Roosevelt: Charge The Bear

Phil is a proud founding partner in The Roustabouts Theatre Co.  As an actor/writer, his solo show, A Jewish Joke (co-written with Marni Freedman, directed by David Ellenstein) had an Off-Broadway run at Theatre Row in NYC in March 2019, after a successful San Diego run for The Roustabouts, as well as touring regionally: Chicago's Victory Gardens, New Haven, and St. Louis. Other original shows: Withering Heights, written and performed with Omri Schein and directed by Ellenstein, for TRTC; She-Rantulas from Outer Space in 3D!, co-written with Ruff Yeager, for Diversionary Theatre and the NY Fringe Festival; and The Hound of the Baskervilles, as a San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst Grantee, at North Coast Rep in 2012. Phil played in Les Misérables 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 Theatre Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for acting, for Midsummer Night's Dream at Intrepid Theatre Company, and The Man Who Came to Dinner. So. California theatres include North Coast Rep (Last of the Red Hot Lovers, Laughter on the 23rd Floor, Spelling Bee), Old Globe (How the Grinch...), and Cygnet Theatre (Mistakes Were Made, Pageant). Local directing credits include SD Playwrights Project and Scripps Ranch Theatre. He teaches and produces a Solo Show Workshop for writer/performers that is part of The Roustabouts season. The company encourages new local writers from Southern California. www.philjohnson.net

The Roustabouts Theatre Company: gUnTOPIA; Margin of Error. Backyard Renaissance: American Buffalo; Zoo Story. New Village Arts: The Secret Garden. North Coast Repertory Theatre: Blithe Spirit; The Cocktail Hour; Fallen Angels; Broken Glass; Glorious; Don’t Dress For Dinner; Relatively Speaking; Importance of Being Earnest; Travesties; An American Daughter; The Sum of Us; Corpse. San Diego Repertory Theatre: Bad Dates. Cygnet Theatre: Atwater, Fixin’ to Die. Renaissance Theatre: Caretaker (San Diego Critics Circle Award). Diversionary Theatre: 2.5 Minute Ride; Marriage Bed; Happy Endings are Extra; Twilight of the Golds; Beautiful Thing;  Wrinkles; Another American; Asking and Telling; Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde; Breaking The Code; Lot’s Daughters. Compass Theatre: Three Days of Rain. Fritz Theatre: Vigil. Gaslamp Quarter Theatre: Marvin’s Room. Founding Artistic Director of Chequamegon Children’s Theatre in  Northern Wisconsin, established in 1987.

Rebecca been called many different things by many different people in a few different places. Sometimes she's called a "producer" (with and without a prefix): Mike Birbiglia’s The New One (Lortel Award nomination) and Thank God For Jokes; Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (Lynn Redgrave Theatre - NYC); The American Tradition (New Light Theater Project - NYC); Lucie Pohl: Hi, Hitler; I Lost You There; Pass Over; The Surgeon and Her Daughters (Cherry Lane Theatre - NYC); Whirlwind (New York Innovative Theatre Award nomination, The Wild Project - NYC); and A Sunnyside Mixtape (Queens, NY). Sometimes she's called a "company manager": Downtown Race Riot, Jerry Springer – The Opera, Good for Otto, Peace for Mary Frances (The New Group - NYC); 3 Mics (Lynn Redgrave Theatre - NYC). Sometimes a "general manager": A Jewish Joke, gUnTOPIA (The Roustabouts - NYC and San Diego); Nick Kroll: One Night Only (Cherry Lane Theatre - NYC); The King's Speech (The National Theatre - DC); ADH Theatricals; Lucille Lortel Theatre Foundation. She's been called a "Production Consultant" for Jacqueline Novak: Get On Your Knees, the "Producing Director" for The Misfits Theatre Company, and a "Resident Artist" at New Light Theater Project. Sometimes people call her a friend.

Jessamyn Foster is thrilled to be stage managing for The Roustabouts. Her local stage manager credits include MOXIE Theatre’s Fade, The Diary of Anne Frank, Ironbound, The Kid Thing, Crumbs from the Table of Joy and The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence, Innermission Productions’ Gidion’s Knot, Southwestern College’s Bring it On! and  The Arsonists, Leigh Scarritt Productions’ Brooklyn: The Musical, and California Youth Conservatory’s Into the Woods, Billy Elliott, and The Wiz. She has worked with the Kalamazoo Civic Theatre & Actors and Playwrights Initiative (Kalamazoo, MI), Huntington Theatre & Boston Lyric Opera (Boston, MA), the Big Apple Circus (touring division), Harbor Playhouse (Corpus Christi, TX), Little Theatre of Norfolk, Generic Theatre & Virginia Opera (Norfolk, VA) and Yokosuka International Players (Yokosuka, Japan).  She has a BFA in Stage Management from Boston University an MA in Arts Administration from the University of Kentucky. She is also the Production and Operations Manager for the San Diego Youth Symphony and Conservatory. 

Tony is happy to be back working with The Roustabouts. He is the Technical Director for the Performing Arts Department at Palomar College. He is a veteran of over 300 set designs around San Diego for such theatres as Backyard Renaissance/La Jolla Playhouse, The Welk, Diversionary, San Diego Comic Opera, J-Company, and San Diego Junior Theatre. Next up is A Christmas Carol at Palomar College in December.

This is Jordyn’s third production with The Roustabouts. Previous costume designs include Romeo, Romeo & Juliet, A Jewish Joke, The Jungle Book, Crimes of the Heart, Assassins, Glorious Ones, and the 2017-2020 Plays by Young Writers Festivals. Jordyn teaches Fashion and Costume Design at San Diego Mesa College. She has built costumes for The Old Globe, McCarter Theatre, Cygnet Theater, and Disney Imagineering. 

Ross  is delighted to be the assistant costume designer for this production. They are a student at San Diego Mesa College studying Fashion Design, concentrating in Theatrical Costuming. This is their first stage production. With eight years background in sewing and design, Ross also regularly receives commissions to recreate costumes for people who part-take in cosplay. In conjunction with completing their studies and working with The Roustabouts, Ross is also currently involved in creating their own fashion line. 

Selected San Diego Design work includes The Dazzle, American Buffalo, Experiment With an Airpump, and Mr. & Mrs. Fitch (Backyard Renaissance), A Kind of Weather and Significant Other (Diversionary), A Raisin in the Sun, Taming of the Shrew(d), Strange Men, Vieux Carré, and Angels in America (UCSD), The Who’s Tommy Benefit Concert and South of the 8 (La Jolla Playhouse), Heaven on Earth (Sledgehammer_), Little Women and Peter and the Starcatcher (The Barn Stage Company). Selected Assistant and Associate work includes Summer, The Donna Summer Musical (La Jolla, Broadway, National Tour), Hamilton (National Tour), Come From Away (National Tour), The Band’s Visit (National Tour), Freaky Friday, Squirrels (La Jolla Playhouse), The Lorax (The Old Globe), The Tales of Hoffman (LA Opera), Christmas Carol (Zachary Scott, Austin). Joel earned an MFA from UCSD and is a proud member of Local USA829 and IATSE 122. joelbritt.com

Matt  is excited to be back with The Roustabouts. Previous credits include A Jewish Joke (The Roustabouts);  Eurydice [2010 San Diego Critics Circle Nominee], Dead Man's Cell Phone, Hickorydickory, ENRON, Eternally Bad, The Kid Thing, Bliss, Voyeurs de Venus, Yoga Play (MOXIE); Sweeney Todd, Cabaret, Little Shop of Horrors, A Behanding In Spokane, Man of La Mancha, Assassins, Company, Spring Awakening, Pageant, Sons of the Prophet, My Fair Lady, Shockheaded Peter, Spamalot, The Last Five Years (Cygnet); Lizard Boy; The Moors, The Loneliest Girl Alive, This Beautiful City, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (Diversionary); Evita; Roz and Ray [2017 San Diego Critics Circle Nominee], Hand To God; Black Pearl Sings, Beachtown, Fun Home, A Doll's House Part 2, Sweat, 33 1/3: House of Dreams, Bad Hombres (San Diego REP); Henry V [2014 San Diego Critics Circle Nominee] (New Fortune). Matt has a degree in Theatrical Design and Technology from SDSU.

Michael is a seven-time EMMY recipient in the Pacific Southwest region. He’s an accomplished Director. His films have won Best Film in 48 Hour Film Project events in six out of twelve attempts, including three films which were selected in the top 20 worldwide, out of over 3000 films. He makes his living doing corporate projects, usually working as a one-man band, doing lighting, sound, camera, and sometimes makeup. Both his writing and editing have won awards. A former Director of Photography in IATSE Local 600, Mike has taught seminars on AfterEffects compositing, lighting for green screen, acting for the camera, and the business of the film business.