Samantha Evans was last seen in the Footlight Club’s production of Steel Magnolias (Annelle) and in Fresh Ink Theatre and Interim Writers’ 24 Hour Play Festival, The Mad Dash. Samantha received her BFA from Emerson College with credits including Tartuffe for Emerson Stage (Cleante), Machinal (Young Woman) and As You Like It (Phebe). Last summer she received training at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts.
Stephanie Clayman* (Dr. Irene M. Pepperberg) has been acting professionally for over 25 years. She has worked Off-Broadway with the Women’s Project and the Vineyard Theatre, and regionally at many theatres, including The Kennedy Center and Trinity
Rep. In the Boston area she has worked with The Huntington Theatre, The Nora, Gloucester Stage, Merrimack Rep, Lyric Stage, and The New Rep.
Previously at Central Square Theater: Clive/Betty (Cloud Nine), Eppie Lederer (The Lady With All the Answers). Other favorite roles: Flora (Humble Boy), Lady Macbeth (Macbeth), Gertrude (The Underpants), Marlene (Top Girls), Lusia (A Shayna Maidel), and Kate (The Taming of the Shrew). She is featured in the films The Women, Orphan, and A Simple Question and can be seen putting her Deaf Studies degree to good use in What’s the Worst That Could
Happen? as her character gleefully interprets a string of invective into American Sign Language.
As a teacher, Ms. Clayman has worked in venues ranging from inner city housing projects and public schools to Universities, teaching acting, improvisation, performance art, Shakespeare, playwriting, and directing student-created plays. She is an accomplished voice over artist, and can pronounce terrifying medical terms with ease (although with scant knowledge of their meaning).
David Berger-Jones is thrilled to make his Boston theatre debut on this stage. A native of Chapel Hill, NC, he has studied at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic arts and received his BFA in acting from Carnegie Mellon University. Some of his favorite credits from CMU include Pridamont in Tony Kushner’s The Illusion, Lucien P. Smith in The Boys Next Door, and Bertozzo in Accidental Death of an Anarchist. He would like to thank his parents, siblings, and friends for their continual support and encouragement.
Steven Barkhimer*, he/him/his (Roy Cohn for Select Performances) has appeared in a number of productions at the Central Square Theater, including: Copenhagen, directed by Eric Tucker. He recently understudied both male leads in The Art of Burning at The Huntington. Film credits include: The Fighter, American Hustle and Puralge 3. Author/composer of music and/or lyrics for stage and film as well as original independent song collections, including Time Was; also an adapter (School for Scandal), Librettist (Tristram Shandy), and author of Windowmen (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding New Script).
Joe Stallone (Assistant Director) holds BA degrees from Boston College in Dramatic Literature and Theatre. Joe’s directing credits include The Glass Menagerie and The Fantasticks (TCAN Players); Tartuffe (The Umbrella); A Little Night Music; Side by Side by Sondheim (AFD Theatre), ART; On Golden Pond (Winchester Players); Plaza Suite (Quannapowitt Players); The Tale of the Allergist’s Wife (Wellesley Players). Joe was the Company Dramaturg at Gloucester Stage Company in 2014 and was their Resident Props Designer for three seasons. Joe’s most recent work at CST was as Senior Dramaturg for Arcadia. Prior props/set dressing designs at Central Square Theater include Absurd Person Singular (The Nora Theatre Company), Mr g, Sila, A Disappearing Number, The Other Place, and Distracted (Underground Railway Theater). Other credits include Albatross (Poets’ Theatre); Miracle on 34 Street, Distant Music (Stoneham Theatre); Marry Me a Little, And The World Goes ‘Round, Rent, Collected Stories (New Repertory Theatre); Blood Rose Rising (Honest Ghost Productions). Joe’s regional real estate brokerage supports theatre and the arts through its “Refer-a-Friend” arts contribution program.
As of November 2017.