TheatreWorks Silicon Valley

CASSIDY BROWN

(Man 1) appeared at TheatreWorks most recently in Distracted (Daniel/ Dr. Jinks/Dr. Karnes), Doubt (Father Flynn), and at the New Works Festival in These Shining Lives, Equivocation, and Touch(ed). Regional credits include Troilus and Cressida (Achilles), Twelfth Night (Malvolio), and Doubt (Flynn) at Pacific Repertory Theatre and Hunter Gatherers (Richard) at Capital Stage. In the Bay Area, he has been seen at Willows Theatre Company in The Kentucky Cycle  (Joshua Rowen), The Odd Couple (Felix), Noises Off (Garry), and Treasure Island (Ben Gunn), at San Francisco Shakespeare Festival in Comedy of Errors (Antipholus of Ephesus), at Aurora Theatre Company in Bosoms and Neglect (Scooper), at Shotgun Players in The Forest War (Kulan), Cabaret (Cliff), and The Death of Meyerhold (Meyerhold), and in Porchlight Theatre’s A Month in the Country (Herr Schaaf).

rebecca dines

(Pamela, et al) was last seen at TheatreWorks as Mama (Distracted) and Lily Garland (Twentieth Century). Other TW roles include Alexa Vere de Vere (As Bees In Honey Drown), Rosalind (As You Like It), Puck (Shakespeare In Hollywood) and Mrs. Kendall (The Elephant Man). She has appeared for Kansas City Repertory Theatre as Haley Walker in the one-woman show Bad Dates and worked as an actress and a director for the Lake Tahoe and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals where her roles included Beatrice (Much Ado about Nothing), Kate (Taming of the Shrew), and Lady Macbeth (Macbeth). Her favorite roles include Ruth (The Homecoming, Aurora Theatre Company) and Tracy (The Philadelphia Story, Pacific Alliance Theatre Company). She has appeared for Berkeley, San Jose, and South Coast Repertory Theatres, Magic and B Street Theatres, and The Laguna Playhouse. 

dan hiatt

(Man 2) has appeared at TheatreWorks in Twentieth Century, Ambition Facing West, Spinning into Butter, and Psychopathia Sexualis. Other Bay Area appearances include Round and Round the Garden, Happy End, The Rivals, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, and The Matchmaker at American Conservatory Theater; Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Menocchio, and Dinner with Friends at Berkeley Repertory Theatre; This Wonderful Life, A Flea in Her Ear, Sylvia, and The Immigrant at San Jose Repertory Theatre; and Pastures of Heaven, Uncle Vanya, Richard III, and Nicholas Nickleby at California Shakespeare Theatre. Mr. Hiatt has also performed at theatres across the country, including Seattle Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Ford’s Theatre, Studio Arena Theatre, Pasadena Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, and Stage West in Toronto.

mark anderson phillips

(Hannay) was last seen at TheatreWorks in Opus (Dorian) and Theophilus North (Theophilus). His many TheatreWorks appearances include The Grapes of Wrath (Tom Joad), Proof (Hal), Charley’s Aunt (Jack), The Cripple of Inishmaan (Babby Bobby), and Dolly West’s Kitchen (Alec). Mr. Phillips recently appeared in Happy Now? at Marin Theatre Company. Other recent appearances include Noises Off and Witness for the Prosecution, both at Center REPertory Company, The Weir at San Jose Repertory Theatre, Miss Julie at Aurora Theatre Company, and last summer in Abraham Lincoln’s Big Gay Dance Party at the New York International Fringe Festival. His work at other theatres includes roles with Magic Theatre, SF Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Word for Word, Marin Theatre Company, and American Conservatory Theater.  www.markandersonphillips.com  
 

patrick barlow

(Adaptor) won an Olivier Award and a What’sOnStage Award for Best New Comedy for his adaptation of Alfred Hitchcock’s film The 39 Steps. In addition to a two year run on Broadway, The 39 Steps had a successful US National Tour in 2009. Mr. Barlow also co-wrote and performed in several farcical adaptations of world history and mythology as a part of the comedy duo “The National Theatre of Brent” including The Charge of the Light Brigade, Zulu!, The Black Hole of Calcutta, The Messiah, and Love Upon the Throne—The Charles and Diana Story (which was nominated for an Olivier Award). Mr. Barlow wrote the screenplay for The Young Visiters [sic] and can be seen in the films Shakespeare in Love, Notting Hill, and Bridget Jones’ Diary. 

ROBERT KELLEY

(Director) is a Bay Area native and Stanford University graduate. He founded TheatreWorks in 1970 and has been its Artistic Director ever since. He has directed over 150 TheatreWorks productions, including many world or regional premieres. In 2003 he received the Bay Area Theater Critics Circle Paine Knickerbocker Award for lifetime achievement. He has garnered BATCC Awards Outstanding Direction for his productions of Into the Woods; Pacific Overtures; Rags; Sweeney Todd; Another Midsummer Night; Sunday in the Park with George; Jane Eyre; and Caroline, or Change; Bay Area Drama-Logue Awards for his direction of Ah, Wilderness! and Once in a Lifetime; Dean Goodman Choice Awards for Violet, Ragtime, Proof, Dolly West’s Kitchen, and Harold & Maude; and Back Stage West Garland Awards for his direction of Side Show and Sunday in the Park with George. He recently directed The Light in the Piazza; To Kill a Mockingbird; A Civil War Christmas; Yellow Face; Tinyard Hill; Snapshots; Caroline, or Change; and productions of Emma at TheatreWorks, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, and Repertory Theatre of St. Louis.

CHRISTOPHER GRAHAM

(Sound Designer) is exhilarated to be designing his first show for TheatreWorks with The 39 Steps. He has been working as sound engineer and deck hand at TheatreWorks for four seasons and as a technical director and sound designer at Foothill College for five, including sound designs for The Adding Machine, My Fair Lady, and Bat Boy: The Musical. He would like to thank his family and friends for their continued support, and TheatreWorks for the opportunity to design for them.

JAMIE D. MANN

(Stage Manager) recently stage managed TheatreWorks’ Superior Donuts and the developmental production of Fly By Night in TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival. He also stage managed the World Premiere of Mrs. Whitney (Magic Theatre), 2 X Malamud—The Jewbird and The Magic Barrel (Word for Word/The Jewish Theatre), The Last Yiddish Poet (The Jewish Theatre), and Sunrise at Campobello (Willows Theatre Company). He was Production Manager for six seasons at San Jose Stage Company, and stage managed Dirty Blonde; Rock N’ Roll; The Great America Trailer Park Musical; Always…Patsy Cline; Altar Boyz; Blade to the Heat (with Thick Description); The Diary of Anne Frank; and Beehive, The Musical. He graduated from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a degree in Theatre Arts.

STEVEN B. MANNSHARDT

(Lighting Designer) has been the lighting designer for over 55 productions at TheatreWorks, having won numerous Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards and Dean Goodman Choice Awards for his work. His regional design credits include Long Wharf Theatre, New Haven; A Contemporary Theatre, Seattle; American Repertory Theater, Cambridge; Studio Arena Theatre, Buffalo; Magic Theatre; Pasadena Playhouse; The Weston Playhouse Theatre Company, Vermont; Vancouver Playhouse Theatre Company; Centaur Theatre Company, Montreal; The du Maurier Theater, Toronto; and Olympia Theatre, Dublin, Ireland. Mr. Mannshardt taught lighting design at Santa Rosa Junior College for 14 years and continues to be a guest lecturer at various local colleges. Formerly the production manager at TheatreWorks, Mr. Mannshardt now runs an organization dedicated to improving the education system for both children and adults in Nepal.  www.nepal.wwep.org

LESLIE MARTINSON

(Casting Director) is TheatreWorks’ Associate Artist and Casting Director. She recently directed the West Coast Premiere of Superior Donuts for TheatreWorks, where her other directing credits include Theophilus North, If We Are Women, Brilliant Traces, The Boys Next Door, Interpreters, Stepping Out, and The Voice of the Prairie. A graduate of Occidental College, she has been a Watson Fellow, a member of Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab, a member of the LaMaMa International Directing Symposium and has served on Theatre Bay Area’s Theatre Services Committee since 2002. In 2009 she was awarded an Individual Artist Fellowship in Stage Direction from the Arts Council of Silicon Valley for artistic achievement and community impact. In addition to directing, she leads master classes and workshops for many Bay Area universities and theatre companies.

B. MODERN

(Costume Designer) is delighted to return to TheatreWorks where she has designed Superior Donuts, The Chosen, and Third. Regional theater design credits include productions for Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The Globe Theatres; San Jose Repertory Theatre; Magic Theatre; Shakespeare Santa Cruz; American Players Theatre, Wisconsin; Geva Theatre, New York; Asolo Repertory Theatre, Florida; Indiana Repertory Theatre; Repertory Theatre of St. Louis; Georgia Shakespeare Festival; Idaho Shakespeare Festival; Center REPertory Company; and Syracuse Stage. Opera credits include Opera Theatre of St. Louis and Opera San José. She has received four Drama-Logue Awards, three Dean Goodman Choice Awards, and a Bay Area Theater Critics’ Circle Award. Ms. Modern is an Associate Artist at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, and at Geva Theatre. She shares a home and studio in Santa Cruz with two cantankerous cats. 

RICHARD NEWton

(Assistant Director/Dialect Coach/Cultural Consultant) is a native of Liverpool, England with extensive dialect experience in the Bay Area. His previous dialect credits for TheatreWorks include Emma, The Elephant Man, Equus, The Sisters Rosensweig, and You Never Can Tell. His other Bay Area credits include A Christmas Carol: The Musical (Performing Arts Company with Notre Dame de Namur University [also associate director]); Shirley Valentine (Hillbarn Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe Festival [also co-director]); Oliver! (Broadway by the Bay); and Dancing at Lughnasa, (Coastal Repertory). He holds an MFA in directing/dramaturgy and non-profit management from Roosevelt University, Chicago. Also, to assist actors to further access their own bodies, emotions, and voices, he has adapted the equine therapeutic skills of massage, Tellington Touch, and acupressure.

JOE RAGEY

(Scenic Designer) has designed over 50 shows for TheatreWorks over the last 24 years. Some of his favorite TheatreWorks designs include A Christmas Memory, Merrily We Roll Along, Baby Taj, My Ántonia, Jane Eyre, Peter Pan, Triumph of Love, You Can’t Take it With You, Equus, Conversations With My Father, Nagasaki Dust, Honor Song for Crazy Horse, La Bete, and Pacific Overtures. He has received over a dozen Bay Area Critics Circle Awards, LA Drama-Logue Awards and Dean Goodman Choice Awards for shows he designed for TheatreWorks.

JOSHUA M. ROSE*

(Assistant Stage Manager) is returning for his twenty-third show in his sixth season with TheatreWorks, having most recently been the Equity Assistant Stage Manager for A Christmas Memory (world premiere); The Light in the Piazza; To Kill a Mockingbird; Daddy Long Legs (world premiere); and Tinyard Hill (world premiere).  Recently, he was also the Equity Stage Manager for Secret Order, Groundswell, and Splitting Infinity at San Jose Repertory Theatre. Mr. Rose has also worked with A Contemporary Theatre, Tacoma Actors’ Guild, Seattle Children’s Theatre, The Fifth Avenue, Village Theatre, On the Boards, Fulton Opera House, Mount Washington Valley Theatre Company, Minnesota Repertory Theatre, and Minnesota Festival Theatre. He received his BFA in Stage Management and Theatre Technology from the University of Minnesota Duluth and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. 

VICKIE ROZELL