Delicia Turner Sonnenberg (Director) is a founder and former Artistic Director of MOXIE Theatre, where she directed many acclaimed productions. Last season she made her Old Globe debut directing Dominique Morisseau’s Skeleton Crew. She has also directed plays for San Diego Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego State University, Cygnet Theatre Company, Mo`olelo Performing Arts Company, New Village Arts, Diversionary Theatre, ion theatre company, and Playwrights Project. Her honors include Theatre Communications Group’s New Generations Program grant, the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Awards, Women’s International Center Living Legacy Award, Van Lier Fund fellowship (Second Stage Theatre), and the New York Drama League’s Directors Project. She is married to designer Jerry Sonnenberg and is the proud mama to August and Zoë.

Elisa Benzoni (Costume Design) previously designed The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Reckless, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, and Pericles for The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program. She is Resident Costume Designer at North Coast Repertory Theatre, where she has designed Craig Noel Award-nominated productions. Her other select credits include Constellations (The Old Globe), Sex with Strangers (Geffen Playhouse), The Who and The What, Our Town, Tall Girls, Brahaman/i, and Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir (La Jolla Playhouse). Awake and Sing!, Emilie: La Marquise Du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight, Sylvia, and Much Ado About Nothing (New Village Arts), and Snakeskin, Lifeblood Harmony, Chagall, and A Man Found Wanting (Malashock Dance). Ms. Benzoni’s assistant costume design credits include Les Dialogues des Carmélites (Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Italy), Paradise Found (Menier Chocolate Factory, London), Milk Like Sugar (La Jolla Playhouse), and As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe). She holds an M.F.A. in Costume Design from UC San Diego, where she is currently an adjunct lecturer. elisabenzoni.com.

Melanie Chen Cole (Sound Design) is excited to be working with The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program again! A San Diego-based freelance sound designer, she has designed over 100 productions in San Diego, Los Angeles, and San Francisco. Her recent regional design credits include The Two Gentlemen of Verona and Pericles (Globe/USD), The Imaginary Invalid (The Old Globe), Mrs. Warren’s Profession (A Noise Within), At the Old Place and #SuperShinySara (La Jolla Playhouse), Native Son (UC San Diego M.F.A. Program), American Hero, Having Our Say, Awake and Sing!, and An Iliad (New Village Arts), Travels with My Aunt, An Illusion, and Marjorie Prime (North Coast Repertory Theatre), and Well and 2.5 Minute Ride (Diversionary Theatre). She holds an M.F.A. in Sound Design for Theatre & Dance from UC San Diego. melaniesound.com.

Brian Byrnes (Movement Coach) previously worked on The Old Globe productions of Red Velvet, Rain, Arms and the Man, The Twenty-seventh Man, and The Winter’s Tale, and The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program productions of The Two Gentlemen of Verona, As You Like It, Pericles, Much Ado About Nothing, and Measure for Measure. His other credits include New York theatres, regional theatres, Shakespeare festivals, and motion-capture animation in the U.S. and Sweden. His selected work also includes American Players Theatre, Intrepid Theatre Company, Prague Shakespeare Company, Alley Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Stages Repertory Theatre, The Ensemble Theatre, Dallas Theater Center, Houston Ballet, Houston Shakespeare Festival, Texas Ballet Theatre, Dominic Walsh Dance Theatre, John Housman Theatre, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Westbeth Theatre Center, and others. He is an AEA actor, a director for theatre and opera, and a writer of several plays that have been professionally produced. Mr. Byrnes is a longtime member of the Society of American Fight Directors as a Certified Teacher, Fight Director, and Fight Master.

Abraham Stoll (Dramaturg) specializes in Renaissance and early modern literature. He has published on Shakespeare, Spenser, Milton, and others. He is currently finishing a book, Conscience in Early Modern English Literature, which is forthcoming with Cambridge University Press, and he is beginning work on a new edition of Paradise Lost. Mr. Stoll teaches Shakespeare in The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program and is Chair of the English Department at USD.

Sebastian Perfetto (Assistant Stage Manager) has stage managed Ballast, Well, The Boy Who Danced on Air, Now or Later, In the Va Va Voom Room, A Civil War Christmas, Bright Half Life, and A New Brain (Diversionary Theatre), Rent (Southwestern College), Annie (California Youth Conservatory), Much Ado About Nothing, I Hate Hamlet, All My Sons, Macbeth, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream the Musical (Intrepid Theatre Company). As production assistant and assistant stage manager, his credits include At This Evening’s Performance, Ain’t Misbehavin’, The Fox on the Fairway, Side by Side, and Chapter Two (North Coast Repertory Theatre) and The Two Gentleman of Verona (The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program). Mr. Perfetto is grateful to call Diversionary Theatre his home as both Production Manager and Resident Stage Manager. He has a B.A. in Theatre Arts and Performance Studies from University of San Diego.