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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Amanda Sheehan is a stage manager, assistant stage manager, occasional props designer, and sometimes marketing assistant living in Boston who spends her summers company managing at the New London Barn Playhouse in New Hampshire. She’s been happy to work with companies like Shakespeare Now!, GAN-e-meed Theatre Project, Underground Railway Theater, The Nora Theatre Company, Fort Point Theatre Channel, Holland Productions, Fresh Ink Theatre, and Actors’ Shakespeare Project. She’s thrilled to be back at Central Square Theater this year, working on her fifth production here! She will be graduating from Dartmouth College with a Master’s in Liberal Studies, creative writing focus, in June 2013.
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Tasia A. Jones (Director) she/her, is a professional director, performer, and educator focused on socially and civically engaged theater practices. She is also Co-Chair of Performance and an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Boston University’s School of Theatre. Her most recent directing credits include Crumbs from the Table of Joy (Lyric Stage Company). Stokely: The Unfinished Revolution (Court Theatre), 1919 (Steppenwolf Theatre Company), A Raisin in the Sun (American Players Theatre), Intimate Apparel (Northlight Theatre), Intimate Apparel (Utah Shakespeare Festival), Small Mouth Sounds (UCCS Theatreworks).
Tasia has appeared in such works as Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (The Lyric Stage Company), Good Television (Zeitgeist Stage Company), and The Bluest Eye (Company One). She holds a BFA in Theatre Arts from Boston University and an MFA in Directing from Northwestern University. tasiaajones.com
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