Rafi Levavy (Stage Manager)
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Jesse Timm
Jesse Timm (Sound Designer) (they/them) is a composer, sound designer, and instrumentalist based in Brooklyn. This is their sound design debut with CST. Past credits include design and compositions for Des Bennett’s METAMORPHOSES at Northeastern University, Circle Mirror Transformation, Dark One & the Lighthouse Fairy, and Young Frankenstein at Ukiah Players Theatre, and WinterWorks at Boston Conservatory. As an instrumentalist they have played Head Over Heels (BoCo), The View Upstairs (Speakeasy), HAIR (Boston Uni) and many more. Class of Berklee ’20, they were awarded the Amy Beach award in composition.
Arielle Greenspan
Arielle Greenspan (Props Design) makes her debut at Central Square Theatre with Ada and the Engine. She has designed for Northeastern University (Antipodes), Fresh Ink Theatre (Truth or Consequences), and Moonbox Productions’ First Annual New Play Festival. Arielle was also the Assistant Director for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Apprenticeship Program (Pericles). As an actor, some recent credits include Porter/Doctor/Murderer (Macbeth, Theatre@First), Hailey (Craigslisted, National Women’s Theatre Festival), and Bacchant (The Bacchae, Northeastern University). She recently earned her BA in Theatre & Communications studies at Northeastern University.
Mishy Jacobson
Mishy Jacobson (Ada Lovelace) (she/her/hers) is excited to make her debut at Central Square Theater. Recent credits include: The Thanksgiving Play at Olney Theatre Center, Allegory at La Jolla Playhouse (Without Walls), and the eponymous role in Coriolanus in repertory with The Winter’s Tale at Shakespeare at Stratford. Additional credits: The O’Neill Theater Center (NTI): Sit with Us, A Musical History of the Modern Motor Vehicle, An Adaptation of the Oresteia; Ovalhouse Theater (Off West-End, London): Under Milk Wood (Voice 1, Polly Garter); BADA: Miss Julie (Miss Julie), The Tempest (Miranda), Fewer Emergencies (Voice 1); Bonn Studio Theater: Honor, Shame, and Violence/Tina Packer’s Shakespeare Anthology Project (Juliet). Mishy graduated Summa Cum Laude from Boston College and she is also a graduate of The British American Drama Academy (BADA), Shakespeare & Company, The National Theater Institute, and Shakespeare Academy at Stratford. She has been interning and training with Christopher Bayes for the past two and a half years. Mishy produced The Renaissance Reborn: In Conversation with Carl Cofield and Ty Jones and writes for the United Nation’s Human Rights Initiative, The Cities for CEDAW. [As of August 2022]
Benjamin Benne
Benjamin Benne, he/him/his (Playwright) is a currently itinerant playwright from Los Angeles. His plays include: Alma (World Premiere ’22: Center Theatre Group’s Kirk Douglas Theatre in Los Angeles & American Blues Theater in Chicago; Seattle Premiere ’22: ArtsWest Playhouse; Regional Premiere ’23: Curious Theatre Company in Denver), In His Hands (World Premiere ’22: Mosaic Theater Company of DC), and What/Washed Ashore/Astray (forthcoming ’23: Pillsbury House + Theatre in Minneapolis). Benjamin has been the recipient of Arizona Theatre Company’s National Latinx Playwriting Award, Kennedy Center’s KCACTF Latinx Playwriting Award, American Blues Theater’s Blue Ink Playwriting Award, the Playwrights’ Center’s McKnight Fellowship in Playwriting and Many Voices Fellowship, among others. He is a current member of the Dorothy Strelsin New American Writers Group at Primary Stages in NYC and under commission from South Coast Repertory Theatre and Seattle Repertory Theatre. He is a ’22 graduate of the David Geffen/Yale School of Drama MFA Playwriting program and represented by Paradigm Talent Agency and Luminosity Management. BenjaminBenne.com