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 [USA 829] (Lighting Designer) Returns to CST after last year’s Breaking the Code. She has been designing lights for over 30 years in the Greater Boston area. Select credits include Lyric Stage: Anna Christie, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Hold These Truths, The Wolves, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Miss Witherspoon. Speakeasy Stage Company: Swept Away, A Man of No Importance, The Inheritance, Once, History Boys, Shakespeare in Love, Fun Home. Merrimack Repertory Theater: The Royale, Native Gardens. Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Macbeth, School for Scandal. New Repertory Theater: Long Day’s Journey into Night, Lieutenant of Inishmore, Cherry Docs. Odyssey Opera: La Belle Helene. Boston Playwrights’ Theater: Mr. Parent, The Farm. Gloucester Stage Company: Bad Books, Dancing at Lughnasa, Jacques Brel. Karen is proud to serve as the treasurer of the Theater Community Benevolent Fund tcbf.org. When not in the theater, she can be found teaching adult ESOL through the YMCA. abouttheartists.com/artists/329435-karen-perlow

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.