Cast

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  Lynda DiVito*

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Lynda DiVito (she/her – Ruth) is thrilled to make her MTC debut playing the icon, RBG, in this incredible production. Favorite roles include; Mama Rose in Gypsy, Mrs. Wilkerson in Billy Elliot, Mrs. Wormwood in Matilda at CCMT. At Center Repertory theatre, Lynda performed for over a decade in musicals, comedies and dramas. Off-Broadway credits include, Sheba the musical and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s CATS in Hamburg. Graduate of SFSU theatre department, Lynda resides in Walnut Creek with her two teenagers and husband. Love to H&N always and to Lee, my very own Marty Ginsburg.

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  Stephanie Prentice*

  Sonia Sotomayor

  Stephanie Prentice (she/her – Sonia) is thrilled to be making her MTC debut in Justice! She is a Bay Area native, a proud AEA member for over 20 years, and has worked with many other Bay Area theatres including: 42nd Street Moon, PlayGround, San Francisco Playhouse, Shakespeare at Stinson, Shotgun Players, Hillbarn, and TheatreFIRST. She is a graduate of the Santa Clara University Theatre and Dance program, where she taught as a member of the SCU voice faculty from 2005 – 2017.  Stephanie is an Associate Producer for PlayGround, and is also serving as the current Board Chair. Stephanie is also the Associate Casting Director, and Patron Services Director for TheatreFIRST in Berkeley. Most importantly, she is Aiden and Devan’s mom.

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  Karen Murphy*

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Karen Murphy (Sandra) Broadway credits include: A Little Night Music, 9 to 5, All Shook Up, 42nd St, Titanic, King David, A Christmas Carol. Off Bway: My Vaudeville Man (Drama Desk Nomination), Zombie Prom, Showtune, Forbidden Bway.

  Tours include: Les Miz, White Christmas, Wizard Of Oz, Mary Poppins, Finding Neverland. Regional theatre credits include Showboat, Guys and Dolls, Oliver at Goodspeed Opera House, My Fair Lady, Damn Yankees, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Recordings: Torchgoddess, Zombie Prom, My Vaudeville Man, and performances with Pops Orchestras across America and Canada. She received the Bistro Award for her NYC Cabaret Debut.

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Creative Team

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  Lauren M. Gunderson

  Playwright

  Lauren M. Gunderson (she/her – Book writer) has been one of the most produced playwrights in America since 2015, topping the list thrice including 2022/23. She is a two-time winner of the Steinberg/ATCA New Play Award for I and You and The Book of Will, the winner of the Lanford Wilson Award and a finalist for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize. She has premiered 5 plays at Marin Theatre Company: I and You, Miss Bennet, The Wickhams, Georgianna and Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley and The Catastrophist. She is a playwright, screenwriter, musical book writer and children's author who lives in San Francisco. She graduated from NYU Tisch as a Reynolds Fellow in Social Entrepreneurship. She is on the board of The Playwrights Foundation and a member of the Aspen Institute's Science and Society Cohort. LaurenGunderson.com

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  Bree Lowdermilk

  Composer, Arrangements,Vocal Arrangements

  BREE LOWDERMILK Justice (Marin Theatre Co, Arizona Theatre Co), Rosie Revere, Engineer (Nat'l Tour). Off-Broadway: The Mad Ones, Henry and Mudge. Regional: Kennedy Center, Kimmel Center, Lincoln Center. Residencies: McDowell, Mercer. Awards: Jonathan Larson, Alan Menken, Richard Rodgers. Albums: Kerrigan-Lowdermilk Live, Our First Mistake (#1 Singer/Songwriiter chart), and The Mad Ones (+30 million streams, thousands of fan-videos). Bree is a trans woman, a new mom, and an advocate for queer voices and stories. Gratitude to Lauren and Kait. Love to Anna, always.

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• Orchestrations by Mike Pettry, Additional orchestrations by Bree Lowdermilk

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  Kait Kerrigan

  Lyrics

  Kait Kerrigan (she/her – Lyricist) is an award-winning bookwriter, lyricist, and playwright. Off-Broadway: THE MAD ONES, HENRY & MUDGE - book and lyrics, both written with composer Bree Lowdermilk. Bay Area: FATHER/DAUGHTER at the Aurora Theatre (world premiere, Edgerton Award). Upcoming in 2023: THE TIME TRAVELLER'S WIFE (add'l lyrics for Joss Stone and Dave Stewart's score, book by Lauren Gunderson), THE GREAT GATSBY (book; lyrics by Nathan Tysen, music by Jason Howland), and INDIGO (book; score by Scott Evan Davis). During the pandemic, she wrote the book for the digital musical A KILLER PARTY (filmed in quarantine and available on BroadwayHD and licensed by MTI). Other projects with Lauren and Bree include ROSIE REVERE, ENGINEER & FRIENDS, and EARTHRISE, a Kennedy Center commission. Her chart-topping albums with Bree include OUR FIRST MISTAKE, KERRIGAN-LOWDERMILK LIVE and THE MAD ONES. Her plays and musicals have been developed by La Jolla, Kennedy Center, Theatreworks/Silicon Valley, Primary Stages, Goodspeed, and others. Additional Awards: Kleban, Larson, Theatre Hall of Fame Most Promising Lyricist. She has held residencies at MacDowell, Goodspeed's Johnnie Mercer Project, Rhinebeck, and others. Alumna of Dramatists Guild Fellowship, Page 73's I-73, New Jersey Playlab Fellowship, BMI Musical Theatre Writing Workshop, and Barnard College.

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  Ashley Rodbro^

  Director

  Ashley Rodbro (she/her – Director) is a director and writer for theater and film. She was the Worldwide Supervising Associate Director for Moulin Rouge! The Musical (Broadway, Australia, UK, North American Tour, Germany) and the Resident Director for Hamilton (Puerto Rico, San Francisco). She was also the Associate Director for Oh, Hello (Broadway, Off-Broadway, North American tour, Netflix) starring Nick Kroll and John Mulaney. She was the 1st AD for John Mulaney’s Netflix special, Kid Gorgeous at Radio City. She is also the Creative Director and CEO/Founder of Heredia Vision, a production company that puts women at the helm of developing and creating filmed content. Through her work at Heredia Vision, she is currently developing multiple new projects and has also created original work through partnerships with organizations including RAINN’s Thrive Together campaign, Laura Benanti’s Sunshine Songs series, and New York Theatre Workshop’s 25 Years of RENT documentary special and virtual event. As a film director, her short films have appeared at eight festivals around the country including North Hollywood CineFest and the San Luis Obispo International Film Festival, and as a writer, she is the winner of the Best TV Script award at the Hollywood International Diversity Film Festival and a finalist for the WGA Made in New York comedy writing fellowship. She is a graduate of Yale College. Love to Rick and Kaeme. @heredia_vision @ashleyrodbro

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  Nakissa Etemad

  Dramaturg

  Nakissa Etemad, MTC’s new Associate Artistic Director, is an Iranian American dramaturg, producer, and French translator specializing in new plays and musicals for over 25 years. She is Regional VP Metro Bay Area for Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas (LMDA), a Resident Artist of Golden Thread Productions, and a member of the Anti-Racism Task Force of LMDA. Recent credits include Yussef El Guindi’s Hotter Than Egypt (2020 Colorado New Play Summit), Heather Raffo’s Noura (Marin Theatre Company/Golden Thread), Marcus Gardley’s Play on! commission of King Lear (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), and world premiere productions with Gardley, Lauren Yee, Marisela Treviño Orta, Margo Hall, and Torange Yeghiazarian. She is a frequent collaborator on Golden Thread’s ReOrient Festivals of Short Plays and Bay Area Playwrights Festivals, including plays by Betty Shamieh, Naomi Wallace, Niku Sharei, Katori Hall, Garret Groenveld, Dustin Chinn, and Terence Anthony. Early highlights include the East Coast Premiere of Resurrection Blues by Arthur Miller (The Wilma), Every Good Boy Deserves Favor by Tom Stoppard & André Previn (The Wilma/The Philadelphia Orchestra), Culture Clash in Bordertown (San Diego Rep), and Festival Director for the 5th Annual New America Playwrights Fest – featuring new plays by Lynn Nottage, Naomi Iizuka and Polly Pen (San Jose Rep). Former dramaturg and literary manager of The Wilma Theater, San Jose Rep, and San Diego Repertory Theatre, and recipient of the 2015 Elliott Hayes Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dramaturgy for The Lark's four-city premieres of Marcus Gardley’s the road weeps, the well runs dry. M.F.A. in Dramaturgy, UC San Diego.

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  ​RUIRAN XUN

  Music Director/Keys1/Conductor

  RUIRAN XUN (she/her – Music Director/Keys 1/Conductor) is a music director, collaborative pianist, and software engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2022 with a B.S. in Chemistry, a B.S. in Computer Science, and a minor in Collaborative Piano. Select credits: Music Director & Vocal Director for The Addams Family (Landmark Musical Theatre); Music Director for Rent, The Rocky Horror Show, Mamma Mia! (Scotch'n'Soda Theatre); rehearsal pianist for The Turn of the Screw, The Light in the Piazza (CMU School of Music); Assistant Music Director for Mister Rogers' Operas (Pittsburgh Festival Opera). Upcoming: co-Vocal Director for Next to Normal (Sunnyvale Community Players), Assistant Music Director for Iolanthe (Lyric Theatre). Ruiran is eternally grateful to Bree for entrusting her with this work, and thankful to her friends, family, and co-workers for their constant support of her theatrical endeavors. https://ruiran.me/

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• ​Deborah Slater

  Movement Director

  Deborah Slater (she/her - Movement Director) has worked in dance & theater for over 40 years.  She is the Artistic Director of Deborah Slater Dance Theater, a multi-media dance company, creating visually gorgeous, acrobatic, talking dance and dedicated to the creation of full-length works exploring social issues, science & art through original dance, text and music.  DSDT celebrated its 30th Anniversary in 2019/20.  Slater co-founded Studio 210, a performance/rehearsal/class space celebrating its 43th Anniversary in 2023!  Choreographic theater work includes Contemporary Arts Center/New Orleans, San Diego Rep, the Magic Theater, and Traveling Jewish Theater.  NIGHTFALLS, created in collaboration with playwright/director Julie Hébert, was selected by the Guardian as one of the Top Ten shows in 2011.  She runs the Studio 210 Residency Program, celebrating its 11th Anniversary in 2023.  Selected mentors include David Gordon, Margaret Jenkins & Tony Taccone.  Selected commissions & residencies include SF MOMA, USF Dance & Social Justice, Iowa State University, Djerassi Resident Artists Program and the Exploratorium.  Selected awards include 11 NEA grants, Rainin, Fleishhacker, Gerbode, Wattis, MAP & Grants for the Arts. She was peer nominated for a Rainin Fellowship for 2021 and was nominated for a Dance USA 2020 Honor Award.  Cartooning keeps her sane.  www.deborahslater.org

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• Carlos Aceves

  Scenic Designer

• ​Maggie Morgan+

  Costume Designer

  Maggie Morgan (USA - Costume Designer) is pleased to making her MTC debut. Credits include Soul Doctor on Broadway and for off-Broadway David’s Red-Haired Death and Soul Doctor. Bay Area shows include Office Hour at Berkeley Rep, many shows at Center Rep including Blues in the Night and Communicating Doors, Paradise Blue and The Real Thing at the Aurora Theatre, at San Jose Rep The Haunting of Winchester and Groundswell, as well as shows at Theatre Works, Magic Theatre, Playground, and California Musical Theatre. For regional theatre: Endgame at the Kirk Douglas Theatre (Ovation nomination), and Arizona Theatre Company, Mark Taper Forum, South Coast Rep, Pasadena Playhouse, Hollywood Bowl, Yale Rep. Films: Car Dogs, Alex in Wonder.  Web series: Send Me: an original web series on BET.com. Ms. Morgan was an assistant costume designer on many films including Wag the Dog, Mona Lisa Smile, Casino, Men in Black, and How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

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• Kate Boyd

  Lighting Designer

• Lane Elms+

  Lighting Designer

  Lane Elms (USA) - Lighting Designer

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  Daria Perkova

  Assistant Costume Designer

  Daria Perkova (Assistant Costume Designer) is a Bay Area native costume designer. She has designed, stitched and run wardrobe for many theatres around the Bay. Her most recent design works include Anton Chekov’s Uncle Vanya at Chabot College, and How Black Mother’s Say I Love You at Theatre Rhinoceros. She is the Costume Shop Manager and Wardrobe Lead here at Marin Theatre Company.

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  ​Spense Matubang

  Assistant Lighting Designer

  Spense Matubang (they/he – Assistant Lighting Designer) is a freelance lighting and projections designer currently based in Oakland, California.  They have been working in the professional theater world of the Bay Area for four years.  They received their degree in Theater Arts from the University of California, Santa Cruz in 2020.  Spense uses their career as a never-ending outlet for exploration, creative experimentation, and community building.  They have previously designed for The Chikahan Company, City Lights Theater Company, EnActe Arts, Town Hall Theater Company, Ferocious Lotus, New Conservatory Theatre Center, Shotgun Players, SF Playhouse, West Valley Light Opera, and Jewel Theatre.

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• Camille Rassweiler

  Assistant Sound Designer

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  ​Nick Carvalho*

  Stage Manager

  Nick Carvalho* (he/him – Stage Manager) is excited to return to Marin Theatre Company for the third time this season to stage manage the continued world premiere of Justice: A New Musical. Recent credits with MTC include August Wilson’s Two Trains Running and Dunsinane. Past credits include the world premiere of Monument, or Four Sisters (a sloth play) at Magic Theatre; The Cherry Orchard and Cinderella: A Fairytale (2019) at Town Hall Theatre; Head Over Heels, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Book of Will, Seussical: The Musical, and Our Lady of 121st Street at Diablo Valley College. Nick is also the Assistant Technical Director and a Production Supervisor at El Campanil Theatre. Nick earned two Associates degrees from Diablo Valley College in 2021 and has served as the Stage Management Advisor since then. He was awarded three certificates of merit in stage management from the KCACTF for his work on Our Lady of 121st Street, Seussical: The Musical, and The Book of Will. He would like to thank his partner for her everlasting support and love.

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• ​Tanika Baptiste*

  Assistant Stage Manager

  Tanika Baptiste (She/They - Assistant Stage Manager) is honored to work on her 3rd MTC production Tanika works as a director, actor, vocalist and  ASM in the Bay Area, San Diego and sometimes NY. Past MTC credits include Assistant Director, Fight Captain and ASM Pass Over and Deck Crew/Wardrobe Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberly. Tanika was most recently awarded Theatre Bay Area's Arts Leadership Cohort Grant with Theatre Rhinoceros and is 3x SFBATCC nominee for direction, choreography & costume design. Thank you MTC for the continued collaboration.Thank you audience members for your support!  Love to my family & friends. @tanikabaptiste

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• Julia Formanek*

  Assistant Stage Manager

• Ray Gonzalez

  Script Supervisor

  Ray Gonzalez (they/them - Script Supervisor) is a graduate of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts in Stage Management. Past credits include: Stage Manager for the workshop of JUSTICE: A New Musical at Marin Theatre Company, Script Supervisor for A Christmas Carol at A.C.T., Assistant Stage Manager at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Production Assistant with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Cirque du Soleil, and the American Ballet Theatre.

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  ​Matthew Zwiebel

  Associate Music Director/Keys2

  Matthew Zwiebel (he/him – Assistant Music Director/Keys 2) is a composer, music director, and pianist. He’s a recent graduate of Carnegie Mellon University with a BFA in music composition. Matthew was last seen as AMD/Keys 2 for Coming Home for Christmas at Silver Dollar City and previously performed as Rachmaninoff in Dave Malloy's Preludes at CMU. He is a part of the creative team for Spanglish Sh!t (Ars Nova ANT Fest NYC finalist selection), an in-development musical by Samora La Perdida and music by both Josiah Handelman and him. Matthew premiered two musicals of his own while at CMU: A World Not So Wide and This Side Up. He has extensive music directing experiences across Pennsylvania and also helped develop two sensory-friendly productions with the F. M. Kirby Center of Wilkes-Barre. Matthew is the recipient of the Harry G. Archer Award for Composition and a Residency-In-Your-Room Fellowship. IG @matthewzwiebel

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* Denotes member of Actors Equity Association
+ Member, United Scenic Artists
^ Member, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers