Much Ado About Nothing - February 5-March 12, 2023 DIRECTED BY Guillermo Cienfuegos
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William Shakespeare’s
Much
Ado
About
Nothing
DIRECTED BY Guillermo Cienfuegos
February 5–March 12, 2023
DEAR FRIENDS, We are excited and grateful that you have joined us for one of Shakespeare’s greatest comedies, Much Ado About Nothing—a title that is the crowning definition of our season’s theme, “Daring to Love.” Irresistibly charming and bursting with wit, the production will leave you wanting to come back. And speaking of Shakespeare! Don’t miss Lauren Gundersen’s The Book of Will—a comic detective story detailing the trials and tribulations of his three closest friends as they conspire to create the first collection of his work. And to round out a spring of great theatre, Manuel Puig’s Kiss of the Spider Woman. And now—Much Ado About Nothing! Warmly, Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott PRODUCING ARTISTIC DIRECTORS Cover photo by Daniel Reichert (L to R) Joshua Bitton and Erika Soto. Photo above of Geoff Elliott and Julia Rodriguez-Elliott by Daniel Reichert. Background pattern artwork by Dennis S. Juett & Associates Inc.
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Much Ado About Nothing Play by William Shakespeare Directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos PRODUCING SPONSORS James & Trevessa Terrile SPONSORS Chris Burt & Tieu-My Nguyen STUDENT MATINEE SPONSORS Leilani Jones Wilmore Z. Clark Branson Foundation POST-SHOW SPONSORS: Lawrence & Patricia Sparks CREATIVE TEAM & CREW Scenic Designer Angela Balogh Calin† Costume Designer Christine Cover Ferro Lighting Designer Ken Booth Sound Designer Chris Moscatiello† Properties Designer Stephen Taylor Wigs & Makeup Designer Tony Valdes Stage Manager Chloe Willey* Assistant Stage Manager Raven Chatt* Dramaturg Dr. Miranda Johnson-Haddad Choreography Joyce Guy Text Coach Susan Wilder Light Board Operator Jacob Padilla Run Crew Bryan Tiglio Assistant Director Rachel Berney Needleman 4 A NOISE WITHIN
CAST
Beatrice. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Erika Soto*
Benedick. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Joshua Bitton*
John/Verges. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Rafael Goldstein*
Don “The Prince” Pedro. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frederick Stuart*
Claudio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Stanley Andrew Jackson*
Hero. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alexandra Hellquist
Margaret . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jeanne Syquia*
Balthasar/Ursula . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nick Petroccione
Leonato. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tony Pasqualini*
Dogberry/Antonio. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Wesley Mann*
Conrade/Friar Francis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Randy Thompson
Borachio . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Uribes*
Ensemble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Alejandro Hernandez
Ensemble. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Arely Vianet
RUNTIME: 2 HOURS AND 20 MINUTES
THERE WILL BE ONE 15-MINUTE INTERMISSION
Understudies:
Beatrice: Kodi Jackman*, John/Verges/Borachio: Will
Block*, Don “The Prince” Pedro: Justin Blanchard*,
Margaret: Nicole Ohara, Dogberry/Antonio: Bert Emmett*,
Leonato: Edgar Landa*, Balthasar/Ursula: Mitchell Lam Hau,
Hero: Carene Rose Mekertichyan*,
Benedick: Rafael Goldstein*
Made possible in part by the Pasadena Arts & Culture Commission
and the City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division.
† Designer is represented by United Scenic Artists Local USA-829 of the IATSE.
* Represented by the Actors Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors
and Stage Managers in the United States.
Photo by Daniel Reichert. Erika Soto. 2023 SPRING 5
SYNOPSIS The play opens at the house of Leonato, Governor of Messina, in Sicily, shortly after the liberation of Sicily in 1943 during World War II. Don Pedro, a British-born, American film star whose best known movie is “The Prince,” has just arrived in Messina. Because his chief role is to maintain troop morale, he has seen little fighting action but makes a splashy entrance. Among those joining him are his good friends, Claudio, a young soldier, and Benedick, an older soldier who is a close friend to both. Leonato, with his daughter, Hero, and his quick-witted niece, Beatrice, welcome the men. Beatrice and Benedick resume the “merry war” of clever wordplay that is typical of their dynamic. Claudio tells Benedick and Don Pedro that he loves Hero, and Don offers to facilitate the match. Benedick insists that he will never marry; later, Beatrice says the same about herself. At a masked ball, Don Pedro wins Hero as Claudio’s wife, despite the efforts of Don’s troublemaking half-brother, John, to interfere. Don Pedro, Claudio, and Leonato devise a trick to make Benedick think that Beatrice is secretly in love with him, while Hero and her waiting-women, Margaret and Ursula, trick Beatrice into thinking that Benedick is secretly in love with her. John’s henchmen, Borachio and Conrade, suggest another way that Claudio’s nuptials can be disrupted: Borachio proposes that because he and Margaret are lovers, he can trick her into appearing at Hero’s window to admit him into the bedchamber. John contrives to have Don Pedro and Claudio watch from a distance, and they are both deceived. Later, Borachio is overheard by the incompetent local watch, led by the bumbling Constable Dogberry, boasting about the deception. The watch arrest Borachio and Conrade. Next day, at the wedding, Claudio denounces Hero at the altar as a whore. Hero collapses in anguish, the soldiers depart, and the friar advises the others to spread a rumor that Hero has died, to allow them time to discover the truth. Beatrice and Benedick find themselves alone and confess their love for each other. The plot unravels when word arrives that John has fled Messina. Borachio confesses the scheme to Don Pedro and Claudio, who begs Leonato’s forgiveness. Leonato demands that Claudio marry his brother Antonio’s “daughter.” At the wedding, the women appear masked, and Hero eventually reveals herself to the penitent Claudio. Beatrice and Benedick attempt to deny their love for each other, but when presented with the sonnets that each has written to the other, they confess their love and cheerfully agree to marry, to everyone’s delight. *This Synopsis and Character Map reflect the specific setting of Director Guillermo Cienfuegos’s production at A Noise Within. Shakespeare’s plays continue to speak to audiences in part because they can be adapted to many different locales and time periods. Audience members can learn more about this season’s plays by visiting the Audience Guide at anoisewithin.org/muchado. 6 A NOISE WITHIN
CHARACTER MAP
Leonato
Antonio
Governor of Messina, father to Hero,
Brother of Leonato.
and a participant in the scheme to get
Beatrice and Benedick to fall in love.
Beatrice
♦ Cousin to Hero, niece to Leonato and
Antonio, and eventual lover of Benedick.
Hero She is intelligent and sharp-tongued, with
Daughter to Leonato and cousin to a pleasant personality and a good sense
Beatrice, Hero is known for her beauty of humor. She and Benedick verbally spar
and her gentle temperament. She falls ♦ throughout the play, and Beatrice regularly
in love with Claudio, but he publicly announces her dislike of love and her desire
disgraces her at their wedding. She is never to marry. However, due to a scheme
also a participant in the scheme to make devised by Don Pedro, she ends up falling in
Beatrice and Benedick fall in love. love with Benedick.
♥ ♥
Benedick
Claudio
Soldier and friend to Don Pedro and
Soldier and friend to Don Pedro, Claudio
■ eventual lover of Beatrice. He is a match for
immediately falls in love with Hero and is
Beatrice in intelligence and wit and boasts
about to marry her when he is tricked by
about his intentions to remain a bachelor
John into thinking she has been unfaithful. He
forever. He is caught up in Don Pedro’s plot,
is also a participant in the scheme to make
however, and ends up falling in love with
Beatrice and Benedick fall in love.
Beatrice by the end of the play.
Ursula
One of Hero’s serving women. Don Pedro
A British-born, American film star whose best
known movie is “The Prince.” A friend of
Margaret Leonato’s, Don Pedro is a celebrity member
One of Hero’s serving women of the American forces who sees minimal
and lover to Borachio. He tricks fighting action but who assists in keeping up
her into becoming an unwitting troop morale. He helps Claudio woo Hero,
accomplice in the plot to destroy and he participates in the scheme to trick
Hero and Claudio’s relationship. Beatrice and Benedick into falling in love.
Misled by his half-brother John’s plot, he joins
Claudio in humiliating Hero, but he also helps
♥ to make amends for his poor judgment.
Borachio
Follower of John, lover to Margaret,
♦
and major player in the plot to destroy
John
Hero and Claudio’s relationship. He is
Half-brother to Don Pedro and the play’s
ultimately caught out when he drunkenly
chief villain. John is unwilling to accept
confesses his scheming to Conrade.
■ the forgiveness and camaraderie offered
by Don Pedro. Instead, John devises and
oversees the plan to destroy the happiness
Conrade
of Hero and Claudio.
Follower and friend of John.
Balthasar
Verges
Dogberry Witty musician and
Dogberry’s second
Constable and head of the watch in attendant of Don
in command.
Messina. While dedicated to his job,
■ Pedro. His song “Sigh
Dogberry has the habit of misusing words, No More” highlights
making him a source of amusement and double standards in
Father Francis how infidelity is viewed
confusion for the other characters.
A priest. in men versus women.
Symbol Key: ♦ Family ♥ lovers or married ■ employees
2023 SPRING 7
Q&A WITH GUILLERMO CIENFUEGOS
Q: T
his is your directorial debut at A Noise Within, welcome by the way.
Can you share with us your journey before ANW?
A: I’ve been working as an actor (under my given name Alex Fernandez)
in theatre, film, television and voice-over since 1990, when I graduated
from the training program at the American Conservatory Theatre. I’ve
been directing plays under the name Guillermo Cienfuegos for over 20
years, mostly in the intimate theatre scene in Los Angeles at venues such
as Pacific Resident Theatre, The Fountain Theatre, The Blank Theatre
Company and at Rogue Machine where I currently serve as Co-Artistic
Director. I also directed outside of LA at the Oregon Cabaret Theatre in
Ashland and at NYC’s 59E59 Theatre off-Broadway. I’ve been fortunate to
have received awards recognition for my work, including the Ovation and
Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle awards for my production of Henry V.
Q: M
uch Ado About Nothing has been adapted into films and continues to
be popular in theatres across the country. What was it about Much Ado
that attracted you to the story?
A: W
ell, it’s obviously a wonderful play, so for me it starts with that.
Anytime I get a chance to work on a great play like this with a talented
and engaged group of actors, I jump at it. What really hooked me was
that Julia and Geoff attached the theme ‘Daring To Love’ to this ANW
season. That really speaks to me—and directly to what I think this play is
about. It’s a terrifying thing to love someone, to let yourself be loved. But
it’s worth it. I think there’s a lot heartfelt and hilarious potential in the
struggle with whether or not to make yourself vulnerable to that.
Q: Y
our adaptation of Much Ado takes place in World War II Italy, after
the liberation of Sicily. What was the motivation behind setting our
story here?
A: T
he play features a company of soldiers returning victoriously from some
unnamed military action. I wanted to give that some specificity that
would resonate with American audiences—and setting it during World
War II would play on the nostalgia that many of us feel towards the
iconic images and clothing and music of that era. I also wanted to set it
in a Sicily that was now ready for celebration and joy after having been
under a dark cloud for so long.
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Q: In a meeting with the A Noise Within staff, you mentioned that
music will play a part in your production. How do you use music as a
storytelling device? And what inspired you to choose this selection of
music to help you tell the story?
A: I intend to utilize the wonderful music of that swing era as well as great
Italian music of the period throughout in transitions from scene to scene.
We will also have some live music in the production—and the masked
dance that appears in the script will be transformed into a fun Italian
Tarantella. I hope the music will capture the hope that the characters are
taking a chance to feel—and it’s MY hope that the music will translate as
joy to the audience.
Q: S
omething else you mentioned in our meeting is that you “like to
make a mess” Can you explain what that means in term of directing or
cultivating your creative vision for a project?
A: I think with the staging of theatre the attempt too often is to grab
hold of every single aspect and every single moment and squeeze it
into submission, in order to utterly control the outcome. To make it
perfect. Life is just not like that. This work is the art of recreating human
behavior, human emotion, human impulse, human folly—and there’s
nothing perfect about any of that. It’s extremely messy. Acting is actually
the art of imperfection. It’s not that I don’t want to rehearse—it’s a
composed piece of art after all and each moment in one of my shows
has been specifically composed. I just love it when a play feels like it’s
possibly going to fall apart at any moment—but doesn’t. It feels like it’s
all really happening. Like it’s inevitable. So right or wrong, I like to get
into a room with a script, and a group of actors, and just make a mess
Q: Y
ou have shared with us some of your plans for Much Ado About
Nothing. What are you most excited about seeing come to life on
stage?
A: W
e’re taking on a rather bold physical staging that I hope will be exciting
and whimsical and definitely messy. Some of the choices we’ve made
with the characters will perhaps not be what an audience is expecting
in a Shakespeare production. Frankly, I’m excited to see if the mess I’m
creating will actually work!
2023 SPRING 9
A WOMAN’S LOT: THE ROLES AND RIGHTS
OF WOMEN IN ELIZABETHAN SOCIETY
Queen Elizabeth I made history be allowed to inherit her family’s
when she famously decided not to property. This, however, was often
marry, making her the first woman deemed socially unacceptable. As
to rule England as a sole monarch. a result, families frequently went
While Elizabeth’s radical decision out of their way to procure male
to rule without a husband heralded heirs to prevent the eldest daughter
some degree of hope for progress from inheriting, even if that meant
regarding women’s rights, women passing an inheritance to a very
in Elizabethan England were still far distant relation.
from equal to men.
Since women did not own or inherit
To begin, women were granted property, nearly all women in the
significantly fewer opportunities Elizabethan Era married. Marriage
to receive an education. While was an essential aspect of society,
some girls, typically girls of higher and thus many social and legal
social status, could attend grammar codes governing marriage practices
school, they were not allowed to existed. Before the Elizabethan Era,
attend university or work in any marriages often functioned solely as
professional field. Much of a young alliances between families in order
woman’s education centered on to protect or advance a family’s
how she might be a proper wife wealth and social status. While
and mother, and many only learned marriages still often functioned
to read so they could properly like this during the Elizabethan
understand the Bible. Era, a new law was passed in 1604,
allowing a man and a woman to
According to the laws of the marry without the consent of either
time, women could not own or person’s parents. This slight shift
inherit property, fundamentally in laws and practices allowed for
excluding them from achieving any a bit more marital freedom, which
kind of financial independence. appealed to the growing trend of
A woman’s financial status and placing affection and love at the
stability depended entirely on the core of a marriage.
men in her life. In childhood and
adolescence, girls relied on their WOMEN IN SHAKESPEARE’S PLAYS
fathers for financial backing, and in
marriage, women depended on their The women in Shakespeare’s
husbands. Any property belonging plays, particularly in Shakespeare’s
to a woman’s family would be comedies and romances, tend to
passed down to the family’s eldest challenge what it meant to be
son, regardless of the eldest son’s a proper woman in Elizabethan
age—a family could have a 20-year- England. In As You Like It, Twelfth
old daughter and an infant son, Night, and Two Gentlemen of
and the son would still be the sole Verona, we see heroines crossdress
inheritor of the family’s property. as a means of reinvention or
Should a family have no male disguise. When they do so, they
heirs, the eldest daughter would adopt an appearance and manner
1 0 A NOISE WITHINLeft to Right: Unknown woman,
formerly known as Mary, Queen of
Scots by Unknown artist, c.1570.
From the National Portrait Gallery,
London.
“Katherine Parr” by Unknown art-
ist, c. late 16th century. From the
National Portrait Gallery, London.
so precise that they trick nearly Sir Walter Raleigh, a contemporary
everyone they encounter. In of Shakespeare and a poet, notes
presenting as men, these comedic how the women in Shakespeare’s
heroines contradict the social plays, particularly comedies
expectations assigned to them by and romances, “are almost all
their gender and social status, if practical, impatient of mere words,
only for a short time. clearsighted as to ends and means.
They do not accept the premises
Other comedic and romantic to deny the conclusion, or decorate
heroines in Shakespeare’s canon the inevitable with imaginative
use language and wit to defy social lendings.” ♦
expectations. In Much Ado About
Nothing, Beatrice engages Benedick Edited from:
in frequent battles of wit and McManus, Clare. “Shakespeare and Gender:
wordplay, often outshining him while The ‘Woman’s Part’.” The British Library,
also embodying a fierce sense of The British Library, 10 Feb. 2016, www.bl.uk/
independence. Margaret also stands shakespeare/articles/shakespeare-and-gender-
the-womans-part.
out, using bawdy humor and double
entendre to defy expectations of
propriety and purity.
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American Endowment Foundation J.P. Morgan Chase Foundation our Bard’s Legacy Circle Members.
Ameriprise Financial The James Irvine Foundation
Helen & John Baatz
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Gift Fund Metavante Corporation Steven & Judy Bass
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America Rochester Area Community
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at development@anoisewithin.org.
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Annenberg Foundation Sally and Dick Roberts Coyote Foundation
Cal OSBA Shakespeare in American Communities:
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The Ralph M. Parsons Foundation partnership with Arts Midwest
The Rose Hills Foundation
S. Mark Taper Foundation Director Circle
Steinmetz Foundation City of Pasadena Cultural Affairs Division
U.S. Small Business Administration Crawford Family Foundation
Los Angeles County Supervisor Kathryn Barger
Producing Sponsor Mara W. Breech Foundation
The Ann Peppers Foundation Michael & Irene Ross Endowment Fund of the
The Capital Group Charitable Foundation Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
Dwight Stuart Youth Fund The Youssef and Kamel Mawardi Fund
The Green Foundation
Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors & Playwright Circle
Los Angeles County Department of Maria’s Italian Kitchen
Arts and Culture MonteCedro Inc.
The Shubert Foundation Pasadena Lions Memorial Trust
Rotary Club of Pasadena Foundation
Sponsor
BCM Foundation Artist Circle
The California Wellness Foundation Caplin Foundation
David Lee Foundation Anonymous
Helen and Will Webster Foundation
The Kenneth T. & Eileen L. Norris Foundation Advocates
Kuchleffel Foundation Corp. It Takes a Village Kids
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Made possible in part by This organization is supported, in
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1 6 A NOISE WITHINCOMPANY
BIOS
Joshua Bitton (Macbeth, Broken Heart); NY
(Benedick) WITH Shakespeare Theatre (Henry V,
SUPPORT
ANW: Loot. Hamlet); Red Bull Theater (The
ELSEWHERE: The Witch of Edmonton, The
Crumple Zone Changeling); Berkeley Rep,
(Rattlestick), Shakespeare Theatre D.C.
Romeo & Juliet (Argonautika); Alabama
(Lincoln Center Shakespeare Festival (Macbeth);
Inst.), Between Riverside & Crazy Commonwealth Shakespeare (Love’s
(Fountain - Ovation Nom.). Dirty, Labour’s Lost); Shakespeare Festival
Filthy Love Story (Rogue Machine), St. Louis (Othello, Midsummer
Lost Girls, Bull, Of Mice & Men Night’s Dream); McCarter Theatre (A
(Pasadena Playhouse) Rules Of Christmas Carol); Long Wharf (A
Seconds (LATC), Backseats & Civil War Christmas, World
Bathroom Stalls. FILM/TV: 50+ Premiere). TV/FILM: Law & Order-
shows: HBO’s The Pacific & The SVU. EDUCATION: BFA: NYU-Tisch,
Night Of..., One Dollar, recurring on MFA: Brown University.
Bupkis, Castle, The Mentalist, guest
appearances Leverage, Magnum P.I., Will Block he/him
Daredevil, Justified, Lucifer, Grey’s (u/s John/Verges/
Anatomy. Dead Wrong, The Tangle, Borachio) With
Small Engine Repair, National ANW: First Soldier,
Treasure & Larry Crowne. All’s Well that Ends
EDUCATION: MFA Rutgers Well ELSEWHERE:
University. Company member of The Wickhams, ETC
Rogue Machine. Santa Barbara;
Murder on the Orient Express, La
Justin Blanchard Mirada; The Two Noble Kinsmen,
(u/s Don Pedro) Kingsmen Shakespeare; Treasure
WITH ANW: Debut. Island, Hally in Master Harold…and
ELSEWHERE: the Boys, Sacramento Theatre
Journey’s End Company. Richard II in Richard II,
(Broadway, Tony Method and Madness; Romeo in
Award); Theatricum Romeo and Juliet, The Porters of
Botanicum (Trouble Hellsgate, A Midsummer Night’s
the Water, World Premiere); Dream, LA Phil. TV/FILM: This is Us.
Roundabout Theatre Co. (Into the Director: All is True, The Two Noble
Woods); Fiasco Theater (Cymbeline); Kinsmen, The Porters of Hellsgate;
Theatre for a New Audience Our Town, Sacramento Theatre
2023 SPRING 1 7Company; Henry IV, Macbeth, The Threepenny Opera; The Dance
Method and Madness. Artistic of Death; The Tempest; Tartuffe;
Director of the Porters of Hellsgate. Pericles, Prince of Tyre; The Beaux’
Love to the family. www. Stratagem; A Christmas Carol;
willblockactordirector.com Cymbeline; The Bungler; Antony and
Cleopatra; Twelfth Night, or What
Ken Booth he/him/his (Lighting You Will; The Comedy of Errors;
Design) WITH ANW: Resident Artist. The Chairs; Great Expectations;
Since 1998, Ken has worked on at Waiting for Godot; Loot; As You Like
least 70 productions at A Noise It; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at
Within. Included in these are: Animal The Hollywood Bowl and at ANW
Farm; Metamorphoses; An Iliad; among others. Recipient of LADCC,
Alice in Wonderland; The Winter’s Ovation, Garland, Drama-Logue
Tale; Henry V; Pericles, Prince of awards. ELSEWHERE: South Coast
Tyre; Julius Cesar; Three Penny Repertory, Pasadena Playhouse,
Opera; Great Expectations; Man of Denver Center Theatre, The Old
La Mancha; The Glass Menagerie; Globe, Laguna Playhouse, West
King Lear; The Tempest; The Dance Coast Ensemble, Milwalkee Rep.,
of Death; Buried Child; Rosencrantz Georgia Shakespeare, Chautauqua
and Guildenstern Are Dead; Noises Theatre Co., Ensemble Theatre
Off; Ubu Roi; The Tragedy of Richard Co., Antaeus Theatre, The Alliance
III; and the annual A Christmas Carol. Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, Asolo
ELSEWHERE: He began his career Repertory, Orlando Shakespeare
at Stages Theater and has worked among others. FILM/TV: 16
at The Fountain Theater, Deaf West productions with I.R.S. Media, PBS,
Theater Company, Pacific Resident Full Moon Productions, Moviestore
Theater, and The Tiffany Theaters Entertainment, Romanian Films.
(among others). EDUCATION: He EDUCATION: MFA, Set and Costume
graduated from UCLA in 1982. Design–The Academy of Fine Arts
(Bucharest, Romania). Member of
Angela Balogh Calin she/her/ the Costume Designers Guild in the
hers (Scenic Design) WITH ANW: USA and Romania.
Scenic & Costume Design: Animal
Farm, All’s Well That Ends Well, Set Raven Chatt, she/her/hers
Design: The Madwoman of Chaillot; (Assistant Stage Manager) WITH
The Imaginary Invalid; Romeo and ANW: Debut . ELSEWHERE: King
Juliet; The Dance of Death; Ghosts; Liz, The Inheritance Part 1 & 2, Geffen
The School For Wives; Julius Caesar; Playhouse; Clue, La Mirada Theater
The Seagull; The Winter’s Tale; As EDUCATION: BA—Production and
You Like It; Twelfth Night; Cyrano Design for theater, UCLA.
de Bergerac (1995); The Country
Wife. Costume Design: Alice in Guillermo
Wonderland; Buried Child; Gem of Cienfuegos, he/
the Ocean; Noises Off; Othello; A him/his (Director)
Christmas Carol; Man of La Mancha; WITH ANW: Debut.
Henry V; The Madwoman of Chaillot; ELSEWHERE: The
A Christmas Carol; Man of La Beautiful People,
Mancha (2017); King Lear; The Maids; Disposable
The Imaginary Invalid; You Never Necessities, Ready
Can Tell; Romeo and Juliet; A Flea Steady Yeti Go, Dutch Masters,
in Her Ear; Julius Caesar; Figaro; Rogue Machine Theatre (where he
1 8 A NOISE WITHINWilliam Shakespeare’s
Much Ado About Nothing
Feb. 5–Mar. 12, 2023
2022-2023 Manuel Puig’s
THEATRE SEASON DARING TO Kiss of the Spider Woman
Mar. 26–Apr. 23, 2023
Lauren Gunderson’s
The Book of Will
May 7–Jun. 4, 2023
Image: Sydney A. Mason and Trisha Miller. Photo by Daniel Reichert.
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Trans Chorus of The Dance and
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Join us for a pre-show performance of May 19 & May 20 at 8pm,
pieces inspired by Kiss of the Spider
May 21 at 2pm,
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May 22 at 7pm
The Trans Chorus of Los Angeles: is
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America, consisting of Transgender, work by David Henry Hwang revolving
Non-Binary, Intersex, Gender-Non- around two Chinese artists and their
Conforming and Gender-Fluid fellow railroad workers, who stage
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see and feel the joy we share. Through Artists at Play: is a Los Angeles
our music we bring to the world based theatre-producing collective
awareness, understanding, power and dedicated to programming that
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anoisewithin.org/NoiseNow inclusive programming, advocacy, and
administrative and artistic resources.serves as Co-Artistic Director); Bert Emmett (u/s
Between Riverside and Crazy, Dogberry/Antonio)
Fountain Theatre; Christmas Contigo, WITH ANW: Bob
Oregon Cabaret Theatre; Henry V Cratchit, Ghost of
(Ovation and LADCC Awards for Christmas Present /
Best Director), Rhinoceros, The Marley/Ensemble
Homecoming, Safe At Home: An u/s, A Christmas
Evening with Orson Bean, The Fried Carol; Dodo/Mock
Meat Trilogy, My Girlfriend is An Turtle/White Knight/Ensemble, Alice
Alien, Concealing Judy Holliday, in Wonderland; Antigonus /
Lions, Pacific Resident Theatre; Julia, Shepherd u/s, The Winter’s Tale;
Pacific Resident Theatre & 59E59 Father Dewis u/s, Buried Child;
Theatre, NYC Off Broadway FILM/ Rutherford Selig, Gem of the Ocean;
TV: Boned, The Pear, Voices of the Karl Lindner, A Raisin in the Sun; Mr.
New Belarus. EDUCATION: American Jones, Animal Farm. ELSEWHERE:
Conservatory Theatre, Advanced Los Angeles: Colonel Armadillo, The
Training Program. Armadillo Necktie (Last Straw
Award); Lombardi, Lombardi;
Geoff Elliott he/ Edward, Someone Who’ll Watch
him (Producing Over Me; Watson, Sherlock’s Last
Artistic Director) Case (Scenies Award); Ty, Cobb;
WITH ANW: Dodgson, Sherlock Through the
Director: A Looking Glass (BroadwayWorld
Christmas Carol, Awards nominee); Old Gobo in
The Winter’s Tale, Merchant of Venice; Dr. Mortimer et
The Glass al., Baskerville; Prospero, The
Menagerie, Rosencrantz and Tempest; Kanute, Don’t Hug Me I’m
Guildenstern Are Dead, Arcadia, All Pregnant (Eddon Award). FILM/TV:
My Sons, Endgame, Eurydice, The The Forsaken, Alien Hunter, Outside
Playboy of the Western World, and Ozona. Bert is also a proud member
many others. Actor: Boxer/Old Major, and current Executive Director of
Animal Farm; Midas, Metamorphoses; The Group Repertory Theatre. SAG/
The Poet, An Iliad; Dodge, Buried AFTRA; AEA. EDUCATION: BA,
Child; Ebenezer Scrooge, A Theatre Education—Northern
Christmas Carol; Don Quixote, Man Arizona University.
of La Mancha; Lloyd Dallas, Noises
Off; King Lear, King Lear; The Father, Christine Cover Ferro she/her
Six Characters in Search of an (Costume Designer) WITH ANW:
Author; and more. ELSEWHERE: Debut. ELSEWHERE: Stage: The
South Coast Repertory, Arizona Rhinoceros (PRT, Stage Raw Awards
Theatre Company, American nominee); Between Riverside
Conservatory Theatre, Berkeley and Crazy (The Fountain, LASA
Shakespeare Festival, California Ovation nominee); Disposable
Repertory. EDUCATION: MFA— Necessities (Rogue Machine);
American Conservatory Theatre. Mr. Wicked Lit (Unbound Productions,
Elliott is a recipient of multiple LASA Ovation winner), Carmen
LADCC, Backstage Garland, Robby, (ACD, Houston Grand Opera), Ann
Drama-Logue, and LA Weekly (ACD, World Premiere, Grand 1894
awards as well as the Margaret Opera House). Film/TV: Linked
Hartford Award for Distinguished by Love (webseries); Promised
Achievement for ANW. Land (ACD, pilot, ABC Signature);
2 0 A NOISE WITHINUP NEXT AT A NOISE WITHIN
Manuel Puig’s
Kiss of the
Spider Woman
Christopher Rivas and Ed Martin. Photo by Daniel Reichert.
Allan Baker
ENGLISH TRANSLATION BY
DIRECTED BY Michael Michetti
March 26–April 23
Tickets on sale now at anoisewithin.org/kissCosmos: Possible Worlds (ACD, Chandebise, A Flea In Her Ear. Mark
NatGeo); Encore! (ACD, Disney Antony, Julius Caesar. Sebastian, The
+). EDUCATION: BA, Macalester Tempest. Valere, Tartuffe. Redpenny/
College; MFA, Brandeis University Mr. Danby, The Doctor’s Dilemma.
Eros, Antony and Cleopatra.
Maryellen Gleason she/her/ Ensemble, Coriolanus. Ensemble,
hers (Interim Managing Director) Macbeth. ELSEWHERE: North Coast
Maryellen Gleason is a professional Rep – Amadeus. Theatricum
Interim leader with deep experience Botanicum – Trip, Other Desert
in the performing arts. She Cities. Sacred Fools Theater
has served as President of the Company – Roy Baty, Do Androids
Phoenix and Milwaukee Symphony Dream of Electric Sheep? Zombie
Orchestras. She has held interim Joe’s Underground – Hamlet, Hamlet.
leadership roles with the Pasadena Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater
Playhouse, USC Pacific Asia Museum, – Abram, Our Class. La MaMa ETC. –
A Noise Within, Oregon Shakespeare Miser Stevens, The Devil You Know.
Festival, and Solve ME/CFS. She also Playwrights Horizons –
advises rare disease organizations Frankenstein’s Monster, Monster and
through the Milken Institute/Chan Caligula, Caligula. VOICEOVER:
Zuckerberg Rare Initiative and Netflix’s Transformers: War for
serves on the board of the Harvard- Cybertron; Fallout 4, The Evil Within
Radcliffe Orchestra Foundation. 2, and others. Feature films, shorts,
and music videos. EDUCATION: BFA,
Rafael Goldstein Theater–Tisch School of the Arts,
he/him/his (John/ NYU, Atlantic Theater Company
Verges) WITH
ANW: A Christmas Joyce Guy she/her (Choreography)
Carol, Fred/ WITH ANW: Raisin in the Sun, Gem
Ensemble Animal of the Ocean and Seven Guitars.
Farm, Napoleon, ELSEWHERE: Actress, playwright,
Orpheus and filmmaker and choreographer
others, Metamorphoses; Paroles, All’s won the NAACP Award for Best
Well That Ends Well, Mad Hatter/ Choreographer in 2019 for Lorraine
Tweedle Dee/Caterpillar/Ensemble, Hansberry’s Les Blancs at the Rogue
Alice in Wonderland (2021). Machine. She has choreographed
Ensemble, Sonnets for an Old Choir Boy at Dezart Performs in
Century (Noise Now audio play); Palm Springs. She is director of
Mad Hatter/Tweedle Dee/Caterpillar/ the documentary film Dancing Like
Ensemble, Alice in Wonderland Home. FILM/TV: Moneyball and The
(2020). Tim Algood, Noises Off. Tom Santa Clause, The Secrets of Sulphur
Wingfield, The Glass Menagerie. Springs, The Mysterious Benedict
Guildenstern, Rosencrantz and Society, Clickbait, Bosch, to name a
Guildenstern Are Dead. Pierre/ few; and a recurring role on General
Rodrick, The Madwoman of Chaillot. Hospital. EDUCATION: Joyce has a
Henry, Henry V. Edgar/Poor Tom, B.S. from Hampton University.
King Lear. Claude de Aria, The
Imaginary Invalid. Septimus Hodge,
Arcadia; Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet.
The Son, Six Characters in Search of
an Author. Chris Keller, All My Sons.
The Guard, Antigone. Camille
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WITH ANW: Debut.
ELSEWHERE: Alexandra Hellquist
Mitchell has worked she/they (Hero)
up and down the WITH ANW: Debut.
west coast with ELSEWHERE: On
PCPA in Lend Me Tenor: The Musical The Other Hand
(west coast premier) as Young Tito, We’re Happy, bled
The Actors Co-Op in A Man For All for the household
Seasons as Richard Rich, SLO Rep in truth, Still Life
A Funny Thing Happened on the Rogue Machine; Othello Griot; Hot L
Way to the Forum as Miles Gloriosus, Baltimore T. Schreiber. A multi-ethnic
and Conservatory Rep in The international mutt who celebrates
Merchant of Venice as Bassanio. He weirdos and the beauty of
is thrilled to be debuting with ANW imperfection. After growing up in
in Much Ado About Nothing! seven countries, she’s based in LA,
but misses her family everywhere.
Dr. Miranda Singer, partner-dancer, story
Johnson-Haddad dramaturg, heartbroken optimist.
she/her (Resident Brown alum. Recently named in
Dramaturg) WITH LATimes’ Best Theatre of 2022,
ANW: Dramaturg, woohoo! Looking for representation
Animal Farm, in all the wrong places. Single “I’m
Metamorphoses, Not The One” with Mathew James
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her/hers (u/s Thoughts of a Colored Man, GALA
Beatrice) Hispanic Theatre. TV/FILM: Power
WITH ANW: Rangers Ninja Steel. EDUCATION:
Aphrodite, Alcyone Royal Central School of Speech and
& others u/s, Drama (London), Classical Acting,
Metamorphoses; M.A. Howard University, Theatre Arts,
Lavatch, All’s Well B.F.A. British American Drama
That Ends Well. ELSEWHERE: La Academy, Oxford, UK. www.
Mirada Theatre for the Performing stanleyandrewjackson.com.
Arts: Lawyer 2/Joanne & Jack u/s, A Instagram: @StanleyAJ3
Few Good Men. Ensemble Theatre
Company: Cassie, The Wickhams: Edgar Landa (u/s
Christmas at Pemberley. Foolish Leonato) WITH
Production Co.: Lucius, Titus ANW: Debut.
Andronicus; The Duke, Measure for ELSEWHERE:
Measure. Sierra Madre Playhouse: Benedick, Much
Jane Krakowski and others, Yellow Ado About
Face. Shakespeare Orange County: Nothing, Off Square
Agrippa, Antony + Cleopatra. New Theatre; Don
Orleans Shakespeare Festival: Juliet, Armado, Love’s Labor’s Lost,
Luna 1 (premiere); Moth, A Shakespeare & Company; Montano,
Midsummer Night’s Dream; Othello, Independent Shakespeare
Ensemble, Shakespeare on the Road. Company. Edgar also directs and
EDUCATION: Guildford School of stages fight & violence for theaters
Acting. large and small across Southern
California and beyond. He currently
Stanley Andrew serves on the teaching faculty at the
Jackson he/him/ USC School of Dramatic Arts. www.
his (Claudio) WITH edgarlanda.com
ANW: Snowball/Mr.
Whymper/Bull, Wesley Mann
Animal Farm (Dogberry/
ELSEWHERE: King Antonio) WITH
Lear, The Wallis ANW: Wesley is
Annenberg PAC; Wine in the delighted to be
Wilderness, Portland Center Stage; returning to ANW
Battle Cry, Cleveland Playhouse; after his
Three Musketeers, Alley Theatre; A performance as The
Wonder In My Soul, Baltimore Player in Rosencrantz and
Center; NSFW, Swimming While Guildenstern Are Dead. President in
Drowning, Stages; And in this Corner Madwoman Chaillot, William in You
Cassius Clay, The Ensemble Theatre; Never CanTell. ELSEWHERE: Roles at
Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival
Henry V, As You Like It, Pop-up include Peter in The Heart Of Robin
Globe Theatre Company; The Hood, Northumberland in Richard II,
Suicide, Embassy Theatre; Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Leonato in
Revengers’ Tragedy, Webber Much Ado About Nothing, The Fool
Douglas Theatre; Dontrell, Who in King Lear, Clown in 39 Steps,
Kissed the Sea, Source Theatre Detective Fix in Around The World In
Company; Insurrection: Holding 80 Days and numerous others.
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Ebenezer Scrooge at Nevada film. TV/Film: The Walking Dead,
Conservatory Theatre and Portland Human Target, Eureka, Psych,
Center Stage, World premiers of The Caprica, The Cape and Trauma.
Book Of Will at Denver Center for He has scored series and specials
the Performing Arts, as well as for National Geographic, The
Lovers And Executioners at The Discovery Channel, ZDF Germany,
Arena Stage. Elephant Man at specials and promos for HBO, BBC,
Arkansas Rep, three plays at The Animal Planet, MSNBC, and The
Arts Center Of Coastal Carolina, History Channel. Theater highlights
Feste in Twelfth Night and Larry in include The Kennedy Center,
Burn This at American Conservatory The Smithsonian Institution, The
Theatre. Multiple roles and plays at Shakespeare Theatre, Signature
PCPA. FILM/TV: Over fifty credits so Theatre, Roundhouse Theatre, Rogue
far including the yet unreleased Machine, Antaeus, Skylight Theatre,
Appletv series Mrs. American Pie. The Fountain Theatre, Odyssey
wesleymannactor.com Theater, The Road Theatre, Pacific
Resident Theater, and he served as
Carene Rose assistant conductor for the national
Mekertichyan she/ tour of The Phantom of the Opera.
her/hers (u/s Hero)
WITH ANW: Debut. Rachel Berney Needleman
ELSEWHERE: (Assistant Director) WITH ANW:
...Ladies and Assistant Stage Manager, Waiting for
Gentlemen of Godot. ELSEWHERE: As a director:
Colour, Knight of What We’re Up Against, Five Second
the Burning Pestle, Macbeth, The Chances (Pacific Resident Theatre
Tempest, Pericles, Twelfth Night, Co-op), Cabaret Noel with Gigi
Independent Shakespeare Co.; The Bermingham, Cowgirls (EST-LA),
Three Musketeers, Palos Verdes The Space Between (The Braid), 4
Performing Arts; Señor Plummer’s Minutes (MeetCute LA 2022), audio
Final Fiesta, Rogue Artists Ensemble; plays for Open Door Playhouse, and
Troy, Hero Theatre; Macbeth, new play readings and workshops
Northern Stage. She serves as for Company of Angels, Chalk Rep,
Independent Shakespeare Co.’s The Blank, EST-LA, Skylight and
Artistic Associate for Social Justice, Theatricum Botanicum. Dramaturg
Program Coordinator at Support credits include Antaeus (Diana of
Black Theatre, and is a proud Dobson’s, Cloud 9, Henry IV) and
co-author of the LA Anti-Racist Arizona Theatre Company (At Wit’s
Theatre Standards and Blklst End). Rachel is a co-author of the LA
Contributor. EDUCATION: BA— Anti-Racist Theatre Standards.
Dartmouth College; Certificate—
London Academy of Music and Nicole Ohara she/
Dramatic Art (LAMDA). her/hers (u/s
carenerose.com Margaret) WITH
ANW: Debut.
Christopher Moscatiello he/him/ ELSEWHERE: A
his (Sound Designer) WITH ANW: graduate of the
Debut. ELSEWHERE: Chris is an Stella Adler Art of
award-winning sound designer, Acting Studio her
composer, music editor and music recent credits include: Small &
director for theater, television and Mighty (English Dub) on Disney+,
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Thou art more lovely and more temperate"
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A limited number of single
tickets will go on sale shortlyMortuus Est.: Legacy on Spotify, acting, Nick is busy playing guitar
Found Family winner of the Paris on other artists’ tracks, as well as
Film Festival Best LGBTQ, & his own.
Producer of Gummy Worm
(Hollywood Fringe Best Comedy Julia Rodriguez-
Nominee & Encore Producers’ Award Elliott she/her
Winner). Nicole is on a mission to (Producing Artistic
build a body of work that takes Director) WITH
people on a journey of self-discovery ANW: Under her
and awareness. She hopes to create leadership, ANW
art that brings us one step closer to has produced more
healing. than 175 works, and
she has directed 50 productions
Tony Pasqualini including An Iliad, Metamorphoses,
(Leonato) WITH Argonautika, A Christmas Carol,
ANW: Debut. Animal Farm, Man of La Mancha ‘18,
ELSEWHERE: A Noises Off, Henry V, A Tale of Two
veteran of forty-five Cities, Man of La Mancha ‘17, King
years in the theatre, Lear, The Imaginary Invalid, Six
Tony is a playwright Characters in Search of an Author, A
and actor. He has Flea in Her Ear, Julius Caesar, The
appeared at South Coast Repertory Threepenny Opera, The Tempest, The
as Jim Bayless in All My Sons and Dance of Death, Come Back, Little
Leonato in Much Ado About Sheba, Tartuffe, Pericles, Prince of
Nothing; the Fountain Theatre as Tyre, The Beaux’ Stratagem, The
Donald Rumsfeld in What I Heard Bungler, Antony and Cleopatra,
About Iraq; Ensemble Studio Theatre Twelfth Night, The Chairs, Great
as Harold in Watching OJ; the Expectations, Measure for Measure,
Hollywood Bowl as Van Swieten in Much Ado About Nothing
Amadeus; Rogue Machine as Tim in (choreographer), The Rehearsal,
A Great Wilderness; and Pacific Oliver Twist, Henry IV, Part 1, Dear
Resident Theatre as Andrew in Brutus, The Winter’s Tale, Loot, Ubu
Loyalties (a play he also wrote). TV/ Roi, The Master Builder, Othello,
FILM: Guest starring roles include Mourning Becomes Electra, and A
Grace and Frankie, Mad Men, Modern Midsummer Night’s Dream at the
Family, West Wing, The Office, and Hollywood Bowl and at ANW.
Frasier. EDUCATION: MFA—American
Conservatory Theatre. In 2012, Ms.
Nicholas Rodriguez-Elliott (along with her
Petroccione he/ husband Geoff) received ACT’s
him/his (Balthasar/ inaugural “Contributions to the
Ursula) WITH Field” Award. Ms. Rodriguez-Elliott
ANW: Debut. received the 2005 National Latina
ELSEWHERE: Can Business Women’s Association’s
be found in Latinas in Business Award in the Arts
Paramount’s limited & Entertainment category; the 2006
series, The Offer, as well as a few Women in Business Award from the
short films currently in the festival California State Senate and
circuit. Nick trains with Diana Castle Assembly; and the 2010 Fifty
at the Imagined Life, after receiving Fabulous Women of Influence in the
his BA in Drama at USC. Outside of San Gabriel Valley Award.
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