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is honored to make her Fountain Theatre debut. A proud Mexican-American artist raised in Baja California, her regional credits include Indian Princesses (La Jolla Playhouse) and La Lucha (Optika Moderna). Staged readings include Truth Be Told & What We Inherited (Tuyo Pa' Letras) and the SD Latinx New Play Festival (La Jolla Playhouse). Educational credits include In the Corner, By the Door (San Diego City College). Socials: @amecovarrubias

“Camino con quienes vinieron antes que yo.”

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(she/her) BA in Theatre Performance from SFSU. Credits include Wish You Were Here (Shideh u/s*) Yale Repertory Theatre, the world premiere of Hotter Than Egypt (Maha) ACT Theatre & Marin Theatre Co. Wisdom From Everything (Tamer) Local Theatre Co. Veils (Samar) The Pear Theatre. Other/Film: Need For Speed Unbound (Youmna) EA Games. Strength and Fortune (Maryam) Dir. Eimanne El Zein. Venture Maidens Dungeons & Dragons Podcast (Fittonia Silvertale) Dir. Celeste Conowitch. She's thrilled to be making my Fountain Theatre debut.

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is a Los Angeles based musical theatre actress and dancer, and a proud graduate of Howard University. Broadway tour credits include Harry Potter and The Cursed Child (Curran Theatre). Regional theatre credits include Alice's Wonderland (South Coast Repertory), Black Side of the Moon (Wooly Mammoth Theatre Company), Four Little Girls (Kennedy Center), and I Go Somewhere Else (Playwrights Arena). In addition to performing, Kita is a passionate teaching artist who loves helping young people discover confidence through dance and storytelling. She believes art is one of the most powerful tools we have to expand empathy and lived experience

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is an actor, singer, and screenwriter. She trained at The American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Honored to be a part of this wonderful production. @mackenziemondag

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is thrilled to collaborate with this remarkable cast to bring June Jordan’s electrifying poetry to new audiences. Her theater work includes Fritz Lang’s M (The Actors’ Gang), Laundry & Bourbon (Eddon Award for Best Performance), Romeo & Juliet (BroadwayWorld Best Actress nominee), Patterns (Scenie Award: Star-Making Performance), Live! From the Last Night of My Life! (Sacred Fools), and A Carol Christmas (world premiere musical and cast album). Film and TV credits include Dexter: Original Sin, Queerdos, and Mattbeth. A graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, Savannah trained in Commedia dell’Arte at The Actors’ Gang and is an original member of About the Work Actors Studio. Ever curious and creative, she’s also a martial artist and self-defense coach, wreath-maker, witchcraft practitioner, midnight karaoke enthusiast, and tap dancer for pure joy.

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is thrilled to collaborate with Raymond, Adrienne, and this team of artists to share the voice of June Jordan. Janet’s recent theatre credits include Stains (Great Plains Theatre Commons), Three (Playwrights’ Arena), Kim’s Convenience (Laguna Playhouse), Hannah and the Dread Gazebo (Fountain Theatre), Rent and Urinetown (Coeurage Ensemble). She has also worked with Rogue Machine, East West Players, Boston Court, Playground-LA, among others. She loves working with playwrights, having participated in numerous play readings around town. Recent TV credits include Matlock, St. Denis Medical, I Think You Should Leave, Special. You may have heard her voice in the English dubs of your favorite K-Dramas and she is the recipient of numerous Earphone Awards from AudioFile Magazine for audiobook narration. For Aiysha.

SOUND DESIGN & ADDITIONAL COMPOSITION

is a Sound Designer and Composer for Theatre, Film, Audio Dramas and Immersive Installations. She is happy to return for another show at The Fountain after designing Fly Me To The Sun, Alabaster and Last Summer at Bluefish Cove. Select Theatre Credits: Off Broadway: Gloria A life, Regional: Musical Theatre West: Hello, Dolly!, The Old Globe and Pasadena Playhouse: One of the Good Ones, Milwaukee Repertory: Prelude to a Kiss The Musical, South Coast Repertory: Nina Simone: Four Women, Alice’s Wonderland, Mark Taper: The Search For Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (Composer), Village Theatre: How to Break, Dallas Theater Center: Public Works Dallas As You Like It, Twelfth Night, Public Works Dallas The Winter's Tale. Shakespeare Notre Dame: Romeo and Juliet, Tours: Viiv: As Much I Can National Tour, LATW: Lucy Loves Desi National Tour, DCPA: Wild Fire, Regional Tour. You can find more about her design work at andreaallmond.com

DIRECTOR & ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Now living in Los Angeles, Caldwell has spent the last 16 years in Washington, DC as a director, writer, producer, and educator. He is the 2023 SDCF Zelda Fichandler Award recipient for his creativity and deep investments in the community. He has received Helen Hayes awards for directing, writing, and producing and was a regular recipient of the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities Artist Fellowship.

His most recent directing credits include Romeo & Juliet at Folger Shakespeare Library, Look Both Ways at The Kennedy Center, Poetry for the People at Theater Alliance, Skeleton Crew at The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio, and Passing Strange at Signature Theatre. He has written and adapted new works for Theater Alliance and the Kennedy Center, including Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks from the book by 2024 MacArthur recipient Jason Reynolds. A national tour is planned for early 2025. Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience, which he created alongside renowned composer Adrienne Torf, received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Adaptation.

Caldwell was the artistic director at Washington DC’s Theater Alliance for six seasons, where he directed, developed, and produced socially conscious, thought-provoking programming that transformed the region and had global impact. Under his leadership, Theater Alliance was chosen to lead an American Arts Envoy with the US Department of State. He devised and directed the new work, A Global I.D.E.A., with 23 artists and activists from Bangladesh, Nepal, India, and the U.S. that explores what “Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Accessibility” mean on the global stage. He’s developed and led similar international programming promoting cultural preservation, LGTBQIA+ rights, disability advocacy, peacebuilding, and countering violent extremism, human trafficking, and gender-based violence. In addition to his international work as an educator, Raymond was a faculty member and resident director at Howard University’s Department of Theatre Arts. He was part of the National Arts Strategy Executive Leadership group at Harvard, holds an MFA in Acting/New Play Development from Ohio State University, and a BFA in Acting from the University of Florida.

COSTUME DESIGN

(he/him) is an LA-based Costume Designer/educator with previous design credits at American Stage Theatre, Center Theatre Group - Mark Taper, Kirk Douglas, Laguna Playhouse, Geffen Playhouse , Ebony Repertory Theatre Company, Collaborative Artist Bloc, Lobby Theatre, Antaeus Theatre Company, Boston Court Theatre, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Rogue Machine, Rogue Machine Theatre, Matrix Theatre, Southcoast Repertory Theatre, La Mirada Theatre, Wherehouse Theatre, Skylight Theatre Company, Lower Depth Theatre, Chance Theater Company, Theatre Rhinoceros, and others. University and Colleges APU, USC, UCLA, University of Pomona, Chapman College and University of Lavern productions: Three time LA Critic’s Choice nominee, 2023 and 2018 Stage Raw winner – Costume Design. Three-time L.A. Ovation Award nominee. 2017 Orange County’s Best Costume Designs. 2015 NAACP Theatre Award winner. Member of Local 768. His work can be viewed on social media WynningzbyWyndell. 

MEDIA DESIGN

is a Projection and Media designer based in Los Angeles. Specializing in film, motion graphics, and visual effects, Deja is constantly seeking new opportunities to reimagine archival and visual information within immersive spaces. Some of her credits include Fly Me to the Sun at Fountain Theatre, Confederates and One in Two at Mosaic Theatre, POTUS at Montgomery College, Re-Memori at Penumbra Theatre (World Premiere), and By the Way, Meet Vera Stark at the University of Maryland, College Park.

SCENIC & LIGHTING DESIGN

is a freelance scenographer and specializing in designs for black box, thrust and found spaces. Matthew currently serves as the Resident Scenic Designer and Technical Director for Cleveland Opera Theatre, and as the ATD & Scene Shop Supervisor for Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle, WA.

Regional Theater Credits: Seattle Shakespeare Co., Seattle Children's Theater, Arts West, Seattle WA., Theater Alliance, Washington D.C., Evolution Theatre Co. Mile Square Theatre Co. , Actors Episcopal Guild NYC, Helen Mills Theatre NYC, 59E59 NYC, Thingamajig Theatre Co., The Crook Theatre Co., Parallel 45 Theatre Co., Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, Interlochen Center for the Arts, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Carrickmacross Productions, Columbus, Oh., Cleveland Opera Theatre & the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. International Credits include: Technical Director and Resident Scenographer for the Oberlin in Italy opera program based in Arezzo, Italy, Toronto Fringe Festival, '07 Prague Quadrennial, in Prague, CZ. Faculty appointments include Cornish College of the Arts, The University of Wyoming, Fort Lewis College, Durango, Co. and Interlochen Center for the Arts. rabbitholedesigns.com

PLAYWRIGHT & COMPOSER

Adrienne B. Torf (Co-deviser & composer) and June Jordan were artistic collaborators and life partners for nineteen years, until Jordan’s passing in 2002. Together they wrote their full-length documentary opera Bang Bang Über Alles and numerous works for performance by themselves and by ensembles, recorded on Collaboration: Selected Works, 1983–2000 (A Bongo Music, 2000).

Adrienne’s original compositions for piano and synthesizer are captured on three solo albums, Here I Am (2025), Two Hands Open (2003) and Brooklyn from the Roof (1986) all on her label A Bongo Music.

In addition to Poetry for the People: The June Jordan Experience, co-devised with Raymond O. Caldwell and recipient of the 2023 Theater Washington Helen Hayes Award/Charles MacArthur Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical Adaptation, Adrienne’s theater works include The Awesome Difficult Work of Love, a community participation performance piece slated for Flint, MI in 2026 and previously produced in Madison, WI (2008), San Francisco (2012) and Sedona, AZ (2022.) She is currently composing the music for For Women Serving Time (libretto by Fatemeh Keshavarz) under a commission from IN Series Opera, Washington DC, scheduled to premiere in March, 2026. She and Caldwell are in early stages of writing a musical about her successful 37-year search for birth family.

Adrienne’s keyboard work appears on more than a dozen commercially released albums by Holly Near, Cris Williamson, Meg Christian, Ferron, Kay Gardner, and others. (See more at adriennetorf.com).

Photo by Irene Young

PRODUCTION STAGE MANAGER

Ashley Lauren Weaver (Stage Manager) is a Los Angeles based Stage Manager, Production Manager, Choreographer. Ashley has focused the majority of her career on new works and Immersive Theatre. Select credits include: SORRY. (Stage Manager) with Moving Arts, The Last Play By Rickerby Hinds (Stage Manager) with Latino Theatre Company, Schlitzie Alive and Inside (Stage Manager) with Rogue Artists Ensemble, Fat Ham (Stage Manager) with Dezart Performs, Happy Fall with Rogue Artists Ensemble and Los Angeles LGBT Center, Two Stop (Stage Manager/Associate Producer) with EST/LA, Maestro’s Treehouse (Stage Manager) with Inner City Arts, Punk Play (Stage Manager) with Circle X Theatre, Cabaret(Choreographer) with University of La Verne.