Armando Rivera* (he/him) (Jorge) is a Boston based director, actor, historian, and serves as Artistic Director of Teatro Chelsea, a bilingual Latine theater company in Chelsea, MA. His current focus lies in uplifting new Latine narratives that highlight the bilingual experience and resonate with diverse communities. Select directing credits include: Fade(Kitchen Theatre Company), Revitalized, El Camino de Cuentos Oscuros, Sonia se Fue (Teatro Chelsea). Latin American Folktales, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Apollinaire Play Lab). www.TeatroChelsea.com
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Francisco Mendoza (Playwright) was born in the wine region of Mendoza, Argentina, and ever since he was a kid he was passionate about storytelling, dreaming of traveling the world like his literary heroes – a dream that became real when he was twelve and his family relocated to Brazil. After graduating from Journalism school, he received a fellowship at the Tisch School of the Arts’ Dramatic Writing MFA program and, moving countries a second time, Francisco is now pursuing a writing career in New York. His work spans plays, TV, screenplays, a full season of a podcast, several short stories, and a few magazine articles, as well as his first novel. He’s a co-founder of the Immigrant Theatermakers Advocates initiative, which seeks to create a more immigrant-welcoming theater industry. For more about his work and a comprehensive (if boring) list of credits, visit notrealmendoza.com
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Kira Troilo she/her (Art & Soul) (Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Consultant) is a Boston-based creative and owner of Art & Soul Consulting, a company that offers Equity, Diversity & Inclusion consulting services uniquely tailored to work in theater and the arts. She strives to serve as an open door and bridge builder through her blog (biracialmom.com), writing frequently about her experiences as a Black, biracial woman, creative professional and mother. Her groundbreaking work in EDI consulting was recently featured in American Theater Magazine. Kira regularly consults for Greater Boston Stage Company, Goodspeed Musicals, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Reagle Music Theatre, and The Umbrella Stage Company, among many other arts organizations. Kira has also crafted and shared her own, fully-tailored EDI training and development sessions with adjudicators, arts educators, theater ushers and volunteers, and boards of directors. She also serves as a board member for the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund (TCBF). Kira takes an empathetic approach to her work and believes that mindfulness is the key to growth, change and genuine connection. artandsoulconsulting.com
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Jack Cline he/they, (Music Director – Performances) is a musician and California girl who is overjoyed to be making their Central Square Theater debut. Most recently, he’s worked on HAIR at Tufts University and Assassins at Lyric Stage Company of Boston. To paraphrase their idol adrienne maree brown, science fiction is a form of community organizing; we are shaping the future we long for and have not yet experienced. I love you Mom, to Pluto and back. @j.ackcline
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Catherine Alam-Nist (Assistant Director) is a director, designer and researcher based in whichever institutional library she is currently haunting (at the moment, Harvard’s Widener). Her academic work looks at the relationship between German-Jewish philosophy and dramatic aesthetic/theory; as a director, she is most interested in stories that centre religion and/or women, as well as in stylistic approaches that allow for interdisciplinary experimentation and blurring of the performer/audience binary. Current influences include Martin Buber, the book of Job, PJ Harvey, and KillMonday’s 2015 immersive psychological horror video game Fran Bow. She wants to heartily thank Lee for being the badass female director a 23-year-old baby female director really needs to see, and she hopes everyone has fun watching three women being very silly (very skillfully) for two and a half hours!
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