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 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, (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.
Michael Dwan Singh (Ensemble Member) Central Square Theater: Bedlam’s Pygmalion; His previous acting chops include Bapu in Shiv and Musa in Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo– both Company One productions. He has also acted in The Land (Fort Port Channel Theatre), Tughlaq, Dance Like A Man, American Brat (SAATh – South Asian American Theater), and to round it out- Sexual Perversity in Chicago (MIT Community Players). In his other avatar- that of musician- Michael is one of only a handful of sarangi players in the US, an instrument he plays extensively with his band, The Shadow Notes. To that end, he runs an electronic production studio in Somerville that has become a hub for local underground desi music. He is also co-organizer of SubDrift- Boston’s first South Asian open mic. Special thanks to all of his teachers/gurus, the greatest of whom are his amazing parents- likely already seated in the front row.
August 2019
Hilary Rappaport (Assistant to the Director) Hilary has worked at CST as an assistant to Eric Tucker on Copenhagen, and Twelfth Night & What You Will and as dramaturg on Pygmalion. She also served as dramaturg on Frankenstein and Vanity Fair and assisted on the development and production of The Women Who Mapped the Stars. She acted in and directed several staged readings for The Poets’ Theater. For many years Hilary helped to lead an Off-Broadway theatre company where she acted, wrote and produced works performed in New York and Los Angeles. She also teaches theater classes and directs plays for young people.