Sherée Marcelle, she/her (Diana) is thrilled to be making her return to CST, having previously appeared in the Elliot Norton Award-winning production of Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Company) in 2022. Hailing from Lynn, MA, Sherée began her journey with the Front Porch in 2020 through her autobiographical cabaret titled “Passing By | Moving Forward” about passing for white as a biracial woman. Most recently, she has garnered acclaim for her role as co-producer and star of seasonal artist tribute performances at the Post Office Cabaret, Provincetown, MA: “Whitney!” a musical tribute to the late Whitney Houston (2021); The Music of Adele (2022); and A Tribute to P!nk (2023); with her next effort Shereefer Madness opening in the summer of 2024. A special thank you to every human (friend, family, teacher, colleague) who has shown her support over the years – it’s meant the world! www.shereemarcelle.com
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Sarah Shin (Director) she/her, is a Korean American director and theatre artist originally from the small town of Schwenksville, Pennsylvania. Recent Directing Credits: The Sweet Science of Bruising (Boston University), Wolf Play (Brandeis University), H*LL HATH TURNED OVER. F*CK (Makers’ Ensemble), The Chinese Lady (Central Square Theater, Greater Boston Premiere, Boston Globe Top 10 of 2022 Pick, 5 Elliot Norton Award Nominations), The Sitayana (or “How to Make An Exit”) (The Tank, NY Premiere). Associate/Assistant Credits: EMPIRE RECORDS (McCarter Theatre Center), Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (Broadway, SDC Observer), The Wanderers (Roundabout Theatre Company), Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare & Company), The Gift Project Documentary Series (All For One Theater, Zanni Productions/PBS All Arts), The (Diana) Oh Family Concert (Zanni Productions/PBS All Arts), Endlings (NYTW), Moby Dick (ART), Twelfth Night (Catskill Mountain Shakespeare), and MY H8 Letter 2 The Gr8 American Theatre (Ma-Yi/The Public Theater). Select performing credits include: Endlings (Hedgerow Theatre), OriGen Story (Clubbed Thumb, Pan Asian Rep, LaMama), The Tempest (Catskill Mountain Shakespeare), Specially Processed American Me (Ping Chong & Co.), Sea Longing (The Parsnip Ship). Her work has been supported by the Public Theater/Brooklyn College Residency, NYC Women’s Fund for Media, Music, and Theatre, The Boston Foundation, NEFA Public Art for Spatial Justice Grant, and Asian American Arts Alliance WWYD Grant. Co-Founding Producing Director of Queer Asian Babes and Asian American Theatre Artists of Boston, Roundabout Directors Group Cohort 4 Member, Ma-Yi Writer’s Lab 2024-2025 Resident Director, A4 Virtual Resident Artist (2020-2021), New York Stage and Film 2025 Pfaelzer Award Recipient, and SDC Associate Member! Upcoming Projects: The Supreme Leader (Mile Square Theater), The Chinese Lady (Stages Houston). BFA Theatre Arts Boston University www.sarah-shin.com IG: @shinnysarah
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Sophronia Vowels
Sophronia Vowels grew up in small-town Iowa but have always been a city-girl at heart. Her nose leads her all over the world, sniffing out different foods and new experiences. While the perfect at-home latte evades her, endless trials persist. Writing poetry and dancing alone in her room brings her immense joy. She leads her life with curiosity, openness, and transparency, values she believes are essential to all creative endeavors.
Artistic Statement
Theatre wields the immense power of shaping audiences’ relations to other people and perspectives on society. Other mediums can educate and present meaningful narratives, but theatre enkindles compassion for other humans through a shared, inherently emotional experience. As an artist, one propagates radical inclusivity through bolstering marginalized voices and continually expanding on one’s knowledge. Artists create the possibility for lives to be shifted, an incredible potential one must explore with playfulness; boldness; and most of all, an open heart.
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Michael Rosegrant
Michael A. Rosegrant (they/them) is a poet descending from Philippine islands and “American” farmlands who resides on ancestral land of the Massachusett. They sing for their ancestors—blood and otherwise—who could not. Currently, they’re unlearning fear of their own rage to center presence, magic, and history in their work of locally dismantling oppression. They create/share art in communities including Arts Connect International, BCYF Grove Hall Senior Center, Pao Arts Center, American Repertory Theatre, UMass Boston, and Boston University. michaelrosegrant.com & @michael_arose on IG/Twitter.
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George Stevens, Jr. has achieved an extraordinary creative legacy over a career spanning almost 50 years. He is a writer, director, producer, playwright and author. He has enriched the film and television arts as a filmmaker and is widely credited with bringing style and taste to the national television events he has conceived, including The Kennedy Center Honors, which took place for the 36th time in 2013. As a writer, director and producer, Stevens has earned many accolades, including 17 mys, two Peabody Awards for Meritorious Service to Broadcasting, the Humanitas Prize and 8 awards from the Writers Guild of America, including the Paul Selvin Award for writing that bodies civil rights and liberties. In 2012 the Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences voted to present Stevens with an Honorary Academy Award for “extraordinary distinction in lifetime achievement.” Stevens serves as Co-chairman of the President’s Committee on the Arts and Humanities following his appointment by President Obama in 2009. Stevens is founder of the American Film Institute and during his tenure, more than 10,000 irreplaceable American films were preserved and catalogued to be enjoyed by future generations. In addition, he established the AFI’s Center for Advanced Film Studies, which gained a reputation as the finest learning opportunity for young filmmakers. Stevens made his debut as a playwright in 2008 with Thurgood, which opened at the historic Booth Theater on Broadway. The play had an extended run starring Laurence Fishburne as supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall. Fishburne received a Tony nomination and returned to the role in the summer of 2010 with runs at the Kennedy Center and the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles. Thurgood was filmed while at the Kennedy Center and shown on HBO in 2011. Stevens was executive producer of The Thin Red Line, which was nominated for seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture. He co-wrote and produced The Murder of Mary Phagan, starring Jack L mon, which received the my for Outstanding Mini-Series. He wrote and directed Separate But Equal starring Sidney Poitier and Burt Lancaster which also won the my for Outstanding Mini-Series. Stevens won two mys for the 1994 documentary, George Stevens: D-Day to Berlin, which depicted the wartime experiences of his father – one of the most highly regarded directors of all time. He produced an acclaimed feature length film about his father, George Stevens: A Filmmaker’s Journey. In 2006, Alfred A. Knopf published Stevens’ Conversations with the Great Movi akers of Hollywood’s Golden Age – the first book to bring together the interviews of master movi akers from the American Film Institute’s renowned Harold Lloyd Master seminar Series. Conversations with the Great Movi akers – The Next Generation was released by Knopf in April, 2012. Stevens, in collaboration with his son and partner Michael Stevens, recently completed a feature length documentary Herblock – The Black The White on the famed political cartoonist Herbert Block. Current as of August 2014
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