WHO’S WHO

URSULA KWONG-BROWN

Sound Design

Ursula is excited to return to Pasadena Playhouse for more Sondheim! Previous designs include Sunday in the Park with George and Head Over Heels at the Playhouse, Holiday at Arena Stage, King Lear at the Wallis Annenberg, The Wickhams at Arizona Theatre Company, Native Gardens at Merrimack, and the world premiere of Stonewall with NYC Opera. As a composer, her work has been performed at Carnegie Hall, Miller Theatre, Le Poisson Rouge, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the National Portrait Gallery in London, as well as by festivals and ensembles across the country and around the world. Ursula received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and her B.A. from Columbia University. More info at www.ursulakwongbrown.com

Christopher Enlow

Wig Design

Christopher is an MUAHS Guild Award winning hairstylist with Local’s 706 and 798, known for his work in film, tv and live theatrical. Before returning to Los Angeles in 2020, Christopher was predominantly working on Broadway productions in New York. He worked with incredible Broadway designers such as David Brian Brown, Charles Lapointe, and Josh Marquette to name a few. With 14 Broadway credits and many more in film/TV, Christopher happily returns to Pasadena Playhouse after most recently designing the hair/wigs for this season’s Sunday In The Park With George Broadway Credits: Mamma Mia, Beautiful: The Carole King Musical, Kinky Boots, The Lion King, Gigi, On Your Feet, War Paint, Summer: The Donna Summer Musical, Waitress, Anastasia, The Prom, The Inheritance, and Diana: The Musical.

Jill Gold

Stage Manager

Jill is thrilled to stage manage her 40th Playhouse production, and to be collaborating again with David Lee. Favorite Playhouse credits include 110 in the Shade, Do I Hear A Waltz?, Ragtime, Little Shop of Horrors, and four years of Plaid Tidings. Jill has stage managed for 38 years around Los Angeles (Geffen Playhouse, Hollywood Bowl, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Mark Taper Forum, etc) as well as on the road (national tours of Wicked, Les Misérables, City of Angels, and The Unsinkable Molly Brown among others). She teaches at Occidental College and UCLA, guest lectures throughout the country, and is the co-author of Stage Management by Lawrence Stern and Jill Gold.

DYLAN ELHAI Assistant Stage Manager

Dylan is happy to be back for her third show at Pasadena Playhouse. Previous Pasadena Playhouse credits include Head Over Heels and Little Shop Of Horrors. Dylan’s past credits as a stage manager include Deaf West Theatre’s Oedipus at The Getty Villa, McCoy Rigby Entertainment’s The Sound of Music, Clue, the international tour of Peter Pan, LA Museum of Tolerance’s Anne, and more. Dylan would like to thank Jill Gold and Jenny Slattery for bringing her back to the Playhouse.

JZ CASTING Casting

Geoff Josselson, CSA and Katja Zarolinski, CSA are New York-based casting directors, handling productions for theater, film, and television. Theater work includes Broadway, off-Broadway and regional productions at Alley Theatre, Arena Stage, Baltimore Center Stage, Cape Playhouse, Denver Center, The Irish Repertory Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Kennedy Center, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, South Coast Repertory, Studio Theatre, Theaterworks Hartford, and Woolly Mammoth Theatre. For more information, please visit www.jz-casting.com.

Music Theatre International

Music Theatre International (MTI) is one of the world’s leading theatrical licensing agencies, granting theaters 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 theater 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 100,000 professional, community and school theaters in the US and in over 150 countries worldwide. MTI is particularly dedicated to educational theater, and has created special collections to meet the needs of various types of performers and audiences. MTI’s Broadway Junior™ shows are 30- and 60-minute musicals for performance by elementary and middle schoolaged performers, while MTI’s School Editions are musicals annotated for performance by high school students.

Board Of Trustees

Chair

Dennis Cornell

Erin Baker

Treasurer

Ken McCormick

Secretary

Sheri Ball

Trustees

Erin Baker

Sheri Ball

MaryLou Boone

Dennis Cornell

Brandon Dickerson

Peggy Ebright

Danny Feldman

Beth Fernandez

Julie A. Gutierrez

Cristina Hernandez

Melanie Holden

Jane Kaczmarek

Brad King

Harmon Kong

Brandon Levin

Jim McCarthy

Ken McCormick

Alfred Molina

Leigh T. Olivar

Bingo Roncelli

Jeff Smith

Lilah Stangeland

Ann Sunshine

Patricia Barajas Tavera

Bonnie Wongtrakool

Chair Emeriti

David M. Davis

David DiCristofaro

Michele Dedeaux Engemann

Sheila Grether-Marion

Kerry McCluggage

Board Emeriti

Valerie Amidon

Carol Burnett

Linda Griffey

Ralph Hirschmann

Frank Kleemann

Dennis Lowe

Tad Lowrey

Rao Makineni

Abel Ramirez

Kathy Arntzen Roat

Anne Rothenberg

Lyn Spector

Elliot Stahler

Corky Hale Stoller

Mike Stoller

Greg Stone

Leslie Tolan

Martha Williamson

In Memoriam

David Angell

Theodore Fitch Behr

Betty Ann Koen Brooks

Albert Lowe

Margaret Sedenquist

Roger Stangeland

James Watterson

Bill Galloway