Sean Patrick Gibbons, he/him (Intimacy Director) is a certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators mentored under Claire Warden and Cha Ramos. Sean is also an Actor, Voice and Movement specialist, and Theatre Educator. He is also in the process of becoming a certified teacher of the Michael Chekhov Acting Technique with the Great Lakes Michael Chekhov Consortium through Kent State. He has performed Off-Broadway and in various regional theatres across the country including New Repertory Theatre, Boston Playwrights Theatre, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Scranton Shakespeare Festival, Bridge Repertory Theatre, Atlantic Rep, Theatre Lab, and many more. A member of Actor’s Equity, and SAG-AFTRA eligible, he has also worked and taught at the International Theatre and Dance Project in Greece, Emerson Stage, Gloucester Stage, The University of Scranton, Brandeis University, Wellesley College, American International College, Florida Atlantic University, Harvard University, and Boston Theatre Company. Sean holds an MFA in Acting from Florida Atlantic University, and two undergraduate degrees in Acting and Theatre Education from MU. Sean is also on the admissions recruitment team for the American Musical Dramatic Academy, and is the chair of the theatre department at the Boston Arts Academy where he teaches Acting and Voice and Movement for the Actor. To learn more about consent-forward advocacy for artists: www.seanpatrickgibbons.com

James Cannon, he/him (Sound Designer) is a freelance audio engineer, sound designer, composer, and music producer based in Watertown, MA. He is thrilled to be working on Next to Normal! In recent years, his work has been heard at The Umbrella Stage Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Greater Boston Stage Company, Fresh Ink Theater Company, Moonbox Productions, Boston Conservatory at Berklee College of Music, Wellesley Theater Project, The Hovey Players, Boston Arts Academy, and many more on productions of all sizes.

Lauren Corcuera, she/her (Properties Designer) After joining Central Square and the Front Porch on Next to Normal last season, Lauren is happy to be joining CST again. Select prop credits include: the Cake, the Treasurer, the Last Five Years, Mr. Parent, the Light, Fabulation…of Undine, Preludes, Rooted, Assassins, Thirst (Lyric Stage Boston), Barefoot in the Park, Tiny Beautiful Things, Seared, Grand Horizons (Gloucester Stage), Winter’s Tale (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Pippin, Oklahoma! (Reagle Music Theater), Chicken and Biscuits (Front Porch Arts Collective). Lauren is currently the assistant prop director at Emerson College.

Michael Clark Wonson, he/him (Lighting Designer) has worked in the United States and abroad for the past 25 years,  Highlights include designs for The Bar Girl of Jamaica in Jamaica, Boston Lyric Opera, Cumberland County Playhouse in Tennessee, Southern Methodist University School of Theatre, Dance and Opera, New Bedford Festival Theater, The Lyric Stage Company, Eastern Slope Playhouse, Deertrees Theater, The Five Colleges MFA and faculty dance department of western Massachusetts, Boston Conservatory, Seacoast Repertory Theatre in Portsmouth NH, Providence College dept of dance and theater, and the Courthouse Center for the Arts in Kingston, Rhode Island. His designs have received IRNE, Broadway World Boston, EMACT, MOSS HART, Massachusetts assets for Artist Grant, Kennedy Center, and Elliot Norton awards. He also designs full theatrical lighting systems and overseas their installation.  Michael is excited to make his Central Square Theater in Cambridge, Massachusetts debut!

Octavia Reohr, she/her (Scenic Assistant) is thrilled to be working on this production of Next to Normal. Her passion for theatre has given her opportunities to work as an actor as well as in production. She recently wrote, directed, and performed in her own sketch comedy show Props with Legs. Recent onstage credits include Jo March (Little Women), Dr. Jekyll/Mr.Hyde (Chemical Imbalance), Adult Kate (Make Believe), Maria (Twelfth Night: The Musical), and Montebank Wolfe (The Thaumatrope Game). Recent design credits include Assistant Scenic Design for Beautiful: The Carole King Musical (New London Barn Playhouse) and Lighting Design for Much Ado About Nothing (King’s Crown Shakespeare Troupe). Octavia is studying Drama at NYU.