Eileen Bowman

Tallulah

Eileen is so happy to be here at Roustabouts Theatre playing such an iconic role. Other productions include - Guys and Dolls as Adelaide (Critics circle Award) Joe Vs The Volcano De De / Angelica (Critics Circle Nomination ) Pete N Keeley as Keeley, Festival Of Christmas and Jewel In The Crown.Other favorite credits include, Nunsence as Sister Mary Amnesia, Menopause The Musical as Soapstar Lawrence Welk Theater, Cinderella as Stepmother Madame, Adams Family as Alice Beineke Moonlight Theater, On The 20th Century as Lily Garland, Company as Amy, Christmas Carol,  Cygnet Theater, End Of The Rainbow as Judy Garland, Intrepid Theater, Hairspray as Velma Von Tussle SDMT. Eileen is also a very proud alumni of How The Grinch Stole  Christmas, Lucy Who and Grandma Who for 11 wonderful years ! Thank you God for your unending love and mercy and to my most perfect husband Marc my rock and my heart and thank you Phil and Seth for this  life changing project and trusting me with her! To my spectacular parents John and Marion Bowman,  I love and miss you every day.

Alex Guzman

Danny

Theatre: Henry VI, Native Gardens (The Old Globe), Cry It Out, Sapience, ENRON (Moxie Theatre), I Hate Hamlet, Move Over Mrs. Markham (Scripps Ranch Theatre), Bachelorette (Backyard Renaissance Theatre), Homos, or Everyone in America (Diversionary Theatre), Awake and Sing, Around the World in 80 Days (New Village Arts), The Normal Heart, Lydia (ion Theatre), Seminar, The Taming of the Shrew (InnerMission Productions), The Lion in Winter (Moonlight Stage Productions). Film/TV: Vain, Red Plague, A Poet and a Piano. IG:@_alexguzman_

Chris Braden

Steve

Chris Braden is happy to work with Roustabouts’s once again to put on this production.  He has worked in various theaters in San Diego some of his most notable works include The 39 Steps (Clown) Scripps Ranch Theatre, Macbeth (Duncan), and Sweeney Todd (Toby).  Thank you for your support of the arts and enjoy the show! 

Phil Johnson

Director

Phil Johnson is the Artistic Director and proud co-founder of The Roustabouts Theatre Co. He’s directed for The Roustabouts, Scripps Ranch Theatre, Playwrights Project, and started the new Great Jewish American Playwright Series/JPlays at the JCC. He’s appeared at almost all San Diego theaters and in numerous original solo shows including A Jewish Joke which opened Off-Broadway in NYC in 2019. As an actor, he’s played in Les Misérables on Broadway and on tour; Canadian production of Sunset Boulevard; and the 1st National Co. of Miss Saigon. He is a two-time winner of the SD Critics Circle Craig Noel Award for acting, and he is a founder of the San Diego Theatre Alliance.

Maya Aizenman

Production Manager

Maya Aizenman is excited to be starting her third season producing with the Roustabouts team. After graduating San Diego State University in 2022 with a B.A. in Theatre Arts and a B.A. in Linguistics, Maya has most frequently worked as a stage manager (The Roustabouts Theatre Company: Hand to God, The Savoyard Murders, and GUnTOPIA; Coronado Playhouse: Hay Fever; Diversionary Theatre: Esto No Tiene Nombre, (un)Documents, Teen-Versionary 2022) but can occasionally be found refocusing a light or fixing a flat when the production needs it. In her precious free time she loves professional wrestling and pourover coffee.

Josie E. Gerk

Stage Manager

Josie E. Gerk is a San Diego based stage manager and is thrilled to rejoin The Roustabouts Theatre Co. for this production. Recent credits include Finding Avi (La Jolla Playhouse WoW Festival, Stage Manager); Dido & Aeneas (Bodhi Tree Concerts, Stage Manager); The Savoyard Murders, gUnTOPIA (The Roustabouts Theatre Co., Assistant Stage Manager).

Jemima Dutra

Costume Design

Jemima is excited to be working on her first show with The Roustabouts. She has worked at Lamb's Players since 2006 in all aspects of costuming. Some of her favorite shows to costume design at Lamb’s have been: MiXtape, The 39 Steps, You Can’t Take it With You, Silent Sky, Camping with Henry, Tom, and Million Dollar Quartet, and R-E-S-P-E-C-T. A few costume design credits at other venues: All This and Moonlight, and An Inspector Calls (Scripps Ranch Theater), Old Wicked Songs and Talley’s Folly (North Coast Rep), Side Man (Bang! Productions),Ventura Music Festival, Eye of the Beholder, Classics for Kids-Music Takes Flight, Babar, The Art of Dance, and High Strung (Malashock Dance), Twain Fest, Poe Fest, and Yellow Wallpaper (Write Out Loud). 

Peter Herman

Hair & Wig Design

Peter is excited to be working with The Roustabouts Theatre Company.  Peter is known for his wig designs for theaters all over the Southern California area.  Some of his work has recently  been seen at The San Diego Opera,  North Coast Rep, Moonlight Stage Productions, Diversionary Theatre, as well as some design work for film, television, and various theme parks.  Peter currently teaches wig and makeup design at San Diego State University.

Tony Cucuzzella

Scenic Design

Tony Cucuzzella is the Technical Direction Specialist for the Palomar Performing Arts Department since 2017 and has designed the sets for the Theatre Departments productions of Goodnight Desdemona, Good Morning Juliet, Sila, Mamma Mia, Little Shop of Horrors, RENT, Crazy for You and the upcoming Alice by Heart. In his 30 plus years, he has worked for San Diego Repertory Theatre, San Diego Comic Opera/Lyric Opera, Diversionary Theatre, San Diego Junior Theatre, J*Company, The Welk Theatre, Moxie Theatre, and Backyard Renaissance Theatre. He is the recipient of 6 National Youth Theatre Awards for Outstanding Scenic Design and most recently received the 2019 Craig Noel Award for Outstanding Scenic Design for An Experiment with an Air Pump for Backyard

Renaissance Theatre.

Nathan Waits

Lead Carpenter

Nathan Waits has been stage managing and building sets for productions all around San Diego for about 10 years. He has served as the master carpenter for 1222 Oceanfront Ave and Fun Home, and stage manager for Desert Rock Garden, The Ferryman, Singin’ in the Rain, Doubt, Fun Home and The 39 Steps (New Village Arts). He served as the resident set builder for Scripps Ranch Theatre (including shows such as Lucky Stiff, Extreme Home Makeover, The Outsider, I Hate Hamlet, The Taming, the master carpenter for The Roustabouts (Guntopia, Hand to God), the resident set builder/designer for Sage Creek High School (Les Miserables, Chicago, Legally Blonde, Into the Woods), and the technical director for Mother of the Maid (MOXIE Theatre). 

Curtis Mueller

Lighting Designer

Previous lighting designs for The Roustabouts Theatre, Co. include: Romeo Romeo and Juliet, Whithering Heights, and Margin of Error. Curtis has also designed for other local venues including Backyard Renaissance, Diversionary Theatre, New Village Arts, CoSA, Mira Costa College, Litvak Dance, and Moonlight Stage Productions just to name a few. Most importantly, Curtis would like to thank Phil Johnson and The Roustabouts team for this creative opportunity.

Ted Leib

Sound Designer