Katie Boren as Ensemble
Katie Boren is thrilled to join this extraordinary company in the telling of such an important story that needs to be told. Her credits include Lysistrata Jones, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Avenue Q and Miss Saigon. Ms. Boren is a member of AEA and is a proud graduate of Ithaca College. To my family, friends and D, to whom I owe everything, I send you endless love and gratitude. To Minna, I thank you for keeping my dreams possible. To Dustin, you are my favorite unlikely proposition. To Mom and Dad, I owe it all.

Jon Jon Briones as Ensemble
Jon Jon Briones was born in the Philippines and went to London to join the original cast of Miss Saigon. He has played The Engineer in Miss Saigon in Germany, U.S. Tour, U.K. Tour, Asian Tour, Philippines and the closing season in London. Recently he played the title character in The Romance of Magno Rubio ([Inside] the Ford, LA Weekly Theater Award nomination for Leading Male Performance, Ovation Award nomination for Lead Actor in a Play). His favorite theatre credits include Fredrik in A Little Night Music (East West Players), Yellow Face (Center Theater Group), Lukas in Peregrinasyon (Ma-Yi Theater Company), Tateh in Ragtime, Enjolras in Les Misérables and Laertes in Hamlet. His favorite television credits include Cosme Caliyag on “Las Vegas” (recurring), Asian Elvis on “Sons of Anarchy,” “Miami Medical,” “Monk” and “Southland.” His recent film credits include Mr. Fan in Model Home, Father Mena in Blood Ransom, Raul in Nico’s Sampaguita and Genie in Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage.

Geno Carr (official website) as Ensemble
Geno Carr is thrilled to be a part of Allegiance and to return to The Old Globe after playing Papa Who in last year’s Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! In San Diego he has been seen in The Servant of Two Masters (Craig Noel Award nomination), The Music Man and miXtape (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Parade, Little Shop of Horrors and Sweeney Todd (Cygnet Theatre Company), I Love You Because and A Christmas Carol (‘08/’09) (North Coast Repertory Theatre) and A Waltz Dream (Lyric Opera San Diego). Mr. Carr has appeared Off Broadway in Bush Wars and on the National Tours of Phantom, The Buddy Holly Story and Grease, and his favorite regional credits include The Producers, The Full Monty, Forever Plaid, Peter Pan and South Pacific. He has an M.F.A. in Acting and Directing from Sarah Lawrence College and a dual B.A. in Music and Theatre Arts from Hartwick College. www.genocarr.com.

Karl Josef Co as Ensemble
Karl Josef Co is beyond thrilled to be a part of Allegiance’s world premiere at The Old Globe, having made his professional theatre debut in last year’s workshop. He was most recently seen as Thuy in Miss Saigon (Fulton Theatre). His other credits include Costs of Living (Stephen Schwartz/ASCAP workshop co-starring Telly Leung), Suites by Sondheim concert with Lea Salonga and Paolo Montalban (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) and The King and I with Lorenzo Lamas (North Shore Music Theatre). Praise be to God. Love you Mom, Dad and Mico for your unending support. My biggest thanks to Jay, Lorenzo, Stafford, Lynne, Craig and the whole production team for this amazing journey. To this beautiful cast, I am so honored to be surrounded by such inspiringly brilliant artists. Thanks to Joel, Michael and Christopher at CGF. He is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan — Go Blue.

Marc de la Cruz as Ensemble
Marc de la Cruz is thrilled to join the Allegiance family and make his first appearance at The Old Globe. His theatre credits include the award-winning Prison Dancer (New York Musical Theatre Festival 2012, Outstanding Ensemble Performance), Disney’s High School Musical (First National Tour), Where Elephants Weep (Cambodia), David Byrne’s Here Lies Love (The Public Theater), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Making Tracks (San Jose Repertory Theatre), Miss Saigon (North Carolina Theatre), Pippin (The 5th Avenue Theatre) and The Wedding Banquet (Village Theatre and Asia Tour).

MaryAnn Hu as Ensemble
MaryAnn Hu has television and film credits that include SooLin on the NBC sitcom “Whoopi,” “Law & Order,” Falling for Grace and the upcoming film De Loba. Her Broadway credits include Bloody Mary understudy in the original cast of Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of South Pacific, as well as having played the role on the First National Tour. She also appeared on Broadway and in the National Tour of Miss Saigon. Her Off Broadway and regional credits include Cordelia in Falsettoland (National Asian American Theatre Company), The Audience (Transport Group), The Beautiful Warrior (Vineyard Theatre), The Yellow Wood directed by BD Wong (New York Musical Theatre Festival), Heading East, Mrs. Mullin in Carousel directed by Baayork Lee (National Asian Artists Project), Tuptim in The King and I and Song of Singapore. Her workshop credits include Bruce Lee: Journey to the West directed by Bartlett Sher, Frank Wildhorn’s Tears of Heaven, originating the role of Madame Du in Maury Yeston’s Peony Pavilion, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and The Wedding Singer.

Jennifer Hubilla (official website) as (Swing)
Jennifer Hubilla earned a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from CSU Fullerton. Upon graduation, she was immediately cast as the lead role of Kim in the U.S. Tour of Miss Saigon. She was then invited by Sir Cameron Mackintosh to join the U.K. Tour, where she again played the role of Kim. The U.K. became her home for the next four years where she worked as a singer, actress and voice-over artist. Her other theatre credits include Aladdin, Tea, A Little Night Music, Marry Me a Little, Songs for a New World and The Fantasticks, among others. Her voice-over credits include Flashbacks of a Fool starring Daniel Craig and Wild Child starring Emma Roberts. She played the lead in several short films, one of them titled By the Water’s Edge, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Ms. Hubilla also recently did a KFC commercial that is now on air.

Michael K. Lee (official website) as Frankie Suzuki
Michael K. Lee has appeared on Broadway as Kayama in Pacific Overtures, Simon in Jesus Christ Superstar, Steve in Rent and Thuy in Miss Saigon. His international credits include Chris in Miss Saigon in Korea, Where Elephants Weep in Cambodia, They’re Playing Our Song opposite Lea Salonga in the Philippines and A Twist of Fate opposite Laura Michelle Kelly in Singapore. In the U.S., he has successfully broken down traditional casting barriers, performing Tommy in The Who’s Tommy (Seattle Footlight Award for Best Actor in a Musical), Jesus and Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar and Aladdin in Disney’s Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular. His other U.S. credits include The Last Five Years (2009 Ovation Award nomination for Lead Actor in a Musical), The King and I, Making Tracks, Heading East, Mame (Hollywood Bowl), The Wedding Banquet, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Could It Be Magic? The Barry Manilow Songbook, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Beijing Spring and Sweeney Todd. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and a graduate of Stanford University.

Telly Leung (official website) as Sammy Kimura
Telly Leung most recently appeared in the Broadway revival of Godspell. His other Broadway credits include Flower Drum Song (2002 revival), Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures (2005 revival) and the final company of Rent. He originated the role of Boq in the Chicago company of Wicked. Favorite credits include Angel in Rent directed by Neil Patrick Harris (Hollywood Bowl), Song Liling in M. Butterfly (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Give It Up! aka Lysistrata Jones (world premiere, Dallas Theater Center), Godspell (Paper Mill Playhouse), Bernstein: Mass (Baltimore Symphony, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall), Harold Bride in Titanic and Barnaby in Hello, Dolly! (The Muny), Simon in Jesus Christ Superstar (Music Circus), Thuy in Miss Saigon (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera) and Lun Tha in The King and I with Lou Diamond Philips (North Carolina Theatre). Mr. Leung has been featured on the recordings for Godspell (Sh-K-Boom Records), Flower Drum Song (DRG Records), Pacific Overtures (PS Classics), Wall to Wall Sondheim (Live from Symphony Space), Dear Edwina (PS Classics) and the Grammy Award-nominated Bernstein: Mass with Marin Alsop (Sony/Naxos). His television and film credits include “Glee” (Wes, Dalton Academy Warblers), “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway. Mr. Leung holds a B.F.A. from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. He recently released his first solo album, I’ll Cover You, on the Yellow Sound Label.

Brandon Joel Maier as Ensemble
Brandon Joel Maier is thrilled to be making his debut at The Old Globe in Allegiance. His San Diego regional work includes Leo Frank in Parade and Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (Cygnet Theatre Company), Emmett Forrest in Legally Blonde (Moonlight Stage Productions) and Chip Tolentino in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and I Love You Because (North Coast Repertory Theatre). His directing credits include Little Women, Rumors, Les Misérables and I Love You Because (assistant director). Mr. Maier also conceived, compiled and directed the San Diego State University fairy-tale revues WISH: A Musical Revue and WISH II: Villains & Sidekicks. Mr. Maier received his B.A. in Theatre and M.F.A. in Musical Theatre from SDSU. He is currently a member of the faculty at his alma mater.

Paolo Montalban as Mike Masaoka
Paolo Montalban most recently starred in Honk! at Two River Theater Company. His Broadway credits include Manjiro in Pacific Overtures and Lun Tha (understudied and performed) in The King and I. He has appeared Off Broadway in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (New York Shakespeare Festival) and The Romance of Magno Rubio (Culture Project). His regional credits include Flower Drum Song, Nero, The Boys from Syracuse and The Long Season. Mr. Montalban is best known for playing the Prince in the ABC/Wonderful World of Disney movie musical Cinderella opposite Brandy. His other television and film credits include Kung Lao in the TNT series “Mortal Kombat: Conquest,” supporting and featured roles in “One Life To Live,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Camelot for “Live from Lincoln Center,” American Adobo, The Great Raid and Just Wright. He performed as a guest artist with the San Francisco Symphony and as a soloist in the Suites by Sondheim concert at Alice Tully Hall.

Paul Nakauchi as Tatsuo Kimura
Paul Nakauchi, the son of camp survivors, has a bachelor’s degree in music and began his theatre career in the National Tour of The King and I with Yul Brynner. He understudied and performed the role of The King of Siam on Broadway in the 1996 revival opposite Donna Murphy. He also played The King on London’s West End with Elaine Paige. Most recently he toured Asia in the Broadway Asia production of The King and I, recreating the same role. He toured the U.S. in the First National Tour of Miss Saigon understudying and playing the role of The Engineer. His movie credits include The Great Race and Dark Metropolis, and he has been seen on television in “ER,” “The Young and the Restless,” “General Hospital,” “Saturday Night Live,” and “Knots Landing.” His voice inhabits characters in the animated features The Invincible Iron Man, Doctor Strange and Alpha and Omega and the television cartoons “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “Batman: The Brave and the Bold,” as well as numerous video games including Cars 2, Call of Duty: World at War and the soon-to-be-released Lost Planet 3, to name a few. He is excited to be making his Globe debut.

Kürt Norby (official website) as Ensemble
Kürt Norby has appeared regionally in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (The Old Globe), Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin and Zhivago (La Jolla Playhouse), Man of La Mancha and Sweeney Todd (Cygnet Theatre Company), miXtape, Leaving Iowa, Room Service, Hello, Dolly!, The Voysey Inheritance and The Winslow Boy (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Evita, The Desert Song and Bye Bye Birdie (Welk Resorts Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Moonlight Amphitheater), Suds: The Rocking ‘60s Musical Soap Opera, Urinetown, Fiddler on the Roof and The Scarlet Pimpernel (Starlight Musical Theatre) and Miss Saigon (Fullerton Civic Light Opera). His film credits include 29th & Gay, U R Pre-Approved and Rubix Cube Dinner. He received his B.A. in Drama from UC Irvine. www.kurtnorby.com.

Conrad Ricamora as (Swing)
Conrad Ricamora is making his Globe debut. Regionally he has appeared at Walnut Street Theatre, Prince Music Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival and Clarence Brown Theatre Company. Mr. Ricamora just played Ninoy Aquino in a two-month collaboration with David Byrne and Alex Timbers in the creation of the new show Here Lies Love. He will continue this work next March in the full-scale production at The Public Theater. He also appears in Talladega Nights with Will Ferrell. www.conradricamora.com.

Lea Salonga (official website) as Kei Kimura
Lea Salonga is a Filipina singer/actress best known for originating the role of Kim in the West End production of Miss Saigon and bringing it to Broadway, winning the Tony and Olivier Awards, among others. She was the first Asian to play Eponine in Les Misérables on Broadway, returned to the show in 2007 as Fantine and reprised the role for the sold-out 25th anniversary concert in London. Ms. Salonga wowed audiences and critics in her first ever cabaret show at New York’s famed Café Carlyle in 2010 and returned in 2011 for another engagement. In August 2011, she released a live version of her 2010 concert, “Lea Salonga: The Journey So Far,” and it rose to #3 on the iTunes Jazz charts. Honored with an appointment as a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Goodwill Ambassador in October of 2010, Lea has vowed to act as an advocate for the Youth and United Nations Global Alliance initiative. Ms. Salonga’s feature film credits include the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Aladdin and Fa Mulan in Mulan and Mulan II. In honor of her portrayal of the beloved princesses, Disneyland bestowed upon Ms. Salonga the honor of Disney Legend in the summer of 2011. She dedicates her performance in Allegiance to the Hayashida and Katekaru clans. www.leasalonga.com.

Ann Sanders as Ensemble
Ann Sanders has appeared on Broadway as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Christmas Eve in Avenue Q and most recently in Leap of Faith. Internationally she made her debut as Ellen in Cameron Mackintosh’s Miss Saigon and was seen in the National Tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific. Off Broadway she portrayed the role of Trina in the National Asian American Theatre Company’s production of Falsettoland. Her regional credits include roles in The King and I with Lou Diamond Phillips, Hair, Carousel, Man of La Mancha, Showboat, The Marvelous Wonderettes and It’s a Grand Night for Singing. Her television credits include CBS’s “Unforgettable” and “As the World Turns,” Showtime’s “The Big C,” ABC’s “All My Children” and Disney’s “Johnny and the Sprites.” As a soloist she has performed at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Symphony Space in New York and Carnegie Hall.

George Takei as Sam Kimura, Ojii-san
George Takei and his family, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, were unjustly incarcerated behind the barbed-wire enclosures of United States internment camps with the outbreak of World War II. Mr. Takei spent most of his childhood at Camp Rohwer in Arkansas and at Camp Tule Lake in Northern California. At the end of the war, Mr. Takei and his family returned to his native Los Angeles where Mr. Takei graduated from Los Angeles High School and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UCLA. Mr. Takei’s acting career has spanned more than five decades with more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television roles to his credit. He is best known for portraying Mr. Sulu in the “Star Trek” television and film series. Mr. Takei’s theatrical credits include Shimon Wincelberg’s Undertow (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Philip Kan Gotanda’s The Wash (Manhattan Theatre Club and Mark Taper Forum), Frank Chin’s Year of the Dragon (The American Place Theatre), Fly Blackbird! (Billy Rose Theatre and Metro Theater), Snow White (Brighton Dome), Aladdin (The Hexagon Theatre in Reading, England and The Central Theatre in Chatham, England), Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures (Loft Theatre) and Peter Shaffer’s Equus (East West Players). In March 2012, Mr. Takei performed in an all-star reading of 8 by Dustin Lance Black and directed by Rob Reiner at Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Mr. Takei is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He shares a Grammy nomination with Leonard Nimoy in the Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording category. He has a star on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame, and his signature and handprints are in cement in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

Jill Townsend as Ensemble
Jill Townsend is thrilled to be joining the Allegiance family in her hometown of San Diego. Her theatre credits include Swing/Nimue/Tom in the National Tours of Camelot and Maggie in A Chorus Line. Her selected regional credits include Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Eileen in the West Coast premiere of I Love a Piano (Musical Theatre West), Winnie Tate in Annie Get Your Gun and Patty Simcox in Grease (Music Circus), Kim MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie (San Diego Musical Theatre and Civic Light Opera of South Bay Cities), Val in A Chorus Line (San Diego Musical Theatre and American Musical Theatre of San Jose), Luisa in The Fantasticks (North Coast Repertory Theatre), Mistress in Evita (Fullerton Civic Light Opera) and Columbia in The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Universal Studios Hollywood). www.JillandRobert.com.

Allie Trimm (official website) as Hannah Campbell
Allie Trimm previously appeared at the Globe as Nora in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Phyllis Who in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Her Broadway credits include Kim MacAfee in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2009 revival of Bye Bye Birdie. Prior to that, she made her critically acclaimed Broadway debut as Patrice in Jason Robert Brown’s musical 13. Her favorite regional credits include Patrice in 13 (Goodspeed Musicals), Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden (Lamb’s Players Theatre) and The Will Rogers Follies and Annie Get Your Gun (Moonlight Stage Productions). Ms. Trimm has participated in a number of readings and workshops including Sweet Valley High, Pregnancy Pact, Allegiance and The Water. Her film and television credits include Disney’s Prom, “30 Rock” and “Private Practice.” She will be attending Stanford University in the fall of 2013. www.allietrimm.com.

Kay Trinidad as Ensemble
Kay Trinidad has appeared on Broadway as Aquata in the original cast of The Little Mermaid. Her Off Broadway credits include Diane in the original New York cast of Bare, The Roar of the Greasepaint – the Smell of the Crowd and Martha and Kit in Ninja: The Musical. Her regional and National Tour credits include Seussical the Musical, The King and I, Making Tracks and Bye Bye Birdie. She can be heard as Marcy Park on the Stage Stars recording of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She has also appeared in the film March! She trained at New York University’s Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute at the Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Trinidad thanks her family and friends for all of their love and support and is grateful for all of God’s blessings. Thank you for your unending support Mom, Daddy, Ate Chris and Apey. www.kaytrinidad.com.

Scott Watanabe (official website) as Ensemble
Scott Watanabe just ended a five-plus-year run in Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular. He was also featured in the Broadway, Los Angeles and Toronto productions of The Phantom of the Opera. His other Broadway credits include Pacific Overtures. His New York credits include Kismet and Candide. Regionally he has been seen as The Engineer in Miss Saigon, Padre in Man of La Mancha, Charlie in Annie Get Your Gun, Captain Lesgate in Dial M for Murder, Ito in Mame, Candide, Camelot, Kayama in Pacific Overtures (San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor), The Prince and the Pauper, Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along, Evita, Pasquale in The Most Happy Fella, Chess, Jake in Paint Your Wagon, Lun Tha in The King and I. His television credits include “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”

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