Allegra Libonati (Director) is a director for theatre and opera. She has served as Resident Director at American Repertory Theater for nine seasons, where her credits include The Pirate Princess, The Light Princess, Hansel and Gretel, and The Snow Queen (as director); Sleep No More (artistic associate); the workshop of Pippin, The Tempest, In the Body of the World,and Prometheus Bound (associate director); Crossing (assistant director); and The Donkey Show (Resident Director). Her Broadway credits include the Tony Award–winning revival of Hair (assistant director), and her opera credits include Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress (Boston Lyric Opera) and Verdi’s Falstaff (Opera Omaha). She has directed Romeo and Juliet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company on Boston Common), King Lear (Wayne State University), and Detroit and Henry IV, Parts I and II (Resonance Theatre Ensemble). She has directed outdoor musicals and Shakespeare productions for 13 seasons at Summer Theatre of New Canaan, including Legally Blonde (12 BroadwayWorld Award nominations), Hairspray (nine BroadwayWorld nominations), South Pacific, My Fair Lady, Carousel, Twelfth Night, The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and H4, an original adaptation of Henry IV, Parts I and II). Internationally she directed a new immersive adventure show, Peter Pan’s Neverland, in Beijing, China. Ms. Libonati guest teaches musical theatre at Harvard University and is a MIT Director’s Fellow. She is a member of Tut’Zanni Theatre Company and a graduate of New York University and Carnegie Mellon University.

Elisa Benzoni (Costume Design) previously designed Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Reckless, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, and Pericles, Prince of Tyre 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 selected credits include Constellations (The Old Globe), Sex with Strangers (Geffen Playhouse), The Who and The What, Our Town, Tall Girls, Brahman/i, and Sam Bendrix at the Bon Soir (La Jolla Playhouse), Men on Boats, Awake and Sing!, 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 credits include Les Dialogues des Carmélites (Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari, Italy), Paradise Found (Menier Chocolate Factory in London), Milk Like Sugar (La Jolla Playhouse), and As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (The Old Globe). She holds a M.F.A. in Costume Design from UC San Diego. elisabenzoni.com.

Kevin Anthenill (Sound Design and Original Music) previously designed The Old Globe and University of San Diego Graduate Theatre Program’s Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure, Twelfth Night, and The Winter’s Tale. His other recent design credits include All’s Well That Ends Well (The Old Globe), The Suppliant Women (Getty Villa Theater Lab), Soul Doctor (international tour), 100 Aprils (Rogue Machine Theatre), Sex with Strangers, Disgraced, Rapture, Blister, Burn, My Mañana Comes, Violet, Everybody’s Talkin’: The Music of Harry Nilsson, Honky, Steal Heaven, Red, and Uncanny Valley (San Diego Repertory Theatre), Hairspray, The Full Monty, Miracle on 34th Street, Billy Elliot: The Musical, Pump up the Volume: A 90’s Palooza!, Damn Yankees, First Date, 9 to 5, Irving Berlin’s White Christmas, The Producers, 42nd Street, Ragtime, La Cage Aux Folles, Singin’ in the Rain, and West Side Story (San Diego Musical Theatre), and The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds, Bad Jews, and When the Rain Stops Falling (Cygnet Theatre Company).

George Yé (Fight Choreographer) has nearly a hundred credits as a fight director working in theatre and film. His favorites include The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night, In Your Arms, Double Indemnity, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Allegiance, August: Osage County, God of Carnage, The Whipping Man, and Dancing in the Dark (The Old Globe and Globe for All), Up Here, Ether Dome, Kingdom City, Peter and the Starcatchers, Hands on a Hardbody (La Jolla Playhouse), Vietgone, Into the Beautiful North, Oedipus El Rey, and Clybourne Park (San Diego Repertory Theatre), True West and Shakespeare’s R&J (Cygnet Theatre Company), The Boy Who Danced on Air (Diversionary Theatre), Lord of the Flies and Guadalupe in the Guest Room (New Village Arts), and the Sarcinian duel in the film The King’s Guard with Ron Perlman. Mr. Yé is Chair of the Dramatic Arts Department at San Diego Mesa College, home of Mesa College Theatre Company, and a member of Actors’ Equity Association and the Society of American Fight Directors.

Nicole Ries (Production Stage Manager) has spent the last seven years as resident Production Stage Manager for The Old Globe and University of San Diego Shiley Graduate Theatre Program, where her previous productions include Romeo and Juliet; The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Pericles, Prince of Tyre; Antigone; Much Ado About Nothing; Measure for Measure; Twelfth Night; Ajax; Cloud 9; Three Sisters; Trelawny of the “Wells”; Clybourne Park; Reckless; Acquainted with the Night;and The Maderati. Her other regional credits include the Broadway San Diego High School Musical Theatre Awards (2015–2018, Broadway/San Diego), Voyeurs de Venus, Jade Heart, Coming Attractions, and A Man, His Wife and His Hat (MOXIE Theatre), ManTrap (Diversionary Theatre), Little Shop of Horrors and A Behanding in Spokane (Cygnet Theatre Company), and Into the Woods, Tom and Huck and Jim, Paradise Hotel, and Little Women: The Musical (San Diego State University). Ms. Ries is currently MOXIE Theatre’s Production Manager, and she also worked with San Diego Repertory Theatre as Company Manager/Assistant Production Manager (2003–2009) and Starlight Musical Theatre as General Manager (2010–2011). Ms. Ries holds a B.A. in Theatre Arts with an emphasis in Arts Management from San Diego State University.