Cygnet Theatre: Debut. Select credits include: Your Local Theater Presents: A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens, Again; The Ballad of Johnny and June; Redwood (La Jolla Playhouse), Women of Zalongo (Santa Monica Playhouse & CSU Fullerton), A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The SpongeBob Musical; 35MM: A Musical Exhibition; Confessions of a Star Maker (CSU Fullerton). Olivia also works as a Patron Services Representative here at Cygnet. Olivia wants to thank her family, friends, mentors, advisors, and Cygnet family for all their support.

Jared is a San Diego based stage manager originally from Ione, CA. Prior to living in San Diego, he worked at The Harris Center for the Arts (formerly Three Stages) as a stage technician in Folsom, CA (2011 – 2016). Select credits include SM Swing: The Ballad of Johnny & June (La Jolla Playhouse); ASM: Evita (Cygnet), Here There are Blueberries (La Jolla Playhouse & Tectonic Theater Project); PSM: Abeba in the Tall Grass (La Jolla Playhouse), Intimate Apparel (North Coast Rep), Bunny Bunny (UCSD & the feath3r theory). Education: BA Theatre Arts SDSU 2019, MFA Stage Management UCSD 2023. @jbh.stage.management on Instagram.

Website: https://heatherlarsendesign.com/

Cygnet Theatre: Great Comet, Present Laughter, El Huracán, Water by the Spoonful, Life Sucks, La Cage aux Folles, The Great Leap, The Virgin Trial, Rock of Ages, Pride and Prejudice, Angels in America, Marie and Rosetta, HIR, Spamalot, The Last Wife, Shockheaded Peter, On the 20th Century, Bad Jews, Seven Guitars, King Hedley II, Gypsy, Stupid F**king Bird, The Rocky Horror Show, When the Rain Stops Falling, Hay Fever, The Vortex, Dogfight, My Fair Lady, Pageant, Fool for Love, True West, The Motherf**ker with the Hat, Spring Awakening, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, Company, Assassins, A Christmas Carol and many others. Elsewhere: Peter has designed hair and wigs for over 500 productions, including the La Jolla Playhouse, San Diego Rep, San Diego Opera and Disneyland.  Peter currently teaches wig and makeup at SDSU.

BROOKE NICOLE KESLER, costume designer, is thrilled to be making her debut at Cygnet! She is currently a freelance designer based in Southern California and a lecturer in costume design and technology at San Diego State University. Recent designs include: Arsenic and Old Lace (Center REP), The Gondoliers (Ohio Light Opera); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (University of San Diego/The Old Globe Theatre); Peter and the Starcatcher (University of San Diego); The Mystery of Irma Vep (Diversionary Theatre); and Interstate: A New Musical (East West Players). You can enjoy more of her work at brookenicolekesler.com.

George is excited to be back designing with Cygnet Theatre after a long-time hiatus.  Favorites include Little Shop of Horrors, A Number, Fences, Arcadia, Yellowman, It’s a Wonderful Life, Bug, Escanaba in Da Moonlight, Fully Committed; Old Globe MFA: Tartuffe, Sir Patient Fancy, Moxie: San Diego Rep: Venus in Fur, Restless Spirits, The Goat, Proof, Nuevo California; NCRT: Travesties, Relatively Speaking; Diversionary: M. Butterfly, The Killing of Sister George, Falsettos, Love Valor Compassion, They Mystery of Irma Vepp; Vantage:  Best Laid Plans. George is currently Chair of Dramatic Arts at SD Mesa College, and a member of AEA. 

Joshua Heming (He/They) is a Lighting Designer based in San Diego, CA. Design Credits include tick, tick… BOOM! (Cygnet Theatre), In a Sunshine State, Love’s Labor’s Lost, A Raisin in The Sun (San Diego State University), Birds of North America (MOXIE Theatre), Associate and Assistant Design Credits include DMC Lighting Assistant for The Who’s TOMMY (Broadway, 2024), Associate Lighting Designer for Is It Thursday Yet? (PACNYC, 2023), Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson Apt 2B (The Old Globe, 2024), Great Comet (2024), Evita (2023) (Cygnet Theatre), and  Assistant Lighting Designer for The Ballad of Johnny & June (2024), Redwood (2024), Babbitt (2023) (La Jolla Playhouse), Twelfth Night, and Cabaret (The Old Globe, 2023). He would like to thank his partner for all the love and support she provides. For more information please visit his website at www.joshuahemingld.com.

Andy is happy to return to Cygnet Theatre for Other Desert Cities. Cygnet Theatre: Angels in America, Stupid Fucking Bird, The Rocky Horror Show, A Christmas Carol, My Fair Lady, The Motherfucker with the Hat, The Glass Menagerie, Private Lives, Bed and Sofa, and The History Boys. Elsewhere: Cabaret, Guys and Dolls (Altadena Music Theatre), Into The Woods (San Diego State University). Andy is currently working as a Set Designer on the second season of the show Palm Royale in Los Angeles. He has worked on such productions as West World, For All Mankind, Marriage Story, and Mad Men.