Angie Jepson, she/her/hers (Fight and Intimacy Director) is an intimacy director, fight choreographer, and professor based in the Boston area, and she is thrilled to return to Central Square Theater after choreographing fights for Alma earlier this season.  Her recent work includes intimacy direction for Bluebeard’s Castle/Four Songs (directed by Anne Bogart) with the Boston Lyric Opera and fight and intimacy direction for By the Queen with Trinity Rep.  Her fight and intimacy work has been seen onstage at theatres including the Manhattan Theatre Club, The Huntington, Trinity Repertory Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Gloucester Stage Co., Commonwealth Shakespeare Co., SpeakEasy Stage Co., Greater Boston Stage Co., and at several universities in the Boston area. She is currently on faculty in the Brown/Trinity MFA Acting program, and at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee, where she teaches in the theatre and opera departments. She is a Certified Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators, a Certified Teacher with the Society of American Fight Directors, and she holds an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University.

David DeBeck last appeared with The Nora in A.R. Gurney’s Screen Play.  David has also worked regionally at Theatreworks, Hartford; The Virginia Stage Company, Norfolk; Centenary Stage Co., NJ; and The Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia. He has also appeared in productions Off-Broadway and Off-Off Broadway. Favorite film credits include Paul Hansen in The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck and Tommy Lee Jones.  Favorite television credits include guest roles in Brotherhood (Showtime) and several episodes of Dick Wolf’s Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Special Victims Unit.  David and his wife, Shannon, live in Cambridge.

Jaime Carrillo has recently been seen at SpeakEasy Stage Company as Jackie in The Motherf**ker With The Hat (Winner, Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Production) and as Valentine in Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Actors’ Shakespeare Project.  As a company member of the Classical Theatre of Harlem, Jaime performed in King Lear, MARAT/SADE, Macbeth, Mother Courage and Her Children, and Dream on Monkey Mountain.  Other New York credits include Red Beads (Mabou Mines); The Vultures, Offending the Audience, and I.E., in other words (The Flea Theatre); and Oedipus Rex (Faux-Real Theatre). Regional credits include roles at Woolly Mammoth Theatre, GALA Hispanic Theatre, and Studio Theatre.  TV credits: School Spirits (Syfy); Red Rum (Discovery ID). Training: Graduate, The William Esper Studio; B.A. with honors in theater arts from Brandeis University.  Jaime was also a member of the Bats at the Flea Theatre for two seasons.

Catherine Carr Kelly (Executive Director, Central Square Theater) was Managing Director of Underground Railway Theater for eleven years and served as Campaign Manager for the Campaign for Central Square Theater for the two years prior to becoming the CST Executive Director. Ms. Carr Kelly is also the Founding Managing Director of the Women on Top Theater Festival of New Works, running from 2000 to 2007. She co-founded the award-winning I Was There Project, an interdisciplinary arts-based oral history residency for elementary schools created in partnership with the John Nicholas Brown Center at Brown University. Ms. Carr Kelly is on the Central Square Cultural District Advisory Committee, The MassCreative Leadership Council and a Co-Chair of Development Committee for the Providence Children’s Film Festival. Past board involvement includes the Somerville Arts Council, StageSource, and the Arts/Boston Advisory Board. She served on the inaugural co-hort for the Theater Communications Group’s national Equity, Diversity and Inclusion initiative. Ms. Carr Kelly has consulted for theaters, restaurants, communications firms, and statewide arts councils in public relations, small business management, marketing and EDI. She speaks often on the power of collaboration for non-profits at conferences, public forums and universities. Ms. Carr Kelly has also stage managed, assistant directed, and produced original theater in Prague, Czech Republic

October 2018.

Debra Wise (she/her) launched Underground Railway Theater in Oberlin, Ohio with founding Artistic Director Wes Sanders. From 1978-2008, they toured original works nationally and abroad to venues ranging from Lincoln Center to public schools. Their work was inspired by the collaborative, activist spirit of the Underground Railroad, with titles including Sanctuary – The Spirit of Harriet Tubman, Home is Where, InTOXICating and The Christopher Columbus Follies; they also collaborated with Boston Symphony and other orchestras (Firebird, Creation of the World, Tempest). Wise assisted Sanders in creating a digital book about URT’s history:  www.URTheaterEbook.com.  After Wise became URT’s Artistic Director, she continued to create performances for non-traditional venues, including Boston’s Museum of Science (Aging Puzzle); New Center for Arts and Culture (Jewish Women and Their Salons); the Mary Baker Eddy Library; the MFA (Art InterACTions); and the streets of Cambridge (Public Art ACTS). After opening Central Square Theater with The Nora Theatre Company in 2008, Wise worked with playwrights Alan Brody and Jon Lipsky, and physicist/author Alan Lightman, to found Catalyst Collaborative@MIT (CC@MIT), CST’s science theater partnership. She led partnerships with Mount Auburn Cemetery (Our Town) and the National Park Service (Roots of Liberty – The Haitian Revolution and the American Civil War, featuring actors, dancers, musicians, and guests Danny Glover, Henry Louis Gates and Edwidge Danticat). URT@CST won Elliot Norton awards under Wise’s leadership: Vanity Fair (Outstanding Design); black odyssey boston (Outstanding Ensemble); The Convert and Constellations (Outstanding Production) and Bedlam’s St. Joan (Best Visiting Production). Acting appearances at CST have included The Half-Life of Marie Curie, Vanity Fair, Homebody, Copenhagen, Brundibar & But the Giraffe!, The Other Place, Distracted, The How and the Why, Einstein’s Dreams, From Orchids to Octopi: An Evolutionary Love Story, Yesterday Happened: Remembering H.M., Breaking the Code, Arabian Nights and A Christmas Memory. Appearances on other Boston stages: Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare); Doll’s House 2 and Escaped Alone (The Gamm);  Mistero Buffo (Poets’ Theatre); A Boston Marriage and Orson’s Shadow (New Rep); People, Places & Things (Speakeasy); and Chosen Child (Boston Playwrights’); in NYC, The Haggadah (The Public, with Julie Taymor). Work as a playwright includes her adaptation of A Christmas Carol; States of Grace (inspired by Grace Paley’s stories); and Alice’s Adventures Underground (adapted from Lewis Carroll). She developed the curriculum Art Works for Schools with DeCordova Museum, public schools and Harvard’s Project Zero, and collaborated with Harvard’s Graduate School of Education for 20 years, training educators on using theater to help students think deeply across the curriculum. Wise left her CST Artistic Director position in 2022, to help invite increasingly diverse leadership; she now serves on the CC@MIT Advisory Committee. Her new position is Associate Artistic Director for The Revels (www.revels.org), and she consults for the Oberlin-Wellington Rescue Theater Project (www.owrproject.org). Her third audiobook in Gregory Maguire’s return to his Wicked epic, The Witch of Maracoor, will be released this fall.