The World Goes 'Round
May 30 & 31 at 7:30pm
Production Team
GREGORY RAMOS - Director
Is an actor, director, playwright, and theatre educator originally from Los Angeles, California. He completed his MFA in Playwriting at UCLA and studied acting at Playwrights Horizons in New York and privately with academy award winner, Ellen Burstyn. He is certified in the Meisner acting approach through the True Acting Institute. Gregory has directed plays and musicals at numerous professional theatres and universities. Much of his original work is based on interviews. Two of these are solo performance plays. Border Stories is based on interviews with LGBT people living on the U.S – Mexico border and When We Danced was written after interviewing senior and elderly LGBT people around the country. He has performed both at arts venues and theatre festivals throughout the U.S. His play for young audience’s Cuentos de Josefina (Josephine’s Tales) is available through YouthPLAYS. Gregory is a proud member of The Lincoln Center Director’s Lab and Actor’s Equity Association. His current work in progress is a play about gun violence and community, based on interviews he conducted in El Paso, Texas after a mass shooting at a Walmart in August 2019.
CINDY SNYDER - Musical Director
Miss Snyder moves with equal ease from opera to pop to musical theater. She has been the featured soloist in numerous symphony and opera concerts, and her repertoire includes more than 40 roles. While attending California State University at Fullerton, Cindy toured Japan and Korea performing for the United States military on military bases as well as on the aircraft carrier the U.S.S. Midway. Soon after graduating college, Cindy performed in the cast of 42nd Street at the Pantages Theater as one of the featured tap dancers.
Some of Miss Snyder’s opera roles include Mimi in La Bohéme, Nedda in I Pagliaci, Violetta in La Traviata, Micaela in Carmen, Marguerite in Faust, Antonia in Les contes d’Hoffmann, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, Rosalinda in Die Fledermaus, Isabelle/Madeline in The Face on the Barroom Floor, and the title roles of Madama Butterfly, Sour Angelica, Tosca, and Norma. Cindy acquired her Master of music in Vocal Performance at the University of Redlands, where she joined the faculty in 2007.
DIANNA ICE - Accompanist
Dianna is an Alumni of the U of R. As a Piano Performance Major, she accompanied many groups and soloists and Musicals. Along with teaching part-time at the U of R, she worked as accompanist at the “Great American Melodrama” in Pismo Beach. After working at Northern Virginia Community College she moved back to Beautiful Redlands, California to teach Choir and Piano at Cope Middle School. Now retired, she enjoys keeping the keys moving by accompanying more musical groups and teaching private piano.
CHARLY MCSHANE - Lighting Designer
Charly McShane (she/her) is a newly graduated alumni from the University of Redlands and is super excited to be the lighting designer for her last show in college. Her favorite song in the show is "Coffee in a Cardboard Cup". She would like to thank the faculty for making this the best college experience and thank her friends and family for their continued support. Charly McShane, signing off.
MORGAN IRWIN - Scenic Painter and Lightboard Op
Morgan Irwin (she/her) is a recently graduated senior of the University of Redlands, with a major in Creative Writing and a minor in Theater. She worked on “The World Goes Round” as the scenic painter.
CARY GOERTZEL - Stage Manager
Cary Goertzel (She/Her) is a junior double majoring in Theater and English. She is thrilled to have been involved in this production. She is grateful to have one last stage manager experience before graduating in December. She can’t pick a favorite line, but "All That Jazz" is always a joy to listen to. She'd like to thank her parents, her friends, and the theater department for their continued support! Enjoy the show.
RODRIGO SERANNO CENDEJAS - Asst. Stage Manager & Sound Mixer
Rodrigo Serrano Cendejas (He/Him) is currently a Junior with a Major in Business Administration. If he had to choose a favorite line he’d choose "The trouble the psychologists have all agreed is coffee in a cardboard cup" from Coffee in a Cardboard Cup, because sometimes it does feel like everyone just needs a bit more caffeine every now and then.