Mr.Woodhouse co-founded San Diego Repertory Theatre with D.W. Jacobs in 1976, and has since served as its Producing and Artistic Director. In January 2006, he and Jacobs were honored with the Craig Noel Award by the San Diego Theatre Critics Circle for 30 years of artistic dedication to downtown and diversity. He has worked as a director, producer and actor on more than 125 REP productions, including It Ain’t Nothin’ But the Blues, the Tony-nominated musical which played on Broadway for nine months in 1999.

Mr. Woodhouse trained at California Institute of the Arts and has performed as an actor throughout California, appearing on the REP stages in the title role of King Lear, Proof, Hamlet, K2, Beyond Therapy, as Elvis in Are You Lonesome Tonight? and with the San Diego Symphony Orchestra in the title role of Stravinsky's L'Histoire du Soldat. His most recent directorial work with the REP includes: Don Quixote; Sweet 15 (Quinceañera); Romance by David Mamet; Restless Spirits; The Goat or Who is Sylvia?; Women Who Steal; Proof; Nuevo California; The Merchant of Venice; The Beauty Queen of Leenane; Culture Clash’s 15th Anniversary Anthology, which toured California in the spring of 2000; the world premiere of the Doors musical Celebration of the Lizard; Paula Vogel's Pulitzer Prize winner How I Learned to Drive; and the world premiere of Edit Villareal’s bi-national comedy Marriage is Forever.

Mr. Woodhouse has served as a trustee for the California Theatre Council, San Diego Theatre Council, San Diego Theatre Foundation and Sushi and has also served as a consultant and panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts. In 2003, he was awarded the Patte Shiley Award for Lifetime Achievement by KPBS and the prestigious Alonzo Award by the Downtown San Diego Partnership. Mr. Woodhouse is the founder of the REP’s Calafia Initiative, a multi-disciplinary artistic initiative that brings together unlikely partners to create new works that speak to the future of our bi-national region.
 

Former REP Board of Trustees member and theatre devotee Larry Alldredge joined the REP staff in January as Interim Managing Director. Alldredge assumed this essential leadership position following the departure of former Managing Director Karen Wood, who has transitioned to become the Managing Director of Laguna Playhouse.

Larry recently retired as Vice President of Technology at QUALCOMM where he led a business and engineering team to develop satellite communication systems. He and his wife Dawn have travelled extensively while enjoying Larry’s retirement. Now Larry is excited about having a "real job" again for a while. Larry's love of theatre began with Community Theatre of Terre Haute, Indiana where he worked both on and offstage.

"I'm thrilled by the opportunity to help Artistic Director Sam Woodhouse lead the REP during this next phase. We are at a critical time in the REP's life where we must deepen our connections to our audience and supporters to keep the theatre artistically exciting and financially viable," says Larry.

(Playwright, REP Co-Founder/Artistic Consultant) Jacobs is a director, writer, actor, teacher and producer. He co-founded San Diego Rep in 1976 and served as Artistic Director for twenty years. He resigned in 1997 to focus on independent creative projects.

Recently, he wrote and directed Remember Me, a dramatic video short, co-produced with Kovarova. He has received a commission from Z Space Studio to write a play based on Edward Bellamy’s utopian novel Looking Backward. He wrote and directed R. Buckminster Fuller: THE HISTORY (and Mystery) OF THE UNIVERSE (world premiere at San Diego Rep.) The Foghouse Production has played San Francisco, Chicago and Seattle, and recently closed a 10 month run in San Francisco. With Scott Feldsher, he co-wrote/directed The Whole World is Watching (an adaptation of the Oedipus trilogy as TV talk show).

Directing credits include Mac Wellman's Albanian Softshoe (with Michael Roth), Bernard Baldan's The Boise Club, Ric Najera's A Quiet Love, Arial Dorfman's Death and the Maiden/La Muerte y La Doncella, Antonio Skármeta's Burning Patience/Ardiente Paciencia (with Jorge Huerta), Shakespeare's Cymbeline, Othello, Much Ado About Nothing, King Lear, Titus Andronicus, and his own adaptations of Dickens' A Christmas Carol and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. His 1986 production of Romulus Linney's Holy Ghosts played in New York City as part of the 1987 American Theatre Exchange. He is a member of the Dramatist’s Guild and the Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

Todd Salovey is in his 18th season as the REP’s Associate Artistic Director. Mr. Salovey has directed many acclaimed REP shows including last season’s Brooklyn Boy, the world premiere of Yehuda Hyman’s The Mad Dancers, Hamlet starring Jefferson Mays, Uncle Vanya and Death of a Salesman starring Michael Genovese, Edward Albee’s Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, King Lear, The Illusion, Uncle Vanya, The Dybbuk, The Imaginary Invalid, Three Hotels, and Douglas Jacobs’ adaptation of A Christmas Carol. This season he will direct the world premiere of his original adaptation of Sherri Mandell’s award winning book, The Blessing of a Broken Heart.

He is on the acting faculty at the University of California, San Diego, where he has directed Six Characters in Search of an Author and Stage Door. Mr. Salovey is the artistic director of the Lipinsky Family San Diego Jewish Arts Festival which commissions new work exploring Jewish traditions in contemporary artistic forms.

Mr. Salovey has also served as casting director and producer of many REP productions. He is on the board of the San Diego Soille Hebrew Day School and Agency for Jewish Education and is the assistant gabai and participates in the daily study of the Talmud at Congregation Adat Yeshurun. He has written and directed many Purim shpeils. A graduate of the M.F.A. directing program at UCSD, Todd is married to Diane Boomer and is the very proud dad of Leah and Aryeh.