Misaki Nishimiya is a recent graduate of UMass Boston. Previous credits include A Christmas Carol (North Shore Music Theatre); Spring Awakening, Carnival, The Most Happy Fella (Gloucester Stage Company);  Deported/a dream play (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); A Christmas Story, Rent (New Repertory Theatre), and  A Child’s Christmas in Wales (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre/Boston Children’s Theatre) She would like to thank her ever-supportive family and friends.

Brad Shur has been working with puppets professionally for more than 15 years. He has toured nationally with several companies including Big Nazo, Wood and String Theatre and Vermont PuppeTree. As a builder, Brad has created puppets for Dollywood, American Idol, and numerous theater companies, musicians, and commercial clients. As artist in residence at Puppet Showplace Theatre, he has created three original one man puppet shows in the last three years, including a brand new adaptation of Robin Hood which premiered this winter.

Kyle Olmstead has worked as a sound designer for The Barnstormers Theatre and Hartford Children’s Theatre and as audio engineer for Hartford Stage Company.Previously, Kyle worked under renowned sound designer Frank Gaeta, owner of Sound For Film in Los Angeles, California. While there he worked on films such as Twilight; Taking Chance; and Surfer, Dude, with actors and directors that included Matthew McConaughey, Catherine Hardwicke, Robert Pattinson, and Kristen Stewart.

Jenna McFarland Lord comes to CST after designing such Boston-area productions as The Color Purple, The Drowsy Chaperone (IRNE award nomination for Best Set Design), The Great American Trailer Park Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Theatre District, Moonlight Room (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Driving Miss Daisy, North Shore Fish, Spring Awakening,Table Manners, Trying, Breath of Life, Sins of the Mother, Doubt: A Parable, The Widow’s Blind Date, The Belle of Amherst, My Old Lady, Dinner with Friends, LifeX3, Spinning into Butter, The Loman Family Picnic (Gloucester Stage Co.); Collected Stories (IRNE award nomination for Best Set Design), Cherry Docs (IRNE award nominee in set design, New Repertory Theatre); Groundswell, November, This Wonderful Life (Lyric Stage); The Merry Wives of Windsor, Macbeth (ASP); Something’s Afoot, Distant Music, Steel Magnolias,The Porch, Guys on Ice, The Mousetrap (Addison Award- Best Set Design), As Bees in Honey Drown (Stoneham Theatre); Don Giovanni (New England Conservatory); Noises Off, Oklahoma, The Full Monty, Twelfth Night, Cosi Fan Tutte (The Boston Conservatory); The Full Monty, and The Rocky Horror Show (Foothills). Off-Broadway, she designed The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath (New York Playwrights Lab). Ms. McFarland Lord received her theatre training at Emerson College and is currently the set design teacher at the Boston Arts Academy. JennaMcfarlandLord.com