A Christmas Carol

New York: Off-Broad­way: Public Theater: Troilus & Cressida. Regional: Shakespeare Theater Co D.C.: Twelfth Night, Romeo & Juliet. Baltimore Center Stage: Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Training: NYU– Tisch: MFA in Acting. Wesleyan University: BA in Acting.

Zeke is a professional actor based out of New York City. An alumnus from Syracuse Uni­versity, recent credits include, Dream Curly / u/s Will Parker in Oklahoma! (Glim­merglass Festival), Don in A Chorus Line/Snowboy in West Side Story (Cortland Repertory Theatre) and Bert u/s in Mary Poppins (Syracuse Stage). Zeke is so excited and honored to return to McCarter Theatre Center and be a part of this beautiful production. Thank you to everyone at McCarter and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all!

Billy is thrilled to return to A Christmas Carol at McCarter, previ­ously appearing as Jacob Marley in 2015. New York credits include work at Irish Rep, Ars Nova, Roundabout Theatre Company, Play­wrights Horizons, New Dramatists, New York Theatre Workshop and many others. Regional credits include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh CLO, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Trinity Rep, Theatre Under the Stars, Folger Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Theater J, and many others. Billy is also the creator of “The Turnout,” a journalism project focused on voting and voting rights. You can follow his work on Medium and on social media @the_turnout. He is a graduate of the Brown/Trinity Rep MFA Program.

Sharina is excited to be making her McCarter debut. Off Broadway: Showtime Blues, The Talk (Ensemble Studio Theatre), Manhood, Untamed (National Black Theatre), The Beautiful Beautiful Sea Next Door (ArsNova). Regional credits include: Familiar (Woolly Mammoth Theatre Co); Dracula (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Metamorphoses (Arden Theatre Company); All’s Well that Ends Well, Another Part of the Forest, Major Barbara (American Players Theater); Black Diamond, Fedra (Lookingglass Theatre); The Voysey Inheritance (Remy Bumpoo); Macbeth (Lady M, greasyjoan & co.). Other credits: Richard III (Lady Anne, Boomerang Theatre Co), Heartbreaker (Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center). Film: Blind, Requited, Nowheresville, Happily After. Television: Z: The Beginning of Everything (Amazon), The Outs, Redrum (Discovery ID), In Between Men. BTA Award Nomination, Best Actress. Training: Northwestern Univer­sity, Steppenwolf Theatre, LAByrinth, Esper. sharinamartin.com

Broadway: It Shoulda Been You, Once, Sunday in the Park with George, Chicago, Assassins, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Rag-time. Off-Broadway: Sundown Yellow Moon (Ars Nova/Women’s Project), Taming of the Shrew (Delacorte), Wings (Second Stage), Music In The Air (Encores!) Road Show (The Public). National tours: Chicago (Carbonell Award), Les Misérables, Aspects of Love. Regional: A Christmas Carol (McCarter), A Flea in Her Ear (KC Rep), Falsettos (Huntington and George Street), as well as La Jolla Playhouse, Barrington Stage, Citadel Theater. Film/TV: You Must Be Joking, Sugar, Baby Mama, King of California, Elementary, The Good Wife, Dirt, Law & Order, Veronica Mars, What I Like About You, Bull. Web series: Submissions Only. BFA from Boston Conservatory. Recipient of the 2013 Distinguished Alumni Award. www.AnneLNathan.com

Broadway: Indecent. Off-Broadway: The Black Crook (Abrons Arts); Indecent (Vine­yard); Henry V w/ Liev Schrieber (Public Theater); Galileo w/F. Murray Abraham, The Tempest w/Mandy Patinkin (CSC); Stunning (Lincoln Center); Dinner Party (Target Margin); Painted Snake on a Painted Chair (OBIE); McGurk (ERS); Richard Foreman’s Samuel’s Major Problems (Ontological). Regional: Lempicka (Williamstown Theater Fes­tival); The Bridge of San Luis Rey by David Greenspan (Two River Theater); Seder (Hartford Stage); The School For Wives (Two River Theater); Indecent (Yale Rep/La Jolla Playhouse); Marie Antoinette (ART/Yale Rep); The Lovesong of J. Robert Prufrock.

Jon most recently played the title role in NAATCO's Henry VI. Selected New York credits include Awake and Sing! (NAATCO/ The Public), The Oldest Boy (LCT), City Of (Playwrights Realm), Queens Boulevard (the musical) (Signature), Durango (The Public), A Map of Virtue (13P), among others. International: Paper Dolls at London's Tricycle Theatre. Regional: Actors Theatre of Louisville, Alliance, Barrington Stage Company, Dorset Theatre Festival, Goodman, Huntington, Kennedy Center, Long Wharf, Magic, McCarter, Mosaic, Old Globe. Film: Bitter Melon, Manila Is Full of Men Named Boy, The Normals, and HBO's Angel Rodriguez. TV: Succes­sion, Jessica Jones, Veep, The Electric Company, 30 Rock, and Law & Order: Criminal Intent. @yesjns

Sue is happy to return as Mrs. Dilber. Off- Broadway: The World of Extreme Happiness (NYC premiere, Man­hattan Theatre Club); Iphigenia at Aulis, Exit the King (Pearl Theater). Regional: The Arsonists, Marie Antoinette (Woolly Mammoth); Smart People, Hot ‘n Throbbing (world premiere, Arena Stage); Yellow Face, iHo (Theater J); 36 Views (Constellation Theatre); Waiting for Tadashi (world premiere, George Street Playhouse); Shedding the Tiger (world premiere, Sacramento Theatre Company); Burn This (Syracuse Stage). Film: Coming Home Again, Steel Town, Pipe Dream, Someone Like You. TV: 24, ER, Law & Order. Education: MFA in Acting from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Award: “The Best of Fringe” for her one woman show, Children of Medea, at the DC Fringe Festival.

McCarter Theatre Center: The White Snake. Kristin was last seen in the world premiere of Matthew Lopez’s Zoey’s Perfect Wedding (Denver Center Theatre). Other favorite credits include Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Old Globe), Elizabeth in Pride and Prejudice (Playmakers Repertory Company), and Helena in All’s Well That Ends Well (Shakespeare & Company). New York: NAATCO and Overturn Theatre En­semble. Regional: Goodman Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Marin The­atre Company, Nebraska Shakespeare Festival, and Singapore Arts Festival. Film/TV: Viper Club, Merry Christmas, Eve, Elementary, Instinct, Forever, and Gossip Girl. Training: SUNY Purchase, The Actors Center.

Recent credits in­clude, Da in the Arden Theatre’s production of Once, Malvolio in Twelfth Night and the King of France in All’s Well That Ends Well with the Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Lloyd in Noises Off and Eric in The Humans for the Walnut Street Theatre, and Van Helsing in Actors Theatre of Louisville’s production of Dracula. Film and Television credits include The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Happening, The Killing of Emmett Young, A Gentleman’s Game, How to Get Away with Murder, Law & Order, Ed, Hack, and Homicide.
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Frank is delighted to be returning to A Christmas Carol at McCarter. Favorite roles have included: Malvolio in Twelfth Night (Seattle Rep), David Gavin in After Ashley (Humana Festival, ATL), Camillo in The Winter’s Tale (Folger Shakespeare Theatre), Misha in Black Russian (Blue Heron Theatre, AUDELCO Award nomination), Molina in Kiss of the Spider Woman and Sterling North in Permanent Collection (both at InterAct Theater), Hector in The History Boys and Dr. Tambourri in Passion (both at the Arden Theatre) and Sam in Master Harold…and the Boys and the title role in King Lear (both at Lantern Theater). Mr. X received the Barrymore Award for his performance in the InterAct Theater production of Lonely Planet.

Back row, l-r: Tristan Takacs, Andrew James Gordon, Shan Williams II, Peter Newes, Rocco Barbera.
4th row, l-r: Elias Malavet, Rodney Genwright, Juan Ortiz, Frank Caroselli, Adam Thomas Smith.
3rd row, l-r: Andrea Kristensen, Michael Karnaukh, Adele Batchelder, Tess Ammerman, Ken Weingartner, Sapphire Srigley.
2nd row, l-r: Maria Palombo, Tara Parkman, Jane Ericksen, Karen Jones, Amy Blair.
1st row, l-r: Domonique Jarrett, Leah Senseney, Sherice Brown, Madison Russell.
Not Pictured: Carolyn Anzuini.

Top row, l-r: Zahra Lohoue, Ethan Chang, Romy Johnson, Vyshakh Thejaswi, Julianna Pallacan, Uriah Amacker.
Bottom row, l-r: Brielle Rowell, Sam Roman, Alicianna Rodriguez, Alexander Perez, Camille Grove, Martin Pallacan.

Broadway/West End: The Scottsboro Boys (12 Tony® nominations, Outer Circle Critics and Lucille Lortel Award for “Best Musical,” London’s Critics’ Circle Award and the Evening Standard Award for “Best Musical,” the Drama­tist Guild’s Hull-Warriner Award); script adaptation for Chicago (the longest-running American musical in history);, Steel Pier (Tony nomination, Best Book); Thou Shalt Not; Priscilla, Queen of the Desert; and Prince of Broadway. Off-Broadway: The Beast in the Jungle, The World Goes ‘Round (Drama Desk and Outer Circle Critics Awards), Flora, the Red Menace (Drama Desk nomina­tion). Television: Great Performance’s Hal Prince: The Director’s Life, Sond­heim: A Celebration at Carnegie Hall (Emmy nomination), Razzle Dazzle. Regional: Script adaptation for Goodspeed’s Rags. Concert: James Taylor’s critically-acclaimed Perspective Series for Carnegie Hall. Thompson is a McCarter/Sallie B. Goodman fellow and a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.

Adam is the former Associate Artistic Director at McCarter (credits include The Understudy and The Mousetrap) and the former Resident Director at Passage Theater. He is currently Artistic Director of Theater J, the nation’s largest and most prominent Jewish theater (located in Washington, D.C.). Adam’s NYC directing credits: The Public, Theater Row (both for Summer Play Festival), Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Wild Project, and NYU’s Studio Tisch. Internationally, he directed the African premiere of The Convert (nominated for Zimbabwe’s National Arts Medal). Regionally, Adam has directed for Walnut Street Theatre, Woolly Mam­moth, Cleveland Play House, Theater J, Passage, Luna Stage, Hangar Theatre, Bristol Riverside, Premiere Stages, PlayPenn, and many others. Graduate of Brown University. Drama League Directing Fellow (2008). www.AdamImmerwahr.com

Credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (Broadway and the Public Theater) Unknown Soldier, The Fortress of Solitude, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Mr. Burns. With The Civilians: Canard Canard Goose, Gone Missing, Nobody’s Lunch, This Beautiful City, In the Footprint, The Great Immensity, Paris Commune, Pretty Filthy, and The Abominables. He was the Artist-in- Residence and Director of the Public Forum at the Public Theater and Artistic Director of City Center Encores! Off-Center. He received the 2007 OBIE Award for sustained excellence as well as a star on the Playwright’s Sidewalk at the Lucille Lortel Theatre.

Lorin choreographed the Broadway and National tour of Waitress, Broadway’s Les Liasions Dangereuses, Waiting For Godot with Patrick Stewart/Ian McKellen, plus Curious Incident of the Dog… and American Idiot as Associate. Additional Choreography includes The Heart of Rock and Roll at The Old Globe; Chess at The Kennedy Center; The Public’s Twelfth Night and The Odyssey at The Delacorte; Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 21 Chump Street and Peter and The Wolf – BAM; Scotland, PA – Roundabout; Assassins, God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater, and Fanny at Encores; Independence for Des McAnuff; Between The Lines – Kansas City Rep; Queen of The Night (Drama Desk Award); As You Like It with Director Michael Mayer – Toho, Tokyo; Taste of Things To Come – Broadway Playhouse (Director). www.latarro.com

McCarter: All The Days, Baskerville, Antony & Cleopatra, White Snake, Delicate Balance, Convert, How & The Why, Having Our Say, Lookingglass Alice, Argonautica, Secret in the Wings, Odyssey. Recent: Love’s Labour’s Lost (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Cleopatra, La Morte Amoureuse, (K-Ballet Company, Tokyo). NYC: Rusalka (Metropolitan Opera), Clybourne Park (Broadway/ Tony® nomination), Son­nambula and Lucia Di Lammermoor (Metropolitan Opera), Glorious Ones (Lincoln Center), Durango (Public), Meta­morphoses (Broadway/Tony® Nomina­tion, 2nd Stage), Playwright’s Horizon, New Victory, NY Shakespeare Festival, BAM. Regional: Goodman, Steppenwolf,Chicago Shakespeare, Huntington, Shakespeare Theatre DC, ACT (SF), Berkeley Repertory, Mark Taper, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Seattle Repertory, The Alley, Arena Stage, Guthrie, Old Globe among others. International: La Scala (Milan), Donmar Warehouse & Barbican (London), Melbourne Theatre, Bunka Kai Kan & Orchard Hall (Tokyo), Theater Up (Shanghai), Calgary Theatre. Direct­ing (and set design): Jacques Brel… and Blood Wedding. Other Ensemble Member – Lookingglass Theatre.

Broadway: Lifespan of a Fact, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (Henry Hewes Design Award, Tony® Award), Anastasia (Tony®, Outer Critics Circle and Drama Desk Award nominations), Velocity of Autumn. Off-Broadway: Grand Hotel at New York City Center Encores! and Wild Goose Dreams (La Jolla Playhouse, The Public Theater). Regional: October Sky (The Old Globe), A Thousand Splendid Suns (American Conservatory Theatre, The Old Globe, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Grand Theatre), Age of Innocence (Hartford Stage and McCarter/ Connecticut Critics Circle Award), Rags (Goodspeed Opera), and Sovereignty (Arena Stage). Opera: Samson et Dalila (Metropolitan Opera); Ghosts of Versailles, Die Vogel, Der Zwerg/Der Zerbrochene Krug (LA Opera); Mikado, Magic Flute (Opera Theatre of Saint Louis). Recipient of Theatre Development Fund’s Irene Sharaff Young Master Award and The Ruth Morely Design Award from the League of Professional Theatre Women. Advisory Committee for the American Theater League member. MFA: Yale School of Drama. http://lindacho.com

New York: Public Theater, New York Theatre Workshop, Signature Theatre, Second Stage, Dance Theater Work­shop. Regional: Mark Taper Forum, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Play­house, South Coast Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Play­house, The Old Globe, Berkeley Rep­ertory Theatre, Goodman, American Repertory Theater, Arena Stage, Dallas Theater Center, The Shakespeare Theatre (Washington D.C.). Awards: 2018 Obie for Sustained Excellence in Lighting Design, Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Angstrom Award for Career Achievement in Lighting Design, Ovation Award, and multiple Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards, “Drammy” for best lighting. Teaching: lighting design faculty at California Institute of the Arts.

Darron is a Tony® and Obie Award-winning sound designer whose work for dance and theater has been heard in over 600 productions all over the United States and internationally in 14 countries. At McCarter: Crowns; Hamlet; The Bells; Miss Witherspoon; Stick Fly; Me, Myself & I; Fetch Clay, Make Man; The Convert; Baby Doll; Hoodwinked; Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express, and A Christmas Carol. His accolades include the Drama Desk, Lortel, Audelco, and Princess Grace Foundation Statue Awards among many others.

Broadway: Beetlejuice (coming 2019), Frozen, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, American Psycho, Aladdin, You Can’t Take It With You, Rocky. London’s West End: Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Let the Right One In. Off-Broadway and other: Oklaho­ma (St Ann’s Warehouse), Joan of Arc (The Public Theater), Guards at the Taj (The Atlantic), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney Theatrical Group), Parsi­fal (Metropolitan Opera). Jesus Christ Superstar Live, The Wiz Live, and Peter Pan Live for NBC Universal. In 2014 his work was featured at the Museum of Art & Design in New York. Chernick serves as Head designer for J&M Special Effects in Brooklyn www.jmfx.net

Carissa is a New Jersey-based wig and makeup designer. She has recently designed Grand Hotel and Little Rock off-Broadway. She is currently in her fifth season with McCarter, where her design work includes A Christmas Carol (2013-2017), Simpatico, The Mousetrap, and All the Days. She has designed for Temple University, Olney Theatre Center, the University of Delaware Resident Ensemble Players, The Princeton Festival, American Repertory Ballet, and the NewArts group in Newtown, CN. She has served as a wig and makeup artist at Santa Fe Opera, Sarasota Opera, The Kennedy Center, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, and Round House Theatre. Carissa also designs and builds custom wigs and facial hair for Cosplay and film and teaches classes in wigs and makeup. You can find her at CThorwigs.com and @wigician.

Cris is a collaborative musician equally at home in the worlds of classical and popular music. This season he conducts Glory Denied at Opera Birmingham, Dark Sisters and a festival of short American operas at Opera Fayetteville, and Sweeney Todd at Oregon Cabaret Theater. He also makes his debut at New York’s iconic 54Below and partners singers in recital in New York, Los Angeles, and Santa Fe. Currently in development, he is the music director for Anatomiae Occultii’s modern dance production of Sweeney Todd. He is the founder and artistic director of The New Voice Project and is Music Director of Opera Fayetteville. www.crisfrisco.com

Jessica is a Philadelphia based actor, director, dramaturg, playwright and teacher. Previously at the McCarter, she was seen onstage as Mollie in The Mousetrap and Mrs. Cratchit in A Christmas Carol. Jessica was formerly the Associate Artistic Director at Montgomery Theatre, where she directed God of Carnage, Bad Dates, and The Twelve Dancing Princesses. While at MT, she served as producer for the children's theatre programming and oversaw the education and dramaturgy programs. She recently directed Collected Stories for Act II Playhouse and Henry V for Delaware Shakespeare. Upcoming: John Ford’s 'Tis Pity for the Philadelphia Artists Collective. Jessica was a finalist for the 2018 F. Otto Haas Emerging Artist award.

Greer is an NYC-based performing artist. As the choreographer and creative consultant, she was responsible for setting Andy Blankenbuehler’s original Broadway choreography on the Brazilian cast of In the Heights in São Paulo. She has taught at Alvin Ailey, R.Evolución Latina, Broadway Dance Center, Texas State University, London's Pineapple Studios and D & B College. Recently she served as associate director on three productions, and associate choreographer on four productions of In the Heights under both Mark Stuart and Michael Balderrama. In addition to those duties, she was dance/fight captain on each production as well as the dance captain for Evita under the direction and choreography of Nick Kenkel. Greer was Lorin Latarro’s associate choreographer for both of Public Theatre's productions of Twelfth Night at Shakespeare in the Park. She is also the founder of the upcoming app LALUZ: Meditations for Performers. www.laluzmeditations. com @laluzapp www.greergisy.com @greergisy

Productions include: Girl From the North Country – The Public Theater, India Pale Ale – MTC, Our Lady of 121st Street – Signature Theater, Ant­ony and Cleopatra – McCarter Theatre, directed by Emily Mann. She is on the faculty of The Juilliard School, The Atlantic Theater School (NYU) and Actors Connection. As well as being a voice and speech coach she is an actress who has appeared in numerous productions in NYC, is a graduate The Juilliard School Theater Center with honors: The Drama League Award, The Edith Skinner Prize (in speech). She is a Public Theater Shakespeare Lab Voice Fellow and a proud alumna of John Houseman’s The Acting Company.

Broadway: Burn This (upcoming), Fool for Love, Hughie, The Elephant Man (also West End), Hedwig and The Angry Inch, The Visit, Of Mice and Men, Venus in Fur, Living on Love, 33 Variations, A Raisin in the Sun, Chicago, James Joyce’s The Dead. Off-Broadway select: Buyer & Cellar, Murder for Two, All in the Timing, Passion, Lobby Hero, Fuerza Bruta, Silence! The Musical. Casting for Rattlestick, Long Wharf, McCarter, The Flea, Keen, Playwrights Realm, CTG, Humana Festival/ATL, CSC, Williamstown Theater Festival, Berkeley Rep, Alliance, Playwrights Horizons (10 seasons). TV: Dickinson, The Path, Army Wives, Lipstick Jungle, Monk, Hope & Faith, Ed. Films include Mike Cahill’s Sundance winner Another Earth. Awarded 14 Artios Awards for Outstanding Casting Achievement. Member CSA. http://www.callericasting.com/

Cheryl is in her 28th season, 24th as Resident Production Stage Manager, with over 80 productions for McCarter Theatre and 33 productions with Artistic Director Emily Mann. Cheryl has enjoyed 13 collaborations with Maestro Gian Carlo Menotti and the Spoleto Festival USA and Italy, and has stage managed 40 operas and musicals, three tours, and three PBS telecasts for New York City Opera. Cheryl has six Broadway shows to her credit, 15 years as an Executive Board Member of the Stage Managers' Association and is the current Del Hughes Awards Chair, is a contributor to the book Sound and Music for the Theatre; The Art & Technique of Design, currently conducts master classes for the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and named a SUNY Notable Alumni in the Arts. MFA: Yale School of Drama.

Alison is in her 22nd season at McCarter Theatre. Highlights include Detroit ’67, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville; The Understudy, directed by Adam Immerwahr; The White Snake, directed by Mary Zimmerman; Danai Gurira’s The Convert, directed by Emily Mann; A Midsummer Night’s Dream, directed by Tina Landau; Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon; Sorrows and Rejoicings, directed by Athol Fugard; and Stephen Wadsworth’s adaptations of The Figaro Plays. Other credits include Edward Albee’s Me, Myself & I at Playwrights Horizons; Tarell Alvin McCraney’s The Brother/Sister Plays at The Public Theater, Second Stage, Old Globe, Goodman Theatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, Paper Mill, Kennedy Center, Long Wharf, Center Theatre Group, Berkeley Rep, Bard Summerscape, Pittsburgh Public, Williamstown, and 19 produc­tions with The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey.

Dixie comes to McCarter from Chicago, IL, where she worked for over 15 years. Most recently she was the Production Manager of the Wirtz Center for Performing Arts at Northwestern University. While at Northwestern, she managed dozens of productions, including the world premiers of David Catlin's Moby Dick and Laura Schellhardt's Ever in the Glades, a production which then travelled to the Kennedy Center. Before Northwestern, Uffelman was the Associate Production Manager of Steppenwolf Theatre Company, the Production Manager of the House Theatre of Chicago, and the Program Director of Barrel of Monkeys.

Debbie joined McCarter in 2016. Her experience spans Broadway, off-Broadway, West End, regional, and non-profit theater. Broadway: Mothers & Sons, Grace, Annie, War Horse, Hair, The Merchant of Venice, Speed the Plow. Off-Broadway and London: Ingmar Bergman’s Through a Glass Darkly starring Carey Mulligan, Passion Play, Merrily We Roll Along. Chicago: Founder of Roadworks Productions, with residen­cies at Steppenwolf & Victory Gardens. Highlights: John Barth’s The End of the Road, Lanford Wilson’s Serenading Louie, Kenneth Lonergan’s This is Our Youth, Chuck Mee’s Orestes, Eric Bogosian’s subUrbia. She is an Advisory Member of Playwrights Realm in NYC and on the board of FASPE (Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics). Debbie lives with her husband David Goldman and dedicates this season to the memory of their sweet, loving Stella.

Emily is in her 29th season as Artistic Director and Resident Play-wright. Her nearly 50 McCarter directing credits include pro­ductions by Shakespeare, Chekhov, Ibsen, and Williams and the recent world premieres of Turning Off the Morning News; Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express; Baby Doll; Five Mile Lake; The Convert; The How and the Why; Miss Witherspoon; and Me, Myself & I. Broadway: A Streetcar Named Desire, Anna in the Tropics, Execution of Justice, Having Our Say. Her plays: Having Our Say, adapted from the book by Sarah L. Delany and A. Elizabeth Delany with Amy Hill Hearth; Execution of Justice; Still Life; Annulla, An Autobiography; Greensboro (A Requiem); Meshugah; Mrs. Packard, and Hoodwinked (a Primer on Radical Islamism). Her new play Gloria: A Life about the legacy of Gloria Steinem is currently running in New York. Adaptations: Baby Doll, Scenes from a Marriage, Uncle Vanya, The Cherry Orchard, A Seagull in the Hamptons, The House of Bernarda Alba, Antigone; and The Pianist. Awards: Peabody, Hull Warriner, NAACP, Obies, Guggenheim; Tony®, Drama Desk, Outer Critics Circle nominations, a Princeton University Honorary Doctorate of Arts, a Helen Merrill Distinguished Playwrights’ Award, and the Margo Jones Award given to a “citizen-of-the-theater who has demonstrated a lifetime commit­ment to the encouragement of the living theater everywhere.”

Michael is in his first season at McCarter. For the last nine years, he was the Managing Director of La Jolla Playhouse in San Diego where he helped develop and produce new work by Ayad Akhtar, Trey Anastasio, Amanda Green, Kirsten Greenidge, Quiara Alegría Hudes, John Leguizamo, Basil Twist, Doug Wright, and The Flaming Lips. During his tenure, the Playhouse was awarded multi-million dollar grants from the NEA and the Wallace and Irvine Foundations to accelerate experiments meant to develop multi-ethnic projects, expand opportunities for family engagement, and build the capacity to sustain community arts programs in off-site locations. Previously, Mike was Co-Founder and Executive Director of Drama Dept., a New York non-profit theater collective, where for fourteen years he produced new works by the likes of Douglas Carter Beane, Warren Leight, Isaac Mizrahi, Paul Rudnick, and David & Amy Sedaris. He is also the Assistant Coach for the U13 Ironmen FC. Follow him on Twitter @MrMikeRosenberg.

1812–1870
Born in Portsea, England, Charles Dickens was the second of eight children. In 1824, his father was thrown into debtor’s prison, and young Charles was sent to work in a boot-blacking factory. After his schooling, Charles worked as a solicitor’s clerk but soon turned his efforts towards journalism. He then began experimenting with creative writing, and by the time he turned 25, with the publication of The Pickwick Papers, he became the first great novelist of the industrial city. His most popular works include Nicholas Nickleby, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations. Incensed by a trip to observe the working conditions of children in a tin mine in Cornwall, he planned to write a political pamphlet condemning child labor but soon reconsidered. “Rest assured, when you see what I do, and where, and how, you will certainly feel that a sledgehammer has come down with twenty times the force—twenty thousand times the force—I could exert by following out my first idea.” The result of this change of heart was A Christmas Carol, published in 1843.