SEP/OCT 2013 - American Conservatory Theater

doing a production of A Minister’s Wife
(San Jose Repertory Theatre). Before that,
Zimmerman played Oscar in Sweet Charity
(Writers’ Theatre, Chicago). Other
Chicago credits include A Christmas Carol
(Goodman Theatre); Shakespeare in the
Parks The Taming of the Shrew (Chicago
Shakespeare Theater); Gypsy (Drury Lane);
Merrily We Roll Along (The Music Theatre
Company); The Music Man and Little
Women (Marriott Theatre); and The Spitfire
Grill (Provision Theater Company).
Other regional credits include A Day in
Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine
(Peninsula Players Theatre); I Love You,
You’re Perfect, Now Change (Totem Pole
Playhouse); and Big! The Musical, Proof,
and The Mousetrap (Arrow Rock Lyceum
Theatre). Television credits include Boss
(Starz). Zimmerman is a graduate of
Northwestern University.
JESSE
CALDWELL*
(Understudy) has
performed regionally
in Big River and
Caroline, or Change
at TheatreWorks;
A Funny Thing
Happened on the Way to the Forum at
Woodminster Amphitheater; A Christmas
Carol at Center REPertory Theatre; Lend
Me a Tenor at Livermore Shakespeare
Festival; 1776 with Napa Valley Repertory
Theatre; Damn Yankees with American
Musical Theatre of San Jose; Arms and the
Man at Sacramento Theatre Company;
The Water Engine and Mary Stuart with
Shotgun Players; Staircase with American
Citizens Theatre; The Caretaker at EXIT
Theatre; The Quick Change Room and The
Ladies of the Camellias at TheatreFIRST;
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn with 42 nd Street
Moon; The Front Page at Actors Theatre
of Louisville; and Much Ado About Nothing
at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. He
toured with the National Shakespeare
Company’s Saint Joan and As You Like It.
His film and television credits include
Milk, Red Tails, and Trauma.
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RICHARD
FREDERICK*
(Understudy) has been
seen in Bay Area
productions of Opus,
The Light in the
Piazza, and Emma
(TheatreWorks);
My Fair Lady and Harper Regan (SF
Playhouse); The Full Monty, Phantom,
and The Big Bang (American Musical
Theatre of San Jose); as well as shows at
42 nd Street Moon, Willows Theatre
Company, Central Works in Berkeley,
and Oakland’s TheatreFIRST. Frederick’s
regional credits include work at Ford’s
Theatre (Washington, D.C.), Hangar
Theatre (New York), Casa Mañana (Texas),
and Stage West (Texas), among others.
He received his master of fine arts degree
from The Shakespeare Theatre at George
Washington University.
SHARON
RIETKERK*
(Understudy) is
making her American
Conservatory Theater
debut. Rietkerk was
most recently seen as
Candida in A
Minister’s Wife with San Jose Repertory
Theatre. Other Bay Area credits include
work with TheatreWorks, Center
REPertory Theatre, San Francisco Opera
Guild, 42 nd Street Moon, Berkeley
Playhouse, and Diablo Theatre Company
in such shows as The Sound of Music
(Maria), My Fair Lady (Eliza), The Pirates
of Penzance (Mabel), Little Me (Belle
Poitrine), The Drowsy Chaperone (Janet),
The Secret Garden (Rose; Bay Area Theatre
Critics Circle Award nomination),
Rumors (Cassie), Strike Up the Band
(Anne Draper), and Xanadu (Erato).
Rietkerk has performed in concert with
Tony Award winner Faith Prince, the
Grammy Award–nominated Bay Brass,
South Coast Symphony, Napa Valley
Opera House, and the Bear Valley Music
Festival Orchestra. Rietkerk is a graduate
of the UC Irvine theater program.
* Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional
actors and stage managers in the United States
THE LAST GOODBYE
Conceived and Adapted by
Michael Kimmel
Music and Lyrics by
Jeff Buckley
Directed by
Alex Timbers
Sept. 20 – Nov. 3, 2013
A NEW MUSICAL
FUSING
SHAKESPEARE’S
ROMEO AND JULIET
WITH THE MUSIC OF
JEFF BUCKLEY.
(619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623)
www.TheOldGlobe.org
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