Scott Pinkney is pleased to return to The Nora, where he has designed several shows, including Absurd Person Singular, The How and the Why, We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay!, The Seahorse, and Van Gogh in Japan. On Broadway, he designed Harvey Fierstein’s Tony Award-winning Torch Song Trilogy. Off-Broadway credits include the recent hit Becoming Dr. Ruth, Majestic Kid, Divine Fire, and The World is Made of Glass. He has designed more than 20 productions for Barrington Stage Company, including Scott and Hem in the Garden of Allah, All My Sons, Best of Enemies, The Crucible, Whipping Man, Carousel, A Streetcar Named Desire, and Follies. Other regional designs include Don Juan for The Denver Center (Denver Critics Circle Award), Comedy of Errors for Commonwealth Shakespeare (Elliot Norton Award), Balkan Women for Bristol Riverside Theatre (Barrymore nomination), and My Fair Lady for TheatreVirginia (Phoebe Award). Internationally, he has designed for Singapore Rep and The Club Mohamed-Ali in Cairo. Mr. Pinkney is an associate professor of lighting design at Emerson College in Boston. SLPinkney.com.
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Barry M. Press
Barry M. Press is delighted to be making his debut at CST. He most recently appeared in House and Garden (Trinity Rep), and has performed Off-Broadway and in regional theaters from Alaska to Florida, including Seattle, Merrimack, and Yale Repertory Theatres. Some of his favorite roles include: Ben Hecht in Moonlight And Magnolias, Niels Bohr in Copenhagen, Azdak in The Caucasian Chalk Circle, and Falstaff in Henry IV. Mr. Press has an MFA from the Yale School of Drama and is artistic director of Living Literature, a RI based literacy program dramatizing non-dramatic writing, which he founded in 1996.
Richard McElvain
Richard McElvain is just back from New York City, where he performed the role of Norman in the American premiere of Playing Sinatra with Austin Pendleton at Theater for the New City. At CST, he has played the title role in URT’s Galileo and directed The Nora’s A Moon For The Misbegotten. Previously for The Nora, he also created his own adaptation of Sophocles’ Antigone, in which he played Creon. Other notable work includes The Luck of the Irish (Huntington Theatre Company), The Critic in Saint Nicholas (Elliot Norton award, Súgán Theatre), and Roy Cohn in Angels In America (Boston Theatreworks). He has translated and directed four plays by Moliere. His film and television credits include Mermaids, What’s The Worst That Could Happen, Mister North, and Spenser For Hire. With his colleagues, he has created an award-winning theater program at Fitchburg State University.
Stacy Fischer
Stacy Fischer was last seen at CST in URT’s Distracted and The Nora’s Hysteria (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actress). Previously, she also played Ophelia in The Nora’s production of The Secret Love Life of Ophelia. Other recent credits include Robert Brustein’s The Last Will (Commonwealth Shakespeare) and Our Town (Huntington Theatre Company). Stacy has performed in numerous theaters in the Boston area, including Boston Art Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Gloucester Stage, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, New Repertory Theatre, North Shore Music Theatre, Publick Theatre Boston, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Stoneham Theatre, The Súgán, and Village Theatre Project. Stacy is a graduate of Emerson College and is a founding member of Harbor Stage Company in Wellfleet, MA.
Gail Astrid Buckley
Gail Astrid Buckley returns to Central Square Theater after having designed Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M., Distracted (URT); Photograph 5I, The How and the Why, Silver Spoon, Hysteria, The Lady With All The Answers, A Moon for the Misbegotten, Not Enough Air, and We Won’t Pay! We Won’t Pay! (The Nora). Other recent designs include The Cunning Little Vixen (Boston Conservatory); The Motherf**cker with the Hat, Adding Machine: A Musical (2010Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design), Red (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Spring Awakening, North Shore Fish, This is Our Youth, Driving Miss Daisy (Gloucester Stage Company); Miracle on 34th Street (Stoneham Theatre); and A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theatre). Gail received the 2002 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Costume Design and the IRNE Award for Costume Design for Twelfth Night at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company and the 2006 IRNE Award for Costume Design for her work on both Caroline, or Change and The Women for SpeakEasy Stage Company.