A hit and a masterpiece! Joyous, uplifting and plenty of humor.
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Come From Away

Apr 15-may 10, 2026

Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts

By IRENE SANKOFF & DAVID HEIN
Directed by ROBERT KELLEY

On September 11, 2001, the world changed forever. This New York Times Critics’ Pick takes you into the heart of the remarkable true story of 7,000 stranded passengers and the small town in Newfoundland that welcomed them. Cultures clashed and nerves ran high, but uneasiness turned into trust, music soared into the night, and gratitude grew into enduring friendships. TheatreWorks is proud to bring this Olivier Award-winning musical from our friends Irene Sankoff and David Hein, helmed by TheatreWorks Artistic Director Emeritus Robert Kelley.

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Special Events & Accessible Performances

Join TheatreWorks for a pre-show discussion with Director Robert Kelley and an artist from the production. In this free event, peer behind the scenes and learn more about the process of bringing this production to life.
  • Thursday, April 16, 2025 @ 6:15 – 6:45 pm (in the lobby)
  • Wednesday, April 22, 2026 @ 7:30pm
  • Wednesday, April 29, 2026 @ 7:30pm
  • Wednesday, May 6, 2026 @ 7:30pm
  • Sunday, April 26, 2026 @ 2pm
  • Sunday, May 3, 2026 @ 2pm
  • Thursday, April 30, 2026 @ 7:30pm
  • Sunday, May 3, 2026 @ 2pm

Photos: Kevin Berne, 2024

Cast

MONIQUE HAFEN ADAMS*

MONIQUE HAFEN ADAMS (Bonnie/ Others) was last seen at TheatreWorks this past holiday season in Georgiana & Kitty: Christmas at Pemberley. Other appearances at TheatreWorks include Pride & Prejudice: The New Musical and the 2017 & 2018 New Works Festivals. Top Bay Area credits include ACT (Top Girls, A Walk on the Moon), Center REP (Cabaret, The Liar, and others), San Jose Stage Company (Chicago, Sweeney Todd, The ThreePenny Opera, Avenue Q), San Francisco Playhouse (Harper Regan, She Loves Me, Company, and others), and San Jose Rep (Spring Awakening). She is the voice of Valentina in 2K Games’ Mafia: The Old Country video game and has recorded for Tonies Toys. She is a resident writer with Playground SF and Dorktales Storytime Podcast. She is continually inspired and encouraged by her children and husband.

ALISON EWING*

ALISON EWING (Diane/Others) is overjoyed to return to TheatreWorks! Her others here include: Emma, Big River, Into The Woods, Harold & Maude, Ain’t Nothin’ But The Blues and New Works Festivals. Broadway: Mamma Mia! (Tanya) and Cabaret (Lulu). National Tours: Parade, Anastasia, Clue, An American In Paris, Cabaret, Flashdance, and Mamma Mia! Regional favorites: Into The Woods (Witch), A Chorus Line (Sheila) and Guys & Dolls (SF Playhouse), Fun Home (Berkeley Playhouse), Hand To God (San Jose Stage), Spelling Bee (San Jose Rep), Sweet Charity (Center Rep), Jacques Brel (Marin Theatre Company), The Last 5 Years (Playhouse West) and A Little Night Music and Irma La Douce (42nd Street Moon). All My Love, Keith. www.AlisonEwing.com

ANTHONE D. JACKSON*

ANTHONE D. JACKSON (Bob/ Others) is blessed to be returning to TheatreWorks after last being seen in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. Notable Bay Area productions have included I, Too, Sing America with SF Bay Area Theatre Company (productions and original recording); Caroline, or Change (Dryer) with Ray of Light Theatre; Big River (Jim) with South Bay Musical Theatre (TBA Award Recipient); Sister Act (Curtis) with Berkeley Playhouse; Dreamgirls (Curtis) and Smokey Joe’s Café (Adrian) with Broadway by the Bay; Memphis (Bobby) and Violet (Flick) with Tabard; The Color Purple (Mister) and To Kill a Mockingbird (Tom) with Hillbarn Theatre; and African American Shakespeare Company’s Cinderella (Prince). Anthone also works as a Director of School Partnerships with awesome students for a non-profit and serves on Hillbarn Theatre’s Board. Anthone thanks his wife Ashlee and their kids Averee, Aubree, and Amanee for supporting and allowing him to dream. Connect on Instagram @AnthoneJsings or Facebook @AnthoneOnStage

KAYLEE ANN*

KAYLEE ANN (Janice/Others) has performed with TheatreWorks in their latest New Works Festival as Alice in Alice, Formerly of Wonderland and understudied Mona, Sissy, and Stella Mae in last season’s Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean. Her other Bay Area credits include Daphne in Fly By Night (Hillbarn Theatre)—another work to come out of TheatreWork’s NWF!—Girl in Once (Hillbarn), Violet in Violet (Foothill Music Theatre), Vivienne Kensington in Legally Blonde: The Musical (Ray of Light Theatre), and Chicken in the Presidio Theater’s Panto in the Presidio. Kaylee Ann earned her MMus from the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and maintains a private voice studio in the city. @klee.sings

NICK NAKASHIMA*

NICK NAKASHIMA (Kevin T./ Others) is honored to take part in this production with such a talented and loving cast. He recently appeared as the Caterpillar in TheatreWorks’ New Works Festival presentation of Alice, Formerly of Wonderland. Previous TheatreWorks productions include, Being Alive, Sense and Sensibility, Little Shop of Horrors, Emma, A Little Night Music, and a brief moment in Ragtime. Favorite credits include The Pajama Game, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Irma La Douce, and The Golden Apple (42nd Street Moon); Emma, The Learned Ladies of Park Avenue, and A Little Night Music (TheatreWorks). Other regional credits include Next to Normal (Jewel Theatre); Putting it Together (Villa Montalvo); Children of Eden and Beauty and the Beast (American Musical Theatre of San Jose); and Les Misérables, Pacific Overtures, and Candide.

HEATHER ORTH

HEATHER ORTH (Beulah/Others) first worked at TheatreWorks as a child wrangler on 2007’s production of Merrily We Roll Along, and she spent the next sixteen years going from child wrangler to dresser to Box Office Associate to Communications Manager to Associate Director of Marketing before finishing up as the Interim Director of Marketing in 2023, with brief stints as Mrs. Bennet in the New Works Festival and main-stage productions of Pride & Prejudice: A New Musical (Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award) and the Mrs. Jennings understudy in Sense & Sensibility. She is really, really happy to be home.

ADAM QUTAISHAT*

ADAM QUTAISHAT, any/all (Kevin J./ Others) is an Arab-American theatre artist based in Chicago who is excited to make their TheatreWorks debut. Recent credits include Come From Away at Paramount Theatre, The Lord of the Rings at Chicago Shakes, The Band’s Visit at Writers Theatre, and Wife of a Salesman at The Milwaukee Rep. Adam’s audio fiction work includes Vigil (which they write and produce), Psychopompos, The Wanderer, Waiting For October, The Mechadova Engine, and Our Wars Have Ended. You can learn more about their work at adamqutaishat.com. فلسطين حرة

CHRIS REBER*

CHRIS REBER, (Oz/Others) returns to TheatreWorks after appearing in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Panch), Rags (Jack), Cyrano (Ragueneau) and Peter and the Starcatcher (Alf). Other Bay Area appearances include Company (BATCC Nominee), Jerusalem, La Cage aux Folles and A Christmas Story at San Francisco Playhouse; Rough Crossing, Forever Plaid, Me and My Girl, Talley’s Folly, Next to Normal, Guys and Dolls, Pump Boys and Dinettes, Arcadia, and Gunmetal Blues with Jewel Theatre Company; Three Sisters and Merrily We Roll Along at 42nd Street Moon; Gypsy, It’s Only a Play, Anything Goes, A Christmas Carol and The Full Monty at Hillbarn Theatre. Chris is a proud member of Actors’ Equity.

MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN*

MICHAEL GENE SULLIVAN (Nick/ Others) has performed previously at TheatreWorks in Ragtime, Tuck Everlasting, Around the World in 80 Days, Cyrano, Peter and the Starcatcher, Hound of the Baskervilles, 33 Variations, Twentieth Century, Twelfth Night, Violet, Once on This Island, and The Two Gentlemen of Verona. Other credits include American Conservatory Theater, San Francisco Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Company, Marin Theatre, Aurora Theatre, Magic Theatre, Lorraine Hansberry Theater, the California, African American, and Marin Shakespeare Companies, and SF Shakespeare Festival. Mr. Sullivan is also author of several plays including 1984, The Great Khan, Sign My Name To Freedom, and is Resident Playwright for the Tony Award-winning San Francisco Mime Troupe. Mr. Sullivan is Guggenheim Fellow, a Djerassi Fellow, and was awarded the 2026 Charles Dean Award for theatre.

COLIN THOMSON*

COLIN THOMSON, (Claude/Others) has appeared at TheatreWorks in Ragtime, Sense and Sensiblity, All My Sons, and The Light in the Piazza, as well as many New Works Festivals, most recently in Sankoff & Hein’s Vienna. He played Fezziwig for the Broadway tour of Jack Thorne’s A Christmas Carol (also going on for Father/Marley), and understudied the Broadway tour of Dirty Blonde. Career favorites include Tuck Everlasting for TheatreWorks, 1776 for A.C.T., Sisters Matsumoto for Center Rep and Company for Marin Theatre Company. TV and film work includes NBC’s “Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist” and “Trauma,” “13 Reasons Why” on Netflix, and “Blue Jasmine.” He has been an Equity Actor for nearly 30 years, who dedicates his performance to his parents Judy and Pate.

DAWN L. TROUPE*

DAWN L. TROUPE (Hannah/Others) is excited to join the cast of Come From Away and be home working with her TheatreWorks family again. Dawn’s TW credits include Steel Magnolias, Caroline or Change, Book of Days, Memphis, Ragtime, Big River, Once On This Island, Dessa Rose, and so many more in TW’s New Work Festivals, including with the Come From Away team on their new play Vienna. Dawn made her Broadway Debut in 1776, and Off-Broadway credits include: Moby Dick, Brothers ParaNormal, As Much As I Can, Anne of Green Gables, Year of The Monkey, and more. Dawn has worked in theaters all over the country and in TV/Film. She has an B.A. in Psychology and an M.A. in Theater Production. When not on stage she teaches, loves to write stories about historical events mixed with mysticism and healing. Her short, “Sisterphrenic”, won several awards and placements in film festivals around the world last year. Dawn is also mother to two incredible human beings, Jeremy and Vanessa whose lives bring light to her every waking moment.

MELISSA WOLFKLAIN*

MELISSA WOLFKLAIN (Beverley/ Others) is ecstatic to tell this beautiful story in her sixth show at TheatreWorks! Previous credits include Being Alive: A Sondheim Celebration, Ragtime (Evelyn Nesbit), Sense & Sensibility (Fanny Dashwood), Pride & Prejudice (Mary Bennet) and Tinyard Hill (Aileen). She has appeared in the national tours of White Christmas and 42nd Street. Favorite regional credits: Patsy in Always Patsy Cline (Hillbarn Theatre), Adelaide in Guys & Dolls (San Francisco Playhouse), Phoebe in A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder (42nd Street Moon) and The Baker’s Wife in Into the Woods (Santa Cruz Shakespeare and Mountain Play). Ms. WolfKlain is thrilled to announce she will be playing Dolly Levi in Hello Dolly at Hillbarn Theatre in Spring 2027. Love to mom, dad, the sibs, kids, and Dan.
Insta: @melissawolfklain

*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

CREATIVE TEAM

IRENE SANKOFF & DAVID HEIN, Playwrights

IRENE SANKOFF & DAVID HEIN (Playwrights) are the Olivier-award-winning, Tony and Grammy-nominated, Canadian writing team behind the worldwide award-winning hit Musical Come From Away, currently playing to over 100 countries on Apple TV+, and around the world. Their first show, My Mother’s Lesbian Jewish Wiccan Wedding, based on David’s mother’s true story, has won Best Musical awards across North America, with Sankoff and Hein performing in many productions. Together, they have written for Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros., HBO, and the CW as well as Marvel Comics and the Canadian government. They are the recipients of the FourFreedoms Good Neighbor Award and the Meritorious Service Cross of Canada, which recognizes Canadians’ exceptional accomplishments.

ROBERT KELLEY, Director/ Artistic Director Emeritus

ROBERT KELLEY (Director/Artistic Director Emeritus) founded TheatreWorks in 1970 and retired in 2020 after directing over 175 company productions. A Bay Area native and Stanford graduate, he has received an Avenidas Lifetimes of Achievement Award, the Silicon Valley Arts Council’s Legacy Laureate Award, the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Paine Knickerbocker Award and Jerry Friedman Award for Lifetime Achievement, BATCC Awards for Outstanding Direction for The Hound of the Baskervilles; Into the Woods; Pacific Overtures; Rags; Sweeney Todd; Another Midsummer Night; Sunday in the Park with George; Jane Eyre; and Caroline, or Change; and a Theatre Bay Area Award for Outstanding Direction of a Musical for Daddy Long Legs. He most recently directed TheatreWorks’ productions of Sense and Sensibility, Ragtime, and Being Alive.

WILLIAM LIBERATORE, Musical Director

WILLIAM LIBERATORE (Musical Director) is TheatreWorks’ Resident Musical Director and has conducted over 50 shows, including Little Shop of Horrors, Tuck Everlasting, Fun Home, Sweeney Todd, Once on This Island (TBA Award), Little Women, Ragtime, and Pacific Overtures. He was Musical Director at American Musical Theatre of San Jose, conducting 35 shows. He has won Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards for A Little Night Music, South Pacific, Damn Yankees (AMTSJ), and Bat Boy: The Musical; Into the Woods; Emma; Caroline, or Change; The Light in the Piazza; The Four Immigrants; The Bridges of Madison County; and Ragtime (TheatreWorks). He is the director of the award-winning Gunn High School Choirs and the recipient of the 2023 Tall Tree Award as the Outstanding Professional in Palo Alto.

ALEX PEREZ, Choreographer/Associate Director

ALEX PEREZ (Choreographer/Associate Director) began his association with TheatreWorks working backstage on productions of Oliver! and The Wizard of Oz. He performed in TW productions of Strider and Romeo and Juliet. As a choreographer, highlight TW projects include: Being Alive, Tuck Everlasting, Little Women, Grey Gardens, Merrily We Roll Along, Violet, Sunday in the Park with George. Elsewhere Alex has worked as a performer, director, choreographer for such companies as The Old Globe Theater, American Musical Theater of San Jose, Broadway by the Bay, San Jose Stage Company, Bus Barn, Hillbarn, Palo Alto Players. He received the Bay Area Theater Critics Award for Best Direction for the BBBay production of Miss Saigon. Alex recently served as the Co-Chair of TheatreWorks Board, and currently serves on the Board for the Oscar Hammerstein II Museum and Theatre Education Center.

WILSON CHIN, Scenic Designer

WILSON CHIN, (Scenic Designer) Wilson Chin’s designs at TheatreWorks include Being Alive, Ragtime (SFBATCC Award winner), The Bridges of Madison County, tokyo fish story and The Lake Effect. Broadway/ National Tours: Cost of Living, Pass Over (Drama Desk and Lortel Award nominations), Next Fall, Annie. Recent world premieres: The Hunter S. Thompson Musical (La Jolla Playhouse), Anne of Green Gables (Goodspeed Musicals), Jonah and Chinese Republicans (Roundabout Theatre Company), Space Dogs (MCC, Lortel Award nomination), The Thanksgiving Play (Playwrights Horizons), Sumo and Teenage Dick (Ma-Yi/Public Theatre). Opera designs include Turandot (Washington National Opera), Lucia di Lammermoor (Lyric Opera of Chicago) and Eine Florentinische Tragodie/Gianni Schicchi (Canadian Opera, Dora Award winner). Film/TV design includes Pass Over (directed by Spike Lee), Game Theory with Bomani Jones (HBO) and Blindspot (NBC). @wilsonchindesign

B. MODERN, Costume Designer

B. MODERN (Costume Designer) is ecstatic to return to Ragtime after a long hiatus, and to TheatreWorks where she has designed numerous production including Fun Home, Around the World in 80 Days, Peter and the Starcatcher, The Hound of the Baskervilles, Big River, and The 39 Steps. She is an Associate Artist at Santa Cruz Shakespeare, where she has designed over 50 productions. Regional theatre credits include productions for Oregon Shakespeare Festival; The Old Globe, San Diego; Denver Center for the Performing Arts; Geva Theatre Center, NY; American Players Theatre, WI; Asolo Rep, FL; Indiana Rep; The Jewel Theatre, Santa Cruz; Opera Theatre of Saint Louis and Opera San Jose. B. has received numerous awards for her costume design and has served as a guest lecturer at UCSC and SF State University, and guest designer at UC Berkeley.

PAMILA Z. GRAY, Lighting Designer

PAMILA Z. GRAY (Lighting Designer) designed TheatreWorks’ productions of A Distinct Society, Nan and the Lower Body, Ragtime, Tuck Everlasting, Bridges of Madison County, Confederates, Cyrano, Once on This Island, Sense and Sensibility, The Light in the Piazza, Tinyard Hill, Baby Taj, My Ántonia, Kept, and A Civil War Christmas, among others. Her work on Bingo! The Musical was seen in Chicago, Ft. Lauderdale, and the Bay Area’s Center REP. Her designs have also been seen in Los Angeles, Portland, Sacramento, Houston, Dallas, and Washington, DC. She has won 7 Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Awards including her TheatreWorks designs for Grey Gardens, Floyd Collins, Cabaret, and Almost September, which also garnered a Bay Area Drama-League Award. She has won four Dean Goodman Awards, including both Ragtime and The Cripple of Inishmaan at TW. Ms. Gray is a graduate of Northwestern University.

CLIFF CARUTHERS, Sound Designer

CLIFF CARUTHERS (Sound Designer) is a West Coast-based sound designer and composer with over 75 credits at TheatreWorks, where he was resident sound designer from 2002 to 2009. Highlights include Pacific Overtures, Merrily We Roll Along, Arcadia, The Clean House, and The Loudest Man on Earth. Credits include Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Alley Theatre, Guthrie Theater, American Conservatory Theater, Berkeley Rep, Center REP, The Acting Company, Kansas City Rep, Marin Theatre Co., Aurora Theatre Co., California Shakespeare Theater, San Francisco Playhouse, and Cutting Ball Theater. Mr. Caruthers is co-curator and technical director of the San Francisco Tape Music Festival, a proud member of United Scenic Artists, and teaches sound design at Stanford.

JUDITH NIHEI, Artist Counselor

JUDITH NIHEI, she/her (Artist Counselor) a San Francisco-based licensed psychotherapist in private practice, consults for schools, nonprofits and community-based organizations, facilitating the incorporation of stress-reduction and cultural humility as an integral part of trauma-informed services. Clients have included Edgewood Center for Children and Families, Japanese Community Youth Council, and Theatre Communications Group, Inc. As a director, dramaturg, writer, actor, and administrator, she has worked with Asian American theatre companies in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle, as well as The Seattle Rep, Cornish College of the Arts, Hillbarn Theatre and BRAVA. She began her career in improv with The Committee and currently performs as one of The Bad Aunties.

RANDALL K. LUM, Stage Manager

RANDALL K. LUM (Stage Manager) is a resident stage manager for TheatreWorks, where he worked on productions of Georgiana and Kitty, Little Women, Happy Pleasant Valley, King James, Being Alive, Queen, How I Learned What I Learned, Steel Magnolias, In Every Generation, Nan and the Lower Body, They Promised Her the Moon, Pride and Prejudice, The 39 Steps, Archduke, Fun Home, Hold These Truths, Finks, Skeleton Crew, Around the World in 80 Days, and The Prince of Egypt, among others. Other credits include the Oregon and San Francisco Shakespeare Festivals, Laguna Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse, Denver Center Theatre Co., La Jolla Playhouse, Center Theatre Group, The Old Globe, American Conservatory Theater, California Shakespeare Theater, Berkeley Rep, Center Rep, Seattle Rep, and South Coast Rep.

MEGAN HALL, Assistant Stage Manager

MEGAN HALL (Assistant Stage Manager) has been with TheatreWorks for many years.

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