Sandy Campbell

Maria Callas

Parade (Critics Circle Award, lead), Follies, A Little Night Music, The Norman Conquests,Noises Off (Cygnet); Master Class (Critics Circle Award, lead) and Passion (ION); Beautiful, Hairspray, Ragtime and Into the Woods (Moonlight); Zhivago (La Jolla Playhouse); Clybourne Park and Mother Road (SD REP); Macbeth (Intrepid); The Music Man, 1776, Light in the Piazza (Lambs Players); Awake and Sing (NVA). Sandy also served as assistant director for Cygnets award winning production of Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 and as director for Good People at OTC. Grateful for this opportunity to step into Maria’s shoes once again.

Kyle Adam Blair

Manny

Kyle is a concert pianist, music director, répétiteur, and theatre composer who makes San Diego his home, both in the UC San Diego Department of Music and the Department of Theatre & Dance. Last season’s highlights include Milo Cramer’s, No Singing in the Navy (Playwrights Horizons, Aysan Celik), Caryl Churchill’s, Vinegar Tom (UCSD, Allie Moss), and The Civilians’, Gone Missing (UCSD, Aysan Celik). You can hear Kyle’s debut solo album “Palm Sunday” and many other releases on Apple Music and Spotify. Kyle received his DMA in Piano Performance from UC San Diego in 2018, under the mentorship of Aleck Karis.

Sara Frondoni

Sharon

Sara is excited to make her Scripps Ranch Theatre and The Roustabouts Theatre debut. She’s performed in musicals, operas, and choral groups across California. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Vocal Performance from USC’s Thornton School of Music, sang with the San Francisco Symphony Chorus, and currently sings with the San Diego Symphony Festival Chorus. Favorite roles include Claudia Nardi in Nine (Coronado Playhouse), Annina in Verdi’s La Traviata (Pacific Lyric Association), Maria Rainer in Sound of Music (Temecula Performing Arts Company), and Rosie Alverez in Bye Bye Birdie (Star Theater Company).

Abigail Grace Allwein

Sophie

Abigail Grace Allwein is thrilled to be joining The Roustabouts for Comedy Smackdown and Masterclass fresh off a long run of ONCE:The Musical (Ex-Girlfriend), and The 70's Show at Lamb's Players. She has been seen in the Kathleen Marshall directed Much Ado About Nothing, and The Winter’s Tale at the Old Globe Theatre. Abigail has also appeared in Sister Act (Walnut Street Theatre), Indecent (Cape Repertory Theatre + Chatauqua Theatre Co.), Company (Fine Arts Assoc.), and numerous other theatrical productions. Her San Diego Opera productions include Pagliacci, Turandot, One Amazing Night, Così fan tutte, Romeo et Juliette, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, Suor Angelica (Suor Osmina), and Tosca (Little Shepherd Boy), Madame Butterfly, La Boheme, and Making Merry. All my love to Bruce & Archie.  www.abigailgraceallwein.com 

Ben Read

Anthony

Ben is a San Diego based performer who loves music and theatre in all their forms. Most recently he performed in the Aix-en-Provence opera festival. Lambs theatre: The 70s!, RESPECTFULLY Christmas, The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate, RESPECT. Ben produced, composed, orchestrated, and musically directed a new musical (co-written with his sister): Taleggio's Last Unveiling. Other credits: musical director for The Sound of Music (Junior Theatre), 1940's Radio Hour  (Lamplighters Theatre), and pianist for La Traviata (FF collective). Ben's directing experiences involve creating productions in backyards with talented friends, The Fantasticks, and Shakespeare’s Much Ado About Nothing.

Tim Benson

Stagehand

Tim is ecstatic to be working with the illustrious The Roustabouts Theatre. A decorated combat veteran of the Marines, he has foregone the seasons of his native New England for the sunny locale of San Diego and continued to pursue his theatrical aspirations. He’s worked all over San Diego County in theaters such as the Welk Resort, Diversionary, Scripps Ranch Theatre, and the Avo, just to name a few. He’s worked in quite a few shows such as Puffs, Arsenic and Old Lace, and Evil Dead the Musical. 

Terrance McNally

Playwright

Terrence McNally was a trailblazing American playwright and four-time Tony Award winner whose work profoundly shaped contemporary theater. Renowned for his fearless exploration of love, identity, and the human condition, McNally's celebrated plays - such as Love! Valour! Compassion!, Master Class, and Ragtime - pushed boundaries and gave voice to underrepresented communities. With a career spanning six decades, he collaborated with some of the greatest talents in theater and opera, crafting emotionally rich narratives that resonated with audiences around the world. McNally’s legacy endures as a testament to the transformative power of storytelling on stage.

Phil Johnson

Director

Phil Johnson is the Artistic Director and proud co-founder of The Roustabouts Theatre Co. For TRTC he’s directed: Looped, Hand to God, Savoyard Murders, and readings of All My Sons, Falsettos,The Little Foxes, 12 Angry Men, Doubt, and others. He also started the new Great Jewish American Playwright Series/JPlays at the JCC. As an actor he has appeared at most San Diego theaters and in numerous original traveling solo shows including A Jewish Joke which opened Off-Broadway in NYC in 2019.  He played in Les Miserables on Broadway and on tour, the Canadian production of Sunset Boulevard, and the 1st National Co. of Miss Saigon. He is a two-time winner of the San Diego Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for acting, and he is a founder of the San Diego Theatre Alliance.

Jill Drexler

Artistic Director, Scripps Ranch Theatre

Jill Drexler holds a B.A. from Scripps College and an M.A, from San Diego State University. Drexler has been a teaching artist in San Diego and a performer at many local theaters. She has worked as a director, actor and producer in San Diego and is the proud recipient of the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle award.

Josie Gerk

Stage Manager

Ruth Russell

Co-Producer

Cristyn Chandler

Co-Producer

Ted Leib

Co-Producer

Dawn Fuller-Korinek

Costume Design

Tim Botsko

Dramaturg

Duane McGregor

Props Design/Set Dressing/Scenic Painting

John Owen

Set Construction Manager

David Kievit

Lighting Design

Erik Carstensen

Sound Design

Dixon Fish

Set Design

Erik Carstensen

Projections & Sound

Kyle Adam Blair

Music Director