Nicholas Peterson

Nicholas Peterson

Nicholas Peterson, Director of Marketing, brings over 20 years of theatre experience both onstage and off, and has worked on web strategies for arts, non-profit organizations, and small businesses since the dot-com boom of the late 1990s/early 2000s. Since 2003, he has been based in Boston, working for New Repertory Theatre, the American Repertory Theatre, consulting, and working on his own projects, including ExploreBostonTheatre.com, an online-only media outlet dedicated to Boston Theatre. His website redesign for the Peterborough Players, a professional summer theatre company founded in 1933, earned New Hampshire Internet Awards for Best Entertainment site in 2003 and 2004. From 2001 through 2010, he consulted with the Board of Trustees Marketing Committee on integration of the Internet with their other marketing practices. Mr. Peterson is the former chair of the Theatre Arts Marketing Alliance (TAMA), a consortium of marketing professionals from theater companies in the Greater Boston Area. He has presented at TCG’s Annual Conference, the Boston Theatre Conference, the Annual Conference of the International Ticketing Association, Value Of Presenting – Arts Research in North America at Northeastern University, and presented to TAMA and Museums of Boston. He has also been on panels at Harvard University, Emerson College, and Southern New Hampshire University and been a guest lecturer at Simmons College. Currently he teaches Marketing and Audience Development in the Masters Program in Arts Administration at Boston University. He is a graduate of Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio and holds a M.S. in Internet Strategy Management from the Graduate Center of Marlboro College.

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Cynthia Bargar

Cynthia Bargar

Cynthia Bargar, director of development is delighted to be at Central Square Theater, working with patrons and donors who support the growth of great theater that illuminates our shared sense of humanity. Prior to joining the staff in 2012, she had been a consultant to the theater for nine years, including during the capital campaign that helped make the dream of Central Square Theater a reality. Cynthia is a development professional who has worked with a variety of nonprofit organizations in greater Boston. For many years, Cynthia served on the Board of Directors of RESIST, a foundation funding activist organizing within movements for social change throughout the United States. She is a graduate of Brown University and has a master’s degree from the Boston University College of Communication.

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Maggie Moore Abdow

Maggie Moore Abdow, Development Manager, began her tenure with Central Square Theater as resident company Underground Railway Theater’s  Education Director in 2004. Bringing 25 years of theater performance, direction, and teaching to CST,  Maggie has created, directed, and taught a wide range of URT’s award-winning programs, including Page to Stage, A Young Playwright’s Program, Youth Underground, Underground Players and residencies at MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics, Harvard’s Project Zero, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, and the Institute of Contemporary Art. In 2014, Maggie transitioned from Education to Development. In her new role, Maggie works closely with CST leadership to nurture and cultivate donor relationships and coordinate all fundraising efforts. Maggie holds a BFA  and MA in theater education from Emerson College and is a Massachusetts certified teacher in K-12 theater.

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Lee Mikeska Gardner

Lee Mikeska Gardner*

Lee Mikeska Gardner*, she/her (Artistic Director & Understudy) continues her mission of creating access and opportunity for underserved artists. For eight years with The Nora Lee focused on the feminine voice. In this, her tenth year, Central Square Theater builds on the history of both The Nora and Underground Railway with stories and artists across a spectrum of our community. Lee has directed, among others, The Hound of the Baskervilles (2024), The Rocky Horror Show (with Jo Michael Rezes), Arcadia, Cloud 9 (Elliot Norton, Outstanding Director and Production), Saving Kitty with Jennifer Coolidge and The Midvale High School 50th Reunion with Gordon Clapp. Lee performed the title role in Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight (Norton Award, Outstanding Actress), Marjorie Prime, Precious Little, The Revolutionists, and The Half Life of Marie Curie. In her tenure, Lee produced or co-produced over 35 productions, primarily with women directors, earning multiple Elliot Norton and IRNE awards and nominations. Hailing from the greater Washington, D.C. area Lee is a Helen Hayes Award winning actor and director spending a decade with Woolly Mammoth Theater as an Associate Artist, seven years with The Shenandoah Playwright’s Retreat working with playwrights on new work and was a company member with Washington Shakespeare Company, Potomac Theater Project, an Artistic Associate at 1st Stage, Charter Theatre and Keegan Theatre. Lee has taught or served as a guest artist at Colleges and Universities across the nation including locally Emerson, Leslie, and Northeastern. Lee earned her B.F.A. from George Mason University and her M.F.A. from the Catholic University of America.

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Hatem Adell

Hatem Adell

Hatem Adell is thrilled to be back at Central Square Theater, having previously assisted Daniel Gidron on The Nora Theatre Company’s productions of Hysteria and Silver Spoon. He is a writer, translator, and director. Previous directing credits include Edward Albee’s The Zoo Story and Christopher Durang’s Beyond Therapy.

 

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