Full Cast Set for Katie Holmes-Led HEDDA GABLER at The Old Globe

The Old Globe has revealed the full cast and creative team for Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Film, television, and stage star Katie Holmes leads the cast in the title role. The Globe-commissioned, vivid new version of the play is by Erin Cressida Wilson (Secretary, The Girl on the Train) and directed by the Globe’s Erna Finci Viterbi Artistic Director Barry Edelstein(The Old Globe’s Henry 6, Off Broadway’s The Wanderers), featuring original music by Grammy and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw (Narrow Sea, Partita for 8 Voices). Hedda Gabler will play on the Donald and Darlene Shiley Stage at The Old Globe Theatre, part of the Globe’s Conrad Prebys Theatre Center in San Diego’s Balboa Park (1363 Old Globe Way). 

Holmes brings to life a landmark role in one of the defining masterpieces of modern theatre. Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon—and the cracks in their marriage are already showing. Bored and restless, Hedda tries to control those around her. But as her schemes tighten, her own world begins to unravel. 

In addition to Katie Holmes as Hedda Gabler, the cast of Hedda Gabler includes Charlie Barnett as George Tesman (NBC’s “Chicago Fire,” Netflix’s “Russian Doll”), Saidah Arrika Ekulona as Aunt Julie Tesman (Broadway’s Well, Off Broadway’s Ruined), Celeste Arias as Thea Elvsted (The Old Globe’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Off Broadway’s Anatomy of a Suicide), Alfredo Narciso as Judge Brack (Broadway’s Time and the Conways, A Streetcar Named Desire), Alexander Hurt as Ejlert Lövborg (Blackout, Off Broadway’s Wild Duck), Katie MacNichol as Berte (The Old Globe’s Twelfth Night, Broadway’s Two Shakespearean Actors), and Korrie Yamaoka as the Pianist (Regional: White Christmas, Phantom).

Understudies for Hedda Gabler include Lance D. Bush, Ethan Fox, and Stephanie Hinck. Also joining adaptor Erin Cressida Wilson, director Barry Edelstein, and composer Caroline Shaw as part of the creative team are Mark Wendland (Scenic Design); David I. Reynoso (Costume Design); Heather Gilbert (Lighting Design); Jessica Paz (Sound Design); Chelsey Arce (Choreography), Emmelyn Thayer (Voice and Text), Caparelliotis Casting (Casting); and Jess Slocum (Production Stage Manager).