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Expecting Isabel Expecting Isabel Written by Lisa Loomer Directed by Jennifer Eve Thorn Cast Miranda Jo Anne Glover Nick Stephen Elton Lila/Various Robin Christ YolandalVarious Rhona Gold SalNarious Mark Petrich DominicNarious Justin Lang PatNmious Sandra Ruiz TinalHeatherlLisaNarious Amanda Cooley Davis Artistic Staff Set Design Mia Bane Jacobs Costume Design Corey Johnston Light Design Ashley Jenks Sound Design Matt Lescault-Wood Properties Design Amy Chini Production Staff Production Manager Missy Bradstreet Technical Director Rogelio Rosales Stage Manager Gwen Fish Sound Board Operator Tony Estrada There will be a 15 minute inTermission presented by special anangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. The Cast JO At"lNEGLOVER (Miranda) is a founder and Managing Director of MOXIE Theatre. A graduate of the University of Texas, and Circle in the Square Theatre School (NYC), she has worked On- and Off-Broadway, in Los Angeles, and regionally. San Diego credits include Drink Me, Rabbit Hole, Bleeding Kansas, Off The Grollnd, The Receptionist (SD Critics Circle Best Supp. Actress), The L;stenel; Bluebonnet Court, Devil Dog Six, WET, Miss Witherspoon, The Adoption Project, Dog Act, Limonades TOllsles Jow'S (Patte award, Best Actress), Pulp, Kimberly Akimbo, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet. Relatively Spealdng, Stop Kiss, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew and Monstropo~v. Some other favorites, outside of San Diego, include Bus Stop (Broadway production), The Three Sisters. Subtle Bodies, T7zeTrojan Women. Romeo & Juliet, Measure for Measure and I Hate Hamlet. In addition to her work as an actress, she has also worked as a producer in both New York and Los Angeles. STEPHEN ELTON (Nick) Expecting Isabel is Stephens second show with MOXIE Theatre, having appeared as Fossrnire in The MOXIE production of Drink Me while in residence at the La Jolla Playhouse. During Stephens multi• falious career he has worked in: film production, video editing, production and lighting design, dramahlrgy, screenwriting, as wel1 as acting and directing for the stage. Stephen founded Beowulf A11eyTheatre in Tucson Arizona, where he produced six seasons including: 5 Regional premieres, 4 Arizona premieres, and 1 world premiere. Stephen Lead Beowulf Al1ey to 8 Arizona Dairy Star MAC awards including individual awards for Best Director, Best Drama, Best Comedy, and Best Actor. Stephen directed productions of: (A Christllias Carol, Rabbit Hole at North Coast Rep.) Frozen, The BeG/; The Proposal, The Reluctant Tragic Hero, Death ofZukasJ..y, Criminal Hearts, Lone Star, PVT. Wars, Home/ABROAD, Design for Living, Round and Round the Garden, and The Love Course. In addition Stephen produced, designed and directed the annual comedy shows: Comedy Arizona and Grand Canyon Comedy with the national improv group Laughing Stock Comedy Company. As an actor Stephen was founding member of the acting ensemble of Live Theatre Workshop and has worked in regional theatre across Arizona inc1uding roles as: Lenny in Of l'v!iceand Men, LIoyd in Noises Off!. Sgt. Toomey in Biloxi Blues, Wib in Criminal Hearts, Barry in Death ofZukasJ..}',Apple in The Exact Center of the Universe, Marmy in Coming Through, Leo in Design for Living, Louis in Cousins, Troup in The Rear Column, and Christy in The Playboy of the Western World. ROBIN CHRIST (LilaNarious) is delighted to be making her debut with the fabulous ladies of MOXIE! Credits inc1ude: Cygnet Theatre: Bug, Man From Nebraska. Las Meninas, New Village Arts: Sailor s Song (San Diego Critics Circ1e Award - Choreography, Ensemble), Ion Theatre: Punks (Patte Award • Ensemblc), NCRT: Romeo and Juliet, Diversionary Theatre: Brave Smiles, Backyard Productions: A Bright Room Called Day (Patte Award - Ensemble), Experiment with an Airpump, Sledgehal1ll1lerTheatre: Phaedra in Delirium, Richard III. Clllylasis:Rapechild, (sic),Vox Nova: Dance on the Sun, Sixth at Penn: Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmv Dean (Patte Award • Ensemble), Hecuba, Amelia Earhart: Lost and Found, Anton in Show Business, State of the Art, Reckless, Iphegenia at Aulis, Oedipus at Colonus, Stone Soup Theatre: Tongue of a Bird, The Theatre Inc., Helen. Film: My SOI1,My SOI1, Whal Have }~Done (directed by Werner Herzog). The Cast (cont.) RHONA GOLD (YolandaNarious) is delighted to find herself in MOXIE's hands again. She grew up in Canada, trained at the Theatre Resource Centre, and worked in theatres across Canada before moving to Santa Fe, NM, where she helped fOlmdTheatre In TIle Red, a company focusing 011 new and experi• mental works. Most recently, she appeared as Lady Alice Augusta in MOXIE's Drink Me (or The Strange Case of Alice Times Three) at the La Jolla Playhouse Studio Forum and as Dorothea in MOXIE's staged readings of Eleemos.v71ary. She was Celia in Acts of Faith with Laterthanever Productions. She appeared in Moonlight Stage Productions' The Magic Fire, Enchanted April at Lambs Players, and innumerous Fritz Theatre productions including Viburnum, She also appeared in a number ofproductiollS at the NCRT including The Diary of Anne Frank. at the Diversionary Theatre in Suddenly Last Sll11lmer,in A Murder of Crows at Brown :~Field, and was among the women in the 2002 benefit per• formance of The Vagina Monologues. She played Alcmena in Mariarme McDonald's Children of Heracles directed by Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg and has appeared in staged reading of a number of plays by Allan Havis. She lives in Nornlal Heights with husband, actor J. Michael Ross. MARK C. PETRICH (SaINarious) is velY happy to be making his fom1h MOXIE appearance, having played Hugo Brimley Rime in Drink Me, Josiah in Bleeding Kansas and Bernard in Devil Dog Six. He appeared as Duncan and the Porter in Intrepid Shakespeare's inaugural production of MacBeth. At North Coast Rep he was seen in Charlie s Aunt, The Fantastiks. A Thousand Clowns, Breaking Legs, and The Dresser. He appeared as Karl Jaspers in the Laterthanever Production of Hannah and Martin, Sledgehammer's Hamlet and Richard III, and as the Wizard in Starlight Musical Theatre's The Wizard of Oz. He is featured in the films, Night Train to Terror,Marilyn Alive and Behind Bars, and Hello Jack. Mark is a graduate of the Shanghai Drama Institute. JUSTIN LANG (DominicNarious) last seen as Coke in MOXIE's Dog Act. He is hilll1bled to be working with the lovely women of MOXIE. Justin is also an associate artist with Poor Players thcatre company. SANDRA RUIZ (PatNarious) a native San Diegan, earned BAs in Theatre and Human Development from UCSD. She has worked in the theatre as an actor, director, playwright and costume designer as well as acting and writing for TV and Film. She has also worked for many organizations as a teaching artist including: TIle Old Globe Theatre, The San Diego Rep, The Playwright's Project, La Jolla Country Day School and San Diego Junior Theatre. TIlank• You for supporting local artists. AMANDA COOLEY DAVIS (TinaNarious) is thrilled to ring in 2010 with MOXIE! San Diego credits include: Side Man, BANG! (Diversionary), Killer Joe (Compass TIleatre), Trojan Women (ion theatre), A Christmas Carol (Cygnet Theatre), Terra Nova (Inukshuk Productions), The Deception (La Jolla Playhouse), The Long Christmas Ride Home (Diversionary Theatre), The Twen(v Year Paclwge (Compass Theatre), The Bear (Tonic at North Coast Repertory). Three seasons touring with Traveling Lantern Theatre. New York credits include: The Brick Theatre, Gershwin Theatre-Brooklyn Center, Epiphany Theater, blessed lmrest, Theatre-Studio, The Flea Theatre, and Jean Cocteau RepertOly. Amanda received her MFA in Acting fro111Brooklyn College, and is a teaching artist with Playwrights Project, North Coast Repertory, and The Bishop's School. Amanda is preparing for her most impor• tant production to date-her spring wedding to her beloved Mark. Artistic and Productiun Staff LISA LOOMER (Playwright) most recent play, Distracted, had its world premiere at the Mark Taper Fonnll, went on to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and will open at the Roundabout Theater in New York in 2009. Livil/g Out had its world premiere at the Mark Taper Forum and was produced at Second Stage in New York in 2003, directed by Jo Bonney. Loomer is perhaps best known for The Waiting Room which went ITom the Williamstown Theater Festival to the Mark Taper Forum to highly successful productions at Arena Stage and Trinity Repertory Company and then on to the Vineyard Theatre in New York. Loomer's first work for theater was a collaboration entitled A Crowd of Two at the American Place Theatre. This was followed by a one-woman show All By Herselves at the Westside Arts. She began writing plays at the Intar playwrights lab, under the direction of Maria Irene Fornes. Her first play, Bird~, was produced by South Coast Repertory. Subsequent works include Maria, }yfaria, Maria, Maria!; Accelerando; Lookingfor Angels; Cuts al/d Chain of Life, which have been produced at such theaters as the Public Theatre, Intar, the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Mixed Blood, the Open Eye and the Odyssey. Expecting Isabel had its world premiere at Arena Stage and its West Coast premiere at the Taper. Bocol/i, a political table for young audiences, began at the Taper and has been seen throughout the country ITom the Kelmedy Center to Seattle's Group Theater, Stage Left in Chicago, the La Jolla Playhouse, as J well as in Gennany, Alaska and Mexico. Loomer is an alUllli1aof New Dramatists and the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and a grant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Awards include the Jane Chambers Award, the Susan Smith Blackbum Prize, the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays Award, a Garland Award and the American Theatre Critics Association Award (twice). She also received an Imagen Award for positive por• trayals of Latinos in all media. Her plays appear in The Best Plays of 1998-1999, The Best Plays of 1994-1995 and The Best Plays of 2003-4 and are published by Dramatists Play Service, TCG (Theatre Communications Group), Dramatic Publishing and Arte Publico Press.
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