Brian Cummins recently assistant stage managed The Nora and Underground Railway Theater’s production of Arabian Nights at Central Square Theater. He is a recent graduate of Salem State University with a BA in Technical Theater. He has previously worked at Summer Theater at Salem, House of Seven Gables, and Mac-Haydn Theater, Inc.
Anna Ziegler is an award-winning playwright whose play PHOTOGRAPH 51 won London’s 2016 WhatsOnStage award for Best New Play. It was selected as a “Best of the Year” play by The Washington Post (twice) and The Telegraph.
Her play BOY was nominated for the 2016 John Gassner Award by the Outer Critics Circle. In 2017, The Williamstown Theatre Festival, The Manhattan Theatre Club and The Geffen Playhouse premiered her play ACTUALLY (winner of the Ovation Award in Los Angeles for Playwriting of an Original Play), and The Roundabout Theatre Company produced THE LAST MATCH.
Her work has also been produced on the West End (PHOTOGRAPH 51, starring Nicole Kidman, winner of the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress) and at The Old Globe, Seattle Rep, The Ensemble Studio Theatre, The Magic Theatre, Playwrights Realm, City Theatre, and many more, and developed at the Sundance Theatre Lab, The O’Neill Playwrights Conference, NY Stage & Film, Soho Rep and the Cape Cod Theatre Project, amongst others.
She holds commissions from The Roundabout, The Geffen Playhouse, Second Stage Theater, Seattle Rep, and Grove/Whitman Productions.
Anna is developing a television series for HBO and a screenplay for Scott Free Productions. Oberon Books has published a collection of her work entitled Anna Ziegler: Plays One.
Becky Webber is pleased to make her debut with The Nora Theatre Company in Photograph 51. Originally from the Washington DC area, Becky is now a Boston-based theater artist. She has performed with various theater companies including Gloucester Stage (Trying), New Repertory Theatre (Opus, A Christmas Carol), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (As You Like It), Exquisite Corps (Trout Stanley), and the Gan-e-meed Theater Project (Hamlet). She received her BA at Brandeis University, and has also received training at the National Theater Institute. Becky is a founding member of the Actor’s Choice Reading Series and a board member of Gan-e-meed Theater. Catch her Boston directorial debut for Gan-e-meed this Spring with Julie Jensen’s Two-Headed at the BCA.
Nick Sulfaro is thrilled to be making his debut with The Nora Theatre Company in Photograph 51. Boston credits: Angel in RENT (New Repertory Theatre), The Nutcracker (Stoneham Theatre), the title role in Bat Boy (Metro Stage), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare Now!), and Sitting Still, a radio play (Huntington Theatre Company). New York: The Muse, a selection for the Samuel French Off-Off Broadway Theatre Festival. Mr. Sulfaro holds a BFA from Emerson College. For ASO.
Jason Powers was last seen in the role of Smike in The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby at The Lyric Stage Company of Boston for which he earned last year’s IRNE award for best supporting actor. Before moving to Boston in 2010, he received his MFA in acting from The University of North Carolina’s Professional Actor Training Program/PlayMakers Repertory Theatre. PlayMakers credits include Nicholas Nickleby, Pericles and The Little Prince. Before graduate school, Jason spent seven years in Chicago where he appeared in acclaimed productions of Death of a Salesman, Catch-22, Much Ado About Nothing,The Increased Difficulty of Concentration and the Chicago premier of The Credeaux Canvas (which earned him a nomination for Chicago’s Joseph Jefferson Award). He earned his BFA at Central Michigan University and began his training at Interlochen Arts Academy. Jason recently became engaged to his girlfriend of the last four years, Patricia Ramos.