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.

Deb Sivigny, she/her (Scenic Designer) is a multi-disciplinary artist and designer based in Washington, D.C. Her recent designs include: scenic designs for One Jewish Boy at Theater J,  Sense & Sensibility at Everyman Theatre, Huckleberry Finn’s Big River and Head Over Heels at Lyric Theatre of Oklahoma; costumes and scenery for The Nightsong of Orpheus at INSeries and production design and direction for New Kid at Planet Word with Imagination Stage; costumes for A New Brain at Barrington Stage Co., and Natasha, Pierre, & the Great Comet of 1812 at Hangar Theatre. With the playwright’s collective The Welders, she wrote and set designed “Hello, My Name Is…,” an immersive event about Korean adoptees which was exhibited at the Prague Quadrennial 2019. She is the winner of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Scenic Design and a five-time nominee. She is an Asst. Professor of Scenic and Costume Design at George Mason University.
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