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Welcome
Dear Friends and Supporters,
As we step into February, a month rich with celebration and connection, we are grateful for the love of the performing arts that binds our community together.
At the heart of our mission is the belief that introducing children to theater at a young age can ignite their imaginations and foster empathy. This month, we are thrilled to present the world premiere of The Musicians of Bremen Live!, co-produced by Segerstrom Center for the Arts and Cahoots NI, as part of our Family Series.
This enchanting production, inspired by the much-loved Grimm’s fairy tale and set in the American Southwest, is not only a testament to the incredible talent of our artists but also a reflection of our commitment to co-commissioning and co-producing innovative works that resonate with audiences of all ages. We are dedicated to nurturing the next generation of theatergoers and artists, ensuring that the performing arts remain a vibrant part of their lives.
Thank you for your unwavering support and dedication to the arts. Let us continue spreading love, joy, and creativity throughout our community.
With heartfelt appreciation,
Casey Reitz President & CEO
Board of Directors
John H. Phelan Jr., Chair
Casey Reitz, President & CEO
Stewart R. Smith, Treasurer
Sally S. Crockett, Secretary
Wylie A. Aitken
Julia A. Argyros
Bart Asner, M.D.
Jesse Bagley
Marta S. Bhathal
Deborah Bridges
Louise Bryson
Mark Chan
Sandra Segerstrom Daniels
James A. Driscoll
Andra Greene Ellingson
Moti Ferder
John C. Garrett
John Ginger
Jackie Glass
Carole Haes Landon
John
H. Phelan Jr. Chair, Board of Directors
Wendy Hales
Lawrence M. Higby
Betty Huang
Molly Jolly
Roger T. Kirwan
Harmon Kong
Karla Kraft
Shanaz Langson
Kate Levering-Jahangiri
William F. Meehan
Britt Meyer
Ethan F. Morgan
Rick Muth
Walter Parsadayan
Mark C. Perry
Maria Rigatti
Holly Breaux Schwartz
Elizabeth Segerstrom
Tony Smith
Steven M. Sorenson, M.D.
Connie Spenuzza
John E. Stratman Jr.
Samuel Tang
Kelly Thomson
Laura Vanderhook
Gaddi H. Vasquez
Jaynine Warner
Jane Fujishige Yada
Henry T. Segerstrom,* Founding Chairman
Directors Emeritus
Anthony A. Allen
Pat L. Poss*
Timothy L. Strader
David H. Troob
Carol L. Wilken*
* in memoriam
Resident Companies
Arthur Ong, Chairman, Pacific Symphony
Elaine Neuss, Chair & CEO, Philharmonic Society
Craig Springer, Chairman, Pacific Chorale
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Vanessa Moore, Co-chair, The Guilds of the Center
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Maurice Murray, Chair, Arts & Business Leadership Council
Karly Brown Thiret, President, The Center Stars
Kate Levering-Jahangiri, President, Ave. to the Arts
Cindy Ramirez, Chair, The Center Docents
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Calendar of events
March 2025
Carmina Burana & Bach
February 27–March 3 | Pacific Symphony
The Magic City
March 1–2 | Family
Carmina Burana
March 2 | Pacific Symphony
Tracy K. Smith
March 3 | In Conversation
Calidore String Quartet
March 6 | Chaber
Symphony 101: Inspiration
March 9 | Pacific Symphony
Vienna Philharmonic with Yannick Nezet-Seguin
Yefim Bronfman, piano
March 9 | Philharmonic Society
Vienna Philharmonic with Yannick Nezet-Seguin
March 11 | Philharmonic Society
Music of Phil Collins and Genesis
March 14–15 | Pacific Symphony
Underneath a Magical Moon
March 15–16 | Family
RENT in Concert
March 15 | Broadway
Koh Plays Mendelssohn
March 20–22 | Pacific Symphony
April 2025
American Ballet Theatre
The Winter’s Tale
April 3–6 | Dance
Chineke! Orchestra with Aaron Azunda Akugbo
April 4 | Philharmonic Society
Emmet Cohen Trio
April 5 | Jazz
Alton Brown Live: Last Bite
April 8 | Special Event
Cheyenne Jackson
April 10–12 | Cabaret
¡Fiesta Sinfónica! con Mariachi Garibaldi
March 22 | Pacific Symphony Family
Ballet Folklórico de México
March 22 | Dance
Théotime Langlois de Swarte & Les Arts Florissants
March 23 | Chamber
Israel Philharmonic Society
March 26 | Philharmonic Society
Nowruz: Iranian New Year
March 29 | Pacific Symphony
Boston Pops Esplanade Orchestra
March 30 | Philharmonic Society
Curse of the Ring
April 10–15 | Pacific Symphony
Naruto The Symphonic Experience
April 13 | Special Event
Jordi Savall with Hesperion XXI: Music of Fire & Love
April 16 | Chamber
In Conversation with David Grann
April 16 | In Conversation
What I Did for Love... and All That Jazz
April 18 | Headliners
Hamilton
April 23–May 4 | Broadway
Ben Folds
April 25–26 | Pacific Symphony
The Gruffalo’s Child
April 26–27 | Family
Artists, events and dates subject to change; visit www.scfta.org for details and times.
Segerstrom Hall • Renée and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall • Samueli Theater • Julianne and George Argyros Plaza
Golden moment for the Center
It was a Candlelight Concert like no other. On December 6, 2024, the Center celebrated the 50th anniversary of this gala event. Candlelight Concert co-chairs Stephanie Argyros and John Ginger headed the spectacular evening that originally started before the Center had laid a cornerstone for Segerstrom Hall.
It was truly a golden party. Renowned producer and songwriter David Foster was the evening’s master of ceremonies. With his wife, singer Katharine McPhee, by the piano, they entertained with Christmas carols before the chairs came out to welcome guests.
Then the iconic Sir Elton John sat down at the piano for what became a 90-minute performance that had guests on their feet singing and dancing along with his greatest hits. He was a triumph and made it a truly special concert worthy of this special anniversary.
The original Candlelight Concert was held in 1974. The committee was given the loan of an empty dime store with no electricity, so the event was lit with candles to hide the room’s many imperfections. It was a big success and has been held every year since. The tradition of dining on the Segerstrom Hall stage began in 1996, and dining tables are decorated with elaborate centerpieces, flower arrangements and, of course, lots of candles.
Candlelight Concert has raised more than $80 million to support the Center’s array of outstanding entertainment, education and community engagement programs, including Summer at the Center, Disney Musicals in Schools and Studio D, impacting the lives of a million people annually. This year’s event took in a record $19.2 million.
Thank you to our evening’s sponsors, including luxury jewelry sponsor Lugano. The Center deeply appreciates its incredibly generous patrons whose unwavering support inspires and sustains us.
Hazel Vogel as Annie and Kevin as Sandy in the 2024–25 National Tour of Annie
1 The evening’s golden décor; 2 Aerialists poured champagne over guests’ heads; 3 Headliner Elton John; 4 Candlelight Co-Chairs Stephanie Argyros and John Ginger, center, with Center Board Chair John Phelan, left, and Center President Casey Reitz, right; 5 Elizabeth Segerstrom with Malissa Feruzzi Shriver; 6 John and Toni Ginger; 7 S. L. and Betty Huang; 8 Peter and Connie Spenuzza; 9 Tammy and Sam Tang; 10 Mae De LaBarre and Sandy Segerstrom Daniels; 11 Ethan Morgan and Cindy Halford with Holly and Michael Schwartz; 12 Wendy and Mark Hales; 13 John and Sherry Phelan; 14 John Garrett and Jane Yada; 15 Sally Segerstrom, Alda Inveiss, and Jason Poulsen pose with Elton John; 16 John Stratman with Lisa Argyros; 17 Suki McCardle and Gregory Robertson; 18 Dinner band The London Essentials; 19 Special departing gifts courtesy of Lugano; 20 Celebrity chef Tim Hollingsworth; 21 Jan Balthasar, Patricia Ann Marshall, Maria Balthasar, Terry Schreyer, Candy Baltbardis, the late George Schreyer, Brent Ford, Patricia Ford, and Consu Torres with Elton John; 22 Laura and Tim Vanderhook
Contributing photographers: Al Seib; Todd Rosenberg; Matt Lara; Ben Liebenberg; Natasha Campos
Family Series is magical in March
There is lots of magic for children at the Center next month in our Family Series!
The Explorer Series, for children ages 7 and up, will be amazed and astonished by The Magic City. Nine-year-old Philomena’s life is turned upside down when a big change comes into her world. The story comes alive through the magic of Manual Cinema, a Chicago-based group that uses projectors, puppets, actors, sound design, and a live music ensemble to create an all-new theater experience along with the actors.
Philomena is an orphan who is living happily with her much older sister, whom she adores. But things change when her sister becomes engaged to Brandon, who comes with a 7-yearold son named Lucas. Philomena is horrified that she is expected to be friends with this annoying little boy but is also fearful she will lose her close relationship with her sister. She hides away and creates a tiny city for herself with found items. But one night her special city comes to life and she finds herself trapped inside. How will she escape, and will she let her family help her?
“The Magic City features an overall heartfelt message about understanding and appreciating those who are different,” says the Adelaide Review
The Discovery Series, for children ages 4–8, continues with Underneath a Magical Moon. This sparkling new production invites you to fly into a fantastical world of adventure.
In this imaginative re-telling of the famous play, the story of Peter Pan is told from Wendy’s point of view, and the children are the creators of the story.
The Darling children are camping in their own back garden on a warm summer’s night. Wendy gazes at the moon and begins to tell her brothers a story. Someone seems to toss fairy dust over their tent, and their imaginations take flight, while Wendy creates a story using objects around them. With sleeping bags and swim caps covered with plastic flowers, they become mermaids. They create a pirate ship and become Captain Hook, Tinkerbell, an alligator, a Lost Boy. “Amazing things can happen underneath a magical moon,” the children sing.
The Center is offering a sensory-friendly/ relaxed performance of Underneath a Magical Moon for the March 15 performance at 10 am. This is designed specifically for audience members who will benefit from a more relaxed sensory environment.
All this magic reminds us that we can create our own magic with our family and friends, anytime and anyplace. These performances can show you how.
Samueli Theater
The Magic City: March 1–2
Underneath a Magical Moon: March 15–16
Photo: Charles Osgood Photography
February 18–23, 2025
Tuesday–Friday at 7:30 pm
Saturday at 2 & 7:30 pm
Sunday at 1 pm & 6:30 pm SEGERSTROM HALL
Saturday, February 22 at 2 pm
accessibility performance
ASL interpretation provided by: D. MacDougall Interpreting Services
Open captioning by: c2
Audio description by:
Audio Description Los Angeles
Annie is presented with generous support from Anonymous and The Jonathan and Nicole Cronstedt Foundation
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CRC Productions and crossroads live present
by THOMAS MEEHAN
by CHARLES STROUSE
Lyrics by
MARTIN CHARNIN
Original Production Directed by MARTIN CHARNIN
Based on “Little Orphan Annie”® By Permission of Tribune Content Agency, LLC
Originally Produced at The Goodspeed Opera House, Michael J. Price, Executive President Presented on Broadway by Mike Nichols
IRWIN MEYER
ALVIN NEDERLANDER ASSOCIATES, INC.
Produced by:
Stephen R. Friedman
The John F. Kennedy Center for the performing arts
Lewis Allen Icarus Productions
Additional Tour Producers: JUDITH ANN ABRAMS, JIM KIERSTEAD, VASI LAURENCE
HAZEL VOGEL STEFANIE LONDINO CHRISTOPHER SWAN Starring
RHETT GUTER JULIA NICOLE HUNTER ISABELLA DE SOUZA MOORE MARK WOODWARD with
ARIA VALENTINA ALDEA EVA LIZETTE CARREON ANNA DILLON KYLIE NOELLE PATTERSON OLIVE ROSS-KLINE NORA WEST
NICK ABBOTT ANTHONY DASILVA SAVANNAH FISHER ALLORIA FRAYSER BROOKE OLIVIA GATTO MATT GIBSON
CAROLINE GLAZIER DANNY LINDGREN RYAN MULVANEY MELINDA PARRETT DREW TANABE STEPHANIE WAHL KEVIN COOPER
Scenic Design WILSON CHIN
Costume Design ALEJO VIETTI
Hair & Wig Design ASHLEY RAE CALLAHAN
Music Supervisor MATTHEW SMEDAL
Production Stage Manager BRIGHAM JOHNSON
Executive Producer CAROLYN ROSSI COPELAND
Tour Booking, Marketing & Publicity Direction BOND THEATRICAL
Music Coordinator TALITHA FEHR
Based on Lighting Design by PHILIP S. ROSENBERG
Sound Design KEN TRAVIS
Casting PAUL HARDT CASTING
Orchestrations DAN DELANGE
Company Manager ROYCE MATTHEWS
Executive Producer ANGELA ROWLES
General Manager DEANA MARIE KIRSCH
Marketing & Publicity ANITA DLONIAK MELISSA A. HAZEK
C horeographed by PATRICIA WILCOX
Directed by JENN THOMPSON
Music Director ANDREW DAVID SOTOMAYOR
Tour Management CROSSROADS LIVE NORTH AMERICA
Production Manager HEATHER CHOCKLEY
Advertising & Social Media SUPER AWESOME FRIENDS
ANNIE is presented through special arrangement with MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL, New York, NY www.mtishows.com
Book
Music
Cast In order of appearance
Molly ................................................................................
OLIVE ROSS-KLINE
Pepper ARIA VALENTINA ALDEA
Duffy NORA WEST
July ANNA DILLON
Tessie
KYLIE NOELLE PATTERSON
Kate ............................................................................. EVA LIZETTE CARREON
Annie HAZEL VOGEL
Miss Hannigan STEFANIE LONDINO
Bundles McCloskey NICK ABBOTT
Apple Seller
ANTHONY DaSILVA
Dog Catcher .......................................................................... MARK WOODARD
Assistant Dog Catcher DREW TANABE
Sandy KEVIN
Lt. Ward .............................................................................. DANNY LINDGREN
Sophie the Kettle MELINDA PARRETT
Grace Farrell JULIA NICOLE HUNTER
Drake NICK ABBOTT
Mrs. Greer SAVANNAH FISHER
Mrs. Pugh ............................................................................MELINDA PARRETT
Cecile ALLORIA FRAYSER
Annette CAROLINE GLAZIER
Oliver Warbucks CHRISTOPHER SWAN
Star to Be SAVANNAH FISHER
Rooster Hannigan ........................................................................ RHETT GUTER
Lily ISABELLA DE SOUZA MOORE
Bert Healy MATT GIBSON
Fred McCracken NICK ABBOTT
Jimmy Johnson DREW TANABE
Ronnie Boylan ...................................................................... SAVANNAH FISHER
Connie Boylan ALLORIA FRAYSER
Bonnie Boylan CAROLINE GLAZIER
FDR MARK WOODARD
Ickes DANNY LINDGREN
Perkins ...............................................................................MELINDA PARRETT
Hull ANTHONY DaSILVA
Howe MATT GIBSON
Brandeis
DANNY LINDGREN
Morganthau DREW TANABE
Sound Effects Man ................................................................. ANTHONY DaSILVA
Ensemble NICK ABBOTT, ANTHONY DaSILVA, SAVANNAH FISHER, ALLORIA FRAYSER, MATT GIBSON, CAROLINE GLAZIER, DANNY LINDGREN, RYAN MULVANEY, MELINDA PARRETT, DREW TANABE
DANCE CAPTAIN
ASSISTANT DANCE CAPTAIN RYAN MULVANEY STEPHANIE WAHL
SWINGS
BROOKE OLIVIA GATTO, RYAN MULVANEY, STEPHANIE WAHL
UNDERSTUDIES
For Annie: KYLIE NOELLE PATTERSON; for Oliver Warbucks: NICK ABBOTT, MARK WOODARD; for Miss Hannigan: MELINDA PARRETT, STEPHANIE WAHL; for Grace Farrell: ALLORIA FRAYSER, CAROLINE GLAZIER; for Rooster Hannigan: ANTHONY DaSILVA, DANNY LINDGREN; for FDR: NICK ABBOTT, DANNY LINDGREN; for Lily: CAROLINE GLAZIER, STEPHANIE WAHL; for Molly: EVA LIZETTE CARREON; for Sandy: COOPER.
SETTING: New York City, December 1933
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Aria Valentina Aldea Eva Lizette Carreon Anna Dillon
Kylie Noelle Patterson Olive Ross-Kline
Nora West
Nick Abbott
Anthony DaSilva
Savannah Fisher
Alloria Frayser
Brooke Olivia Gatto
Matt Gibson
Caroline Glazier
Danny Lindgren
Ryan Mulvaney
Melinda Parrett
Hazel Vogel
Stefanie Londino
Christopher Swan
Rhett Guter
Julia Nicole Hunter
Isabella De Souza Moore Mark Woodard
Drew Tanabe
Stephanie Wahl Kevin Cooper
Musical Numbers
ACT I
December 11–19, 1933
The New York Municipal Orphanage (Girls’ Annex)
Maybe ANNIE
It’s the Hard Knock Life
ANNIE, ORPHANS
It’s the Hard Knock Life (Reprise) ORPHANS
St. Mark’s Place
Tomorrow ..................................................................................... ANNIE
A Hooverville Under the 59th Street Bridge
We’d Like to Thank You
The Orphanage
Little Girls
ANNIE, ENSEMBLE
MISS HANNIGAN
Little Girls (Reprise) MISS HANNIGAN
The Warbucks Mansion at Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street
I Think I’m Gonna Like It Here
New York City
N.Y.C
The Orphanage
ANNIE, GRACE, ENSEMBLE
OLIVER WARBUCKS, GRACE, ANNIE, ENSEMBLE
Easy Street ........................................................ MISS HANNIGAN, ROOSTER, LILY
Warbucks’ Study
You Won’t Be an Orphan for Long
OLIVER WARBUCKS, GRACE, ANNIE, ENSEMBLE
ACT II
December 21–25, 1933
The NBC Radio Studio at 30 Rockefeller Center and the Orphanage
You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile
The Orphanage
BERT HEALY, THE BOYLAN SISTERS
You’re Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile .............................................. ORPHANS Easy Street (Reprise) .............................................. MISS HANNIGAN, ROOSTER, LILY
Washington: The White House
Tomorrow (Reprise)
The Great Hall at the Warbucks Mansion
Something Was Missing
ANNIE, OLIVER WARBUCKS, F.D.R, CABINET
OLIVER WARBUCKS I Don’t Need Anything But You
The East Ballroom of the Warbucks Mansion
ANNIE, OLIVER WARBUCKS, GRACE, ENSEMBLE
Annie GRACE, ENSEMBLE Maybe (Reprise) ANNIE New Deal for Christmas .............
ANNIE, OLIVER WARBUCKS, GRACE, ORPHANS, ENSEMBLE
THERE WILL BE ONE 20-MINUTE INTERMISSION.
ANNIE ORCHESTRA
Music Director/Keyboard: ANDREW DAVID SOTOMAYOR
Associate Music Director/Keyboard: JEN CHRISTINA Violin/Viola: DMITRIY MELKUMOV
Flute/Piccolo/Clarinet/Alto Sax/Soprano Sax: ANNE KELTON
Flute/Clarinet/Bass Clarinet/Tenor Sax: KEVIN SAKAI
Cornet/Trumpet: KATE AMRINE Trombone/Euphonium: CRAIG WATSON
Guitar/Banjo/Uke: MICHAEL KARCHER
Acoustic Bass/Sousaphone: THOMAS BRINKLEY Drums/Percussion: AVION WRIGHT
Keyboard Programmer: MATTHEW J. POOL
Music Coordinator: TALITHA FEHR; TL MANAGEMENT INTERNATIONAL
Who’s Who
HAZEL VOGEL (Annie) is thrilled to bring this inspirational character to life. Credits: Les Misérables (US tour), Newsies (STAGES St. Louis), Miracle on 34th Street (Toby’s). Thanks to Annie creatives, Paul Hardt, David Doan (CESD). Love to Dr. Alyson Moore, Justin Levy, Nadia Letnaunchyn, Brian Michael Hoffman, Kurt Domoney, Michelle Aravena, Coty Manriquez and countless family and friends. @hlvsings
STEFANIE LONDINO (Miss Hannigan) is stepping back into her snakeskin pumps for season three! National tours: Annie (Miss Hannigan), A Bronx Tale (Rosina), Fiddler on the Roof (Shaindel). Off-Broadway: After Pinocchio (MTC/Marjorie Dean Theater), Funny Face (Ballet Hispanico), The Mayor of Williamsburg (HERE Arts Center), What Do Critics Know? (The York Theater). BFA University of Utah. Lead singer of rock band West Side Waltz, music out everywhere! Endless gratitude to Hubs, JB, Boo. Follow the shen-Hannigans on IG: @stefanielondino
CHRISTOPHER SWAN (Oliver Warbucks) (he/ him) Previously seen as Wilbur opposite Nina West in the 20th anniversary tour of Hairspray Other national tours include R&H’s Cinderella (Sebastian), Guys and Dolls (Nathan), My Fair Lady (Doolittle) and the first national of A Christmas Story:The Musical (The Old Man). Regional: Footloose (The Rev), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (Theatre by the Sea), Angels in America (Ark Rep). Boston Conservatory graduate and U.S Army veteran. Thank you to Jenn and Patti and much love to my wife Laura. @chriswanlives
RHETT GUTER (“Rooster” Hannigan) has performed on stages throughout the country including The Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, PCPA, St. Louis Rep, The Paramount, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, The Goodspeed Opera House, The Arena Stage, nine seasons at the Utah Shakespeare Festival, and Carnegie Hall. Rhett is also a professional magician. RhettMagic.com @rhettmagic
JULIA NICOLE HUNTER (Grace Farrell). Grateful to be returning to Annie! Originally from Nashville TN, but currently based in New York City. Some of her credit highlights include: In The Heights (Nina) at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, The Color Purple (Nettie) and Nunsense (Sister Amnesia). Also a principal vocalist for Burn The Floor and Norwegian Cruise Line. “Wouldn’t be who I am without the love and support of my family and friends!” @ju1ia.nico1e
ISABELLA DE SOUZA MOORE
(Lily St. Regis). First national tour! Favorite regional credits: Mimi in RENT (TUTS), Honey in Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Denver Center for the Performing Arts), and Mystic Pizza (Ogunquit Playhouse) among many others. TV: Hulu’s “The Path.” Voiceover: “CoComelon” (Miss Appleberry). Commercials: Neutrogena (Brazil), Franzia. BFA Syracuse University. @isabelladesouzamoore
MARK WOODARD (FDR, u/s Oliver Warbucks) is thrilled to return for year three of Annie! Regional credits: Disney’s Newsies (Gateway Playhouse), Oklahoma! (Ogunquit Playhouse), 42nd Street (The REV), The Producers, Bells Are Ringing, South Pacific, A Christmas Carol (Pittsburgh CLO). Television guest & co-star roles: “Law & Order: Criminal Intent,” “Billions,” “As The World Turns,” “Neon Joe: Werewolf Hunter.” @actnman88
ARIA VALENTINA ALDEA (Pepper) is thrilled to make her national tour debut alongside this incredible cast! She extends her heartfelt gratitude to her agent Barry Kolker, Paul Hardt Casting, Jenn Thompson, Jennifer Johns-Grasso, Ashley Locheed, Hillary Brook, Marshall Ellis and Daniel Hunalp. Endless thanks to her family and friends for their unwavering love, support and encouragement! @ariavald
EVA LIZETTE CARREON (Kate, u/s Molly) is thrilled to join the national tour of Annie! Favorite roles: Lulu (Waitress, first national tour, Golden Gate Theater), Baby June (Gypsy,
Woodminster), Amaryliss (Music Man, TVTC). Special thanks: ECPAC dance family, Wright Way coaching, Kim Pedell/Zoom Talent, Annie tour creative team, family love & support! @eva.lizette.carreon
ANNA DILLON (July) is a breakout performer making her theatrical debut! Recent credits include Pupstruction (Disney Jr), BG: Mermaids (Nick Jr), and Dragon Day (Audible). She thanks God, her family, coaches, and reps at Ivy Artists Management and DDO Artists Agency. For Papa and Uncle, Love Always. @its.me.anna.v
KYLIE NOELLE PATTERSON (Tessie, u/s Annie) is thrilled to be in her second year touring with the beloved production of Annie. With a heart full of gratitude, she thanks her mom, dad, and family for their unwavering support and encouragement. Kylie’s passion for performing shines through every time she takes the stage, and she feels truly blessed to share this incredible journey with audiences across the country. Thank you to Jenn Thompson, Paul Hardt, Patti Wilcox, Matthew Smedal, DDO and Zoom Talent. @kylie.noelle.official
OLIVE ROSS-KLINE (Molly). Broadway: The Who’s Tommy (Young Tommy, age 4). The international tour of The Sound of Music (Gretl Von Trapp). TV/Film: Mo Williams’ series “The Pigeon Explains.” Thanks to Foundation Media Partners, CESD, Hardt Casting, family and friends! @littlemissoliveofficial | oliverosskline.com
NORA WEST (Duffy) is thrilled to make her national tour debut with Annie! Special thanks to Nancy Carson, Bonnie Deroski and David Bahgat. Much appreciation to the casting team for this amazing opportunity. Endless love and gratitude to my parents and all of my teachers, friends and family. @nora.k.west
NICK ABBOTT (Ensemble, u/s Warbucks, FDR). National Tours: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Annie, Motown the Musical. TV: Sitcom dad on Hello Riley, Hello Ryan (South Korea). BFA: Ball State University. Thanks to Jenn, Patti, Paul, JC Gutierrez, Crossroads, Mom, Dad, Kate, and Erik. www.nickabbott.net
ANTHONY DaSILVA (Ensemble, u/s “Rooster” Hannigan). National Tour: Charlie & The Chocolate Factory. Regional: The Goodspeed, Ogunquit Playhouse, The REV, Phoenix Theatre Company, The Gateway, The LEX, North Carolina Theatre, Berkshire Theatre Group, Weathervane Theatre, Forestburgh Playhouse, Mac-Haydn Theatre. Infinite thanks to Jenn, Patti, Katie, Jess, The Collective, Family, Friends, and Chaz. @antthology
SAVANNAH FISHER (Ensemble, Star to Be).
Thrilled to be returning to the company!
National Tour: Jesus Christ Superstar (Soul Singer), Dog Man: The Musical (Flippy). Regional: Theatre Aspen: Godspell, Ragtime. BCSO: Guys and Dolls (Sarah Brown). Other favorites: Sister Act (Deloris), The Wiz (Glinda). Special thanks to my loving family, friends, D’Marreon and TPG agency. @savannahmfisher
ALLORIA FRAYSER (Ensemble, u/s Grace Farrell, u/s Star to Be) cannot wait to hit the road with Annie! National Tour: The Cher Show Regional: Next To Normal (Barrington Stage Company), The Color Purple (Short North Stage), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (Tuacahn), White Christmas, Chicago, The Little Mermaid (The Lex), Elf Jr. (TCT of Cincinnati). CCM MT c/o ’23. Thank you to those near and dear to her heart, you’re the reason and the drive. Ecc 3:12
BROOKE OLIVIA GATTO (Swing) is a bicoastal actor with roots in the Pacific Northwest and Southern California. She holds a BFA in Musical Theatre and is thrilled to return to Annie for a second year. Other credits include: Rudolph the Musical (national tour), Into the Breeches (International City Theatre), and various film roles. Thank you to family, friends, and agents! @brookeoliviagatto
MATT GIBSON (Ensemble). Broadway: Gypsy. UK & Toronto: Joseph... (Reuben, Pharaoh). London: My Favorite Things Concert (Royal Drury Lane, PBS); NYC: New World Stages, Carnegie Hall, The Shed, Lincoln Center, and Irish Rep. Regional: 35+ AEA principal roles. Film: Wonka www.mrmattgibson.com @mrmattgibson
CAROLINE GLAZIER (Ensemble, u/s Grace Farrell, u/s Lily St. Regis) is thrilled for another year of Annie! Off-Broadway: Friends! The Musical Parody (“Rachel Green”). Other: The Sound of Music (“Maria”), Cabaret (“Sally Bowles”). University of Michigan: BFA in Musical Theatre (GO BLUE)! Thank you to the whole Annie team, my family and friends, and my extraordinary fiancée, Aaron. IG: @carolinemg101
DANNY LINDGREN (Ensemble, Lt. Ward, u/s “Rooster” Hannigan, u/s FDR). Broadway: Almost Famous. Regional: The Kennedy Center, The Old Globe, McCarter, Goodspeed, Baryshnikov, Los Angeles Opera, ASF, The Rev, Ogunquit. TV: “Law & Order SVU.” Huge thanks to Jenn, Patti, Paul, HAA, his family and his incredible wife Andrea. @Danny_Lindgren
MELINDA PARRETT (Ensemble, u/s Miss Hannigan). National tour debut! Regional: all over the US, including Goodspeed, Geva, Denver Center, PCPA Theaterfest, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Sacramento Music Circus, and 10 seasons with Utah Shakespeare Festival, most recently as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing. Love/gratitude to all who made this fabulous adventure possible. For Burton. IG: @melinder
DREW TANABE (Ensemble) (he/him) is thrilled to be joining the company of Annie. He’s a born and raised Florida boy and Northwestern graduate, most recently seen in Anne of Green Gables as Fred in NYC. Thanks to his family, Tucker & DGRW, and Jenn & Patti for all of their support. Gaman.
RYAN MULVANEY (Swing, Dance Captain). National tours: Annie, Elf. NYC: Maddie (NYTF). International/Regional: Priscilla: Queen of the Desert (Ens.) and Footloose (Garvin) with Norwegian Cruise Line; A Chorus Line (Bobby); West Side Story (Big Deal). BFA - CAP21/Molloy University. Thank you to Jenn, Patti, and Matt. Sending all his love to dad, mom, Dori, & Piper. IG: @r_mulvaney
STEPHANIE WAHL (Swing, Assistant Dance Captain). Credits: former Radio City Rockette, Sister Leo in Nunsense: 25th Anniversary (Off-Broadway). Regional: Prudy in Hairspray, Annabella/Pamela/Margaret in The 39 Steps, Abigail Adams in 1776, Diana in Next to Normal (Best Actress Award). Film/TV: “Bull” (Bedside Manner), “A Rainy Day in New York.” Thanks Bramante Artists & JHA. Love to Mom, Sissy, Alex and John.
KEVIN (Sandy). Kevin is a 7-year-old labradoodle who can’t wait to jump back into the role of Sandy. When Kevin is not touring with Annie, he is an animal actor preforming in many TV and film roles. He lives with his trainer in Georgia. He LOVES chasing tennis balls and swimming in the pool.
COOPER (Sandy u/s). Cooper is a 3-year-old rescue mix from California. He’s very excited for his first national tour and to make his debut as Sandy.
THOMAS MEEHAN (Book) is a three-time Tony Award winning librettist for the Broadway musicals Annie, 1977; The Producers, 2001 (co-written with Mel Brooks); and Hairspray, 2003 (co-written with Mark O’Donnell). He collaborated on many Broadway musicals including I Remember Mama; Ain’t Broadway Grand; Bombay Dreams (with Meera Syal); Cry Baby (with Mark O’Donnell); Young Frankenstein (with Mel Brooks); Elf, The Musical (with Bob Martin); Chaplin (with Christopher Curtis); Rocky; the upcoming Dave, The Musical (with Nell Benjamin); and the off-Broadway musicals, Annie Warbucks; Death Takes a Holiday (with Peter Stone) and the upcoming The Lady Eve (with Maury Yeston). He was a long-time contributor of humor pieces to The New Yorker, which were published in a collection entitled Yma, Ava, Yma, Abba, Yma, Oona, Yma, Ida, Yma Aga… and Others, by Simon and Schuster. In collaboration with the poet J.D. McClatchy, Mr. Meehan co-authored the libretto of the opera 1984, composed by Lorin Maazel, first performed at London’s Royal Opera House at Covent Garden in 2005. He was an Emmy Award-winning writer of television comedy, and a collaborator on screenplays, including
Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs, To Be or Not To Be, The Producers and One Magic Christmas. He was a member of the Council of the Dramatists Guild.
MARTIN CHARNIN (Lyrics). Martin’s career in the entertainment industry began in 1957 when he created the role of Big Deal (one of Jerome Robbins’ authentic juvenile delinquents) in the original company of West Side Story. He played the role for exactly 1,000 performances. Since then, he was involved in over 140 theatrical, television, film, and night club productions as a director, producer, composer, or lyricist. He is one of the dozen people who have won Emmys, Tonys, and Grammys, and the Peabody Award for Broadcasting. Annie, which came to Broadway in 1977, originally ran for 2,377 performances, and has been revived there three times. He directed Annie 19 times (after directing the original production in New York), in London, Montreal, Amsterdam, and Melbourne as well as Annie’s 14 national U.S. companies. He collaborated with Charles Strouse, Vernon Duke, Marvin Hamlisch, Mary Rodgers, and twice with Richard Rodgers on I Remember Mama and Two by Two. He wrote for, or directed, Fred Astaire, Ethel Merman, Jack Lemmon, Ann-Margaret, Jack Benny, Anne Bancroft, Betty Hutton, Sutton Foster, Sarah Jessica Parker, Catherine ZetaJones, Bebe Neuwirth, Barbra Streisand, Johnny Mathis, Larry Kert, Chita Rivera, Jane Lynch, Tony Bennett, Jason Alexander, and Jay-Z, among countless others, and for his wife, Shelly Burch (who originated a leading role in the original company of Nine). Most recently, “Tomorrow” from Annie became one of the 100 most performed musical numbers in the last century.
CHARLES STROUSE (Music). A graduate of New York’s P.S. 87, Townsend Harris H.S., and the Eastman School of Music, Charles has studied composition with Aaron Copland, Arthur Berger, and David Diamond in the US and Nadia Boulanger in Paris. Charles has composed copious chamber music, two piano concertos, a string quartet and two operas. After which, being broke like most composers, he was a rehearsal pianist and dance arranger for many shows, played in bar rooms, ballet classes, at weddings and strip joints (a particular boon for one who was to write the music for the film The
Night They Raided Minsky’s). One morning in 1960 he awoke to find he had written (with Lee Adams and Mike Stewart) Bye Bye Birdie (Tony Award), which is still among the most performed musicals in America, followed by Golden Boy with Sammy Davis, Jr. (Tony Nomination). Then came, Applause (Tony Award), It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman, Rags (Tony Nomination) and Annie (Tony Award). In-between, there have been scores for movies including Bonnie and Clyde and All Dogs Go to Heaven. Throughout his career, Charles has received the Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein, Frederick Lowe and the Leonard Bernstein Awards for musical achievement. He is married to director/ choreographer Barbara Siman and is the father of Benjamin (attorney, author, composer), Nicholas (psychotherapist), Victoria (screen writer) and William (also a screen writer).
JENN THOMPSON (Director) is thrilled to be helming the national tour of Annie after having appeared as Pepper in the original Broadway run. Recent new works include the worldpremiere musical Anne of Green Gables—A New Musical at Goodspeed Opera House and Diary of a Wimpy Kid—The Musical at Children’s Theatre Company in association with Kevin McCollum and Buena Vista Theatrical (both available on Spotify, iTunes, Amazon). Jenn is a NYC-based, Drama Desk-nominated director whose work has been seen in New York and at theaters across the country including Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Denver Center, South Coast Rep, Hartford Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, St. Louis Rep, Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, City Theatre, Portland Stage Company, Pioneer Theatre Company, Barrington Stage, Theatre Aspen, Hartford TheatreWorks, Dorset Theatre Festival, among others. NYC credits include new works at Rattlestick, Barrow Group, The York Theatre Company, Abingdon Theatre, MCC, National Alliance for Musical Theatre, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Primary Stages, FringeNYC, as well as the critically acclaimed Off-Broadway Mint Theatre Company where her productions have garnered Lortel and Off-Broadway Alliance Award nominations for Outstanding Revival as well as five Drama Desk Award nominations including Outstanding Director
and Revival. She served as Co-Artistic Director of Off-Broadway’s award-winning TACT/The Actors Company Theatre, where her directing credits earned a Drama Desk nomination as well as an Off-Broadway Alliance Award. She is married to actor Stephen Kunken and lives in Brooklyn and Connecticut with their daughter, Naomi. For Martin, Charles, Tom & Peter. jennthompsondirector.com and @jennysylivia_t
PATRICIA WILCOX (Choreographer) choreographed the Broadway and West End production of Motown the Musical, for which she won the Fred Astaire Award and the NAACP Award, and the Broadway and West End production of A Night with Janis Joplin. Off Broadway/National Tours: At Encores! Off-Center, she choreographed the critically acclaimed Little Shop of Horrors, which starred Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Greene, Annie, An Officer and a Gentleman, Children’s Letters to God, Bowfire (and the resulting PBS special), Blues in the Night (NAACP Nomination), Seussical, Motown and A Night with Janis Joplin. Selected regional: The Secret Garden (Denver Center); Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Children’s Theatre Company); Beautiful (The Muny), The Music Man (Connecticut Critics Circle Award), Bye Bye Birdie (Connecticut Critics Circle nomination) and Gypsy at Goodspeed Opera House. Her work has been seen at The Kennedy Center, The Old Globe, South Coast Repertory, The Alley Theatre, The McCarter Theatre, Missouri Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Pioneer Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, ATC, Paper Mill Playhouse, the Ronacher Theatre and Moscow Arts. Ms. Wilcox created original works for the Houston Symphony, Minnesota Pops, Phoenix Symphony, Lyrics & Lyricists at the 92nd Street Y, Broadway Under the Stars, Norwegian Cruise Line, as well as for ice-skating medalists for three Winter Olympics. Pattiwilcox.com
WILSON CHIN (Scenic Design). Broadway: Cost of Living, Pass Over (Drama Desk and Lortel Award nominations), Next Fall. Off Broadway: Roundabout Theatre Company, Second Stage, Manhattan Theatre Club, Lincoln Center, Playwrights Horizons, Public Theater, Signature Theatre. With director
Jenn Thompson: The Secret Garden (Denver Center Theatre), Oklahoma and Anne of Green Gables (Goodspeed Musicals). Opera: Turandot (Washington National Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago), Eine Florentinische Tragödie/Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera, Dora Award winner). Film/ television: Pass Over (dir. Spike Lee), “Game Theory with Bomani Jones” (HBO), “Blindspot” (NBC). Eastern Region Board member of Local USA 829. Instagram: @wilsonchindesign
ALEJO VIETTI (Costume Design). New York: Broadway’s Allegiance (Drama Desk Nomination), Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (West End Olivier nomination, National Tour, Japan and Australia), and Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn. Currently: Titanique (Lucille Lortel Award, Australia and Canada). Works for Roundabout, Manhattan Theatre Club, Second Stage, Radio City Rockettes, City Center’s Encore and more. Other: Disney’s Hunchback of Notre Dame (Japan, Germany and Austria), West Side Story World tour. Recipient of the 2010 TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award. Instagram @alejo_vietti_costume_design.
PHILIP S. ROSENBERG (Lighting Design). Broadway and West End: Mrs. Doubtfire, Pretty Woman, The Elephant Man, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder and It’s Only a Play Regional: Kennedy Center, La Jolla Playhouse, Ford’s Theatre, The Guthrie Theater, The Old Globe, TheatreWorks, Hartford Stage, Alliance, Huntington Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Dallas Theatre Center, Denver Center Theatre, The Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, The McCarter Theatre, Manhattan School of Music, Portland Stage Company, TACT, Barrington Stage Company, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Dorset Theatre Festival, Bay Street Theatre, Goodspeed Opera, Two River Theatre Company, George Street Playhouse, and Westport Country Playhouse.
KEN TRAVIS (Sound Design). Broadway: In Transit, Disney’s Aladdin (MX, UK, DE, JP, AU, US), Jekyll and Hyde, A Christmas Story the Musical, Scandalous, Newsies, Memphis, The ThreePenny Opera, Barefoot in the Park and
Steel Magnolias. Numerous national tours and regional productions at theaters across North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
ASHLEY RAE CALLAHAN (Hair & Wig Design) (She/Her) is an Emmy Nominated Hairstylist. Her design work includes Annie (national tour) West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (Muny) Evita (ART, STC & NYCity Center) Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors (NWS & Maltz Jupiter) and Once Upon a One More Time (STC). Broadway & Television Associate/ Assistant Designer Credits include: New York New York, Beetlejuice, Ain’t Too Proud, NBC’s Jesus Christ Superstar Live!, Summer, The Color Purple Revival, Holiday Inn, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical and Allegiance. Television/Movies
Hairstyling: The Crowded Room, Stranger Things, Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Ghosted, Oppenheimer, Eileen, Law and Order: SVU & The Gilded Age.
CHARLOTTE WOERTLER (Dog Trainer) is thrilled to be back this season with Annie! A dream come true! A proud graduate of The Teaching Zoo at Moorpark College, Charlotte has been training animals for the stage and screen for over 20 years. Favorite projects include Clifford the Big Red Dog, Lady and the Tramp, Where the Crawdads Sing, and Treasure Buddies
HARDT CASTING, LLC (Casting). Paul has had the honor to have served as Casting Director on the following projects: Broadway: West Side Story, Come Fly Away, August: Osage County, A Moon for the Misbegotten, On Golden Pond, Hot Feet, Caine Mutiny Court Martial and the upcoming Once Upon a One More Time National Tours: West Side Story (US and World Tour), A Bronx Tale, Dirty Dancing, Legends!, Whistle Down the Wind, On Golden Pond, August: Osage County, The Bodyguard, and the current running tour of Cats. Regional Theatres include: Goodspeed Opera House, Bucks County Playhouse, Delaware Theatre Company, TheaterWorks Hartford, TUTS, Pasadena Playhouse and Asolo Rep.
MATTHEW SMEDAL (Music Supervisor). Broadway MD: Mrs. Doubtfire (and Doubtfire’s
Original Broadway Cast Recording). OffBroadway: Clueless The Musical starring Dove Cameron. National tours: The Bodyguard, Matilda, Ghost, and Catch Me If You Can Toronto: Matilda (RSC + Mirvish). Assoc. Music Super: Mrs. Doubtfire (First National). Elsewhere: Mary Poppins (5th Avenue), Anne Of Green Gables (Goodspeed Opera House), Oliver (Maltz Jupiter), Singin’ In The Rain (Ogunquit Playhouse), An American In Paris (Cape Playhouse), Jesus Christ Superstar (North Shore Music Theatre). Matthew is the composer & lyricist of The Goose Girl (currently in development). As a pianist: Cole Porter’s La Revue des Ambassadeurs (Opéra de Rennes), and for Deborah Cox at the US Open Women’s Singles Final between Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka.
TALITHA FEHR (Music Coordinator) has worked on over 75 national and international productions and tours since 2005. Highlights include: Sister Act, Mamma Mia!, School of Rock, Come Fly Away, Phantom of the Opera, Love Never Dies and Priscilla Queen of the Desert, as well as the 2010 Olympic Ceremonies in Vancouver. She dedicates her work on Annie to the memory of her mentor, Sam Lutfiyya.
DAN DELANGE (Orchestrations) has scored music for Julie Andrews, The Jim Henson Company, Rosie O’Donnell, Tony Yazbeck, Universal Theatrical Group at Universal Pictures, Manhattan Concert Productions, and for composers Paul Williams, Jerry Herman, Harvey Schmitt, Mark Hollman, Peter Link, Charles Strouse and Stephen Schwartz. His orchestrations have been heard on Broadway, Off-Broadway, at Carnegie Hall, in London’s West End, on national and European tours, film, television and at regional theaters across the country, including 60 productions at Goodspeed Musicals. He’s a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy and Oberlin Conservatory of Music. For more information visit: DanDeLangeOrchestrations.com
ANDREW DAVID SOTOMAYOR (Music Director). Off-Broadway: Curvy Widow (Premiere). First National Tours:Tootsie, Escape to Margaritaville Recent Credits: My Best Friend’s Wedding
(Ogunquit Playhouse), The SpongeBob Musical (Broadway At Music Circus), El Otro Oz (Atlantic Theater Company), On Your Feet!, (Paper Mill Playhouse). Endless love to his wonderful husband, Bart. For more, visit soto.fun
HEATHER CHOCKLEY (Production Manager) joined the CXL team after having toured, both nationally and internationally, for 15 years. After that lifetime on the road, she finds she likes not living out of a suitcase the whole time. Now based in the DC metro area, she also does a bit of political event work, and shares the crew member recruiting responsibilities at CXL.
BRIGHAM JOHNSON (Production Stage Manager). Tours: Annie (North America, China), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Christmas in Killarney. Norwegian Cruise Line. Regional: The Rev Theatre Co., Arizona Theatre Company, Skylight Music Theatre, Musical Theatre West, Gateway Playhouse, Florida Repertory, Triad Stage, and Connecticut Repertory. Brig is a graduate of Western Carolina University. Special thanks to his family and friends.
TARA TOLAR-PAYNE (Stage Manager) (She/ Her) is thrilled to join the Annie Tour! National Tours: Girl From the North Country, Jesus Christ Superstar. Pre-Broadway: Frozen. Regional: Asolo Rep Theatre, Santa Fe Opera, Phamaly Theatre Company. Endless gratitude to everyone in her life who supports her in all that she is and does!
OLIVIA GORDON (Assistant Stage Manager) Tour: Kimberly Akimbo. Regional: Frozen (Fulton Theatre), Titanic, 9 to 5, The Buddy Holly Story, Something Rotten (Maine State Music Theatre). Training: Michael Jackson ONE (Cirque du Soleil), Shenandoah University Graduate ’24. Love & thanks to family, friends, and mentors.
NYKOL DeDREU (Sub Stage Manager).
Commercial credits: Blue Man Group, Polar Express, NETworks Productions, Norwegian Cruise Lines. Regional: Phoenix Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, The Fulton Theatre, Phoenix Metropolitan Opera, Music Theatre of Wichita. Dance: Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Rennie Harris Puremovement, Kinetic Light.
Education: Head of Stage ManagementColumbia College Chicago, Adjunct ProfessorNorthwestern and DePaul Universities.
KYLE M. DILL (Sub Stage Manager) Tours: A Christmas Carol, Annie, Nassim the Play, Waitress, A Bronx Tale. He is a DC based stage manager and the production manager of the Horowitz Visual and Performing Arts Center. Member of Actors’ Equity Association. BFA: Shenandoah University. @kylemdill
DEANA MARIE KIRSCH (General Manager) brings over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry to Annie, with a diverse portfolio of projects worked on in LA, NY, Las Vegas, and on national tours. Her credits include Criss Angel Mindfreak, Jersey Boys, BAZ, Mat Franco: Magic Reinvented Nightly, Absinthe, Wonderland, A Chorus Line, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, and TINA.
ROYCE MATTHEWS (Company Manager) is a former Walt Disney Imagineer who walked down Main Street, and now walks down Easy Street. National Tours: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Elf: The Broadway Musical (Company Manager); the new Peter Pan, Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady (Assistant Company Manager).
ANGELA STROHBECK (Assistant Company Manager) is beyond excited to join her first national tour! She brings 3 years of Broadway experience as a Coordinator for Columbia Live Stage and Producing Associate for Lia Vollack Productions. Broadway: Groundhog Day, Almost Famous, and MJ: the Musical.
CRC PRODUCTIONS (Producer). Carolyn Rossi
Copeland founded the award winning Lamb’s Theatre on West 44th Street. The historic theatre was home to new musicals and plays. She was recruited to be Vice President of Creative Affairs for Radio City Entertainment/Madison Square Garden where she oversaw theatre productions, tours and new development. In 2006 she opened CRC Productions and has produced plays and musicals on Broadway, Off Broadway and National tours. She is currently the Executive producer of the Broadway bound
musical GET HAPPY and serves as Executive Producer of Strouse iP, the company that manages the works of award-winning composer Charles Strouse. She is a board member of The Goodspeed Opera House and Many Hopes. Carolyn is happy to be back at The Garden! www.crcproductions.org
CROSSROADS LIVE (Producer & Tour Management) is a global theater producer. Through our production offices in North America, the UK and Australia and our network of producing partnerships in Asia and Europe, we work with the foremost creative talent and rightsholders, to present the best-loved titles from Broadway and the West End to audiences around the world. Current productions/ co-productions include: Annie, Cats, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Dear Evan Hansen, Dr Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Grease, Jesus Christ Superstar, Mean Girls, My Best Friend’s Wedding, Pretty Woman, Sister Act, The Phantom of the Opera, TINA - The Tina Turner Musical and Wicked. Connecting with audiences worldwide xroadslive.com
JUDITH ANN ABRAMS (Co-Producer). Multi Tony & Olivier winning producer of Come From Away, Kinky Boots, Spring Awakening, to name a few highlights.
JIM KIERSTEAD (Co-Producer) is an Emmy, Olivier, and six-time Tony Award-winning producer of Kinky Boots, Pippin, Hadestown, The Inheritance, Company, and The Lehman Trilogy. Current projects include Romeo + Juliet, The Hills of California, Gypsy, Cabaret, and Smash. kiersteadproductions.com
VASI LAURENCE (Co-Producer).Theater/ Film: Passing Strange (Tony Award, Drama Desk Award/Best Musical) and made into an award-winning film directed by Spike Lee. Other credits: Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Tootsie (National Tour), several Off Broadway shows and film projects, including the award-winning play The Housewives of Mannheim. Many thanks to Marcia andTom Nigro, Linda and Michael Standley, and Lois Barth. We are
delighted to be partnering with Crossroads Live North America. Mosby78@aol.com
BOND THEATRICAL (Tour Booking, Marketing & Publicity) is an independently owned theatrical booking, marketing and publicity company representing award-winning Broadway shows and live entertainment properties. BOND connects artists and audiences by forming strategic, authentic and profitable partnerships between producers and presenters across North America. For a complete list of current projects, please visit BondTheatrical.com.
NEURO TOUR (Physical Therapy). Carolyn Lawson PT, founder and CEO. Global leaders in live entertainment, film, and performing arts medicine We are honored to be part of the amazing company of Annie. Highlights: Broadway: Disney’s The Lion King, Hello, Dolly!, The Music Man, The Cher Show. Tours: Movin’ Out, Tootsie, Hamilton. Concerts: P!NK, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry, U2.
MUSIC THEATRE INTERNATIONAL (Licensee). MTI is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theatres from around the world the rights to perform the greatest selection of musicals from Broadway and beyond. Founded in 1952 by composer Frank Loesser, and orchestrator Don Walker, MTI is a driving force in advancing musical theatre as a vibrant and engaging art form. MTI works directly with the composers, lyricists and book writers of these musicals to provide official scripts, musical materials and dynamic theatrical resources to over 70,000 professional, community and school theatres in the US and in over 60 countries worldwide. MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theatre and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audi- ences. MTI’s Broadway Junior shows are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by elementary and middle school-aged performers, while MTI’s School Editions are musicals annotated for performance by high school students. MTI maintains its global headquarters in NYC with additional offices in London (MTI Europe) and Melbourne (MTI Australasia).
ANNIE TOUR STAFF
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS
Carolyn Rossi Copeland Angela Rowles
GENERAL MANAGER
Deana Marie Kirsch
Associate General Manager....................................... Emily Miu
PRODUCTION MANAGER
Heather Chockley
Assistant Production Manager Suzayn MacKenzie-Roy
COMPANY MANAGER
Royce Matthews
Assistant Company Manager Angela Strohbeck
TOUR MARKETING & PRESS
Anita Dloniak Melissa A. Hazek
TOUR BOOKING, MARKETING & PUBLICITY OFFICE
BOND THEATRICAL bondtheatrical.com
TOUR BOOKING
Temah Higgins Mollie Mann DJ Martin
Wendy Roberts Marc Viscardi
Madison St. Amour Jesse Daniels Laura Rizzo
Nilesha Alexander
TOUR MARKETING AND PUBLICITY
DJ Martin Marc Viscardi
CASTING
Hardt Casting Paul Hardt
PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER ...... BRIGHAM JOHNSON
Stage Manager
Assistant Stage Manager
Tara Tolar-Payne
Olivia Gordon
Sub Stage Manager Nykol DeDreu
Sub Stage Manager Kyle M. Dill
Associate Director Katie Birenboim
Associate Choreographer Jessica Blair
Dance Captain Ryan Mulvaney
Assistant Dance Captain ................................ Stephanie Wahl
Animal Handler Charlotte Woertler
Associate Scenic Designer Riw Rakkulchon
Assistant Scenic Designer Craig Napoliello
Production Carpenter Ronan Havlice
Associate Lighting Designer Wheeler Moon
Moving Light Programmer
Harrison Freni
Production Electrician Rob Virzera
Associate Sound Designer Andrew Rovner
Production Audio Macy Kloville
Associate Costume Designer Joseph Shrope
Associate Hair & Wig Designer Brittany Hains
Production Props
Assistant Audio Victoria Ramos
Head of Wardrobe Angelica Fink
Assistant Wardrobe Sydni Furtado
Head of Hair & Makeup Mary Tyler
Crew Swing Justin Rauckhorst
Physical Therapy NeuroTour Physical Therapy, INC
Children’s Services On Location Education
Studio Teacher/Wrangler Christine Tureta
NYC Wrangler Becky Cherline Baird
Animal Trainer Charlotte Woertler
Payroll Services Paychex
Insurance EPIC Insurance Brokers
Housing and Travel Road Rebel
Merchandise Provider ..................................... Creative Goods Merchandising, LLC
Tour Booking, Marketing, Publicity BOND Theatrical Jenny Bates, Melissa Cohen,Caroline Frawley, Ayanna Jernigan, Steph Kelleher, Harrison Mootoo, Scotland Newton, Elisabeth Reyes, LindaStewart, Jacob Stuckelman
Digital Marketing Consultant Beth Rohlmeier
Social Media Super Awesome Friends/ Jim Glaub, Crystal Chase, Mo Brady
Production Photographers MurphyMade Productions/ Matthew Murphy, Evan Zimmerman
Backstage Photography Richard Bowditch
Video Footage HMS Media
FOR CROSSROADS LIVE NORTH AMERICA
Chief Executive Officer Angela Rowles
Executive Producer Jayna Neagle
Executive Producer Kori Prior
Vice President of People Operations Charisse Fontes
Vice President of Finance Brian Jacob
Vice President of Marketing Michael Yuen-Killick
Senior General Manager ................................... Andrew Terlizzi
Director of Production Heather Chockley
Director of Booking & Engagements Tyler Soltis
Production Manager Gregg Damanti
General Manager Deana Marie Kirsch
Engagement Manager Barrett Newman
Warehouse Manager Coree Howard
Associate General Manager Emily Miu
Assistant Production Manager Suzayn MacKenzie-Roy
Assistant Production Manager Drew Neitzey
Production Accounting Manager Sheila Lewis
Production Accountant Travis Huebel
Staff Accountant Electra Walker
Executive Assistant to the CEO Alissa Klusky
Warehouse Assistant Manager Josh Cookson
Learn more about Crossroads Live North America and our team: www.xroadslive.com/team/na
CREDITS
Shawn Riley-Rau
Keyboard Programmer Matthew J. Pool
Copyist Ryan Driscoll
Music Supervisor Matthew Smedal
HEAD CARPENTER
JAMES EISNOR
Assistant Carpenter Grace Mayo
Flyperson
Bernadette Davis
Head of Props Eve Sigmon
Assistant Props Devin Wilson
Head Electrician Jessica Cuoghi
Assistant Electrician
Calli Lavarnway
Head of Audio Olivia Girdano
Scenery fabricated by Empire Technical Fabrication. Scenic Painting by Infinite Studios. Lighting Equipment provided by G. Scott Designs. Motors provided by Christie Lites. Sound by Masque Sound. Costumes by Marianne Krostyne, Siam Costumes, Unlimited Seams/ Kitty Knapp, John Cowles, Christopher Schramm, DC Theatrics, All Stitch/ Valerie Gruner. Millinery by Tommy Cobau. Crafts by Juliann Kroboth, Hochi Asiatico. Trucking by Janco, LTD. Housing and Travel arranged by Road Rebel. Special thanks: Gail Baldoni, Joe Salasovich and Piort Candelario.
This production rehearsed at the NEW 42ND STREET Studios.
This production had technical rehearsals at the Hippodrome Theatre at the France-Merrick Performing Arts Center, Baltimore, MD.
The producers would like to thank the Maryland Department of Development for their support in the development of this tour.
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Backstage Employees are represented by the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (or I.A.T.S.E.).
The Press Agents and Company Managers employed in this production are represented by the Association of Theatrical Press Agents & Managers.
The Actors and Stage Managers employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers in the United States.
The Musicians employed in this production are members of the American Federation of Musicians.
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Hamilton
“Hamilton is the kind of transformative theatrical experience that has only happened a few times in the history of American musicals.” —The Guardian
A revolutionary story of passion, unstoppable ambition, and the dawn of a new nation.
Hamilton is the epic saga that follows the rise of Founding Father Alexander Hamilton as he fights for honor, love, and a legacy that would shape the course of a nation. Based on Ron Chernow’s acclaimed biography and set to a score that blends hip-hop, jazz, R&B, and Broadway, Hamilton has had a profound impact on culture, politics, and education. Hamilton features book, music, and lyrics by Lin-Manuel Miranda, direction by Thomas Kail, choreography by Andy Blankenbuehler, and musical supervision and orchestrations by Alex Lacamoire. In addition to its 11 Tony® Awards, it has won Grammy®, Olivier Awards, the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and an unprecedented special citation from the Kennedy Center Honors.
Recommended for ages 10+
Segerstrom Hall
Date: April 23–May 4, 2025
Photo: Joan Marcus
Mamma Mia!
A mother. A daughter. Three possible dads And a trip down the aisle you’ll never forget!
Set on a Greek island paradise where the sun always shines, a tale of love, friendship, and identity is beautifully told through the timeless hits of ABBA. On the eve of her wedding, a daughter’s quest to discover the father she’s never known brings three men from her mother’s past back to the island they last visited decades ago.
For nearly 25 years, people all around the world have fallen in love with the characters, the story, and the music that make Mamma Mia! the ultimate feel-good show.
Recommended for ages 10+
Segerstrom Hall
Date: May 13–18, 2025
Fans of Baroque music are in for a special treat when Théotime Langlois De Swarte and Les Arts Florissants team up to celebrate the 300th anniversary of Antonio Vivaldi’s iconic The Four Seasons. Vivaldi was an influential composer in his lifetime and is considered to rank among the greatest Baroque composers of his day, including Johann Sebastian Bach.
Last season Langlois De Swarte and his quartet, Le Consort, made their debut at the Center to great acclaim, and fans demanded a return engagement. For this enticing visit he will perform with Les Arts Florissants, founded by American-French conductor William Christie in 1979, who has played a pioneering role in bringing attention to European music of the 17th and 18th centuries. The ensemble of exceptional musicians performs on period instruments and is one of the most renowned and respected early music in the world. “Les Arts Florrissants have revolutionized the way Baroque music is presented,” says Opera News.
Vivaldi was actually an ordained priest, but that didn’t hinder his massive outpouring of music. The Four Seasons is Vivaldi’s most wellknown composition: Even people unfamiliar with classical music can say, “Oh, yeah, I’ve heard that.” Written between 1718–1720, Vivaldi was able to evoke each season’s sound. Listeners can almost feel the cold winds and warm fires of winter, or the singing birds and hunting parties of spring.
Vivaldi might be surprised that today Seasons is one of the most popular pieces of
concert music. When he died in 1741 his output included 500 concertos and 46 operas, but his music by then was considered old-fashioned. For two centuries, many thought his music had been destroyed in continental wars or thrown away, including The Four Seasons. But in the early 20th century, musicologists began to discover these long-lost manuscripts. Fifteen volumes of his work were found in an Italian monastery. Many works were discovered among collections of other composers’ works.
As they began to be played, Vivaldi came to the fore again, and today, fans of Baroque music can’t get enough. For this program, there will be additional works by Vivaldi as well as by Monteverdi and Geminiani, music Vivaldi would have heard in Venice, and pieces that were inspired by the master’s vision.
Langlois de Swarte entered the Paris Conservatoire at the age of 17, focusing on modern violin, but he couldn’t ignore his love of Baroque. A year later he auditioned and won a place in Les Arts Florissants. Although it might not have been the best fit for him, the experience confirmed for Langlois de Swarte that his heart was firmly with Baroque works. “I realized I wanted to find forgotten composers and express myself through their music as if it were mine, composed yesterday,” he told The Strad. (He is close friends with Christie, who lives in France and has French citizenship.)
“Théotime Langlois de Swarte reminds me why I fell in love with the Baroque violin … His playing is joyful; it is wild and beautiful, inventive and efficient,” says Gramaphone
Langlois de Swarte told The Strad he continues his search to “find music that hasn’t been heard. There is so much music, even by Vivaldi, that has remained buried in libraries.” In the meantime, this concert should fill any Baroque lover’s musical appetite.
Samueli Theater March 23
Photo: Marco Borggreve
The Calidore Quartet hits all the right notes
The acclaimed chamber ensemble Calidore String Quartet returns to Samueli Theater with a program of works by Beethoven and Korngold and a world premiere by acclaimed composer Han Lash.
The quartet is recognized as one of the world’s foremost interpreters of a vast chamber music repertoire, from Beethoven to Mendelssohn to works of celebrated contemporary composers.
In less than 15 years the quartet has made a name for itself internationally and reaped great reviews. The Calidore has been praised by The New York Times for its “deep reserves of virtuosity and irrepressible dramatic instinct,” while the Washington Post writes that “four more individual musicians are unimaginable, yet these speak, breathe, think and feel as one.”
“It has now developed its own unique sound and personality,” says the Calgary Herald “Different from other North American quartets, the Calidore String Quartet has a more intimate, less extroverted personality. The emphasis in the playing is on a refined balance among the instruments, on warmth of tone, on gentleness, and unfailing poise.”
The Center program includes the world premiere of String Quartet No. 3 by Lash, commissioned by Center Chamber Music patrons Elizabeth and Justus Schlichting. (The Schlichtings also commissioned String
Quartets No. 1 and 2, which were premiered at the Center.) Lash has received commissions by many orchestras, including the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, the Minnesota Orchestra and the Alabama Symphony Orchestra.
The ensemble, now based in New York City, performs in renowned venues the world over, including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, London’s Wigmore Hall, and in Germany, Amsterdam, Brussels, Estonia and Seoul, South Korea.
The Calidore has been a recipient of a 2018 Avery Fisher Career Grant and a 2017 Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Award. They first made international headlines as winner of the $100,000 Grand Prize of the inaugural 2016 M-Prize International Chamber Music Competition. In 2016, the quartet was the first North American ensemble to win the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Fellowship. Most recently they have been the winners of the BBC Music Magazine 2024 Chamber Award for their recording The Late Quartets of Beethoven
Whether it’s one of the heritage composers or a contemporary composition, the Calidore hits all the right notes. This is an opportunity to join their continuing journey forward as one of our most talented string quartets.
Samueli Theater March 6
Photo: Marco Borggreve
Other exciting March highlights
Everyone remembers when they first heard “Seasons of Love,” a song that may have brought tears to their eyes. Rent was a musical that touched many lives and became an iconic touchstone to a generation. Thirty years later, Rent in Concert comes to the Center with a stellar cast of singers and symphonic orchestra.
Rent was a snapshot of a certain time and place in New York City. Composer Jonathan Larson set Rent in lower Manhattan’s bohemian East Village in the mid-1990s. Larson passed away suddenly the night before the preview opening, but he won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and Rent won three Tony Awards.
The musical “spoke” to a new audience of musical theatre fans, showing their world, their interests and problems. It had the old-school Broadway fans howling that a rock band was not the appropriate Broadway music. But it takes nothing away from the beauty and tragedy of this musical to hear it with an orchestra backing.
“Rentheads,” as the rabid fans were called, have now grown up. Musical theater actors have used these songs for auditions, and innumerable high schools have performed it. Rent in Concert will be a special evening of nostalgia and beautiful music.
Segerstrom Hall March 15
The swirling skirts of the women, the sombreros of the men, the trumpets and violins of the mariachi band—this is Ballet Folklórico de México. For more than 60 years, this dance ensemble has performed dances that reflect the traditions, cultures and beliefs of the individual regions of Mexico. The company returns to the Center in March.
The company was founded in 1952 by Amalia Hernández. Her experience at the Mexican Academy of Dance inspired her to create her own company. She was especially interested in traditional Mexican dances and those that reflected the traditions of indigenous Mesoamerican culture. They were given an opportunity to perform on a television show and ended up with a regular weekly spot.
Eventually the group started touring internationally, including representing Mexico at the 1959 Pan American Games in Chicago. Their popularity impressed the president of Mexico, who enabled Hernández to gain a weekly performance spot at the historic Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. The Ballet continues to perform there twice a week.
But you don’t have to travel any farther than the Center to experience this dance phenomenon. The company now has 75 dancers, who perform the real, historic dances, not just a version that the tourists want to see.
Whether it’s “The Dance of the Deer” or “Jarabe Tapatio,” the famous hat dance that symbolizes a romantic courtship, the performances highlight the authentic Mexico. There are many folklorico companies out there, but Ballet Folklórico de México is the original and the best. Don’t miss this.
Segerstrom Hall
March 22
Photo: Nick Piacente
Acclaimed poet Tracy K. Smith puts our world in words
A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language. —W. H. Auden
Is there no end to number of awards poet Tracy K. Smith has won in just 20 years? She has a Pulitzer Prize, served as Poet Laureate of the United State from 2017–2020, has garnered a Guggenheim Fellowship, Harvard Arts Medal, New England Book Award, James Laughlin Award of the Academy of American Poets, the Columbia Medal of Excellence, a Smithsonian Ingenuity Award, was a finalist for the Griffin Poetry Prize, and the list goes on. “[Tracy K. Smith is] one of the finest poets writing right now,” says the Miami Herald
Smith will be our guest for In Conversation in March. Since her first published book in 2003, she has been steadily growing her audience with her poetic language: forceful, intelligent and musical. And like the best poets, Smith has used her writing to ask questions that have intrigued her the most about our world.
Growing up in Northern California, Smith read Emily Dickinson while she was in elementary school. In her memoir she wrote about “how the rhyme and meter made Dickinson’s poetry feel absurdly easy to memorize.” It inspired Smith to write a poem, which she showed to her 5th grade teacher. The instructor encouraged her to
continue her writing. She has certainly done her teacher proud.
Smith has written five volumes of poetry. Her most famous is Life on Mars, which won her the Pulitzer. Mars was composed as an ode to her engineer father who worked on the Hubble Space Telescope. “The spiritual motif running through these poems adds a stunning dimension that will please many readers,” says the Library Journal
Her newest publication is both a family memoir and a history: To Free the Captives: A Plea for the American Soul. “She bares her soul to understand her family’s story as it relates to the violence and subjugation of the Black community within American history,” says Time magazine.
From Smith’s visit to the Alabama town where her father’s family originates to the freedom she has gained as a professor and writer today, Smith questions how America has adjusted to the past 400 years since the first Blacks were brought to this country, uplifting the subject with her exquisite writing. “Dazzling and exacting,” says The Washington Post
“Whether she’s in her father’s home of Sunflower, Ala., or teaching at Harvard, Smith reminds all Americans that without Black history, none of us have any history at all,” says the Los Angeles Times.
Smith received her BA degree from Harvard and an MFA from Columbia University. In addition to her writing she held a number of teaching positions, including University of Pittsburgh, Columbia, Princeton University before returning to Harvard to teach English, and African and African American studies.
Like all great writers, her eloquence and passion for her subjects draw her readers in, and in person she will be just as captivating and insightful. You won’t want to miss this conversation.
Samueli Theater March 3
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Segerstrom Center for the Arts is enormously grateful for the support from the donors listed on the following pages. Your generosity empowers the Center to provide dynamic performances and artistic education programs for all of Orange County. You allow us to continue our promise to become an inclusive cultural resource for our entire community. Thank you!
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The Center Fund provides general operating support on an annual basis for Segerstrom Center for the Arts and its programs. We are honored to recognize the following individuals, corporations and foundations for their gifts made between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2024. Your generosity makes all we do possible—and we thank you! To learn more about the Center Fund and the benefits of giving, please contact us at 714.556.2122 x4009 or Give@scfta.org.
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Mr. Otis Cliatt II
Ronna and Donald Coe
Candice Collings Gorsuch
Mr. William Gordon and Dr. Susan M. Condrey
Confidence Foundation
Corkett/Myers Families
Michael and Anne Crawford
Mr. and Mrs. John Cunningham
Victoria Cushey
Noël Davis
Gregg Denicola, M.D.
Dr. Daniel P. Dennies
Mrs. Sandra DiSario
Steve Dunham
Mr. and Mrs. Donald P. Evarts
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Robert Farnsworth and Lori Grayson
Ms. Roberta Feuerstein
Ms. Gwendolyn Forquer
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond J. Francis
Dr. Robert Furman
Mike and Sharon Galassi
Mrs. Jerra L. Garrett
Margaret Gates
Miriam Ghabour
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher
Mr. and Mrs. Larry Gorum
Mr. and Mrs. Brian Hale
Rondell B. and Joyce P. Hanson
Bruce and Eileen Harrigan
Bill* and Harriet Harris
Ms. Allyson Hoppe
Ms. Jessie Hou
Mark and Kristine Howlett
Mr. Mark P. Ike
Mr and Mrs Jim Irwin
Jackson Tidus
Donna Janes
Mrs. Susie Jaqua
Mr. L. Wayne Jeffcoat
Tom Jenkins
Randy and Linda Kearns
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Keith
Keller Family Fund
Jennifer Keller
Mr. and Mrs. William A. Klein
Dr. Elliott Kornhauser
Dr.* and Mrs. Paul K. Lam
Mrs. and Mr. Mikey Lares
Latham & Watkins
Kevin Lawrence
Kevin and Doris Lee
Ms. Michelle Lee
Paula Lingelbach
In memory of Victorio Adan Maestas
Miss Ariana Miramontes
Mr. and Mrs. William Mawhorter
R. Patrick* and Jeannette L. McDaniel
Toni* and Terry McDonald
Robert and Patricia McLaughlin
Susan Mears
Donors
Mr. and Mrs. David J. Melilli
Willis L. and Dorothy M. Miller and Family
Thomas and Deanna Mitro
Moises Montoya
Tom and Naomi Moon
Mr. and Mrs. David Murray
In memory of Mr. Robert T. Newell
Newmeyer & Dillion
Chien and Linh Nguyen
Julia Nguyen-Kim
The Minoru Nitta Family
Northern Trust
The Peter Ochs Family
Annette and Joseph Oltmans II
Yvette Pergola
Sandra and Dan Perlmutter
Ms. Diane Peterson
Pharris Group
Mr. Willard Pierce
Pirzadeh & Associates, Inc.
Patricia Price and Craig Behrens
Marcia Kay and Ron Radelet
John Rallis and Mary Lynn Bergman-Rallis
Suzanne C. and Jim H. Reinhardt
David* and Linda Roberson Family
Mr. and Mrs. Loren Rojek
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford R. Ronnenberg
Dr. Judy Fluor Runels, in memory of Gregory Osborne
Paul and Mary Sackman
Mr.* and Mrs. Jack A. Sage
Ms. Lynn Salo
Ms. Irma O. Sands
Mr. and Mrs. Robert L. Schneider
Emmanuel Sharef
Mary Shebell and Merle McCormick
Lance and Deborah Slimmer
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Soderling
Mr. and Mrs. Morris Stark
Dr. and Mrs. Daniel Stein
Ronald and June Stein
Lisa and Wayne Stelmar
Susan and Richard Stuelke
Ruth E. Sully
Mr. Lee R. Sutherland
Mr. and Mrs. Dennis J. Sweeney
Mr. and Mrs. R. David Threshie, Jr.
Mary Tolar
Dr. David L. Tsoong and Dr. Betty K. Tu
Ann Van Ausdeln
S. Vander Wal and S. Vincent
Ambassador and Mrs. Gaddi H. Vasquez
Megan and John Waldeck
Mr. Jeff Walden
In memory of Robert D. Walters
Mrs. Martha E. Weida
Ms. Sandy Wessman
Geofrey Wickett and Normand Lessard
S. Gayle Widyolar, M.D.
Mrs. Bobbitt Williams
Kathy Willman
Mr. and Mrs. Dean J. Zipser
$1,500+ Anonymous
Ms. Janine Adesko
Ms. Donna Anderson and Mr. Ronald Willut
Mr. John L. Auger
Dr. Thomas Bailey
Baker Family Trust
Ms. Diane Bangar
Mr. Robert T. Barnum and Ms. Ying Liu
William Beeson
Mrs. Jennifer Berg
Berwood Management, Inc.
John and Kathy Besnard
Ms. Donna S. Bianchi
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Blair
Bill and Judy Brady
Ms. Karly Brown
Mrs. Frances Buchanan
Mr. Hoang Bui
Sylvia Burnett
Ms. Donna F. Calvert
Ms. Deidre Campbell
Luisa Cano
Chadwick Family
Marty Chao and Jean Chung
Dr. and Mrs. Gerald L. Chapman
Ms. Sandra Chiles
The Chozen Family
Ms. Sharon A. Cleaver
Ms. Mary Coates
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond M. Connor
Mr. James and Mrs. Lavon DeGraw
Mrs. Lorraine Dentz
Joan M. Donahue
Ms. Jill Dulich
Mr. and Mrs. Richard C. Duncan Jr.
Ellen Dupuy
Frances L. Dye
Ms. Nancy Eberhardt
Lynda Tryon Einstein
Alexander Eliseev
Karen Ellis and Sandra Hartness
Cyndee Ely
Emmons-Babilo Family
Ms. Kaaryn File
Mrs. Cristy Fischbeck
Cliff and Kathy Fleming
Elizabeth and John Fleming
Christine Flowers
Janet Ford
Steve* and Cindy Fry / Fry Family Foundation
Marte* and Jack Ganoung
Greg Gates
Mr. Gary Goldsworthy
Gerrie Goodreau
Mr. Donald Gormly
Dr. Lorellen Green
Sharon and John Gregg
Mr. and Mrs. David Hale
April and Gene Hartline
Mr. and Mrs. Terry Hartshorn and Family
Vicki and David Hatfield
Mr. Frank T. Henry
Gary* and Sara, Frank and Brad Hinman
Mr. Dai Hoang
Toni Hoyt
Hing and Doris Hung
Mr. Darrel Huntington
Dr. Douglas and Sandra Jackson
Buzz* and Joan Jackson
Laurie Jacobs
Ms. Cynthia L. Jennings
Kenneth L. and Marilyn C. Jones
Mr. and Mrs. Reynold Kern
Mr. and Mrs. James Knapp
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Knoth
Mr. and Mrs. Barry Konier
Ira and Riki Kucheck
Kiran Kumar
Dr. and Mrs. KiHong Kwon
Ms. Susan Ladenes
Mr. Jesse W. Laney
Ms. Sandy Law
Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Lester
Pamela Lewin
Robert* and Janet Lind
Nancy Locke
Richard and Jacqueline Lombardi
Ms. Margaret M. Lord
Mr. and Mrs. Brent Lynn
Sinh Ma
Mrs. Colleen Manchester
Dr. and Mrs. William Manclark
Mr. and Mrs. Don W. Martens
Ray Melissa
Kathy Michel
Mr. and Mrs. Roy E. Molina
Evonne Morton
Gustav and Anyanka
Ms. Sheri Nazaroff
Dr. Abdel Salam M. Niazy
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Nicolette
Mr. and Mrs. Don M. Norman
Rey O’Day
David and Christine Otaguro
Mr. and Mrs. Richard H. Packard
Mr. Raj Patel
Ms. Katrina L. Pelto
Ms. Barbara Perez
Beverly and Jim Peters
Mr. Curt Puskas
Michelle A. Reinglass
Richard C. Reischman
Ronna and Marshall Rown, M.D.
Ms. Janet Sanders
Ms. Suzanne Schaumburg
Dolores Schiffert
Ms. Pamela M. Schmider
Ms. Denise Schuler
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Segerstrom
Anita Seiveley and Jim Collins
Roger and Phyllis Shafer
Linda and Ed Sherman
Ms. Patricia Shiley
Ms. Virginia D. Silverman
Ms. Shari Simmons
Dr. John J. Smith and Mr. Edward R. Escoto
Ms. Kim Smith
Stephen E. Smith and Kathy Coyle Smith
N. Vicky Staub
Rob and Joan Stratton
Carol Lipp Strauss
Mandi Strelow Burch
Mr. Christopher Trela
Ms. Alveris B. Van Fleet-Corson
Fritzie Walker
D and G Winzey
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Witt
$1,000+
Anonymous (2)
Jeannie Adams
Sharon G. Adams
Ms. Janis Agopian
Mr. and Mrs. Alan Airth
Mr. and Mrs. Stanley P. Angermeir
Mr. and Mrs. Abbott Ayloush
Ms. Barbara D. Baranski
Ms. Billie K. Baron
Mr.* and Mrs. Benton Bejach
Dorothy and Donald* Bendetti
Dr. Michael M. and Mrs. Patricia A. Berns
David Bixler and Kristine Kaneko
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher Braun
Dr. Elizabeth Bridges
Paul and Rose Briscoe
Jim and Wendy Brooks
Missy and Chris Callero
Ms. Kristin Candy
Mr. and Mrs. John L. Cashion
Ms. Bertha Cerda
Mr. Darren M. Cobb
Ms. Michelle Cook
Kevin and Lisa Corrigan
Greg and Donna Crandall
Mary E. Dalessi
Mr. William G. Daly
Dr. Robert F. and Julie A. Davey
Pieter and Keren de Zwart
Mary Allyn and Earl Dexter
Claus Dieckell
Ms. Denise D. Diener and Mark D. Engquist
Richard and Lisa Doebler
Jane Draganza
Gregory Eberhardt
Mrs. Mariam El Haj
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Eng
Ms. Epifania Fernandez
Mr. Michael Field
The Fjield Trust
Mr. and Mrs. J. Robert Fluor III
Mrs. and Mr. Carmela Fogliani
Dr. and Mrs. Francis Foo
James and Martha Freeman
Mr. J. D. Galloway
Ms. Yolanda Galloway
Ms. Cheryl Garland
Mary and Dennis Ghan
Susan Glass
Lawrence and Sharlene Goodman
Ms. Mackenzie E. Grant
Dina L. Gray
Gary and Linda Greene
The Hachiya Family
Mr. and Ms. Chad Hall
Mr. Douglas Hansen
Angela Sue Helin
Ms. Laurie Henigan
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hinkle
Peter C. Holliday
Victoria Hsiung
Serena Huynh
Uyen Hwang
Mark and Kris Jablonski
Karen and James Jacoby
Ms. Darcy Jones
Mr. Matt Juergens
Lynn L. Kambe
Ms. Gladys Kares
Miss Danielle King
Dr. and Ms. Michael T. Kleinman
Mrs. Debra Kornswiet-Shandling and Dr. Adrian Shandling
Richard and Lynne Kramer
Bill and Mona Kratzert
Tamara and Jon Krause
Mr. and Mrs. Robert Krause
Brian Kroll
Mr. Robert Kulpa and Ms. Linda S. Pabian
Betty Jane Lang
Ms. Kathy Leclair
Hilary Lemansky
Patricia Lewis
Lexus of Westminster
Mr. and Mrs. Sam Liao
Mr. Jay Lieberman
Marsha and Bill Link
Dr. and Mrs. Hugh Logan, Jr.
Dr. William Loudon
In memory of Ed Lynch
Robert J. MacHott
Kay and John Maglica
Dave and Diana Margileth
Mrs. and Mr. Rene Matzkin
Jenna McCarthy
Mr. and Mrs. Michael Meyer
Linda Meyers
Pamela Michael
Mr. and Mrs. Radoslav Mladineo
Mr. and Mrs. Moher
Dr. Edwin S. Monuki
Priscella J. Moore
Mr. Joaquin Morales
Ms. Janice L. Moroney
Tom and Marian Nau
Ms. Lupe Navarro
Irene and Bonnie Nickle
Frank and Arlene O’Donnell
Michael R. Oppenheim
Guy and Linda Ormes
Mr. Tom Orradre
William and Linda Owen
Bob and Brana Paster
Ms. Pamela S. Pedego
Mr. and Mrs. Joe Perricone
Dr. Ronald O. and Donna J. Phelps
Bruce and Johni Pittenger
Kristin and Noah Pokrass
Laurie and Richard M.* Rodnick
Robert and Ann Ronus
Don Rubin
Mr. Tyler Runge
In memory of Connie Sakamoto and Mattie Fenner
Karen and Philip Schmidt
Pam Sciarra
Pravin and Iris Shah
Mitch and Shelley Shatzen
Claudette Shaw
Mr. Dennis Shozi
Dr. and Mrs. Henry Sobel
Charles and Natasha Spalding
Karyn and Bill Spear
Mr. Chad Stalbaum
Mr. Bryan A. Stirrat
Dr. Richard Sundell
David and Jill Susson
Marilyn and Thomas C. Sutton
Mr.* and Mrs. Arthur E. Svendsen
Michael and Suzanne Tague
Ms. Riley Tatum
Kristin Taylor
Matt and Liana Taylor
Sandra Teitsworth
Mitchell and Donna Thiessen
Ms. Anne-Margaret Tovar
Mr. and Mrs. Dan Ugalde
Pat* and Joanne Wastal
Marilyn and Steve Weber
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Weisenberg
Mrs. Tory Whittingham
Howard and Sumi Yata
Ms. Evelyn Zohlen and Mr. Mark Prendergast *in memoriam
ENDOWMENT
Segerstrom Center for the Arts
thanks the following donors who have generously provided support to the Center’s Endowment Funds. Gifts to the Endowment provide financial support for our artistic and education programs every year. Funds exist in perpetuity as investments whose earnings make the arts accessible for future generations.
$1,000,000 + Audrey Steele Burnand*
Estate of Edra E. Brophy / William J. Gillespie Foundation
Nora and Charles Hester* and the Hester
Family Foundation
W. M. Keck Foundation
Barbara Steele Williams Fund
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Steele*
Harry and Grace Steele Foundation
Swenson Family Foundation
The James Irvine Foundation
The Segerstrom Foundation
$500,000 +
Dr. Michael M.* and Mrs. Patricia A. Berns
Fluor Corporation
The Fluor Foundation
Carol Frobish*
Times Mirror Foundation and Los Angeles Times
Rockwell
Estate of Karen Ann Roos
Mrs. Constance T. Whitney*
$250,000 + Bank of America
Nancy Marie Biram*
The First American Corporation
Patricia Fredricks-Dolson
Edison International
Isidore C. and Penny W.* Myers
$100,000 +
Daniel C.* and Janet S. Bonbright and Sons
Estate of Ford A. and Wilma J. Dickerhoff
Mr. and Mrs. Robert G. Engman
Helen B. Fait
Elizabeth E. Fleming*
William Randolph Hearst Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Heinz
Richard C. and Virginia A. Hunsaker*
Peter G. and Mary M. Muth* and Family
Estate of Michael D. and Lorraine C. Nadler
Nestle USA, Inc.
The Orange County Register
Mr. and Mrs. Douglas H. Smith
Ronald E. Soderling
Virginia Valentine
Nancy B. Veitch and Chris and Irene Veitch
Estate of Jane D. Zimmerman
Dr. and Mrs. David E. Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin
$50,000 +
The Birtcher Family
Founders Plus
Evelyn and Richard Francuz
Sonia and Earle Ike
Barbara Hiller Johnson
Mark Chapin Johnson
Mr. and Mrs. Richard E. Macklin
Palley-Needelman Asset Management
Dr. and Mrs. James E. Pierog, Jessica and Margaux
Ralphs / Food 4 Less
Estate of Howard G. and Margaret C. Richardson
Mr. and Mrs. Stephen L. Salyer
Al and Susan Shankle
Mr. Stewart R. Smith
Ms. Anita Sparrow*
Wells Fargo
In memory of Barbara Steele Williams
Donors
$25,000 +
The Beall Family
Victor H. Boyd
Dr. and Mrs. Darrell J. Burnett
Chris and Lee Ann Canaday
The Carl and Patricia Neisser Family Trust
Dr. and Mrs. Shigeru Chino
David and Victoria* Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David
Bjorn and Gloria Dahlberg and Family
Ruth Ding, in memory of Thomas and Mary Lee
James* and Catherine Emmi
Dr. Dennis R. Fratt
The Baker Frenzel Family
Mr.* and Mrs. H. F. Hamann
Nat S. and April D. Harty
Las Campanas of Orange County
Mr. and Mrs. Christopher B. Lucas
Charles W. and Candace J. McBrayer
Dr. and Mrs. Seymour J. Melnik
Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo
Mr. and Mrs. Richard G. Nelson
Joseph and Mary Norton Family
Mr. and Mrs. Bradford Harold Miller*
O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony H. Osterkamp Jr.
Nicholas S. Patin
Stanley R. Robb Family
In honor of Mary Isabelle Sandberg
Robert J. Searles
In memory of Renée Segerstrom
Dr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Shaver and Family
Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family
In memory of Faye Wilkinson
Dr. and Mrs. Douglas A. Wilson
$10,000 +
Mrs. Donald V. Bassler
The William A. Baxter Family
George and Jacqueline Birdsong
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Birtcher
Mr. and Mrs. Peter F. Bowie
Susan Boyd
Mr. Lawrence H. Butler Jr.
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Callahan
The Clubhouse
Con Gusto Chapter of The Guilds of the Center
Mr. and Mrs. Edmond M. Connor
Mr. and Mrs. Warren C. Dean, Jr.
Ms. Julie Brinkerhof Edwards
Mr. Aaron Egigian
Alan* and Sandy Fainbarg Family
John and Carolyn Garrett
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald H. McQuarrie
GoodSmith & Co., Inc.
William K. and Maxine Gresswell*
Dr. and Mrs. G. Stanley Hall
Gayford and Mary Hinton
Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Hoshaw
Mr. and Mrs. Jay D. Jaeger
Ronald E. and Debra P.* Jagner
Hunter B. Keck
Mrs. Suzanne Kline
Dr. Elliott Kornhauser
Mrs. Susan Lambrose
Ronald C., Vincencia M., Elisabeth L. and Heather D. Lazof
Mr. and Mrs. George Leeper
Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Mallory
Mr. and Mrs. Brad McCroskey
R. Patrick* and Jeannette L. McDaniel
Mr. and Mrs. Steven A. McHolm
Estate of Ralph and Rose Meyer
Mr. and Mrs. J. Stanley Mullin, Jr.
Newmeyer & Dillion
Jerry Nourse
Cheryl Hill Oakes
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker
Mr. and Mrs. Tim Paone
Mr. and Mrs. Chris F. Pauls
Mr. Charles Peyton, II
Betty Mower Potalivo
Ted and Jean Robinson and Family
Mrs. Betty Scheidt
Douglas F. Schneider and Family
Rudolph C. Schweitzer*
In memory of Hartley M. Sears
Renée and Henry T. Segerstrom*
Mr. and Mrs. William Shryock and Family
Linda and Harvey A. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald E. Soderling
Steven-Thomas Antiques
The Stone Family
Dr. Max Swancutt Jr.
Mr. Stewart C. Woodard
Mr. and Mrs. Rob Ukropina
Ms. Lucia Van Ruiten
Mr. Edward H. Wale
Margaret and Maurie Watman
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas L. Wilson
Mr. and Mrs. Daniel K. Winton
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Orrin Wright
Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Yellin*
LEGACY SOCIETY
Segerstrom Center for the Arts thanks the following donors who have included the Center in their estate plans. These gifts help ensure that we allow access to the arts for the entire community. For more information on how to include the Center in your estate plans please contact Elizabeth Kurila, CSPG, Associate Vice President, Development, 714.942.6275
Anonymous (3)
Edna and Julio Aljure
Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Allen
Bart and Elizabeth Asner
Doug and Jaimee Baker
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Barnett
John and Betty Barr
Dorothy and Donald* Bendetti
Dr. Michael M.* and Mrs. Patricia A. Berns
Katherine and Howard Bland
Barbara and Alex Bowie
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph E. Brown, Jr.
Charles “Chip” Caldwell
Dr.* and Mrs. James H. Casey
Elizabeth and David* Cole
David and Victoria* Collins, Jennifer, Nicole and David
John and Jennifer Condas
Dr. Susan M. Condrey and William Gordon
Randy and Sally Crockett
Mr. and Mrs. William K. Davis
Mr. Joe DiCorpo and Ms. Mia MacDougall
Annette Doreng-Sterns
Mary Jane McArthur Edalatpour and Nasrola Edalatpour
Eileen J. Cirillo Trust
Mr. and Mrs. David Emmes, II
Shari and Harry Esayian
Mr. Harold W. Faber
Ms. Linda S. Ford
Dr. Dennis R. Fratt
Mrs. Sandra M. French
Mr. and Mrs. T. Fukunaga*/Kay K. Fukunaga
John and Carolyn Garrett
Jackie Glass
Jean and Fred* Hamann
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas T. Hammond
Howard and Carol Hay
Steve Heit
Lawrence and Dolores Higby
Higgins Family Trust
David L. Horowitz Family
Mark and Kristine Howlett
S.L. and Betty Huang / Huang Family Foundation
Traute Huycke
Ken Jillson and Al Roberts*
Varla E. Newbury Knauss and Curtis A. Knauss
Mr. Gary A. Kreitz and Ms. Joyce Singman
Elizabeth Kurila and Michael Mindlin
Dale Landon and Carole Haes Landon
Richard and Gerrie Leeds
Michael and Lee Ann Litterst
Phillip N. and Mary A. Lyons
James, Charlene and Katherine MacDonald
Robert D.* and Patricia B. MacDonald
The McLarand Family Trust
Marcia L. Millen
Mr. Robin B. Miner
Ethan Morgan
Dr. and Mrs. Richard P. Mungo
Rick Muth
Thomas H. and Marilyn* Nielsen
Cheryl Hill Oakes
O’Neil Moving Systems, Inc. / Carolyn O’Neill
Mrs. Charlotte R. Paluzzi
Lenore and Carl* Pearlston
Mark and Carol Perry
Jackie Singer and John Pope
Jeffrey A. Punim, M.D.
Mr. Burton Reis
David* and Linda Roberson Family
Roberta Bouillon Trust
Ted and Jean Robinson and Family
Mr. Richard K. Rosenberg
Dr. Judy Fluor Runels, in memory of Gregory Osborne
Bev and Bob Sandelman
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Schoellerman
Mr. and Mrs. George Schreyer
In Memory of Allen O. Smith
Steven M. Sorenson, M.D.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. Sparks
David and Diane Steffy
Richard R. and Phoebe Stenton
Dr. Arthur Strick
Tammy and Samuel Tang
Ms. Nancy B. Tepper
Don L. Thompson
Thomas and Joyce Tucker Family
Gary and Jeri Turner
Ms. Lucia Van Ruiten
Christopher O. Veitch
Stacey and Paul Von Berg
The Robert* and Valaree Wahler Family
Ms. Jill H. Watkins
Kent J. and Carol L. Wilken Family
Dr. David and Audrey Zinke, Brandon, Heidi & Benjamin *in memoriam
Corporate and Foundation Support
Segerstrom Center for the Arts is pleased to thank the following corporations and foundations for providing annual contributions to the Center in support of our artistic and community education programs and our special event and performance sponsorships throughout the year.*
LEAD PERFORMANCE AND EDUCATION SPONSORS
2024 CORPORATE AND FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS
The Albertsons Companies Foundation
Anonymous
Automobile Club of Southern California
Barbara Steele Williams Designated Agency Endowment
Bloomingdale’s South Coast Plaza
Canterbury Consulting
Crean Foundation
E Nakamichi Foundation
EnergizeStudents.org
Haynes and Boone, LLP
Mesa Water District
Orange County Community Foundation
Pacific Life Foundation
SPECIAL THANKS
Läderach
Total Wine & More
FOUNDATION
ARTS AND BUSINESS LEADERSHIP COUNCIL
Segerstrom Center for the Arts applauds the following business and community leaders who support Segerstrom Center through fundraising, advocacy, and community outreach with a particular emphasis on expanding audiences and developing the next generation of leadership for Segerstrom Center.
Katheryn Baker
Jesse D. Bagley
Lupe Erwin
Cory Glass
Peter Krieger
Fiona T. LeCong-Ly
Monika Lopez
Sarah J. McElroy
Jill Meznarich
Vanessa Moore
Maurice Murray, Chair
Tammy Octavio
Patrick Strader
Yvonne Tsao
Jaynine Warner
Bill Meehan, Founding Chairman
To learn more about the Center’s corporate and foundation partnership opportunities and the benefits available, please contact CorpSupport@scfta.org or 714.942.6302.
* as of January 9, 2025
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A TRIBUTE PORTFOLIO HOTEL
Center Staff
EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Casey Reitz, President & CEO
Brian Finck, Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer• Limor Tomer, Vice President, Programming and Production
Aaron Egigian, Senior Director, Music Programming•
ADMINISTRATION
Angelica Camarillo, Executive Assistant to the President & Board Liaison
Kelly Ornelas, Executive Assistant & Programming Coordinator• Stacey Myers, Attorney/Contracts Manager•
FINANCE
Seila Heng, Controller
MeiMei Chiang, Senior Accountant
Andrew Hudson, Assistant Controller
Monica Drescher, Accounting Generalist• Alberto Gil, Staff Accountant
HUMAN RESOURCES
Maile Sagiao, Manager, Human Resources
Karen Duncan, Human Resources Generalist• Jon Gibson, HRIS Specialist
MARKETING & COMMUNICATIONS
Lisa Middleton, Vice President, Marketing & Communications
Carla Cruz, Senior Director, Communications
Emyli Gudmundson, Senior Director, Program Marketing
Jonathan Vietze, Senior Director, Series Marketing•
Christopher Alvarez, Director, Creative Services• Karen Drum, Director, Publications•
Anne McNiff-Gaeta, Director, Group Services• Jennifer Burroughs, Manager, Digital Marketing
Joesan Diche, Manager, eCommerce Marketing• Johnny Eberhardt, Manager, Membership Marketing
Karla Torres, Manager, Marketing Operations• Richard Ong, Manager, Calling Center•
Ken Catino, Senior Graphic Designer• Marianne Luwiharto, Graphic Designer
Jennifer Siglin, Graphic Designer•
Susie Lopez, Specialist, Communications
William Olivieri, Specialist, Marketing & Advertising
Jacquelyn Pash, Associate, Public Relations
Diana Torres, Assistant, Group Services•
Emily Doughty, Coordinator, Social Media
Lily Figueroa, Coordinator, Marketing
Lauren Knight, Coordinator, Content Creator
TICKETING
Ruth Mason, Director, Ticket Services
Karen Diche, Manager, Season Tickets•
Nicki Wilmot, Manager, Box Office
Evan Silveria, Assistant Manager, Box Office
Amelia Lindqvist, Supervisor, Contact Center
Ray Madrid, Supervisor, Box Office
Sam Preshaw, Supervisor, Box Office
Hannah Schill, Supervisor, Ticket Services
Amanda Snell, Supervisor, Ticket Services
Marcie Bernal, Receptionist• Alberto Ponce, Coordinator, Office Services•
AUDIENCE SERVICES
Norm Major III, Director, Audience Services•
Sue Laird, Senior Manager, Audience Services
Ashleigh Hector, Manager, Audience Services•
Alex Lum, Asst. Manager, Audience Services•
Regine Rutherfurd, Administrative Assistant, Audience Services
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
Dean Yarborough, Director, Information Technology
David Frederick, Associate Director, Information Technology•
Samwel Basweti, Network Support Specialist
Mario Hortizuela, IT Support Specialist
Erik Lomack, IT Support Generalist
Dee Bierschenk, Database Analyst
Ashley Gaddis, Ticketing Functional Support•
Richard Todd, Ticketing Functional Support•
DEVELOPMENT
Abigail Buell Sherlock, Vice President, Development
Elizabeth Kurila, Associate Vice President, Development
Courtney Dudman-Donley, Senior Director, Special Events & Support Groups
Tyler Choi, Director, Institutional Giving
Kay Linan Clark, Associate Director, Individual Giving
Suzanne Gregory, Associate Director, Development Operations
Emily Hunn, Senior Manager, Support Groups
Jamie Roff, Senior Manager, Development Systems•
Danielle McMahan, Manager, Special Events
Bernadette Ramos, Manager, Donor Relations
Marisa Rambaran, Prospect Researcher and Development Operations
Katie Lockie, Assistant Manager, Stewardship
Shimin Zheng, Assistant Manager, Support Groups
Sierra Detar, Special Events Officer
Anna Maria del Mundo, Coordinator, Special Events
April Kunowski, Coordinator, Individual Giving
Jessica Salazar, Coordinator, Development Operations
Olivia Vezner, Coordinator, Donor Relations
Audrey Burton, Executive Assistant
EDUCATION
Lisa Morabito Petersen, Vice President, Education
Cristal Ochoa, Director, Education Programs
Bethany Umbach, Senior Manager, Education Programs
Sarah Sierszyn, Manager, Ed. Operations
Alexis Johnson, Manager, Education Partnerships
Scarlet Wu, Associate Manager, Education Programs
Michael Mariano, Assistant Manager, Education Partnerships
Katie Nguyen, Coordinator, Education Partnerships
Joanna Huang, Coordinator, Ed. Programs
Emily Pearce, Coordinator, Ed. Programs
Jordyn Williams, Associate, Education Operations
30 or more years of service
20 or more years of service
10 or more years of service
Full-time staff as of January 9, 2025
COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT
Emily Neely, Director, Community Engagement
Chloe Saalsaa, Manager, Studio D
Priscilla Reyes, Manager, Community Engagement
Adriana Alvarez, Coordinator
THEATER OPERATIONS & FACILITIES
David Leavenworth, Vice President, Theater Operations & Facilities•
Brian Keating, Director, Facilities and Engineering
Max Stossier, Director, Theater Operations•
Lindy Luong, Rental Manager
Glenn Powell, Production Manager
Mary Arkfeld, Operations Manager, Event Operations
Aidan Daguro, Assistant Production Manager
Jordan Smyth, Special Projects Manager
Brennan Roach, Supervisor, Event Operations
Denise Cruz, Coordinator, Production
Camille Slusher, Coordinator, Theater Operations
SEGERSTROM HALL
John Oliphant, Technical Director/ Sr. Production Carpenter•
Sara Broadhead, Head Electrician•
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