Manny Rosario (Assistant Director) is a senior at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee where he studies Contemporary Theatre. He recently directed an adaptation of Derek McCormack’s The Well Dressed Wound (Earthstone Theatre Company). Other credits include Tales from the Sandman (New England Tour), Murder in the Ladies Room, La Reina Gitana, Death at First Swipe, (Micro Theater Miami), and Reefer Madness (Mainstreet Players).
October 2018.
Renee E. Yancey (Stage Manager) is a stage manager, production manager and theatre educator. Credits in New England include Stage Manager for Ripe Frenzy (New Repertory Theatre/BCAP), The Fantasticks (Opera House Arts), The Honey Trap and Faithless (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre) and Production Manager for Richard III (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company) and A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Boys from Syracuse (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company/Landmarks Orchestra). Originally from Texas, Renee spent 10 years based in the Washington, D.C., area where she performed stage, production, and events management for Olney Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, theatre Washington/Helen Hayes Awards, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Velocity DC, and AFI Silver Spring. Renee is a Lecturer and Program Head of Management for the School of Theatre at Boston University. Education: BFA Texas State University; MFA Boston University. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.
October 2018.
Jonah Toussaint (Understudy) is an actor, musician, poet, artist, director, and playwright from Cambridge, MA. Jonah is very excited to make his understudy debut at Central Square Theater. He co-wrote and co-directed Book of Shadows at the Community Art Center in June of 2018, where he also worked as the lower school theater teacher. Other credits include The Brother’s Size (Ogun) as part of Eat at The Table Theater Company at the Imperial Loft Theater in Manhattan (2017). Jonah is the Marketing and Inclusion Specialist at Central Square Theater, where he also works front of house and box office. He also works at the Front Porch Arts Collective as an artistic associate. Jonah graduated from Wesleyan University with a degree in Theater and Psychology.
October 2018.
Adrienne Boris is a director of theatre and opera with special interest in new and contemporary work, stories about women, and new music theater genres. Recently, with OperaHub in association with Diva Museum, she co-produced and directed the world premiere of DIVAS: A New Play with Opera Music by Laura Neill, which focused on the lives of 17th-19th century opera divas and their extraordinary contributions to political, social, and musical history. Other recent directing credits include La boheme with Long Island Lyric Opera/Opera at the Madison, the world premiere of Eva Kendrick’s ten-minute opera Wish You Were Here with Boston Opera Collaborative as part of Opera Bites, Next to Normal with Arts After Hours (Lynn, MA), and OR, by Liz Duffy Adams with Maiden Phoenix Theatre Company and Simple Machine, which was nominated for three Elliot Norton Awards including Best Fringe Production. She has worked as an assistant director extensively, including Off-Broadway and with director Austin Pendleton on his acclaimed interpretation of Fiddler on the Roof at New Repertory Theatre. She has served as National New Play Network Producer-in-Residence at New Repertory Theatre and Artistic Associate at OperaHub, and received her MFA in Directing from Boston University. For more information please visit www.adrienneboris.com
September 2018
Rachel Padula-Shufelt (Costume Designer) (she/her) is a graduate of Emerson College. Central Square Theater: Frankenstein. Recent costume design credits include Be Here Now, Thanksgiving Play at Lyric Stage, 39 Steps at Greater Boston Stage Company, The Children, Choir Boy, Once, Shakespeare in Love, Men on Boats at Speakeasy Stage, Oliver, 1776 at New Rep Theatre, Macbeth, Edward II (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design) at Actor’s Shakespeare Project, Charlotte’s Web at American Repertory Theatre, S.I.N.S.OF.U.S., The Owll Answers at Harvard TDM, Rosenbergs, Lost Tempo, The River Was Whiskey, Mortal Terror, Legally Dead, Abscence, Windowmen (nominated Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design), at Boston Playwrights Theatre. Barefoot in the Park, Trad and Crimes of the Heart at Gloucester Stage Company.