Brenda Withers is a writer and actor in New York. Her credits include work at McCarter Theatre, the Ohio, Denver Center, Arizona Theater Company, the Ontological, HERE, Ivoryton Playhouse, Luna Stage, PS122, Hudson Stage and the Texas Shakespeare Festival. She is a company member at Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater where her most recent play, The Ding Dongs (or What is the Penalty in Portugal?), will premiere in Summer 2011. She is a co-founder of Franch Nom, a former playwriting fellow at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, and a graduate of Dartmouth College.
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Mindy Kaling is an American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer who stars as Kelly Kapoor on the NBC sitcom The Office. Kaling is also a co-executive producer and writer of several of the Emmy Award-winning show’s episodes. She has appeared in Curb Your Enthusiasm and was a guest writer for one episode of Saturday Night Live. Kaling’s first film role was in The 40-Year-Old Virgin, followed by Unaccompanied Minors. Kaling writes about shopping in a blog called “Things I Bought That I Love” and was featured in Entertainment Weekly’s list of the 10 Funniest Actresses in Hollywood. She graduated from Dartmouth College where she was a member of the improvisational comedy troupe “The Dog Day Players” and the a cappella group “The Rockapellas”, as well as writing for the college’s humor magazine the Dartmouth Jack-O-Lantern. She co-wrote the play Matt & Ben with Brenda Withers, which was named one of Time magazine’s “Top Ten Theatrical Events of The Year”.
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Philana Mia makes her debut with Central Square Theater in Matt & Ben. Recent credits include: Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead (Moses Mogilee/NYC); Melancholy Play (Holland Productions); The Wonderful World of Dissocia (Apollinaire Theatre Co.); The Pain and the Itch (Company One). Film: Whaling City (Dir. Jay Burke), winner of the 2007 Sundance Feature Film Production Grant, and Silver Circle (Lineplot Productions/Dir. Pasha Roberts). Television: Louis Brandeis: The People’s Attorney (PBS/Stuart Productions). Education: BA, Emerson College.
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Marianna Bassham is delighted to return to Central Square Theater, where she appeared last with The Nora Theatre Company in Not Enough Air. Around town: Othello (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Blackbird (Elliot Norton Award), In the Next Room (or the vibrator play), and Reckless (SpeakEasy Stage); Little Black Dress by Ronan Noone (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); A Streetcar Named Desire, Silence, Tartuffe, Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Quills (New Repertory Theatre). She received a 2009 IRNE Award for her work in Reckless, Little Black Dress, and Blackbird. A resident acting company member with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, she has appeared in The Hotel Nepenthe (2011 Elliot Norton Award, Best Ensemble), The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Hamlet, Love’s Labor’s Lost, and The Merchant of Venice; Miss Witherspoon and Talley’s Folly (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston); Gaslight and The Rimers of Eldritch (Stoneham Theatre); Heart of Jade with CentaStage and Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater. Regional credits: Gloucester Stage Company, WHAT, The Majestic Theater, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Oldcastle Theatre, New Century Theatre, and St. Michael’s Playhouse.
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Sylvia Bagaglio: Sylvia is happy to be returning to URT, having served as Properties Coordinator for Breaking the Code and Stage Manager for Krik! Krak! She has been working backstage for over 15 years, picking up skills in props, lighting, scenic painting, stage management, costumes, and special effects make-up. She has a B.F.A. from Hofstra University, and has worked for companies in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, North Carolina, Maine, and her home state of Massachusetts. Her scenic design skills will soon be featured in a mounting of Lucky Stiff with Moonbox Productions.
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