Apprentice Repertory Company Performances

Jason Petersen- Susquehanna University: The Secret Garden (Dickon), Art (Marc), Equus (Frank), Fete Galante (Harlequin), Eurydice (Big Stone). Kidz Theater: Into The Woods (Narrator/Mysterious Man), Cabaret (Ernst Ludwig), Beauty and the Beast (Cogsworth), Chicago (Ensemble), Little Women (Braxton), A Chorus Line (Mark). He is currently a rising senior at Susquehanna University pursuing a Bachelor of Arts in both Theatre Performance and Psychology.

Emma Woodward Hendricks – University of Southern California: Twelve Angry Jurors, The Belle’s Stratagem, Passage, Hamlet. Stage Left Theatre: Julius Caesar, Don’t Cry For Them. Spokane Civic Theatre: She Kills Monsters, Blackout, Twelfth Night.

Ella Melchionna – Plymouth North High School: Legally Blonde, An Experiment, Squad Goals, Trap, SpongeBob SquarePants, Nora’s Lost, Mean Girls. Hampshire College: Troilus and Cressida, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Bill and Andy’s Excellent Addendum: Romeo and Juliet, Act I, scene iv, King John, the Rude Mechanicals Shakespeare troupe (leader). Five College Early Music Program: Fairies and Queens (director). She is a student at Hampshire College. @ella_melchionna

Amanda Tardif – The Harpies: One Providence Place: A Mall Musical; Head Trick Theatre: Agnes de Castro; Pettirosso Productions Vanishing Point: The Lost Painting of Artemisia Gentileschi. She also has been acting for the Boston troupe of The Murder Mystery Company since 2021. BFA in Musical Theatre from the University of Tampa.

Macy Levin – The Maker Farm: Our Town, As You Like It, Macbeth, The Tempest, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Little Women, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, An Old-Fashioned Girl, Twelfth Night. Stagedoor Manor: Aida.

Trudie Innis (she/her) has studied with the American Repertory Theater, Boston University Pre-college, and Wheelock Family Theater. She has not done any professional shows yet, but is very excited by the prospect!

Kayla Isabel Dias – Favorite roles include Caitlyn in Mockingbird, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Winnie Foster in Tuck Everlasting and Cady Heron in Mean Girls. She is a twenty year old acting student in the Meisner studio at NYU. She moved to the East Coast from San Diego, CA. She loves her dogs, board games, and the ocean. @kaylaisabeldias

Armani Rodin – Filmography: “Dissection Day” (Director Rachel Medwid); “Hard Out; Away” (Director Nicholas Behson); “12 and More Omissions” (Director Jordan Lisi). ARMANIRODIN.COM @sometimes.armani

Miriam Campbell – Bennington College: Airline Highway, The House of Bernarda Alba, Machinal, Eugene Onegin: A Bluegrass Musical, The Last Five Years. She studied Drama and Music at Bennington College, where she received a BA. She is incredibly grateful to be a CSC Apprentice this year, and to her parents for always supporting her from across the pond. When not on stage, you can find her writing songs and plays, or finding hidden gems at the local thrift. @alymiwasaa

Annette Pinstein – Brandeis Department of Theater Arts: Without Blinking- A Participatory Performance about Climate Change. Brandeis Student Theater: Rumors, Something Rotten, Steel Magnolias, Hamlet, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, Argonautika. Proud alum of NTI Summer Theatermakers 2024 and Company One Professional Development for Actors course. Currently dancing at The Dance Inn, Lexington MA.

John Abbondanza – Shakespeare on the Assabet: Much Ado About Nothing. Milford High School: South Pacific, Oklahoma, Godspell. St. Rose of Lima: Cantor and Choir. Boston College Dance Ensemble. John took a break from acting after high school for 46 years till he was bitten by the Shakespeare bug in Much Ado About Nothing.

Aidan Bergeron – CSC Debut. Eugene O’Neill Theater Center: Artist’s Atlas. Bates College: Wolf Play (Peter), The Seagull (Medvedenko), Everybody (Somebody). The Robinson Players: Julius Caesar (Calpurnia). Aidan also recently completed a semester at the National Theater Institute on the performance track and is currently a Junior at Bates College, pursuing a B.A. in Theater on the acting track!

Maya Anna Grgurevich – Suffolk University Theatre: The Rewilding (Hayden), Desire of the Moth (Old Margery), Symbol (Dina), The Rover (Don Pedro), 4-H Club (Bob), Lovesick (Paul), Peter Malmö (Mona/Immigrant Man), Career Man (Lauren), Drama and Democracy (Ensemble). AMSA: The Little Mermaid (Ursula), Little Women (Beth), Jason and the Argonauts (Orpheus), Much Ado About Nothing (Margaret). Maya is a current Theatre major and Cybersecurity minor at Suffolk University. They are also a playwright whose original work My Good Boy was selected for the Fall 2026 Showcase, which they will also direct. @maya.anna_g

Lucca Rodríguez – Westmont College: Antigonick (Kreon), Little Women (Laurie), Victor & His Creation (Victor Frankenstein), Devil’s Genesis (Lucifer/Satan). Westmont in England: York Mystery Plays. Original work (playwright): Westmont Fringe Festival: Empty Box (National Student Playwriting Award; Kennedy Center Region 8 American College Theater Festival selection), I hate my work now, Comedy of the Profession, Another Year; Paperjam Theatre Co.: DOG DREAM. Training: Teen Council, La Jolla Playhouse; Emerging Filmmaker Fellow, Media Arts Center San Diego.

Ace MacIntyre – Prague Shakespeare Company: Macbeth (Lady Macbeth, Ross), Romeo and Juliet (Narrator, Lord Montague, Peter, Apothecary). Rooke Theater: Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), As You Like It (Le Beau, Cellist Lord). They are the director of the performance documentary “Crafting Curious” and gave a lecture at Mount Holyoke College titled Not Your Monster: Disability in the Horror Genre. Additional research includes a 2021 co-authored article in the Journal of Qualitative Social Work; “We’ll dance harder and love deeper”: LGBTQIA+ resilience and resistance during the COVID-19 pandemic, and 2025 article in the Journal of Applied Social Science; “Medicine for the Soul”: LGBTQ+ Southerners Spending Time in Nature During the COVID-19 Pandemic to Promote Well-Being. @the.princes.jester @benedickthetransjester

Armando Segrera- Ransom Everglades High School: James and The Giant Peach (Earthworm), Little Shop of Horrors (Orin Scrivello, D.D.S.), Clue (Professor Plum), Cinderella (Prince Topher), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night (Ed), Chicago (Billy Flynn). Area Stage Company: Beauty and the Beast (Beast), Heathers (Jason “JD” Dean). He is currently an incoming Sophomore at Pace University. @25asegrera

Bonnie Atterstrom – Queer Artists & Players: Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest. TC Squared: New Play Festival 2025 (“The Line”), Harry in Purgatory, The Commute, New Play Festival 2026 (“The Frog”). Bonnie graduated from Emerson College with a double major in Theatre Studies: Acting and Writing, Literature, & Publishing. For the past few years, they have been a bookseller, mutual aid organizer, marketing assistant for a small press, and writer. In 2024 they completed Company One’s Professional Development for Actors

Julia Divine – College of the Holy Cross (’26): Curiouser and Curiouser, Six Characters in Search of an Author, Cymbeline, The Heiress, The Good Person of Setzuan, Iphigenia. Julia has also worked as a literary intern at Huntington Theatre Company, and she teaches summer camps at her home children’s theatre in Iowa. @juliaa_d126

Derek Allen – UMass Boston: Peter & The Starcatchers (Lord Aster) and Clue (Mr. Boddy, Motorist, Cop). The Company Theatre of Norwell: The Man with Enormous Wings, Werewolves, A Christmas Carol; Scituate High Drama Club: She Kills Monsters, The Ideal Husband, 1776, and Tartuffe. He is currently a student at UMass Boston with a Performing Arts major and Creative Writing minor, and has studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre/Film Institute.

Sara Yaqouti – BA in Biology and Political Science from Boston University. LAMDA 2019-2021.

Abby Watkins- New Mexico State University: Into the Woods, A Christmas Carol, and The Vagina Monologues. She is a student at New Mexico State University where she will graduate with a BA in Theatre Arts and a concentration in Musical Theatre. abbywatacting@gmail.com.

Mia Richter – Brown University Department of Theatre: Sailboat Lullaby. Brown University Production Workshop: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Fairview. Mia is a recent college graduate living in the Boston area. She recently completed a year teaching high school English.

Daisy Jane Birch – The Hanover Theatre Rep: A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Rotten Apples Theatre Group: The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals. The Babson Players: Medea (director), Grease, She Kills Monsters, Catch Me If You Can, Absolutely Murder, GHOST The Musical, Avenue Q. Instagram: @daisy_jane40

Grace Picone – is absolutely thrilled to be part of the CSC Apprentice Program. Recent credits include: Right Angle Entertainment: Clue (Butler), Hofstra University: Cymbeline (Cymbeline), State Fair (Ensemble, Dance Captain), Steps On Broadway: The Crapshooters Dance (Dancer), Bye Bye Blackbird (Dancer). She would like to thank her family for the unconditional support! GracePicone.com @grace_picone

Michael Gravante – The Concord Players: Brigadoon, She Kills Monsters, Urinetown. Burlington Players: The Book of Will. Arlington Friends of the Drama: Twelfth Night: The Musical. Merrimack College: The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Addams Family, The Laramie Project, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, among others. Directing work includes: Popcorn Falls, Ada and the Engine and The Guy Who Didn’t Like Musicals, (Asst. Director), and Circle Mirror Transformation. Michael has also performed Shakespeare as part of the young company with Greater Boston Stage Company, playing the Nurse in Romeo and Juliet and Caesar in Julius Caesar. By day, he works at Whitelam Books in Reading, MA. michaelgravante.com

Ansley Teal – Chapman University: The Rover, Hunter/Hunted, The Little Prince, Mother Courage and Her Children, Chapman Celebrates 2023. Chapman Student Theatre: Henry V, Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812, The Crooked Star, A Night of Stage Combat. London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art: Romeo & Juliet, The Revenger’s Tragedy. Ansley has also been seen at the Garry Marshall Theatre. She worked as a fight/intimacy choreographer and vocal director at Chapman University until her graduation this past spring. @ansley.teal

Lucy Tomeo – Davidson College: The Drowsy Chaperone, Julius Caesar, John Proctor is the Villian, OMG We Ate A Guy, To Dance in Boiling Water, Lone Star. Davidson Fine Arts: Alice in Wonderland, The Little Mermaid, The Terrible Infants, The Play Called Noah’s Flood, West Side Story. Dionysia Theatre Company: Lizzie Bordon: The Musical. Lucy has also been seen performing across departments at Davidson College with the Davidson College Chorale, Opera Workshop, and Jazz Band, She is a student at Davidson College as a double major in Theatre and Environmental Science. @lucy_tomeo

Mairead Daly – The Hanover Theatre Conservatory: Monty Python’s Spamalot, Oklahoma!, Footloose, Fiddler on the Roof. THTC Youth Acting Company: Julius Caesar (Pindarus), Urinetown: the Musical. Radio: Agatha Christie’s Murder in the Studio (THTC YAC/WRCN 830 AM). She has training from the Hanover Theatre Conservatory in Worcester, MA, the Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute in Los Angeles, CA, and the Improv Asylum in Boston, MA. She currently resides in Worcester, MA. IG: @tmaireaddaly

Vincent Lian – Wheelock Family Theater: Akeelah and the Bee. He is a recent graduate of Brandeis University.

Julia Smith – Connecticut Repertory Theatre: Living Dead in Denmark, Much Ado About Nothing, A True Love Story, The Moors, Mauritius, The Shorter Scottish Play. Boston Wheelock Family Theatre: Head Over Heels, Into the Woods, Clue, Pippin, Nightfall: Edgar Allen Poe, She Kills Monsters.

Jackson Rainey – Yorick Ensemble: Hamlet. Playground Theatre Company of Chelmsford: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Litterbox. Westmoreland Players: Noises Off, Lost in Yonkers. ComedySportz RVA: Major League ComedySportz. He has also been seen on stage as VCU. He runs after-school Dungeons & Dragons groups at school in the Boston area. @jackson.c.rainey

Finian Ross – Concord Players: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Boston Playwright’s Theater: Steve The Intern, Theater UnCorked: The Lion In Winter, Theatre@First: Henry V, The Bard Brigade: King Lear, Striving Artists Theatre Company: Hamlet. Finian is an avid turtle nerd in addition to his theatrical pursuits, and can often be found at the New England Aquarium. @Finianrots

Reed Castrejon – CSU Department of Theatre and Dance: A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Between Riverside and Crazy, Macbeth, Stupid F%#*ing Bird. Rome Shakespeare Festival: All’s Well That Ends Well, Romeo and Juliet, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream. He is entering his final year of training as a BFA Performance major at Columbus State University, with an anticipated graduation of May 2027. @reedjcast

Elaine Guo – Studio 1: The Prom (Kaylee), Puffs (Harry). Snow Camp Outdoor Theatre: The Sword of Peace (British Soldier/Quaker Woman/Townsperson). LAMDA: Much Ado About Nothing (Conrade). Duke University: GOOD (Unemployed Person), She Kills Monsters (Kaliope/Kelly). She is a 2025 graduate of Duke University. @_elaineguo

Bryn Boice is an award-winning director, educator, actor, and producer, as well as CSC’s Associate Artistic Director and Director of Education & Training. Also for CSC, Bryn helmed Universe Rushing Apart: Blue Kettle & Here We Go – two Caryl Churchill one-acts – which garnered her the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director, Large Theatre. Other recent Boston-area credits include: The Sound Inside and The Children (both Elliot Norton nominated for Outstanding Production, Speakeasy Stage); The Book of Will, Into the Breeches! (Elliot Norton nom. for Direction and Production, Hub Theatre Company); Tall Tales from Blackburn Tavern, Gloria (Gloucester Stage); The Half-Life of Marie Curie (The Nora Company); Admissions (The Gamm Theatre); Last Night at Bowl-Mor Lanes (Greater Boston Stage Company); an all-female production of Julius Caesar for Actors’ Shakespeare Project; and a number of Apprentice Repertory Company and Stage2 productions for CSC. New York, regional and other Boston credits as an actor and/or director include work with Asolo Repertory Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Anthem Theatre Company, Okoboji Theatre, InProximity Theatre, Theatre Row, Martha’s Vineyard PAC, Monomoy Theatre, Caroline’s on Broadway, and Manhattan Theatre Club. Before turning full-time to CSC, she taught at Salem State University, where her wide-ranging experience allowed her to teach Voice for Performance, Applied Stage Movement, Public Speaking, Directing, Acting III (Early Realism), Dramatic Theory & Criticism, and Dialects, among others. MFA in Directing, Boston University. MFA in Acting, Asolo Conservatory for Actor Training (FSU). Member AEA. For more information visit www.brynboice.com

Michael is an interdisciplinary theatre artist who has worked with The Public Theater, the La Jolla Playhouse, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, the Huntington Theatre Company, Trinity Rep, South Coast Repertory, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, New Rep, Hope Rep, SpeakEasy Stage, Wheelock Family Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Kennedy Center, HowlRound/ArtsEmerson, Boston Court Pasadena, The Yale Prize for Drama, Gloucester Stage, CompanyOne, The Watertown Children’s Theatre, Flat Earth Theatre, Fresh Ink Theatre, MIT, Harvard, Boston University, Brown University, Merrimack Rep, East West Players, Central Square Theater, The Boston Playwright’s Theatre, Plays in Place, Rhombus Writer’s Group, The COOP Theatre NYC, Ojai Playwright’s Conference, The Seven Devils Playwrights’ Conference, Palm Beach Dramaworks, and more. A champion of new work, Michael has helped develop hundreds of new plays from first time playwrights to Tony winners and Pulitzer Prize finalists. Education: Orange County School of the Arts. BFA: Boston University. MFA: Brown/Trinity Rep. AEA. Former Co-Artistic Director of New Repertory Theatre. Board member of Seven Devils Playwrights’ Conference. michaelhisamoto.com | sevendevils.org