Ulrika Brand, she/her (Assistant Director) is a director and playwright.  Her play, Yours, Isabella, tells the story of Isabella Stewart Gardner’s drive to collect art and build her Boston museum.  It was performed last year at Wistariahurst Museum, supported by the Mass Cultural Council. As a member of the cooperative Pacific Resident Theatre Ensemble, in Venice, CA, Ulrika directed Molière’s The Misanthrope, Strindberg’s Crimes and Crimes, and Lee Blessing’s Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music. In New York City she joined Lincoln Center Theatre Directors Lab and translated and directed Strindberg’s Playing with Fire for LCT’s American Living Room series (her translation was later produced by the Negro Ensemble Company). She co-directed a production of The Vagina Monologues at Columbia’s Miller Theatre and was co-organizer of the Boston Strindberg Centennial Festival and the affiliated symposium at Harvard University, where she presented and directed her translation/adaptation of Strindberg’s Crimes and Crimes.  She is delighted to be working at Central Square Theatre for the first time!

Justin LaHue (Projection Designer) is a Boston based theatre artist and filmmaker. Previous collaborations include work with the Westport Country Playhouse, Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theater, Harbor Stage Company, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Speakeasy Stage, Harvard University, Boston Conservatory, Company One, Northeastern University, Seacoast Repertory Theatre, and the Tank (NYC) . He is the recipient of a 2022 BroadwayWorld Boston award (Best Professional Scenic Design | Straight White Men), 2022 Cannes Film Award and regional Emmy nomination (Art Direction | Not on This Night) as well as a 2025 Elliot Norton Award nomination (Outstanding Scenic Design | Tartuffe). BA in Theatre from Suffolk University and a proud member of USA-829. For more information on his work, please visit www.justinlahue.com.

Aubrey Dube (Sound Designer) His previous design credits include Bluest Eye, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Clydes, Fat Ham (Huntington), Paradise Blue, The Thin Place, Stew, The Glass Menagerie (Gloucester Stage Company), Trayf, Good (New Rep), Clydes (Berkeley Rep), As you Like It (Comm Shakespeare Co.) Queens, Torch Song, House of Ramon Iglesia (Moonbox Productions), POTUS (SpeakEasy), Vinegar Tom, Monster, Serious Money, Pentecost (PTP/NYC); Cymbeline, Pilgrims of the Night (Suffolk University), Orlando (Brandeis University), Everybody, The Antipodes, Love and Information, As U Like It, Sensitive Guys (Northeastern University) We Are Pussy Riot (Colgate University), Big Love, The Imaginary Invalid, In the Next Room, Man of La Mancha (Middlebury College); A Taste of Honey (Boston Center for American Performance); Delerium, Daddy Issues, The Hothouse (Boston University); Winter People (Boston Playwrights Theatre); Fences (The Umbrella Theatre) and Downtown Crossing, Vietgone (Company One).  Aubrey holds an MFA in Sound Design from Boston University. Originally from Botswana, he now lives in Boston @footballpowerhour.

Sydney Hovasse (Costume Designer) is a Boston-based costume designer and technician. Previous costume design credits include Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Jr (Greater Boston Stage Company), Emilia, Entry or you think you know me, La Clemenza di Tito, Alice Tierney (Boston University), and Mother May I (Boston Center for the Arts). Sydney has also worked as a stitcher at theater companies around the Boston area such as The American Repertory Theatre, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, and The North Shore Music Theatre. Sydney is very excited to be designing her first show at CST and would like to thank everyone for welcoming her to the team!