Becca Freifeld (Stage Manager) is thrilled to join The Nora Theatre Company at Central Square Theater for the first time. Area stage management credits include the regional premiere of Cardboard Piano, Straight White Men, Two Jews Walk into a War, Man of La Mancha, Oleanna, Thurgood (original run & on tour), Fiddler on the Roof, and Good (The New Repertory Theatre); Slow Food (world premiere, Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Dancing at Lughnasa (The Gloucester Stage Company.); Every Brilliant Thing (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Barbecue (Lyric Stage Company of Boston); Shoes On, Shoes Off (Brandeis Department of Theater Arts); and Romeo & Juliet and Evil Dead: the Musical (Arts After Hours), among others.
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Stef Tivan
Stef Tivnan (Properties) Stef Tivnan is a theatre artisan from the Worcester area. She is currently completing her degree in technical theatre at Fitchburg State University. She has worked as a props master for companies in the Boston area such as 4th Wall Stage Company and Fresh Ink Theatre Company, as well as on several Main Stage productions at Fitchburg State. Though props is her preferred niche, she has also worked in a variety of technical design disciplines, such as sound design, house management, and lobby design. She is very excited for the opportunity to work with such a wonderful production company as Central Square Theater!
David Bryan Jackson*
David Bryan Jackson* (Dillwyn Knox & John Smith) is pleased to be making his acting debut at CST, having previously designed sound and composed music here for The Hound of the Baskervilles, Cloud 9, and Les Liaisons Dangereuses. He recently appeared in Cold Country at ExPats Theatre in Washington D.C., where he has acted in many productions, including A Number (with his son Max Jackson), The Caretaker, and Entertaining Mr. Sloane at Edge of the Universe Theater, Birds of North America at Mosaic Theater, Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, Timon of Athens, Henry IV and Henry V at The Shakespeare Theatre, All’s Well That Ends Well, Henry IV Part 1 and Much Ado About Nothing at the Folger Theatre, An Unbuilt Life, Endgame, Candida, The Old Masters, Magic, The Best of Friends, and Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime at Washington Stage Guild, The Two-Character Play (with Lee Mikeska Gardner) at Spooky Action Theater, and Martha, Josie, & the Chinese Elvis at Woolly Mammoth Theatre. Other credits include House and Garden at Pittsburgh Irish & Classical Theatre, and David Hare’s one-man play Via Dolorosa, which he has performed on several occasions across the country, including an IRNE-nominated run at New Repertory Theatre. On-screen credits include the independent films Dinner with the Alchemist and Her Tango, as well as episodes of AMC’s Turn: Washington’s Spies. His Song for the Earth can be heard on Zoe Ravenwood’s album The Problem Might be Me, and he wrote the title track on her forthcoming Welcome to the World.
Whitney Brady-Guzmán
Whitney Brady-Guzmán (Lighting Designer) is a lighting designer and associate based in Boston. She is a recent graduate of Vassar College, and an incoming phD student in Theatre & Performance Studies at Tufts University. Selected design credits include: Machinal, A Little Night Music (The Experimental Theatre at Vassar College); Chicago (Massasoit Theatre Company); Melancholy Play: A Chamber Musical, The Mayor of Baltimore (The Powerhouse Theatre). Recent associate credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest (Portland Stage); Hamlet, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Colorado Shakespeare Festival). Whitney currently serves as part of the production staff in the Theatre Department at Suffolk University.
Allison Olivia Choat
Allison Olivia Choat, she/ they; (Scenic Designer). Allison is thrilled to be rejoining Central Square after serving as Assistant Director, Dialect Coach, and Scenic Designer for the company’s Norton-award-winning production of Cloud Nine in 2019 and Assistant Director and Assistant Fight Captain for Les Liaisons Dangereuses in 2018. Allison is a theater artist, educator, and arts advocate whose work interweaves direction, design, and movement, and is Founding Partner and Associate Artistic Director of Boston-area company Moonbox Productions (moonbox.org). Recent credits with Moonbox: Torch Song (Director, Norton nom., Outstanding Production); the Boston New Works Festival ‘22 and ‘23 (Director, The Juke; Costume Design, The Prince and the Painter); Parade (Associate Director/ Dramaturg; Norton winner, Outstanding Musical), Caroline, or Change (Director; Norton nom., Outstanding Musical), and, yes…. The Rocky Horror Show (Dramaturg). Upcoming: The Lion in Winter (Director), Theatre UnCorked. Offstage, Allison is an academic administrator at Harvard University, a voice actor, a voice and movement coach for artists and athletes, and a budding plant parent.