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).

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 (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.

Paul Melendy (William Dobbin, Miss Pinkerton, Rose Crawley, Gentleman 1, Servants 2 & 3) Central Square Theater: A Disappearing Number; Paul is elated to be reunited with not only Underground Railway Theater, but with director David Gammons as well – seen last with the former in 2014, and the latter in 2007’s Titus Andronicus. Recent New England stage performances include The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (Merrimack Repertory Theater), the title role in Noir Hamlet (Centastage), of which he enjoyed a successful Scottish run of at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this past August, tackling a Clown in Gloucester Stage Company’s The 39 Steps, playing as Narrator for Peter and the Wolf with the Boston Youth Symphony Orchestra (Symphony Hall), and taking on Patrolman Mancuso in A Confederacy of Dunces starring Nick Offerman (Huntington Theatre Company). Paul is a regular onstage in Boston’s ongoing Shear Madness as Tony at the Charles Playhouse and is remembered on local television screens in a popular Bernie and Phyl’s ad as The Naked Guy. In addition to Vanity Fair this season, he can also be seen in 2020 in Merrimack’s upcoming The Lowell Offering, in Greater Boston Stage Company’s Miss Holmes Returns, and on the silver screen with Love, Weddings & Other Disasters, starring Jeremy Irons and Diane Keaton. Other film credits include Father of the Year, Unfinished Business, The Pink Panther Deux, and The Makeover. For even MORE info on Paul, here’s his website: PaulMelendy.com. Thank you for your gracious attendance!