Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’

Will Lyman – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: King Lear, Claudius, Prospero, Brutus. Off Broadway: Man in Snow, The Passion of Dracula, The Novelist, The Grinding Machine. The Huntington: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, All My Sons, Dead End. New Repertory Theatre: Long Day’s Journey into Night, Dollhouse, The Clean House, The Ice-Breaker. The Nora@Central Square Theater: Operation Epsilon, Equus. Boston Playwrights’ Theatre: Windowmen, The Oil Thief, King of the Jews. Gamm Theatre: Celebration. Film: “Little Children,” “Mystic River,” “The Siege,” “A Perfect Murder,” “Welcome to the Dollhouse,” “The Arborist,” and “Mother/Android.” TV: “Commander-in-Chief,” “Threat Matrix,” “Hull High,” “Crossbow,” and long-time narrator of public affairs program “Frontline” (PBS). Awards: multiple Elliot Norton and IRNE awards, Howard Keel Award for service to the Screen Actors Guild.

Stephen Caliskan – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. The Firehouse Theater: Million Dollar Quartet. CAMP Boston: Bluey Immersive Experience. Apple TV+: “CODA”. 20th Century Studios: “Ella McCay”. Stephen has also been seen at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C and the Vineyard Theater in NYC. He was a National Finalist for KCACTF, and won a SAG award with his CODA castmates for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture, as well as an NETC Best Monologue award. His original plays Always and The Stranger debuted at Salem State University. www.stephencaliskan.com @stephencaliskan047

Siobhán Carroll  – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Blue Kettle & Here We Go. On-screen credits include: co-star on Amazon Prime’s “Mr. & Mrs. Smith”, series regular (Petra) in the Black Oak TV series “Ms/Manage”, Laura in “Perfect Party”, etc. On-stage credits include: Gloucester Stage: MAB by Hayley Spivey, The Thin Place. O.W.I: Red Velvet. New Repertory Theatre CRC tour: Romeo & Juliet. SheNYC: It’s A Free Country. The Cutting Room: Macbeth. Anthem Theatre Company: I, Snowflake and My Fascination with Creepy Ladies. Siobhán’s one-woman show, Is This You, was part of DQT’s American Women playwriting fellowship. Siobhán is the co-founder of Next Minute Productions. She is an Irish-American actor and writer who received her B.F.A. in acting from Boston University. siobhancarroll.com; @siobhancarroll 

Aimee Doherty* – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. The Huntington Theatre Company: Merrily We Roll Along, Sunday in the Park with George, A Little Night Music. Shakespeare & Company: As You Like It. Lyric Stage: Thirst, Into the Woods, On the Town, Follie. Wilburly Theatre: Indecent. SpeakEasy Stage: Nine, The Women, Company. Aimee has also been seen at Company One, Barnstormers Theatre, Umbrella Arts, Moonbox Productions, Wheelock Stage, Central Stage, Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Ballet, New Rep, Greater Boston Stage, Gloucester Stage, and Theatre By The Sea, among others. Aimee is a two-time recipient of the Elliot Norton Award and a three-time recipient of the IRNE Award for Outstanding Actress in a Musical. www.aimeedoherty.net

Neal Ferreira* – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Boston Symphony Orchestra: Die Tote Stadt, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk, Wozzeck, La bohème, Der Rosenkavlier. Boston Lyric Opera: Eurydice, Omar, Champion, Trouble in Tahiti, In the Penal Colony, The Magic Flute. Odyssey Opera: Lysistrata, Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘Em Eat Cake, The Voyage of Edgar Allan Poe, L’assedio di Calais, The Importance of Being Earnest. Boston Modern Orchestra Project: Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra: Don Carlo, Norma, The Magic Flute, Carmen, Otello. Emmanuel Music: The Beggar’s Opera. The Shakespeare Concerts: Hamlet, The Tenor’s Suite, The Tempest. Neal has also appeared with the Glimmerglass Festival, Florida Grand Opera, Virginia Opera, American Repertory Theater, Handel & Haydn Society, and Guerilla Opera. IG @operadad

Laura McHugh  – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Tulsa Opera: Into the Woods. Odyssey Opera: Of Thee I Sing/Let ‘Em Eat Cake. Awards: 1st Place, Classical Singer National Competition; 1st Place, Vermont Vocal Competition; 2nd Place, Classical Idol; Vocal Recital of the Year, WBUR/ARTery (shared award). She has created roles in multiple World Premiere operas, and frequently brings both classical and contemporary operatic and musical theatre roles to life. Her vocals appear on The Lord of Cries, nominated for the 2024 GRAMMY Award for Best Opera Recording. Other recordings range from operatic releases to German metal band Blind Guardian’s album “Legacy of the Dark Lands”. Lauramchughsoprano.com @lauramchughsoprano

Kathryn McKellar* (Ghost of Christmas Past/Young Mother/Ensemble) – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Boston Lyric Opera: Le Nozze di Figaro, The Rake’s Progress, Aida, Carmen, La Traviata, I Puritani, Merry Widow, The Magic Flute.  Lyric Stage Company: My Fair Lady.  Odyssey Opera: Patience, Giovanna D’arco, Lucio Silla.  Boston Modern Orchestra Project: The Chronicles of Nine, Haroun and the Sea of Stories.  Reagle Music Theater: My Fair Lady, Les Miserables.  MassOpera: Carmen.  OperaHub: Divas, L’incoronazione di Poppea.  Other credits include The Boston Pops, Opera Providence, Anthem Theater Company, Purcell Society of Boston, Cambridge Chamber Opera, and Boston Opera Collaborative.  Kathryn is a graduate of The Boston Conservatory and artistic director/co-founder of Opera on Tap Boston. Love to Russ, Tristan, and Elliott. www.KathrynMcKellar.com

Cleveland Nicoll– Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Lennox in Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Romeo & Juliet (Stage2). Hub Theatre Company of Boston: The Book of Will. Sundance: Wizard of Oz. Hale Centre Theatre: Baz Lurman’s Strictly Ballroom (U.S. Premiere), Phantom. An Other Theatre Co.: Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Renaissance Now Theatre & Film: Twelfth Night, The Tempest. Mac is also a member of the SDC and has directed for Hale Center Theatre Orem, The Noorda Center for Performing Arts, Renaissance Now Theatre & Film, Utah Valley University, and Bentley University. He is the founding artistic director of Klouns Theatre Co. @klounstheatreco @cleveland_nicoll

Alex Poletti  – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. The Huntington Theatre Company: The Band’s Visit (co-production with SpeakEasy Stage Company). Boston Symphony: Ragtime. Boston Conservatory: Bad Jews, As You Like It, Candide. Education: BFA in Musical Theatre, Boston Conservatory. alexpoletti.com

Kayla Shimizu* – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Trinity Rep: La Cage aux Folles. Moonbox Productions: Legally Blonde. Lyric Stage: Assassins, Preludes. Reagle Music Theatre: Little Mermaid, Oklahoma, Pippin. The Wilbury Theatre Group: Natasha, Pierre, and the Great Comet of 1812. Umbrella Stage Company: The Old Man and the Old Moon, The Wide Open. Rogers Center of the Arts: The Old Man and the Old Moon. Kayla is a graduate of Emerson College. She is endlessly thankful for the support from her friends and family! IG: kaylashimizu

Damon Singletary – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Birdy. New Repertory Theatre: A Raisin in the Sun. The Huntington Theatre Company: Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. Lyric Stage Company: The Drowsy Chaperone, Sister Act, Fabulation, or The Re-Education of Undine, The Wiz, Peter and the Starcatcher, City of Angels. Umbrella Stage Company: Network, The Minutes, The Colored Museum, Head Over Heels, Fences. The Gold Dust Orphans: A Grinchley Christmas Carol, The Ebonic Woman. Greater Boston Stage Company: Miss Holmes. SpeakEasy Stage Company: Shakespeare in Love, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Damon is a proud member of Actors Equity Association. 

Carolyn Saxon* – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Bway/Bway National Tours/NY Theatre: Bring In Da Noise/Funk, The Civil War. Encores/City Center: Purlie, Hair, Can-Can. Carolyn has also been seen at Carnegie Hall, Papermill Playhouse (NJ), Alliance Theatre (Atlanta), Actors Theatre of Louisville, Connecticut Repertory, North Shore Music Theatre, Weston Playhouse, Forestburgh Playhouse and Emerson Paramount. She has performed with the BSO, Boston Pops, Buffalo Philharmonic, Indianapolis Symphony as well as many theatres in the Boston area. In Carolyn’s spare time, she works as the Casting Supervisor at Wheelock Family Theatre, serves on the board for GBSC, sings in a few choirs, tries to create community wherever she can, volunteers, travels, and works at a bank. 

Kathy St. George* – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Broadway: Two productions of Fiddler On The Roof including the 1991 Tony-Award winning revival directed by Jerome Robbins. Off-Broadway: I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change. Five National Tours. Boston area credits include Lyric Stage: Urinetown, The Drowsy Chaperone, Gypsy, Sister Act, Follies, Light Up The Sky. SpeakEasy Stage: Once, Violet, Ruthless!, The Divine Sister, Significant Other.  Reagle Music Theatre: Pippin. Shubert Theater: Show Boat.  Greater Boston Stage Company: Dear Miss Garland, Mame, Pete ‘N Keely, Thoroughly Modern Millie, Menopause The Musical.  North Shore Music Theatre: The Full Monty, Peter Pan, 9 To 5, Fiddler On The Roof. An Elliot Norton Award-winning actor, Kathy is a native of Stoneham, MA.  kathystgeorge.com

Robert St. Laurence* (Bob Cratchit/Ensemble) – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Bard Over Broadway. Regional credits: The Hanover Theatre Repertory: Macbeth, Twelfth Night. Lyric Stage: Assassins, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater: Nat Turner in Jerusalem. American Repertory Theater: Pirate Princess. The Huntington Theatre Company: Sunday in the Park with George. New Repertory Theatre: Rent. Wheelock Family Theatre: SpongeBob Musical, Miracle Worker. Robert is a long-standing company member of the Barnstormers Theatre, and is the Theatre Program Chair at Bunker Hill Community College. Robert received his MFA in acting from Harvard University’s ART/MXAT Institute.  @rstlaurence

Bobbie Steinbach – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Richard III, Twelfth Night, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet. Actors’ Shakespeare Project: As You Like It, Twelfth Night, and 16 more productions. The Huntington Theatre Company: Sunday in the Park with George, A Little Night Music, The Rose Tattoo, Dead End. Lyric Stage Company: Light Up the Sky, Twelfth Night, Assassins, Follies, Present Laughter, the Heiress, The Importance of Being Earnest. New Repertory Theatre: Golda’s Balcony, Collected Stories, The Clean House, A Girl’s War, The Waverly Gallery. Bobbie was honored with The Elliot Norton Prize for Sustained Excellence and Outstanding Actress Award. She is the recipient of The Theatre Communications Guild Resident Actor Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement, and the 2016 Huntington Theatre Company’s Lunt-Fontanne Fellow. 

Lily Segal Steven* – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Greater Boston Stage Company: Miss Holmes Returns (Olive), The Moors (Emilie), Romeo and Juliet (Juliet). Cape Rep: Indecent (Chava). Umbrella Stage Company: The Old Man and the Old Moon. Penobscot Theatre Company: Crimes of the Heart (Babe). Studio Theatre Tierra del Sol: In the Next Room (Catherine Givings). Moonbox: The House of Ramon Iglesia (Caroline). The Hanover Theatre: A Christmas Carol (Belle). Reagle: La Cage Aux Folles (Anne). The Huntington Theatre Company: A Civil War Christmas. University of Miami BFA Musical Theatre. Lily is thrilled to be spreading some Christmas magic this year! Love to MDAE. lilysteven.com @lilymsteven

Hayley Travers* – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Syracuse Stage: Once. Shakespeare Theatre Company: The Secret Garden. Theatre Under The Stars: The Secret Garden. Studio Theatre: Silence! The Musical. Hayley has sung with orchestras across the country including Indianapolis Symphony, West Virginia Symphony, Fairfax Symphony, and the American Pops. Big thanks to FSE, the CSC team, and her lovely parents. For Noah, MJR and T123. hayleytravers.com @hayleymtravers.

Jared Troilo* – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Regional: The Huntington Theatre Company, Speakeasy Stage, Lyric Stage, Moonbox Productions, Wheelock Family Theatre, Reagle Music Theatre, Palace Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company, Winter Park Playhouse, Shadowland Stages, Umbrella Stage Company, TigerLion Arts, Company Theatre, and The Barnstormers. TV/Film: “About Fate” (Amazon), “Across The Pacific” (PBS), “Kevin Can F*** Himself” (AMC). Awards: Independent Reviewers of New England (IRNE) Award Winner (She Loves Me), Elliot Norton Award Nominee (The Last Five Years, A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Oklahoma!, The Band’s Visit). Education: The Boston Conservatory. Proud Member of AEA. JaredTroilo.com. 176pianokeys.com. Love to Kira, Levi, and Jonah.

Fred C. VanNess Jr.* – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Boston Lyric Opera: Aida, Anonymous Lover, OMAR, Champion. The Metropolitan Opera: Malcolm X. Boston Modern Orchestra Project: Malcolm X. NEMPAC: Into The Woods, Carmen. Cambridge Chamber Ensemble: Menotti’s Labyrinth. Fred has also been a featured soloist with many ensembles throughout the New England area. Mr. VanNess has also written a one-man show “When I Think of Home” showcasing some of his favorite music alongside his unique point of view as an artist. fredvanesstenor.com

Maia Ettinger (Belinda Cratchit/Fan/Want [Green Cast]) – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Wheelock Family Theater@BU: A Wrinkle in Time, Make Way for Ducklings the Musical, Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlotte’s Web. Hovey Players: Appropriate. Reagle Music Theatre: The Little Mermaid. Boston Playwrights Marathon: Strawberry Shortcake. Weston Friendly Society: The Sound of Music. Watertown Children’s Theater: Big Fish, Fiddler on the Roof, Newsies, Singin’ in the Rain, Matilda, SchoolHouse Rock. PBS Kids: Pinkalicious and Peterrific. Maia is an 8th grader at Shady Hill School and received the 2023-2024 EMACT DASH award for Best Youth Performer in a Play for her performance as Cassidy in Appropriate (Hovey Players). Thanks to the entire cast, crew, and creative team of Charles Dickens’ ‘A Christmas Carol’ and to Desi Oakley and Katie Pohlman, her voice and acting coaches! @maiaettingerofficial

Cora L. Hertz – has danced in the Boston Ballet Nutcracker for five years. She is thrilled to make her professional acting debut with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. 

Paul Jagger Karger – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Rhode Island Youth Theater: Cinderella (Knight) and Pinocchio (Pinocchio). Previous model at ModelClub Inc. and studying music at Community Center of Music Boston.

Quinn Murphy – Commonwealth Shakespeare Debut. Regional: The Huntington Theatre Company: Leopoldstadt.  North Shore Music Theatre: A Christmas Carol, The Full Monty.  Boston Symphony Hall:  Ragtime: The Symphonic Concert.  Quinn has performed in youth theater with: North Shore Music Theatre, New England School of Performing Arts, Boston Stage Company, Stage 284, and Five Star Theatre Company.  Training:  studies voice with Noel Smith Voice Studio.  @quinncmurphy

Xavier Rosario – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Central Square Theater: Machine Learning IG:@xavi_rosario

Eviva Rose – is excited to return to Commonwealth Shakespeare Company after performing as Mamillius in The Winter’s Tale and Young Macduff in Macbeth. Previous credits include Charles Wallace in A Wrinkle in Time and a duckling in Make Way For Ducklings, both with Wheelock Family Theater.

Steven Maler is the Founding Artistic Director of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (CSC). At CSC he has been directing Free Shakespeare on the Boston Common productions since 1996, including Richard III, Love’s Labour’s Lost, King Lear, Twelfth Night, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Coriolanus, All’s Well That Ends Well, Othello, The Comedy Of Errors, As You Like It, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Henry V, The Tempest, Julius Caesar, and Romeo & Juliet. Other CSC works include his critically acclaimed production of Naomi Wallace’s adaptation of William Wharton’s novel Birdy, Ariel Dorfman’s Death and the Maiden, the world premiere of Jake Broder’s Our American Hamlet, and the world premiere of Robert Brustein’s The Last Will.  In collaboration with Boston Landmarks Orchestra, he directed A Midsummer Night’s Dream, featuring the Overture and Incidental Music of Felix Mendelssohn, as well as concert stagings of The Boys from Syracuse and Kiss Me Kate at Boston’s iconic Hatch Shell.  For CSC he has also directed one-night-only readings of iconic plays featuring Ruben Santiago-Hudson, Paul Rudd, Anthony Mackie, Blair Brown, Tony Shalhoub, Brooke Adams, Leslie Uggams, David Morse, and Jeffrey Donovan among others.  He conceived and directed Shakespeare at Fenway, an evening of Shakespeare scenes performed at Boston’s iconic Fenway Park, featuring Mike O’Malley, Neal McDonough, Maryann Plunkett, Jay O. Sanders, Kerry O’Malley, Seth Gilliam, Zuzanna Szadkowski, Max Von Essen, Christian Coulson, Jason Butler Harner, and many others.

In collaboration with Google, he adapted and directed a first of its kind sixty minute virtual reality film of Shakespeare’s Hamlet, entitled Hamlet 360: Thy Father’s Spirit, starring Jack Cutmore-Scott, Jay O. Sanders, Brooke Adams, and Faran Tahir.  It is currently available for viewing on Boston public media producer GBH’s YouTube channel; for more information, visit www.wgbh.org/hamlet360.

Outside of CSC, he directed Maria, Regina D’Inghilterra for Odyssey Opera, Péter Eötvös’ operatic treatment of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (U.S. Premiere) and Thomas Adès’ Powder Her Face for Opera Boston, The Turn of the Screw at New Repertory Theatre, Santaland Diaries and Chay Yew’s Porcelain at SpeakEasy Stage Company, Top Girls and Weldon Rising at Coyote Theatre, and The L.A. Plays by Han Ong at A.R.T. His New York City credits include the New York Musical Theatre Festival production of Without You, written by and starring Anthony Rapp. The production has been seen in Boston, Edinburgh, Toronto, London, and Seoul.

He received the prestigious Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, as well as for Best Production for Twelfth Night and All’s Well That Ends Well; Outstanding Director, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Best Production, SubUrbia; Best Solo Performance, John Kuntz’s Starf***ers (which also won Best Solo Performance Award at New York International Fringe Festival). His feature film “The Autumn Heart,” starring Tyne Daly and Ally Sheedy was in the Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival.

Dan Rodriguez (Music Director) – Commonwealth Shakespeare Company: Debut. Lyric Stage: Preludes, The Last Five Years, Little Shop of Horrors, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Gypsy. The Huntington: Sunday in the Park with George, A Little Night Music. North Shore Music Theater: Kinky Boots, Little Shop of Horrors. Reagle Music Theater: Oklahoma!, West Side Story. Moonbox Productions: Caroline or Change, Cabaret. Wheelock Family Theatre: In the Heights. American Repertory Theatre: The Lily’s Revenge, The Blue Flower. Front Porch Arts Collective: Ain’t Misbehavin’. A graduate of Oberlin, Dan now works at the Boston Conservatory and has also worked at Emerson, Brandeis, and Northeastern. Winner of the Elliot Norton award and multiple IRNE awards for Best Music Direction. Member of the American Federation of Musicians Local 9-535.

John Lam (Choreographer) began dancing at the age of four at the Marin Ballet in San Rafael, CA. He attended Canada’s prestigious National Ballet School before being invited to join the Boston Ballet in 2003 where he created an illustrious 20 year career as a Principal Dancer. Lam has choreographed and produced independent dance films. Lam appeared in the Disney film, “The Game Plan”, and performed the role of Ariel in the Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Production of The Tempest. Most recently, Lam served as a Principal Core Dancer in the Amazon Prime Series, “Étoile”, season one. Lam serves as Associate Professor of Dance with the Boston Conservatory at Berklee for fall 2024 and has founded his own company LamDanceWorks opening fall 2025.

Scott Bradley For CSC: The Tempest, Macbeth, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It.  Broadway: Seven Guitars (Tony Nomination and Drama Desk Award for Best Set Design), Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Drama Desk Award for Best Set Design).  Recent Credits: His Eye Is On The Sparrow ( Portland Center Stage), A View From the Bridge (Seattle Rep), The Crucible (Cleveland Playhouse), Brownsville Song (Long Wharf Theater), Much Ado About Nothing (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Chapattil (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park), Things We Do For Love (Delaware Rep), A Great Wilderness (Seattle Rep), Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl (Second Stage), and The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci by Mary Zimmerman (Second Stage).  Television: Set Designer for “Late Night with David Letterman”.  Film: “Pushing Hands”.

Fabian Fidel Aguilar (Costume Designer) – Asolo Rep: Inherit the Wind, Man of La Mancha. Hartford Stage Co: Romeo & Juliet, Mousetrap. Primary Stages: Dig. Alliance Theatre: Tale of Two Cities, Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed, Max Makes a Million, Winnie the Pooh. Pacific Conservatory for Performing Arts: American Mariachi, Mother Road. Westport Country Playhouse: Dial M for Murder, Straight White Men, In the Heights, Mlima’s Tale, Romeo & Juliet. Midnight Theatricals: Afterglow, Safeword. Dorset Theater Festival: Beauty Queen of Leenane, Sidekicked, Wait Until Dark, Thirst, Slow Food, Queen of the Night. He teaches costume and scenic design and fashion history at Colgate University. www.fabianfidelaguilar.com

Aja M. Jackson (Lighting Designer) CSC debut. Off-Broadway: A Commercial Jingle for Regina Comet, and Rock and Roll Man. Broadway: Fat Ham (associate), Lempicka (assistant). Regional (selected): Huntington Theatre Company, American Repertory Theatre, The Alley, The Everyman Theatre, and Hartford Stage, as well as SpeakEasy Stage, Lyric Stage, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and Masary Studios. Dance: Modern Connections, Ailey 2, Hubbard Street Dance. Board Chair of Brighter Boston. Proud member of USA 829. www.ajajacksonlighting.com | IG: @ajamjackson

David Remedios** (Sound Designer) – CSC: The Winter’s Tale; Macbeth (2023, Norton Award winner); Romeo and Juliet (2017); Our American Hamlet; Love’s Labour’s Lost; Twelfth Night (2014); The Last Will; Coriolanus; All’s Well That Ends Well; Othello. Recent: Dinner for One (Greater Boston Stage); The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life… (Merrimack Rep); Redeemed (59E59); Tornado Tastes Like Aluminum Sting (Contemporary American Theater Festival); The Hours Are Feminine (INTAR, HOLA Award nomination); Thirst (Lyric Stage); Machine Learning (Central Square, Norton Award nomination). Regional: Northern Stage, Arizona Theatre Company, Everyman, Huntington, Portland Stage, City Theatre, Alley Theatre, Trinity, 59E59, Geva, Studio Theatre, TFANA, American Repertory Theatre, Centerstage Baltimore, La Jolla Playhouse, Cincinnati Playhouse. David is Program Head of Sound Design at Boston University’s School of Theatre. remediossound.com.

SARABETH SPECTOR (Props Designer)

Sarabeth is a scenic and properties designer based in Medford, MA.
Credits include:
Mermaid Hour (Assistant Scenic Designer, Properties Designer; Moonbox Productions), Cost of Living (Properties Designer; SPEAKEASY STAGE), Legally Blonde (Scenic Designer; Moonbox Productions), Honeyhole (Scenic Designer; Moonbox Productions), Boston New Works Festival (Properties Designer; Moonbox Productions), Jado Jehad (Properties Designer; Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), For The Fish (Associate Scenic Designer; Moonbox Productions), NIGHTTOWN (Scenic Designer; Lowell House Opera), Baltimore (Scenic Designer; Emerson Stage)
sarabethspector.com

Jenna Worden is a producer, director, and stage manager with a passion for storytelling, education, and access to the arts. Favorite CSC credits include Birdy, Universe Rushing Apart, and Our American Hamlet. Additional regional credits include New Rep Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company, Phoenix Theatre, and Childsplay AZ. She collaborates often with Brian O’Donovan and is the director and producer of A Christmas Celtic Sojourn. She earned both her BA in Theatre Studies and BSEd in History from Northern Arizona University and is constantly looking for new ways to teach and be in conversation with the past. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Steve Wargo (Adaptation) is a director, playwright, and producer and, most recently, Chief Creative Officer of the Denver Immersive Repertory Theater. Prior to moving to the mountains, Steve moved mountains in NYC for over two decades as the Founding Artistic Director of both Personal Space Theatrics and The Queensborough Theatre Project, as well as the Creative Director of Resounding, an immersive audio entertainment company, where they produced multiple live immersive audio plays during the pandemic lockdown, including the first play to open in New York before a live paying audience after the industry shutdown, the unauthorized parody in verse Clu-eth. Favorite credits include (as director): Brigadoon (Colorado Candlelight); the immersive concert experience Kabarett Weimar; seven NYC productions of this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”; David Ives’ Don Juan in Chicago (first NYC revival); The Duchess, aka Wallis Simpson and Orchidelirium (both U.S. premieres). As writer: Triassic Parq: The Musical (with Marshall Pailet and Bryce Norbitz; multi-award-winning show; published and licensed by Broadway Licensing); Scooby-Doosical with Keith Varney. As producer: the late, great Arthur Kopit’s revised BecauseHeCan (first NYC revival). A Pittsburgh native, Steve earned his BFA in Musical Theater from Syracuse University, and is a proud Member of the Dramatists Guild. Instagram: @thestevewargo

Dianne Adams McDowell (Musical Arranger/Composer)
Dianne Adams McDowell, a native of West Virginia, has served as Vocal
Arranger for Broadway’s A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder, the
recipient of seven Drama Desk Awards, four Tony Awards (including Best
Musical), and a 2015 Grammy Nomination. She was commissioned to
compose for Radio City Music Hall’s Magnificent Christmas

Spectacular and, with longtime husband/collaborator, James McDowell, co-
wrote the music & lyrics for The Wind in the Willows at the New Victory

Theatre, Times Square, Bookends at the New Jersey Repertory Company,
and their original Gospel Mass of St. Thomas’, performed at The Church of
Saint Paul & the Redeemer in Hyde Park, Chicago. Other credits include

Vocal Arranger/Associate Conductor for Broadway’s Tony-
nominated Starmites, Arranger/Consultant for Disney Productions, as well

as Universal Theatrical Division’s Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Musical!
(by the late, great Steven Lutvak). Dianne created the score for Tazewell
Thompson’s highly acclaimed JUBILEE at Arena Stage, Washington, DC,
and Seattle Opera. For another Thompson collaboration, Constant
Star, she is the recipient of the Philadelphia Barrymore Award, the Beverly
Hills/Hollywood NAACP Award, and a Helen Hayes Award nomination. Her
vocal arrangements have been performed on stages throughout the
country, including Lincoln Center, Hartford Stage, Actors’ Theatre of
Louisville, Syracuse Stage, Avery Fisher Hall, The Old Globe Theatre (in
San Diego), and abroad in Tokyo, Shanghai, Seoul, Melbourne, and
Stockholm.