Judith Chaffee (Choreographer) is thrilled to be back working with Debra and Lee, and the designers and cast at Central Square Theatre. She is an actress, chorographer and member of AEA, trained in most forms of dance, improvisation, commedia dell’arte, and movement practices.  She produced two CDs on period styles through Insight Media and co-edited with Olly Crick, The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell’Arte.  An Associate Professor Emerita at Boston University’s School of Theatre, she taught for 41 years, and is now living on Plum Island where she is active with Theater in the Open in Newburyport, MA.

Kareem Roustom is an Emmy-nominated composer who has composed music for film, television, the concert hall, and album projects. Steeped in the musical traditions of the Arab Near East and trained in Western music, Roustom is a musically bilingual composer who has collaborated with a wide variety of artists ranging from the Kronos Quartet, to Philadelphia Orchestra, and to Shakira. For more information, visit kr-music.com.

Talia Lefton is a graduate of Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Other productions at CST inclide Ti-Jean and His Brothers, Krik Krak, and Breaking the Code with URT as a production assistant. Talia was also involved in a production of Hair with the Arlington Friends of the Drama Theater as a puppet designer. She thanks her friends and family for their support and rides to fabric and hardware stores!

Karen Perlow (Lighting Designer) is happy to bring back this delightful show and to have been involved in the first co-production between The Nora Theatre Company and Underground Railway Theater, having a long and fruitful history with both companies. Upcoming or current projects include: The Heidi Chronicles at Northeastern University, School for Scandal with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and Violet at SpeakEasy Stage Company. She has also designed at ART Zero Arrow, Shakespeare & Company, Wheelock Family Theatre, Stoneham Theatre, Tír Na Productions, Gloucester Stage, Boston Midsummer Opera, and Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Karen teaches Lighting Design at Northeastern University and is the treasurer of the Theater Community Benevolent Fund. She is the recipient of the 2002, 2006, and 2008 IRNE Award for Best Lighting Design. Member USA 829. karenperlowlightdesign.com.

Leslie Held (Costume Designer) is delighted to return to CST having designed costumes for many of their productions including; Vanity Fair (Elliot Norton award), Arabian Nights (IRNE award), Absurd Person Singular, The Other Place, Proof, and Guards at the Taj. She has designed costumes for such theaters as New Repertory Theatre; (The Cardboard Piano, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), Roundhouse Theater (Angel Street, 110 in the Shade, The Three Sisters, Twelfth Night, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), The Alley Theater (Come Back to the Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean), Arena Stage (Candide), and the Kennedy Center (Renard the Fox).  From 1989 to 2014 she held the positions of technical instructor and costume designer in the Music & Theater Arts department at MIT where she designed costumes for many productions of classical and contemporary works. Most recently, as well as designing for Boston area theaters, she teaches and designs at Suffolk University and works  with her husband creating public art installations.