Lydia Barnett-Mulligan has trained and performed at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA since the age of 15, where selected credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Ice Glen, both directed by Tina Packer, The Servant of Two Masters, The Tamer Tamed, Dibbledance, and
Gabrielle Weiler returns to CST after having appeared in Underground Railway Theater’s production of Sila. A graduate of Tufts University, credits include assistant directing Our Private Lives and performing in Hamletmachine. Gabrielle also has extensive experience interpreting performances in American Sign Language for companies such as Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Coriolanus), Broadway Across America (Hair), Wheelock Family Theatre (A Tale of Two Cities and The Wizard of Oz), and the annual Newport and Clearwater Folk Festivals.
Eddie Shields*, he/him has previously appeared at CST in BEDLAM’S Angels in America (Elliot Norton Nom.) and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. Credits: Mother Play (Shakespeare & Co). A Man of No Importance (Elliot Norton Nom.) The Inheritance (Elliot Norton Nom.), Shakespeare in Love (IRNE Nom.), Significant Other (IRNE Award), The View Upstairs, and Casa Valentina (IRNE Nom.) at Speakeasy Stage. Edward II (IRNE Nom.) and Comedy of Errors at ASP. Off Broadway/NY: A Class Act (Playwrights Horizons), Billy Redden (Theater Row), Miss Julie (Workshop Theater), Twelfth Night, Henry VI.3, & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Drilling Theater Co.). FILM/TV: Kill that Man, Moonrise Kingdom, Unsure/Positive, Road to Joy, The Entertainment. MFA Brandeis University, BFA Adelphi University. AEA/SAG-AFTRA. @eddiestagram/Eddie-Shields.
Lisa Sowle Cahill, Ph.D., J. Donald Monan, S.J., Professor at Boston College. Dr. Cahill is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (1992-93), and the Society of Christian Ethics (1997-98), and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her works include Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Theological Bioethics: Justice, Participation, and Change (Georgetown University Press, 2005), Bioethics and the Common Good (Marquette University Press, 2004), Family: A Christian Social Perspective (Fortress, 2000), Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1996); and ‘Love Your Enemies’: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory. She is the editor of Genetics, Theology, Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Conversation (Crossroad, 2005), Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church: Crisis and Renewal (Herder and Herder, 2006), and other works. Dr. Cahill received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is married to Lawrence R. Cahill, an attorney. They are the parents of five children.
Sara Bookin-Weiner is a Boston-based dramaturg who works as the Manager of Outreach at the New Center for Arts and Culture, a nonprofit that explores the Jewish imagination through its programs (www.newcenterboston.org). She previously spent two years as the Dramaturgy and Outreach Fellow at ArtsEmerson: The World On Stage. Sara also serves on the Stage Source Gender Parity Task Force, the One Boston Initiative steering committee, and as a member-at-large on the board of the Association for Jewish Theater. She has worked as a dramaturg on productions with the American Repertory Theater and its Institute, Whistler in the Dark Theatre, and Boston Public Works. She earned her MFA in dramaturgy from the American Repertory Theater/Moscow Art Theatre School Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard University in 2011.