Cast Bios:

BEVERLY BALDERRAMA (Celia) is excited to make her Coronado Playhouse debut. A dynamic and versatile actor with a foundation in classical and devised theatre. She has recently returned from training at Arthaus Berlin, a renowned international center for experimental and physical theatre. A graduate of the MiraCosta College Actors Academy Summer Intensive, her education also includes Period Styles Acting, Commedia dell’arte, Chekov and Meisner Technique, under instructors Tracy Williams, Gerlyn Brault, Lisa Berger, Jeffery Ingman, and Eric Bishop.

FRANCISCO BELTRÁN (Oliver/Oliver Martext) welcomes you to the riveting world of this pastoral rom-com. He is delighted to be making his Coronado Playhouse debut with As You Like It. His recent credits include: Spring Awakening (Ernst Robel), On Your Feet! (Phil Stein), Romeo y Julieta (Benvolio), Much Ado About Nothing (Don Pedro), It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Jake Laurents/George Bailey), & Mojada (Jason). Praise hymen & enjoy the show! Socials: @TheFranciscoBeltran

LIZZIE CISNEROS (Amiens/ Audrey/ Dennis) is excited to make their Coronado Playhouse debut! They are also excited to be doing their first Shakespeare play alongside such a wonderful cast! Recent credits include The Pirates of Penzance (Stagehouse Theatre), Just Like Us (Stagehouse Theatre), and You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown! (ARTS Unlimited llc.) They would like to thank you all for supporting live theatre and hope you enjoy the show! Huzzah!

GABI D’AMICO (Touchstone) is thrilled to be making her Coronado Playhouse debut! Elsewhere: Bored During Sex (Independant), Dead Girl’s Quinceañera, I Found A Zipper (UC San Diego) and Twelfth Night (SD City College). Gabi holds a BA in Theatre from UC San Diego. @gabrieladazed

KAITLYNN DUPUY (Rosalind) is excited to be performing at Coronado Playhouse for the first time. She has been seen as Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice and Titania in A Midsummer Night’ s Dream at Grossmont College. As well as Mother in Six Characters in Search of an Author at SDSU. She would like to thank her family, friends, and boyfriend for reminding her that all the world’s her stage. Instagram: @Kaaitland

GEOFFREY GRAEME (Duke Fredrick/Duke Senior) is thrilled to share the stage with this marvelous group of actors for his premiere at Coronado Playhouse. Most recently, he played the Stage Manager in Star Theatre’s Our Town and Prospero in Vanguard’s The Tempest. Also, seen as the Duke at Shakespeare in the Vine’s Othello. His recent films include: Ex-Husband, My Ghost and Flight to Brazil. With love to Lucy for her patience.

MARK HOLLEY (Adam/Corin) is a local San Diego playwright. OnStage Playhouse in Chula Vista recently hosted a public developmental reading of his new comedy Enter Two Murderers. He is part of the La Jolla Playhouse Veterans Playwright Workshop. He studied acting at Second City, Chicago and Shakespeare with Susan Hart and Thomas Haine. Mark is very excited to be a part of this wonderful cast and be in his first production at Coronado Playhouse.

ISAÍ LUNA (Le Beau/1st Lord/Phebe) is very excited to be back at Coronado Playhouse, he was last seen in Exit, Pursued by A Bear and he was also recently part of Cygnet Theatre’s Finish Line Commision. His favorite credits include Bombs Over Everything!, Hay Fever, Ripcord, Bus Stop, The Taming of the Shrew, Sonnets for an Old Century, Blood Wedding, Stupid F**king Bird, Dear Harvey and Meteor Shower. He would like to thank the audience for coming and supporting live theatre!

KEVIN O’CONNOR, JR. (Charles/ Silvius/ William) an East Coast transplant, is excited to join the cast and crew of As You Like It for his first show at Coronado Playhouse. Previously, he was seen in Laura (Det. McPherson) at PowPAC and Choice (The World) with the American History Theatre, and he once portrayed a comedic Hamlet, 15-Minute Hamlet, back at The College of New Jersey.

DANIEL SAVALA (Orlando) is excited to be joining the stage at CPH for the first time. His last Shakespeare role was Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing (SWC). Other credits include: Christopher in Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (USD), Tape (SDCC), Eugene in Brighton Beach Memoirs (Lamplighter’s Theatre), and Benji in Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Tails’ End Theatre).

TANNER VYDOS (Jaques) a San Diego local, is grateful to be able to provide a Shakespearean classic to the San Diego community with Coronado Playhouse. CREDITS: Wait Until Dark, Deathtrap (ACT San Diego Award Nominee) at Lamplighters Theatre. Macbeth at Patio Playhouse. Little Women (Craig Noel Award Nominee) at Moxie Theatre. Sweeney Todd (Craig Noel Award Nominee) at San Diego Musical Theatre. Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812 at Cygnet Theatre. Catch Tanner in Fiddler on the Roof with Moonlight Stage Productions this Summer.

Production Bios:

KIRA BLASKOVICH (Director) is a director, actor, musical director, choreographer, teacher and playwright, who has been working in San Diego for the past 8 years. Her directorial credits in San Diego include Exit, Pursued by a Bear (CPH), Ripcord (CPH), Laura (PowPAC), Anything Goes (Poway Center for the Performing Arts), Witness for the Prosecution (PowPAC), and Sideways Stories from Wayside School (San Diego Junior Theatre). She has been directing and acting for over 25 years, both in California and New York City. She holds a BA in Dramatic Art from Berkeley and an MFA from The American Conservatory Theatre.

CASSANDRA SHELLUM (Stage Manager) is so excited to be part of her eighth production with Coronado Playhouse! She fell in love with stage management at 16, starting with PowPac’s Romeo and Juliet and continuing at the San Diego School of Creative and Performing Arts. Some of her favorite stage management experiences include Tuck Everlasting and Sweeney Todd at CPH, as well as Trash Pandamonium with Blindspot Collective. When she’s not in the theater, she loves rock climbing, solving escape rooms, and cheering on the San Diego Seals lacrosse team. She’s beyond grateful to her fiancé for all her love and support through this process, as well as her family for always being in her corner.

FRANK SEED (Set Designer) is very excited to return to Coronado Playhouse! He started scenic and prop designing for community theatre while he was going into his senior year at university. He now has his degree in theatre from UCSD where he worked designing some new plays in the Wagner New Play Festival and the dance show Winter Works. Other Credits: The 39 Steps (New Village Arts), Letters From Home (WOW Festival), Exit Pursued By A Bear (Coronado Playhouse), and Sweeney Todd (Coronado Playhouse). He wishes you good luck on your journey deep into the Forest Of Arden.

HARRISON H HARPER (Production Stage Manager) is excited for you all to witness As You Like It! If you’ve been coming to see every show this season you might recognize his name as he has worked on Barbecue and The Mountain Song earlier this season! His most recent shows are The Constant Wife , The Butter and Egg Man and Spring Awakening in NYC. He is excited to be a part of his third show with Coronado Playhouse, As You Like It!

JULIA GIOLZETTI (Line Coach) is happily returning to CPH behind the scenes after appearing as Dromio of Syracuse (Comedy of Errors), Hermione (The Winter’s Tale), Lady Macduff (Macbeth), and Kate (King Charles III). Shakespeare has been the focus of her career, from spending two years in the Off-Broadway company of Drunk Shakespeare to portraying a zombie-fied Sir Andrew in Loud Fridge Theater Group’s Twelfth Night of the Living Dead. This is Julia’s third turn as a Shakespearean text coach following Comedy of Errors at CPH and Romeo & Juliet at PowPAC, where she just finished playing the title role in Laura.

KYLE WATERMAN (Lighting Design) is thrilled to be back with the team again after lighting last season’s Exit… Pursued by a Bear. Additionally at CPH he also scenic designs, stage manages, serves as the master carpenter, and performs; last seen in 2024’s Tuck Everlasting and the Christmas Cabaret. A Michigan native, Kyle designed and performed in various venues across the country before finally landing in sunny San Diego almost a decade ago. “Much love to my friends and family for all the support!”

LISA SAMSON (Costumer) A graduate of UC Santa Barbara, Lisa has been working and volunteering in costuming since 2008. Recent shows include Mountain Song and Curtains, at Coronado Playhouse and Grace for President at San Diego Junior Theatre. A former JT student, recovering theatre mom, and avid quilter, Lisa has accumulated an excessive collection of fabric over the last 7 years and is always looking for creative and fun ways to use it.

NICOLAS A. CASTILLO (Fight Director), making his Coronado Playhouse debut, is delighted to be choreographing one of his favorites Shakespearean fights. A lover of all things Shakespeare, stage combat, and puppetry, it is his mission to spread joy and create staged violence that is safe, tells the story, and looks cool (in that order). Previous fight director credits include: Twelfth Night of the Living Dead [Loud Fridge], The Pirates of Hamlet [San Diego Fringe: Outstanding Production 2024]; Deathtrap (Aubrey Nomination: Choreography), I Hate Hamlet [Lamplighters]; Ordinary People, Alone Together [PowPAC]; and Macbeth [Patio Playhouse]. nicolasacastillo.com