Wil Bethmann

Wil has appeared in several theatre and commercial roles in New York and across the country. Most recently as Edward in Theresa Rebeck’s Spike Heels. On screen as the personality and creative mind behind ad campaigns for Smirnoff, AT&T, BrosBeingBasic, Applebee’s, the NCAA, and coverage for the Governors Ball and LoveLoud music festival. Wil’s on-site creative consulting and productions have been recognized with multiple nominations at the Annual Shorty Awards, social media awards show in New York City. Wil studied at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, graduating with a BFA and now resides in New York City.

Alex Bodine

This will be Alex’s first appearance at Cygnet. He is humbled to have the chance to tell Prior’s story once again. A New York native, Alex was most recently seen as Callidora in the feminist vampire-action-comedy Blue Balls. Other regional acting credits include Charley’s Aunt, Richard III, Heathers, W;t, Our Town and The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Apart from acting, Alex is also a violence choreographer for theatre, film and opera. UNCSA BFA Acting Alumnus (2015). Deepest gratitude to Jeremy Skidmore, Ashley Gates-Jansen, Robert Beseda, and my rock of a family (including my mother, who is most certainly, never, out of it.)

Kevane La'Marr Coleman

Kevane La’Marr Coleman is overjoyed to be returning to Cygnet in this production of Angels in America. He was last seen at Cygnet as the Mother in Shockheaded Peter. Previous credits include The Secret Garden, 1940’s Radio Hour, Return to the Forbidden Planet (New Village Arts); 9 Hours (Playwrights Project-Old Globe Theatre); South Pacific, Miss Saigon (Moonlight Amphitheatre); Airline Highway, Grey Gardens, Chicago: A Speakeasy Cabaret, Angels in America: Millennium Approaches and Perestroika; Red Planet Respite (ion Theatre), Naughty or Nice, De-construction of a Drag Queen (Circle Circle Dot Dot); The Car Plays (La Jolla Playhouse); As Much As You Can, The Facts of Life-The Lost Episode, Our Gay Apparel, Stage Directions (Diversionary Theatre); Oklahoma, Crazy for You, Aida, Ragtime (Starlight Musical Theatre). Kevane was also a member of the Boston Ballet and graduated from Boston College with a double degree in Theatre and Pre-Law.

Isaac Kalimo

Isaac, is excited to be making his return to Cygnet. Isaac’s most recent work was in Smokey Joe’s Cafe 2019 (New Village Arts).  Other credits include, Fringe Festival 2018, both co-directing and acting in Tabled Manners; Under Construction (Sledgehammer Theatre/La Jolla Playhouse); Shockheaded Peter (Cygnet); Bocón (Laura R Charles Theater). He’s exited to share the cygnet stage with the talented direction and cast of Angels in America! 

Hans Krueger

Hans Krueger started the new year off with a move to San Diego, specifically Old Town, from Northern California and is glad to be performing at truly his home theatre. A visual and performing artist, Hans most recently presented a full exhibition of his work in Nevada City, California after returning from a touring aerial circus show in Hawaii. Mr. Krueger is also a certified yoga instructor and cosmetologist and when not creating or performing spends his days helping others reach their fullest potential. Hans is so grateful to be making his Cygnet debut in Angels.

James Newcomb

The Old Globe: Twelfth Night, Coriolanus; San Diego Rep: Honky, Zoot Suit, Brooklyn Boy; North Coast Rep: How The Other Half Loves; Oregon Shakespeare Festival: (14 Seasons, and resident Fight Director), Denver Center Theatre: (10 Seasons), The Public Theatre, B.A.M., Utah Shakespeare Theatre, Shakespeare & Company (founding member), The Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Berkeley Rep. South Coast Rep, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Portland Center Stage. Geva Theatre. Oxford Society Award for Richard III (O.S.F.) , Drama Log Award for Touchstone  (S.S.C.) Denver Critics Award Orphans (D.C.T.C.), T.V.: ‘Honky’ (P.B.S.) , ‘I Want To Keep My Baby’ (CBS) ‘ The Cradle Will Fall’ (CBS); Fight Direction: La Jolla Playhouse The Squirrels, Jayne Eyre, Loot; San Diego Rep: The Illusion,  Zoot Suit, Water and Power; San Diego Opera: Conquistador, Don Giovani, Moby Dick; Fight Instructor: UCSD Graduate Theatre Program

Rosina Reynolds

Cygnet Theatre: When the Rain Stops Falling, Hayfever, The Vortex, The Glass Menagerie, Noises Off, Arcadia, Little Foxes, Copenhagen. Regional Theatre: 33 Variations (Theatreworks, Palo Alto),  Love In American Times (San Jose Rep), Steel Magnolias (La Mirada Theatre), Dividing the Estate, Sea of Tranquility, Romeo and Juliet, Missing Footage, Trojan Women, (Old Globe Theatre), San Diego Theatre: Favorite roles include; Golda’s Balcony. (New Village Arts) Uncanny Valley, Doubt. (San Diego Rep) Mandate Memories, Ghosts, Wit, Amy’s View,(The North Coast Repertory Theatre), Lettuce & Lovage, (Lambs Players Theatre) Shirley Valentine, Long Days Journey Into Night, (Renaissance Theatre Company.) Other San Diego theatres include New Village Arts, Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company, Sledgehammer Theatre and Malashock  Dance Company. Rosina has directed over 30 productions in San Diego, most recently Zoo Story (Backyard Renaissance Theatre) Blithe Spirit (North Coast Rep) The Hour of Great Mercy (Diversionary Theatre). She is the founding artistic Director of the Chequamegon Children’s Theatre in Northern Wisconsin.

Connor Sullivan

Connor Sullivan is incredibly grateful to be making his Cygnet debut with this masterpiece of a play! Most recently: D’Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (PVPA), Othello and The Two Noble Kinsmen (Kingsmen Shakespeare), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (PVPA), The Man Who Came to Dinner (Actors Co-op). San Diego Credits: The Old Globe, San Diego Repertory Theatre, New Fortune Theatre Company, MOXIE Theatre, ion theatre company. He holds a B.A. in both Theatre and Communication Studies from USD and trained at the MeisnerChekhov Integrated Training Studio here in San Diego as well as the Summer Training Congress at A.C.T. A huge thank you to Sean and the rest of the Cygnet family for this opportunity! Thank you for coming to share this very important story! Let’s do this! All my love to Chels and Bing. @itsconnorsullivan. www.connorrileysullivan.com.

Rachael VanWormer

Cygnet Theatre: When the Rain Stops Falling, The Vortex, Hay Fever, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, Arcadia, The Matchmaker, The Little Foxes, Curse of the Starving Class; Lamb’s Players Theatre: Silent Sky, Dinner With Marlene, An American Christmas; La Jolla Playhouse: Froggy (wokshop), #SuperShinySara; Diversionary Theatre: The Mystery of Love and Sex, Regrets Only, Birds of a Feather, Speech & Debate, Beautiful Thing; North Coast Rep: Faded Glory, A Christmas Carol; San Diego Rep: boom; New Fortune: Henry V; PCPA TheaterFest: The Wizard of Oz, Lifeboat, The Reluctant Dragon; ion Theatre: Reason to be Pretty, In the Heat of the Night, bash: latterday plays (Critics Circle Award), New Village Arts: Waving Goodbye, Things We Want, Be Aggressive, This Is Our Youth, The Playboy of the Western World, The Two Gentlemen of Verona; Moxie Theatre: Eleemosynary, The Sugar Syndrome, The Listener.

Debra Wanger

Debra is humbled to be part of this epic theatrical event. At Cygnet: Spring Awakening, My Fair Lady, Dogfight, On the 20^th Century, and A Little Night Music. San Diego highlights: God of Vengeance at La Jolla Playhouse, Hamlet (Gertrude) at Intrepid; San Diego Musical Theatre: Hairspray, Billy Elliot, Footloose, Sound of Music, La Cage Aux Folles, White Christmas. Titanic & Sunset Blvd. at Moonlight; Permanent Collection at Mo’olelo; Full Monty (Vicki) at New Village Arts; Anything Goes! (Reno) Oliver! (Nancy) at Lyric Opera San Diego; Carousel and Sound of Music at Lawrence Welk. Her original musical, My Nights With George, Kurt & Cole, co-written with Phil Johnson, won AASD & Billie Awards. Education: CCM, Tufts, and M.F.A. SDSU. Debra is also a certified wellness coach, best-selling author (The Resilient Actor), recording artist (Driving My Own Heart), proud mama of 3 and like any true angel, plays the harp. xoxoCMG. www.DebraWanger.com

Craig Campbell

In addition to serving as Cygnet’s Production Manager, his Stage Mgmt. credits here include; Spamalot, A Little Night Music, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Animal Crackers, On the Twentieth Century; August Wilson Rep; Seven Guitars & King Hedley II; Noel Coward Rep; Hay Fever & The Vortex.  Other local area credits include: Damn Yankees, White Christmas, 42nd Street, La Cage aux Folles, West Side Story (SDMT); Peter Pan & The Music Man (Moonlight) The Tallest Tree in the Forest, Kingdom City & The Who and the What (La Jolla Playhouse). National tours: Forever Plaid, Guys & Dolls, Some Like it Hot and All Shook Up.  Prior to life in San Diego, Craig is an Emmy Award winning Producer on various home make over shows including; “Clean House”, “Room-Mate Wars”, “Over Your Head” and “The Amanda’s”.

Bonnie Durben

Cygnet Theatre: HIR, The Wind and the Breeze, A Little Night Music, Animal Crackers, On The Twentieth Century and 57 other productions; Moonlight Theatre Productions: Aida, Little Mermaid, Sunset Blvd, In the Heights, Sister Act, Peter Pan, Titanic, The Addams Family, The Music Man, Shrek, All Shook Up, Big Fish; Scripps Ranch: Skin Deep, Good People; Diversionary Theatre: 2.5 Minute Ride, Well, Ballast, Mystery of Love and Sex, The Boy Who Danced on Air, Now or Later, She-Rantulas, Baby with the Bathwater, A New Brain, Amazons and Their Men; Mira Costa Theatre: Waiting For Lefty, Oklahoma, These Shining Lights, Romeo and Juliet, Seven, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike, Urinetown. Member of the Society of Property Artisans and Managers.

Andy Hull

Steven Leffue

Steven Leffue creates live performances of theater, dance, music, and performance art. He is a co-founder and board member of the OBIE award winning non-profit performing arts organization JACK, Brooklyn (jackny.org), and a lecturer of sound design the University of California San Diego Department of Theater and Dance. He is also a member of Voices of Our City Choir, a local non-profit organization which provides a social and performative platform for people experiencing homelessness (voicesofourcity.org). For more information visit stevenleffue.com.

Blake McCarty

Blake McCarty is a director and designer, as well as the founder of Blindspot Collective, a theatre company devoted to transformative new work at the intersection of advocacy, education, and entertainment. Previous Cygnet productions: Spamalot, On the Twentieth Century, and The Rocky Horror Show. Elsewhere as a designer: Light Years Away (La Jolla Playhouse); Evita and Beachtown (San Diego Rep); This Beautiful City (Diversionary); Shadowlands, American Rhythm, and Oz (Lamb’s Players); Cloud Tectonics, Buddy, and Return to Forbidden Planet (New Village Arts); and Sunday in the Park with George (Ion). Upcoming projects: Chasing Fear, a new musical based on Turkish folklore, and an artistic residency at the San Diego International Airport. As an educator, Blake has developed educational programming for The Old Globe, La Jolla Playhouse, Tribeca Film Festival, and Guggenheim Museum. He holds a BFA in Film Production and an MA in Educational Theatre, both from New York University.

Sean Murray

Mr. Murray co-founded Cygnet Theatre in 2002 along with partner Bill Schmidt. Cygnet Theatre: Spamalot, A Little Night Music, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Animal Crackers, On the 20th Century,The Rocky Horror Show, Gypsy, The Vortex, Dogfight, My Fair Lady, Fool for Love, True West, Spring Awakening, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, Company, Assassins, WCYG presents A Christmas Carol, Man of La Mancha, Dirty Blonde, Parade, Little Shop of Horrors, Our Town, Cabaret, The Tragedy of the Commons, The Norman Conquests, Private Lives, Sweeney Todd, It’s a Wonderful Life, Noises Off, Bed and Sofa ‘09, The History Boys, A Christmas Carol, A Little Night Music (SD Critic’s Award, Best Director), The Receptionist, The Invention of Love, Bed and Sofa ‘04 (SD Critic’s Award, Best Director, Best Musical Revival), Las Meninas, Escanaba in da Moonlight (SD Critic’s Circle, Set Design), The Book of Liz, Pageant, Bug, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, St. Nicholas, The Matchmaker, Desire Under the Elms, Santaland Diaries, Firebugs, Fully Committed, Arcadia, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Little Foxes, My Fair Lady. Elsewhere: North Coast Rep: The Elephant Man (Patté Award, Direction), Man of La Mancha, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties; Diversionary: Never the Sinner, Love! Valour! Compassion!. Education: University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA). In 2000, Sean was named one of San Diego Magazine’s “50 People to Watch” and in 2005 he was named Producer of the Year by the San Diego Critic’s Circle.

Shirley Pierson

For Cygnet: Hir, ShockHeaded Peter (San Diego Critics Circle – Craig Noel Outstanding Costume Design Award), Wind and the Breeze, Pageant, The Importance of Being Earnest, Travesties, Assassins, WCYG A Christmas Carol (’13, ’12), Parade (Craig Noel Outstanding Costume Design Award), Spring Awakening, Mistakes Were Made, Glass Menagerie, Little Shop of Horrors, Our Town, Cabaret, Sweeney Todd, Private Lives, It’s a Wonderful Life (‘09, ‘10, ‘11), History Boys, A Christmas Carol (’09).  Selected Regional and San Diego Theatre: The Pasadena Playhouse: The Fantasticks, The Old Globe: Tiny Beautiful Things, Ken Ludwig’s Baskerville, Rich Girl, Diversionary Theatre: The Moors, The Boy Who Danced on Air, Now or Later, Marry Me A Little, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabbler, When Last We Flew, Pippin, Harmony Kansas, Next Fall, New Village Arts; Seascape, Into the Woods.  Shirley received her MFA in Theatrical Design from San Diego State University. View her work at: shirleypiersondesigns.com.

Chris Rynne

Cygnet Resident Artist. Cygnet Theatre: Spamalot, A Little Night Music, The Last Wife, Shockheaded Peter, On the Twentieth Century, Gypsy, When the Rain Stops Falling, My Fair Lady, Sons of the Prophet, Spring Awakening, The Importance of Being Earnest/Travesties, Company, Assassins, Gem of the Ocean, Parade, Little Shop of Horrors, Cabaret, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (2003). Off-Broadway: The Pianist of Willesden Lane.  Additional credits include The Old Globe, Geffen Playhouse, San Diego Opera, South Coast Repertory Theatre, Madison Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Michigan Opera Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Cleveland Playhouse, Hartford Stage, San Diego Musical Theatre, North Coast Repertory Theatre, Houston Grand Opera, Diversionary Theatre, Laguna Playhouse, and Starlight Theatre. Chris also designs lighting for museum exhibitions, special events, architectural features, and lighting systems for new venues.