IRON at Scripps Ranch Theatre

Regional Theatre: 33 Variations (Theatreworks, Palo Alto) Love in American Times (San Jose Rep) Steel Magnolias (La Mirada Theatre) Dividing the Estate, Sea of Tranquility, Romeo and Juliet, Missing Footage, Trojan Women, (Old Globe Theatre) JQA, Uncanny Valley Cymbeline (San Diego Rep.) Angels in America, When the Rain Stops Falling, Hayfever, The Vortex, The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, Arcadia, Little Foxes, Copenhagen (Cygnet Theatre). Favorite roles include: Golda's Balcony (New Village Arts) Doubt, Mandate Memories, Ghosts, Wit, Amy's View (The North Coast Repertory Theatre) Lettuce & Lovage (Lambs Players Theatre) Shirley Valentine, Long Day’s Journey into Night (Renaissance Theatre Company). Other San Diego theatres include Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, Sledgehammer Theatre and Malashock Dance Company. San Diego Critics Circle Awards: Angels in America (ensemble) Golda’s Balcony; Wit; Shirley Valentine, The Caretaker (direction). Rosina has directed over 30 productions in San Diego, most recently Roosevelt: Charge the Bear; Guntopia; Margin of Error (The Roustabouts Theatre Co.) Zoo Story (Backyard Renaissance Theatre) Blithe Spirit (North Coast Rep) The Hour of Great Mercy (Diversionary Theatre). She is the founding Artistic Director of the Chequamegon Children’s Theatre in Northern Wisconsin.

Kate is an actor-director, most recently seen on stage in Witchland with Backyard Renaissance. She has previously appeared with The Roustabouts in Margin of Error. Other San Diego credits include: The Humans (San Diego REP); Cardboard Piano (Diversionary); And Neither Have I Wings to Fly, Move Over Mrs Markham, and Communicating Doors (Scripps Ranch Theatre). Elsewhere: Hamlet, Twelfth Night (Perspective Theatre Company, SF); The Academy (Theater for the New City, NYC); and over fifteen productions with Bristol Valley Theatre in upstate New York, including Silent Sky, Mary’s Wedding, and Private Lives. She is a founding member of Loud Fridge Theatre Group, where she co-directed the critically-acclaimed San Diego premiere of Straight. She also stars in the independent horror film Soul to Keep, currently streaming on a variety of platforms. www.katerosereynolds.com.

Regional select highlights: Macbeth (Macduff), She Stoops To Conquer (Roger), For Better Or Worse (Zaragoza Y Pau) Tuesdays With Morrie (Mitch), Arizona Theatre Company; Kiss Of The Spiderwoman (Valentin), Spic-O-Rama (A Crazy Family) Boredertown (Multiple Roles), Henry V (Dauphin) Augusta (Jimmy), Sylvia (Tom/Phyllis/Leslie), A Christmas Carol (Fred), Actors Theatre; A Comedy Of Errors (Dromio Of Syracuse), As You Like It (Touchstone), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Snout, Demetrius), Much Ado About Nothing (Don John), Macbeth (Macduff), Shakespeare Sedona/ Southwest Shakespeare Company; The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare, Abridged (Adam), The Fulton Theatre. Local: A People’s Cuban Christmas Tale (Scrooge), Onstage Playhouse; Water And Power (Water), Manifest Destinitis (Burgos, Friar, Ranger), San Diego Repertory Theatre; For the past 13 years Richard has served as the Artistic Director at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts.

Selected credits: To The Yellow House (La Jolla Playhouse), Raylynn in Blood At The Root, Isabella/Dottore in Commedia (Chautauqua Theatre Company). Wiletta/Millie Understudy in Trouble in Mind (Old Globe Theatre). Old Globe Powers New Voices Festival: An Evening with the San Diego Black Artist Collective (Old Globe Reading). UC San Diego Credits: Farside, Midsummer Night’s Dream, Letters From Cuba, Orestes 2.0. Education: MFA Acting Graduate of UC San Diego. Upcoming: Curious Incident of The Dog In The Nighttime (San Diego Rep Theatre). jadaowens.com

Rona started writing professionally in 1981 and has since written for film, television, stage and radio. She wrote plays for The Play on One as well as the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was accepted to the BBC's writer's training course. She met Doctor Who script editor Andrew Cartmel there, who was receptive to her desire to write for the series as a long-term fan of it. The result was Doctor Who: Survival: Part One, which would become the final transmitted serial of the original run. She subsequently wrote for Casualty and further television work included Bumping the Odds and Rehab. Her film credits include Ladybird Ladybird, directed by Ken Loach, and Aimee & Jaguar. In 2016, she was announced as the first "classic series" writer to be employed to write for Doctor Who.

Jacole Kitchen is Director of Arts Engagement and In-House Casting at La Jolla Playhouse. She is also a freelance director, theatre instructor and private acting coach, and serves as Executive Director for San Diego Performing Arts League (SDPAL). Jacole previously served as Casting Director and Artistic Associate for San Diego Repertory Theatre, and as a bicoastal talent agent representing theatre professionals at Kazarian/Measures/Ruskin & Assoc. Directing credits include: Pick Me Last and Light Years Away (La Jolla Playhouse POP Tour), Cardboard Piano (Diversionary Theatre), An Iliad (New Village Arts), September and Her Sisters (Scripps Ranch Theatre – Out on a Limb) and more.

Phil Johnson, our TRTC Artistic Director, is a proud founding partner of The Roustabouts Theatre Co. As an actor/writer, his solo show, A Jewish Joke (co-written with Marni Freedman) ran locally and regionally throughout the country, as well as Off-Broadway in March 2019. His other shows include Roosevelt: Charge the Bear, Withering Heights, She-Rantulas from Outer Space in 3D!, and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Phil played in Les Misérables on Broadway and on tour; the Canadian production of Sunset Boulevard; and the 1st National Co. of Miss Saigon. He is a two-time winner of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for acting. He regularly performs at local theatres including North Coast Rep, The Old Globe, Diversionary Theatre, Lambs and Cygnet Theatre. Local directing credits include SD Playwrights Project and Scripps Ranch Theatre. He teaches and produces a Solo Show Workshop and Celebration of New Writers readings for writer/performers that are part of The Roustabouts season. philjohnson.net

Tony is happy to be working again with the Roustabouts. He is the Technical Director for the Performing Arts Department at Palomar College. He is a veteran of over 300 set designs around San Diego for such theatres as Backyard Renaissance/La Jolla Playhouse, The Welk, Diversionary, San Diego Comic Opera, J-Company and San Diego Junior Theatre.

Michelle is delighted to make her acquaintance with The Roustabouts Theatre Co.! Past design favorites include San Diego Musical Theatre's Catch Me If You Can, Young Frankenstein, She Loves Me; The Stagehouse Theatre’s Pride & Prejudice; Moxie Theatre’s Dear Evan Hansen in Concert; San Diego Rep's KUUMBA Fest, Jewish Arts Festival; Lamb's Players Theatre's An American Christmas. When she's not tinkering with electronics, scaling the walls and vigorously tapping keys on the light board she can be found somewhere in the wilderness searching for that moment where the world feels big and she feels small. Unending love and respect to her Family, the Longfellow Clan, the Peirsons and her Motley Crew.

Paul is a musician, composer, and artist across many mediums. He has performed music and screened films nationwide, exhibited paintings and photography locally, contributed advances to the scientific fields of neuroscience, endocrinology, and evolutionary psychology, and collaborated in theatre as a sound designer and composer throughout San Diego. In his free time, he writes on theme parks, philosophy, urban design, aesthetics, spiritual initiatory systems, film, and literature. His latest album, Field of Constant Intensity, is out now on Meaning Through Form Records, and his long form poem, "Night Journey", is out soon. Theatre credits include: Henry V, Eurydice, Sense and Sensibility, On The Train, At The Coffeeshop, In The Car. meaningthroughform.com

Rai graduated from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. She has worked as a Props Artisan, Assistant Props Master, and Props Master at various theaters including: Stages St. Louis, Cleveland Play House, Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, and Cortland Repertory Theater. She is currently the Properties Artisan at La Jolla Playhouse.

Danielle holds a BA in Theatre Arts from UCSD. Credits include: La Jolla Playhouse: Diana-A New Musical (SM Intern). Cygnet: Water by the Spoonful (ASM), The Great Leap (ASM). San Diego Rep: 57 Chevy Film (ASM), JQA Film (SM), 33 1/3: House of Dreams (PA), Sweat (ASM), A Dolls House Part 2 (ASM), Birthday: A Metaphysical Musical Workshop (SM), Fun Home (PA), Vietgone (ASM), Hand to God (ASM). MOXIE: The Mineola Twins (SM) Handbagged (SM), The Madres (ASM). Danielle has also stage managed many different smaller events in: Kuumba Festival, The Jewish Arts Festival, and LatinX Festival all at San Diego Repertory Theatre.