M. Bevin O’Gara is currently the Associate Producer at the Huntington Theatre Company. Directing credits include: 2.5 Minute Ride (Downstage @ New Rep), IRNE Award nomination Best Solo Performance; The Pain and the Itch (Company One), IRNE Award nomination for Best Director and Best Ensemble; Two Wives of India, Gary (Boston Playwrights’ Theater), Elliot Norton nomination for Best Production; Othello, The Crucible (New Rep On Tour); Bat Boy (Metro Stage Company); Melancholy Play (Holland Productions); Tattoo Girl, Painting You, Artifacts (Williamstown Theatre Workshop); Anti-Kiss (3 Monkeys Theatrical Productions); Play It Again Sam (Footlight Club); and La Cage Aux Folles, Anything Goes, upcoming (Longwood Players).
Bevin has been working for the Huntington Theatre since 2002, previously holding the positions of Artistic Associate, Assistant to the Artistic Director and Faye Stone Literary Intern. From 2006 to 2008 she worked as the Artistic Associate at New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, MA. She is the recipient of Company One’s 2011 Lois Roach Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Boston Theatre Community. Other companies include Gaiety Theatre of Dublin and the Actor’s Center of Australia. She holds a BFA from Boston University in Theatre Studies.
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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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