Miranda Kau Giurleo is delighted to return to CST, where she recently designed Matchless & The Happy Prince, as well as Matt and Ben and Roots of Liberty.  Other design credits include: Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Two Gentlemen of Verona (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Closer Than Ever (New Repertory Theatre), Dead Man’s Cell Phone, A View from the Bridge, Visions of an Ancient Dreamer (Brandeis Theater Company), Dry Land, Shockheaded Peter (Elliot Norton Award nominee for Design), She Kills Monsters, Love Person, Neighbors, GRIMM, The Good Negro, and After the Quake (Company One), The New Electric Ballroom, Fighting Over Beverly, Ponies, Dear Liar, Our Son’s Wedding, The Heidi Chronicles, The Wind in the Willows, Calvin Berger, and The Secret of Madame Bonnard’s Bath, (Gloucester Stage Company), Batboy (MetroStage), Eccentricities of a Nightingale/Summer and Smoke, Beauty Queen of Leenane, Pillowman, The Crane Wife (Teatro Zuccone). Miranda has also designed and built costumes for the U.S.S. Constitution Museum’s original production Sailor’s Wives and Sailor’s Lives. She is currently on the faculty at Bridgewater State University where designs have included: Painted Alice, Pilgrims of the Night, Assassins, The Marriage of Bette and Boo, The ThreePenny Opera, and multiple dance productions. MirandaGiurleo.com

Dahlia Al-Habieli Recent designs include work with the Publick Theatre Boston (2009 IRNE Award for Best Set Design), New Repertory Theatre, Watertown Children’s Theatre, the Wellesley Summer Theatre Company, the Factory Theatre, and most recently the Summer Festival Theater at Roxbury Latin.  Dahlia currently serves as the Associate Production Manager and Properties Master for The Lyric Stage Company of Boston. She is also the Design Mentor at the annual Young Playwrights Festival at the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center in Waterford, CT. She holds a BA in Theatre Studies from Wellesley College and is a graduate of the National Theatre Institute. eloquentaction.com.

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.

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”.