living in there. The building had been vacant since 1997; and was used as a dwelling for the unhoused, without permission. Our architects, designers and construction teams were asked to salvage as much as they could of the original structure, and they did so in some very creative ways.”
by David Lindsay-Abaire
directed by Ted Leib
The play that inspired the musical Sept. 26 - Oct. 19, 2025
The Joan’s total size, at 42,100 square feet, is palatial compared to Cygnet’s Old Town space of 7,700 square feet. “Once we decided we wanted to take over the whole building, we knew we wanted two theaters, because one of the issues we had in Old Town is that it’s a weird space, not great for intimate theater,” Schmidt says. “That made it very expensive to put on a small show. Another challenge was that we’re in the airport flight path, and had to mitigate sound from Lindbergh Field.
We had a great team of acousticians.”
Construction costs escalated during the eightyear-long endeavor; and the project’s total cost rose from $25 million to $39 million, finally ending up at $43.5 million. To pay for it, Arts District Liberty Station and Cygnet Theatre entered into an unusual partnership, raising funds together. Johnson proposed to her board of directors that raising their portion would allow Cygnet to occupy The Joan rent-free for their 35-year lease. The board agreed.
“One of the things I’m most looking forward to with the opening of The Joan is the visibility it gives and the new traffic it provides for all my tenants in the Arts District,” Johnson says. “Cygnet are great collaborators. We have become friends, not just colleagues and partners. There are endless opportunities and possibilities for collaboration with the other tenants that we haven’t even thought of yet.
BY NOAH DIAZ DIRECTED BY KAT YEN
A surprising story about parenthood, family and future dreams.
Ty and Nora’s preparations for parenthood begin to crumble when three mysterious men from Ty’s past inexplicably begin appearing in their new home. Are they here to help with renovations like they say… or something else? Noah Diaz’s rich, magical drama is full of shrewd insights, humor and emotional depth. This rewarding world premiere examines what it means to feel “at home” – in our families, in our marriages, in our houses, and in our own bodies. Expect the unexpected in this wildly surprising family story with a huge heart.
The Joan’s lofty interior
Their presence will elevate everything we do.”
Although The Joan is Cygnet’s home, other arts groups will have the opportunity to perform there as well. “One of the requests from the Arts District was to be able to offer performance space to Liberty Station’s three legacy dance companies,” Schmidt says. “We agreed to carve out time in which they could use the space. We’ll also rent to other theaters in town. The hope is The Joan will be active all the time, which will help pay its operating expenses.”
Murray and Schmidt have chosen to open The Joan’s inaugural season with Follies, running Sept. 10-Oct. 12 in the Joseph Clayes III Theater. The 1971 Stephen Sondheim musical is about a farewell reunion at a Broadway theater that will soon close; and includes the songs “Losing My Mind,” “I’m Still Here,” “Broadway Baby,” and “In Buddy’s Eyes.” Although Murray has produced most of Sondheim’s best musicals, Cygnet Theatre didn’t have a stage big enough
“The first show in the new space brands you, and will attract a lot of new patrons, we hope,” Schmidt says. “It needed shows off the capabilities we now have in the
new space. Following that, we’ve picked a season that represents what Cygnet has always done—a commercial show followed by something more cutting-edge, then a comedy—an eclectic mix. And we’ll keep our traditional Christmas show, which has become a local favorite.
“I’m really excited for people to see The Joan,” Schmidt continues. “While it looks just like the renderings, it’s really very beautiful. The architects did a really great job. From artistic details in the lobby to the fact that there’s so much free parking, there’s so much to take in. People are really going to love this place. We are delighted to be getting to share it with so many patrons that have been with us for so long; as well as bring in new theater lovers.”
Cygnet Theatre’s 2025-26 inaugural (and diverse) season at The Joan includes: Follies, Sept. 10-Oct. 12; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Oct. 8-Nov. 9; A Christmas Carol, Nov. 26-Dec. 28; Cygnet’s A Magical Holiday: Christmas at The Joan, Dec. 10–28; Somewhere Over the Border, Feb. 18–March 15, 2026; The Lehman Trilogy, March 25–April 19, 2026; and The SpongeBob Musical, June 10–July 5, 2026.
For more info, visit cygnettheatre.org and building178.org
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