Brian Kulick (Director, Macbeth) is finishing up his final year as the Artistic Director of Classic Stage Company, a theatre he has lead since 2003. This season he will direct Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage and Her Children with Tonya Pinkins and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s rarely seen Nathan the Wise with F. Murray Abraham. Kulick’s other directing credits for CSC include Alexander Ostrovsky’s The Forest with Dianne Wiest and William Shakespeare’s The Tempest with Mandy Patinkin, Hamlet, Richard II and Richard III with longtime collaborator Michael Cumpsty. Kulick commissioned and co-directed poet Anne Carson’s award winning An Oresteia and helmed CSC’s multi-year Brecht Fest with productions of Galileo, The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and A Man’s a Man. He also conceived and oversaw the theatre’s critically acclaimed Chekhov Cycle, which produced productions of Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard with a constellation of artists that included Alan Cumming, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Ethan Hawke, Denis O’Hare, Joely Richardson, Peter Sarsgaard, John Turturro, and Dianne Wiest. Kulick has made CSC the home for the work of playwright David Ives, producing world premieres of New Jerusalem, The School for Lies, and Venus in Fur, the latter of which transferred to Broadway and was nominated for a Tony Award for Best Play. Most recently he instituted CSC’s popular Musical Theatre Initiative, bringing revivals of such neglected masterworks as Stephen Sondheim’s Passion and Rodgers and Hammerstein’s Allegro. Prior to this he was an Artistic Associate and then Associate Producer for The Public Theater, where he directed critically acclaimed productions of Shakespeare’s Timon of Athens, The Winter’s Tale, and Twelfth Night as part of the theatre’s popular Shakespeare in the Park. He also directed A Dybbuk, Pericles, and Kit Marlowe at the theatre’s downtown home on Lafayette Street. He has directed the premieres of works by Nilo Cruz, Tony Kushner, Charles Mee, and Han Ong. Kulick’s work has been seen at Playwrights Horizons, New York Theatre Workshop, Mark Taper Forum, Trinity Repertory Company, McCarter Theatre Center, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, and Magic Theatre. He has also spent the past 15 years teaching in the graduate directing program at Columbia University’s School of the Arts with Anne Bogart.

Oana Botez (Costume Design) is an international set and costume designer for film, theatre, opera, and dance. She has earned the Princess Grace Award, NEA/TCG Career Development Program for Designers honor, Barrymore Award, and Drammy Award, and she was nominated for the Henry Hewes Design Award. Her designs have received critical acclaim in New York’s Next Wave Festival at Brooklyn Academy of Music; Bard SummerScape; Baryshnikov Arts Center; the David H. Koch Theater and the Big Apple Circus at Lincoln Center; and Classic Stage Company. Regionally she has designed for The Wilma Theater, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, ArtsEmerson, The Broad Stage, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Oberlin Dance Collective, Walker Art Center, Peak Performances, American Dance Institute, The Academy of Music, Curtis Institute of Music, and Cutler Majestic Theatre. Internationally, Ms. Botez has worked in Romania (National Theatre Bucharest and National Theatre, Arad), France (Théâtre National de Chaillot, Les Subsistence, and Le Quartz), Turkey (International Istanbul Theater Festival), Peru, Germany, Italy, Singapore, and the United Kingdom. She also teaches costume design at MIT. oanabotez.com.

Sten Severson (Sound Design) is pleased to be returning to The Old Globe, where he designed The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and Othello. His Broadway credits include The Motherfucker with the Hat, and The Merchant of Venice, and his West End credits include Hair. He designed the Off Broadway productions of Venice, No Place to Go, The Total Bent, and The Controversy of Valladolid, as well as the Shakespeare in the Park productions of King Lear, the musical Love’s Labour’s Lost, Twelfth Night, As You Like It, Hair, and Hamlet. His regional credits include Family Album (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Fallaci (Berkeley Repertory Theatre), Akeelah and the Bee (Children’s Theatre Company, Arena Stage), and Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Children’s Theatre Company). Mr. Severson is a partner in Acme Sound Partners, collectively responsible for over 30 Broadway shows since 2000, and he has taught in the sound design programs at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts and the Yale School of Drama. He is currently the Sound Director at Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis.

George Yé (Fight Director) has over 70 credits as a fight director working in theatre and film. His favorites at The Old Globe include The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, In Your Arms, Time and the Conways, Double Indemnity, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Allegiance – A New American Musical, August: Osage County, God of Carnage, The Whipping Man, and Dancing in the Dark. His other credits include Ether Dome, Kingdom City, Peter and the Starcatchers, Hands on a Hardbody, and A Dram of Drummhicit (La Jolla Playhouse) and Oedipus El Rey and Clybourne Park (San Diego Repertory Theatre). He choreographed fights for True West and Shakespeare’s R&J (Cygnet Theatre); recently worked on The Boy Who Danced on Air (Diversionary Theatre); and choreographed the Sarcinian duel in The King’s Guard with Ron Pearlman. He is head of performance training at Mesa College Theatre Company and is a member of Actors’ Equity and the Society of American Fight Directors.

Jim Carnahan, CSA (Casting) cast the Globe’s productions of Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors last summer. He is the Director of Artistic Development at Roundabout Theatre Company, where his credits include Long Day’s Journey Into Night, She Loves Me, Noises Off, Thérèse Raquin, Old Times, On the Twentieth Century, The Real Thing, Cabaret, Violet, Machinal, The Winslow Boy, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Cyrano de Bergerac, Harvey, Anything Goes, The Importance of Being Earnest, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Sunday in the Park with George, The Pajama Game, 12 Angry Men, Assassins, Nine, and Big River. His other Broadway credits include Fun Home, Constellations, The River, You Can’t Take It With You, Rocky, Glass Menagerie, Once, Matilda, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Mountaintop, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Jerusalem, Arcadia, The Scottsboro Boys, American Idiot, A Behanding in Spokane, The Seagull, Boeing-Boeing, Spring Awakening, The Pillowman, Gypsy, and True West. His film credits include A Home at the End of the World and Flicka, and his television credits include “Glee” (Emmy Award nomination).

Amanda Salmons (Assistant Stage Manager) has previously worked at The Old Globe on Rain, The Metromaniacs, Kiss Me, Kate, The White Snake, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The Last Goodbye, Globe for All (2014-2015), the Summer Shakespeare Festival (2011-2013), Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Somewhere, Lost in Yonkers, I Do! I Do!, and The Price, Her other credits include Blueprints to Freedom: An Ode to Bayard Rustin (La Jolla Playhouse), Kiss Me, Kate (Hartford Stage), The Foreigner, miXtape, See How They Run, The Music Man,and The Rivalry (Lamb’s Players Theatre), The Gondoliers, The Pirates of Penzance, Candide, and Trial by Jury (Lyric Opera San Diego), and SummerFest (La Jolla Music Society). Ms. Salmons holds a B.A. in Theatre from UC San Diego.