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

Alka Nayyar. Regional credits include The Jungle Book (2013) at the Huntington. Jefferson Award-nominated choreography for The Masrayana (Prop and Rasaka Theatre Company), Merchant of Venice (Silk Road Rising), A Passage to India (Vitalist Theatre), Djamileh (Chicago Cultural Center), Haroun and the Sea of Stories(Halcyon Theatre), The Piano Tuner (Lifeline Theatre), and thinkTank: An Immigrant Class and  thinkTank: American Ethnic (Remy Bumppo Theatre Company). Other credits include Thirst (Stage Left Theatre’s LeapFest), After Dark (Art Institute of Chicago with Collaboraction), Around the World in 80 Days (Theatre-Hikes), Pacific Overtures (Porchlight Music Theatre), Yoni Ki Baat ( Rasaka Theatre Company), and A Night at the Oscars (Chicago Humanities Festival). Ms. Nayyar teaches dance through her organization Chitrahar at the Old Town School of Folk Music and the Menomonee Club and is a communications professional with a BA in Linguistics from the University of Chicago.

Asher Stern is a burgeoning song-and-dance man with throwback style. Asher has found success on the stage and film, highlighted by his turn in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women playing Demi the son of Emma Watson’s Meg. He’s also lent his voice to Transformers Rescue Bots and gave life to the character of Echolocation for the Boston Museum of Science’s Nature’s Superheroes exhibit and ad campaign.