Talia Lefton is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Other productions at CST inclide Ti-Jean and His Brothers, Krik Krak, and Breaking the Code with URT as a production assistant. Talia was also involved in a production of Hair with the Arlington Friends of the Drama Theater as a puppet designer. She thanks her friends and family for their support and rides to fabric and hardware stores!
Karen Perlow (Lighting Designer) is happy to bring back this delightful show and to have been involved in the first co-production between The Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater, having a long and fruitful history with both companies. Upcoming or current projects include: The Heidi Chronicles at Northeastern University, School for Scandal with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and Violet at SpeakEasy Stage Company. She has also designed at ART Zero Arrow, Shakespeare & Company, Wheelock Family Theatre, Stoneham Theatre, Tír Na Productions, Gloucester Stage, Boston Midsummer Opera, and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Karen teaches Lighting Design at Northeastern University and is the treasurer of the Theater Community Benevolent Fund. She is the recipient of the 2002, 2006, and 2008 IRNE Award for Best Lighting Design. Member USA 829. karenperlowlightdesign.
Leslie Held (Costume Designer) is delighted to return to CST having designed costumes for many of their productions including; Vanity Fair (Elliot Norton award), Arabian Nights (IRNE award), Absurd Person Singular, The Other Place, Proof, and Guards at the Taj. She has designed costumes for such theaters as New Repertory Theatre; (The Cardboard Piano, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Roundhouse Theater (Angel Street, 110 in the Shade, The Three Sisters, Twelfth Night, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), The Alley Theater (Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean), Arena Stage (Candide), and the Kennedy Center (Renard the Fox). From 1989 to 2014 she held the positions of technical instructor and costume designer in the Music & Theater Arts department at MIT where she designed costumes for many productions of classical and contemporary works. Most recently, as well as designing for Boston area theaters, she teaches and designs at Suffolk University and works with her husband creating public art installations.
Will Cabell has been an actor, puppeteer, and musician in New England for over 30 years. A company member of The Barnstormers Theater (Tamworth, NH), he went on to found and tour for over 20 years with Starbird Puppet Theatre. Will worked as technical director and performer for Underground Railway Theater from 1996 to 2001, touring and acting in such shows as Are You Ready, My Sister, Intoxicating: An Eco-Cabaret, The Firebird, Carnival of the Animals, and Creation of the World. During his tenure with URT, he oversaw productions of The Tempest, How Do You Spell Hope?, and Alice Underground, the set for which, with designer David Fichter, was awarded a 1998 IRNE Award. Also with David Fichter, he created the puppet Wizard of Cahs for Car Talk:The Musical!!! He currently serves on the board and works in New Hampshire with Advice To The Players, producing plays and training young actors through Shakespeare productions.
David Fichter (Set & Puppetry Designer) has designed numerous productions over the past 20 years, most recently Journey to the West, Arabian Nights (2011 IRNE Award, Best Puppetry with Will Cabell), designed the puppet “The Wizard of Cahs” for Car Talk: The Musical!!!, From Orchids to Octopi, The Life of Galileo, Alice’s Adventures Underground (1998 IRNE Award, Best Design), States of Grace, and The Tempest. He designed puppets for URT’s Brundibar and the set and puppets for URT’s recent production of Matchless & The Happy Prince. He also designed the set and large scale puppets of the Kings for Madcap Puppets’ production in collaboration with the Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra’s of Amahl and the Night Visitors which ran for four seasons. Primarily, David paints colorful, figurative murals celebrating the diversity of cultures, the history of communities, and the importance of nature. He has worked collaboratively with neighborhood groups, schools, towns, and cities across the country to create over 200 large-scale public murals. For the past 18 years, David has worked with teens from the Mystic Housing Project in Somerville and local science educators to paint The Mystic River Journey, an ever-expanding mural about the Mystic River watershed.
As of November 2017.