Production Team
Shakespeare’s Associates 2010-2011 Season
Lisa A. Tromovitch (Producing Artistic Director, Director
Macbeth) is the founder of Shakespeare’s Associates/Livermore Shakespeare Festival, with over 40 professional directing credits in six states. She began her career at The Old Globe Theater where she assisted directors Jack O’Brien, Tom Moore and the late John Houseman. She is a Backstage West Garland Award and Indy Award winner for her direction of
Amadeus at PCPA TheatreFest. Most recently she directed
Macbeth,
The Real Thing,
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and
The Seagull for SA, and
Godspell at University of the Pacific, Stockton, where she is the chair of the Department of Theatre Arts. Lisa was awarded a 2010 Innovation Award in the inaugural celebration “Risktakers and Dreammakers” hosted by the Livermore Chamber of Commerce. Member of Actors Equity Association, Shakespeare Theater Association of America, and Lincoln Center Directors Lab-West, she also serves on the Theatre Services Committee of Theatre Bay Area. MFA from Southern Methodist University; BA magna cum laude, from Dartmouth College, member Phi Beta Kappa.
Leslie Martinson (Director,
Lend Me A Tenor) is the Associate Artist and Casting Director at TheatreWorks, where she directed
Superior Donuts, Theophilus North, If We Are Women, Brilliant Traces,The Boys Next Door and
The Voice of the Prairie among others. A graduate of Occidental College, she was a Watson Fellow, a member of Lincoln Center Directors’ Lab and a member of the LaMaMa International Directing Symposium. She serves on Theatre Bay Area’s Theatre Services Committee and conducts workshops for many Bay Area universities and theatre academies.
Ken Ludwig (Playwright –
Lend Me A Tenor) is an internationally acclaimed playwright whose many hits on Broadway, in London’s West End, and throughout the world have made his name synonymous with modern comedy. He has won the Laurence Olivier Award, as well as three Tony Award nominations and two Helen Hayes Awards. His work has been commissioned by the Royal Shakespeare Company and has been performed in at least thirty countries in over twenty languages. Plays and musicals include:
Crazy for You,
Moon Over Buffalo,
Twentieth Century,
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,
Treasure Island,
Shakespeare in Hollywood,
The Beaux’ Stratagem,
The Three Musketeers, and
An American in Paris. He studied music at Harvard with Leonard Bernstein and theatre history at Cambridge University. For more information, please visit
www.kenludwig.com.
William Shakespeare (Playwright –
Macbeth) is widely recognized as the greatest playwright of all time. By the end of 1592, he was an established actor and playwright in London, eventually becoming part-owner of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men and after 1603, the King’s Men. Shakespeare wrote at least the 36 plays published in the First Folio, as well as 154 sonnets and several long poems.
Randall A. Enlow (Scenic Designer) is Theatre Arts Faculty at University of the Pacific. He has been working with Shakespeare’s Associates and the Livermore Shakespeare Festival since 2006 as a scenic and lighting designer and as technical consultant. Rand has been a professional designer for thirty-five years and has designed for classic drama, operas and musicals. He has also worked in television and feature films. In addition to the Livermore Shakespeare Festival, Rand regularly designs for Sierra Repertory Theatre, Stockton Opera, Bear Valley Opera and Stockton Civic Theatre. His B.A. is from the University of Akron and his M.F.A. is from Case Western Reserve University. His website is
http://theatredesign-randall-enlow.webs.com
Rob Evans (Sound Designer) has collaborated with Shakespeare’s Associates since 2006. Past work includes composing original scores for
A Midsummer Night’s Dream and
Twelfth Night as well as contributing sound designs for
Copenhagen,
The Seagull,
Proof, and, most recently,
A Life in the Theater. He plays saxophone with the Rob Evans Quartet, a jazz ensemble that performs throughout the Bay Area. He is also one of the creative brains at Mastermind Treasure Hunts.
Peta Grimes (Furniture Coordinator) grew up in England, but has lived in the Bay Area since graduate school at Berkeley. She has been volunteering with Shakespeare’s Associates for about five years in a variety of capacities, including serving as props designer for several shows. She also looks after props at Las Positas College.
Christine Hornbaker (Stage Manager –
Macbeth) is returning for her second year with Shakespeare’s Associates, having staged managed
Romeo and Juliet in last summer’s production. She has also staged managed numerous productions at Las Positas College, including
Phantom of the Country Opera, Metamorphoses, and
The School for Scandal. She is transferring in the fall to UC Santa Cruz to pursue a degree in technical theatre with an emphasis in stage management.
Cynthia Lagodzinski (Props Designer) has degrees in theatre as an actor and director from UCSC, where she spent time working with Shakespeare Santa Cruz. She lives in Livermore with her husband and two children, one of whom is super excited to be performing here in his first Shakespeare show,
Macbeth!
Lindsay Lam (Assistant to the Costume Designer) is a freelance costume stitcher and draper in College Park, MD. A graduate of the University of Maryland, she earned her Bachelors in Music, Double Bass Performance, was a Smith Scholarship recipient, and a finalist in the 2009 University of Maryland Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition. She studied costuming under Susan Chaing at Maryland, where she works as a stitcher and draper. She has also worked on productions for Wolf Trap Opera such as
Zaide, Il Turco, and
A Midsummer Night’s Dream; and for Round House Theater on
A Wrinkle In Time, and
Amadeus.
Joanne Martin (Costume Designer) is pleased to be designing
Lend Me a Tenor and
Macbeth. Some of the other companies Joanne has worked for are Pacific Rep, CalShakes, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Repertory Theatre, Santa Fe Opera, Seattle Opera, Opera San Jose, San Jose Stage, The Joyce Theatre, Penumbra Theatre, City Lights Theatre. Joanne studied at Central School of Art and Design in London and is also a Lecturer and Costume Shop Supervisor at Santa Clara University.
Deborah Munro (Assistant Director –
Macbeth) returns to Shakespeare’s Associates after fifteen months backpacking Australia, India, and Israel. Before traveling, she served as Volunteer Coordinator for the San Francisco Jewish Film Festival and Artistic Intern for American Conservatory Theater. She joined Livermore Shakespeare Festival in 2004 as an apprentice and has worked on seven LSF productions in a variety of capacities, including stage manager and assistant director. She holds a BA in English from the University of Chicago.
Barbara Murray (Co-Costume Designer –
Macbeth) is the Chair and Costume Designer for the Department of Theatre and Dance at Santa Clara University. She earned her B.A. from Santa Clara University and received her M.F.A. from Southern Methodist University. Barbara has designed costumes for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Summer Repertory Theatre, Lyric Theatre, Children’s Theatre Workshop, Cabrillo Stage, and Opera San Jose. She has worked as a cutter/draper and crafts artisan for Milwaukee Repertory, the Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, and Lyric Theatre, and worked as assistant Dyer/Painter in the San Francisco Opera costume shop. Barbara has a particular interest in the social history of fashion, and she is working on a book about women’s clothing during the Gold Rush period in California.
Carla Pantoja (Fight Director) works as a theatrical combat instructor for California Shakespeare Theater and San Francisco Shakespeare Festival. She is an adjunct faculty member for Hartnell Community College, and a teaching artist through Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Jose Repertory Theatre, and Each One Reach One. Her work has been seen on stage at Killing My Lobster, Palo Alto Players, Broadway West, and East LA Repertory Theater, among others, as well as at school productions around the Bay Area. She coordinated fights for two films,
Evolution the Musical and
Monsters Don’t Get to Cry, and was nominated for a 2007 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for her work on Cutting Ball Theater’s
Taming of the Shrew. She is the resident fight director for Teatro Visión and Woman’s Will. Carla is an Equity Membership Candidate.
Burr Cochran Phillips (Singing Coach –
Lend Me A Tenor) is currently a member of the faculty in the Conservatory of Music at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, CA. He has also taught at Northern Arizona University, Southern Methodist University and the University of Texas at Arlington.
Karen Riley (Production Assistant) joined Shakespeare’s Associates’ production staff as the Technical Director for
Proof and followed up as Production Manager for Livermore Shakespeare Festival 09. Karen has participated in the Las Positas College Technical Theater Department for four years and worked on eight shows there.
Peggy Riley (Dramaturg) taught English at Las Positas College for over twenty years, including studies in Shakespeare. In retirement, she’s delighted to return to her first love, theater. She’s worked on twelve shows for Shakespeare’s Associates:
Romeo & Juliet, The Real Thing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Seagull, The Gifts of the Magi, Wharton One-Acts, All’s Well That Ends Well, ‘art’, The Comedy of Errors, Proof, Twelfth Night and The Complete Works of Wm. Shkspr (abridged) (revised) as well as nine shows for the Las Positas College Theater Department. Peggy holds an MA in English from UC Berkeley and an MA in history from Montana State University.
Michael Rinaldi (Technical Director/Light Designer) has been a Stage Technician at Las Positas College for ten years. He previously worked for ten years with the Oakland and San Francisco Stage Hand Unions, working on opera, ballet, theater and concerts. Michael also runs his own lighting company, Northern Lights, which provides lighting for performing arts, concerts and special events.
