Jennifer Chang (Director). Her select directing credits include A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Pasadena Playhouse), Primary Trust (Barrington Stage, BTCA Award Outstanding Direction; and TheaterWorks Hartford, Connecticut Critics Circle Award Outstanding Production), What Became of Us (world premiere, Atlantic Theater Company), The Far Country (West Coast premiere, Berkeley Repertory, 10 SFBACC nominations), King of the Yees (Signature Theatre DC, Helen Hayes nomination Best Production), On Gold Mountain with LA Opera, The Heart Sellers by Lloyd Suh (world premiere, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Aurora Theatre Company and Capital Stage) and Vietgone (LADCC Award for Best Direction). New play, musical development and residencies: Ojai Playwrights Conference, Berkeley Rep’s The Ground Floor, Mercury Store, Geffen Playhouse, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Pasadena Playhouse, Ashland New Plays Festival, O’Neill Playwrights Conference, New Harmony Project, Center Theatre Group, Sông Collective, Black and Latino Playwrights’ Conference, Theater Mu, Chance Theater, Boston Court Pasadena, PlayOn!, Circle X, East West Players and Artists at Play. She is Head of Acting at UCLA’s School of Theater Film and Television. She is a member of SDC, AGMA, SAG-AFTRA and AEA. Drama League New York Fellowship, Classical Directing Fellow at The Old Globe, Zelda Fichandler Award Finalist. BFA, NYU; MFA, UCSD. changinator.com.
Tanya Orellana (Scenic Design) designs performance spaces for theatre, opera, and immersive experiences. Select credits include Littleboy/Littleman (Geffen Playhouse); Don’t Eat The Mangos (Huntington Theatre Company); What Became of Us (Atlantic Stage 2); the Mexico premiere of Angels in America (National Autonomous University of Mexico); Derecho (La Jolla Playhouse); Mother Road (Berkeley Repertory); As You Like It (Oregon Shakespeare Festival) Fefu and her Friends, Big Data, Private Lives (American Conservatory Theatre); Where Did We Sit on the Bus (Denver Center for the Performing Arts); For The People (Guthrie Theater); Stew, One of the Good Ones (Pasadena Playhouse) and Alma (Kirk Douglas Theatre). Orellana is engaged in a long term collaboration with Virginia Grise; Rasgos Asiáticos—a traveling scenic installation using sound, light and objects to conjure narratives of immigration and migration in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands. She earned her MFA at CalArts and is a 2016 Princess Grace Fabergé Theatre Award winner. tanyaorellana.com
Anthony Tran (Costume Design) is a Costume Designer for theatre, film, and television. Theatre credits include the world premieres of Vietgone (South Coast Repertory/Manhattan Theatre Club), The Heart Sellers (Milwaukee Rep), A Doll’s House, Part 2 (Pasadena Playhouse), Triassic Parq (Chance Theater, Ovation nomination) and La Cage Aux Folles (East West Players, LA Drama Critics Circle Award nomination). For television, he designed the final season of “Star Trek: Discovery” (Paramount+) and “How I Met Your Father” (Hulu). Film costume design work includes Excision (Sundance premiere), Bad Milo! (SXSW premiere) and Magic Camp (Disney+). anthonytran.net
Pablo Santiago (Lighting Design) is a live performance and digital film lighting designer, originally from Chiapas, Mexico. He is the winner of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Kinetic Lighting Award and the Orange Curtain Review Award for Best Lighting, as well as the Henry Award, Richard Sherwood Award, Stage Raw Awards and multiple Ovation Award nominations. His designs aim to find evocative images that embody the emotional moment of the show and create images that can spark the imagination of the audience to worlds beyond the stage. Returning to South Coast Repertory for the fourth time, Santiago’s resume includes The Kennedy Center, Teatro Municipal São Paulo Brazil, Santa Fe Opera, LA Opera, Opera Omaha, Detroit Opera, Opera Philadelphia, Boston Lyric Opera, Long Beach Opera, Opera Columbus, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Opera Santa Barbara, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage DC, BAM-Harvey Theater, Geffen Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Denver Center, Broad Museum, Kirk Douglas Theatre and Hollywood Bowl.
Melanie Chen Cole (Sound Design) (she/her) is a San Diego-based sound designer. SCR credits: The Little Foxes, Appropriate and Where the Mountain Meets the Moon. Regional theatre credits include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Alley Theatre, Alliance Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cleveland Play House, Dallas Theater Center, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, Geffen Playhouse, Goodman Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, McCarter Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Northern Stage, The Old Globe, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Studio Theatre and the Utah Shakespeare Festival. Education: MFA in Theatre and Dance from UC San Diego. melaniesound.com, @melaniechencole.
Adrian Trujillo Centeno (Dramaturg) (he/him) is a Los Angeles-based dramaturg who champions contemporary American playwrights. He’s developed and supported new works at South Coast Repertory, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Cleveland Play House, Yale Indigenous Performing Arts Program and New York Stage & Film, among others. A passionate advocate for emerging voices, Trujillo Centeno has served on grant panels and selection committees for the National Endowment for the Arts, The Public Theater, Signature Theatre, The Playwrights’ Center and the Latinx New Play Festival. He is also an affiliate dramaturg with Beehive Dramaturgy Studio in New York City. Trujillo Centeno earned his master’s degree from UC Santa Cruz, where he was recently honored with the Distinguished Alumni Award. Previously serving as literary manager at Playwrights Arena and Boston Court Pasadena, he currently holds dual roles as Assistant Professor of Theatre Studies at Cal State Long Beach and Artistic Director of Seven Devils New Play Foundry. Website: Luchaturgy.com
The Telsey Office (Casting) With offices in both New York and Los Angeles, The Telsey Office casts for theatre, film, television and commercials. The Telsey Office is dedicated to creating safe, equitable and anti-racist spaces through collaboration, artistry, heart, accountability and advocacy. Please visit thetelseyoffice.com for our credits.
Darlene Miyakawa (Production Stage Manager) is happy to return to SCR this season! Previous SCR credits include The Staircase; Wish You Were Here; Galilee, 34; A Raisin in the Sun; Coleman ’72; Sheepdog and Ella Enchanted. Other companies worked at include Arizona Theatre Company, Barrington Stage, California Symphony, East West Players, Fort Worth Opera, Geffen Playhouse, Getty Villa, Geva Theatre, LA Opera, LA Philharmonic, Long Beach Opera, New York City Opera, Opera Maine, Opera San Antonio, Opera San Jose, Opera Santa Barbara, Piedmont Opera, The Old Globe, Tri-Cities Opera, Watermill Festival and West Edge Opera.
Kyrsten Goodrich (Assistant Stage Manager) (she/ her) was born and raised in California where she received her BA in Theatre from CSU Chico in 2016 and her MFA in Stage Management from UC Irvine in 2021. She is focused on implementing anti-racist training and stage intimacy training into all her work and enjoys guest lecturing for Stage Management courses whenever possible. Her credits include The Incredible Book Eating Boy (South Coast Repertory); The Inheritance: Part 1 & Part 2, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and others (Geffen Playhouse); The Rocky Horror Show (Cygnet Theatre); Escape to Margaritaville, Steel Magnolias, A Christmas Carol and The Amish Project (Theatre SilCo); The Spongebob Musical, Young Frankenstein, The Who’s Tommy, Tuesdays with Morrie, Cabaret, Jesus Christ Superstar and others (Clinton Area Showboat Theatre); and Disney’s The Little Mermaid and Chicago (The Lexington Theatre Company). Cheers!
