Joe Juknievich, he/him/his (Assistant Director) is a theater director and arts administrator based in the Greater Boston Area. He is currently pursuing an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts: Performance Creation through Goddard College. Recent directing credits include: [title of show] (Firehouse Center for the Arts), The Skriker (Entropy Theatre, Co-Director), and The Moors (Entropy Theatre). In addition to his work as a director and student, he works as the Operations and Special Projects Associate for The Dance Complex in Cambridge, MA.
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Josh Rodrigues*,  (Assistant Stage Manager) is thrilled to be joining Central Square Theater for such an incredible play! A Woburn MA native and Proud AEA Member, Josh has worked around the country as far west as the Rockies, and is happy to be closer to home! Previous credits include Lyric Stage: The Play That Goes Wrong, Greenbrier Valley Theatre: Midsummer’s Night, Murder for Two, Shakespeare and Company: Much Ado About Nothing. North Shore Music Theatre: Jersey Boys, Jekyll and Hyde, Peter Pan. Lake Dillon Theatre Company: The Underpants. Go Sox!

AJ Helman, they/them/theirs (Sound Designer) is an artist, theatermaker, and educator residing in Boston, Massachusetts. Previous Sound design credits include: Orpheus in the Overworld (FreshInk), Waves with Nowhere to Go (AbilitiesDance), and Phoenix: A Box Play (RareWorks, Emerson College). Dramaturgy credits include: Orpheus in the Overworld (FreshInk), Angels in America: Millennium Approaches (Bedlam and Central Square Theater), and Honeyhole (Moonbox New Works Festival). Film credits include Spirited, AppleTV (Set PA). Selected training: BFA in Theater Education and Performance, Emerson College. Memberships: AJ is a proud member of Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively’s Group Effort Initiative, an initiative that works to increase the representation of marginalized voices behind the camera. Last Word: They are so thrilled to be working with WAM for the first time and returning to Central Square Theater as an artist! 

Karissa Roberts, she/her/hers (Props Artisan) is a Boston based props and scenic artist, who is excited to make her Central Square Theater debut with Angels in America.  Karissa’s Boston area credits include The Play That Goes Wrong, The Great Leap, and Sister Act at Lyric Stage Co. of Boston (Properties Artisan), Something Rotten and Descendants at Watertown Children’s Theatre (Scenic Artist), and Letters from Home at Merrimack Repertory Theatre (Properties Manager).  She was also the scenic charge artist for the Barnstormers Theatre’s 2022 season, working on Into the Woods, The Legend of Georgia McBride, Black Coffee, Silent Sky, and Lucky Stiff.  Karissa graduated from Plymouth State University in 2022 with a BFA in Studio Art and minors in Graphic Design and Art History.

Daniele Tyler Mathews, they/them/theirs (Costume Designer) is an NYC-based costume designer and drag artist originally from Nashville, TN. Design credits: Hamlet, Oedipus, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Engaging Shaw, Pericles, and Mary’s Wedding (APT); Hedda Gabler, The Winter’s Tale (Bedlam); I Am My Own Wife (LWT); Trans Scripts: the Women Part I (A.R.T.); NYU’s New Musical Workshops (2017-2019); The Wild Party, The Wiz, L’étoile, Arcadia, King Lear, Fences, and the NYC Trans Theatre Festival. Princess Grace Foundation Theatre Award (2014). MFA in Costume Design, CMU (2015). Upcoming designs: Nine (NYU), Shakespeare’s Will (IRT), Romeo and Juliet (APT). They also design and create custom clothes, including all of their own drag looks, which can be seen on Instagram or TikTok @gloria_swansong.