Olivia Dumaine she/her (Intimacy Director) is a Boston-based actor and Intimacy Director. Select intimacy credits include: As You Like It, The Taming of the Shrew, How I Learned to Drive, King Hedley II (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The House of Ramón Iglesia (Moonbox Productions); Ada and the Engine (Central Square Theater); Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare & Company); Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends (Sleeping Weazel). She is a graduate of the BFA Theatre Performance program at Salem State University, and is finishing her certification with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators. www.OliviaDumaine.com
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Kandyce Whittingham
Kandyce Whittingham she/they (Chorus) is a Boston-based multi-racial theatre artist and arts administrator. By day, she’s the Marketing and Development Associate at Lyric Stage. By night and weekend, they freelance as an actor, director, and teaching artist. A recent graduate of Emerson College’s BFA Acting program, she is honored to be making her Central Square debut! Regional credits include Front Porch Arts Collective: Stew (Patricia), Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Taming of the Shrew (u/s Baptista, Gremio, Tailor/Ens.), and Apollinaire Theatre Company: Hamlet (Player Queen). All the love to Mom, Dad, Drew, Abbey, and Autumn for their endless outpouring of love and support. For upcoming projects and future collaborations, visit www.kandycewhittingham.
Jon Vellante*
Jon Vellante* (Alex) is a Boston-based theater, film & TV actor. Recent credits include: A Raisin in the Sun and DIASPORA! (New Repertory Theatre); Julia (HBO Max); Fairview (Speakeasy Stage Company); Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); the short film Automate (Winner – Best Actor, London Shorts); and The Taming of the Shrew (Sh*t-Faced Shakespeare). Jon also works as an actor with Theater Espresso, performing interactive historical dramas for schools throughout the state. For upcoming projects, visit jonvellante.com
or @guessimjonvellante on Instagram.
Kevin Williams
Kevin Williams, Education Programs Manager (he/they), is a theater teaching artist and arts education administrator striving to create and strengthen a community of critical thinkers and empathetic individuals through theatrical experiences. Kevin is a licensed K-12 theater teacher in Massachusetts with a Master’s Degree in Theatre Education from Emerson College and Bachelor’s Degrees in Musical Theatre and Psychology from North Central College. As a teacher, he develops and facilitates curriculum in playmaking, playwriting, improv, directing, and acting for elementary through collegiate students. In early 2020, Kevin completed a Creative Youth Development Teaching Artist Fellowship through the Mass Cultural Council to further enhance the support system for teaching artists and students throughout the Greater Boston area. When not in a classroom, they can most often be found in a rehearsal space directing or devising new work. Previous collaborations outside of Central Square Theater include Endicott College, Watertown Children’s Theatre, Emerson College, Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp, Boch Center, Storytown Improv, and Wheelock Family Theatre.
Tom Kitt
Tom Kitt (Composer) is a two-time Tony, two-time Emmy, Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award winner. As a musical theater composer, he has written the music for six Broadway shows: Next to Normal (Tony Award), If/Then(Tony Nomination), Almost Famous (Tony Nomation), Flying Over Sunset (Tony Nomination), High Fidelity, and Bring it On, The Musical. His work for the stage has also been seen Off Broadway at Second Stage (Next to Normal, Superhero), The Public Theater (The Visitor, Shakespeare in the Park) and he has worked at some of the most prestigious regional theaters including The Old Globe, Arena Stage, Berkeley Rep, The Signature Theater, and ART.
In addition, Tom’s Broadway credits as an orchestrator include: Next to Normal (Tony Award), The SpongeBob Musical (Tony Nomination), Jagged Little Pill (Tony Nomination), Almost Famous, Head Over Heels, Everyday Rapture, and American Idiot.
Tom has also been active in the world of film and TV. As one of the vocal arrangers working on the Pitch Perfect films, Tom most notably helped create the classic “Riff-off.” Tom also served as music supervisor/arranger/orchestrator for Grease Live and contributed songs for Royal Pains and Penny Dreadful. He also provided music supervision for the NBC series, Rise and has written numerous songs for Sesame Street. And he is known for his two original opening numbers for The Tony Awards, “Live” in 2019, written with David Javerbaum for James Corden, and the Emmy Award winning “Bigger” in 2013, written with Lin-Manuel Miranda for Neil Patrick Harris. Tom is also proud that his musical adaptation of Freaky Friday, co-written with Bridget Carpenter and Brian Yorkey was turned into an original movie musical for Disney Channel. Most recently, Tom served as a Supervising Music Producer on the new Bobby Lopez/Kristen Anderson-Lopez/Steven Levenson/Thomas Kail musical television series Up Here.