Sanaa Kazi’s previous work with us includes playing Nirmala in When January Feels Like Summer, Surita in A Disappearing Number, and Denitra in Heartland. She has worked with the Hub Theatre Company in The Good Body playing Priya. Sanaa is also part of the theatre groups SETU (Stage Ensemble Theatre Unit) and Darpan. She played Devi in Darpan’s production of The Legend Of Emperor Ashoka. She played Ira in the short film “The Theft” directed by Gauri Adelkar which was screened at various film festivals between 2014 and 15. Sanaa is a Montessori teacher at Oakmeadow School in Littleton, and mom to her tween son. She would like to thank her husband and son for all their support.
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Christine Hamel
Christine Hamel (Dialect/Vocal Coach) previously collaborated with Underground Railway Theatre as a dialect coach and actor in A Disappearing Number, and dialect coach for Einstein’s Dreams (2007). Her dialect/vocal coaching credits include Awake, and Sing! at the Huntington Theatre Company; Equally Divided, Half ‘n’ Half ‘n’ Half, Beat Generation, A Picasso, andMemory House at Merrimack Repertory Theatre; Tongue of a Bird, Camelot, The Elephant Man, Amadeus, Holiday Memories, The Kite Runner, Cabaret, A Christmas Carol, Orson’s Shadow,and Frozen at the New Repertory Theatre; The Overwhelming and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity at Company One; Measure for Measure, The Coveted Crown, and Othello with Actors’ Shakespeare Project; Deported: A Dream Play with Boston Playwrights’ Theatre; I Have Before Me…Young Lady from Rwanda with Stoneham Theatre; Danny and the Deep Blue Sea, Copenhagen, and Coming Up For Air: An Auto-Jazzography at Vineyard Playhouse; The Light in the Piazza at Speakeasy Stage; The Taste of Sunrise at Wheelock Family Theatre. Ms. Hamel is an assistant professor of voice & speech and acting at Boston University School of Theatre. She is also an actress and member of Actors’ Equity Association, VASTA, and MICHA (Michael Chekhov Association).
Jon Savage+
Jon Savage+ (Scenic Designer) (he/him) is happy to be returning to Front Porch Arts Collective, Greater Boston Stage and Central Square Theatre. Jon last collaborated with Front Porch and Central Square Theatre on The Black Odyssey Boston. He designed Sweet Charity, Lucky Stiff and Miracle on 34th Street at Greater Boston Stage and A Disappearing Number with Central Square Theatre. Other area credits include Much Ado About Nothing, MacBeth and Equivocation with Actor’s Shakespeare Co. Reparations, To Kill a Mockingbird, True West, and The Bank Job for Gloucester Stage Company. Imagining Madoff, Broken Glass, Cardboard Piano at New Repertory Theatre. Old Money, Comedy of Errors (Elliot Norton Award Winner for best design), and All’s Well that Ends Well (Elliot Norton award for best production) for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Laughing Wild and Ryan Landry’s M for Huntington Theatre Company. Regional design work includes State Fair at The Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia, PA; Fiddler on the Roof and King of the Jews at The Olney Theatre Center, DC; Raisin in the Sun and Clybourne Park at The Old Lyric Theatre Company, Logan, UT. Jon was also the Associate Scenic Designer for the Broadway production of Hot Feet. Jon is currently serving on faculty within the Design, Production and Management programs at Boston University. He is a member of United Scenic Artists.
+Member of United Scenic Artists.
Jacob Athyal
Jacob Athyal (Humayun) is a Boston-based actor from the state of Kerala in South India. He is excited to be back at Central Square Theater after A Disappearing Number. His recent credits include The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Perseverance Theater, Alaska), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Luna Gale (Stoneham Theatre Co.), Red Hot Patriot (Lyric Stage Co.), Shockheaded Peter and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Company One), Mrs. Packard and Julius Caesar (Bridge Rep of Boston), The Hobbit (Wheelock Family Theatre), The Draft (Hibernian Hall), Incident in Vichy (Praxis Stage), Sh*tfaced Shakespeare (Magnificent Bastards Production), The Reindeer Monologues (Happy Medium Theatre). Special thanks to Rajiv and Gabriel for this opportunity and Harsh for being such a great friend.
Harsh J. Gagoomal
Harsh J. Gagoomal (Babur) is so grateful and excited to be returning to Central Square Theater, where he has previously performed as a river monster (Journey to the West), a landscape architect (Arcadia), and a physicist specializing in string theory (A Disappearing Number). Other acting credits include An Octoroon (Company One/ArtsEmerson) and The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Red Theater Chicago). Harsh received his BA in Theatre Studies from Emerson College as well as invaluable lessons from Green Shirt Studio in Chicago. Performing aside, he has dedicated his time to working with the homeless via various classes and workshops. Harsh would like to thank the entire team for their dedication and extend particular gratitude to Debra and Gabriel for their trust. Lots of love to his dear sisters, mom and dad, family and friends from far and wide, Boomerang and, of course, his bhai, Jake. Beauty shall live.
March 2018.