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Carlo Alban
Misha
Regional: Lydia (world premiere Denver Center, Yale Rep), All About Us (Westport Country Playhouse), Dreamlandia (Dallas Theater Center), Night of the Iguana (Guthrie Theater), Ice Glen (Florida Stage). New York: References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot (NYSF), A Small Melodramatic Story (Labyrinth Theater Company/NYSF), Intríngulis (writer/performer; solo show about his experiences growing up as an illegal immigrant, produced by the Labyrinth Theater Company). TV: House of Buggin’, Law & Order, Touched by an Angel, Oz, 100 Center Street, The Jury, Thicker than Blood (TNT Original/ALMA Award nomination), Prison Break (recurring), Sesame Street (series regular, 1992-97). Film: Hurricane Streets, Hi Life, The Tavern, Live Free or Die, Strangers with Candy, Glow Ropes, Life Support, 21 Grams and the upcoming Margaret and Whip It!. Member of the Labyrinth Theater Company in NYC. |
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Max Arciniega
Alvaro
Television, recurring: Breaking Bad (AMC). Television, guest star: ER (NBC), The Unit (CBS), Private Practice (ABC), Without a Trace (CBS), Lincoln Heights (ABC Family), Veronica Mars (UPN). Theatre: Electricidad (Goodman Theatre, Chicago); Suggestions for the Prevention of Serial Murder (Chicago Dramatists), Lulu (Journeymen Theater, Chicago), Acts of Mercy (Mary Archie Theater, Chicago), The Gift Horse (New Studio Theater, Chicago). Showcases: ABC Diversity Showcase in Chicago, CBS Latino Showcase in Los Angeles, CSA/Chicago showcase in Los Angeles. Affiliations: Ensemble member of Teatro Vista Chicago. SAG, AFTRA, AEA Training: B.A. in Theatre from Columbia College, Chicago. Dedication: to the Arciniega family, his strength and inspiration. He thanks Ivonne Coll for her passion and guidance with this role. |
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Stephanie Beatriz
Lydia
appeared in this role in the world premiere of Lydia at Denver Center Theatre Company in 2008 and at Yale Rep earlier this year. Her other theatre roles include Catherine in A View from the Bridge directed by Libby Appel, Bianca in Othello directed by Lisa Peterson (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Rosa in Summer and Smoke directed by Michael Wilson (Paper Mill Playhouse, Hartford Stage); Matilde in The Clean House directed by Juliette Carrillo (TheatreWorks); Erica in Hold Please (The Old Globe); Marela in Anna in the Tropics (Pittsburgh Public Theater); Maya and Yemaya in Yemaya’s Belly (Portland Stage Company); The Bitch in Misterioso-119 (Berkshire Theatre Festival); Amazing Voice in The Adventures of Barrio Grrrl! (Summer Play Festival, New York); and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet (Theatreworks USA – National Tour). Stephanie received her BFA in theatre from Stephens College. |
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Catalina Maynard
Rosa
Recent stage credits include the world premiere of Lydia directed by Juliette Carrillo at Denver Center Theatre Company and at Yale Repertory Theatre. Also at the Mark Taper Forum: Electricidad directed by Lisa Peterson. Other credits: Living Out directed by Armando Molina (TheatreWorks, Mixed Blood Theatre); Romeo and Juliet directed by Tony Plana (East L.A. Classic Theatre); La Gaviota directed by Glenn Paris (Ion Theatre LAB); Esperanza Rising directed by Rebecca Brown (Children’s Theatre Company); Real Women Have Curves directed by Bill Virchis (Borderlands Theatre); The Heart’s Desire directed by Patricia Troxel and The Imaginary Invalid directed by Rodger De Laurier (Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts). Ms. Maynard has also appeared in numerous productions at San Diego Repertory Theatre, including Hamlet, A Quiet Love, A Streetcar Named Desire, Burning Dreams and Mummified Deer. |
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Onahoua Rodriguez
Ceci
is very grateful for her CTG debut. She originated the role of Ceci for the Denver Center Theatre’s production of Lydia followed by the Yale Rep production. Other theatre credits include Anna in the Tropics (South Coast Rep directed by Juliette Carrillo and at Coconut Playhouse directed by Nilo Cruz), Beauty of the Father (Seattle Repertory Theatre directed by Sharon Ott), Blood Wedding (La Jolla Playhouse directed by Mark Wing Davey), The Next Stop (Repertorio Español directed by Michael Garces), Fools Journey (INTAR), Welcome to Arrayos (The Beckett). Television/Film: The Farm (spin-off of Showtime’s The L Word), Weeds, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Saving Grace, The Shield, NYPD Blue, Cold Case, CSI: Miami, ER, Rhythm of the Saints (Sundance Film Festival selection), Love Song. Graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, New York. Dedication: For Mom and her otherworldly strength and for Virginia and Liomaris in memory of Tony’s gift. |
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Tony Sancho
Rene
is making his Los Angeles debut here at the Taper. Tony is a proud ensemble member of Teatro Vista, the only Equity Latino theatre company in the Midwest. His previous Chicago theatre credits include playing Ritchie Valens in Buddy: the Buddy Holly Story for Drury Lane Theatre, Oakbrook & WaterTower, Lazado for Teatro Vista’s production of Dreamlandia by Octavio Solis at the Victory Gardens Greenhouse, as well as playing Cheche in Nilo Cruz’s Anna in the Tropics at the Goodman’s Owen Theatre. Other regional companies include Remmy Bumppo, the Journeymen and the Pegasus Players. His film and television credits include his award-winning film On the Downlow and the 300th episode of ER. Training: The School at Steppenwolf and Acting Concentration from Columbia College, Chicago. |
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Daniel Zacapa
Claudio
has four films due out this year including Bobby Moresco’s The Kings of Appletown (with Kate Burton), Ball Don’t Lie, The Things We Carry and The Gene Generation (with Faye Dunaway).He just finished David S. Goyer’s Fast Forward, a pilot for ABC (most of his fingers and toes crossed). A series regular on Showtime’s highly lauded Resurrection Blvd. for three seasons, he is perhaps one of the most eclectic actors working, having just played Ebenezer Scrooge in A Christmas Carol at The Edgemar in December. “I am truly humbled by the opportunity to work at the Taper on this most beautifully written play with this cast and this crew.” Other films: Seven, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Phenomenon, The Mexican, Odd Couple 2, Up Close & Personal, Coronado. TV Guest Star: Weeds, Prison Break, Medium, Criminal Minds, Nip/Tuck, Without a Trace, The West Wing, Six Feet Under, NYPD Blue. |
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Octavio Solis
Playwright
is a playwright and director living in San Francisco. His works Lydia, Man of the Flesh, Prospect, El Paso Blue, Santos & Santos, La Posada Mágica, El Otro, Dreamlandia, The 7 Visions of Encarnacion, June in a Box, Bethlehem, and Gibraltar have been produced at Denver Center Theatre Company, Yale Repertory Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, New York Summer Play Festival, Dallas Theater Center, Magic Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, South Coast Repertory, San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, ShadowLight, Venture Theatre, Latino Chicago Theater Company, La Compania de Albuquerque, Teatro Vista, El Teatro Campesino, Undermain Theatre, Thick Description, Su Teatro, Campo Santo and The Imua! Theatre Company. His collaborative works include Burning Dreams, co-written with Julie Hebert and Gina Leishman; Shiner, written with Erik Ehn and Great Highway, written with Wendy Weiner. Solis is the recipient of the NEA 1995-97 Playwriting Fellowship, the Kennedy Center’s Roger L. Stevens Award, the Will Glickman Playwright Award, a production grant from the Kennedy Center Fund for New American Plays, the 1998 TCG/NEA Theatre Artists in Residence Grant, the 1998 McKnight Fellowship grant from the Playwrights Center in Minneapolis, the 2003 National Latino Playwriting Award, the 2000–2001 National Theatre Artists Residency Grant from TCG, and the Pew Charitable Trust grant for Gibraltar at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Octavio is a member of the Dramatists Guild and New Dramatists, the 2008 Thornton Wilder Fellow at MacDowell and is a finalist for the 2009 Harold and Mimi Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award. He is currently working on commissions for Yale Repertory Theatre and the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.
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Juliette Carrillo
Director
directed the world premiere of Lydia last year at Denver Center Theatre Company and again at Yale Repertory Theatre. Other collaborations with Octavio Solis include Lethe with Cornerstone Theater Company (of which she is an ensemble member) and El Paso Blue at Summer Play Festival in New York. She met Octavio when she was an Artistic Associate at South Coast Repertory, where she ran the Hispanic Playwrights Project for seven years. At South Coast Rep, she directed many notable productions, including the critically acclaimed West Coast premiere of Anna in the Tropics by Nilo Cruz and the world premiere of References to Salvador Dalí Make Me Hot by José Rivera. Other credits include the West Coast premieres of Eduardo Machado’s The Cook at Seattle Repertory Theatre and Sam Shepard’s Eyes for Consuela at the Magic Theatre, as well as productions at Alliance Theatre, TheatreWorks, Laguna Playhouse, Actors Theatre of Louisville and Mark Taper Forum’s New Work Festival. In New York, she has developed plays at New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, INTAR and The Women’s Project. A graduate of Yale School of Drama, she is a recipient of several awards, including the NEA/TCG Directing Fellowship and the Princess Grace Award. A big thank you to her family for their support.
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Christopher Acebo
Scenic Design by
Center Theatre Group: world premiere productions of Water and Power (costumes), Living Out (set), Chavez Ravine (costumes), Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (set), as well as Electricidad (costumes). Oregon Shakespeare Festival: Equivocation, The Clay Cart, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Othello, among others. Mr. Acebo has also designed productions for many regional theatres including the world premieres of The Clean House (Yale Repertory Theatre); Zorro in Hell (Berkeley Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse); My Wandering Boy, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler, The Beard of Avon, Hold Please (South Coast Repertory Theatre); Electricidad (Goodman Theatre). Mr. Acebo’s designs have also been presented at Lincoln Center Theater, Guthrie Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, The Kennedy Center, Missouri Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, The Children’s Theatre Company in Minnneapolis, among others. He is the Associate Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and was an ensemble member of Cornerstone Theater Company (1999-2006). He received his MFA at UCSD.
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Christal Weatherly
Costume Design by
CTG: A Perfect Wedding (Kirk Douglas), Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner (Ivy Substation), Good Thing (Taper, Too). Los Angeles: Culture Clash’s Zorro in Hell (Ricardo Montalban Theatre), Road To A Revolution (Deaf West Theatre), The Land of Liver and Onions (We Tell Stories). New York: Doris to Darlene (Playwrights Horizons), Queens Boulevard (Signature Theatre Company), Jane Eyre (The Acting Company), Apparition (Connelly Theatre). Regional: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Hartford Stage, Arden Theatre Company, American Repertory Theatre, The Old Globe, Denver Center Theatre Company, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Children’s Theatre Company, La Jolla Playhouse, Madison Repertory Theatre, Sledgehammer Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, and the beloved Rainpan 43. Awards: Ovation Award nomination for A Perfect Wedding at CTG’s Kirk Douglas Theatre, Bay Area Critics Circle Award for Fetes de la Nuit at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Connecticut Critics Circle Award for Wintertime at Long Wharf Theatre; 2004-2006 Recipient of the NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers. Christal grew up in New Mexico with her grandparents and now lives in Brooklyn. Love to her family.
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Christopher Akerlind
Lighting Design by
For CTG: Homebody/Kabul and The House of Bernarda Alba (Taper); The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife, Seven Guitars and The Piano Lesson (Ahmanson); Slanguage, The Paris Letter and Keep Your Pantheon/Duck Variations (Douglas). Broadway: Top Girls, 110 in the Shade (Tony nomination), Talk Radio, Shining City, Awake and Sing (Tony nomination), Well, Rabbit Hole, The Light in the Piazza (Drama Desk, Outer Critics, Tony Awards), Reckless, The Tale of The Allergist’s Wife and Seven Guitars (Tony nomination),among others. Recent: Philip Glass’s Appomattox (San Francisco Opera), Martha Clarke’s Garden of Earthly Delights (revival), Rinde Eckert’s Orpheus X (Edinburgh and Hong Kong Festivals), Die Entfuhrung Aus Dem Serail (Lyric Opera of Chicago) and Tracy Letts’ new play Superior Donuts (Steppenwolf Theatre). Awards: Obie for Sustained Excellence, Michael Merritt Award for Design and Collaboration and numerous nominations for the Drama Desk, Lucille Lortel, Outer Critics Circle and Tony Awards.
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David Molina
Sound Design, Additional Music and Arrangements by
is honored to have spent the last 15 years working, playing and laughing with Chris Webb. Yale Repertory Theatre: Lydia. San Francisco: productions for Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Marin Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, A Traveling Jewish Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, Brava! Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Campo Santo, Intersection for the Arts, Thick House, Soap Stone, Teatro Jornalero, Sonoma State University and University of San Francisco. Installation, performance, and multimedia: productions for Drum Machine Museum (featuring Joan Jeanrenaud, Kronos Quartet, and Mark Pistel), Cal Arts, and international showings and tours with Violeta Luna, Victor Cartagena, and Secos Y Mojados (2009 Creative Capital Grantees). Film: Barry Gifford’s Ball Lightning; The Narc and Prospect by Octavio Solis, The Cause Collective’s Along the Way (2008 Sundance Film Festival) and the films of Anna Geyer. Radio: 94.1 KPFA. Television: KQED. His music and bands — Ghosts and Strings; Los Veneremos — can be heard on the Resting Bell, Dorog Records, Black Note Music, Mun Discos and NKR labels.
www.restingbell.net.
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Chris Webb
Original Compositions by
composed the music for the world premiere of Lydia at Denver Center Theatre Company last year. His other theatre credits include The Cook directed by Juliette Carrillo (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Sonia Flew (Laguna Beach Playhouse); Anna in the Tropics, Nostalgia, The Countess, Art (South Coast Repertory); As Vishnu Dreams (Cornerstone Theater Company); Sam Shepard’s Eyes for Consuela (Magic Theatre); as well as productions at Intersection for the Arts, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Exit Theatre, Currican Theatre, Bard College, Fordham University and the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab. His original scores for film include a New York Times web feature on Cuba, A litter-a-tion (Best Film of the 48 Hour Film Festival, Honolulu), Townsend (MBox), Africa@Play (National Geographic Channel, ResFest Best Short Film Award), the Gen Art Film Festival and Spiral, a short film by Juliette Carrillo.
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