Meet the Cast

DANNY CAMPBELL (Tom) Cygnet Theatre Debut. Regional: King John (Hubert), Taming of the Shrew (Vincentio), Intrepid Shakespeare. Ring Round The Moon (Guy Charles Romainville), You Never Can Tell (Finch McComas), Moonlight Stage Productions. Room Service (Dr. Glass), Lamb’s Players Theatre. The Last Night of Ballyhoo (Adolph), Scripps Ranch Theatre. My Fair Lady (Col. Pickering), Starlight Theatre. Other shows include: 1776 (James Wilson), Dancing At Lughnasa (Michael), Hamlet (Horatio), The Taming Of The Shrew (Petruchio), The Odd Couple (Felix), Brigadoon (Jeff), La Béte (Bejart), Much Ado About Nothing (Don Pedro), Sweeney Todd (Jonas Fogg), West Side Story (Lt. Schrank), A Walk In The Woods (Honeyman), and I Never Sang For My Father (Gene). He is married to Sandy Campbell, with whom he has appeared in Lips Together Teeth Apart and The Apple Tree.
Danny Campbell is sponsored by Artist Advocate, Jean Neisewander.

SANDY CAMPBELL (Sarah) Cygnet: Passion-A Staged Concert (Fosca), Noises Off (Belinda), Mauritius (Mary), A Little Night Music (Charlotte), Communicating Doors (Ruella- SD Critic’s Circle award). Regional: Zhivago (ensemble), Diva (understudy), La Jolla Playhouse. San Diego Theatre: The Light in the Piazza (Signora Naccarelli), 1776 (Abigail), Lamb’s Players (Associate Artist); The Adoption Project: Triad (Bernice), Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company; The Most Happy Fella (Rosabella), The Spitfire Grill (Shelby), Lost in Yonkers (Bella), Moonlight Stage Productions; Man of La Mancha (Aldonza), The Batting Cage (Julianna), North Coast Rep; Falsettos (Cordelia), Diversionary Theatre. Solo Recording: Crazy World (cdbaby.com and itunes). Proud member of Actor’s Equity. www.performerprofiles.com/sandycampbell.
Sandy Campbell is sponsored by Artist Advocates Bev Conner & Howard Finnecy and Walter M. Mayes.

RON CHOULARTON (Reg) Ron is thrilled to be back at Cygnet – Previously: St. Nicholas, My Fair Lady. Regional: Peter & The Starcatchers (La Jolla Playhouse). Sight Unseen, Moon For The Misbegotten, Da (Old Globe). The Seafarer, The Clean House, A Christmas Carol, (San Diego Rep). Selected others: M. Butterfly, Breaking the Code, The Foreigner, Terra Nova, Jacob Marley’s Christmas Carol, A Christmas Carol (North Coast Rep). Gangster No 1, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Reckless, Vigil (Fritz Theatre and Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Enchanted April (Lamb’s Players). Three Sisters, The Man Who (New Village Arts). Waiting For Godot; The Caretaker (Renaissance). FILM/TV: The Dark, Splitsville, Pensacola, Renegade; Wrote/presented KPBS Britcom intros. Recipient of numerous Dramalogue, SD Critic’s Circle, Patte, & SD Playbill Awards.
Ron Choularton is sponsored by Artist Advocates Lisa Capper & Jesse King and Jim Price & Joan Sieber.

ALBERT DAYAN (Norman) Cygnet Theatre: Noises Off. Regional: The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet (Tahoe Shakespeare); Macbeth (Frantic Redhead Productions-Edinburgh); The Crucible, The Secret Affairs of Mildred Wild (SRT-Santa Rosa). Los Angeles: War Music (Geffen Theatre); As You Like It (A Noise Within); A Bright Room Called Day, Mary Barnes (Odyssey Theatre); The Scarlet Letter (Singular Productions); Romeo and Juliet (Theatricum Botanicum); La Bête (Santa Clarita Repertory); Resa Fantastiskt Mystisk, Easy Targets, Focus Today (Burglars Of Hamm). Education: B.F.A. in Acting, California Institute of the Arts.With three others, Albert runs Burglars of Hamm, an award-winning L.A.-based theatre company dedicated to creating original satire. He teaches acting professionally in Los Angeles and San Diego.
Albert Dayan is sponsored by Artist Advocate Ralph Johnson.

JO ANNE GLOVER (Annie) Cygnet Resident Artist. Founder and Managing Director of MOXIE Theatre. Cygnet Theatre: The Receptionist (SD Critics Circle Best Supp. Actress). San Diego Theatre: Summer and Smoke, Expecting Isabel, Drink Me, Rabbit Hole, Bleeding Kansas, Off The Ground, The Listener, Bluebonnet Court, Devil Dog Six, WET, Miss Witherspoon, The Adoption Project, Dog Act, Limonades Tous les Jours (Patte award, Best Actress), Pulp, Kimberly Akimbo, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet, Relatively Speaking, Stop Kiss, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew and Monstropoly. Regional: Bus Stop (Broadway production), The Three Sisters, Subtle Bodies, The Trojan Women, Romeo & Juliet, Measure for Measure and I Hate Hamlet. Education: Graduate of the University of Texas, and Circle in the Square Theatre School (NYC). She has worked On- and Off-Broadway, in Los Angeles, and regionally. In addition to acting, she also produced in New York and Los Angeles.
Jo Anne Glover is sponsored by Artist Advocates Alan & Esther Siman.

FRANCES ANITA RIVERA (Ruth) Cygnet Theatre Debut.San Diego Theatre: 9 Parts of Desire (Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company); Ring Round the Moon (Moonlight Stage Productions). Regional: Frances has had the pleasure to work with such theaters as Seattle Repertory Theater, Arizona Jewish Theater, Phoenix Theater, Magic Theater in San Francisco, Marin Shakespeare Theater, and the American Conservatory Theater. Education: University of California, Santa Barbara (BA in Dramatic Arts); two years in The American Conservatory Theater Masters of Fine Arts program.
Frances Anita Rivera is sponsored by Artist Advocates Carl & Sue Woodend.

Meet the Crew

SEAN MURRAY (Director) Artistic Director and co-founder of Cygnet Theatre. Cygnet Theatre: Private Lives, Sweeney Todd, It’s A Wonderful Life, Noises Off, Bed and Sofa ‘09, The History Boys, A Christmas Carol, A Little Night Music (SD Critic’s Award, Best Director), The Receptionist, The Invention of Love, Bed and Sofa ‘04 (SD Critic’s Award, Best Director, Best Musical Revival), Las Meninas, Escanaba in da Moonlight (SD Critic’s Circle, Set Design), The Book of Liz, Pageant, Bug, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, St. Nicholas, The Matchmaker, Desire Under the Elms, Santaland Diaries, Firebugs, Fully Committed, Arcadia, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, My Fair Lady. Elsewhere: The Elephant Man (Patté Award, Direction), Man of La Mancha, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, North Coast Rep; Never the Sinner, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Diversionary. Education: University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA). In 2000, Sean was named one of San Diego Magazine’s “50 People to Watch” and in 2005 he was named Producer of the Year by the San Diego Critic’s Circle.
Sean Murray is sponsored by Artist Advocates James & Claudia Prescott and Janice Walker

FRANCIS GERCKE (Director) Cygnet Theatre Resident Artist. Cygnet Theatre: Man from Nebraska (Patte Award for Outstanding Direction), Mauritius, Dying City, and Curse of the Starving Class (San Diego Critic’s Circle Award, Outstanding Direction). Acting credits at Cygnet: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Brick), Desire Under the Elms (Eben), A Number (Bernard 1, Bernard 2, and Michael Black) and Love Song (Beane). San Diego Theatre: include Ring Round the Moon (Moonlight at the Avo) Hurlyburly (Ion Theatre Company). Francis is the Associate Artistic Director of Cygnet.

SEAN FANNING (Set Designer) Cygnet Resident Artist. Cygnet Theatre: Sweeney Todd, Noises Off, A Christmas Carol, A Little Night Music, Mauritius, The Receptionist, The Matchmaker. Elsewhere: KINGDOM (The Old Globe), Two Gentlemen of Verona, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Old Globe/USD), Zombie Prom (2008 Patte Award), The Grapes of Wrath, The People vs. Mona, A Man of No Importance (San Diego State University); and Das Barbecü (Theatre in Old Town). Sean is the Resident Design Assistant at The Old Globe, where he has worked on over twenty productions. He has also worked as an assistant at both the San Diego Opera and the Los Angeles Opera. Sean holds an MFA in Scene Design from San Diego State University.

MICHELLE CARON (Lighting Designer) Cygnet Theatre: It’s A Wonderful Life ‘09, Bed and Sofa ‘09 (Assistant Lighting Designer). Elsewhere: An Incidental Fear of Numbers (Sushi Arts), Malashock Dance presents Surface Tension (Lyceum Theatre at San Diego Rep), A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Class Act, Hamlet: Blood in the Brain, and Die Fledermaus (San Diego State University). Ms. Caron’s work has been featured at the United States Institute of Theatre Technology’s Young Designer’s Forum in Kansas City, MO and at the Design Showcase West in Los Angeles, CA.

JEANNE REITH (Costume Designer) Cygnet Resident Artist. Cygnet Theatre: The Receptionist, A Little Night Music, It’s A Wonderful Life, Arcadia, Desire Under the Elms, The Matchmaker, Copenhagen, My Fair Lady, and The Little Foxes. Elsewhere: Jeanne has designed over 90 productions as resident designer for Lamb’s Players. Her creative work has achieved Theatre Critic’s Awards such as the Craig Noel, Patté, and Billie Awards for An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, Till We Have Faces, The Boy Who Fell Into A Book, Joyful Noise, Tarantara! Tarantara!, Dr. Faustus, The Winslow Boy, and Metamorphoses. In 2008, Jeanne was presented a Patte Award for Costume Design Excellence for her entire season of productions which included Hello Dolly!, The Voysey Inheritance, The Hit, Boomers, The Light in the Piazza, Festival of Christmas: Angel’s Arms, and An American Christmas.

GEORGE YE (Sound Designer) Cygnet Resident Artist. Cygnet Theatre: The Piano Lesson, Man From Nebraska, A Christmas Carol, The Receptionist, A Number, Fences, Arcadia, Yellowman, It’s A Wonderful Life, Bug, Escanaba in da Moonlight, Fully Committed. San Diego Theatre: San Diego Rep: Restless Spirits, The Goat, Proof, Nuevo California; Old Globe/MFA: Sir Patient Fancy, Marat Sade, Absolute Turkey; Diversionary Theatre: Little Dog Laughed, M. Butterfly, The Killing of Sister George, Falsettos, Love! Valour! Compassion!, Cloud 9, 5th of July, Never the Sinner; North Coast Rep: A Life in the Theatre, Travesties, Relatively Speaking; San Diego Asian American Rep: Woman From the Other Side of the World, Struggling Truths, Flipzoids, FOB, Fool For Love, Cultivated Lives; Elsewhere, and University: The Country Wife, The Saint Plays, Cabaret, Find You in the Forest, Oedipus at Colonus, The Crucible, Sam I Am, Over the Asian Airwaves, Side Kick, Silent Sacrifices, The Illusion. George has his MFA/MA and teaches at Mesa College and the University of San Diego.

BONNIE L. DURBEN (Properties Designer) Cygnet Resident Artist. Cygnet Theatre: Private Lives, Sweeney Todd, The Piano Lesson, Man from Nebraska, Fully Committed, Noises Off, Hedwig, Bed and Sofa, Mauritius, The History Boys, Love Song, A Christmas Carol, Dying City, Fences, It’s A Wonderful Life, Communicating Doors, Bug, My Fair Lady, A Little Night Music, The Receptionist. Elsewhere: New Village Arts: The Man Who, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Things We Want; Moonlight Productions: West Side Story, Little Shop of Horrors, Me and My Girl; Mira Costa College: The Tempest, 1940’s Radio Hour, Heartland, Anything Goes, Blithe Spirit, Electra, As You Like It, Assassins. Film: Ready? Ok!, The Street Sweeper.

PETER HERMAN (Wig and Makeup Designer) Cygnet Resident Artist. Cygnet Theatre: Costumes and Wig/Makeup Design for Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Wigs/makeup for Private Lives, Sweeney Todd, The Piano Lesson, It’s A Wonderful Life, Noises Off, Bed and Sofa, The History Boys, A Christmas Carol, The Receptionist, A Little Night Music, Fences, The Turn of the Screw, Communicating Doors, Arcadia, The Matchmaker. Elsewhere: Peter has designed hair and wigs for over 300 productions, including the La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Rep, San Diego Opera, Disneyland, and various film and television projects. Film: Costume design for Ready? Ok! Peter currently teaches wigs and makeup at SDSU.

ROSALEE BARRIENTOS (Stage Manager) Cygnet Resident Artist. Cygnet Theatre: Sweeney Todd, It’s A Wonderful Life 2007 & 2009, Noises Off, The History Boys (ASM), A Christmas Carol, The Receptionist, A Number, The Turn of the Screw, Arcadia, Yellowman, Copenhagen, The Invention of Love, Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, Pageant, Bed and Sofa 2004. San Diego Theatre: A Dream Play, Macbeth, Nu, [sic], Berzerkergäng, and The Universal Monster Show (Sledgehammer Theatre); Redwood Curtain (Asian American Repertory Theatre); Fuddy Meers, Moon Over Buffalo, The Rivals, and The Diary of Anne Frank (North Coast Repertory Theatre); Ghosts (SRT, Santa Rosa). Ross graduated from San Diego State University with a BA in Theatre Arts.
Rosalee Barrientos is sponsored by Artist Advocates Lee Lampard & Michael Stone.

JESSICA BIRD (Assistant Stage Manager) Cygnet Theatre Debut. Elsewhere: SDRep: Picasso (ASM), Boom (ASM), Holiday Celebration (Producer), The Seafarer (Props), Long Story Short (Props); Jewish Arts Festival: Women of Valor and The Show Across the Street (Stage Manager); PLNU: The Fantasticks (Musical Director), Blind Date (Director), Urinetown (Stage Manager), The Tempest (Ariel, Costume Designer), The Glass Menagerie (Amanda), Caucasian Chalk Circle (Grusha, Costume Designer), Little Women, The Musical (Marmie, Co-Costume Designer). Independent: Talley’s Folly (Sally, Co-Director, Producer). Jessica is a teaching artist with The Old Globe and the Drama Director at Torah High. She received her Bachelor’s Degree in Music and Theatre from PLNU.

ANNIE HINTON (Dialect Coach) Cygnet Theatre: Cat On a Hot Tin Roof, The Invention of Love, Communicating Doors, The Turn of the Screw, A Christmas Carol. Elsewhere: La Jolla Playhouse (Tobacco Road), New Village Arts (Crimes of the Heart), 6th@Penn (Killer Joe, Back to the 5 and dime Jimmy Dean), Avo Playhouse (On Golden Pond, You Never Can Tell, Driving Miss Daisy, Ring Round The Moon), Moonlight Stage (My One And Only).