Dan Rodriguez

Dan Rodriguez (Co-Music Director) (he/him) Dan is happy to join Central Square Theater and the Front Porch Arts Collective to celebrate the music of Fats Waller in Ain’t Misbehavin’! Dan’s recent area credits include work with the Lyric Stage Company (The Last Five Years, Little Shop of Horrors), Huntington Theatre Company (Sunday in the Park with George, A Little Night Music), Reagle Music Theater (La Cage aux Folles, Sound of Music, Mame), Wheelock Family Theatre (Make Way for Ducklings, In the Heights), American Repertory Theatre (The Lily’s Revenge, The Blue Flower), New Repertory Theater (Hair), Moonbox Productions (Caroline or Change, Cabaret) and many other theaters as well as work at the Boston Conservatory, Emerson, Brandeis, and other schools. His work has earned him five IRNE Awards for Best Music Direction.

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Donovan Holt

Donovan Holt (Understudy/Assistant Director) (he/him) is thrilled to be making his Central Square Theatre debut in Ain’t Misbehavin’. From Chicago, Illinois, Donovan is a third year at Northeastern University studying Theatre and Human Movement Science. Donovan would like to thank Maurice, the Front Porch Arts Collective and the rest of the Ain’t Misbehavin’ team.

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Vanessa C. Hart*

Vanessa C. Hart* (Stage Manager) (They/She) is a stage manager and new resident of Massachusetts. They have stage managed every season at the Peterborogh Players since 2017. In New York, they recently stage managed the acclaimed production of Mad Forest at the Fisher Center at Bard College and Theatre for A New Audience, The Attendants 2020 by the NerveTank presented by Arts Brookfield NY, and pssst…The Boot with Beth Morrison Projects, as well as being the resident stage manager for the Fisher Center at Bard College in Spring 2021.  Previously, they stage managed Cleveland Playhouse’s Light It Up! (World Premiere), Rebel and Misfits Productions’ of Uncle Vanya, Sex with Strangers, and Hamlet: See What I See in St. Louis, MO. The People’s Shakespeare Project of Lancaster’s The Tempest, and Wee Keep Company’s Three Sisters and A Wolf in Lancaster, PA.

* Member of Actor’s Equity Association

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Becky Bass

Becky Bass, (Company) (she/her) hailing from St. Croix, US Virgin Islands, is delighted to make her debut with The Front Porch Arts Collective and Central Square Theater! Off-Broadway: Yermedeat LaMaMa Theatre. Favorite Regional Credits: Once on this Island with SpeakEasy; A Night with Lady Day (Billie Holiday)Hairspray (Motormouth Maybelle); RENT (Mrs. Jefferson/Blanket Lady); Aida (Nehebka). Commercials: AAA; Hulu; Kohl’s. A proud graduate of Brown University’s Theatre program where she received Brown’s Weston Award for Excellence in Musical Theatre. Becky has performed at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., New York City’s Lincoln Center, and Chicago’s Underground Wonder Bar. She has also opened for and performed with many international Grammy & Emmy-Award winning artists, including Oumou Sangare, Damien Escobar, Daniel Roumain, and Wyclef Jean. When Becky is not acting or playing music, she is teaching music & theatre in her community because she believes giving back and mentoring youth are extremely important aspects of being an artist. She’s very thankful to her family and friends for their continued love and support. BeckyBass.com IG: @beckybassmusic (she/her/hers)

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Elisabetta Polito+

Elisabetta Polito+ (Costume Designer) (she/her) Recent Costume Design work: Film: YE (Jagun Fly Productions), Theater: Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder, Book of Will, Breath and Imagination, Camelot, Peter, and the Starcatcher, Saturday Night/Sunday Morning, City of Angels, Into the Woods, Water by the Spoonful, Stones in His Pockets, Time Stands Still(Lyric Stage Company).Cymbeline (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company).   Cyrano, The Last Schwartz, Out of Sterno (Gloucester Stage Company). Inherit the Wind (Ocean State Theater Company). Dog Fight, Big Fish, A Future Perfect, Necessary Monsters, The Color Purple, Kurt Vonnegut: Make up your mind, In the Heights, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (SpeakEasy Stage). Mary Poppins (Wheelock Family Theater).  A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum,  How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying Addams Family: The Musical, Unbleached American, Bernarda Alba, These Shining Lives, The Nutcracker, The Rimers of Eldritch (Stoneham Theater).  Pajama Game (Boston Conservatory). Blood at the Root, The Wiz, Othello, Inner City Blues, In the Heights (Boston Arts Academy). Marie Antoinette: Color of Flesh (Providence College). White Christmas (The Company Theatre).  L’Elisire d’amore, L’ Amico Fritz, Il Campanello, Martha, The Bartered Bride,  The Merry Wives of Windsor (Boston Midsummer Opera).  The Love of the Nightingale (Emerson College). Into the Woods, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Cherry Orchard, Hairspray, Metamorphoses, Imaginary Invalid (Concord Academy). Rent, Dr. Faustus (Suffolk University). Funnyhouse of a Negro, Three Sisters (Brandeis Theatre Company). 2016 recipient of an Elliot Norton Award. Fashion Technology Program Director at Boston Arts Academy.

+Member of United Scenic Artists.

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