Evan Turissini

Evan Turissini is overjoyed to return to Central Square Theater, having previously played Sir Pitt (among half a dozen other roles) in Vanity Fair, which was nominated for Outstanding Production and Outstanding Ensemble at the Elliot Norton Awards in 2020. In 2024, he received a Norton nomination for Outstanding Featured Actor for the role of Madame Bijou in The Spider & The Fly with Imaginary Beasts. Other local stage credits include Love’s Labour’s Lost (Lanes Coven Theatre Company); Haunted (Company One); The Bremen Town Musicians, Casey at the Bat (Imaginary Beasts): A Bold Stroke for a Husband (Theatre in the Open); The Antelope Party, Three Sisters (Apollinaire Theatre Company); Romeo & Juliet, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare); Revolution’s Edge (Plays in Place/Old North Illuminated); Twelfth Night, Shipwrecked! (Moonbox Productions); and many more. By day, Evan is the Director of Marketing & Communications for Actors’ Shakespeare Project. You can see him soon in Mount Harvest Productions’ streaming series, The Canon of Grimward. (he/him)
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Josephine Moshiri Elwood*

Josephine Moshiri Elwood* (Pat) is excited to return to Central Square Theater after appearing in Vanity Fair. Regional: JOB, EnglishPeople, Places, & Things, Hand to God, The Whale (SpeakEasy Stage), Our Town (Lyric Stage), Someone Will Remember Us (Trinity Rep), Emma, Othello, God’s Ear (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Wish You Were Here (Gloucester Stage), The Band’s Visit (Huntington/SpeakEasy), Prayer for the French Republic (Huntington Theatre), Onegin, Gabriel (Greater Boston Stage), Old Money (Commonwealth Shakespeare), Long Ago and Far AwayThe Cherry Orchard (Walking the dog Theatre). Film/TV: “Nos4A2,” The Immigrant. Josephine holds a BFA in Acting from Emerson College.

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Malikah McHerrin-Cobb

Malikah McHerrin-Cobb (Amelia Sedley) Central Square Theater: debut;  Malikah has appeared in a number of roles in Regional Theatre including Zoe, from The Niceties at The New Hampshire Theatre Project, and The Prince/Balthazar, in Romeo + Juliet at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. She wants to thank God, family, and friends for always being so supportive of the journey and process! Follow @thesouthernboheme

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Karina Wen

Karina Wen (Mercy Lewis) Central Square Theater: debut; Recent credits include Pacific Overtures (Lyric Stage), The Joy Luck Club (The Umbrella Stage Company), Bye Bye Birdie, Guys and Dolls, and A Chorus Line (Priscilla Beach Theatre). Karina spent this past summer as an artistic intern at McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, New Jersey. Originally from Lexington, she is currently in her final year at Brandeis University, majoring in theater and women’s, gender, and sexuality studies.

August 2019

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