Sarah Newhouse* (Alice, understudy) is a founding company member of the Actors’ Shakespeare Project, with whom she has performed more than twenty roles in 11 years. Some of her favorites productions include King Lear, Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, Medea, Twelfth Night, Love’s Labour’s Lost, Taming of the Shrew, and The Comedy of Errors. She has performed throughout New England at such venues as American Repertory Theater (The King Stag), Boston Playwrights (The River Was Whiskey), Central Square Theater (Distracted), The Charles Playhouse (Shear Madness), Gloucester Stage (The Norman Conquests), Lyric Stage Company (Lost in Yonkers), New Repertory Theatre (DollHouse), and Stoneham Theatre (Miracle on 34th Street), and most recently Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream with ASP. She has also been fortunate to have travelled as far as Taiwan and Moscow with international play festivals.

While living in NYC, Sarah worked at Playwrights’ Horizons, Kraine Theatre, Manhattan Punch Line, & LaMama, Etc., to name a few. Film credits include ‘Feathers’, ‘The Legend of Lucy Keyes’, ‘Dischord’, ‘Beneath Contempt’, and ‘Bleed For This.’ Ms. Newhouse is a graduate of Hampshire College and the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University. She currently serves on the board of directors of the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, and lives in Watertown, MA with her husband & son.

Nael Nacer* (Frank Bonner) he/him, has previously appeared at CST in Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Angels in America, Constellations and Distracted. Broadway: Prayer for the French Republic (Manhattan Theatre Club) Off-Broadway: Meet the Cartozians (Second Stage), The Orchard (Arlekin Players/B.A.C) Regional: The Triumph of Love, Leopoldstadt, Prayer for the French Republic, A Doll’s House, Bedroom Farce, and David Cromer’s production Our Town (The Huntington), The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, The Tempest (Commonwealth Shakespeare Co.); The Merchant of Venice, Macbeth, Equivocation (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); People, Places & Things, Small Mouth Sounds, A Future Perfect, Tribes (SpeakEasy Stage Co.), The Seagull (Arlekin Players Theatre); Tiny Beautiful Things, True West, Bank Job, The Flick (Gloucester Stage Co.); The Return (Israeli Stage); Tiny Beautiful Things, 45 Plays for 45 Presidents, It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play (Merrimack Rep); Calendar Girls (Greater Boston Stage Co.); Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play, Intimate Apparel, Animal Crackers (Lyric Stage Co. of Boston); A Number, Lungs, The Kite Runner, Pattern of Life (New Repertory Theatre); Rhinoceros, Windowmen (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); and Shear Madness (Charles Playhouse). Nael is the recipient of multiple Elliot Norton and IRNE awards for his work. He is a resident acting company member of Actors’ Shakespeare Project, as well as a private monologue coach with My College Audition. 

Michelle Dowd is thrilled to be working with Ms. Gardner, Ms. Braha, cast, and crew at The Nora Theatre Company. Ms. Dowd has performed with many Boston Theater companies over the years. For regional mainstage experience, she has worked on productions of The Amen Corner, Nomanthemba, and A Streetcar Named Desire (The Huntington Theater); she has also understudied  for Seven Guitars, To Kill a Mockingbird, A Raisin in the Sun, and From the Mississippi Delta. She has performed in Crowns (Lyric Stage); the Brother Sister Plays (Company One); and Violet (SpeakEasy Stage Company). In addition, she has worked with the Zeitgeist Theater Company, winning an IRNE Award for Best Actress in Edward Albee’s New England premiere of the three-act version of Seascape, and Best Supporting Actress for The Story. She was also part of the cast for IRNE award winning productions of Brother Sister Plays and Spring Awakening. She was last seen in Distracted (Underground Railway Theater), and in a stage reading of Danny Bryck’s new play The River and The Sea (New Rep). Ms. Dowd also provides voice-over talent in the Boston area.  When not on stage, Ms. Dowd is a seasoned Boston banker and avid traveler (38 countries and counting). Michelle thanks her father, Fred, and mother, Anne, for her lifelong passion for play.

Kerry A. Dowling Boston credits: Clybourne Park; Next to Normal; The Drowsy Chaperone; Nine; The Great American Trailer Park Musical; Reckless; Jerry Springer – the Opera; The New Century; The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Parade; The Women; Bat Boy: The Musical; Company (IRNE Award); Elegies; A New Brain; Triumph of Love; Floyd Collins; Lips Together, Teeth Apart; Songs for a New World (SpeakEasy); Nicholas Nickleby, Follies (Lyric Stage); Into the Woods (New Rep); A Man of No Importance (Súgán/SpeakEasy); Steel Magnolias, Pal Joey (Stoneham);The Most Happy Fella (Gloucester). Kerry is the recipient of the 2010 SpeakEasy Stage Company Outstanding Artist Award.

Brandon Barbosa is honored to be making his debut at Central Square Theater  with Distracted, and so excited to be a part of this amazing cast that brings this unique, funny, and poignant story to life. Brandon is a fifth grader in Revere and would like to thank his teachers for their ongoing enthusiasm and support. His past performances has included the North Shore Music Theatre production of A Christmas Carol (2010-2012), The King and I, and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat; Speakeasy Stage Company’s Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson; and Boston Children’s Theatre’s Legally Blonde and HONK!