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All remaining performances of A Christmas Carol, from Dec. 22 to Dec. 26, have been cancelled due to a positive COVID-xix examination effect discovered during routine testing of the company. This hard decision has been made to protect the health and safety of our artists, staff, volunteers and you, the audience. The ticket services function will be in touch with all afflicted ticket holders equally soon as possible to inform them of their options for exchanges or refunds. We empathise the special place that A Christmas Carol has in and so many families' holiday celebrations and we apologize for this inconvenience.
Orange County's favorite yuletide tradition continues! From the offset "Bah braggadocio" to the concluding "Wassail," this timeless classic is sure to rekindle your holiday spirit. Bring together all your favorite Dickens characters—Tiny Tim and the Cratchit family, the Fezziwigs, the Ghosts of Christmas past, present and even so-to-come, and of course, everyone's favorite curmudgeon, Ebenezer Scrooge, portrayed by SCR Founding Fellow member Richard Doyle.
Low-Priced Previews: Nov. 2seven-December. 2, 20twoi
Regular Performances: December. 3-26, twenty21
Advisory: Ages 6 and up. Children under the age of 6 volition not be admitted to A Christmas Carol. Anybody—regardless of age—must have a ticket, sit down in a seat and be able to sit quietly through the performance. This show contains fume, haze and strobe effects.
Running Time:Approximately 2 hours including one 15-minute intermission.
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Charles Dickens (Author) was born in Portsmouth, England, and spent most of his childhood in London and Kent. His commencement novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836-37), was published in monthly series installments and became an instant hitting. In 1843, he published A Christmas Carol, one of the most pop Christmas stories of all time. Dickens was a prolific writer, and critics regard his subsequently works every bit his finest. Some of these include Dour Firm (1852-53), Great Expectations (1860-61), Oliver Twist (1837-39), and A Tale of Two Cities (1859). Dickens is buried in Westminster Abbey.
Jerry Patch (Adaptor) was affiliated with SCR from 1967-2005 and returned in 2022 as literary consultant. He served as dramaturg on nearly 150 new plays developed and seen at SCR including the globe premieres of Abundance, Freedomland, Aureate Kid, Intimate Apparel, Search and Destroy, Three Days of Rain and Wit. He was projection manager for the Pacific Playwrights Festival from its 1998 inception through 2005; and, for seven years, he served as artistic managing director of the theatre program of Sundance Institute. As a professor of theatre and moving-picture show, he taught at Long Beach City College, UC-Irvine, UC-San Diego, CSU-Long Beach and other institutions. He was consulting dramaturg for New York'due south Roundabout Theatre Company for nearly a decade and left SCR to become resident creative director for The Old Earth in San Diego. He is an artistic consultant, following seven seasons as manager of artistic development, for Manhattan Theatre Club in New York, for MTC and South Coast Repertory.
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Cast
Tommy Beck* ( Undertaker/Ebenezer equally a Immature Man ) is excited to be making his SCR debut. His recent credits include The Explorers Club, All My Sons (Jewel Theatre Company); Marjorie Prime, Shakespeare in Love, Miss Bennet (Marin Theatre Company); A Streetcar Named Desire (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Jumbo (San Francisco Playhouse); The Existent Thing, The Monster Architect, Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Aurora Theatre Company); A Few Practiced Men (Hillbarn Theatre); Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion (Livermore Shakespeare Festival); Sleuth, Dracula (Center REPertory Visitor); Sense & Sensibility (TheatreWorks); Much Ado About Zip (Cal Shakes); Cymbeline (Marin Shakespeare Visitor); Hamlet, Compleat Female Stage Dazzler, The Iii Musketeers (Urban center Lights Theater Company). Beck has worked extensively in functioning capture, about notably with 2K Games, Hangar xiii, Firaxis, Pixar, Ballsy Games, and Industrial Light & Magic. He received his BA from New York Academy and is a proud fellow member of AEA & SAG/AFTRA.
Daniel Blinkoff* (Bob Cratchit) returns for his 18th consecutive twelvemonth equally Bob Cratchit. His other SCR appearances include An Italian Harbinger Chapeau (Garland Award, Best Actor), Major Barbara (Robby Award, All-time Supporting Thespian), The School for Wives, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Nostalgia and Nothing Sacred, every bit well as many Theatre for Young Audiences productions and Pacific Playwrights Festival readings. His LA credits include The Children (Boston Courtroom Pasadena, StageSceneLA Award, Best Featured Actor), Macbeth (The Antaeus Company, StageSceneLA Award, Outstanding Ensemble, Outstanding Performance by an Actor), Opus (Fountain Theatre, Ovation Honor), American Tales (The Antaeus Visitor), A Distant Shore (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Pera Palas (Boston Court Pasadena) and Tiffin Poet (Yale Cabaret Blueish). Regionally, he has appeared at Williamstown Theatre Festival, BAM, McCarter Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, too as many others. His flick and television credits include Rockabye, With Honors, Crossing the Bridge, Kuuipo, The Umami of Gumbo, "Close to Home" (recurring), "Overjoyed," "NYPD Bluish" and "Law & Social club." Blinkoff received his MFA from the Yale School of Drama. He and his married woman Tamlyn Tomita are besides building Outside In Theatre in Highland Park, LA that will open up in 2023. To larn more, you tin visit http://outsideintheatre.org
Kelsey Bray (Elizabeth Shelley/Pursued Maiden/Fan) (she/her) is so grateful to be back performing at South Coast Repertory where she was a student in the Education Conservatory for over eleven years and performed every bit Belinda Cratchit in the 2010 product of A Christmas Carol. Her regional credits include Junie B. Jones Jingle Bells Batman Smells (Junie B., Oklahoma Children's Theatre), Clean Slate (Gina, world premiere, Ignition Arts) and Illuminate (earth premiere, original company member, Ignition Arts). She earned her BFA in acting and directing from Oklahoma City University. Endless gratitude to her astonishing family, friends and mentors. Happy Holidays! kelseybrayactor.com IG: @Kelsey.bray98
Melody Butiu* (Solicitor/Mrs. Fezziwig) is excited to return to A Christmas Carol, where she played Emerge in 2018-xix. SCR credits include M. Butterfly, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Intelligent Blueprint of Jenny Chow, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed: The Rock Experience, and more. In Apr 2022, you can catch her equally Tita Yvonne in the Amblin/Rideback flick, Easter Sun, starring comedian Jo Koy. New York credits include Doc Zhivago (Broadway) and David Byrne's Here Lies Beloved (The Public Theater). Regional theatre credits include Vietgone (Geva Theatre Center/Denver Heart) Right to Exist Forgotten (Arena Stage), South Pacific (Rev Theatre Company), Here Lies Love (Seattle Repertory Theatre), Merrily We Roll Along (The Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts), Sunday in the Park with George (Huntington Theatre Company), Monstress (American Conservatory Theatre), Stage Buss and Shipwrecked! (Geffen Playhouse), Helen (Getty Villa), A Perfect Nuptials (Kirk Douglas Theatre), Long Story Curt (San Diego Repertory Theatre), A Little Dark Music and Golden Child (Eastward West Players), 36 Views (Portland Centre Phase), Hair (Reprise), and Dogeaters (La Jolla Playhouse). Film and TV credits include Untold: This is My Story, Swearing, The Patients, "Mom," "Telephone call Me Kat," "This is Us," "The Kominsky Method," "NCIS," "NCIS: LA," "Kingdom," "Rizzoli & Isles," "Gotham," "Major Crimes" and "Modern Family." More at melodybutiu.com, Instagram: @themelodybutiu
Sol Castillo* (Fred/Gentleman) is excited to return to alive theater in A Christmas Ballad. He was last seen equally Mino in the return of American Mariachi at Outside SCR. His previous SCR credits include Mino in the 2022 production of American Mariachi, A Christmas Carol, The Nighttime Fairy and The Hollow Lands. Y'all may too recall him every bit Refugio/Buzzard from his eight-season run in Octavio Solis' La Posada Mágica. He besides appeared in Arizona Theatre Company'south production of American Mariachi. Other credits include Solis' world premier of Quixote Nuevo at California Shakespeare Theater; Lord Chaac Ha in The Realm of the Maya at Plaza de La Raza; the Denver Eye for the Performing Arts debut of Sunsets and Margaritas; Of Mice and Men at Pasadena Playhouse; Zoot Adapt at San Diego Repertory Theatre; and in the national tour of Veteranos: A Legacy of Valor. He dedicates his functioning to his family, who inspire him to keep playing. Follow him at Instagram and Twitter @elsolcastillo.
Richard Doyle* (Ebenezer Scrooge) is an SCR Founding Member, most recently heard in the solo audio performance of SCR's A Christmas Ballad, a story he is quite familiar with, having been in SCR's phase version for 36 seasons. He was last seen at SCR in Outside Mullingar past John Patrick Shanley (2020) and previously in Kings, Rest, The Weir and more than 200 other productions. His other SCR favorites include Holy Days; The Beard of Avon; You lot, Nero; Men's Singles; Unsuitable for Adults (U.S. premiere); Playland; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; The Crucible; Intimate Exchanges; Cyrano; A View from the Span; Of Mice and Men; and, from SCR's Third Step Theatre, The Tavern by George M. Cohan. Live stage is Doyle's first dear, but he has also kept decorated with picture show and idiot box including a regular office as Mr. Gaines on "Cheers"; several roles on "M*A*S*H"; his first feature, the Micheal Crichton picture show Coma; Wolfgang Peterson'southward Air Force One; and Mass Appeal, with his favorite actors Jack Lemmon and Milo O'Shea. He has also appeared in many independent features, including Abduction of Angie. Voice acting brought him confront to face up with the genesis of his dear for live performance: storytelling. His work as an animation voiceover actor ranges from "Sky Commanders" "The Chimp Aqueduct," "Batman," "Ben Ten" and "Spiderman" to video and motion capture performances in dozens of video games like "MGS three" as Big Boss, to podcasts like "Exeter" and "Solve." A decade ago, Doyle was noticed by The Pageant of the Masters and was tapped to be the live show narrator for this unique result, where he welcomes folks and encourages them to "savour stories surrounding this Arts themed bear witness." Here at SCR, he likewise hopes that you "Relish the Prove!"
Kelsey Kato (Boob Show/Mr. Topper) is honored to be returning to A Christmas Carol at SCR, afterwards performing as Peter Cratchit dorsum in 2010! He has performed in many productions with SCR Theatre Conservatory'south Teen Players and Summertime Players, including David Copperfield (David Copperfield), Into The Woods (Baker), Mary Poppins (George Banks), Beauty and the Beast (Fauna) and Seussical (Horton). He most recently performed as a puppeteer in Footling Shop of Horrors at the Pasadena Playhouse. His other credits include Posthumus Leonatus (understudy) in Cymbeline (Porters of Hellsgate) and Claudio in Measure for Measure (Method and Madness). He received his BA from UCLA. Instagram: @kel_c_kato
Art Koustik* (Joe/Ensemble) is an SCR Founding Member who has appeared in scores of productions including Much Ado Virtually Nothing, The Hollow Lands, Of Mice and Men, Tartuffe and Ah, Wilderness! He likewise appeared in BAFO, Vi Degrees of Separation, She Stoops to Folly, The Taming of the Shrew, The Misanthrope, A Streetcar Named Want, Twelfth Night, Hard Times, The Crucible, Prelude to a Kiss, Glengarry Glen Ross, Galileo, The Foreigner, Rum and Coke, The Show-Off, Saint Joan, Playboy of the Western World, Coming Attractions, American Buffalo, The Elephant Human, Time Was and xl years of A Christmas Carol (he's the concluding actor that remains from the original 1980 product). He originated the role of Joe the Cider Human being and Mr. Fezziwig and played the latter part for 24 seasons. Outside of SCR, he has been in film and on tv programs such every bit La Bamba, "Valerie," "Hill Street Blues," "Moonlighting," "The Aureate Girls," "Dallas" and "The Immature and the Restless" and productions of Guys and Dolls, Chapter 2, Brigadoon and Anything Goes. He says: "With my wife, Peggy, I am at last a happy man. Equally the years get by, I am more aware how important faith, family unit and friends are. God bless us, everyone."
Michael Manuel* (Jacob Marley's Ghost/Gentleman) is happy to be returning to SCR, where he last appeared as Boris in Amos and Boris, and before that Madame Pernelle in Tartuffe, Big Stone in Eurydice, Francis Flute/Thisbe in A Midsummer Night's Dream and in numerous readings and workshops since 1994. He has worked in regional theatres across the country including The Alley Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Arena Phase, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Group Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and Theatre For a New Audience. Manuel spent 2022 at A Racket Within playing Iago in Othello, The Creature in Frankenstein (Ovation, LADCC, LA Theatre Bites and Stage Scene LA Awards) and Tilden in Buried Child. Other theatres in LA include Pasadena Playhouse, Marking Taper Forum, Cornerstone Theater Company, Shakespeare Festival LA, Geffen Playhouse, Interact Theatre Company, Upright Citizens Brigade, Main Street Players, About Productions, Parson'due south Nose and Impro Theatre where he is a Main Visitor member. He has appeared in numerous television programs and films. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
Rosney Mauger* (Constable/Jacob Marley as a Young Man/The Spirit of Christmas Yet-to-Come up/Poulterer) is honored and ecstatic to return to theatre once again and to be returning for his fourth stint in A Christmas Carol. He previously appeared at SCR in All the Way equally Rev. Ralph Abernathy. His other credits include Bobo in Raisin in the Sun at A Dissonance Within. He completed SCR'southward Acting Intensive Program in 2022 and is also a graduate of The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. His highlighted roles at The Academy included Othello and Hedley in Seven Guitars. Originally from central Florida, he appeared in the Baronial Wilson productions of The Piano Lesson equally Lymon directed by American Theater Hall Of Fame Director Woodie Rex Jr. And also King Hedley II at Seminole Country College in Lake Mary. He wishes everyone a warm welcome back to the theatre!
William Francis McGuire* (Solicitor/Mr. Fezziwig/Gentleman) appeared at SCR previously in Shakespeare in Beloved, All the Style, A Midsummer Night's Dream, A Contraction in Time, The Intelligent Pattern of Jenny Chow, A Christmas Carol and Tartuffe. He also has worked at the Guthrie Theater (The Rover, Naga Mandala, The Seagull, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, The Good Hope, Peer Gynt and Billy and Dago, amongst others), The Shakespeare Theatre Company (Henry V and Macbeth), Bay Street Theater Fest (Tropeano Paints), American Repertory Theatre (Boys Next Door), Yale Repertory Theatre (Search and Destroy) and many others. His motion-picture show credits include The Day After Tomorrow and Mission: Incommunicable Three. His television credits include "100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd" (series regular), "CSI," "Castle," "Justified," "Eagleheart," "Criminal Minds: Doubtable Behavior," "The Mentalist," "Saving Grace," "Weeds," "Numb3rs," "NCIS," "Without a Trace," besides as a number of Movies of the Week. He is Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at Saddleback Higher and a graduate of Yale School of Drama.
Jennifer Parsons* (The Spirit of Christmas Past/Scavenger) returns to SCR for her 19th year in A Christmas Ballad —17 as Mrs. Cratchit and one as Belle (dorsum in the long agone). She has also appeared in the SCR productions of The Heiress, Cyrano de Bergerac, Getting Frankie Married—and Later on, Our Town, She Stoops to Folly, The Importance of Being Earnest, Buried Child, Flora & Ulysses, James and the Behemothic Peach, Anastasia Krupnik, The Borrowers, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Concern, Brand New Kid, The BFG (Big Friendly Behemothic), The Merely Child and Bunnicula. Her other recent SoCal performances include The Drinking glass Menagerie, Silent Sky and Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike at International City Theatre. She has performed on and off-Broadway, in regional theatres across the country and is a visitor member at Theatre 40. Her most current television credits include recurring guest star roles on "How to Get Away with Murder" and "Proven Innocent." Other guest star credits include roles on "All Rise," "The Romanoffs," "Longmire," "Bones," "Criminal Minds" and "Stalker." She is happily married to Scrooge, Richard Doyle.
Erika Schindele* (Laundress/Belle/Scavenger) is honored to continue to be a part of this beloved Christmas tradition. She appeared at SCR in the globe premiere of An Italian Straw Lid, as well as numerous Theatre for Young Audience productions. Recently, she returned to the phase as Georgie Burns in Simon Stephens Heisenberg at Jewel Theatre Company and earlier the globe shut downward, she was Mrs. Weston in a musical production of Emma at the Ensemble Theater in Santa Barbara. She played Stella Kowalski in the iconic A Streetcar Named Desire (Gem Theatre Company) and at Laguna Playhouse, she was in the Westward Declension premiere of I'm Withal Getting My Act Together (starring Gretchen Cryer), as well every bit The Odd Couple and Honey, Loss and What I Wore. Her other theatre credits include Nerveless Stories at Coachella Valley Repertory (Desert Theatre League Award nominee, all-time extra); Merrily We Roll Along and 1776 at Actors Co-op Theatre Visitor; Hello Dolly! at Welk Resort Theatre; and A Christmas Ballad at Sierra Madre Playhouse and Glendale Center Theatre. She recently starred in the films Emerald and The What If; and her tv appearances include "Criminal Minds" and "American Dreams." For Brent and Jack, ever. erikaschindele.com.
Nick Slimmer(Thomas Shelley/Ensemble) is thrilled to be making his render to A Christmas Carol for the fifth time. He is a graduate of the SCR'southward Acting Intensive Plan and American Academy of Dramatic Arts. He is likewise a serial regular on the popular web serial "Life as a Mermaid." His favorite roles include Boy in Peter and the Starcatcher, Johnny Appleseed in the globe premiere of American Tall Tales and Matt in Dog Sees God. Slimmer would like to thank his parents for their support, director Hisa Takakuwa for giving him the opportunity, and his girlfriend, Emily, for her dearest.
Richard Soto* (Wreath Seller/The Spirit of Christmas Present) who is a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity, is overjoyed to be back with the tradition of A Christmas Ballad, where he was terminal seen as Young Ebeneezer. His other SCR credits include Vecino in A Long Route Today/El Largo Camino de Hoy, SCR'south Dialogue/Diálogos project in Santa Ana. He too appeared in Coriolanus, The School for Scandal, and Romeo & Juliet at The Onetime Globe. Other credits include The Misanthrope and Major Barbara at A Noise Within. He is a kinesthesia instructor with SCR's Theatre Conservatory, adjunct professor at Vanguard Academy, and a teacher at the Orange Canton School of the Arts. Equally a writer, his written work includes the Latinx superhero comic volume, The Legend of El Lobo, his plays, The Black Book, and Los Invisibles/The Invisible Ones, which address the inhumane handling of immigrants, for Protest Plays Project's #TheatreActionImmigration Initiative, and plays Liberty To Speak, I Go out You Promise, It Ain't Perfect, and Something Worth Pursuing, for the We The People Theatre Activity Plan at Sacred Fools Theater. He is currently working on projects involving his passions of people, history, education, and comic books. Follow him at Instagram @therichardsoto
Tamlyn Tomita* (Rich Adult female/Mrs. Cratchit) is a native Los Angeleno, UCLA Bruin, AAPI from the (818). Her stage work includes A Distant Shore (Kirk Douglas Theatre); Question 27, Question 28 (East Westward Players/Japanese American National Museum); The Square (Marker Taper Forum's Taper, Too!), The Summer Moon (A Contemporary Theatre and South Coast Repertory); Day Standing on its Head (Manhattan Theatre Club); Nagasaki Dust (Philadelphia Theatre Company); Don Juan: A Meditation (Mark Taper Forum's Taper, Also!) and Winter Crane (Fountain Theatre). Her television credits include "Cobra Kai," "Star Expedition: Picard," "The Homo in the High Castle," "The Adept Doctor," "Teen Wolf," "Berlin Station," "Chasing Life," "How to Become Away with Murder," "True Blood," "Glee," "Heroes," "Eureka," "Criminal Minds," "24" and "JAG" among others. Her picture credits include The Karate Kid II, The Joy Luck Club, The Day After Tomorrow, Picture Bride, Robot Stories, Kuuipo, the Umami of Gumbo and Come up See the Paradise amongst others. She is proud to be Mrs. to "Mr. Cratchit."
Paige Lindsey White* (Toy Lady/Emerge/Scavenger) appeared at SCR previously in Abundance and Kings. Her other favorite credits include Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (Pasadena Playhouse); Brooke Wyeth in Other Desert Cities (Arizona Theatre Company and Indiana Repertory Theatre); Ann in At Domicile at the Zoo (Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts); Titania/Hippolyta in Mendelssohn'south Midsummer (Disney Concert Hall); Georgie in Heisenberg (Mark Taper Forum, understudy); Fallen Angels and Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara); Rapture Cicatrice Burn down (San Diego Repertory); Beloved'south Labour's Lost, Romeo & Juliet, and R II (Santa Cruz Shakespeare); Trying and Ghost-Writer (International Urban center Theatre); The Children, RII, and With Love and a Major Organ (Boston Court Pasadena); Walking the Tightrope (24th Street Theatre); and A View from the Span (Ahmanson Theatre and Kennedy Center, understudy). She also toured internationally in Trial of the Catonsville Nine (The Actors' Gang). On television, she appeared in "Shameless," "American Woman," "Corporate," "Days of Our Lives" and "TV Funhouse." She is the winner of a LA Drama Critics' Circle Award for Lead Performance. paigelindseywhite.com
CHILDREN
Tessany Azizi, Natalie Bright, Nicholas Brown, Maddie Chung, Presley Coogan, Tess Fox, Dylan Gorham, Arman Hamidi, Zoe Hebbard, Maximilian Lalli, Cooper Latham, Halia Lindauer, Sofia Mendez, ChloeLux Phan, Justine Roussel and Colin Savage
Creative Team
Jerry Patch (Adapter) served as dramaturg on over 150 new plays, including the globe premieres of Affluence, Freedomland, Golden Child, Intimate Apparel, Search and Destroy, 3 Days of Rain, Ruined and Wit. He was the founding project director for Southward Coast Repertory's Pacific Playwrights Festival and artistic director of the theatre plan of Sundance Constitute. A professor of theatre and film, he was consulting dramaturg for Roundabout Theatre Company (New York) for nigh a decade and resident creative director at The Old Globe in San Diego. He is now artistic consultant for Manhattan Theatre Club, where he served more than a decade every bit Managing director of Artistic Development, and is resident dramaturg at SCR.
Hisa Takakuwa (Director) helms SCR's Theatre Conservatory and education programs. She previously served as assistant director on A Christmas Carol for 14 season and was an thespian in the show xiv years. She has directed numerous Theatre Conservatory Players productions including adaptations of Dickens' Oliver Twist, David Copperfield and Hard Times. After completing her professional grooming as an actor, Takakuwa appeared at SCR in The Man Who Came to Dinner and in 13 Educational Touring productions. Her other interim credits include work as a resident artist at A Noise Within, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Sundance Institute's Children's Theatre, Playwright'south Lab and Grove Shakespeare Festival. Other directing credits include Twelfth Night and Henry V at Actors Co-op Theatre Company (Hollywood). In 2019, she received an honorable mention from the Tony Awards Excellence in Theatre Instruction Award and, with Erin McNally, the California Educational Theatre Association's Professional Artist Award. She received her BA from Smith College and MFA from CalArts.
Thomas Buderwitz (Scenic Design) previously designed Outside Mullingar, The Monster Builder, The Whipping Human, Tartuffe (co-design with Dominique Serrand), The Whale, The Prince of Atlantis, The Trip to Bountiful, 3 Days of Rain, The Weir, Crimes of the Middle, Putting It Together, Collected Stories, The Heiress, Doubt, Pig Farm, Bach at Leipzig, Proof, A Delicate Balance, A Christmas Ballad (eighteen previous seasons), But Not for Me and 2007-16 Galas for SCR. He has designed for other theatres including the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Portland Eye Stage, Intiman Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Denver Heart Theatre Company, Chautauqua Theater Company, Reprise Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Boston Court Pasadena, A Noise Within, Antaeus Theatre Company, PCPA Theaterfest and San Diego Repertory Theatre. Buderwitz has received half-dozen Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards and three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. His television designs include specials and series for every major circulate and cable network. He has been honored with 3 Emmy Award nominations and an Art Directors Society Award nomination. He is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, and is adjunct faculty at the Academy of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts.
Donna & Tom Ruzika(Lighting Design) celebrate their 41st year of designing for A Christmas Carol and 49 years of union. They accept enjoyed collaborating on productions at SCR, the Hollywood Basin and other regional theatres. Ms. Ruzika has designed 21 seasons for the Utah Shakespeare Festival and 30 seasons for Fullerton Borough Calorie-free Opera. She has as well designed at Kansas City Repertory, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Laguna Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse and Long Beach'southward International City Theatre. Her piece of work has as well been seen in Cairo, Egypt, Bogotá, Colombia, and Barcelona, Spain. Mr. Ruzika's designs have been seen on Broadway, in national tours, at major regional theatres and with many national and international dance and opera companies. His entertainment lighting can be seen at theme parks in half-dozen countries and his architectural lighting can be seen in prestigious hotels, casinos, restaurants, retail centers and performing arts centers across the nation and in Europe and Asia. The Ruzikas take received numerous awards for their contributions to the art and craft of lighting design.
Dennis McCarthy (Musical Arrangement/Composer) returns to SCR, where he previously composed music for An Italian Straw Hat, Getting Frankie Married—and Afterwards, Ben and the Magic Paintbrush, The Beard of Avon, Much Ado about Nada and Of Mice and Men. During his career, he has written music for more than ii,000 films, telly movies and series episodes including "V," "MacGyver," "Parker Lewis Tin't Lose," "Star Trek," "Dawson's Creek" and "Dynasty." He won two Emmy Awards during his 18 years of music for "Star Trek" and composed the music for the series' feature motion picture, Generations. He was honored with ASCAP'due south Gold Annotation Honor. He teaches picture show scoring at the Art Center of Design in Pasadena, is a Southern California native, a father of three and proud gramps of ix cute grandchildren.
Drew Dalzell (Sound Design) is happy to be back at SCR, where he previously designed Cloudlands, The Emperor'southward New Clothes, Putting It Together, An Italian Straw Hat, Imagine, A Little Night Music, A Christmas Carol, Bunnicula, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, Intimate Exchanges and Sideways Stories from Wayside Schoolhouse. His other blueprint work includes Toy Story: The Musical for Disney Prowl Lines; The Laramie Project at Laguna Playhouse; Fen (Garland Award) and As I Lay Dying (Ovation Honour nomination) at Open up Fist Theatre Company; A Fourth dimension for Love, Songs for a New Globe (Ovation Honour) and Tick, Tick...Smash at Rubicon Theatre Company; and Side Show (Ovation Honour nomination), Billy Bishop Goes to War (Ovation Honor nomination), and The Laramie Project with the Colony Theatre Visitor; and Wicked Lit! 2012, 2013 (Ovation Award nomination), 2022 (Ovation Award), 2022 (Ovation Award), 2022 (Ovation Award nomination), 2017, and 2022 for Unbound Productions. He owns Diablo Sound Inc., which provides themed entertainment projects around the earth.
Dennis Castellano (Vocal Director) has musically directed the SCR productions of The Light in the Piazza, The Fantasticks, Cloudlands, Ordinary Days, Putting It Together, An Italian Straw Lid, A Petty Night Music, Happy End, Sun in the Park with George and A Chorus of Disapproval in addition to 26 years of A Christmas Ballad. He is the music supervisor for the six-bear witness summertime season at Broadway Sacramento, where he conducted their productions of Shrek, The Drowsy Chaperone, In the Heights, Seven Brides for 7 Brothers, Little Shop of Horrors, Sister Act, The Producers, Mary Poppins, Hair, Evidence Boat, Sweeney Todd and Funny Daughter. His other credits include The Hunchback of Notre Matriarch (fifth Avenue Theatre, Seattle); Dreamgirls, My Off-white Lady, The Unsinkable Molly Dark-brown and Guys and Dolls (McCoy/Rigby Entertainment); Bright Star, Elf, Something Rotten, Catch Me If You Can, Nice Work If You lot Tin Go It, South Pacific, Oklahoma!, Hairspray, Cats, Thoroughly Modern Millie and The Male monarch and I (Musical Theatre West); and Li'l Abner and The Good day Daughter (Musical Theatre Society).
Kelly Todd (Choreography), a UCLA theater alumna, is then happy to be back at SCR for the holidays and for SCR's next Theater for Immature Audiences project, Last Stop on Market Street. For 12 years, she was a resident artist at the Take a chance Theater, where some of her favorite projects have been Lysistrata Jones, for which she received a 2022 Ovation Award for Best Choreography; West Side Story, for which she received the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle 2012 Special Honour for Fight Choreography; and Triassic Parq (2013) and Jerry Springer: The Opera (2011), both of which won the Ovation Award for All-time Musical in an Intimate Theatre and garnered Ovation Award nominations for Best Choreography. She was named Southern California's Choreographer of the Year in 2011 and 2012 by StageSceneLA. Other credits include SCR'south Sweeney Todd, Once, The Light in the Piazza, Ivy + Bean: The Musical, Cool Person Singular and Seussical and The Who'due south Tommy at Segerstrom Center for the Arts. She is currently a professor in the Theatre Department at Pepperdine University where she runs the musical theater emphasis. Thank yous to Hisa for giving her the opportunity to work with this festive bandage and squad.
Talia Krispel*(Phase Managing director) is excited to be back at SCR, where her credits include A Christmas Carol (since 2014), Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Junie B. Jones Is Non a Crook, Abundance, Amadeus and Pinocchio. Her other credits include The Music Man starring Adam Pascal, Mamma Mia!, Westward Side Story, Matilda the Musical, Shrek the Musical, Dazzler and the Beast starring Susan Egan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Peter Pan (5-Star Theatricals); Inherit the Wind, Matriarch Edna: Back with a Vengeance, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and a workshop of Legally Blonde (Broadway); The Secret Garden (iii-D Theatricals); The Little Mermaid (Sound Stage LIVE!); Mamma Mia! (Deed of Connecticut); Homo of La Mancha (A Dissonance Within); West Side Story and Sister Act (Theatre By The Sea); Guys and Dolls and The Sound of Music (Bounding main State Theatre Company); Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (Ogunquit Playhouse); Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Joseph and the Astonishing Technicolor Dreamcoat (N Shore Music Theatre); Miracle Worker (Paper Manufactory Playhouse); The Times They Are A-Changin' (The Old World); and Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular (Radio City Music Hall). She earned a Master'southward degree in Educational Theatre in Colleges and Communities from New York University. For Mychal Adair-Lynch and Dad. taliakrispel.com
Julie Ann Renfro*(Assistant Stage Manager) is so happy to render to SCR for A Christmas Carol! Other SCR favorites include The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, The Parisian Adult female, Of Good Stock, The Calorie-free Princess, and about recently You're A Proficient Man, Charlie Brown. Boosted credits include LA Opera, Geffen Playhouse, La Mirada Theater, Pasadena Playhouse, Laguna Playhouse, Sydney Independent Theatre Visitor, Long Beach Shakespeare Company, and the 2022 North American Tour of A Nighttime with Janis Joplin. Renfro is from Costa Mesa, CA., where she received her BA in theatre arts from Vanguard Academy and is a proud member of Actors' Equity Association. LYBNC!
*Fellow member of Actors' Equity Association, the Spousal relationship of Professional Actors and Phase Managers in the United States.
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Source: https://www.scr.org/plays/a-christmas-carol
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