Tessa Johnson (Props Designer) (they/them) is delighted to be a part of the Ain’t Misbehavin’ team for their first ever professional prop design job! Credits include Central Square Theater’s Young Nerds of Color (ASM), Moonbox Productions’ The Rocky Horror Show (ASM), and The American Repertory Theater’s Endlings(production assistant). 

Sarah MacIntyre* (Stage Manager) (she/her) is excited to return to Central Square Theater working on Young Nerds of Color. Recent stage management credits include Passing Strange (dir. Arthur Gomez, Moonbox Productions), The Rocky Horror Show (dir. David Lucey, Moonbox Productions), Julius Caesar (dir. Olivia D’Ambrosio Scanlon, The Hanover Theatre Rep), A Christmas Carol (dir. Debra Wise, Central Square Theater), and Loot (dir. Peter A Carey, The Company Theatre). Much love to her friends and family! Graduate of the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. Proud member of Actors’ Equity. 

Andrea Sofia Sala, she/her/hers (Lighting Designer) is a Mexican-American/Latinx Lighting Designer, Production Manager, and Mover currently based in Boston, MA. WAM Theatre: debut. Selected Theatre Credits Elsewhere: Andrea is currently the Lighting Supervisor for Dance Theatre of Harlem and the Production Manager for Fresh Ink Theatre. She has had the privilege to work with incredible companies and institutions, including Dance Theater of Harlem, Urban Bush Women, Jacob’s Pillow, The Yard, Central Square Theater, Fresh Ink Theater Company, Free Soil Arts Collective, and local dance artists at the Boston Center for the Arts. She is also involved as a performer within the Boston dance community. Creative inspiration: She hopes to find opportunities to think unconventionally while uplifting the voices of those who are/have been unseen, and work with people determined to do the same. Connect: Website: www.andreasofiasala.com; Instagram: andrea_sofia2010

Des Bennett (Dramaturg) (they/them) is delighted to be making their dramaturgical debut at Central Square Theater! Des is a multi-hyphenated theatre artist, facilitator, and maker dedicated to continued learning, iterative experimentation, and collective care as the framework for their artistic endeavors. Des is also currently serving as the Connectivity Coordinator at CST, and facilitator of CST’s Backstage Book Club. They were a founder and the previous Artistic Director of Reground Theatre Collective, a Boston-based intercollegiate group for emerging artists, dedicated to new play development and performance innovation. Their recent directing work includes My Body Is A Season (SpeakEasy Stage) and Scenes From Metamorphoses (Northeastern University Department of Theater). Des has held Research Assistantships with Dani Snyder-Young PhD on her recent projects, Theatre participation and arts-integrated peer leadership in substance addiction recovery processes (now an NEA funded project) and Digital performance, wellness, and equity, and contributed to the TDR forthcoming article publication, “Procedurally authored performances of mindful practice: Theatre-for-one, audience labor and self-optimization,” (Snyder-Young  2021).  Des holds a BA in Theater from Northeastern University, where they were awarded the Blackman Scholarship for Outstanding Achievement in the Art of Theatre (2019).

Jason Ries (Props Designer) (he/him) [rhymes with niece] is an award-winning, multidisciplinary designer based in Boston, MA. He relished working on Company One’s 1001 (props), We Are Proud to Present (set), WOLF PLAY (props) and the IRNE and Norton Awarded The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (set). Having designed lights and sets for Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Twelfth Night, Taming of the Shrew, Henry V) and Monkeyhouse (Against the Odds, AE), he got his start as Resident Designer at EXITheatre in San Francisco from 1997-2004, collaborating regularly with Mark Jackson, David Malloy, and Banana, Bag and Bodice.