Barlow Adamson* (Sir George Crofts) he/him, is happy to return to CST where he appeared in Angels In America (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Play), Paradise, Photograph 51, Marjorie Prime, Operation Epsilon, On The Verge, and Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M. A Boston-based actor, other roles include: Umbrella Stage – Network; SpeakEasy Stage Company – Small Mouth Sounds (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Ensemble), Kurt Vonnegut’s Make Up Your Mind, Reckless, Almost Maine, Fuddy Meers; Lyric Stage Company – Trouble In Mind, The Great Leap, Fabulation…, Be Here Now, The Thanksgiving Play, Chinglish, Time Stands Still, Noises Off, Arms and the Man; Boston Playwrights’ Theatre – Elemenopea (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Actor), The Honey Trap; Greater Boston Stage Company – Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help; Merrimack Repertory Theatre – The Villains’ Supper Club; Huntington Theatre – The Maiden’s Prayer, A Month in the Country; Gloucester Stage Company: The Norman Conquests, Dinner With Friends. Barlow directed Shakespeare’s R+J, Bunbury and The Monster Tales for the Mill 6 Collaborative, and the world premieres of From Denmark with Love and Bear Patrol for Vaquero Playground.
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Anthony Schiavo is making his debut at Central Square with Distracted. In July, Anthony will be stage-managing a revival of At Ease and a staged reading of Bob Brustein’s The King of Schnorrers (Outside the Box Theatre Festival). Recent credits include: Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day (Boston Children’s Theatre), Fire on Earth (Fresh Ink Theatre), 99% Stone (The Theater Offensive), Anthony Rapp’s Without You (Royal Family Productions), These Seven Sicknesses, At Ease, and Doctor Faustus (Suffolk). He extends special thanks to Wes for this opportunity, and his family for their endless support.
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Bozkurt “bozzy” Karasu began working on stage in 1991 in Istanbul, Turkey as a production crew member of the Istanbul Festivals organized by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts… After working as a free-lancer production manager and designer there for 13 years he moved to NYC in 2003 to join The Wooster Group as a company member and later moved to MIT Theater Arts as a technical instructor in October 2012. Besides The Wooster Group he collaborated with and designed for a wide array of artists and ensembles within last decade such as Wesley Savick, Findlay//Sandsmark, Armitage Gone! Dance, Richard Maxwell and the New York City Players, The Watermill Center and Robert Wilson, Butch Morris (1947 – 2013), Mestre Joao Grande, Sarah Michelson, Bruce Odland, No Theater, Radiohole, The Collapsable Giraffe, American Repertory Theater, Dan Graham, Cynthia Hopkins and Jack Warren. Recent works include Technical Direction of the International Summer Program of The Watermill Center by Robert Wilson (July and August 2014); Lighting and Video Design for the “The Saint Plays” written by Erik Ehn, Directed by Wesley Savick (November 2014); Sound and Video Design for “Bride, Widow and Hag” written by Kim Rosenstock, directed by Shira Milikowsky (January 2015); Consulting in the construction of Performances Venues within Koc Contemporary Art Museum, Istanbul – Turkey (ongoing), Videography for Paddy Saul Band (ongoing) and Technical Supervision for Findlay // Sandsmark, Stavanger – Norway (ongoing).
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Sara Brown (Scenic Designer) returns to Central Square Theater having previously designed Distracted and Mr g for Underground Railway Theater. Previous scenic designs include World of Wires (Directed by Jay Scheib and presented by The Kitchen in NYC, Festival d’Automne in Paris and the ICA in Boston), Lily’s Revenge (The American Repertory Theater), A House in Bali (A Bang on a Can production), The Gacy Play, (Sideshow Theater Company in Chicago), The Temperamentals (The Lyric Stage Company), The Flu Season and Bob: A Life in 5 Acts (ART Institute), Images from the Embers (Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co.), and video design for Island (Dana Tai Soon Burgess & Co.) She is the Director of Design for MIT Music and Theater Arts and has been a visiting Professor of Practice at the University of Virginia.
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Wesley Savick (Reverend Sam Gardner) is delighted to be back at CST. He worked on five CST Catalyst Collaborative projects, including writing and directing adaptations of Alan Lightman’s novels Einstein’s Dreams (which toured to the first World Science Festival in NYC and which was produced three times at CST) and Mr g. He was commissioned by Catalyst Collaborative to write and direct a new play based on the life of Henry Molaison, the most-studied brain patient of the 20th century (Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M., which also featured original music by Tod Machover). He also directed Lisa Loomer’s Distracted, and played the role of Charles Darwin in Melinda Lopez’s premiere production of From Orchids to Octopi (which also toured to the National Institutes of Health in Washington, DC).
In addition to his work on science plays at CST, Mr. Savick also wrote and directed Car Talk: The Musical!!!, wrote the adaptation and directed the URT holiday double-bill of The Loudest Voice by Grace Paley and A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote and directed On the Verge by Eric Overmyer for the Nora. He recently worked with James Carroll, Rachel DeWoskin and Writers for Democratic Action to co-write It Can’t Happen Here Again!, an adaptation of Sinclair Lewis which was produced in 91 venues in 71 cities in 24 cities on July 19th, 2024…the day after the Republican National Convention. In October 2024, he premiered a new musical at the Modern Theatre, dramandemocracy, inspired by Arlie Hochschild’s “Strangers In Their Own Land” which he wrote and directed. He also wrote, directed, and composed an original agit-prop musical adaptation of The Handbook of Civilian Defense (published by the U.S. government in 1942) which was produced at the Edinburgh Fringe with his company, Juvenilia at Suffolk University.
Mr. Savick is the author of twenty-seven plays, the director of one hundred professional productions and tenured Professor of Theatre at Suffolk University.
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