COMING SOON: Editorial commentary on A Midsummer Night’s Dream (the ballet) by/at the Pasadena Dance Theatre will be added in the near future. For now, this entry documents my attendance (3/15/2026) and basic information.
Full Cast & Context
A Midsummer Night’s Dream is originally a play by William Shakespeare. This music is by Felix Mendelssohn with orchestral arrangements by Hawaii Ballet Theatre and the Italian and Scottish Symphonies. Choreography is by Laurence Blake.
The cast included:
- Phineus Holman: Puck
- Elise Holmes: Titania
- Jacob Schmieder-Hacker: Oberon
- Iris Dean: Ariana, Butterfly, Titania’s Corpse de Ballet
- Abbie Hillman: Hermia, Peaseblossom (fairie)
- David Schmieder-Hacker: Lysander, Nick Bottom (the day I saw it)
- Camille Curtin: Helena, Moth (fairie)
- Vega Pierce-English: Demetrius, Nick Bottom (alternate)
- Emma Going: Mustardseed (fairie)
- Emily Parnell: Cobweb (fairie)
- Miriam Focardi: Titania’s Corpse de Ballet
- Nadine Hillman: Titania’s Corpse de Ballet
- Julie Lee: Titania’s Corpse de Ballet
- Lexi Nguyen: Titania’s Corpse de Ballet
- Isabel Saenz de Maturana: Titania’s Corpse de Ballet
- Sophia Waldstein: Titania’s Corpse de Ballet
- Oona Warren: Titania’s Corpse de Ballet
- Julie Lee: Firefly
- Chelsea Soto: Firefly
- Alessa Velasco: Firefly
- Spencer Delgado-Kukuczka: Ruffian
- Nikhil Desai: Ruffian
- Max Ruane: Ruffian
- Oliver Kwan: Ruffian
- Micah Chong: The Changeling Child
- Isabel Criswell: Pixie
- Emily Hoffman: Pixie
- Ruby Huang: Pixie
- Charlotte Lonsdale: Pixie
- Cece Nguyen: Pixie
- Izzy Pendergast: Pixie
- Samina Schultz: Pixie
- Josie Wininger: Pixie
The creative team included:
- Ashleigh Doede: Artistic & Conservatory Director
- Jessamyn Vedro: Rehearsal Assistance
