Ryan Quinn* (John Proctor) Central Square Theater:  debut; Off-Broadway: Whorl Inside a Loop (Second Stage); The Killer, King Lear, Hamlet, and Antony and Cleopatra (Theater for a New Audience); Dead Dog Park (59E59 Theaters); and Vanity Fair (Pearl Theatre Company). Select Regional: Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility (American Repertory Theater) & (Portland Center Stage), Yellowman (Milwaukee Repertory Theater); Hamlet and The Two Gentlemen of Verona (The Old Globe Theatre); The King Stag (Yale Repertory Theatre); Pride and Prejudice (Dorset Theatre Festival); and eight seasons with The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival. TV/Film: Blindspot, Madam Secretary, The Blacklist: Redemption, Person of Interest, Friends from College, and Ovum. M.F.A:  Yale School of Drama. Ryan is the artistic director of Esperance Theater Company in New York City EsperanceTheaterCompany.org.

August 2019

Dayenne CB Walters (Tituba, Rebecca Nurse, et al.)  Central Square Theater: debut; Dayenne is an actor and director. She has worked mainly with indie theaters, originating characters in contemporary plays –most recently Maura, in The End Will Hurt, by Laura Neill (She Said… Festival, Boston Center for the Arts), Beryl Ruth, in With Glittering Eyes (Hibernian Hall, Roxbury), Mama Beast, in Miss Penitentiary, (Maiden Phoenix, Boston), and Oshun, in  Gift of an Orange (Tennessee Williams Festival, New Orleans and Provincetown). Other roles include The Doctor, in Exit The King (Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Boston), Doctor Rieux, The Plague (Praxis Stage/Boston), Vivian Bearing in Wit, (MMAS, Mansfield, nominated for an EMACT, Best Actor, Female). Her directing credits include 2019 Open Theatre Project’s SLAM/Boston (Audience Favorite), the 2018 production of for colored girls who have considered suicide…when the rainbow is enough (Praxis Stage, Roxbury), staged readings with TC Squared Theatre Company, and producing/directing the Mansfield Music and Arts Society festival, Trio, A 3-Day, 3-Play Staged Reading. She is currently involved with fundraising The WaltersWest Project, a full production of Eugene O’Neill’s Long Days Journey Into Night tentatively scheduled for Spring 2020.

August 2019

Kody Grassett (Maud/Gerry) is a Boston-based actor from the Monadnock region of New Hampshire. Local credits include Apollinaire Theatre Company’s The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart (Siolagha/Ensemble), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth (Lennox), and the Underlings Theatre Co.’s Romeo and Juliet (Nurse/Prince). Other credits include Orlando Shakes’ Antony and Cleopatra (Agrippa), Blackberry Winter (Grey Mole), and TheatreUCF’s The Divine Sister (Mother Superior). Kody has studied at the University of Vermont, Rome’s Routalibero Teatro, and the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford-Upon-Avon. He holds an MFA from the University of Central Florida in partnership with Orlando Shakes, where his graduate work focused on providing actors with creative agency in the theatre-making process.