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.
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Benjamin Emerson
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.
Celeste Oliva*
Celeste Oliva* (Edyth Bonner) happily returns to the stage and to Central Square Theater after a 3 year hiatus. Oliva was a regular on Boston stages and last appeared in Tiny Beautiful Things earning her an Elliot Norton award. She was a member of the cast of the long running Shear Madness which also took her to their off Broadway production for a spell. Other projects include Ch’inglish, Grounded, Between Riverside and Crazy, and Arcadia. Oliva just wrapped filming on the new Amazon series 56 Days playing Camille Russo coming in February 2026. She will also appear on the next season of Paradise and The Diplomat. Oliva recurred on HBO’s Julia as well as We Own This City, long running network shows Law&Order (Original) & Bull, and has guest starred in Grey’s Anatomy, NCIS Hawai’i, Blue Bloods The Black List, FBI: Most Wanted and others. Oliva appears in several Academy award winning films like American Fiction, I Care A Lot, and Mystic River. You can see her in the films Sorry, Baby, The Exorcist:Believer, Parachute and Salem’s Lot. Oliva is also a voice over artist, book narrator, and writer. She is based in NYC and is repped by The Lisa Lax Agency and Entertainment Lab. IG @actingcelested
George BrantGeorge Brant
George Brant’s plays include Grounded, Elephant’s Graveyard, The Mourners’ Bench, Salvage, Three Voyages of the Lobotomobile, Grizzly Mama, Any Other Name, Defiant, Dark Room, Miracle: A Tragedy, Good on Paper, Ashes, NOK, The Lonesome Hoboes, One Hand Clapping, The Royal Historian of Oz, Lovely Letters, Three Men in a Boat, Borglum! The Mount Rushmore Musical, Tights on a Wire and Night of the Mime.
A Core Writer at the Playwrights’ Center, his work has been produced internationally by such companies as Trinity Repertory Company, Cleveland Play House, City Theatre, Gate Theatre of London, Page 73, Studio Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Traverse Theatre, Borderlands Theater,
SF Playhouse, American Blues Theatre, Dobama Theatre, Red Stitch, Theatre 4, Premiere Stages, Trustus Theatre, Elemental Theatre Collective, Balagan Theatre, the Drama League, the Disney Channel, Factory Theatre, Debutantes and Vagabonds, StreetSigns Theatre Company, and zeppo theater company, among others.
His plays have been generously developed by the Kennedy Center, Asolo Rep, McCarter Theatre Center, New Harmony Project, Bay Area Playwrights Festival, WordBRIDGE Playwright’s Lab, Theatre @ Boston Court, Playwright and Director Center of Moscow, Florida Studio Theatre, New Jersey Rep, Contemporary Drama Festival of Hungary, the Hangar Theatre, Equity Library Theatre, and Ground UP Productions, among others.
His scripts have been awarded the David Mark Cohen National Playwriting Award from the Kennedy Center, the Smith Prize, the Keene Prize for Literature, an NNPN Rolling World Premiere, a Fringe First Award, an Off-West End Theatre Award, a Creative Workforce Fellowship, an Austin Critic’s Circle Best New Play Award and two Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Awards. He has received writing fellowships from the James A. Michener Center for Writers, the McCarter Theatre Sallie B. Goodman Artist’s Retreat, the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Fundacion Valparaiso and the Blue Mountain Center as well as commissions from Trinity Repertory Company, Dobama Theatre and Theatre 4.
George received his MFA in Writing from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas at Austin and is a member of the Dramatists Guild. He is published by Samuel French, Oberon Books and Smith & Kraus.