Mary C. Huntington is the founding Artistic Director of The Nora Theatre Company, overseeing artistic and operational policy and the development of its seventy-two productions to date. Of these, thirty have been Boston or New England area premieres, five have been world premieres, and three have been world premiere translations or adaptations. Over the course of its history, the company has been accorded many accolades, including seven Elliot Norton Awards, five IRNE Awards, and inclusion in many year-end “Best of” lists. Ms. Huntington began her theater career as an actress, playing in such Off-Off Broadway, regional, and summerstock productions as The Little Foxes, Candide, Company, Marat/Sade, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Annie Get Your Gun, Baby, Agnes of God, and The Madwoman of Chaillot. Her appearances for The Nora include roles in Virginia, Good Night Desdemona (Good Morning Juliet), Spoils of War, Carthaginians, The Club, and Equus, among others. While the company resided at Harvard University, she also acted and directed for The Nora/Harvard student collaborations. While living in New York City, she produced and performed in her own musical nightclub act. She holds an MFA from Brandeis University, where she was an artist-in-residence, and apprenticed in theater production at the Williamstown Theatre Festival and The Barn Theatre in Michigan. Ms. Huntington is one of the leaders in the development of Central Square Theater. Her work in the areas of fundraising, design of the new space, and creation of a new management structure contributed to the realization of the partnership with Underground Railway Theater and the collaboration with MIT and the City of Cambridge. A former StageSource board member, she serves on the Executive Committee of NEAT – the Producers’ Association of New England Area Theatres and on the board of the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund, of which she is also a founding member. This past June, she received the 2013 StageSource Theatre Hero Award.
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Katherine Humbert is delighted to be working on another production at Central Square Theater, where she has assistant stage managed The Nora’s Operation Epsilon, and Underground Railway Theater’s productions of SILA, A Disappearing Number, and Mr. g. She has also had the pleasure of working on The Nora/URT’s The Other Place and Arabian Nights. A graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, she returned to the Boston area several years ago to explore the theatre scene and has been enjoying every moment. Most recently, Katherine stage managed The URT’s production of Matchless & The Happy Prince. Other recent stage management credits include: Into the Woods (Weston Drama Workshop), Translations (Bad Habit Productions), and Company (Moonbox Productions).
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Timothy L’Ecuyer is excited to be back in Central Square! Favorite projects as a stage manager include Wait Until Dark, The 39 Steps, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Lend Me a Tenor, Big River, The Full Monty, and Our Town. Favorite projects as a director include Urinetown, Electra, Fahrenheit 451, Spring Awakening (the play and the musical), Just in Case it’s the Devil, I Am My Own Wife, The 39 Steps, and the New Hampshire premier of Altar Boyz. He has bachelors degrees in theater and English and an MA in theater education from Emerson College. He has worked with numerous other companies, including American Stage Festival, The Barnstormers, The Winnipesaukee Playhouse, Theatre KAPOW and Stoneham Theatre.
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Dominique D. Burford, a native of Austin, Texas, holds a BFA in production technology and management from Carnegie Mellon University. Her credits include the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Carnegie Mellon University, and Music Theatre of Wichita. Around the Boston area, she has been the production stage manager for the resident companies at Central Square Theater since 2011 and worked with Underground Railway Theater previously in 2009 on How Do You Spell Hope? and Harriet Jacobs. Other credits include: A Christmas Celtic Sojourn 2012; The Hound of the Baskervilles, Matt & Ben (CST); The Real Inspector Hound, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Publick Theatre Boston); Swansong, Bottom of the Lake (Tír Na Productions); A Christmas Carol, Cabaret (New Rep); Merrimack Repertory Theatre, and Comedy of Errors (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company).
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Vahdat Yeganeh, Iranian born, is the founder of Boston Experimental Theatre (B.E.T.). Some of his experiences with B.E.T. include directing and producing The Spurt of Blood, The Misunderstanding, There Is Another Court: An Evening with JonBenét Ramsey, Trim: The Tiger Woods Story, The Other Woman, Crying Deer, and Play Strindberg: Dance of Death (Best Directing Award from KCACTF 2007). He has worked as assistant director for numerous theater companies, including American Repertory Theater, The Nora Theatre Company, Underground Railway Theater, and Shakespeare Now! Theatre Company. He also stage managed and performed for numerous theaters in Iran, including directing The Most Honest Murderer in The World. He has produced numerous movies, including Over There (Best Prize Golden Alexander at THESSALONIKI Film Festival for the Best Future Movie 2008). Vahdat is very proud to be back at CST as the assistant to Daniel Gidron.
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