Christine Power (Antonia Maury) is pleased to be making her debut with The Nora. Recent local credits include Lost Girls (Take Your Pick Productions), The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (SpeakEasy Stage), Barbecue (Lyric Stage), Faithless (Boston Playwrights’ Theater), Good; Three Viewings (New Rep), A Great Wilderness; Good Television (Zeitgeist Stage), Six Degrees of Separation (Bad Habit Productions), Equus (Off the Grid), Greenland (Apollinaire – IRNE nomination Best Supporting Actress), Chalk (Fresh Ink Theater), In the Summer House (Fort Point Theater Channel), The Miracle Worker (Wheelock Family Theater), Neighbors (Company One – Norton nomination Outstanding Actress). New work development with Speakeasy’s Boston Project; New Rep Next Voices; Boston Playwrights’ Theater; The Nora; Fresh Ink’s Ink Spots; Rhombus Playwrights’ Group; Grub Street.
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Becca A. Lewis (Williamina Fleming) is pleased to have her Central Square Theater debut with the Nora after The Women Who Mapped the Stars workshop performance last spring. Becca co-created and performs in The Pineapple Project with Queer Soup, an original piece for kids celebrating gender diversity (PineappleProject.org). Additional credits include: Charlotte’s Web (Wheelock Family Theatre), Revolt. She said. Revolt again (Dig Boston’s Best Performance), Splendor (IRNE nomination Best New Play), GRIMM (IRNE Supporting Actress), Voyeurs de Venus (Elliot Norton nomination Outstanding Production, Company One), The Big Meal (Elliot Norton nomination Outstanding Actress, Ensemble), Tigers Be Still (Elliot Norton nomination Outstanding Actress, Production), My Wonderful Day (Elliot Norton nomination Outstanding Production), Enron (Zeitgeist Stage), Three Sisters, Informed Consent, The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise, Detroit, (Apollinaire Theatre Company), A Behanding in Spokane (Elliot Norton Nomination Outstanding Production, Theatre on Fire), Far Away, Vinegar Tom, Fen (Whistler in the Dark). It is rare that one gets the opportunity to inhabit a soul whose life’s work took place in such close proximity and whose bones are at rest down the road in Mount Auburn Cemetery. Becca is grateful to be trusted with the task of honoring the legacy of Williamina Fleming as well as the legacies of all of these brilliant women. Thank you for listening to their story.
April 2018
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Nina Alexander (Properties Master) is so thankful that she began her technical theater career at Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. Since then she has earned a BA in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design and for the last decade has worked in Props, Sets and Paint for companies and productions in Boston, Maine, Rhode Island and New York. As a Brooklyn-based artist she currently divides most of her time between crafting props or building and painting sets at New York University’s Tisch Graduate School of the Arts, and helping to create and maintain exhibitions at the New York Botanical Garden’s Everett Children’s Adventure Garden in the Bronx. She is honored to be a part of the Taj team, and especially delighted to be back making theater in her home city of Cambridge.
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Reza Behjat (Lighting Designer) began his career in Iran – where he was born and raised – working with some of the prominent directors on various productions for several years. In 2014, he moved to the US to pursue his MFA degree in Lighting Design at New York University. Reza was nominated for 2017 Henry Hewes Design Award for Hamlet. Off-Broadway: Hamlet (Waterwell). Off-Off Broadway: This Is The Color Described By The Time (New Georges), Fillx7 (The Flea Theater),Tear A Root from the Earth (New Ohio Theater), Alkestis (Connelly Theater), Fall River (Penguin Rep.), The Winter’s Tale (NYU), I Wasn’t Going to… (NYU), The Little Black Fish (Down Art Center). MFA: Lighting Design, NYU; MA: Theater Directing at Art University of Tehran, Iran.
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Grace Laubacher (Scenic Designer) is excited to collaborate for the first time with Underground Railway Theater. Grace is a set designer originally from Cambridge, now based in New York. Her work has recently been seen at Bard Music Festival (Halka), Pacific Symphony (Aida), Juilliard (La Finta Giardiniera and The Magic Flute), Boston Baroque (Giulio Cesare), and the University of Scranton (The Glass Menagerie and The Birds, dir. Gabriel Vega Weissman). In the past year she has also designed sets for Disney Creative Entertainment, the Peabody-Essex Museum, and has worked as an associate designer on Broadway (Marvin’s Room, Roundabout), regionally (Merrily We Roll Along, Huntington), and internationally (Hans Zimmer Live European tour). Grace was named a “Young Designer to Watch” by Live Design Magazine in 2015, and was a winner in Opera America’s 2015 Robert L.B. Tobin Director Designer Showcase. She holds a master’s degree from Central Saint Martins in London and a BA from Harvard. GraceLaubacher.com.
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