Insight Night

From conception to casting, San Jose Rep’s FREE Insight Nights offer a rare glimpse into the building of a production. Join Artistic Director Rick Lombardo and other artists and local experts as they share insights into the themes and creative process of our upcoming productions.

These lively and thought-provoking discussions are always entertaining, often full of surprises, and FREE! It's guaranteed to be an INSIGHT-ful evening. Call the Box Office at 408.367.7255 or email boxoffice@sjrep.com to RSVP.

2011-2012 DATES:
Monday, August 29, 2011 - Spring Awakening
Monday, October 10, 2011 - The Last Romance
Monday, November 28, 2011 - A Christmas Carol
Monday, January 9, 2012 - Double Indemnity
Monday, March 19, 2012 - God of Carnage
Monday, May 7, 2012 - The Understudy
Monday, June 18, 2012 - Bill W. and Dr. Bob

Insight Night for The Understudy
Monday, May 7 from 7-8 pm

Theresa Rebeck’s The Understudy draws open the curtain on the world of theatre: the actors, the egos, the pecking order. Join us for Insight Night as Artistic Director Rick Lombardo, “talks shop,” discussing the play and the production, and dishing real-life anecdotes about understudies and understudy rehearsals with our guests, Amy Glazer (Director), Jessica Wortham (who plays Roxanne, the stage manager, in our production), and Bruce Elsperger, our Associate Producer, who has encountered many a personality in his years as both a stage manager and a casting director.

Join us as we invite artists and local experts to share their insights into the themes and creative process of our upcoming productions. It's guaranteed to be an INSIGHT-ful evening. Call the Box Office at 408.367.7255 or email boxoffice@sjrep.com to RSVP today.

Insiders

Amy Glazer (DIRECTOR) most recently directed Becky Shaw, Tigers Be Still, Harper Regan, Animals Out of Paper, Shining City, and The Scene at SF Playhouse where she is the Associate Artistic Director. Over the years, Amy has directed for TheatreWorks, Magic Theatre, Marin Theatre Company, Eureka Theatre, San Jose Stage Company, Traveling Jewish Theatre, and the Assembly Theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland. Also a filmmaker, Amy has directed the short Ball Lightning, and feature films Drifting Elegant by Steven Belber and Seducing Charlie Barker also by Theresa Rebeck–available on VOD, DVD, Netflix, iTunes, and Amazon. All three films were developed from plays Ms. Glazer first directed. A theatre and film professor at San Jose State University, Ms. Glazer is thrilled to be directing at San Jose Rep and working alongside so many SJSU theatre arts interns.

Jessica Wortham (ROXANNE) is thrilled to be returning to San Jose Rep after her Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award-winning performance in Black Pearl Sings!. Other Bay Area work includes Upright Grand for Theatreworks’ New Works Festival. Regionally, she has appeared in Black Pearl Sings! and Boston Marriage for Capital Repertory Theater; Black Pearl Sings! for Virginia Stage Company; Crime and Punishment, Twelfth Night, A Christmas Story, and Humana Festival premieres of The Ruby Sunrise, and No. 11 (Blue and White) for Actors Theatre of Louisville; and The Ruby Sunrise and Merry Wives of Windsor for Trinity Repertory Company. New York credits include Green Girl at the Public Theater and Bone Portraits at Soho Rep’s Walkerspace. Her international work includes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof for English Theatre Frankfurt and Crimes of the Heart for Vienna’s English Theatre. Ms. Wortham holds an MFA from Brown University.

Bruce Elsperger (ASSOCIATE PRODUCER) is in his 19th season at San Jose Rep, having most recently directed Of Mice and Men for San Jose Rep on Tour. Mr. Elsperger has also stage managed San Jose Rep’s productions of Making Tracks, The Wind Cries Mary, Love in the Title, Communicating Doors, Old Wicked Songs, and The Lady’s Not for Burning, among others. Previously he stage managed for American Conservatory Theater, where his credits include Home, Oleanna, The Duchess of Malfi, Nothing Sacred, Golden Boy, Right Mind, A Christmas Carol, Cyrano de Bergerac, Learned Ladies, and Hecuba. Also he was production stage manager with Seattle’s Intiman Theatre and Bathhouse Theater, and Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts Theaterfest in Santa Maria/Solvang, CA. In addition, Mr. Elsperger was resident casting director at New Conservatory Theatre Center in San Francisco for five seasons and has been engaged to cast several independent productions in the Bay Area.