Expecting IsabelWritten by Lisa LoomerDirected by Jennifer Eve Thorn

CastMirandaNickLila/VariousYolandalVariousSalNariousDominicNariousPatNmiousTinalHeatherlLisaNarious

Artistic StaffSet DesignCostume DesignLight DesignSound DesignProperties Design

Production StaffProduction ManagerTechnical Director

Stage ManagerSound Board Operator

Jo Anne Glover

Stephen EltonRobin ChristRhona GoldMark Petrich

Justin LangSandra Ruiz

Amanda Cooley Davis

Mia Bane Jacobs

Corey JohnstonAshley JenksMatt Lescault-Wood

Amy Chini

Missy BradstreetRogelio RosalesGwen Fish

Tony Estrada

There will be a 15 minute inTermission

presented by special anangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York.

The Cast

JO At"lNEGLOVER (Miranda) is a founder and Managing Director ofMOXIE Theatre. A graduate of the University of Texas, and Circle in theSquare Theatre School (NYC), she has worked On- and Off-Broadway, in LosAngeles, and regionally. San Diego credits include Drink Me, Rabbit Hole,Bleeding Kansas, Off The Grollnd, The Receptionist (SD Critics Circle BestSupp. Actress), The L;stenel; Bluebonnet Court, Devil Dog Six, WET, MissWitherspoon, The Adoption Project, Dog Act, Limonades TOllsles Jow'S (Patteaward, Best Actress), Pulp, Kimberly Akimbo, The Two Gentlemen of Verona,Hamlet. Relatively Spealdng, Stop Kiss, Othello, The Taming of the Shrew andMonstropo~v. Some other favorites, outside of San Diego, include Bus Stop(Broadway production), The Three Sisters. Subtle Bodies, T7zeTrojan Women.Romeo & Juliet, Measure for Measure and I Hate Hamlet. In addition to herwork as an actress, she has also worked as a producer in both New York andLos Angeles.

STEPHEN ELTON (Nick) Expecting Isabel is Stephens second show withMOXIE Theatre, having appeared as Fossrnire in The MOXIE production ofDrink Me while in residence at the La Jolla Playhouse. During Stephens multi­falious career he has worked in: film production, video editing, production andlighting design, dramahlrgy, screenwriting, as wel1 as acting and directing forthe stage. Stephen founded Beowulf A11eyTheatre in Tucson Arizona, where heproduced six seasons including: 5 Regional premieres, 4 Arizona premieres,and 1 world premiere. Stephen Lead Beowulf Al1ey to 8 Arizona Dairy StarMAC awards including individual awards for Best Director, Best Drama, BestComedy, and Best Actor. Stephen directed productions of: (A Christllias Carol,Rabbit Hole at North Coast Rep.) Frozen, The BeG/; The Proposal, TheReluctant Tragic Hero, Death ofZukasJ..y, Criminal Hearts, Lone Star, PVT.Wars, Home/ABROAD, Design for Living, Round and Round the Garden, andThe Love Course. In addition Stephen produced, designed and directed theannual comedy shows: Comedy Arizona and Grand Canyon Comedy with thenational improv group Laughing Stock Comedy Company. As an actorStephen was founding member of the acting ensemble of Live TheatreWorkshop and has worked in regional theatre across Arizona inc1uding roles as:Lenny in Of l'v!iceand Men, LIoyd in Noises Off!. Sgt. Toomey in Biloxi Blues,Wib in Criminal Hearts, Barry in Death ofZukasJ..}',Apple in The Exact Centerof the Universe, Marmy in Coming Through, Leo in Design for Living, Louis inCousins, Troup in The Rear Column, and Christy in The Playboy of theWestern World.

ROBIN CHRIST (LilaNarious) is delighted to be making her debut with thefabulous ladies of MOXIE! Credits inc1ude: Cygnet Theatre: Bug, Man FromNebraska. Las Meninas, New Village Arts: Sailor s Song (San Diego CriticsCirc1e Award - Choreography, Ensemble), Ion Theatre: Punks (Patte Award ­Ensemblc), NCRT: Romeo and Juliet, Diversionary Theatre: Brave Smiles,Backyard Productions: A Bright Room Called Day (Patte Award - Ensemble),Experiment with an Airpump, Sledgehal1ll1lerTheatre: Phaedra in Delirium,Richard III. Clllylasis:Rapechild, (sic),Vox Nova: Dance on the Sun, Sixth atPenn: Come Back to the Five and Dime Jimmv Dean (Patte Award ­Ensemble), Hecuba, Amelia Earhart: Lost and Found, Anton in Show Business,State of the Art, Reckless, Iphegenia at Aulis, Oedipus at Colonus, Stone SoupTheatre: Tongue of a Bird, The Theatre Inc., Helen. Film: My SOI1,My SOI1,Whal Have }~Done (directed by Werner Herzog).

The Cast (cont.)

RHONA GOLD (YolandaNarious) is delighted to find herself in MOXIE'shands again. She grew up in Canada, trained at the Theatre Resource Centre,and worked in theatres across Canada before moving to Santa Fe, NM, whereshe helped fOlmdTheatre In TIle Red, a company focusing 011 new and experi­mental works. Most recently, she appeared as Lady Alice Augusta in MOXIE'sDrink Me (or The Strange Case of Alice Times Three) at the La Jolla PlayhouseStudio Forum and as Dorothea in MOXIE's staged readings of Eleemos.v71ary.She was Celia in Acts of Faith with Laterthanever Productions. She appeared inMoonlight Stage Productions' The Magic Fire, Enchanted April at LambsPlayers, and innumerous Fritz Theatre productions including Viburnum, Shealso appeared in a number ofproductiollS at the NCRT including The Diary ofAnne Frank. at the Diversionary Theatre in Suddenly Last Sll11lmer,in A Murderof Crows at Brown :~Field, and was among the women in the 2002 benefit per­formance of The Vagina Monologues. She played Alcmena in MariarmeMcDonald's Children of Heracles directed by Delicia Turner-Sonnenberg andhas appeared in staged reading of a number of plays by Allan Havis. She livesin Nornlal Heights with husband, actor J. Michael Ross.

MARK C. PETRICH (SaINarious) is velY happy to be making his fom1hMOXIE appearance, having played Hugo Brimley Rime in Drink Me, Josiah inBleeding Kansas and Bernard in Devil Dog Six. He appeared as Duncan andthe Porter in Intrepid Shakespeare's inaugural production of MacBeth. At NorthCoast Rep he was seen in Charlie s Aunt, The Fantastiks. A Thousand Clowns,Breaking Legs, and The Dresser. He appeared as Karl Jaspers in theLaterthanever Production of Hannah and Martin, Sledgehammer's Hamlet andRichard III, and as the Wizard in Starlight Musical Theatre's The Wizard of Oz.He is featured in the films, Night Train to Terror,Marilyn Alive and BehindBars, and Hello Jack. Mark is a graduate of the Shanghai Drama Institute.

JUSTIN LANG (DominicNarious) last seen as Coke in MOXIE's Dog Act. Heis hilll1bled to be working with the lovely women of MOXIE. Justin is also anassociate artist with Poor Players thcatre company.

SANDRA RUIZ (PatNarious) a native San Diegan, earned BAs in Theatre andHuman Development from UCSD. She has worked in the theatre as an actor,director, playwright and costume designer as well as acting and writing for TVand Film. She has also worked for many organizations as a teaching artistincluding: TIle Old Globe Theatre, The San Diego Rep, The Playwright'sProject, La Jolla Country Day School and San Diego Junior Theatre. TIlank­You for supporting local artists.

AMANDA COOLEY DAVIS (TinaNarious) is thrilled to ring in 2010 withMOXIE! San Diego credits include: Side Man, BANG! (Diversionary), KillerJoe (Compass TIleatre), Trojan Women (ion theatre), A Christmas Carol (CygnetTheatre), Terra Nova (Inukshuk Productions), The Deception (La JollaPlayhouse), The Long Christmas Ride Home (Diversionary Theatre), TheTwen(v Year Paclwge (Compass Theatre), The Bear (Tonic at North CoastRepertory). Three seasons touring with Traveling Lantern Theatre. New Yorkcredits include: The Brick Theatre, Gershwin Theatre-Brooklyn Center,Epiphany Theater, blessed lmrest, Theatre-Studio, The Flea Theatre, and JeanCocteau RepertOly. Amanda received her MFA in Acting fro111BrooklynCollege, and is a teaching artist with Playwrights Project, North CoastRepertory, and The Bishop's School. Amanda is preparing for her most impor­tant production to date-her spring wedding to her beloved Mark.

Artistic and Productiun Staff

LISA LOOMER (Playwright) most recent play, Distracted, had its world premiereat the Mark Taper Fonnll, went on to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival and willopen at the Roundabout Theater in New York in 2009. Livil/g Out had its worldpremiere at the Mark Taper Forum and was produced at Second Stage in New Yorkin 2003, directed by Jo Bonney. Loomer is perhaps best known for The WaitingRoom which went ITom the Williamstown Theater Festival to the Mark TaperForum to highly successful productions at Arena Stage and Trinity RepertoryCompany and then on to the Vineyard Theatre in New York. Loomer's first workfor theater was a collaboration entitled A Crowd of Two at the American PlaceTheatre. This was followed by a one-woman show All By Herselves at the WestsideArts. She began writing plays at the Intar playwrights lab, under the direction ofMaria Irene Fornes. Her first play, Bird~, was produced by South Coast Repertory.Subsequent works include Maria, }yfaria, Maria, Maria!; Accelerando; LookingforAngels; Cuts al/d Chain of Life, which have been produced at such theaters as thePublic Theatre, Intar, the Los Angeles Theatre Center, Mixed Blood, the Open Eyeand the Odyssey. Expecting Isabel had its world premiere at Arena Stage and itsWest Coast premiere at the Taper. Bocol/i, a political table for young audiences,began at the Taper and has been seen throughout the country ITom the KelmedyCenter to Seattle's Group Theater, Stage Left in Chicago, the La Jolla Playhouse, aswell as in Gennany, Alaska and Mexico. Loomer is an alUllli1aof New Dramatistsand the recipient of two grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and agrant from the New York Foundation for the Arts. Awards include the JaneChambers Award, the Susan Smith Blackbum Prize, the Kennedy Center Fund forNew American Plays Award, a Garland Award and the American Theatre CriticsAssociation Award (twice). She also received an Imagen Award for positive por­trayals of Latinos in all media. Her plays appear in The Best Plays of 1998-1999,The Best Plays of 1994-1995 and The Best Plays of 2003-4 and are published byDramatists Play Service, TCG (Theatre Communications Group), DramaticPublishing and Arte Publico Press. Loomer is also a screenwriter. Her tlrst film,Looking For Angels, was chosen by Sundance for its Erst co-lab with the LatinAmerican Film Institute in Cuba where she had the opportunity to work withGabriel Garcia Marquez. Other film credits include Girl, Interrupted and NappiZv

Ever After for Halle Berry, soon to be in production.

JENNIFER EVE THOR.~ (Director) Associate Artistic Director and MarketingDirector for MOXIE. Recent directing credits for MOXIE ll1eatre include DrinkMe (with Delicia Turner SOllllenberg), The Sugar Syndrome, Victoria lvfartin MathTeam Queen (Patte Award for Outstanding Direction) Devil Dog Six (with EstherEmery) (San Diego Critic's Circle Award for Best New Play), Fall, Dog Act (withDelicia Turner Sonnenberg). Assistant Directing credits include Story Theatre(North Coast Rep Theatre with David Ellenstein), Kimberly Akimbo (6th at PennTheatre/MOXIE Theatre with Delicia Turner SOlU1enberg), Othello (San DiegoWomen's Rep with Delicia Turner Sonnenberg), fFho s Afraid (if Virgil/ia Woolf(San Diego Rep Theatre with Todd Salovey). She shldied directing with ClairDavidson at the College of Santa Fe in New Mexico. All my love and thanks tomy outstanding husband for his love and SUPP011 and our bcautiftIl daughter Pennyfor sharing mommy with her work.

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Artistic and Production Staff (cont.)

l'viiA BANE JACOBS (Scenic Designer) has been a lighting designer in San Diegofor fifteen years and in the New England region for longer than that! Dance, corpo­rate theater, regional theater, concerts - adding light was a joy. In the last few years,dabbling in some scenic design provided the opportunity for a little more controlover the lighting! Ha! not on this one though, thanks to Ashley for a wonderful job.Thank you dear MOXIEs. You are wonderful, powerful, fabulous women. I'mgrateful that you've been in my life as friends and mentors.

COREY JOHNSTON (Costume Design) Bed and Sofa, Noises Off, CygnetTheatre; Fifth of July, BoJ.w in the Band, Diversionary 111eatre; The }vliraclerVorker, North Coast Repertory; Corey was the Faculty Costume Designer at theuniversity of San Diego for 10 years designing and building over 60 shows in arange of styles and periods for both the undergraduate and Old GlobelUSD MFAprogram. For 5 years he was a staff Coshune Technician at the Old Globe Theatre.Corey has also designed for Sien'a RepertOlY Theatre, CenterRep of Walnut Creek,Berkshire Theatre Festival, Central Missouri Repertory, and has worked as a techni­cian at Tacoma Actor's Guild and La Jolla Playhouse. He holds an MFA fromMilUlesota State University--Mankato, and has a website at www.coreycoshunede­slgn.com.

ASHLEY JENKS (Light Design) Elementary music teacher by day, master electri­cian and lighting designer by night. Super duper to be back to design for MOXIE!Past designs include: MOXIE: Dog Act (co-design), The Butcher of Baraboo. NewVillage Arts: Picasso at the Lupin Agile, Bulmsher; Fool for Love, Off the Ground,Dancing at Luglmasa, T7lis Is Our Youth. Moonlight Stage Productions: DrivingAIiss Daisy. Old Tow1l Temecula Theatre: Little Shop of Horrors, TflIly Wonka andthe Chocolate FactOl)'. Fallbrook Players: ('ATS! Ashley Receieved her BA illVisual and Performing Arts trom CSU, San Marcos.

;\l~TI LESCAULT-WOOD (Sound Design) Dying Cif)" It's A Wondeli'ul Life,HistolJ' Boys, Mauritius, Noises qff(Cygnet); Wit, I Love You Because (North CoastReparatory l1leatre); Picasso at the Lapin Agile (USD); Danny and the Deep BlueSea, Red Light Tflntel; Lonesome West (Triad); Plays by Young Writers 2008, 2009(Playwright's Project); Request Program, Cripple ~f Inishmaan (ion); Butcher ofBaraboo, Dog Act (MOXIE); Tick, Tick ...BOOM (Stone Soup); Sideman

(Inukshuk). Matt holds a Bachelors of Arts ill Theatre Design and Tec1mology fromSDSU.

A.MY CHINI (Properties Design) This is Amy Chini's fourth season working withMOXIE Theatre, and she is quite happy to be surrounded by such lovely people!Previous MOXIE credits include props for Pulp, WET, Or Isabelfu The PirateQueen Enters the Horse Latitudes, Bleeding Kansas and Dog Act, and set design forT7le Treatment, The Listenel; The Sugar Syndrome and The Butcher of Baraboo

(with Esther Emery). Amy's grateful for the support of her wonderful partner Ben.

G\VEN FISH (Stage Manager) is honored be a caretaker of stories and storytellers.Previous productions include Bleeding Kansas, The Listenel; Victoria Martin: iv/ath

Team Queen, The Treatment (MOXIE); Bluebonnet Court (MOXIElDiversionary);BENT (ion/Diversionary); The Little Dog Laughed, Scrooge in Rouge

(Diversionary); Noises Off (Cygnet); A Streetcar Named Desire, The Grapes ofWrath (ion); BeckeW'3, A Patriot Act, Chiang-Kai Chek (Sledgehammer)