Sponsored by

Sisters Matsumoto

Directed by...	Sharon Ott
Set Design by...	Kate Edmunds
Costume Design by...	Lydia Tanji
Lighting Design by...	Nanacy Schertler
Composer...	Dan Kuramoto
Sound Design by...	Jeff Mockus
Production Stage Manager...	Tanya Gillette*
Assistant Stage Manager...	Fanny Garber*
Casting Consltants...	Cindy Tolan, Alan Filderman, Nicole Arbusto, & Joy Dickson

Cast

Grace...	Kim Miyori*
Rose...	Sala Iwamatsu*
Chiz...	Christine Toy Johnson*
Hideo...	Nelson Mashita*
Bola...	Stan Egi*
Henry...	Andrew Pang*
Mr. Hersham...	Will Marchetti*

---

Sala Iwamatsu (Rose) was a member of the original Broadway company of Miss Saigon, and has performed off-Broadway in Philip Kan Gotanda's Ballad of Yachiyo. She has appeared in the national touring companies of Rent, Sayonara, and Miss Saigon, including playing at Starlight Theatre in Kansas City, and her resident theatre credits include Stop Kiss at Delaware Theatre Company, A Visit from the Footbinder at Goodspeed Opera House, Randy Newman's Faust at the Goodman Theatre, Ballad of Yachiyo at Berkeley Repertory Theatre, South Coast Repertory, and the Public Theatre, The Butterfingers Angel at Syracuse Stage, Carman at the Mark Taper Forum, and A Chorus Line, Rashomon, And the Soul Shall Dance, and The Fantasticks at East/West Players in Los Angeles. She has also been featured in Sing to the Dawn at Singapore Repertory Theatre. Ms. Iwamatsu played Rose in the Huntington Theatre Company and San Jose Repertory Theatre productions of Sisters Matsumoto.

Christine Toy Johnson (Chiz) is making her Missouri Repertory Theatre debut having played Chiz in the Huntington Theatre Company production of Sisters Matsumoto. She co-produced and co-starred in A Tribute to Julie and Carol at Carnegie Hall in New York City. She has appeared in New York in revivals of Falsettoland, Merrily We Roll Along, for which she recorded the new cast album, Pacific Overtures, and Grease, as well as original productions of Genesis at New York Shakespeare Festival, Stay Carl Stay, Balancing Act, Chu Chem, and Oh, Johnny. She has been featured on national tour in Cats, has performed in world premieres at Minnesota Opera, Denver Center Theatre Company and Paper Mill Playhouse, and has played leading roles in West Side Story, Guys and Dolls, The Sound of Music, She Loves Me, Candide, Carousel and Lute Song. Ms. Johnson has appeared on television with Rue McClanahan in Nunsense and Nunsense 2, and currently plays Lisa West on "One Life to Live," which earned her a 2000 Ammy Award nomination for best performance by an Asian American actress in a televised production. Her film credits include Jungle 2 Jungle, Private Parts and Conspiracy Theory.

Will Marchetti (Mr. Hersham) has performed in Sisters Matsumoto at the Huntington Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and San Jose Repertory Theatre. He has also recently acted in The Psychic Life of Savages at the Empty Space Theatre in Seattle and the Wilma Theatre in Philadelphia and in Picasso at the Lapin Agile at Ford's Theatre in Washington. During his extensive career, he has appeared in many major roles in New York, Washington, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, where he resides, and he created the role of the Old Man in Sam Shepard's Fool for Love. His film and television credits include True Believer, Mr. Billions, Cocoon II, Metro and Dalva.

Nelson Mashita (Hideo) has appeared in Sisters Matsumoto at the Huntington Theatre Company, Seattle Repertory Theatre, and San Jose Repertory Theatre. He has appeared in Los Angeles in Made in Bangkok, Sansei, and Song for a Nisei Fisherman at the Mark Taper Forum and in Cleveland Raining with East/West Players. Mr. Mashita played the central role in Journey to the West at the Huntington Theatre Company and Berkeley Repertory Theatre, and his acting credits also include Fish Head Soup at A Contemporary Theatre in Seattle and Coriolanus at the Old Globe Theatre. Mr. Mashita's film credits include Darkman, Rising Sun and Independence Day, and he has appeared on television in "Murder, She Wrote," "Vanishing Son," "NYPD Blue," "House of Frankenstein," "Ally McBeal," "ER," and "The West Wing."

Kim Miyori (Grace) has appeared on Broadway in Golden Child, Pacific Overtures, and Zoot Suit, and off-Broadway in Katana, Peking Man, Legend of Deirdre, Legend of Wu Chang and Dog and His Master. She has appeared at the Huntington Theatre Company in Journey to the West and The Woman Warrior, as well as in Sisters Matsumoto . Ms. Miyori's Los Angeles theatre credits include The Woman Warrior, Madame Mao's Memories, The Wash, Zoot Suit, Macbeth, and Twelfth Night, and she has performed at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego in Madame Mao's Memories and Burning Hope. Her television and film credits include "Melrose Place," "L.A. Law," "Murder, She Wrote," "Equal Justice," "St. Elsewhere," My American Vacation, Metro, Body Shot, Loverboy, The Punisher, The Big Picture, Zoot Suit, and Grease.

Andrew Pang (Henry) is making his Missouri Repertory Theatre debut, having recently appeared in The King and I on Broadway. His off-Broadway credits include Othello, Long Day's Journey Into Night and Ah, Wilderness! at National Asian American Theatre Company, Carry the Tiger to the Mountain at Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Hazel and the Bugman at the New York Fringe Festival, and Virtual Souls at La Mama Theatre Company. Mr. Pang has also appeared in The Joy Luck Club at Long Wharf Theatre, Eyes of the Heart at the Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center, and As You Like It and Edward the Second at Yale Repertory Theatre. His television and film credits include "Cosby," "Law and Order," "Central Park West," The Corruptor, The Substance of Fire, and Nathan Grimm. Mr. Pang is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.

Tanya Gillette (Production Stage Manager) has stage managed Sisters Matsumoto at the Huntington Theatre Company and San Jose Repertory Theatre and was the assistant stage manager for its Seattle Repertory Theatre production. She has also stage managed Over the Tavern, Three Days of Rain and Icarus at San Jose Rep, where she previously worked for three seasons as an assistant stage manager. Her other professional credits include Alphabets for the Melancholy for the American Living Room Festival, Enchanted April, the workshop of Necessary Targets, I Ain't Yo' Uncle, Romeo and Juliet and Loot at Hartford Stage, and shows at Repertory Theatre of St. Louis. Ms. Gillette has also served as a production stage manager for two seasons at Creede Repertory Theatre in Colorado. She received her B.F.A. from the Webster University Conservatory of Theatre Arts.