Composer/arranger Evan Ziporyn’s music has taken him from Balinese temples to concert halls around the world. He has composed for and collaborated with Maya Beiser, Yo-Yo Ma, Brooklyn Rider, Anna Sofie Von Otter, the American Composers Orchestra, Iva Bittova, Terry Riley, Don Byron, and Bang on a Can. In 2017, his arrangements were featured on Ken Burns and Lynn Novick’s The Vietnam War, and on Silkroad’s Grammy-winning album Sing Me Home. Recent conducting appearances include LA Opera, Hamburg Elbsphilharmonie, the Barcelona Symphony, and his own Boston-based Ambient Orchestra, which premiered Blackstar in 2017. At MIT he is Distinguished Professor of Music and Director of the Center for Art, Science and Technology. He studied at Eastman School of Music, Yale, and UC Berkeley with Joseph Schwantner, Martin Bresnick, and Gerard Grisey. He received a Fulbright in 1987, founded Gamelan Galak Tika in 1993, and has composed a series of groundbreaking compositions for gamelan and western instruments, as well as evening-length works such as 2001’s ShadowBang, 2004’s Oedipus Rex (Robert Woodruff, director), and 2009’s A House in Bali, which was featured at BAM Next Wave in October 2010. Awards include a USA Artist Fellowship, the Goddard Lieberson Prize from the American Academy, Massachusetts Cultural Council Fellowship, and commissions from Carnegie Hall, Kronos Quartet, Rockefeller Multi-Arts Program, and Meet the Composer. He co-founded the Bang on a Can All-Stars in 1992, performing with the group for 20 years. He has also recorded with Paul Simon, Christine Southworth, and the Steve Reich Ensemble (sharing in their 1998 Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance). www.ziporyn.com  

Cheryl D. Singleton Regional: The America Plays (Plays in Place); James and the Giant Peach and Billy Elliot: The Musical (Wheelock Family Theatre, IRNE Award nomination, Best Supporting Actress); The Little Foxes and Intimate Apparel (Lyric Stage Company, IRNE Award nomination, Best Supporting Actress); To Kill a Mockingbird (Gloucester Stage Company); 1776, Passing Strange, Rent, Dollhouse (New Repertory Theatre); The Comedy of Errors (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); The Seagull (American Repertory Theater). Additional credits: Zeitgeist Stage Company, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Queer Soup, Ryan Landry & the Gold Dust Orphans, Loaves and Fish Theatre Company (NYC and Edinburgh Festival Fringe). Television: “Castle Rock” (Hulu).

David Freeman Coleman, (Music Director) returns to Central Square Theater after serving as Music Director for Front Porch@Starlight. Regional: WILD, Best of Both Worlds (Music Director, American Repertory Theater), Wig Out!, Miss You Like Hell (Music Director, Company One/A.R.T), The Bluest Eye (Music Director, Huntington Theater), Once On This Island, Choir Boy (Music Director, SpeakEasy Stage), Violet (Associate Music Director, SpeakEasy Stage). Other credits: Waitress, Crossing, We Live In Cairo, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess (Rehearsal Pianist, 2012 Tony Award for Best Revival). Awards: Eliot Norton Award Nomination Outstanding Music Direction for Choir Boy. Education: B.Mus, Boston University; MA Tufts University. Associate Professor of Theater at Boston Conservatory, Director of Choral Music at Dana Hall School, Minister of Music at Greater Framingham Community Church, and Lecturer of Music/Director for 225-voice Tufts University Gospel Choir. Work with the Boston Pops, Idina Menzel, Mariah Carey, Ryan Gosling, Audra McDonald, Patti Labelle, Bobby McFerrin, Richard Smallwood, Bebe Winans and Phish. davidfcoleman.com.

Davron S. Monroe is a Boston based award winning singer and actor with vocal talents that run the gamut from Opera to Musical Theatre, gospel to jazz and everything else in between. Davron is the 2019 recipient of The Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Musical performance in Breath and Imagination the story of Roland Hayes, African-American classic concert artist (who was also a Boston based artist in the later years of his life). Other performances of note include Murder on the Orient Express, The Wiz, Camelot, Company, My Fair Lady, City of Angels, Sweeney Todd, One Man, Two Guvnors, The Mikado, Avenue Q, and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Lyric Stage Co.), The View Upstairs (Speakeasy Stage) The Little Mermaid, RAGTIME (Company Theatre), Man of La Mancha (New Rep), Caroline or Change, Godspell (Moonbox Productions), Hairspray (Reagle Music Theatre), Dreamgirls, Jesus Christ Superstar, Children of Eden, Songs for a New World (premiere, Key West Symphony, Broadway Across America), Smokey Joe’s Café, Cinderella, Streakin’!, a ’70s musical revue, and Sweet Charity. Davron has also appeared with many orchestral and vocal organizations, such as Boston Landmarks Orchestra (Lost in the Stars – a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech, and The Chariot Jubilee), Brevard Music Center, Finalist in the Orlando Opera’s Heinz Rehfuss Singing Actor Awards, Disney Entertainment’s Voices of Liberty, South Florida Symphony, Houston Ebony Opera Guild, the New England Spiritual Ensemble and many other organizations throughout the greater Boston area. Davron was the first recipient of the Bob Jolly Award for local actors. Future engagements include Jelly’s Last Jam- Story of Jelly Roll Morton African-American Jazz pioneer and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Both with New Repertory Theatre Company 2021.

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