THE COMPANY
Stephanie Berry, Claire Rose
is the 2021 recipient of The League of Professional Theatre Women’s Lee Reynolds Award. During the pandemic she was seen in Romeo N Juliet at Pittsburgh Public Theater, For Which It Stands with New York Theatre Workshop, 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues, Having Our Say at New Jersey City Theater. She was seen as Frankenstein at the Classic Stage Company, for all the women who thought they were mad at Soho Repertory and Gloria: A Life at Daryl Roth Theatre. She was nominated for a 2019 Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actress for her role in Suga in Our Wounds at Manhattan Theatre Club and a Helen Hayes Award for Best Lead Actress for her role in Gem of the Ocean at the Round House Theater. She appears in the movies Before You Know It, O.G., Delivery Man, Invasion, No Reservations and Finding Forrester. TV credits include Luke Cage, The Last OG, Bull, Blue Bloods and all the Law & Order shows. She is the recipient of an OBIE Award for The Shaneequa Chronicles and a TCG/Fox Foundation Resident Actor Fellowship as a Distinguished Artist.
Charlayne Woodard, Cassandra/Playwright
Two-time Obie Award winner and Tony Award nominee. Broadway: Ain't Misbehavin' (original cast), Hair (revival). Off-Broadway: "Daddy", Hamlet (Gertrude), WAR (Mother), The Substance of Fire (Marge Hackett), The Witch of Edmonton (Witch), In the Blood (Hester), Fabulation (Ondine), The Caucasian Chalk Circle (Grusha), Twelfth Night (Maria), Stunning, Sorrows and Rejoicings. Regional: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Titania), The Taming of the Shrew (Katherine), The Good Person of Setzuan. Film: Glass, Unbreakable, The Crucible, Eye for an Eye, Sunshine State. TV: Pose (series regular); recurring roles: In Treatment, Prodigal Son, Sneaky Pete; Law & Order, Special Victims Unit; ER; guest star: All Rise, The Leftovers, The Blacklist. Playwright: The Garden, Pretty Fire, Neat, In Real Life, The Night Watcher, Flight. Nominations: Tony, Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel and Outer Critics Circle Awards. Adjunct Professor: USC, CAL ARTS.
Patricia McGregor, Co-Director
Born in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, director and writer McGregor has twice been profiled by The New York Times. Credits include: Lights Out: Nat “King” Cole (Geffen Playhouse, People’s Light); Sisters In Law (Wallis Annenberg); What You Are, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Measure for Measure (The Old Globe); Skeleton Crew (Geffen Playhouse, Studio Theatre); Good Grief (Center Theatre Group); Hamlet (The Public Theater); Ugly Lies the Bone (Roundabout Theatre Company); Holding It Down (Metropolitan Museum); Becky Shaw (Round House); A Raisin in the Sun, The Winter’s Tale, Spunk (California Shakes); Blood Dazzler (Harlem Stage); Hurt Village (Signature Theatre). She served as tour consultant to Raphael Saadiq and J Cole, co-founded Angela’s Pulse, is Artist in Residence for Arts In the Armed Forces and is a Usual Suspect at New York Theatre Workshop. McGregor attended the Yale School of Drama where she was a Soros Fellow and Artistic Director of the Yale Cabaret.
Delicia Turner Sonnenberg, Co-Director
Playhouse credits include the 2018 POP Tour #SuperShinySara, WOW Festival’s The Car Plays SD and Counterweight. Regional: Skeleton Crew (The Old Globe); Roz and Ray, Sex with Strangers, My Mañana Comes, In the Wake, The Seafarer, The Good Body, Miss Witherspoon, Intimate Apparel, Proof (San Diego REP); The Piano Lesson, Fences (Cygnet Theatre); The Amish Project (Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company). Delicia is a founder and the former Artistic Director of MOXIE Theatre, which she helmed for 12 acclaimed seasons receiving The Des McAnuff New Visions Award for Risk Taking Leadership and Body of Work and 2015 Director of the Year from the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle. Other directing credits include: Hamlet, Prelude to a Kiss (New Village Arts); Fit to Be Tied (Diversionary Theatre); Voyeurs de Venus, or Emily Post Is Dead (MOXIE Theatre), and productions at The Old Globe/University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program, San Diego State University and UC San Diego, among others. Delicia was twice a recipient of the Van Lier Directing Fellowship through Second Stage Theater in New York, and is an alumna of the New York Drama League’s Directors Program as well as TCG’s New Generations Program. She has received NAACP Theatre awards, a Women's International Center Living Legacy Award as well as many Craig Noel Awards from the SD Theatre Critics Circle.
Rachel Hauck, Scenic Designer
La Jolla Playhouse: An Iliad, Surf Report, Mother Courage and Her Children, The Country, Be Aggressive, Wonderland. Broadway: Hadestown (Tony Award, Drama Desk and Outer Critic nominations), What the Constitution Means to Me, Latin History for Morons. Recent work: The Wrong Man (MCC), Hurricane Diane (NYTW); Othello, Twelfth Night (Public Theater/Shakespeare in the Park); The Lucky Ones (Ars Nova); You’ll Still Call Me By Name (Sonya Tayeh/Jacob’s Pillow); Tiny Beautiful Things, Dry Powder (Public); 72 Miles to Go, Amy and the Orphans, On the Exhale (Roundabout); Recipient of Princess Grace and Lilly Awards; Drama Desk, Lortel nominations and an OBIE Award for Sustained Excellence.
Karen Perry, Costume Designer
Credits include Lackawanna Blues (Broadway, MTC); My Lord What a Night (Ford’s Theatre); Fun Home, Skeleton Crew (Baltimore Center Stage, Huntington Theatre); We All Fall Down, Breath, Boom (TRTC); Radio Golf, Joe Iconis' Love In Hate Nation, Oo Bla-Dee (NYTW); runboyrun, In Old Age, Breathe, Boom (Huntington); Jazz (MTC); Black Superhero Magic Mama (Geffen Playhouse); Steel Magnolias, Hair, Dreamgirls, Miller Mississippi, A Raisin in the Sun, Clybourne Park (Dallas Theater Center); Oklahoma! (Houston Ballet at TUTS); Cinderella (Eglevsky Ballet Company); Danai Gurira’s Familiar (Woolly Mammoth, Guthrie Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre); Cabin in the Sky (Encores!); Blues for an Alabama Sky (Pasadena Playhouse); Crowns, Stop-Reset, Trinity River Trilogy (Goodman Theatre, STC, Dallas Theater Center/Arena Stage); The Trip to Bountiful, The Fall of Heaven (Cincinnati Playhouse); The Brother/Sister Plays (Public Theater/McCarter Theatre); Having Our Say (McCarter Theatre); A Time to Kill, Resurrection (Arena Stage); The Lion in Winter (Guthrie). She has designed nine of the ten August Wilson Century Series plays (she has not yet designed Fences). TV: Gregory Hines Show, Saturday Night Live and The Brother from Another Planet. Perry received a Lucille Lortel Award, LA Ovations Awards, a CDG Award, Ace Award, Hewitt Award, and is an Emmy and Audelco Award nominee and recipient.
Sherrice Mojgani, Lighting Designer
recently designed The Heiress and Two Trains Running (Arena Stage); Spunk, Ain’t Misbehavin’ and The Scottsboro Boys (Signature Theatre Company); A Few Good Men, Sweat (Pittsburgh Public Theatre); What You Are and Skeleton Crew (The Old Globe); Roz and Ray, Black Pearl Sings and Outside Mullingar (San Diego Repertory Theatre); Blue Door, Trouble in Mind and Mud Blue Sky (MOXIE Theatre). She is an Assistant Professor at George Mason University in northern Virginia. She holds a B.A. in Theater Arts from UC Santa Cruz and an M.F.A. in Lighting Design from UC San Diego. smojgani.com
Luqman Brown, Sound Designer
Broadway: Hot Wing King (Signature Theater); Revolving Cycles Truly and Steadily Roll’d (Duke Theater); Hurt Village (Signature Theater). Off Broadway: Three Musketeers (Classical Theater of Harlem); Peculiar Patriot and Seed (National Black Theater); Adoration of the Old Woman (Inter Theater); Detroit 67 (Julliard); ACE (Lyle Courtney Production); El Coqui Spectacular and the Bottle of Doom (La Vega Production); White People and Cock Fight (Fordham University Theater); 12 Angry Men (Billie Holiday Theater); Br’er Rabbit the Opera: A Funky Meditation on Gentrification and How to Survive (BRIC). Regional: Legacy Land (KC Rep); America V2.1, The Sad Demise and Eventual Extinction of the American Negro (Barrington Stage); What You Are (The Old Globe); The Corpse Washer, How to Defend Yourself, We’ve Come to Believe (original music), Everybody Black (Humana Fest 2019); Skeleton Crew (TheaterSquared); Chad Deity (Asolo Rep); Sense & Sensibility (Cape Fear Theater); The Parchment Hour (Guthrie Theater); An Oresteia (Rutgers Theater). Other credits: Winner of the 2017 & 2018 Audelco Awards for sound design. As a professional musician, Mr. Brown has performed in numerous bands as well as produced many others. You can check out more at luqmanbrown.nyc
Kirsten Childs, Original Music
La Jolla Playhouse: co-lyricist for Fly. Other credits include The Bubbly Black Girl Sheds Her Chameleon Skin (Obie, Kleban, Audelco, Richard Rodgers, Gilman Gonzalez-Falla Awards; Rockefeller and Jonathan Larson Grants; and Lortel, NAACP, Drama Desk Award nominations); Bella: An American Tall Tale (Frederick Loewe Award, Edward M. Kennedy Prize finalist, four Audelco Awards); Washington Square with Ben Wexler; New Group commission with Gordon Greenberg; Funked Up Fairy Tales; Miracle Brothers; Lucky Boy (Penn State Commission). NEA, Larson grants; American Songbook series; New Electric Company; Disney’s Believe and Disney’s Wishes. Guggenheim Museum Works & Process. Dramatists Guild Council member. Songwriter for Dianne Reeves (with Billy Childs).
Nikiya Mathis, Wig Designer
Ms. Mathis holds an M.F.A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts’ Graduate Acting Program. She’s excited to be back, after appearing in La Jolla Playhouse’s world-premiere production of Milk Like Sugar. As a designer, she is the recipient of the 2020 Henry Hewes Design Award, The Antonio Award and a Drama Desk nominee. Hair/Wig Design Off-Broadway: The Public Theater, Signature Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, MCC, Soho Rep, Women’s Project, Ars Nova, Page 73 Productions @ Walker Space, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Classical Theater of Harlem, National Black Theater. Regional & University: Baltimore Center Stage, Hartford Stage, Huntington Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Berkshire Theatre, Theatre Works, NYU Tisch, American Academy of Dramatic Art, AMDA and Barnard College. She is excited to be making her Broadway design debut with Chicken & Biscuits this Fall.
Erica Jensen (Calleri Jensen Davis), Casting
is excited to cast for La Jolla Playhouse for the first time! Regional theaters include Long Wharf Theater, McCarter Theater, Berkeley Rep, and Hartford Stage. Broadway credits include Thoughts of a Colored Man, Fool for Love, Hughie, A Raisin in the Sun, Of Mice and Men, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Living on Love, The Visit and the upcoming For Colored Girls. TV credits include Chappelle's Show, Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Hope & Faith, The Path, Love Life (HBO Max) and Queens (ABC).
Shirley Fishman, Dramaturg
during numerous seasons at La Jolla Playhouse, worked with playwrights and directors on productions of new plays and musicals, including 2016 Tony Award-winning shows Come From Away and Indecent, the Playhouse’s annual POP Tour that brings new plays to elementary schools throughout San Diego County, as well as workshops and readings of projects in development for the DNA new work series and beyond. At New York’s Public Theatre as literary manager and dramaturg, she worked on new plays, classics, musicals, projects in development and was co-curator of the annual New Work Now! new play reading series. Affiliations: San Diego Rep, Denver Center Theatre, Magic Theatre, Native Voices at the Autry, New Village Arts, New York Stage and Film, among others. M.F.A.: Columbia University.
Chandra R.M. Anthenill, Stage Manager
La Jolla Playhouse: Stage Manager for Emily Driver’s Great Race Through Time and Space, Assistant Stage Manager for Junk. Other regional credits include: What You Are, Tiny Beautiful Things, Winter’s Tale and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe); Fun Home, Beachtown, Roz and Ray, Into the Beautiful North, R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE, Outside Mullingar, The Oldest Boy, Oedipus El Rey and Honky (San Diego REPertory Theatre); The Last Wife, Bad Jews, Sons of the Prophet, Spring Awakening, Assassins and Company (Cygnet Theatre).
Evelyn Myers, Assistant Stage Manager
As a San Diego native, Evelyn Myers is thrilled to be joining La Jolla Playhouse once again for this incredible production. Her favorite credits include POP Tour: Emily Driver’s Great Race Through Time and Space (La Jolla Playhouse); The First and the Last (Hollywood Fringe Festival’s Encore Award); Savage in Limbo (Grand Central Art Center) and Bell, Book, and Candle (Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival Excellence in Stage Management Award). She is excited to welcome you all back to the theatre!
Baltimore Center Stage, Co-Producer
Designated the State Theater of Maryland in 1978, Baltimore Center Stage provides the highest quality theater and programming for all members of their communities, including youth and families, under the leadership of Artistic Director Stephanie Ybarra and Managing Director Michael Ross. They ignite conversations and imaginations by producing an eclectic season of professional productions across two mainstages and an intimate 99-seat theatre, through engaging community programs, and with inspiring education programs. Everything they do at Center Stage is led by their core values – chief among them being Access For All. Their mission is heavily rooted in providing active and open accessibility for everyone, regardless of any and all barriers, to their Mainstage performances, education initiatives and community programming.