David Wilson (Sound Design) returns to the Central Square Theater having previously designed Emilé La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight.  He has designed lighting or sound for over 350 productions of opera, theater, concert and dance. He served on the faculty of Brandeis University for over 25 years teaching lighting and sound design; and developed and led the graduate program in sound design. He has designed and taught at Boston College, Boston Conservatory of Music, Bowdoin, Emerson, Harvard, New England Conservatory, Tufts, Suffolk and UMASS-Lowell. Regional credits include Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Boston Playwrights, Central City Opera, Company One, Deborah Abel Dance, Dibble Dance, Gloucester Stage, Lyric Stage, Merrimack Rep, Moonbox, New Rep, Nora, North Shore Music Theater, Reagle Music Theater, Speakeasy, Stoneham, Shakespeare and Co, WHAT and Wheelock Family Theater. He has received multiple nominations and awards for his work, most recently the Elliot Norton Award for ASP’s Edward II.  DW-Design.com

October 2018.

Chelsea Kerl (Costume Designer) is very pleased to be back at Central Square Theatre, having previously designed Photograph 51, The Women Who Mapped the Stars, The Midvale High School 50th Reunion, Intimate Exchanges, and Emilie: The Marquise du Chatelet Defends Her Life Tonight.  Chelsea is a Boston-based freelance artist and educator; she received her MFA in Costume Design from Boston University and two BAs from the University of Maryland. Chelsea is the costume shop manager and costume design professor at Wellesley College; she also teaches at Bridgewater State University and Brandeis University. Select recent credits include: The Huntington: Witch (Elliot Norton Award Winner, Outstanding Design, Large Theatre); SpeakEasy Stage Company: Primary Trust; Wheelock Family Theatre: Willy Wonka. More of her work can be seen at chelseakerl.com.

Roopa joined Central Square Theater in May 2014 and handles financial accounting, reporting, budget management, human resources, and several administrative tasks. She is delighted to apply her master’s degree in finance in the context of a nonprofit arts organization.

Benjamin Emerson (Sound Designer) For the last 20 years Ben Emerson has been the Sound Supervisor at the Huntington Theatre. During that time, Ben also developed a Sound Design program for Boston University’s School of Theatre, teaching and advising undergraduate and Graduate Sound Design students. Ben has designed over a dozen productions at the Huntington, as well as many shows in Boston’s small theatre community and New England regional theatres. In 2009, Ben was awarded an IRNE for Sound Design for Speakeasy Stage’s production of The Seafarer, and in 2010 he was awarded an IRNE for Sound Design for the Huntington’s production of Fences. In 2015 Ben was awarded an Elliot Norton Award for Sound Design for the Huntington’s production of The Second Girl.