Gabriel Marin (HARRY) is delighted to return to San Jose Rep where he was previously seen in Love in American Times (Hector). Recent credits include Rumors (Glenn) and Arms and the Man (Sergius) at Center REPertory Company, Bellwether (Alan) at Marin Theatre Company, Wirehead (Destry) at SF Playhouse, Collapse (David) at Aurora Theatre Company, and Superior Donuts (Luther) at TheatreWorks. Locally, Mr. Marin has also appeared at American Conservatory Theater, Bay Area Playwrights Foundation, Black Box Theatre, Central Works, Magic Theatre, PlayGround, San Francisco Fringe Festival, The Jewish Theatre, Thick Description, Word for Word, and Z Space. Mr. Marin was named Best Actor by the East Bay Express in their “Best of The East Bay 2010” and as co-MVP for 2011 by Sam Hurwitt (theidiolect.com). On television, Mr. Marin has performed on NBC, CBS, PBS, and the BBC.

Craig Marker (JAKE) returns to San Jose Rep where he has performed in Love in American Times, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Iphigenia at Aulis, The Foreigner, and As You Like It. Regionally, Mr. Marker has performed for Portland Center Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, The San Francisco Shakespeare Festival, Aurora Theatre Company, California Shakespeare Theater, TheatreWorks, and Center REPertory Company. His Bay Area credits include critically acclaimed productions of Equivocation, 9 Circles, and Seagull at Marin Theatre Company; Wirehead, The Story, and First Person Shooter at SF Playhouse; and Macbeth at Shotgun Players. Mr. Marker’s television and film credits include Trauma; Bye-Bye, Bin Laden; Generic Thriller; and Night of Henna, and his voice work includes several characters in the video game Brutal Legend starring Jack Black.

Jessica Wortham (ROXANNE) is thrilled to be returning to San Jose Rep after her San Francisco 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.

Theresa Rebeck (PLAYWRIGHT) is a widely produced playwright both in the United States and abroad. Past New York productions of her work include Mauritius at the Biltmore; The Scene, The Water’s Edge, Loose Knit, The Family of Mann, and Spike Heels at Second Stage; Bad Dates, The Butterfly Collection, and Our House at Playwrights Horizons; View of the Dome at New York Theatre Workshop; and The Understudy at the Roundabout Theatre Company. Omnium Gatherum (co-written, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in 2003) was featured at the Humana Festival, and had a commercial run at the Variety Arts Theatre. She has won the National Theatre Conference Award, The William Inge New Voices Playwriting Award, an “IRNE” Award for Best New Play, and the Elliot Norton Award for various works. Ms. Rebeck has published two novels and has taught writing at Brandeis and Columbia universities.

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.

Annie Smart (SCENIC DESIGNER) returns to San Jose Rep where she designed A Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Weir, and costumes for Double Indemnity. In New York, she designed several shows for The Public Theatre and the Broadway production of In the Next Room (or the vibrator play). Recent local shows include Man and Superman, An Ideal Husband, Private Lives, Pastures of Heaven, and Candida for California Shakespeare Theater; Auctioning the Ainsleys for TheatreWorks; and Big Love, Suddenly Last Summer, Passing Strange, To The Lighthouse, Heartbreak House, Yellowjackets, In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), Tiny Kushner, Taking Over, and Three Sisters for Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Originally from London, Ms. Smart designed the premieres of Caryl Churchill’s Fen, Ice Cream and Hot Fudge, A Mouthful of Birds, and The Skriker amongst other shows for the Royal Court, Joint Stock Group, and the National Theatre. Ms. Smart teaches costume and set design at the University of California, Berkeley.

Fumiko Bielefeldt (COSTUME DESIGNER) is delighted to join the San Jose Rep production team for The Understudy. Ms. Bielefeldt’s recent credits include Othello, the Moor of Venice; Bellwether (world premiere); and Edward Albee’s Tiny Alice for Marin Theatre Company; and The Secret Garden, Sense and Sensibility, Snow Falling on Cedars, and The Light in the Piazza for TheatreWorks. Ms. Bielefeldt’s designs have appeared at Aurora Theatre Company, Magic Theatre, American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theatre, Berkeley Repertory Theater, Theatre of Yugen, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, and The Kansas City Repertory Theatre. In Japan, she designed for Tokyo Theatre of Children and Tokyo Shitamachi Festival. Ms. Bielefeldt has received many awards, including the Barbara Bladen Porter Special, Bay Area Theater Critics Circle, Dean Goodman Choice, Back Stage West Garland, and Drama-Logue awards.

Daniel Meeker (LIGHTING DESIGNER) returns to San Jose Rep, having previously designed lighting for The Last Romance, Black Pearl Sings!, and As You Like It. He has designed lighting and/or scenery for over 150 shows, both off-Broadway and regionally. Companies with whom Mr. Meeker has collaborated include Portland Center Stage, Portland Playhouse, Profile Theatre Project, Portland Actors Conservatory, Geva Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Actors Express, Yale Repertory Theatre, Cape Playhouse, Hangar Theatre, Shakespeare & Company, Ordway Theatre, Irish Arts Center, Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, and White Wave Dance. Mr. Meeker was a member of the design faculty at Ithaca College from 2000-2005, is a graduate of Ithaca College and the Yale School of Drama, and is a member of United Scenic Artists. More at www.danielmeeker.com.

Steve Schoenbeck (SOUND DESIGNER) is happy to be designing at San Jose Rep where his sound designs include (but are not limited to) Spring Awakening, The Dresser, Secret Order, Groundswell, The Foreigner, The Immigrant, Enchanted April, and Humpty Dumpty. Mr. Schoenbeck’s sound designs have also been heard in productions at TheatreWorks, American Conservatory Theater, SF Playhouse, Marin Theatre Company, San Jose Stage Company, Culture Clash, and Edinburgh’s Assembly Theatre, amongst others. He’s also designed sound for short films, animation, and mixed numerous musicals. Currently, Mr. Schoenbeck is the “Resident Sound Guy” at San Jose Rep.

Laxmi Kumaran (STAGE MANAGER) is enjoying her seventh season at San Jose Rep. This past summer she had the pleasure of stage managing for California Shakespeare Theater. Before moving to the Bay Area, Ms. Kumaran stage managed in Chicago for a variety of theatres, including Goodman Theatre and the Court Theatre. Some of the directors with whom she has had the pleasure of working include Rick Lombardo, Timothy Near, Richard Seer, John McCluggage, Kirsten Brandt, Barbara Damashek, Jonathan Moscone, Michael Butler, Joel Sass, Robert Falls, Mary Zimmerman, David Ira Goldstein, JoAnne Akalaitis, Robert Woodruff, Karin Coonrod, Gary Griffin, and David Cromer. Ms. Kumaran has taught stage management classes at San Jose State, Northern Illinois, DePaul, and Northwestern Universities, and currently teaches at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Stephanie Schliemann (ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER) has worked on Double Indemnity, Spring Awakening, Love in American Times, The Dresser, and Ain’t Misbehavin’, among others, at San Jose Rep. Other local stage management credits include Flower Drum Song, Guys and Dolls, The King and I, Gypsy, and The Wizard of Oz at American Musical Theatre of San Jose; Anansi the Spider, Orson’s Shadow, and The Last Schwartz at Marin Theatre Company; Le Nozze de Figaro and The Magic Flute at Opera San Jose; and Race, Marcus, The Tosca Project, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and At Home at the Zoo, among others, at American Conservatory Theater. She has also worked with Teatro ZinZanni and the Circus Center of San Francisco.