Paige Clark is thrilled to be returning to the cast of Arabian Nights after a two-year hiatus.  She is pleased to be reprising the role she originated, and for which she won an IRNE Award (Best Ensemble).  Other area credits: Emilia in Comedy Of Errors, Benvolia in Romeo & Juliet, Julia in Two Gentlemen of Verona, Helen in Troilus & Cressida (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Soraya in The Kite Runner (New Repertory Theatre), and Agnes in She Kills Monsters (Company One).  Paige has taught theatre to students of all ages throughout the Boston area at Riverside Theatre Works, Charlestown Working Theatre, Boston Preparatory Charter School, Warren Prescott Middle School, Edison K-8 School, and Boston University.  She is also the Assistant Theatre Director at Newton South High School.  She holds a BFA from Boston University and has studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

Ramona Lisa Alexander (Marley et al.) was last was seen at Central Square Theater in the first season of Arabian Nights. Most recently, she appeared as Nina in The Royale at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Regional: Romeo and Juliet (Nurse), The Boys from Syracuse, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Barbecue and Saturday Night Sunday Morning, The Lyric Stage Company of Boston; Milk Like Sugar, Breathe Boom, Huntington Theatre Company; Days of Atonement, Israeli Stage; Arabian Nights, Harriet Jacobs, Ti-Jean & His Brothers, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Central Square Theater; Seven Guitars, The Artist Repertory Theatre; The Brother/Sister Plays, King Hedley II, Portland Playhouse (Drammy Award); Intimate Apparel, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre; To Kill a Mockingbird Montana Repertory Theatre, National Tour; A Christmas Carol, Berkshire Theatre Festival; Postcards from Earth, Guthrie Theatre; 103 Within the Veil, Company One (IRNE Award); Doubt, Newton Nomadic Theater; In the Continuum, Joe Turner’s …, Up You Might Race Theatre Company (IRNE Award); In the Blood, Zeitgest Stage Company; Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras, Peter and the Wolf; International: Reggae Sun Splash Music Festival in Jamaica. Film/Television: Knock Around Kids, adekoje-filmwerks. Education: MFA Brandeis University.

David Allen, manager of artistic operations, has worked as an artistic associate at the Hartford Stage Company, where he was the staff dramaturg and director of education. Production dramaturgy at Hartford Stage included A Servant of Two Masters, directed by Bart Sher, Cymbeline, Under Milk Wood and Tiny Alice, all directed by Mark Lamos and Light Up the Sky, directed by Daniel Sullivan. He was also a literary associate and dramaturg for the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven. Productions worked on included A Touch of the Poet, directed by Arvin Brown, An Enemy of the People, directed by John Tillinger and numerous developmental works on the Theater’s “Stage Two,” including world premieres by Keith Reddin, Teresa Rebeck, and David Wiltse. In addition to professional theater work, David has been a professor of theater at the University of Hartford and Bridgewater State University. He was also the founding executive director the Community School of the Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, and the managing director of the Greater Hartford Academy of the Arts, a performing arts magnet high school.

Taylor Hansen, Production Manager, has been with Central Square Theater since its opening in 2008. His work has previously been seen with Tokoloshe, Truth Values and Never Far From Home. Additional design work includes A Shift in Time at the Kingston Gallery and Boston Civic Symphony Orchestra at Regis College.