Playwright & Director

 

Courney Baron (Playwright) Courtney's plays have been produced at Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, Actors Theatre of Louisville, as part of the 24-Hour Plays, as part of the Larson Project at New York Theatre Workshop, at the Jose Quintero Theatre, as part of the Chekhov Now Festival and at City Theatre in Miami. Her plays have been workshopped and read at the Atlantic Theatre, the Cherry Lane Theatre, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Famous Door Theatre in Chicago, Manhattan Theatre Club, the Pubic Theatre, Primary Stages, Rattlestick Theatre and Royal Court Theatre in London. Courtney is currently a member of the Primary Stages’ New American Writers Group and is under commission with Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis. Courtney holds an MFA in playwriting from Columbia University.
   
 

Loretta Greco (Director) has developed new work for the theatre with playwrights Rinne Groff, Emily Mann, Ruben Santiago Hudson, Tracey Scott Wilson, Jessica Hagedorn, Octavio Solis and Nilo Cruz. Her New York premieres include: The Story, Lackawanna Blues and Two Sisters and a Piano (Joseph Papp Public Theater); Inky, Touch and Gum (Women’s Project); Meshugah (Naked Angels); Mercy (Vineyard); Under a Western Sky (INTAR); and A Park in Our House (New York Theater Workshop). Her regional work includes Romeo and Juliet and Stop Kiss (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Gross Indecency (Playmakers Rep) in addition to productions at ACT, Intiman, Williamstown, LaJolla Playhouse, McCarter, Long Wharf, South Coast Rep, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, St Louis Rep, Coconut Grove Playhouse, Cleveland Play House and the national and international tours of Having Our Say. Loretta is the recipient of two Drama League fellowships and a Princess Grace Award and is presently the Producing Artistic Director of the Women’s Project in New York.

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Cast

 

Hari Dhillon* (Dr. Anil Patel) Film includes: Cradle to the Grave (Warner Bros); Entrapment (Fox); The Lawless Heart, New World Disorder (Independent). TV includes: recurring roles on Medium (NBC) and Charmed (WB); series regular on Holby City (BBC) and Dream Team (Sky TV); Wit (HBO), The Agency (CBS), Thief Takers (ITV), Arabian Nights (ABC). Theatre includes: Drifting Elegant (Magic Theatre), A Perfect Wedding (Kirk Douglas Theatre/Mark Taper Forum), Mother Theresa is Dead ( Royal Court Theatre, London), As You Like It (Jermyn Street Theatre, London), The House of Desires (BAC, London), Franziska (The Gate, London), The Idiots ( Royal Court Theatre, London).
   

Sasha Eden* (Carolyn Goldenhersch) NY Theatre: Rats (MCC); Bus Riley’s Back in Town (The Zipper); Midsummer Night’s Dream (Moonworks); SCAB, Bold Girls, I Stand Before You Naked 1 and 2 (WET). Regional Theatre: The Stamford Center for the Arts Fringe Festival (2002, 2004). Feature Film: Tonight at Noon. TV: Law and Order, Changing Gears, She Commerce, Guiding Light, KCI and music video for JoJo’s “All My Life”. She has appeared in readings at The Public Theatre, Playwrights Horizons, Urban Stages, and The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. Sasha is also the Co-Founder, Creative Director and Executive Producer of the acclaimed NYC non-profit production company, WET (wetweb.org). She received a BA in Drama from Vassar College and has studied at The Neighborhood Playhouse, BADA, Circle in the Square Theatre School and with Earle Geister at The Actor’s Center.
   

Jonathan Leveck* (Michael Goldenhersch) performed most recently as Lelio in Abydos Theater’s The False Servant. In his three years as a leading company member of two of Washington DC’s most award-winning companies, Synetic Theater and the Stanislavsky Theater Studio, Jonathan performed roles including Jokanaan in Salome and Konstantin in The Seagull. Other roles include Christian/De Guiche in Cyrano at the Kennedy Center, Pawel in a Polish tour of Gombrowicz’s Virginity and several readings in The Tarnished Phoenix at the Lensic Theater with Ed Asner, Rosemary Harris and Ali MacGraw. Jonathan trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.
   
Kunal Prasad (Dr. Anil Patel, understudy) is a Bay Area native and studied Theatre at San Francisco State University. He is an artistic associate for foolsFURY Theater Company where he has performed in The Strange Case of the Jenson Files, which was part of the FURYfactory festival of new plays, and in last summer's Twelfth Night in the role of Malvolio. Kunal is also a Red Ladder company member – San Jose Repertory's educational outreach theatre company.

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Designers and Crew

Karen Runk* (Stage Manager) moved to San Francisco with the intention of only staying for a few months. Nine years later she’s still here! This is largely due to the talented folks at the San Francisco Mime Troupe where she’s stage managed a plethora of summer shows. Karen has also stage managed with SF Shakes: The Winter’s Tale and Aladdin and with Magic Theatre: True West, A Question of Mercy, Mules, Gum, Eyes for Consuela and The 13 Hallucinations of Julio Rivera. Runk always enjoys working with the Magic and hopes to work with them again real soon.

Sarah Deutsch* (Rehearsal Stage Manager) is pleased to be back at the Magic after working briefly on The Hopper Collection extension. She has stage managed numerous productions for the ACT Conservatory over the past three years, including The Caucasian Chalk Circle, Once in a Lifetime, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Ramayana, Elektra and Of Thee I Sing. She has also worked with Tearany Theater on Daughter of the Floods, as well as with Pittsburgh Musical Theatre and the City Theatre of Pittsburgh. She is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University.

Russell Champa+ (Light Design) Current and recent projects include The Other Side at Manhattan Theatre Club and The Right Kind Of People at Primary Stages in NYC. In the Bay Area, Russell has designed for ACT, Berkeley Rep, CalShakes and Magic Theatre. On Broadway, Russell designed Julia Sweeney's God Said "Ha!" at the Lyceum Theatre. Other New York theatres Russell has designed for include Classic Stage Company, New York Stage & Film and La Mama etc. Regionally, Russell has designed for Wilma Theatre, Seattle Rep, Trinity Rep, McCarter Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre; Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Actors' Gang, The Kennedy Center. Welcome Jasper! Peace.

Alex Jaeger+ (Costume Design) Credits include Black Milk, The Russian National Postal Service, Caroline or Change, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie and The Cripple of Inishmaan for Studio Theatre; Romeo and Juliet, Handler, Stop Kiss and Fuddy Meers for Oregon Shakespeare Festival; Two Sisters and a Piano for Public Theatre (NYC); Pinocchio, All My Sons, Skylight, Play Strindberg, True West and Nostalgia for South Coast Rep; Jon Robin Baitz's The Paris Letter (world premiere) for Kirk Douglas Theatre; Jean-Claude Van Italie’s Light (world premiere) for Theatre @ Boston Court. Alex has received a Los Angeles Ovation award, an LA Drama Critic’s Circle award, three Drama-Logue awards, four Back Stage Garland awards and was nominated for a 2005 NAACP design award for his work.

Melpomene Katakalos (Set Design) returns to the Magic after seven years when she designed Stones in His Pockets. She has designed scenery for La Jolla Playhouse, ACT MFA Program, SF Mime Troupe, Aurora Theatre, Intersection for the Arts, Playwrights Foundation, SF Shakespeare Festival, Traveling Jewish Theatre and Shotgun Players. She is also a founding member and artistic associate of Crowded Fire, a San Francisco theatre company dedicated to producing new and contemporary works. In 2004, she won the San Diego Playbill Award for her design for the West Coast premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice, directed by Daniel Fish, and in 2005 for Marat/Sade, directed by Stefan Novinski. She received her MFA in design from UCSD. Thanks to Timmy always.

Norman Kern+ (Sound Design) is an award-winning designer, composer and engineer who has worked throughout the Bay Area. Recent credits include MTC’s Killer Joe and the world-premiere musical River’s End. Mr. Kern is excited about returning to the Magic where he worked on Edna O’Brien’s Family Butchers, Charles Grodin’s The Right Kind of People and Rebecca Gilman’s Blue Surge. He has won awards for The Music Lesson, Misalliance and The Woman in Black. As a recording engineer/music producer he has worked with Eddie Money, Pete Escovido and Bill Graham Presents. Mr. Kern’s film credits include Park Day, Dumbarton Bridge and The Homeboy.

* Member of Actors' Equity Association

AEA, founded in 1913, represents more than 45,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is our mark of excellence. ww.actorsequity.org.

+Member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. United Scenic Artists represents the designers and scenic painters for the American theatre.

 

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