Cygnet Theatre: A Behanding in Spokane, Man from Nebraska, Mauritius, Love Song; ion Theatre: Shining City, Angels in America (Millennium Approaches and Perestroika); Scripps Ranch Theatre: Almost Maine, How the Other Half Lives, Crimes of the Heart, Deathtrap; New Village Arts Theatre: HumbleBoy, True West, Sailor’s Song (San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award – Best Costume Design), Three Sisters, Crimes of the Heart; Backyard Productions: Hysterical Blindness, Closer, Wake of Jamey Foster, Boys Life.

Francis has appeared in theatre productions throughout San Diego including: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Desire Under the Elms, Our Town, The Glass Menagerie, True West, Fool for Love (Cygnet Theatre); Suzette Who Set To Sea, Accomplice (La Jolla Playhouse); Proof, The Merchant of Venice, In the Next Room, (San Diego Rep); A Life in the Theatre, Time Stands Still (North County Repertory Theatre); Hurlyburly, Grace, Shining City (ion Theatre); The Pride (Diversionary Theatre); True West, Orphans, Playboy of the Western World (New Village Arts); I Hate Hamlet, Oleanna, Macbeth (Intrepid Shakespeare Company). He is co-founder and former Artistic Director of New Village Arts and a Resident Artist with Cygnet Theatre. He is a recipient of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle Award for his work as an actor and as a director. He has been a faculty member at Palomar College, University of San Diego, and California State University San Marcos and is the founder of ActorsApproach, a weekly acting class. He is a graduate of the Actors Studio Drama School at the New School for Social Research in New York.

Cygnet: Gypsy, The Whale, Assassins, Little Shop of Horrors (nominee, San Diego Critics Circle ), Cabaret (nominee, SDCC), A Little Night Music, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. San Diego Theatre (select): ion Theatre: Sunday in the Park with George. New Village Arts: Big River, Same Time, Next Year, Into the Woods (nominee, SDCC), The Seven Year Itch, The Full Monty. Moonlight Theatre: Sondheim on Sondheim (nominee, SDCC). Moxie Theatre: Eternally Bad, Mud Blue Sky. Diversionary: Falsettos, The Rocky Horror Show. North Coast Rep: Dancing at Lughnasa. Regional: Little Shop of Horrors (Sierra Rep); Harmony, The Car Plays (La Jolla Playhouse). Education: MFA – Musical Theatre, SDSU.

Manny has appeared in over a dozen productions at Cygnet. Favorites include: True West (San Diego Critics Circle nomination), Fool for Love, Travesties, The Importance of Being Earnest, Assassins, Private Lives, A Christmas Carol, Mauritius, Communicating Doors, Escanaba in da Moonlight. Select local credits include Big River, Return to the Forbidden Planet, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men (SDCC Award), Same Time Next Year, Sailor’s Song, Golden Boy (SDCC Award), Simpatico (New Village Arts); Outside Mullingar, Death of a Salesman, A Christmas Carol, Cabaret (San Diego Rep); Anna in the Tropics (Moonlight); West Side Story (San Diego Musical Theatre);Extraordinary Chambers (Mo’olelo); Jeffrey, Boys in the Band, Never the Sinner, Fifth of July, Diversionary Theatre; Arcadia, Moon Over Buffalo, The Rivals, (North Coast Rep). Film: Ozark Savage, 29th & Gay.

Charles is so grateful to return to the wonderful world of A Christmas Carol for a third year! He was most recently seen on the Cygnet stage as Nicky Lancaster and Simon Bliss in Cygnet’s dual productions of The Vortex and Hay Fever. Other Cygnet productions include Dogfight, My Fair Lady, and Spring Awakening. Recent San Diego credits include The Car Plays (La Jolla Playhouse); Fiddler on the Roof, The Miracle Worker, Twelfth Night (Lamb’s Players); Much Ado About Nothing (Intrepid Theatre); Grey Gardens (ion Theatre); Forever Plaid: Plaid Tidings (New Village Arts). Charles has spent five seasons as a resident actor with the Okoboji Summer Theatre, holds a BFA degree from Stephens College for Women, and is a proud member of Actor’s Equity. His continual thanks to Sean Murray, and Ms. Caitie Grady.

Credits: Cygnet: It’s a Wonderful Life; 6th@Penn: Glengarry Glen Ross; North Coast Rep: An American Daughter, The Rainmaker; Diversionary Theatre: Handsome Men, Breaking the Code, Never the Sinner, M. Butterfly, Thief River; Lamb’s Players: A Divine Comedy, 1776; Vantage Theatre: The School of the World; Swedenborg Hall: The End of Death, The Trial of the Catonsville Nine; The Old Globe Theatre: ten plays, three Atlas Awards for Long Day’s Journey into Night, The Balcony and The Man in the Glass Booth; San Diego Rep: Private Lives. Jonathan was a former Channel 8 newscaster and a member of Actors Alliance of San Diego. He was been a mainstay of The Scripteasers since 1966. Jonathan passed away in 2014 and is remembered fondly.

Cygnet Resident Artist. Andy has been seen on the Cygnet Theatre stage in Assassins (Proprietor), Cabaret (Max), The Matchmaker (Ambrose), My Fair Lady (Harry) and Pageant (Miss Great Plains). Andy has also worked around town with Diversionary, ion, SDMT, North Coast Rep and SD Rep. Some of his credits include Pippin (Charles), Gypsy (Herbie), The Full Monty (Harold), Falsettos (Mendel), The Rocky Horror Show (Brad) and La Cage Aux Folles (Clo Clo). Mr. Collins began his stage career with San Diego Junior Theatre and the School of Creative and Performing Arts.