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 , 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 . 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 . 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 and Trinity Repertory Company and then on to the 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 . 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. Loomer is also a screenwriter. Her tlrst film, Looking For Angels, was chosen by Sundance for its Erst co-lab with the Latin American Film Institute in Cuba where she had the opportunity to work with Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Other film credits include Girl, Interrupted and NappiZv Ever After for Halle Berry, soon to be in production.

JENNIFER EVE THOR.~ (Director) Associate Artistic Director and Marketing Director for MOXIE. Recent directing credits for MOXIE ll1eatre include Drink Me (with Delicia Turner SOllllenberg), The Sugar Syndrome, Victoria lvfartin Math Team Queen (Patte Award for Outstanding Direction) Devil Dog Six (with Esther Emery) (San Diego Critic's Circle Award for Best New Play), Fall, Dog Act (with Delicia Turner Sonnenberg). Assistant Directing credits include Story Theatre (North Coast Rep Theatre with David Ellenstein), Kimberly Akimbo (6th at Penn Theatre/MOXIE Theatre with Delicia Turner SOlU1enberg), Othello (San Diego Women's Rep with Delicia Turner Sonnenberg), fFho s Afraid (if Virgil/ia Woolf (San Diego Rep Theatre with Todd Salovey). She shldied directing with Clair Davidson at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. All my love and thanks to my outstanding husband for his love and SUPP011 and our bcautiftIl daughter Penny for sharing mommy with her work. Artistic and Production Staff (cont.) l'viiA BANE JACOBS (Scenic Designer) has been a lighting designer in San Diego for fifteen years and in the New England region for longer than that! Dance, corpo• rate theater, regional theater, concerts - adding light was a joy. In the last few years, dabbling in some scenic design provided the opportunity for a little more control over the lighting! Ha! not on this one though, thanks to Ashley for a wonderful job. Thank you dear MOXIEs. You are wonderful, powerful, fabulous women. I'm grateful that you've been in my life as friends and mentors.

COREY JOHNSTON (Costume Design) Bed and Sofa, Noises Off, Cygnet Theatre; Fifth of July, BoJ.w in the Band, Diversionary 111eatre; The }vliracle rVorker, North Coast Repertory; Corey was the Faculty Costume Designer at the university of San Diego for 10 years designing and building over 60 shows in a range of styles and periods for both the undergraduate and Old GlobelUSD MFA program. For 5 years he was a staff Coshune Technician at the Old Globe Theatre. Corey has also designed for Sien'a RepertOlY Theatre, CenterRep of Walnut Creek, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Central Missouri Repertory, and has worked as a techni• cian at Tacoma Actor's Guild and La Jolla Playhouse. He holds an MFA from MilUlesota State University--Mankato, and has a website at www.coreycoshunede• slgn.com.

ASHLEY JENKS (Light Design) Elementary music teacher by day, master electri• cian and lighting designer by night. Super duper to be back to design for MOXIE! Past designs include: MOXIE: Dog Act (co-design), The Butcher of Baraboo. New Village Arts: Picasso at the Lupin Agile, Bulmsher; Fool for Love, Off the Ground, Dancing at Luglmasa, T7lis Is Our Youth. Moonlight Stage Productions: Driving AIiss Daisy. Old Tow1l Temecula Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, TflIly Wonka and the Chocolate FactOl)'. Fallbrook Players: ('ATS! Ashley Receieved her BA ill Visual and Performing Arts trom CSU, San Marcos.

;\l~TI LESCAULT-WOOD (Sound Design) Dying Cif)" It's A Wondeli'ul Life, HistolJ' Boys, Mauritius, Noises qff(Cygnet); Wit, I Love You Because (North Coast Reparatory l1leatre); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (USD); Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Red Light Tflntel; Lonesome West (Triad); Plays by Young Writers 2008, 2009 (Playwright's Project); Request Program, Cripple ~f Inishmaan (ion); Butcher of Baraboo, Dog Act (MOXIE); Tick, Tick ...BOOM (Stone Soup); Sideman (Inukshuk). Matt holds a Bachelors of Arts ill Theatre Design and Tec1mology from SDSU.

A.MY CHINI (Properties Design) This is Amy Chini's fourth season working with MOXIE Theatre, and she is quite happy to be surrounded by such lovely people! Previous MOXIE credits include props for Pulp, WET, Or Isabelfu The Pirate Queen Enters the Horse Latitudes, Bleeding Kansas and Dog Act, and set design for T7le Treatment, The Listenel; The Sugar Syndrome and The Butcher of Baraboo (with Esther Emery). Amy's grateful for the support of her wonderful partner Ben.

G\VEN FISH (Stage Manager) is honored be a caretaker of stories and storytellers. Previous productions include Bleeding Kansas, The Listenel; Victoria Martin: iv/ath Team Queen, The Treatment (MOXIE); Bluebonnet Court (MOXIElDiversionary); BENT (ion/Diversionary); The Little Dog Laughed, Scrooge in Rouge (Diversionary); Noises Off (Cygnet); A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes of Wrath (ion); BeckeW'3, A Patriot Act, Chiang-Kai Chek (Sledgehammer)