Nona Hendryx (Original Music Composer) (she/her) Revolutionary art-rock, new-wave goddess Nona Hendryx is a vocalist, songwriter, musician and multimedia artists. Tackling social issues, love and politics, Hendryx’s career spans decades of sound and style evolution. Longtime Nona Hendryx fans know her as one of the groundbreaking group Labelle and their No.1 worldwide hit ‘Lady Marmalade’ (Voulez Vous Coucher Avec Moi C’est Soir?” The Songwriter, Hendryx, came into her own as a solo artist post Labelle on Rock infused albums. Her album Mutatis Mutandis (changing those things which need to be changed), Hendryx lends the necessary gravitas to a striking rendition of Billie Holiday’s Strange Fruit with a smoky vocal tessitura somewhere between funk and the end of the stratosphere. Nona is an Ambassador for Artistry in Music for Berklee College in Boston Conservatory and BerkleeNYC. She curated and performed in a production she created for The Metropolitan Museum, ‘Nona Hendryx and Disciples of Sun Ra in the Temple of Dendur. Nona is composing music for the revival of ‘Blue’ a play with music, has written two compositions for The Roundabout Theater ‘s production and the Broadway debut of Trouble in Mind by Alice Childress both plays directed by Charles R. Wright and received a grant from Jazz South Arts to compose music for a new play ‘Young Nerds of Color by Melinda Lopez, directed by Dawn Meredith Simmons at Boston’s Central Square Theater. Nona is passionate about Music, Visual Art and Technology and continues to be a prolific artist.
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Alison Yueming Qu
Alison Yueming Qu (Chloe Chen) (she/they) is a 1.5 generation immigrant originally from Jilin City, China, and an actor, director, dramaturg, and curator of bilingual new immigrant spaces, audiences, mad conversations, and fun. Alison is the Co-Founder & Executive Producer of CHUANG Stage—the first Mandarin-English bilingual, bicultural theater collective nationwide based in Boston, MA. Alison works as the Connectivity Producer at Company One after previously serving as their Associate Producer/Dramaturg for the Boston Chinatown Musical Project; they were a Cutler Creative Producing/Engagement Fellow at ArtsEmerson from 2019-20. Alison is a Co-Recipient of the 2021 2021 Live Arts Boston Grant from The Boston Foundation, a 2021-22 National Arts Strategies New England Creative Community Fellow, and is a steering committee member of API Arts Network. Alison holds a BFA in Theatre from Emerson College. Find them on Instagram: @alisonqu12
Daniel Rios, Jr.*
DANIEL RIOS, JR.*, (Belize and Mr. Lies – Oct. 8) Regional: Young Nerds of Color (Central Square Theater), Macbeth (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Fences (The Umbrella Stage Company), Comedy of Errors (Shakespeare & Company), ROE (WAM Theater) White, Black, and Blue (Silverthorne Theater Company),The Merchant of Venice (Valley Shakespeare Festival). Film/TV: Aftermath, New Amsterdam, The Other Two, The Perfect Couple, Through The Modern Looking Glass, Shadows of the Dust, Training: MFA University of Southern California School of Dramatic Arts
Karina Beleno Carney*
Karina Beleno Carney*, she/Ella (Lourdes Acevedo) is delighted to return to Central Square Theater and join the cast of Beyond Words. A first generation Colombian American, Karina is a mother of three, a board certified reproductive acupuncturist, and a Massachusetts based actor. In December, Karina narrated the world premiere of The Night of las Posadas with the Boston Holiday Pops. Recent acting credits include: Don’t Eat the Mangos (Apollinaire Theatre), Young Nerds of Color (Underground Railway@Central Square Theater), and Romeo and Juliet (Apollinaire Theatre). Karina has read at The Huntington’s Breaking Ground Festival of New Work and has participated in the Boston Theater Marathon and Open Theater Project SLAM Boston Diverse Voices in Theatre. Her favorite roles include: Becca in Rabbit Hole, Truvy Jones in Steel Magnolias, and (many moons ago!) Emily Webb in Our Town. As always, a profound thank you for the support and encouragement to Elena, Felicidad, Esben, and Sebastián.
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
Kevin Dunn
Kevin Dunn, (they/he), Lighting Designer, is a Lighting designer based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are thrilled to be making their design debut at Central Square Theatre with Queen’s Girl in the World. Past design credits include The Producers (The Barnstormers), Mansfield Park (BU Opera Institute), I Am Antigone (Theatre for the New City) and A Small Handful (PTP/NYC). They have been the recipient of the Don Childs Award for Excellence from the Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas and an Honorable mention for the KCACTF Barbizon Award for Excellence in Lighting Design at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. They received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in theatrical design from Salem State University, and are currently a candidate for their Masters of Fine Arts in lighting design at Boston University.
As of September 2021