Dracula: A Comedy of Terrors

CASEY J. ADLER is excited to make his debut with Ensemble Theatre Company at The New Vic. Theater credits include MIX-MIX: The Filipino Adventures of a German Jewish Boy (Los Angeles Theater Center), Survivors (Arts for Change), and Henry V (Shakespeare Orange County). On television, he has guest starred on The Upshaws (Netflix), Bunheads (Freeform), and Grandfathered (FOX). As a stand-up comedian, he has performed at Flappers, Agua Caliente Casino, Burbank Comedy Festival, and many others. He received his B.F.A. from Chapman University in Theater Performance and the Bruce Geller Memorial Prize for playwriting. Adler is a proud member of Actors Equity and the Dramatists Guild. Follow him on Instagram @CaseyJAdlerComedy

JANNA CARDIA is overjoyed to be returning to ETC. You may remember Janna from ETC’s production of Emma as Miss Bates and A Christmas Carol as Actor 4! Janna has spent over three decades performing professionally in International & National tours. Some favorites include the Broadway Asia Tour of Cinderella (starring Lea Salonga), Music Man in Concert (starring Shirley Jones and Patrick Cassidy), and Janna, who starred in the World Premiere National Tour of Divorce Party, the Musical. Her most treasured theatrical experience has been creating shows with her identical twin sister, Julie. The twins recently performed their latest show, Twinspiration! at CVRep’s Summer Cabaret Series and are excited to bring this show to a larger audience. The bulk of Janna’s theatrical career has happily been spent performing at Regional Theaters such as South Coast Rep, La Mirada Theatre, Musical Theatre West, PVPA, CVRep, 5Star Theatricals,3D Theatricals, California Music Circus, Tuacahn Amphitheatre, Playwrights Horizon, Fulton Opera House, Stages St. Louis, Stages Houston, Riverside Theatre, Arkansas Rep, Drury Lane Oakbrook Theatre, Auditorium Theatre Chicago, and many more!! Outside of pursuing theatre, Janna keeps busy acting in TV, Film, and Commercials and teaches Hot Yoga in LA. For more about Janna, check out @jannacardia on Instagram or visit www.JannaCardia.com!

REGINA FERNANDEZ is ecstatic to return to Ensemble Theatre under Jamie’s direction after appearing as Christmas Present/Belle/Fan in A Christmas Carol! Regional credits include Luciana in The Comedy of Errors at Orlando Shakespeare (Broadwayworld Nomination for Best Performance in a play), Bumbrake/Teacher in Peter and the Starcatcher at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Singh/Capt.VonDarius/et. Others in Around the World in 80 Days at Theatreworks CS, Raquel/Claudia/Aurelia in Guadalupe in the Guest Room at Creede Repertory, Shapeshifter in The House of Joy at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Ayah in The Secret Garden at Denver Center, Miranda in The Tempest at No Holds Bard, Charmian in Antony and Cleopatra at Theatreworks CS, Marie in Cinderella at 5 Star Theatricals, Judy in A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime at CCAE Theatricals, and 2 seasons at Arvada Center (Ann in All My Sons, Marianne in Sense and Sensibility, Miep in The Diary of Anne Frank, and Emilie in The Moors). Her choreography work includes Shakespeare’s Call and Response and El Borracho (The Old Globe). (Film/TV): “Good Girls” (NBCUniversal); “Side Hustle” (Nickelodeon) and “OTISE” (Amazon). Regina holds a B.F.A. in Musical Theater from the University of Central Florida. Warm thanks to Todd, ATB Talent, Jamie, Brian, Scott, Harry, and Michael Donovan Casting! For more about Regina, please visit @MabuhayItsRegina on Instagram or www.ReginaFernandezActor.com.

ADAM HAGENBUCH has been dying to do theatre since he was a kid in Texas. At 18, he was spirited away to Carnegie Mellon University for a B.F.A. and later became a member of The Actors Studio. Adam has staked his claim into roles on both TV and Film. He’s known for playing lovable and downright batty characters in shows like “Fuller House,” “Switched at Birth,” “Undateable,” “High Potential,” and “Trial & Error.” You can also see a “bite” of him in less silly things like “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” and “American Horror Stories.” Adam enjoys directing and shooting feature films, shorts, commercials, and music videos when not on stage or screen, often bleeding his wallet dry. Last year, he made his Ensemble Theatre Company debut as Jaxton in The Thanksgiving Play, and he’s thrilled they resurrected him for another role this year.

JOSH ODSESS-RUBIN is delighted to make his ETC debut.  Josh is an LA-based actor whose theatre credits across the country include God Will Do the Rest (Artists at Play); Shaina Maidel(Laguna Playhouse); Photograph 51, Sense and Sensibility (South Coast Repertory); Dunsinane (Marin Theatre Co); Nimrod (Theatre of NOTE); Red Herring (Portland Stage); Bad Jews, When the Rain Stops Falling, and Groucho in Animal Crackers (Cygnet); Imaginary Invalid (A Noise Within); Long Day’s Journey into Night, Miss Bennet, Romeo and Juliet (American Stage); Comedy of Errors (Lake Tahoe Shakespeare); My Name is AsherLev (Ensemble Cincinnati); Richard II (Yale Repertory); Twelfth Night, Midsummer, King Lear (New Swan Shakespeare); Rosalind in As You Like It (Shakespeare Orange County); and Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest (Yale).  He’s also workshopped new plays with many companies including Center Theatre Group, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Playwrights Horizons, Dixon Place, HERE Arts, and Ars Nova.  Josh’s recent screen credits include “Hacks,” “Physical,” “This is Us,” and “My Crazy Ex,” plus films “Bloomed in the Water,” “Good Bad Luck,” and “A Girl from a Box.”  Josh received his B.A. from Yale and his M.F.A. from UC Irvine.

Gordon Greenberg has directed on Broadway, off-Broadway and in London’s West End, written for television and stage, and developed, directed and produced new works for arts institutions across America. Most recently his directing/writing projects include The Heart of Rock and Roll, which ran on Broadway in Spring of 2024, the hit off-Broadway show Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors, a new musical about Picasso, the NBC television series Most Talkative, Crime and Punishment, A Comedy for the Old Globe, a London revival of The Baker’s Wife, Single White Female (A.T.G.), The Wedding Banquet, Ghost Tour, The Play and the new comedy podcast series “Rolling Calls.” His acclaimed revival of Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolf at the Geffen Playhouse won the Los Angeles Drama Critics Award for Best Revival. Other work includes the North American premiere of Piaf/Dietrich for Mirvish in Toronto (Dora Award, Best Production), Barnum, The Secret Party: Jacques Brel 1968, Secret of My Success for Universal Pictures Stage Productions, and Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big [Your Town Here] Christmas Show! in its third season at the Old Globe. His West End revival of Guys and Dolls was nominated for six Olivier Awards. Greenberg co-wrote and directed the Broadway stage adaptation of Irving Berlin’s Holiday Inn at Studio 54 for Roundabout Theatre Company, Universal Pictures Stage Productions and PBS Television’s Great Performances. Other directing work includes the revisal of Working (Drama Desk Award, adapted with Stephen Schwartz and Lin-Manuel Miranda), Jacques Brel… (Drama Desk, Drama League, Outer Critics Award nominations), Terms of Endearment with Alfred Molina and Calista Flockhart (Geffen Playhouse), the stage adaptation of Tangled (Disney), Johnny Baseball (Williamstown), Stars of David by Jeanine Tesori, Tom Kitt, Tony Kushner (Daryl Roth), Pirates! (created with Nell Benjamin, Huntington, Paper Mill, Goodspeed, MUNY), Band Geeks! (Goodspeed), The Baker’s Wife (Paper Mill, Goodspeed), 1776 (Paper Mill), Floyd Collins (Signature), the Klezmer-Rock reimagining of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Yentl (Asolo Rep), Blue Sky Boys by Deborah Breevort (Capital Rep.), the professional premiere of Edges The Musical (Capital Rep.), the acclaimed reimagining of Jesus Christ Superstar starring Billy Porter (Helen Hayes, St. Louis MUNY), the U.S. national tour of Guys and Dolls, Disney’s Believe, the Disney Fantasy Christening (with Neil Patrick Harris & Jerry Seinfeld), West Side Story (MUNY, Circle Award nom), Happy Days, A New Musical (Paper Mill, Goodspeed, U.S. National Tour), Vanities, A New Musical (Theatreworks Palo Alto – San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Award), We The People (Lucille Lortel Theatre & Paper Mill Playhouse), Rags (Roundabout, workshop), and the all-female workshop of Man of La Mancha (Mirvish, Toronto). Other writing work includes Herbie Rebooted for Disney, Emerald City Music Hall, an original movie musical for Nickelodeon Television and Scramble Band, an original movie musical for the Disney Channel, The Single Girls Guide for Dallas Theatre Center, Ars Nova, Capital Rep, the podcast Theatre Camp for Sirius XM, Killing Time, an At Home Play Commission from The Old Globe, and the new book of Meet Me In St. Louis for the St. Louis MUNY’s 100th Anniversary. Born in Texas and raised in New York, Greenberg performed in his first Broadway show at age 12. He attended Stanford University and NYU Film School before joining J. Walter Thompson Worldwide for a stint as a producer/director of commercials. He then moved back into theatre – first performing on Broadway and on television, and soon directing and writing. He was a curator for Ars Nova, director of musical theatre development at The New Group, and Artistic Producer at Musical Theatre Works, where he created the writer’s development program and the New Voices workshop series. He is also deeply involved in arts education and is Co-Director of The Broadway Teaching Group, Broadway’s largest education program, in conjunction with Music Theatre International and Playbill. He has taught masterclasses at Yale University, University of Michigan, University of Oklahoma, Belmont University, Hartt School of Music, Broadway Moscow, Broadway Berlin and Arts Ed London.

Steve Rosen has previously collaborated with Gordon Greenberg on the musical The Secret of My Success (co-book, Joseph Jefferson nomination), the plays Crime and Punishment – a Comedy and Ebenezer Scrooge’s BIG San Diego Christmas Show (both at The Old Globe, San Diego), as well as podcasts Dracula, A Comedy of Terrors and Rolling Calls (Broadway Podcast Network). He has also co-written (with David Rossmer) the book, music and lyrics of Griswolds’ Broadway Vacation (Seattle’s 5th Ave) and The Other Josh Cohen, which was nominated for six Drama Desk Awards, as well as the Lucille Lortel and Off-Broadway Alliance Awards for Best New Musical. He also co-created the long-running Broadway improv/variety show Don’t Quit Your Night Job, devising original comedy material for artists like Sting, Zachary Levi and Ariana Grande. Other regional theaters that have produced his work include Theater Under the Stars (TX), Denver Center (CO), Paramount Theatre (IL), Paper Mill Playhouse (NJ), Maltz Jupiter Theater (FL), Geva (NY) and Bucks County Playhouse (PA). @stevierosen

JAMIE TORCELLINI  has directed ETC productions of A Christmas Carol, The 39 Steps, and Tell Me on a Sunday, and starred in The Mystery of Irma Vep, and School for Lies. He has performed in many Broadway shows since 1980, including CATS (Mr. Mistoffelees), Little Johnny Jones (Standby to Donny Osmond), Me and My Girl (Standby for Jim Dale), Jerome Robbins Broadway, Man of La Mancha (Barber), Beauty and the Beast (LeFou), and the original company of Billy Elliot. Jamie’s Regional credits include Drag – The Musical (Drunk Jerry), Hamlet, Young Frankenstein (Igor), Spamalot (Patsy), My Fair Lady (Alfie Doolittle), The Producers (Max Bialistock), You Can’t Take it With You, Tuna Christmas, Man of La Mancha (Sancho), and starred in a dozen productions of Me and My Girl. As a Director, Jamie has mounted several productions of The 39 Steps, The Mystery of Irma Vep, My Fair Lady, The Producers, Me and My Girl, How to Succeed…, West Side Story, Life Could Be a Dream, The Andrews Brothers, Kiss Me Kate, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Deathtrap, Matilda, Something Rotten, Tarzan, School of Rock and Beauty and the Beast. He also assisted on both of the Stuart Little films starring Gena Davis and Hugh Laurie. He has taught Musical Theatre and Tap at AMDA, Comedy Improv for several institutions, and for two years toured internationally as a backup singer/dancer for Liza Minnelli.

STEPHEN GIFFORD past designs for ETC includes A Christmas Carol, Emma, Venus in Fur, The Best Brothers, Good People, Crime and Punishment, Bell, Book and Candle, and Opus.  His designs have been seen on stages across the country and internationally including: The Grand Ole Opry, The Chicago Theatre, Madison Square Garden, The El Sett & Abdel Halim Theaters (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia), Sacramento Music Circus, The Walnut Street Theatre, 5^th Avenue Theatre, Juneau Lyric Opera, La Mirada Theatre for the Performing Arts/McCoy Rigby, and many more. He has garnered many awards and nominations for his work.  He was awarded The Bob Z Award for Career Achievement in Set Design by the Los Angeles Drama Critic Circle, has been awarded the Scenie Award for LA Scenic Designer of the Year every year since 2008, and was awarded Scenic Design of the Decade for Cabaret, in Los Angeles by Broadwayworld.com. In addition to scenic design for theatre, Stephen has also designed for live immersive events, themed interiors, nightclubs, and cabarets.  He holds an M.F.A. from NYU’s Tisch School of The Arts and is a proud member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829. For more about Stephen, please visit @swgifford1 on Instagram or visit www.stephengifforddesign.com

JARED A. SAYEG is a nine-time Ovation Award Nominee and Winner of the Ovation, StageRaw, Garland and LADCC Kinetic Lighting Awards. Broadway designs: The Illusionists (Neil Simon Theatre, US Tours), Bravo Bernstein (Hudson Theatre), Gotham Glory at Carnegie Hall. Regional: Center Theatre Group, Pasadena Playhouse, 5^th Avenue Theatre, Sacramento Music Circus, 5 Star Theatricals, International City Theatre, Reprise, Ensemble Theatre Company, Laguna Playhouse, Virginia Stage Company, The Colony & Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey. On the West-End he designed Rolling with Laughter at Her Majesty’s Theatre. Jared was on the design teams for the Broadway productions of PRIMO, The Woman in White, The Radio City Christmas Spectacular and the national tour of Blithe Spirit starring Angela Lansbury. Other designs include productions for Holland America Line & Norwegian Cruise Lines, and in 2008 had the honor of lighting Pope Benedict XVI for the Papal Rally in NYC.  Jared is principal designer for the USA International Ballet Competition and has overseen the last four competitions. His architectural designs are seen regularly in restaurants and exhibits as well as the Long Beach Aquarium of the Pacific. Jared is a member of the International Association of Lighting Designers; he became the youngest member of the United Scenic Artists-Local 829 and serves as Vice-Chair the executive board. www.jaslighting.com

MARCY FROEHLICH is delighted to work with Jamie Torcellini again, as she did on A Christmas Carol and The 39 Steps. Her theatre designs range from Shakespeare (Hamlet at the Rubicon) to musicals (National Tour of Camelot with Michael York and, more recently, Fiddler on the Roof at Broadway Sacramento) to opera (Long Beach Opera’s Orpheus & Euridice). Her TV and film designs have run the gamut from PBS’s “We Shall Remain” to “The Miss America Pageant” and the features “The Unknown Cyclist” and “Unbowed.” She has been the Assistant Designer on such noteworthy projects as “The Road to Perdition,” “American Beauty,” and “Geppetto” (Emmy nomination). Before moving to Los Angeles, she was the Associate Costume Designer on touring productions of Broadway’s The Phantom of the Opera, and internationally was the Assistant Designer in Rome, Tokyo, and Rotterdam for Robert Wilson’s multi-national opera The Civil Wars. She has an M.F.A. from the University of Michigan and has served on the Board of Directors and the Board of Trustees of the Costume Designers Guild. She currently teaches costume design at UC Irvine. www.marcyfroehlich

JAMES ARD (Sound Designer) is a sound designer, composer and noisemaker with a focus on new works, live experiences, and immersive stage productions, whose most recent collaboration with Ensemble Theatre Company was heard in The Lehman Trilogy. Ard’s recent work includes collaborations with The Public Theater, American Conservatory Theater, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, Summerhall at the Edinburgh Fringe, Sibiu International Theatre Festival, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, Guthrie Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Center Repertory Company, Cutting Ball Theatre, San Francisco Playhouse, Joe Goode Performance Group, Stanford University, UC Berkeley, and the Atlantic Theatre Company. Ard is a Resident Artist with Golden Thread Productions and Crowded Fire Theater.

KEVIN WILLIAMS is a recovering actor and LA native. He has had the privilege of spending over two decades working as a designer, art director, fabricator and consultant for a variety of clients such as Walt Disney Imagineering, Buena Vista Pictures, Twentieth Century Fox, Discovery Cube Orange County, McCoy Rigby Entertainment, Laguna Playhouse, North Coast Repertory and REPRISE Broadway’s Best.  He was the Resident Production Designer for the interactive theatre company Delusion for seven years: Lies Within, His Crimson Queen, Lies Within VR, The Blue Blade, and Reaper’s Remorse. He works as an award-winning leather artist in his free time, crafting bespoke gifts for discerning clients. Kevin is the Prop Department Supervisor for UCLA’s School of Theater, Film & Television and lives in Orange County with his incredible family. He is a proud member of S.P.M. For more information, please visit @KGWProps or @MonstaBags on Instagram.

AMIE FARRELL is an actor/director/intimacy coordinator. Her vast career has spanned from one end of the United States to the other. Amie’s acting credits include roles in Oscar-nominated films “Mank” with David Fincher and Clint Eastwood’s “American Sniper.” On television, Amie has been seen in guest star and recurring roles on “This Is Us,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” “Criminal Minds,” “iCarly,” “Raven’s Home” and more. Theatre is Amie’s first love. She holds a B.F.A. from The Theatre School at DePaul University. She has played on some of the country’s most prestigious stages, including The Geffen, Pasadena Playhouse, Playwright’s Horizons, Milwaukee Repertory, Missouri Repertory, ICT, Rubicon Theater, Sierra Repertory, LA Shakespeare Festival, Fort Worth Shakespeare and more. Amie’s theatre directing credits include Disgraced with Interact Theater Pulitzer Prize Winner Series, Trojan  Women, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Hamlet. She has expanded her talents to the podcast realm, with original productions for Meet Cute and Theater aLIVE, where she directed Sweatpants Kinda Love, Blood by Nambi Kelley and The Meyers by Kevin Douglas.  Amie is the Intimacy Coordinator with Interact Theatre Company, where, most recently, she was IC on Between Riverside and Crazy and Disgraced.  Amie, with her husband and fellow actor Leonard Roberts, co-founded Variant Artists, a production company committed to centralizing voices that expand the storytelling experience. More on Amie at amiefarrell.com and @amiemfarrell on Instagram.

WARD LeHARDY (Dramaturg) joined ETC as Development Associate in January 2023 and has served as dramaturg for ETC’s productions of Seared, The Thanksgiving Play, Ring of Fire, The Lehman Trilogy, and Alice, Formerly of Wonderland. His previous experience includes work as Office Administrator at The Classic Theatre of San Antonio. He received a bachelor’s degree with honors in Business and Theatre from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas where he undertook extensive dramaturgy work for the University’s theater department as well as performing in several plays and musicals. Originally from Arlington, Virginia, Ward is getting used to being bicoastal. He’s extraordinarily grateful to his parents, brother Will, and roommate Leon for their support and encouragement and the entire ETC staff and board for welcoming him with open arms—getting to work at a theatre is truly a dream come true! Ward enjoys writing music, hiking, and karaoke.