Charles Dickens (Author) was born in Portsmouth, England, and spent most of his childhood in London and Kent. His first novel, The Pickwick Papers (1836-37), was published in monthly serial installments and became an instant hit. In 1843, he published A Christmas Carol, one of the most popular Christmas stories of all time. Dickens was a prolific writer, and critics regard his later works as his finest. Some of these include Bleak House (1852-53), Great Expectations (1860-61), Oliver Twist (1837-39), and A Tale of Two Cities (1859). Dickens is buried in Westminster Abbey.

Jerry Patch (Adapter) served as dramaturg on over 150 new plays, including the world premieres of Abundance, Freedomland, Golden Child, Intimate Apparel, Search and Destroy, Three Days of Rain, Ruined and Wit. He was the founding project director for South Coast Repertory’s Pacific Playwrights Festival and artistic director of the theatre program of Sundance Institute. A professor of theatre and film, he was consulting dramaturg for Roundabout Theatre Company (New York) for nearly a decade and resident artistic director at The Old Globe in San Diego. He is now artistic consultant for Manhattan Theatre Club, where he served more than a decade as Director of Artistic Development, and is resident dramaturg at SCR.

Thomas Anawalt (Puppet Show/Gentleman/Mr. Topper) is thrilled to make his South Coast Repertory debut in A Christmas Carol. Other theater credits include The Outsider (International City Theatre), The Miracle Project’s Rehearsing for Life (The Wallis), Ken Ludwig’s ’Twas the Night (national tour), The Seagull and Rhinoceros (Red Monkey Theater Group, NYC), Julius Caesar (Gene Frankel Theater, NYC), Odd Squad Live! (first national tour), Dunsinane (National Theatre of Scotland/Royal Shakespeare Company at The Wallis), Einstein is a Dummy (Sierra Madre Playhouse), and The Threepenny Opera (A Noise Within). Anawalt stars in Flat-Earther, a short film directed by Chris Wronka, available on YouTube. He is a graduate of South Coast Repertory's Acting Intensive Program and has an MFA in acting from USC School of Dramatic Arts. IG:@tomanawalt

Larry Bates* (Constable/Fred/Gentleman) is happy to be back at SCR. Some SCR favorite roles are Martin Luther King Jr. in All the Way, Ralph D. in The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Happy in Death of a Salesman, Booth in Topdog/Underdog, Cactus in Mr. Marmalade and Youngblood in the SCR/Pasadena Playhouse production of Jitney, for which he won an NAACP Theatre Award and the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actor. Other theatre credits include Trial of the Catonsville Nine (Mark Taper Forum), Pedro Play (Cornerstone Theater), Human Error (Denver Center Performing Arts), JQA (San Diego Repertory), Ah Wilderness! (Goodman Theatre) and Martin Luther King Jr. in The Mountaintop (Matrix Theatre, San Diego Repertory, Hattiloo Theatre). His film and television credits include Miss Virginia, Lions for Lambs, “The Romanoffs,” “Seal Team,” “Sunnyside,” “NCIS,” “Big Little Lies,” and “American Born Chinese.” Bates is a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow and a graduate of The Theatre School, DePaul University.

Tommy Beck* (Undertaker/Ebenezer as a Young Man/Poulterer ) is excited to be back at SCR having just appeared as The Old Man in Outside SCR's The Old Man and The Old Moon. His recent credits include The Explorers Club, All My Sons (Jewel Theatre Company); Marjorie Prime, Shakespeare in Love, Miss Bennet (Marin Theatre Company); A Streetcar Named Desire (Kansas City Actors Theatre); Colossal (San Francisco Playhouse); The Real Thing, The Monster Builder, Eccentricities of a Nightingale (Aurora Theatre Company); A Few Good Men (Hillbarn Theatre); Pride & Prejudice, Persuasion (Livermore Shakespeare Festival); Sleuth, Dracula (Center REPertory Company); Sense & Sensibility (TheatreWorks); Much Ado About Nothing (Cal Shakes); Cymbeline (Marin Shakespeare Company); Hamlet, Compleat Female Stage Beauty, The Three Musketeers (City Lights Theater Company). Beck has worked extensively in performance capture, most notably with 2K Games, Hangar 13, Firaxis, Pixar, Epic Games, and Industrial Light & Magic. He received his BA from New York University and is a proud member of AEA & SAG/AFTRA.

Kelsey Bray (Elizabeth Shelley/Fan/Pursued Maiden) (she/her) is so excited and grateful to be back performing in A Christmas Carol at South Coast Repertory! She began her career as a student in SCR’s Youth Conservatory for more than 11 years and had the chance to perform as Belinda Cratchit in the 2010 production of A Christmas Carol. Regional credits include Appropriate and The Little Foxes (River Rayner/Cassidy Lafayette u/s, Alexandra u/s, SCR’s Voices of America series), Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells!(Junie B., Oklahoma Children’s Theatre), Clean Slate (Gina, world premiere, Ignition Arts) and Illuminate (world premiere, original company member, Ignition Arts), Other credits include Antigone (Antigone), A Midsummer Night's Dream (Hermia), and The Wolves (#00). She earned her BFA in Acting and Directing from Oklahoma City University. Endless gratitude to her amazing family, friends and mentors. Happy Holidays! kelseybrayactor.com IG: @Kelsey.bray98

Diana Burbano* (Mrs. Fezziwig/Solicitor) (she/ella), is a Colombian playwright and actor featured in Los Angeles Times' LA Vanguardia: Latino Innovators. Burbano is a resident artist at Center Theatre Group, The Latino Theatre Company, and Breath of Fire Latina Ensemble. Her play Luzmi, a Nuestro Planeta commission for HERO Theatre, recently premiered at Inner City Arts in Los Angeles. Other plays include, Ghosts of Bogotá, Sapience and Fabulous Monsters, about women in punk rock, featuring the music of Chicana punk group FEA. She has commissions with Antaeus, Artists Repertory Theatre, Center Theatre Group and Livermore Shakespeare Festival. As an actor, Burbano played Amalia in Jose Cruz González’s American Mariachi at South Coast Repertory and Arizona Theatre Company, Marisela in La Ruta at Artists Repertory and Izzy in the world premiere of Julie Hébert’s Drunk at the Base of the Bodhi Tree for Mile High Theatre. You can also see her as Viv the Punk in the cult musical Isle of Lesbos. She is on the Dramatists Guild Council representing Southern California. She dedicates this performance to Martha McFarland.

Melody Butiu* (Rich Woman/Mrs. Cratchit) is elated to return to SCR, where her credits include A Christmas Carol (’22/’21/’19/’18), M. Butterfly, Shipwrecked! An Entertainment, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Junie B. in Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! and more. She plays Sofia in The Queen of Versailles, a new musical by Stephen Schwartz and Lindsey Ferrentino, starring Kristin Chenoweth, and heading to Broadway in the 2025/2026 season. Her Broadway credits include David Byrne’s Here Lies Love (2023) and Doctor Zhivago. Regionally, she has appeared at NY’s Public Theater, Theatre Under the Stars, Geva Theatre, Arena Stage, REV Theatre Company, Denver Center, Seattle Rep, Wallis Annenberg Center, Huntington Theatre, ACT, Geffen Playhouse, Getty Villa, Kirk Douglas Theatre, San Diego Rep, Singapore Rep, East West Players, Portland Center Stage and La Jolla Playhouse. Select film and television credits include Easter Sunday, Untold: This is My Story, Swearing, “FBI,” “Young Sheldon,” “Mom,” “Call Me Kat,” “This is Us,” “The Kominsky Method,” “NCIS,” “NCIS: LA,” “Kingdom,” “Rizzoli & Isles,” and “Gotham.” Voiceover work includes: Request sa Radyo (Makati City, Philippines), Welcome Me to the Kingdom (audiobook), Shame on You! (short film), and Tell Me Why (video game). More at melodybutiu.com, Instagram: @themelodybutiu

Alicia Coca* (Flower Seller/Belle) returns to South Coast Repertory after appearing in Quixote Nuevo (2023), A Christmas Carol (2022 and 2023), She Loves Me (2020) and American Mariachi (2019 and 2021). Other credits include the West Coast co-production of Quixote Nuevo by Octavio Solis at Seattle Repertory (2024) and Portland Center Stage (2024); SCR's Pacific Playwrights Festival (2022); Arizona Theatre Company’s American Mariachi (2019); Latino Theater Company’s 2020 virtual productions of Just Like Us directed by Fidel Gomez; and August 29 directed by Alberto Barboza. Coca is a 2018 theater arts graduate of the University of California, Davis. @alicia_coca 

Richard Doyle* (Ebenezer Scrooge) is an SCR Founding Member playing Scrooge for the fourth season live and fifth overall. He played many different characters over his 37 seasons in the production. Before he debuted as Scrooge in 2021, Doyle was last seen at SCR in Outside Mullingar (2020) and previously in The Fantasticks, Kings, Rest, The Weir and more than 200 other productions. His other SCR favorites include Holy Days; The Beard of Avon; You, Nero; Men’s Singles; Unsuitable for Adults; Playland; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; The Crucible; Intimate Exchanges; Cyrano de Bergerac; A View from the Bridge; Of Mice and Men; and—from SCR’s Third Step Theatre—The Tavern by George M. Cohan. Live stage is his first love, but he has kept busy with film and television, including a regular role as Mr. Gaines on “Cheers”; several roles on “M*A*S*H”; his first feature, the Michael Crichton film Coma; Wolfgang Peterson’s Air Force One; and Mass Appeal. He has also appeared in many independent features, including The Western Heathens and Thieves, and Abduction of Angie. Voice acting enhanced his love for live storytelling and Doyle’s work as an animation voiceover actor ranges from “Sky Commanders” “The Chimp Channel,” “Batman,” “Ben Ten” and “Spiderman” to video and motion capture performances in dozens of video games like “MGS 3” as Big Boss, to podcasts, such as Capt. Woodruff in “Exeter,” Gib Wilson on “Hunt for Red Gold’ and Arthur on “Hoagies.” Fifteen years ago, Doyle joined The Pageant of the Masters as the narrator for this unique event, where he encourages people to “enjoy his storytelling surrounding this arts-themed show.” Here at SCR, he likewise hopes that you “Enjoy the Show” and have a wonderful holiday season.

Eduardo Enrikez* (Joe/Jacob Marley as a Young Man) is excited to return to the Christmas Carol family. You recently saw him at SCR in La Havana Madrid, American Mariachi and Destiny of Desire. He was in the original London West End production of the musical, On Your Feet, the story of Emilio and Gloria Estefan (London Coliseum); he reprised his role as Emilio in a production at Moonlight Amphitheatre, West End/European credits include On Your Feet, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged, Eating Raoul, Time Square Angel, Saturday Night Fever and Hair. Enrikez's regional credits include The Wedding Singer; Destiny of Desire; American Mariachi; Miss Saigon; Mother Road; The Secret Garden; Into the Woods; Papi; Me and César Chávez; Sweet Charity; Cabaret; Blood Brothers; Is This Any Way to Start a Marriage; Ragtime; The Musical of Musicals, The Musical!; Love Songs—A Musical; Bat Boy, The Musical; Hercules On Normandie and Schoolhouse Rock. His film and television credits include Sin Frontera, Stigma, Emilio, Jornada al norte, Dog Tags, Immigrant, Infertile Hearts, “The Bridge,” “Locked up Abroad” and “Bluff.” He wrote the musical ILCAHUILIA (to forgive), which just had readings in New York and Los Angeles. @eduardoenrikez.

Michael Manuel* (Jacob Marley's Ghost/Gentleman) is happy to be returning to SCR where he last appeared in A Christmas Carol and as Editor Webb in Our Town. Also at SCR, Boris in Amos and Boris, Madame Pernelle in Tartuffe, Big Stone in Eurydice, Francis Flute/Thisbe in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and in numerous readings and workshops since 1994. He has worked in regional theatres across the country including Alley Theatre, Empty Space Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Arena Stage, Shakespeare Theatre DC, Group Theater, Yale Repertory Theatre, New Jersey Shakespeare Festival among others. In L.A., he has worked with A Noise Within (Ovation, LADCC Awards for Frankenstein) Pasadena Playhouse (LADCC for The Father), Mark Taper Forum, Cornerstone Theater Company, Shakespeare Festival LA, Geffen Playhouse, Interact Theatre Company, UCB, Main Street Players, and Impro Theatre where he is a member of the Main Company. He has appeared in numerous television programs and films, including the upcoming feature Redux Redux directed by the McManus Brothers. Manuel is an Acting Coach and has served as the coach and creative consultant for John Legend: An Evening of Songs and Stories. He is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama and a 2023 Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.

Preston Maybank* (Bob Cratchit) is delighted to be back at SCR, where he has appeared in Much Ado About Nothing (Don Pedro), Two Gentlemen of Verona (the Duke of Milan), Terra Nova (Amundsen), Cyrano de Bergerac (Valvert), The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabler (Lovborg), The Hoboken Chicken Emergency (Anthony LaPalma) and numerous other productions. Other SoCal productions include The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (King Of Bohemia) at the Pasadena Playhouse, The Pursuit of Happiness (Spud) at Laguna Playhouse, The Foreigner (Froggy) at La Mirada Theatre and Tartuffe (Tartuffe) at A Noise Within. In addition to numerous other theatre, film and television credits, he toured Europe with The Karol Armitage Ballet in the original ballet Hucksters of the Soul. He is also the creator of the critically acclaimed “stop-mo” animated series “The Agitated” which can be found at theagitated.com.

William Francis McGuire* (Solicitor/Mr. Fezziwig/Gentleman) appeared at SCR previously in Shakespeare in Love, All the Way, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, A Wrinkle in Time, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, A Christmas Carol and Tartuffe. He has also worked at the Guthrie Theater (The Rover, Naga Mandala, The Seagull, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, The Good Hope, Peer Gynt and Billy and Dago, among others), The Shakespeare Theatre Company (Henry V and Macbeth), Bay Street Theater Fest (Tropeano Paints), American Repertory Theatre (Boys Next Door), Yale Repertory Theatre (Search and Destroy) and many others. His film credits include The Day After Tomorrow and Mission: Impossible III. His television credits include “100 Deeds for Eddie McDowd” (series regular), “CSI,” “Castle,” “Justified,” “Eagleheart,” “Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior,” “The Mentalist,” “Saving Grace,” “Weeds,” “Numb3rs,” “NCIS,” “Without a Trace,” as well as a number of Movies of the Week. He is Chair of the Department of Theatre Arts at Saddleback College and a graduate of Yale School of Drama.

Jennifer Parsons* (The Spirit of Christmas Past/Scavenger) returns to SCR for her 4th year as Spirit of Christmas Past and 22nd year in A Christmas Carol—17 as Mrs. Cratchit and one as Belle (back in the long ago). She has also appeared in the SCR productions of The Heiress, Cyrano de Bergerac, Getting Frankie Married—and Afterwards, Our Town, She Stoops to Folly, The Importance of Being Earnest, Buried Child, Flora & Ulysses, James and the Giant Peach, Anastasia Krupnik, The Borrowers, Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business, Brand New Kid, The BFG (Big Friendly Giant), The Only Child and Bunnicula. Other recent SoCal performances include The Glass Menagerie, Silent Sky and Vanya, Sonia, Masha & Spike at International City Theatre. New York credits range from Broadway (Quilters) and Off-Broadway (Steel Magnolias, Smoke on the Mountain) to several Off, Off Broadway shows. She’s performed in regional theatres across the country and done a bunch of plays at Theatre 40. Her current television credits include recurring guest-star roles on “How to Get Away with Murder,” “Proven Innocent” and guest-star roles on “All Rise,” “The Romanoffs,” “Longmire,” “Bones,” “Criminal Minds” and “Stalker.”

Erika Schindele* (Toy Lady/Sally/Scavenger) is honored to continue to be a part of this beloved Christmas tradition. At SCR, she originated the role of Helen in the world premiere of An Italian Straw Hat, as well as performing in numerous Theatre for Young Audience productions. Some favorite roles include Georgie Burns in Heisenberg and Stella Kowalski in the iconic A Streetcar Named Desire, both at Jewel Theatre Company; and Lisa in Collected Stories at Coachella Valley Repertory, for which she earned a Desert Theatre League Award nomination for best actress. Other theatre credits include Emma at the Ensemble Theater in Santa Barbara; at Laguna Playhouse, she was in the West Coast premiere of I’m Still Getting My Act Together (starring Gretchen Cryer), as well as The Odd Couple and Love, Loss and What I Wore; Merrily We Roll Along and 1776 at Actors Co-op Theatre Company. Her film and television credits include Emerald, “Ribbons” (of which she was a co-creator), “Criminal Minds” and “American Dreams.” Schindele also narrates audiobooks and can be heard on many titles in various genres from YA, Romance and Non-fiction. Merry Christmas and love to my whole family. For Brent and Jack Jack. erikaschindele.com

Nick Slimmer (Thomas Shelley/The Spirit of Christmas Yet-to-Come) (he/him/his) is thrilled to be making his return to A Christmas Carol, his third time as Assistant Director. He is a graduate of SCR’s Acting Intensive Program, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, and Arizona State University. He is also an integral member of South Coast Repertory’s Theatre Conservatory, serving as the Conservatory and Educational Programs Associate. Slimmer also serves as a company member of Modjeska Unscripted Theatre producing and performing in fully improvised, full-length plays in various genres (Murder Mystery, Hallmark Christmas, Screwball Comedy, etc.). Slimmer would like to thank his friends and family for their boundless support, and director (and mentor) Hisa Takakuwa for giving him the opportunities in London and beyond.

Richard Soto* (Wreath Seller/The Spirit of Christmas Present/Rich Man) a member of SAG-AFTRA and Actors Equity, is overjoyed to be back again with the tradition of A Christmas Carol for a 16th year. His other SCR credits include Vecino in A Long Road Today/El Largo Camino de Hoy, SCR’s Dialogue/Diálogos project in Santa Ana. He also appeared in Coriolanus, The School for Scandal and Romeo & Juliet at The Old Globe. Other credits include So It Is! If So It Seems To You! and King Lear at A Noise Within. Soto is a faculty instructor with SCR’s Theatre Conservatory, and adjunct professor of stage combat at Vanguard University. As fight director, he has choreographed stage fights around the SoCal region, including SCR, Latino Theater Company, Native Voices at The Autry, Teatro Meta, American Coast Theater, Imagine Theatre, Vanguard University, Pomona College, and Actors Co-op, where he was recognized for his outstanding fight choreography. He is currently navigating life, while working on projects involving his passions of people, history, art, education, and comic books. Follow him at Instagram @therichardsoto

Kaci Hamilton* (Mrs. Fezziwig/Mrs. Cratchit/Spirit of Christmas Past/Sally Understudy) is thrilled to be returning to the SCR stage. Most recently, she played Hermione and Paulina in back-to-back productions of The Winter’s Tale (Antaeus and Southern Shakespeare Company). Favorite credits include Crassis (Pacific Playwrights Festival), The Little Foxes (SCR), Menstruation: A Period Piece (Big Little Theatre Company), King Lear (staging), Julius Caesar and Romeo and Juliet (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Julius Caesar (Warriors for Peace Theatre Company), Henry V (Fairbanks Shakespeare Theatre/World Shakespeare Congress, Brisbane, Australia), The Crucible (Perseverance Theatre), and The List (The Player’s Theatre). Currently, she can be seen in the short, In Foreign, which premiered at the 2024 AFI Fest, and Getaway, which premiered at the 2023 Toronto Black Film Festival, the Pan African Film Festival and the Essence Festival. Hamilton is a graduate of the William Esper Studio in New York. Instagram @thesweetbacon.

David Nevell* (Ebenezer Scrooge Understudy) previously appeared at SCR in A Raisin in the Sun, Shakespeare in Love, Peter and the Starcatcher and Arms and the Man. Other Southern California appearances include Twelve Angry Men, Driving Miss Daisy and The Odd Couple at Laguna Playhouse; The Price, A Walk in the Woods and God of Carnage at International City Theatre; Twelfth Night at New Swan Shakespeare; The Morini Strad at The Colony; and The Comedy of Errors, Twelfth Night and Romeo & Juliet at Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles. Regionally, Nevell appeared in The Scene at Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara; Amphitryon at Huntington Theatre Company; The Crucible at Pittsburgh Public Theatre; Henry VIII and The Tempest at Utah Shakespeare Festival; A Christmas Carol at Geva Theatre; Crazy for You, On Borrowed Time and My Fair Lady at La Mirada Theatre; The Game of Love and Chance at San Jose Repertory; and in numerous roles while a resident artist at Pacific Conservatory Theatre/PCPA. Nevell earned his MFA in Acting at UC Irvine and his BA in Political Science at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. davidnevell.com

Michael Polak* (Bob Cratchit/Spirit of Christmas Present/Fred/Jacob Marley’s Ghost Understudy) is thrilled to be back at SCR. His New York credits include Soldier’s Wife at the Mint Theatre. Regionally he has appeared at The Rubicon Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Ensemble Theatre Company, La Mirada Theatre, International City Theatre, Pioneer Theatre Company, Northern Stage, Delaware Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare, Philadelphia Theater Company, Caldwell Theatre Company (New Times Award winner and Carbonell Award nominee for the role of Shane Mungitt in Take Me Out), The Shakespeare Theatre, Hartford Stage, Playmaker’s Repertory Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Cape Playhouse, PCPA, San Jose Stage Company and the California, San Francisco, and Texas Shakespeare Festivals among others. Television and film credits include "Bel-Air," Mid-Century, 86 Melrose Ave, and numerous soaps, web series, and shorts. Polak received his MFA from Pennsylvania State University and his BA from California State University, Fullerton. michaelpolakactorfd.com

CHILDREN
Lara Anderson, Brady Barrett, Lola Brett, Matthew Chan, Megan Chan, Quinn Garcia, Aya Hanai, Claire Jeong, Kennedy Levine, Beatrice Main, Penelope Main, Isaac Person, Justine Roussel, Libby Rue, Charlie Wellman, Natalie Yokota

Hisa Takakuwa (Director) is a classically trained actor, director and educator. She has worked at theatrical institutions around the country including the Sundance Children’s Theatre, The Music Center on Tour and the Indiana Repertory Theatre. At SCR, she appeared in The Man Who Came to Dinner, in 14 seasons of A Christmas Carol and Education Touring Productions. She is the Director of SCR’s Theatre Conservatory and directed many Players productions including Metamorphoses, Matilda The Musical, Cinderella, After Juliet, Peter Pan, Mary Poppins, Beauty and the Beast, Into the Woods, Seussical, Oliver Twist, The Wizard of Oz, Nicholas Nickleby and the world premiere of Cursed. While a longtime resident artist at A Noise Within, she appeared in many productions, including The Triumph of Love, The Comedy of Errors, The Misanthrope, Another Part of the Forest, The Seagull and Our Town. She directed Henry V, Twelfth Night and Shooting Stars at the Actors Co-op Theatre in Hollywood. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

Thomas Buderwitz (Scenic Design) previously designed Outside Mullingar, The Monster Builder, The Whipping Man, Tartuffe (co-design with Dominique Serrand), The Whale, The Prince of Atlantis, The Trip to Bountiful, Three Days of Rain, The Weir, Crimes of the Heart, Putting It Together, Collected Stories, The Heiress, Doubt, Pig Farm, Bach at Leipzig, Proof, A Delicate Balance, A Christmas Carol (21 previous seasons), But Not for Me and the 2007-16 Galas for SCR. His designs for other theatres include the Shakespeare Theatre Company, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Goodman Theatre, Geffen Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Portland Center Stage, Intiman Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Artists Repertory Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company, Chautauqua Theater Company, Reprise Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Boston Court Pasadena, A Noise Within, Antaeus Theatre Company, PCPA Theaterfest and San Diego Repertory Theatre. Buderwitz has received six Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Awards and three Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Awards. His television designs include specials and series for every major broadcast and cable network. He has been honored with three Emmy Award nominations and an Art Directors Guild Award nomination. He is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829, and is adjunct faculty at the University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts.

Amy L. Hutto (Additional Costume Design) has been managing the Costume Shop for South Coast Repertory for 27 seasons. Before her arrival in Costa Mesa, she managed shops in Northern California and North Carolina. In addition to designing additional costumes and maintaining the design integrity for A Christmas Carol, she designed costumes for a streaming version of Red Riding Hood, Lobby Hero and Oleanna at SCR. Hutto designed costumes for Man of LaMancha and To Kill a Mockingbird for Foothill Theatre Company; Hamlet, Taming of the Shrew and Much Ado About Nothing for Sacramento Shakespeare Festival; and A Christmas Carol for Sacramento Theatre Company. In North Carolina, she designed both scenery and costumes for The Miracle Worker and Inherit the Wind; and costumes for Oklahoma, Sweeney Todd, and Guys and Dolls among others for High Point Theatre Company. Hutto has taught classes ranging from public speaking to various theatre arts at Northern Kentucky University, Monmouth College, High Point University and University of North Carolina-Greensboro. On a personal note, she is an avid quilter as it offers another way to express her love of color, fabric and texture and has won her blue ribbons and honorable mentions at the Orange County Fair.

Donna & Tom Ruzika (Lighting Design) celebrate their 44rd year of designing for A Christmas Carol and 52 years of marriage. They have enjoyed collaborating on productions at SCR, the Hollywood Bowl and other regional theatres. Ms. Ruzika has designed 23 seasons for the Utah Shakespeare Festival and 30 seasons for Fullerton Civic Light Opera. She has also designed at Kansas City Repertory, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Laguna Playhouse, Ebony Repertory Theatre and Long Beach’s International City Theatre. Her work has also been seen in Cairo, Egypt, Bogotá, Colombia, and Barcelona, Spain. Mr. Ruzika’s designs have been seen on Broadway, in national tours, at major regional theatres and with many national and international dance and opera companies. His entertainment lighting can be seen at theme parks in six countries and his architectural lighting can be seen in prestigious hotels, casinos, restaurants, retail centers and performing arts centers across the nation and in Europe and Asia. The Ruzikas have received numerous awards for their contributions to the art and craft of lighting design.

Dennis McCarthy (Musical Arrangement/Composer) previously composed music for An Italian Straw Hat, Getting Frankie Married—and Afterwards, Ben and the Magic Paintbrush, The Beard of Avon, Much Ado about Nothing and Of Mice and Men at SCR. During his career, he has written music for more than 2,000 films, television movies and series episodes including “V,” “MacGyver,” “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose,” “Star Trek,” “Dawson’s Creek” and “Dynasty.” He won two Emmy Awards during his 18 years of music for “Star Trek” and composed the music for the series’ feature film, Generations. He was honored with ASCAP’s Golden Note Award. McCarthy teaches film scoring at the Art Center of Design in Pasadena, is a Southern California native, a father of three and proud grandfather of nine beautiful grandchildren.

Drew Dalzell (Sound Design) is happy to be back at SCR, where he previously designed Cloudlands, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Putting It Together, An Italian Straw Hat, Imagine, A Little Night Music, A Christmas Carol, Bunnicula, The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, Intimate Exchanges and Sideways Stories from Wayside School. Other design work includes Toy Story: The Musical for Disney Cruise Lines; The Laramie Project at Laguna Playhouse; Fen (Garland Award) and As I Lay Dying (Ovation Award nomination) at Open Fist Theatre Company; Songs for a New World (Ovation Award) at Rubicon Theatre Company; Side Show (Ovation Award nomination), and Billy Bishop Goes to War (Ovation Award nomination), with the Colony Theatre Company; and Wicked Lit! 2012, 2013 (Ovation Award nomination), 2014 (Ovation Award), 2015 (Ovation Award), 2016 (Ovation Award nomination), 2017, and 2018 for Unbound Productions. He is the president of Diablo Immersive, which designs immersive experiences such as Delusion for 13th Floor, Stranger Things: The Drive Into, and Arcane with Secret Cinema and Netflix, and other clients around the world.

Talia Krispel (Stage Manager) (she/her) is excited to be back at SCR, where her credits include A Christmas Carol (since 2014), Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical, Alice’s Wonderland, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Junie B. Jones Is Not a Crook, Abundance, Amadeus and Pinocchio. Her other credits include The Lonely Few starring Lauren Patten (Geffen Playhouse); The Little Mermaid (McCoy Rigby /La Mirada); Newsies!, Oliver! (Musical Theatre West); Aida (Stages St. Louis); Oliver!, The Addams Family starring Teri Hatcher, Newsies!, Something Rotten, The Music Man starring Adam Pascal, Mamma Mia!, West Side Story, Matilda The Musical, Shrek the Musical, Beauty and the Beast starring Susan Egan, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, Peter Pan (5-Star Theatricals); Inherit the Wind, Dame Edna: Back with a Vengeance, How the Grinch Stole Christmas and a workshop of Legally Blonde (Broadway); Newsies!, The Secret Garden (3-D Theatricals); The Little Mermaid (Sound Stage LIVE!); Mamma Mia! (ACT of Connecticut); The Times They Are A-Changin’ (The Old Globe); and Radio City Music Hall Christmas Spectacular (Radio City Music Hall). Additional: Geva Theatre Center, A Noise Within, Rubicon, Theatre By The Sea, Ocean State Theatre Company, Ogunquit Playhouse, North Shore Music Theatre and Paper Mill Playhouse. For Mychal Adair-Lynch, Mama and Dad. IG: @teekrisp. taliakrispel.com

Jenny Ludwig (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be back for her third production of A Christmas Carol at SCR. Other credits include Production Assistant for SCR’s Little Shop of Horrors, The Old Man and The Old Moon, Prelude to a Kiss, The Musical and Coleman ’72. She has stage managed Plaid Tidings for Enlightened Theatrics, A Midsummer Night’s Dream for Shakespeare Orange County and assistant stage managed The Tragedie of Macbeth and Twelfth Night, Or What You Will for Shakespeare Orange County. She has also worked as a Production Assistant for 3D Theatrical’s Newsies, Kinky Boots, Shrek The Musical, The Secret Garden, Once, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Parade, Million Dollar Quartet, Mamma Mia, 42nd Street, Young Frankenstein, Spamalot, Once on This Island, Oklahoma and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.

Julian Olive (Assistant Stage Manager) is excited to be back at SCR! His previous SCR credits include Alice's Wonderland, Junie B. Jones is Not A Crook, She Loves Me, Sweeney Todd, and A Christmas Carol. Selected other credits include Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer (national tour), Jersey Boys (CCAE Theatricals), The Little Mermaid, Jersey Boys (La Mirada Theatre), Newsies! (Musical Theatre West), The Lonely Few (Geffen Playhouse), Shrek, Matilda, West Side Story, The Music Man, Something Rotten!, Newsies!, The Addams Family, Oliver! (5-Star Theatricals), Jersey Boys, Spamalot, The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey (Forestburgh Playhouse), Newsies! (3-D Theatricals) and The Honeymooners (Paper Mill Playhouse). Happy Holidays!