Michael Jennings Mahoney*, he/him (Brad) is thrilled to be appearing for the first time with Central Square Theater! Broadway: Camelot (concert) Oliver! (concert) Brigadoon (concert) Something Wonderful (concert) Off Broadway/NYC Theatre: College: The Musical! (Chernuchin Theatre) The Secret Garden (APAC) Equity (Theatre Row) Pericles (Anti-matter Collective) Hamlet, Joan of Arc (Gorilla Rep) Irene, Ernest in Love, Naughty Marietta, Roberta, Half a Sixpence (Musicals Tonight!) Regional: The Guthrie Theater, Trinity Repertory Company, Hudson Stage Company, Martha’s Vineyard Playhouse, Savannah Repertory Theatre, Greater Boston Stage Company,

Ocean State Theatre Company, White Heron Theatre Company, Kentucky Repertory Theatre, Tennessee Williams Festival, The Here And Now, Media Theatre.Film/TV The Invisible Girl (Feature Dir. Jaclyn Bethany) Richard III (Feature Dir. Christopher Carter Sanderson) Love In NY (Web Series,Recurring)) BFA: Musical Theatre, University of Michigan MFA: Acting, Brown University/Trinity Rep. (Stephen Sondheim Fellow) Special Thanks and Love to Mom, Dad, Grandma, and Chris.

Sebastian Crane, he/him/his (Frank-N-Furter) is a Boston-based performer (and proud ex-ghost-tour guide) committed to collective care in the arts. After recently lending his voice to Fireside Folktales’ queer audio adaptations of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as Oberon and Twelfth Night as Orsino, he is thrilled to be making his Central Square Theater debut in The Rocky Horror Show.

Irene M. Pepperberg, SB (MIT), MA (Harvard), PhD (Harvard) is an adjunct Research Professor at Boston University and an affiliate in the Animal Behavior and Conservation Program, Hunter College, CUNY. She has been a Research Associate and Lecturer at Harvard and Purdue University, a visiting Assistant Professor (Northwestern University), tenured Associate Professor (University of Arizona), visiting Associate Professor (MIT Media Lab, where she studied animal-human-computer interfaces), and adjunct Associate Professor (Brandeis). For over forty-five years she has trained Grey parrots to use English speech referentially, then employs this communication code to examine their intelligence; the birds score at the level of 6-8-year-old children on many of the same cognitive tasks used to test humans. She received John Simon Guggenheim, Selby, and Radcliffe Fellowships, is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Psychological Association, Association for Psychological Science, Psychonomic Society, Animal Behavior Society, American Ornithologists’ Union, and Midwest and Eastern Psychological Associations. She has been funded by and served on grant review panels for NSF. She won the Christopher Clavius, S.J. Award, Sigma Xi (Saint Josephs University, Spring 2013), the Comparative Cognition Society Research Award (2020) and several awards for teaching and mentoring. She lectures world-wide and has authored over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles, reviews, and book chapters, The Alex Studies, and the NY Times bestseller Alex & Me. She serves on the editorial board of several journals, was an associate editor of the Journal of Comparative Psychology, and a board member of APA (Divs 3,6), EPA, and the American Ornithological Union.