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Alton Alburo, Henri

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. NYC: Pinching Pennies with Penny Marshall (New York Theatre Workshop); The Wong Kids… (Ma-Yi, Off-Broadway Alliance Award); June Is the First Fall (Yangtze Rep); Breeders (New Light Theater Project); God, Man, and Devil (Target Margin Lab); a cautionary tale (Flea); among others. Regional: The Wong Kids... (Children's Theatre Company, MN; ArtsEmerson, MA); As You Like It (Connecticut Free Shakespeare); LARK/SONG (Red Cloud Opera House, NE). TV/Film: Friends from College (Netflix), Last Ferry; among others. Voiceover: Planetary Gossip (TZGZ/SYFY), Ghostwriter with Kate Mara & Adam Scott (C13Features).

Frankie J. Alvarez, Theo

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Film: Vandal (dir. JD Freixas), The Drummer (dir. Eric Werthman), Rockaway (dir. John J. Budion), Looking: The Film (dir. Andrew Haigh). TV (selected): Agustín in HBO’s Looking, New Amsterdam, Law & Order: SVU, The Brides (pilot), The Good Wife, Blindspot. Regional (selected): titular role in Hamlet: Prince of Cuba/Hamlet: Príncipe de Cuba (Asolo Rep); twenty50 (Denver Center); Bathing in Moonlight (McCarter Theatre); The Whipping Man (Actors Theatre of Louisville); 2011 company member, Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Education: B.F.A. from FSU; M.F.A., The Juilliard School. Awards: Juilliard’s Raul Julia Scholarship for Excellence in Drama. IG: sexytosomeppl

Marco Barricelli, Cormon/Jean-Leon/Gerome/Gauguin

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Tamara. Off-Broadway: Agamemnon. Artistic Director, Shakespeare Santa Cruz 2008-2014. Associate Artist at the American Conservatory Theatre, and many seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Theatre credits also include: Subaru Theatre (Tokyo), Guthrie Theatre, Center Theatre Group, Old Globe Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Huntington Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Arizona Theatre Company, Portland Center Stage, among others. Screen credits include Luca, The Book of Daniel, Holy Silence, L.A. Law, Romeo and Juliet, Manhunt 2 and 11th Hour. Member of acting faculty UC San Diego. Education: Juilliard School.

DeLeon Dallas, Bernard

is a New York-based actor and San Diego native. He is excited about being back in San Diego’s theatre community and doing what he loves most! La Jolla Playhouse: Wild Goose Dreams. Other theatre credits include: Looking for Christmas (The Old Globe); Honky, Actually (San Diego Rep); Incurable: A Fool's Tale (The Guthrie Theatre). TV/Film credits include: HBO’s The Deuce, NBC’s The Blacklist and most recently Starz's Power Book III: Raising Kanan. Education: M.F.A. in Acting from UC San Diego.

Deidrie Henry, Agostina

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Portland Center Stage, Garry Marshall Theatre); It Can’t Happen Here (Berkeley Rep); A Streetcar Named Desire, Closer (Portland Center Stage); American Night (Yale Rep); A Raisin in the Sun (Mark Taper, Kirk Douglas Theatre); Parade (Mark Taper, Center Theatre Group); Ballad of Emmett Till (Goodman Theatre); Yellowman (Berkeley Rep, Fountain Theatre); Coming Home (Fountain Theatre); As You Like It, Three Sisters, Wit, Hamlet, Seven Guitars, Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Blues for an Alabama Sky (Alliance Theatre, Hartford Stage, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre). Film/TV: Handmaid’s Tale, Game of Silence, BOSCH, The Riches. Multiple Ovation Awards, Drama Critics Circle Award, NAACP Theatre Award, Backstage Garland Award.

Grayson Heyl, Ensemble/Understudy: Cormon/Jean-Leon/Gerome/Gauguin

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Chicago: Suddenly Last Summer (Raven Theatre), The Amish Project (Jedlicka PAC), Last Train to Nibroc (Provision Theater), The Jungle (Oracle Theatre). Understudy credits include work with The Marriott in Lincolnshire, Chicago Shakespeare, Northlight and The Hypocrites. UC San Diego credits: Miles for Mary, Farside, Meladi Thive and Her Words of Comfort, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Heap, Orestes 2.0. Education: M.F.A. Acting candidate from UC San Diego; B.M. double major in Music Theatre and Vocal Performance from Oklahoma City University. Upcoming: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (San Diego Rep).

Brooke Ishibashi, Marie/Sophie

(she/her/hers) La Jolla Playhouse: Cambodian Rock Band (world-premiere production at South Coast Repertory and subsequent run at Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Brooke is overjoyed to return to to the yellow house after having workshopped its very first draft at The Lark. She has developed and originated roles in new works with Lear deBessonet, Tommy Kail, Qui Nguyen, Dave Molloy, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Evan Cabnet, Daniel Fish, The Public, Geffen Playhouse, Lincoln Center, La MaMa and more. National Councilor for Actors' Equity Association, core member of Fair Wage Onstage, and co-founder of grassroots arts advocacy campaign Be An #Arts Hero. The arts & culture sector contributes over $919 billion to the U.S. economy and employs over 5.2 million arts workers. There is no full American economic recovery without a robust arts & culture recovery. @BeAnArtsHero. BeAnArtsHero.com 

Noah Israel, Ensemble/Understudy: Vincent

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional: The 39 Steps, Sweeney Todd (Rep Stage); Legally Blonde (Keegan Theatre); Aquarium (Imagination Stage); Big River (Adventure Theatre/Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma); Hairspray, Beauty and the Beast, Oklahoma! (Shenandoah Summer Music Theatre). Education: M.F.A. candidate, UC San Diego. noahcisrael.com 

Noah Rose Keeling, Ensemble/Understudy: Henri

(she/her) La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Regional credits: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Peter Pan (Nevada Conservatory Theatre). UC San Diego credits: Meladi Thive and Her Words of Comfort, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Heap and Orestes 2.0.  Proud member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.

Jada Alston Owens, Ensemble/Understudy: Agostina

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Selected credits: Raylynn in Blood at the Root, Isabella and Dottore in Commedia (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Powers New Voices Festival: An Evening with the San Diego Black Artist Collective (The Old Globe). UC San Diego credits: Farside, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Letters from Cuba, Orestes 2.0. Education: Third-Year M.F.A. candidate at UC San Diego. Upcoming: Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (San Diego Rep).

Kimber Lee, Playwright

Plays include the water palace (2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation), untitled f*ck m*ss s**gon play (2019 O'Neill National Playwrights Conference), tokyo fish story (South Coast Rep, TheatreWorks/SV, The Old Globe), brownsville song (b-side for tray) (Humana Festival, LCT3, Long Wharf Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Seattle Rep, Moxie Theatre, Shotgun Players) and different words for the same thing, directed by Neel Keller (Center Theatre Group). She has developed work with Lark Play Development Center, The Ground Floor/Berkeley Rep, Page 73, O’Neill NPC, Hedgebrook, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, Great Plains Theatre Conference, ACT Theatre/Seattle, Premiere Stages, Hedgebrook and the Magic Theatre/Virgin New Play Series. Lark Playwrights Workshop Fellow, Dramatists Guild Fellow, member of Ma-Yi Writers Lab, and recipient of the Ruby Prize, PoNY Fellowship, Hartford Stage New Voices Fellowship, 2020-2021 Hodder Fellowship, 2020 Helen Merrill Award, 2020 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Finalist, 2021 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize Special Commendation, inaugural winner of the 2019 Bruntwood Prize International Award, 2021 Edgerton Foundation  New Play Award and 2021 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. M.F.A.: UT Austin.

Neel Keller, Director

is thrilled to be returning to the Playhouse, where, during the years of the second Clinton administration, he was Associate Artistic Director. His previous Playhouse productions include The School for Wives, Light Up the Sky, Loot, Diva and The Cosmonaut’s Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union. His more recent productions include the world premieres of Eliza Clark’s Quack, Julia Cho’s Office Hour, Jennifer Haley’s The Nether, Kimber Lee’s different words for the same thing, Dael Orlandersmith’s Until the Flood and Forever and Lucy Alibar’s Throw Me on the Burnpile and Light Me Up!. His productions have been seen at theatres across the country, including The Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Mark Taper Forum, Kirk Douglas Theater, South Coast Rep, Goodman Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Long Wharf Theater, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, ACT, Portland Center Stage and several hospitable theaters in Ireland, Scotland and England. He is currently the Associate Artistic Director/Literary Manager at Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles. Neel is a member of SDC and DGA.

Takeshi Kata, Scenic Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: Cambodian Rock Band, The Last Tiger in Haiti, Guards at the Taj. Broadway: Clyde’s (Helen Hayes); Derren Brown: Secret (Cort). Off Broadway: Cambodian Rock Band (Signature); Office Hour (Public); Man from Nebraska (Second Stage); The Great Leap (Atlantic Theatre Company). Regional: Romeo and Juliet (The Old Globe), Angels in America: Part I & II (Berkeley Rep), Quixote Nuevo (Alley, Huntington Theatre, Hartford Stage), as well as work at Geffen, Goodman, Kirk Douglas, Taper, The Old Globe, Steppenwolf, Williamstown, Yale Rep and more. Kata has won Jeff and Obie Awards and has been nominated for Drama Desk, Ovation, San Francisco Critics Circle, TBA and Barrymore Awards. He is an Associate Professor at University of Southern California, School of Dramatic Arts.

David Israel Reynoso, Costume Designer, Resident Artist

is an internationally-acclaimed scenic/costume designer and the creator of La Jolla Playhouse’s Without Walls Festival productions of Optika Piñata (2021), Portaleza (2020), Las Quinceañeras (2019) and Waking La Llorona (2017), created via his company, Optika Moderna. Other Playhouse designs include: Queens, At the Old Place, Tiger Style!, Healing Wars, The Darrell Hammond Project and Kingdom City. The Obie Award–winning costume designer of Sleep No More (New York and Shanghai), Mr. Reynoso’s other selected work includes designs for theaters such as ACT, ART, Arena Stage, Finnish National Ballet, Portland Center Stage, WP, Seattle Rep, among others. Other work: Teatro Piñata (New Children's Museum); exhibit designs: Hostile Terrain 94, PostSecret and Living with Animals (SD Museum of Us). Honors: Obie Award, Creative Catalyst Grant recipient. davidreynoso.com. Instagram: @designreynoso.

Masha Tsimring, Lighting Designer

is a NYC-based lighting designer for performance. La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Recently: The Woman’s Party (Clubbed Thumb); Sunday (Atlantic Theatre Company); Ragtime (Playmakers); Cosi Fan Tutti (Juilliard); Another Rose (Virgin Voyages); The Christians (Chautauqua Theatre Co.); The Diary of John Rabe (Berlin Staatsoper/NCPA Beijing); Pride & Prejudice (Kansas City Rep); The Appointment (Lightning Rod Special); Kleptocracy (Arena Stage); Minor Character (Under the Radar/New Saloon); Noura (Playwrights Horizons); Intractable Woman (PlayCo); Electric Lucifer (The Kitchen); Sarabande (LA Dance Project); The Garden of Forking Paths (Nichole Canuso Dance Co); Frontieres Sans Frontieres (Bushwick Starr); As You Like It (CalShakes). M.F.A.: Yale School of Drama. Member of USA829. www.mashald.com 

Palmer Hefferan, Sound Designer

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Broadway: Grand Horizons (Second Stage); The Lifespan of a Fact (Studio 54). Off Broadway: Pride and Prejudice (Primary Stages); Merry Wives, shadow/land, Shipwreck, Wild Goose Dreams (The Public); Fefu and Her Friends (TFANA); Marys Seacole (LCT3); BLKS, Collective Rage, Charm, School Girls (MCC Theater); The New Englanders, Sugar in Our Wounds, Important Hats… (Manhattan Theatre Club); Something Clean, Bobbie Clearly (Roundabout); Fabulation, Death of the Last Black Man… (Signature Theatre); Samara, Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Soho Rep); Today Is My Birthday (Page 73). Awards: 2019 Obie Award for Sustained Excellence in Sound Design, 2018 and 2020 Henry Hewes Award.

Nicholas Hussong, Production Designer

is a creator of video, projections and film for live (and now digital) performance and events. Creative Producer at Dwight Street Book Club. Broadway: Skeleton Crew (upcoming). Other regional credits include: Until the Flood (13 regional and international locations); Haint Blu, Hair & Other Stories (Urban Bush Women); These Paper Bullets! (Yale Rep, Atlantic Theater Company, Geffen Playhouse); Woman’s Party (Clubbed Thumb); Grounded (Alley); Arden Theater, Playmakers Rep, Berkshires Theatre Group, Marc Jacobs, Nashville Symphony, Hartford Symphony, Tony Awards (CBS). He has also designed in England, Scotland, Ireland, Germany, China, Canada and Austria. Co-Creator of FEAST, an immersive dining experience with Listen&Breathe (Nantucket, Ireland & please, hopefully, someday, the US). Adjunct Lecturer, New School of Drama & USC. M.F.A.: Yale. UAW & USA829. www.nickhussong.com 

Justin Ellington, Music Composition

La Jolla Playhouse: The Seven. Additional credits include: Pass Over, Other Desert Cities (Broadway); The Watering Hole (Signature Theatre Company); Until the Flood (Center Theatre Group); Bars and Measures (Urban Stages); Heroes of the Fourth Turning (Playwrights Horizons); Floyd's (Guthrie Theater); The Rolling Stone (LCT3); Mrs. Murray's Menagerie (Ars Nova/The Mad Ones); The American Clock (Old Vic Theatre Company); How to Catch Creation (Goodman Theatre); Gem of the Ocean (Round House Theater); Fireflies (Atlantic Theater Company); Kill Move Paradise (Wilma Theater); The House That Will Not Stand, Fetch Clay Make Man (New York Theater Workshop).

Alberto "Albee" Alvarado, Wig Designer

serves as Wig/Makeup Supervisor for La Jolla Playhouse, with credits including The Garden, Fly, Diana the Musical, SUMMER: The Donna Summer Musical, Kiss My Aztec!, Cambodian Rock Band, The Last Tiger in Haiti and Side Show. He’s currently Wig/Makeup Supervisor for San Diego Opera, has worked for The Old Globe, Cygnet, SD Rep and Junior Theatre, and is now excited to make his design debut with the Playhouse. When he is not busy in the theatre wings, Albee enjoys any outlet that allows creative license and spending time with his husband, pup and "framily." Representation matters. You matter.

Gabriel Greene, Dramaturg

joined La Jolla Playhouse’s artistic staff in 2007 and currently serves as Director of Artistic Development. He has dramaturged more than thirty new plays and musicals for the Playhouse, in addition to shows at 5th Avenue Theatre, Berkeley Rep, New York Stage & Film, The Playwrights Center, Playwrights Horizons, Steppenwolf Theatre and TimeLine Theatre. Goosebumps Alive, his immersive adaptation of R.L. Stine’s best-selling novels (co-written and directed by Tom Salamon) premiered in 2016 at The Vaults (London). With Alex Levy, he co-wrote Safe at Home, which was developed as part of the 2016 DNA Series and received its world premiere at Mixed Blood Theatre in 2017 (Ivey Award). B.A.: University of Michigan. M.Phil: Trinity College Dublin. B.F.F.: Mia Fiorella. www.gabrielgreene.com. 

TBD Casting Co., Stephanie Yankwitt & Margaret Dunn, Casting

Theatre highlights include The Coast Starlight, by Keith Bunin, at La Jolla Playhouse, Zora Howard's Stew at Page 73 Productions and Jackie Sibblies Drury's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Fairview for Soho Rep. Currently, their work is represented in NYC with a production of Will Eno's GNIT at Theatre for a New Audience, as well as an Off Broadway production of Mrs. Warren's Profession. Upcoming work includes a podcast of original short plays for the Broadway Podcast Network and a production of a new play by Lauren Yee for La Jolla Playhouse. Stephanie and Margaret are both CSA Members who sit on the Equity in Entertainment Committee.

Lora K. Powell, Stage Manager

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut. Credits include national tours of Blithe Spirit (w/Angela Lansbury) and Wicked, and the LA/SF productions of An Act of God (w/Sean Hayes). Broadway: Chicago, The Life, Annie Get Your Gun. Pantages Theatre: The Lion King, The Producers, Wicked. Ahmanson Theatre (Center Theatre Group): Amélie, Harmony, The Scottsboro Boys, Backbeat, Seminar, Follies. Other credits: David Mamet’s  Maurice Hines’ Tappin’ Thru Life, Satchmo at the Waldorf and Carrie The Killer Musical Experience. Ms. Powell is a current faculty member at UC San Diego where she teaches stage management in the department of Theatre & Dance. 

Jacob Russell, Assistant Stage Manager

La Jolla Playhouse: Kiss My Aztec!, The Who’s Tommy benefit concert. Other Theatre, Dance and Film credits include Bloom: A Journey (Pilobolus); 1st AD for Dave Harris’s Cat Sitter (OSF); Temporary Occupant (Clubbed Thumb); David Mamet’s The Christopher Boy’s Reunion (Odyssey Theatre); Lisa D’Amour’s Mad Moon (The NOLA Project); This Random World (Actors Theatre of Louisville); The Essential Straight and Narrow (New Ohio Theatre); The Library (The Public Theater); Sarah Flood in Salem Mass (The Flea Theater). In March of 2020 Jacob received his M.F.A. in stage management from UC San Diego and is eternally grateful for Lora’s mentorship and friendship.

Allison Bailey, Stage Management Assistant

La Jolla Playhouse: Debut; Regional Credits: Hair (The Old Globe). Other select credits: Spring Open Artist Showcase, Burlington Fringe Festival (Off Center for the Dramatic Arts); Victor/Victoria, Grey Gardens, Evita (Revival Theatre Company). UC San Diego Credits: End Days, Town Hall, As You Like It, Orestes 2.0, Man in Love. Allison is an M.F.A. Stage Management candidate at UC San Diego.