ALLEGIANCE - A NEW AMERICAN MUSICAL Starring Lea Salonga & More Set for The Old Globe 2012-13 Season - Full Season Announcement, San Diego

The Old Globe's 2012-13 Season will feature the World Premieres of two new musicals: Allegiance – A New American Musical by Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak. The season also includes George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion in celebration of the classic play's 100th anniversary and the World Premiere of a new adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey and Kirsten Brandt. Two recent Broadway hits will make their San Diego debuts at the Globe: David Lindsay-Abaire's Good People and Jon Robin Baitz's Other Desert Cities. Rounding out the season are the West Coast Premiere of Bekah Brunstetter's Be a Good Little Widow and the Southern California Premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's The Brothers Size.

Special events during the 2012-13 season include the 15th anniversary production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program production of Shakespeare's Measure for Measure.

"Our 2012-2013 season is a celebration of the best of The Old Globe, looking ahead to the future while honoring our past," said Managing Director Michael G. Murphy. "The new season features two treasured classics of the world stage, as well as two world premiere musicals and a selection of acclaimed contemporary plays. We are delighted to welcome back directors Stafford Arima, Kirsten Brandt, Nicholas Martin, Paul Mullins, Darko Tresnjak and James Vasquez – six gifted artists with long-standing relationships with the Globe. Also returning to direct is longtime artistic associate Richard Seer, who is also the head of our graduate theater program. Rick has directed many extraordinary Globe productions over nearly twenty years and has helped plan our new season in his current role as Interim Artistic Advisor."

Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage
Old Globe Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
September 7 – October 21, 2012 (Opening Night: September 19)
WORLD PREMIERE
ALLEGIANCE – A NEW AMERICAN MUSICAL
Music and Lyrics by Jay Kuo
Book by Jay Kuo and Lorenzo Thione
Directed by Stafford Arima

Allegiance – A New American Musical is an epic story of family, love and patriotism set during the Japanese-American internment of World War II. On the 60th anniversary of Pearl Harbor, a meeting with a young journalist forces WWII veteran Sam Otsuka (television and film icon George Takei) to remember his family's relocation from their California farm to the Heart Mountain internment camp. As they struggle to adjust to their new home, Young Sam (Broadway favorite Telly Leung) and his sister Kei (Tony Award winner Lea Salonga) find themselves torn between loyalty to their family and allegiance to their country. With its moving score, Allegiance takes audiences on a journey into  our nation's history through the eyes of one American family.

With a career spanning five decades, George Takei is known around the world for his founding role in the acclaimed television series "Star Trek" in which he played Hikaru Sulu, helmsman of the Starship Enterprise. Takei starred in three seasons of "Star Trek" and later reprised his iconic role in six movies. Takei also stars in the action-comedy series "Supah Ninjas!" which premiered in April 2011 on Nickelodeon. His on-camera television credits include guest appearances on "The Celebrity Apprentice," "Heroes," "Malcolm in the Middle," "Scrubs," "Miami Vice," "MacGyver," "Hawaii Five-O," "The Six Million Dollar Man," "Mission: Impossible," "My Three Sons," "Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea" and "The Twilight Zone." He has also appeared on "The Big Bang Theory," "Psych," "3rd Rock from the Sun" and "Will & Grace." Takei has brought his talent to hundreds of characters in film, television, video games and commercials during his prolific career. He is featured in the comedy film Larry Crowne starring Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts, released in July 2011 by Universal Pictures. He can be heard voicing characters in such films as Mulan and Batman Beyond: The Movie. He has voiced characters for numerous animated series including "The Simpsons," Scooby-Doo and the Samurai Sword, "Transformers: Animated," "Kim Possible," "Futurama," "Spider-Man," "The Smurfs" and George Lucas' "Star Wars: The Clone Wars." Adding to his resume, Takei has provided narration on many projects including the 2009 PBS series "The National Parks: America's Best Idea," the 2006 Peabody Award-winning radio documentary "Crossing East," centered on the history of Asian-American immigration to the United States, and Star Trek IV: TheVoyage Home (cassette), which garnered Takei a 1987 Grammy Award nomination for Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording. In addition to a busy acting career, Takei regularly appears on Howard Stern's Sirius XM satellite radio show. He is also an accomplished author having co-written the science fiction novel Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe with Robert Asprin and published his autobiography To the Stars in 1994. Takei, a Japanese-American who from ages 4 to 8 was unjustly interned in two U.S. internment camps during World War II, is an outspoken supporter of human right issues and a community activist. Takei is Chairman Emeritus and a Trustee of the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles. He has served as the spokesperson for the Human Rights Campaign's Coming Out Project and was cultural affairs chairman of the Japanese-American Citizens League. He was appointed to the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission by former President Clinton, and the government of Japan awarded Takei the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, for his contribution to U.S.-Japanese relations. The decoration was conferred by HisImperial Majesty Emperor Akihito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo.

Lea Salonga is a Filipina singer/actress best known for originating the role of Kim in the West End production of Miss Saigon and bringing it to Broadway, winning the Tony and Olivier Awards, among others. She was the first Asian to play Eponine in Les Misérables on Broadway, returned to the show in 2007 as Fantine and reprised the role for the sold-out 25th anniversary concert in London.
Salonga wowed audiences and critics in her first ever cabaret show at New York's famed Café Carlyle in 2010 and returned in 2011 for another engagement. In August 2011, she released a live version of her 2010 concert, "Lea Salonga: The Journey So Far," and it rose to #3 on the iTunes
Jazz charts. Honored with an appointment as a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization
Goodwill Ambassador in October of 2010, Lea has vowed to act as advocate for the Youth and
United Nations Global Alliance initiative. Salonga's feature film credits include the singing voice of
Princess Jasmine in Aladdin and Fa Mulan in Mulan and Mulan II. In honor of her portrayal of the
beloved princesses, Disneyland bestowed upon Salonga the honor of Disney Legend in the summer
of 2011.

Telly Leung is currently starring on Broadway in the revival of Godspell. His other Broadway credits
include Flower Drum Song (2002 revival starring Lea Salonga), Stephen Sondheim's Pacific
Overtures (2005 revival) and the final company of Rent. He originated the role of Boq in the Chicago company of Wicked. His other favorite credits include Angel in Rent directed by Neil Patrick Harris (Hollywood Bowl), Song Liling in M. Butterfly (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Give It Up! aka
Lysistrata Jones (Dallas Theater Center, World Premiere), Godspell (Paper Mill Playhouse),
Bernstein: Mass (Baltimore Symphony, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall), Harold Bride in Titanic
and Barnaby in Hello, Dolly! (The Muny), Simon in Jesus Christ Superstar directed by Stafford Arima
(Music Circus), Thuy in Miss Saigon (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera) and Lun Tha in The King and I
with Lou Diamond Philips (North Carolina Theatre). Leung has been featured on the recordings for
Godspell (Sh-K-Boom Records), Flower Drum Song (DRG Records), Pacific Overtures (PS
Classics), Wall to Wall Sondheim (Live from Symphony Space), Dear Edwina (PS Classics) and the
Grammy Award-nominated Bernstein: Mass with Marin Alsop (Sony/Naxos). His television and film
credits include "Glee" (Wes, Dalton Academy Warblers), "Law & Order: Criminal Intent" and Rent:
Filmed Live on Broadway. Leung holds a B.F.A. from the Carnegie Mellon University School of
Drama.

Allegiance is Jay Kuo's (Music, Lyrics and Book) fourth musical. His composing career began at
Stanford where he wrote and produced Upwardly Mobile, a story of five friends coming of age.
Kuo's second musical comedy, Insignificant Others, played from 2006-2008 in San Francisco at the
New Conservatory Theatre Center, Zeum and Theatre 39 and won a Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle
Award for Best Original Script. His third work, Worlds Apart, about star-crossed lovers in a cultural
divide, performed in concert at San Francisco's Magic Theatre in late 2006 and in New York City at
New World Stages in 2008. Kuo has been part of the producing teams of many Broadway shows
and tours and is a social media consultant. Kuo received his J.D. from UC Berkeley and is an
appellate litigator admitted to practice in California and before the 9th Circuit and U.S. Supreme
Courts.

Lorenzo Thione (Book) is a serial entrepreneur, theater producer and community activist. After
having been part of the producing team of shows such as Catch Me If You Can and American Idiot,
he began working on Allegiance in 2008 alongside friend and composer Jay Kuo following an
encounter with George Takei, whose experience in the internment camps inspired them to write a
musical about this dark and mostly unknown chapter of American history. In addition to his work in
theater, Thione was also the co-founder of Powerset, Inc., an internet search company acquired by Microsoft in 2008 and whose technology was subsequently relaunched as part of Bing, and is the co-founder, Chairman and President of Artify It, an internet-based startup that's bringing high-quality contemporary art within the reach of everyone. Thione has also co-founded and helped grow StartOut, a national non-profit organization dedicated to fostering and developing the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders within the LGBT community. Thione serves on the board of trustees of the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco and of several
companies in the U.S. and abroad. A native of Milan, Italy, Thione is a graduate of the University of
Texas at Austin.

Stafford Arima (Director) was nominated for an Olivier Award for his direction of the West End
premiere of Ragtime. He recently directed the first revival of the infamous Broadway musical Carrie
(MCC Theater). His other work includes Altar Boyz (Outstanding Off Broadway Musical Outer Critics
Circle Award and seven Drama Desk Award nominations), The Tin Pan Alley Rag (nominated for an
Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Off Broadway Musical, Roundabout Theatre Company),
Ace (The Old Globe), Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living In Paris (Stratford Shakespeare
Festival), Candide (San Francisco Symphony), The Secret Garden (World AIDS Day concert), Bright
Lights, Big City (Prince Music Theater), A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim (Boston Pops), Guys and
Dolls (Paper Mill Playhouse), Abyssinia (Goodspeed Musicals), Bowfire (PBS television special),
The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Children's Letters to God (Off
Broadway) and Marry Me a Little (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). His projects in development
include A Separate Peace (based on John Knowles' novel) and bare. Arima graduated from York
University in Toronto where he was the recipient of the Dean's Prize for Excellence in Creative
Work.

November 17 – December 29, 2012 (Opening Night: November 23)
15th ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION
Dr. Seuss' HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS!
Book and Lyrics by Timothy Mason
Music by Mel Marvin
Original Production Conceived and Directed by Jack O'Brien
Original Choreography by John DeLuca
Directed by James Vásquez

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! is a wonderful, whimsical musical based upon the
classic Dr. Seuss book. Back for its 15th incredible year, the family favorite features the songs "This Time of Year," "Santa for a Day" and "Fah Who Doraze," the delightful carol from the popular
animated version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Celebrate the holidays as The Old Globe
Theatre is once again transformed into the snow-covered Whoville, right down to the last can of
Who-hash.

James Vasquez (Director) directed last season's production of Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole
Christmas! and has been re-creating the original musical staging for Grinch since 2003. He also
directed the Globe's production of Richard O'Brien's The Rocky Horror Show. He won the 2010
Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Direction of Cygnet Theatre Company's production of Sweeney
Todd, which also won the award for Outstanding Resident Musical. His other recent
directing/choreography credits include the West Coast Premieres of [title of show] (2010 Craig Noel
Award nominee for Outstanding Direction and Resident Musical), Next Fall, Fair Use and Twist
(Diversionary Theatre), A Little Night Music (choreographer) and Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Cygnet Theatre Company) and Into the Woods (New Village Arts). He created musical staging for Boeing-Boeing as well as serving as Associate Director on Jane Austen's Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy (The Old Globe). Along with his partners Mark Holmes and Carrie Preston, Vasquez is cofounder of Daisy 3 Pictures. Their first two feature films, 29th and Gay (TLA Releasing, Here TV) and Ready? OK! (Wolfe Video, LOGO) have played national and international film festivals with Ready? OK! taking the Best Feature Film jury award in Seattle, North Carolina and San Diego. Daisy 3 is currently in post-production on its latest feature, That's What She Said starring Anne Heche. As an actor, Vasquez has appeared on film, television, Off Broadway and regional stages. He is a graduate of The Juilliard School of Drama.

January 12 – February 17, 2013 (Opening Night: January 17)
100th ANNIVERSARY PRODUCTION
PYGMALION
By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Nicholas Martin

The Old Globe celebrates the 100th anniversary of Pygmalion with a lavish new production of
George Bernard Shaw's masterwork. When speech professor Henry Higgins makes a bet with a
fellow scholar that he can pass off a common cockney flower girl as the pinnacle of English society,
he proves to be an expert in phonetics but a novice with people. Directed by Nicholas Martin
(Broadway's Butley with Nathan Lane and Present Laughter with Victor Garber), Pygmalion is a
charming classic full of wit and humor.

George Bernard Shaw (Playwright) was born in Dublin on July 26, 1856 and immigrated to London
in 1878. His first significant attempt at literature was as a novelist; he produced five novels between 1879 and 1888. Eventually he turned to criticism: first art and music (enough to fill volumes) and later theater. Shaw's theater criticism was particularly significant for pointing the way to a theater he himself would soon create: a theater of paradox and wit, one that sought engagement with the world and contemporary issues rather than escape from them. As a playwright, Shaw turned out an impressive body of work including more than 50 plays. Some of his better known plays include Man and Superman (1903), Major Barbara (1905), Pygmalion (1912) – which would later be turned into the musical My Fair Lady – and Saint Joan (1923). By the time of his death in 1950, Shaw had received world fame unprecedented for a literary figure and was hailed by worshipers as one of the greatest playwrights in the English language, second only to William Shakespeare.

Nicholas Martin (Director) previously directed the Globe productions of Later Life, Full Gallop, Overtime, Macbeth and The Mask of Moriarty. He has directed the Broadway productions of Present Laughter, Butley, Match, Hedda Gabler, The Rehearsal and You Never Can Tell. His Off Broadway directing credits include the World Premiere of Christopher Durang's Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them, The Time of the Cuckoo and Chaucer in Rome (The Public Theater), Noah Haidle's Saturn Returns and Paul Rudnick's The New Century (Lincoln Center Theater), Fully Committed (Vineyard Theatre and Cherry Lane Theatre), Full Gallop (Manhattan Theatre Club and Westside Arts Theatre), Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme (Drama Desk Award nomination), Betty's Summer Vacation (Obie Award, Drama Desk nominations), Jonathan Marc Sherman's Sophistry (Playwrights Horizons) and John Guare's Bosoms and Neglect (Signature Theatre Company). Martin's numerous regional credits include She Stoops to Conquer (McCarter Theatre Center), The House of Blue Leaves (Mark Taper Forum) and Dead End (Ahmanson Theatre). He is also director of the West Coast and London productions of Full Gallop. As the Artistic Director of Williamstown Theatre Festival from 2008 until 2010, his directing credits include She Loves Me, The Corn is Green, Where's Charley?, Camino Real, Dead End, The Royal Family, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dreading Thekla and Mother of Invention, among other plays. He was Artistic Director Emeritus of Huntington Theatre Company where some of his previous productions include Love's Labour's Lost, The Sister's Rosensweig, Laughing Wild, The Rivals, Sonia Flew, Betty's Summer Vacation, The Rose Tattoo, The Cherry Orchard and Persephone. He's the recipient of the Norton Award for Sustained Achievement.

March 8 – April 14, 2013 (Opening Night: March 13)
WORLD PREMIERE
A GENTLEMAN'S GUIDE TO LOVE AND MURDER
Book by Robert L. Freedman
Music by Steven Lutvak
Lyrics by Robert L. Freedman and Steven Lutvak
Based on the Novel Israel Rank by Roy Horniman
Directed by Darko Tresnjak

When Monty Navarro finds out he is eighth in line to inherit a dukedom, he decides to eliminate the
other seven heirs standing in his way – all played by one agile actor! A Gentleman's Guide to Love
and Murder is a witty music hall comedy that explores how low we'll go to make it to the top.

Former Co-Artistic Director Darko Tresnjak returns to the Globe to direct this World Premiere musical of merriment and murder. A co-production with Hartford Stage.

Robert L. Freedman (Book and Lyrics) was nominated for an Emmy Award and a Writers Guild
Award for the ABC miniseries Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows starring Judy Davis. He
won the Writers Guild Award for HBO's A Deadly Secret: The Robert Bierer Story and was also
nominated for ABC's Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella starring Brandy and Whitney Houston.
Freedman was a finalist for the Humanitas Prize for the GLAAD Award-winning What Makes a
Family. His other films for television include What Love Sees (Silver Plaque, Chicago International
Television Festival), Honor Thy Mother (Edgar Allan Poe Award nomination, Mystery Writers of
America), Unlikely Angel starring Dolly Parton, In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness
(aka Bitter Blood), Our Son, the Matchmaker, Taken Away, Murder at 75 Birch for CBS, Woman
With a Past for NBC, Murder in the Hamptons and The Pastor's Wife for Lifetime and Broadway
Sings: The Music of Jule Styne for "Great Performances" on PBS. For his musical theater work with
collaborator Steven Lutvak, Freedman won the Kleban Award for Outstanding Lyric Writing, the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting and the California Musical Theatre Award. Their
musical Campaign of the Century has been performed at the New York Musical Theatre Festival and
the Chicago Humanities Festival. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder was developed with the
support of The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Ucross Foundation and Brush Creek Foundation for
the Arts. Freedman is the coauthor, with Faye Greenberg, of the one-man play The Beast of
Broadway: The Life and Times of David Merrick.

Steven Lutvak (Music and Lyrics) was profiled in Time Magazine's People to Watch column. He
wrote the title track to Paramount's hit film Mad Hot Ballroom. A Gentleman's Guide to Love and
Murder, written with Robert L. Freedman, was originally developed at The Sundance Institute Theatre Lab and won both the Kleban Award and the Fred Ebb Award for Musical Theatre Songwriting. Lutvak and Freedman also wrote Campaign of the Century (commissioned by the American Musical Theatre of San Jose), which was presented at the Chicago Humanities Festival and the New York Musical Theatre Festival, winning the California Musical Theater Award Competition from the Beverly Hills Theatre Guild. His other musicals include The Wayside Motor Inn (commissioned by the Harmony Project of the National Alliance for Musical Theatre), Almost September (eight San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and seven Dramalogue Awards for its West Coast Premiere) and Esmeralda, for which Lutvak won a New American Works Grant from the NEA. Other awards include two Jonathan Larson Grants and the Johnny Mercer Award for Emerging American Songwriter. As a singer/songwriter, Lutvak has performed at Carnegie Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall and around the country. In The New York Times, Stephen Holden wrote, "An upper-middlebrow Billy Joel crossed with a lower-highbrow Tom Lehrer with a pinch of Debussy: that's how you might place the music of the singer, songwriter, pianist and raconteur Steven Lutvak in the artistic hierarchy of contemporary songwriters." His CD include The Time It Takes and Ahead of My Heart, and his songs are discussed at some length in Classic American Popular Song.

Darko Tresnjak (Director) became the fifth Artistic Director of Hartford Stage in 2011. His directing
credits at Hartford Stage include Bell, Book and Candle and The Tempest. He was the Artistic
Director of The Old Globe's Shakespeare Festival from 2004 to 2009. His directing credits at the
Globe include The Women, The Pleasure of His Company, Bell, Book and Candle, Cyrano de
Bergerac, Coriolanus, All's Well That Ends Well, Hamlet, Titus Andronicus, A Midsummer Night's
Dream, The Winter's Tale, A Comedy of Errors, Antony and Cleopatra, The Two Noble Kinsmen and
Pericles. His recent directing credits include the National Tour of The Merchant of Venice starring
F. Murray Abraham, City of Angels (Goodspeed Musicals) and Titus Adronicus (Stratford
Shakespeare Festival). He has also directed productions at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival,
Royal Shakespeare Company Complete Works festival, The Public Theater, Theatre for a New
Audience, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Long Wharf Theatre, Westport Country Playhouse,
Vineyard Theatre, Blue Light Theatre Company, Huntington Theatre Company (four seasons),
Williamstown Theatre Festival (eight seasons), Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, Florida Grand Opera
and LA Opera.

April 27 – June 2, 2013 (Opening Night: May 2)
SAN DIEGO PREMIERE
OTHER DESERT CITIES
By Jon Robin Baitz
Directed by Richard Seer

It's Christmas in Palm Springs at the home of actor-turned-politico couple Lyman and Polly Wyeth.
Daughter Brooke's gift – a manuscript of her new memoir – unearths long buried secrets of a family
scandal that threatens to put the once picture-perfect clan back on the tabloid pages. Globe favorite Richard Seer directs this viciously comedic look at the truth behind the wounds of a very public fall from grace. Currently a Broadway sensation, Other Desert Cities was a 2012 Pulitzer Prize finalist.

Jon Robin Baitz's (Playwright) plays include Mizlansky/Zilinsky or "Schmucks," The Film Society,
The Substance of Fire, The End of the Day, Three Hotels, A Fair Country, an adaptation of Hedda
Gabler, Ten Unknowns and The Paris Letter. He is a Pulitzer Prize finalist for A Fair Country and a
Guggenheim, NEA and American Academy of Arts and Letters Award winner. He is on the faculties
of the New School's Graduate Drama Division and Stony Brook Southhampton's M.F.A. program in
theater and film. His screenplays include The Substance of Fire and People I Know starring Al
Pacino, both for Miramax. He created the ABC drama "Brothers & Sisters" in 2006 after writing an
episode of "The West Wing" ("The Long Goodbye"). Other Desert Cities was nominated for Lortel,
Drama Desk and Outer Critics Circle Awards, winning the latter.

Richard Seer (Director) is an award-winning director and actor and has directed and/or performed
on Broadway, Off Broadway, on film and television and in over 70 productions at regional theaters in this country and Great Britain, including The Kennedy Center, Goodman Theatre, Stratford
Shakespeare Festival, Brooklyn Academy Of Music, Huntington Theatre Company, Playwrights
Theater, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Studio Arena Theater, Edinburgh Festival Fringe and the
Sybil Thorndike Theatre in England. He originated the role of Young Charlie in the 1978 Tony
Award-winning Broadway production of Hugh Leonard's Da and received the Theatre World Award
for his performance. At The Old Globe, he has directed productions of Life of Riley, The Last
Romance, The Price, Romeo and Juliet, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Trying, Fiction,
Blue/Orange (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award), All My Sons, Da and Old Wicked Songs
(Patté Award). Recent directing assignments also include Third (Huntington Theatre Company) and
Sonia Flew and Bill W. & Dr. Bob (San Jose Repertory Theatre). He received his M.F.A. in Directing
from Boston University, where he was awarded the prestigious Kahn Directing Award in 1985. In
1990, Seer was invited to return to Boston University's School for the Arts as an Associate Professor of Acting and Directing. He has been Director of The Old Globe/University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program since 1993. In 2010, he was awarded the Craig Noel Distinguished Professorship.

Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
September 29 – October 28, 2012 (Opening Night: October 4)
SAN DIEGO PREMIERE
GOOD PEOPLE
By David Lindsay-Abaire
Directed by Paul Mullins

Margie Walsh doesn't expect much from her hand-to-mouth existence in South Boston, where a few lucky rounds of bingo can mean the rent is paid on time. After losing her job at the local dollar store, Margie reaches out for help to an old high school flame who made it out of the neighborhood and discovers that not everyone wants to remember their humble beginnings. Pulitzer Prize winner
David Lindsay-Abaire (Rabbit Hole) explores whether we can all have the American Dream in this
funny and insightful new play.

David Lindsay-Abaire (Playwright) is a playwright, lyricist, librettist and screenwriter. His play
Rabbit Hole received the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Lindsay-Abaire was nominated for a
Grammy Award with composer Jeanine Tesori (Best Musical Show Album) and two Tony Awards
(Best Book of a Musical and Best Score) for their work on Shrek the Musical. Prior to that he was
awarded the Kleban Award as America's most promising musical theater lyricist. His other plays
include Fuddy Meers, Kimberly Akimbo, Wonder of the World and A Devil Inside, among others. In
addition to his work in theater, Lindsay-Abaire's screen credits include his film adaptation of Rabbit
Hole starring Nicole Kidman as well as the upcoming features Guardians of Childhood (Dreamworks) and Oz: The Great and Powerful directed by Sam Raimi (Disney). He is a New Dramatists alumnus, a graduate of Sarah Lawrence College and The Juilliard School and a member of the Writers Guild of America and the Dramatists Guild Council.

Paul Mullins (Director) returns to The Old Globe where he directed the Shakespeare Festival
productions of Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Measure for Measure and The Merry Wives of Windsor.
Mullins is a company member at The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey where he has directed
Accidental Death of an Anarchist, The Lion in Winter, Noises Off, Private Lives, The Time of Your
Life, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Richard II, Illyria, King John, The Illusion, Tartuffe,
Rhinoceros, Measure for Measure, All's Well That Ends Well and The Threepenny Opera. His
regional credits also include Tynan, The Solid Gold Cadillac, The Seafarer, Fat Pig, This is How It
Goes and The Russian National Postal Service (The Studio Theatre), You Can't Take It with You
(Chautauqua Theater Company), Heroes, The Center of Gravity, Third, Trying, Lettice and Lovage
and True West (Portland Stage), Superior Donuts (Dorset Festival), I'm Connecticut, Urinetown and
The Comedy of Errors (Connecticut Repertory Theatre), The Swan, Reckless and Two Gentlemen of
Verona (American Stage Theatre Company), The Wild Duck (New York University), A Month in the
Country, Summerfolk and The Time of Your Life (Yale School of Drama) and As You Like It (The
Juilliard School).

January 26 – February 24, 2013 (Opening Night: January 31)
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA PREMIERE
THE BROTHERS SIZE
By Tarell Alvin McCraney
Directed by Tea Alagi?

Infused with music and the rhythms of the South, The Brothers Size blends West African mythology
with a modern-day story of the Louisiana bayou. After his release from prison, Oshoosi Size seeks
out his brother, Ogun, who is an upright and law-abiding car mechanic. When their family is
threatened by the reappearance of a figure from Oshoosi's past, they must learn what it truly means to be brothers.

Tarell Alvin McCraney (Playwright) is best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister
Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red and Brown Water and Marcus; or the Secret of Sweet. They
have been performed at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, The Public Theater in New York,
Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Chicago, at a trio of theaters in the Bay Area – Marin Theatre
Company, American Conservatory Theater and Magic Theatre – Young Vic in London (Olivier Award
nomination) and around the world. His other plays include The Breach (Southern Rep), Wig Out!
(Sundance Institute Theatre Lab, Royal Court Theatre, Vineyard Theatre, GLAAD Award for
Outstanding New York Theater: Broadway & Off-Broadway) and American Trade (Royal
Shakespeare Company and Hampstead Theatre). Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where he is an
ensemble member, will produce the World Premiere of his commissioned play Head of Passes in the
spring of 2013. McCraney was the Royal Shakespeare Company's International Playwright in
Residence in 2008-2010 where he co-edited and directed the Young People's Shakespeare
production of Hamlet, which toured throughout the U.K. and was presented at the Park Avenue
Armory in New York. He is the recipient of the prestigious Whiting Writers' Award and Steinberg
Playwright Award, as well as London's Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, the
inaugural New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award and the inaugural Paula Vogel Award in
Playwriting. He is a graduate of the New World School of the Arts High School, The Theatre School
at DePaul University and Yale School of Drama. He is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and
a member of Teo Castellanos/D-Projects in Miami.

Tea Alagi? (Director) has recently directed Man of La Mancha with book by Dale Wasserman, lyrics
by Joe Darion and music by Mitch Leigh (Burning Coal Theatre Company), Lidless by Frances Ya-
Chu Cowhig (Walkerspace, Page 73), Waking Up by Cori Thomas (The Ensemble Studio Theatre),
Anonymous by Naomi Iizuka (National Hispanic Cultural Center), The Marriage of Maria Braun by
Rainer Werner Fassbinder (ZKM, Croatia), Binibon by Jack Womack and Elliot Sharp (The Kitchen),
Events with Life's Leftovers by Alberto Villarreal Diaz (Dramafest, Mexico City) and Aliens with
Extraordinary Skills by Saviana Stanescu (Women's Project). She directed the World Premiere of
The Brothers Size by Tarell Alvin McCraney at The Public Theater and later productions at The
Studio Theatre and Abbey Theatre. Her original devised work includes The Filament Cycle, which
performed at La Mama Experimental Theatre Club, the 4+4 Days in Motion Festival in Prague,
Battersea Arts Centre in London, Philadelphia, Colorado, Denver and Potsdam, and Zero Hour
about the Balkan War. Her other directing work from this period includes Men Have Called Me Mad,
One Day in Moscow, Cerebral Events and Sam Perspective. She was Associate Artistic Director of
The Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts where she directed Woyzeck by Georg Büchner,
Self-Accusation by Peter Handke, Pre-Paradise Sorry Now by Raner Werner Fassbinder, Baal by
Bertolt Brecht and Zero Hour. Alagi? holds a B.F.A. in Acting from Charles University in Prague and
an M.F.A. in Directing from Yale School of Drama.

March 23 – April 21, 2013 (Opening Night: March 28)
WORLD PREMIERE ADAPTATION
A DOLL'S HOUSE
By Henrik Ibsen
Adaptation by Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey and Kirsten Brandt
Directed by Kirsten Brandt

In a time of financial desperation, a young wife makes a dangerous decision, taking an illegal risk to
save her husband's life. Years later, her secret comes back to haunt her, and its revelation will
shake the foundations of her entire world. Written in 1879, Ibsen's A Doll's House is a true landmark
of modern drama. Director Kirsten Brandt and Ibsen translator Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey
collaborate to create a new adaptation of the play expressly for the Globe's intimate Sheryl and
Harvey White Theatre. A Doll's House continues the Globe's Classics Up Close series, which takes
dramatic masterworks out from behind the proscenium arch, allowing audiences to experience great
drama in new and often unexpected ways.

Henrik Ibsen (Playwright, 1828 – 1906) is often considered the father of modern drama. His plays
are still highly topical, and after Shakespeare, his works are more frequently performed than any
other playwright in the world. He began writing plays in 1850, and his best-known works include A
Doll's House (1879), Ghosts (1881), An Enemy of the People (1882) and Hedda Gabler (1890).
Many of Ibsen's plays are realistic, issue-driven dramas that focus on social criticism. A Doll's
House was Ibsen's international breakthrough. His later plays shift to psychological and symbolic
drama. His four last dramatic works, The Master Builder (1892), Little Eyolf (1894), John Gabriel
Borkman (1896) and When We Dead Awaken (1899), are frequently characterized as dramatic selfportraits, as artistic confessions in the name of self-scrutiny and self-awareness. In 1900 Ibsen
suffered his first stroke. His "dramatic epilogue," When We Dead Awaken, was thus and
appropriately the last dramatic work that he wrote. In all, Ibsen wrote 26 dramatic works and some
300 poems.

Kirsten Brandt (Direction/Adaptation) previously directed Hold Please, Lobby Hero, Christmas on
Mars and The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow at The Old Globe. Her regional directing credits
include La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, TheatreWorks,
San Jose Repertory Theatre and North Coast Repertory Theatre. Brandt was Executive Artistic
Director of Sledgehammer Theatre from 1999-2005 where she produced 23 theatrical events,
directed 15 productions and wrote The Frankenstein Project, NU: Parts I & III and Berzerkergang.
She served as Associate Artistic Director at San Jose Repertory Theatre where she directed Rabbit
Hole, Splitting Infinity, Groundswell and Legacy of Light. Recently, Brandt wrote and directed The
Thinning Veil, a multimedia, multi-site telematic performance piece based on Electra. She is the
recipient of numerous KPBS Awards, a BackStage West Garland Award and two San Diego Theatre
Critics Circle Awards. Brandt teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz and is an alumna of
UC San Diego.

Anne-Charlotte Hanes Harvey (Translation/Adaptation) is Professor Emerita of Theatre at San
Diego State University, a board member of The August Strindberg Society of Los Angeles and a
former board member of the Ibsen Society of America. She is a translator and dramaturg
specializing in the plays of Ibsen and Strindberg as well as contemporary Swedish plays for young
audiences. She provided platform translations for adaptations of Ibsen's work by Jon Robin Baitz,
Christopher Shinn and Mabou Mines, and served as dramaturg for the Globe's production of Ibsen's
Ghosts. Since her own early immigrant days in Minneapolis, Harvey has been researching,
performing, recording, documenting and lecturing on Scandinavian immigrant music and theater in
America. In 1998, King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden awarded her the Kings' Medal, 8th class, with
the ribbon of the Order of the Seraphim, for outstanding contributions to Swedish-American culture
in the United States.

May 11 – June 9, 2013 (Opening Night: May 16)
WEST COAST PREMIERE
BE A GOOD LITTLE WIDOW
By Bekah Brunstetter

As a young wife, Melody is adjusting to choosing the best throw pillow and the proper temperature to serve her brie. But when her husband's business trip ends in tragedy, Melody must learn how to
behave like a proper widow with the help of her mother-in-law – who just happens to be an expert in the field. A bittersweet look at the messy parts of life, this quirky comedy contemplates how grief, devotion and hope can persevere within us all.

Bekah Brunstetter's plays include A Long and Happy Life (upcoming at Naked Angels), Be a Good
Little Widow (Ars Nova, spring 2011 and Collaboraction, fall 2011), House of Home (Williamstown
Theater Festival, Rough Reading Series), Oohrah! (Atlantic Theater Company, 2009 and
Steppenwolf Theatre Company Garage/LiveWire Productions, 2012) and Miss Lilly Gets Boned
(Lark Play Development Center's Playwrights' Week, 2009, Finborough Theatre, June 2010 and
upcoming at Ice Factory). She is a New Voice/New York Fellow through the Lark Play Development
Center, member of Primary Stages' Writer's Group and the Naked Radio writing team. Brunstetter is
an alumna of the Women's Project Playwrights Lab, the Ars Nova Play Group and the Playwrights
Realm. She is currently working on an Ensemble Studio Theatre/Sloan Project commission and just
finished working with Craig Wright on a new MTV series, "Underemployed." She received her B.A.
from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and her M.F.A. in Dramatic Writing from the New
School for Drama.

GRADUATE THEATRE PROGRAM
November 10 – 18, 2012
Sheryl and Harvey White Theatre
Conrad Prebys Theatre Center
MEASURE FOR MEASURE
By William Shakespeare
Directed by Ray Chambers

The Bard spins his magic in this timeless tale of morality, justice, and compassion. The Duke of
Vienna has handed the reigns of his government to Angelo, only to discover that Angelo's rigid
adherence to the law is tainted with hypocrisy. A young nobleman, Claudio, is sentenced to death
for premarital relations with a woman to whom he is betrothed. His fate is thrust into the hands of his sister, Isabella, who now must choose between her brother's life and her own salvation. Wickedly comic and strangely tender, Measure for Measure is one of Shakespeare's most powerful plays.

A joint venture of The Old Globe and the University of San Diego, the nationally-renowned Master of Fine Arts Professional Actor Training Program recruits seven students each year from around the
country to participate in an intensive two-year course of graduate study in classical theater.

Since first training with The Old Globe in the mid-'80s, Ray Chambers (Director) has worked as a
classical actor and director with numerous regional theaters across the country. For nearly two
decades as an Associate Artist with Alabama Shakespeare Festival, he has worked as actor,
director, writer and instructor, and he served as Director of the Master of Fine Arts/Professional
Actor Training Program there since 2001. His regional acting credits include title roles in Hamlet,
The Count of Monte Cristo, Richard III, Coriolanus, King John, Henry V, Tartuffe and leading roles in
Julius Caesar, The Winter's Tale, The Rivals, Henry IV, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Great Expectations,
The Importance of Being Earnest and Saint Joan, among many others. His credits at The Old Globe
include Life of Riley, Antony and Cleopatra, The Comedy of Errors, The School for Scandal,
Coriolanus, Love's Labour's Lost, Hamlet and Macbeth. He has taught Acting and Classical Text in
master classes and workshops for universities and theaters around the country and has served as a
national board member of the University/Resident Theatre Association. He is currently an Associate
Professor of Theatre at the University of San Diego.

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