Lauren Burke* (Stage Manager) Central Square Theater: Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Ain’t Misbehavin’; Other credits include: Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Revels, American Repertory Theater, Reagle Music Theatre, Boston University, North Shore Music Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, Lyric Stage, Brandeis University, Boston Opera Collaborative, Harvard University, Suffolk University, Poets’ Theatre, Israeli Stage, and Boston Ballet. Lauren received her BA from Suffolk University and is a member of Actor’s Equity Association.
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Greg Smith
Greg Smith (Sound Designer) Central Square Theater: debut; Film/TV: Greg is a Grammy-nominated composer and songwriter. He has scored numerous feature films and contributed music to dozens of network TV shows. Additionally, he has worked as a sound designer and composer for television advertising, providing music and sound design for clients including Microsoft, ESPN, Disney, and a host of other TV networks and consumer brands.
Michaela Carmela Bocchino
Michaela Carmela Bocchino (Lighting Designer) Central Square Theater: debut; Theatre: Michaela has experience working with multiple theatre companies, arts organizations, and event companies in and around Boston focusing on lighting and AV for productions and live events. They have been the technical director of many events and assisted in teaching stagecraft courses. Music: They have also designed for live music acts such as Thou, Emma Ruth Rundle, SEED, Cowardice, Wydeyed, Guerilla Toss, Nice Guys and for a live Art-Wrestling event titled Studio For Interrelated Wrestling. Training: Michaela graduated from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2017, with a BFA in Interrelated Media, where they learned many of the ins and outs of production, lighting, projection, and AV.
Shelley Barish
Shelley Barish (Scenic Designer) She/ Her/ Hers, Previous Central Square Theatre Designs include: Young Nerds of Color, Pipeline Lyric Stage: Preludes, Trouble in Mind, The Wolves, Camelot, Dear Elizabeth, Becky’s New Car, Murder for Two. Greater Boston Stage: Little Women, Beehive, 39 Steps; . Merrimack Repertory Theatre: A Christmas Carol. Wheelock Family Theatre: Matilda. Cortland Repertory Theatre: The Addams Family, Last Romance, West Side Story, Newsies. Off-Broadway: Gideon’

Sandra Seoane-Serí*
Sandra Seoane-Serí* (Maria Celeste) is a film and stage actress based in Boston and New York. Current Role with WAM Theatre: Maria Celeste in Galileo’s Daughter Selected WAM Theatre Credits: In Her Bones (Fresh Takes Play Reading), Pipeline (WAM/CST 2019-2020). Selected Theatre Credits: Romeo and Juliet (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Lenelle Moïse’s Elliot Norton award winning K-I-S-S-I-N-G, (The Huntington Theatre/The Front Porch Arts Collective), Kate Snodgrass’ The Art of Burning (The Huntington Theatre/Hartford Stage), Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley (Shakespeare & Company), Invisible (The Front Porch Arts Collective’s Reading Series), Truth or Consequences by Andrew Siañez De La O (FreshInk Theatre’s), BLKS, (SpeakEasy Stage), She Eats Apples (Artists Theater of Boston), Pipeline (WAM Theatre & Central Square Theater). Selected Training: BA in Theater at the University of Massachusetts, Summer Shakespeare Intensive at Shakespeare & Company. Awards/Proudest Achievement: Having three of their films screened in festivals, Gordon Chan’s “Figure of Speech” screening at the 2024 Seattle Film Festival and the 2024 Roxbury International Film Festival, Michelle Falcón Fontánez’s “Maria” that premiered at the 2023 Boston International Film Festival and a Daniela Martinez film “Shift” which was selected for the 2021 Roxbury International Film Festival. Final Word: This performance is dedicated to my foremothers, who have sacrificed their dreams and their autonomy in order to be “safe” in the harsh man’s world. It is an honor to tell Maria Celeste’s story, one of the many stories of influential women and queerfolk that get lost in time. Contact: SandraSeoaneSeri.com