Aja M. Jackson is a Boston-based lighting designer. Recent regional credits include Hear Word! (American Repertory Theatre), Straight White Men (New Rep), The Leftovers(Company One – Strand Theatre), The Last Wife (WAM Theatre), and Wit (Calderwood Pavilion – Boston Center of Performing Arts). Other credits include the Midwest tour of What the Wind Taught Me and The Biomorphic Dance Festival in NYC. Aja is Resident Lighting Designer and core collaborator for interdisciplinary, site-specific movement company, Nourishment (www.thisisnourishment.com). Previously she worked as a stage manager with the Denver Center Theatre Company and in Production Management with The Santa Fe Opera. Aja holds an M.F.A. in Lighting Design from Boston University, a B.F.A. in Lighting Design from the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, and a B.A. in Dance Performance from the School of Music. Aja recently was a Mentor in Residence with Brighter Boston, an outreach organization aimed at giving urban teens practical training in event and theatre productions.
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Josh Gluck
Josh Gluck (Raymond Gosling) is very excited to be making his Central Square Theater debut with the Nora Theatre Company, and to be bringing this valuable story to life. He spent the fall touring with New Repertory Theatre’s Classic Repertory Company (A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Animal Farm). Other recent credits include Intimate Apparel (Boston University), Mary Poppins (Prescott Park Arts Festival), and Almost, Maine (Hackmatack Playhouse). Josh graduated from Boston University with a BFA in Acting.
John Tracey
John Tracey (Francis Crick) John Tracey is back at the Nora after Les Liaisons Dangereuses last year. He is the Associate Producer for Bridge Repertory Theater, where you may have caught him in The Launch Prize, Julius Caesar or, if you were really lucky, as Cleopatra. Other theaters: Trinity Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, REV Theatre Co, Huntington Theatre Company, and a few rounds of the Philadelphia and New York Fringe Festivals. BFA The University of the Arts, MFA Brown University.
Michael Underhill
Michael Underhill is thrilled to be making his Central Square and Nora Theatre Company debut with Photograph 51. His recent credits include Man In The Ring (Huntington Theatre Company), Richmond in Richard III (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), Joseph Surface in School for Scandal (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Actor #1 in The Hotel Nepenthe (Brownbox Theatre Project), Hero in Hairy Tales (imaginary beasts), and C.B. in Dog Sees God (Happy Medium Theatre), as well as productions at Greater Boston Stage Company, Whistler in The Dark, Maiden Phoenix, Bad Habit Productions, Theatre on Fire and Apollinaire Theatre Company. He graduated Northeastern University (BA in Theatre – Performance). www.michaeljamesunderhill.com @michaeljamesunderhill
Jesse Hinson
Jesse Hinson, (Intimacy Choreographer) he/him, is a Boston-based violence designer, intimacy choreographer, actor, and educator. Previous choreography credits include The Light in the Piazza, The Triumph of Love, The Grove, Leopoldstadt, Fat Ham (The Huntington Theatre Company); Pru Payne, Cost of Living, Casa Valentina (SpeakEasy Stage); Rx Machina (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), The Minutes (Umbrella Arts), Anna Christie, The Little Foxes (Lyric Stage Company), Bud, Not Buddy (Wheelock Family Theater). He is a Teaching Professor and the Undergraduate Coordinator for the Department of Theatre in the College of Arts, Media, and Design at Northeastern University.