Sarah Treem, born in Boston, is the only writer to have written and produced all three seasons of the acclaimed HBO series, In Treatment, for which she won a Writer’s Guild of America award and was nominated for a Humanitas award. She is also a writer/producer for the Mark Wahlberg/Stephen Levinson produced HBO series, How To Make It In America, and is currently adapting Samantha Peale’s novel, The American Painter Emma Dial, for HBO with Philip Seymour Hoffman and Emily Ziff. In addition to The How and the Why, her full-length plays include Empty Sky; Against the Wall; Mirror, Mirror; A Feminine Ending; and Human Voices. Ms. Treem has been in residence at The Sundance Institute, The Ojai Playwriting Conference, The Screenwriters Colony, and the Yaddo Artists’ Colony. She has been commissioned by South Coast Repertory and Playwrights Horizons, and has been a Lark Playwrights’ Workshop fellow. Ms. Treem has taught playwriting at Yale University, where she earned her BA and MFA.
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Samantha Richert is delighted to be making her debut with The Nora Theatre Company. A recent graduate of Brandeis University’s MFA Acting program, Samantha has enjoyed roles there in Three Sisters, Funnyhouse of a Negro, Sunday in the Park With George, Love’s Labour’s Lost, and Little Monsters in association with the New York theater company Primary Stages. Other credits include: Moonchildren, Babes in Arms, A Christmas Carol, and Candide (Berkshire Theatre Festival); San Diego (Rude Guerrilla Theatre Company); Antony & Cleopatra (Assistant Director/Choreographer; Actors’ Shakespeare Project); The Hallway Plays (Fight Choreographer; Emerson College); and 4:48 Psychosis (Director), Kate Crackernuts (Director), and Puppet Show (Director/Choreographer/Creator; Alive Theatre Company). “To my mother and father, thank you for everything.”
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Lauren Elens is brand new to the Boston area, and is thrilled to be joining the team of The Nora’s and URT’s Arabian Nights. Favorite regional credits include newswoman Gloria Thorpe in Damn Yankees (Le Petit Theatre du Vieux Carre), Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme in Sondheim’s Assassins (The NOLA Project), and Kathy in Sondheim’s Company (New Orleans Lyric Theatre). She received her BFA in Musical Theatre and a BA in Classics from Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. She also trained at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts CAP 21 Professional Training Program. Lauren is the 2009 recipient of the Cynthia B. Taffaro Award for Theatrical Excellence for her work onstage and throughout the New Orleans arts community. Lauren is currently an intern for Central Square Theater.
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Ahmad Maksoud is thrilled to return to the Arabian Nights cast after an incredible experience last year. His most recent credits include The Kite Runner (New Repertory Theatre), Roller Disco The Musical! (A.R.T.’s OBERON), and Rent (Dream Out Loud Productions). Mr. Maksoud is a graduate of Northeastern University, where some of his favorite performances include The Day the Bird Flu Came, Children of Drancy, Measure for Measure, and Tales of the Lost Formicans. He extends his gratitude to The Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater for their remounting of this beautiful piece. Special thanks to his friends and family. “JBAM forever!”
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Evelyn Howe is so thrilled to be returning to Central Square Theater and to the wonderful world of Arabian Nights. She was most recently seen playing Veronica in SpeakEasy Stage’s The Motherf**ker with the Hat. Past roles include: Natalya in The Three Sisters; Evelyn in The Shape of Things; Argon in The Hypochondriac; White Fang in Jon Lipsky’s musical adaptation of Call of the Wild, which was performed at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland; Hamlet in Hamlet; and Mouth in Samuel Beckett’s Not I. She resides in Quincy.
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