MEET THE CREATIVE TEAM | TITUS ANDRONICUS

RED BULL THEATER presents TITUS ANDRONICUS by William Shakespeare. Directed by Jesse Berger,

the production will have scenic design by Beowulf Boritt, lighting design by Jiyoun Chang, costume design by Emily Rebholz, composition and sound design by Adam Wernick, sound design by Shannon Slaton, prop design by Anya Kutner, wig & makeup design by Tommy Kurzman. Rick Sordelet is the fight director & intimacy coordinator. Dawn-Elin Fraser is the voice & speech coach. Ayanna Thompson is the dramaturg. Jenn McNeil is the production stage manager.

March 17 - April 19, 2026 | The Pershing Square Signature Center’s Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre

JESSE BERGER (Director). Since founding Red Bull Theater, Jesse has directed 15 productions for the company: Pericles, Revenger’s Tragedy, Edward the Second, Women Beware Women, Duchess of Malfi, Witch of Edmonton, The Maids, Loot, Volpone, Tis Pity, The Changeling, The Government Inspector, The Alchemist, Arden of Faversham, and The Imaginary Invalid. Jesse has also directed at Denver Center, Old Globe, Pittsburgh Public, Barrington Stage; Washington, Utah, and Idaho Shakespeare, and others. Jesse's work has been recognized with Callaway, Drama League and Lucille Lortel award nominations, a Helen Hayes Award and an OBIE Award.

BEOWULF BORITT (Scenic Designer). The Duchess of Malfi, Dance of Death, and The Imaginary Invalid for Red Bull. Thirty-five Broadway designs include the Tony-winning sets for New York, New York and Act One, and the Tony-nominated sets for The Scottsboro Boys, POTUS, Thérèse Raquin, and Flying Over Sunset. One hundred Off-Broadway shows. OBIE Award for sustained excellence. Author: Transforming Space Over Time, about Broadway set design. Founder of The 1/52 Project, providing grants to early-career designers.

EMILY REBHOLZ (Costume Designer). Broadway: Gutenberg! The Musical!, Jagged Little Pill (Tony Award nomination); Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune; Getting the Band Back Together; Indecent; Oh, Hello on Broadway; If/Then; Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike; Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson. Off-Broadway work includes Lincoln Center Theater, Roundabout Theatre Company, New York Theatre Workshop, The Public Theater, LAByrinth Theater Company, Playwrights Horizons, Second Stage, New York City Center, among others. Opera: The Santa Fe Opera, Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. Internationally produced on the West End and across U.S. regional theaters. MFA: Yale.

JIYOUN CHANG (Lighting Designer) is honored to return to Red Bull Theater, where she previously designed The White Devil. Broadway credits include Stereophonic (Broadway, West End, National Tour; Tony Award nomination), Jaja’s African Hair Braiding, The Cottage, KPOP, for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf (Tony Award nomination), and Slave Play (Tony, Drama Desk, and Henry Hewes Award nominations). Opera credits include Lucia di Lammermoor, Il trovatore, Primero sueño, and The Factotum.

ADAM WERNICK (Composer & Sound Designer). Red Bull Theater: ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Metromaniacs. Off-Broadway: CSC: The Liar; Manhattan Theatre Club: Five by Tenn; The Public Theater: Temptation; The Joyce Theater: 1984. Regional: Shakespeare Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, The Wilma Theater, Denver Center Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Santa Cruz Shakespeare, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Mum Puppettheatre, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Walnut Street Theatre, Park Square Theatre, Six Points Theater, and others.

SHANNON SLATON ((Sound Designer). Broadway: Melissa Etheridge: My Window, The Illusionists. More than fifty national tours including Wicked, Shrek the Musical, The Producers, Kiss Me, Kate, Noise/Funk, The Full Monty, Contact, A Chorus Line, Tap Dogs, Sweeney Todd, The Drowsy Chaperone. Broadway mixing credits include Springsteen on Broadway, Cabaret, Annie, Sweet Charity, Jersey Boys, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, The Drowsy Chaperone, Spring Awakening, Anything Goes, Legally Blonde, Cabaret.

ANYA KUTNER (Properties Supervisor). Off-Broadway: Mexodus (The Daryl Roth Theatre); The Disappear, The Pansy Craze, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Creditors (Minetta Lane Theatre); Meet the Cartozians (The Pershing Square Signature Center); Queens (New York City Center); The Counter (Laura Pels Theatre). National: Two Trains Running, The Comedy of Errors, Odyssey (The Acting Company). Regional: Native Gardens, Theatre People (Westport Country Playhouse).

TOMMY KURZMAN (Wig & Makeup Designer). Red Bull Theater: The Alchemist. Broadway: Uncle Vanya, I Need That, Gutenberg! The Musical!, The Cottage, Peter Pan Goes Wrong, Pictures from Home, The Collaboration, Macbeth, Mrs. Doubtfire, All My Sons, True West, Saint Joan, The Little Foxes, My Fair Lady. Off-Broadway: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (NWS), Little Shop of Horrors, The Play That Goes Wrong, Manhattan Theatre Club, MCC Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, The Public Theater. Regional: The Muny, Goodspeed Musicals, Hartford Stage, The Huntington, and others. Upcoming: The Karate Kid.

RICK SORDELET (Fight Director & Intimacy Coordinator), with Christian and Collin Kelly-Sordelet, created Sordelet Inc., a Native-owned action movement company with 35+ years of experience. Their work includes 88 Broadway shows, including The Lion King and Stranger Things. Rick and Christian won the 2025 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Fight Direction for Pirates!. They staged fights for Moby-Dick at the Metropolitan Opera and choreographed the sword fights for “Good Luck, Babe!”—Chappell Roan’s VMA debut. Additional work spans films, operas, national tours, and television. Teaching: William Esper Studio, HB Studio, CUNY Harlem, Montclair State University, and 22 years at Yale School of Drama. Rick has worked on many Red Bull Theater productions and serves on its Board. They run Sordelet INK with author David Blixt, an e-publishing company for emerging writers.

DAWN-ELIN FRASER (Voice and Text Consultant). Broadway: What the Constitution Means to Me, Once on This Island, Waitress, Finding Neverland, Othello. National Tour: The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Waitress, Finding Neverland. Off-Broadway: Masquerade, Slave Play, Nat Turner in Jerusalem, Sojourners, Her Portmanteau, An Ordinary Muslim, The House That Will Not Stand (NYTW); By the Way, Meet Vera Stark, Our Lady of Kibeho (Signature Theatre); Invisible Thread (Second Stage); Eve’s Song, Barbecue, Passing Strange (The Public Theater). Regional: Finding Neverland, Crossing: An American Opera, Waitress (A.R.T.); The Comedy of Errors (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). Head of Spoken Voice and Speech, New Studio on Broadway, NYU Tisch. Certified Teacher, Knight-Thompson Speechwork. MFA, American Conservatory Theater.

AYANNA THOMPSON (Dramaturg). Broadway: Romeo + Juliet, Uncle Vanya, Macbeth. Off-Broadway: Pericles (Public Works), Twelfth Night (New York Shakespeare Festival), Fires (SoHo Playhouse), Suffs (The Public Theater), The Merchant of Venice (TFANA). UK: Hamlet Hail to the Thief (RSC). Regents Professor of English and Executive Director of ACMRS, Arizona State University.

JENN MCNEIL (Production Stage Manager). Red Bull Theater: Richard II, eight years of Revelation Readings, How Shakespeare Saved My Life workshop, Oedipus workshop. Broadway: Hand to God, Constellations, Side Show, The Cripple of Inishmaan, A Christmas Story, Other Desert Cities, The People in the Picture, The Addams Family, Everyday Rapture, Come Back, Little Sheba. Off-Broadway (selected): eight years at Blue Man Group at Astor Place Theater; Roundabout; Classical Theatre of Harlem; Ma-Yi; Signature; Lincoln Center; Manhattan Theatre Club; Primary Stages; NYTW. Training/Education: Juilliard Internship Program; SUNY Geneseo.

LEAH MICHALOS (General Manager, Michalos Theatrical Management). Broadway: Producer, Chicken & Biscuits. Select Off-Broadway: Producer and/or GM: Beau the Musical, The Bookstore, General Manager: Red Bull Theater’s Richard II, The Orchard (with Mikhail Baryshnikov, Jessica Hecht), The Lucky Star, My Life on a Diet (Lortel & OCC noms), Terms of Endearment, On a Stool at the End of the Bar (GLAAD nom), Butler (for NJ Rep), Jericho, Almost Home. Upcoming Off-Broadway (2026): Seagulls on Sullivan Street, Carole Cook Died for My Sins, The Save.

GARY LEVINSON (Production Manager). Titus Andronicus marks Gary’s eleventh year with Red Bull Theater and his eighth with WP Theater, following ten years with the Pearl Theatre Company and seven with Shakespeare on the Sound. Additional theater credits include Strange Interlude, Post Mortem, Betrothed, The Waverly Gallery, Collected Stories, Mrs. Klein. Film: Colin Fitz Lives!, The Dark Half, Basket Case 2, Frankenhooker. TV: “The Street,” “Wish You Were Here” (CBS, PBS), plus numerous commercials and music videos. Faculty: Marymount Manhattan College.

ALEXANDRE BLEAU C.S.A. (Casting) has been with Jim Carnahan Casting since 2013. Red Bull Theater: Richard II, The Imaginary Invalid, Boys from Syracuse, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Country Wife. BROADWAY: Art, Stranger Things, Harry Potter, Swept Away, Appropriate, Shark is Broken, A Doll's House, Lehman Trilogy, Moulin Rouge!, Plaza Suite, Betrayal, Burn This. OFF-BROADWAY: Blackout Songs, Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes, Creditors. SAN FRANCISCO: Let the Right One In, Harry Potter, Swept Away. LONDON: Plaza Suite, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, Eureka Day, Mad House. Film: Ari Aster's Beau is Afraid.

DOMONIQUE NADEAU (Assistant Stage Manager). RED BULL THEATER: The Boys From Syracuse, Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Country Wife. BROADWAY: Wicked. NATIONAL TOURS: The Notebook, Shucked, Menopause the Musical. ADDITIONAL CREDITS: Professional Development (Little Lord),The Blacks (NYTW), Shiz (New York Comedy Festival), Beau (Out of the Box Theatrics), A Woman Among Women (Bushwick Starr), Hamlet (PHTS), Richard II (Theater at Monmouth). EDUCATION: M.Ed. Drama in Education (Trinity College Dublin), B.A. Theater Studies and Dramaturgy (WebCo).

HEATHER ARNSON (Associate General Manager, Michalos Theatrical Management). Selected credits Off-Broadway: General Manager: Ivan T. Productions’ Chekhov + Turgenev, About Love. Associate General Manager: Red Bull Theater’s Richard II, How My Grandparents Fell in Love, The Bookstore, The Lucky Star. Director/Developer: Ephraim Sykes’ Blessins ’n Lessons. Associate Director: Chez Joey; Pal Joey (NYCC).  TV/film/digital: Director, Writer and Co-Creator of the docu-series “Here’s to the Ladies Who...”; Director and Concept Creator for the Writers Guild of America (WGAE + WGAW) Awards. Literary: Author - Emma: Portrait of a Girl Lost and a Woman Found (debut novella, 2026 release).

ALON MORADI ((Assistant Director). RED BULL THEATER: Hamlet (NYU Playwrights Horizons Studio, Assistant Director), The Rover — Reading (Directing Apprentice), The Boys From Syracuse (Production Assistant). OFF-BROADWAY: A Sign of the Times (Directing Apprentice), Asilomar — Reading (MTC, Directing Observer). OFF-OFF-BROADWAY: Egon (East Village Basement, Producer). OTHER: Le Nozze di Figaro (Estates Theater of Prague, Assistant Director), The Dumb Waiter (Director), Bears Bears Bears (Director), Serve! (Director). EDUCATION: BFA, The John Wells Directing Program at Carnegie Mellon School of Drama.

JOANA MARALENA TSUHLARES (Assistant Director). NYC based actor/director. Some work: Malcolm [Macbeth/The Tank], Irina [Three Sisters/Schapiro], assistant directing The Imaginary Invalid with Jesse Berger at Red Bull Theater / New World Stages, and assistant directing The New Group’s workshop of The Female Pope with Johanna Mckeon. Joana hails from Short Creek, West Virginia, steeped in her family’s Greek and Appalachian roots. She earned her BFA in Acting from Shenandoah Conservatory. 

KITTY CASSETTI (Associate Costume Designer) is a Costume Designer from New York. Recent design credits include Heidi: A New Musical (Yaya Theater Compay), Broadway Backwards 2025 (BC/EFA), Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Yale Repertory Theater), Romeo and Juliet and Manning (David Geffen School of Drama), burnbabyburn, In Between Bitches and Maggie and Iris (Yale Cabaret). Recent Broadway Credits include Redwood (Associate Costume Designer) Gypsy (Assistant Costume Designer) Oh Mary! (Costume Coordinator) The Notebook (Assistant Costume Designer). Additional assisting Credits include Phantom of the Opera US Tour, Beau the Musical (Out of the Box Theatrics) and Stompin' at the Savoy (Delaware Theater Company). She was a Yale Cabaret Advisory Board member for the 2021-22 season Yale Cabaret 54. Kitty holds a M.F.A from the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale and a B.A. from Hampshire College.

MARIE YOKOYAMA (Associate Lighting Designer) is a Japanese-born lighting designer based in NY. She has designed for opera, theater, and film in America and internationally. Her opera design has been seen at Vancouver Opera, Calgary Opera, Arizona Opera, Virginia Opera, Florentine Opera, Kentucky Opera, and Minnesota Opera. As well as her theater lighting design at ZACH Theatre, Theatre Squared, Miami New Drama, KC Rep, St. Louis Rep, American Conservatory Theater, and Vineyard. Upcoming: Madama Butterfly at Colorado Opera.

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For complete details about Red Bull Theater's production of TITUS ANDRONICUS, visit here. This strictly-limited engagement will run March 17 - April 19, 2026 at the Pershing Square Signature Center's Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre.

Revenge is on the menu.

Titus is Rome’s greatest general and the head of a noble family. But when his armies vanquish the Goths, their defeated queen Tamora and her lover Aaron the Moor release a fury that brings Titus, his family, and all of Rome to their knees. The play’s exploration of humankind's capacity for inhumanity is shockingly contemporary, brought to searing new life in a production directed by Jesse Berger and starring the incomparable Patrick Page as Titus, one of Shakespeare’s most demanding tragic roles.