MK Tuomanen* (Sally Ride, Geraldyn Cobb) they/them, is a Jerome Fellow in Playwriting and winner of the Haas Emerging Artist Award. Off Broadway: the New Ohio (Viv in The Karamazovs) Regional: the Wilma Theater (Viola/Sebastian in Twelfth Night, Bart in Mr. Burns, Bette in Fairview) the Arden Theater (The Poet in An Illiad, Emma Goldman in Ragtime, Alison in Fun Home, Puck in Midsummer, Irina in Three Sisters)  and Opera Philadelphia (Andrei Warhola in Andy: A Popera, Lise in Ne Quittez Pas), among others. Their play Peaceable Kingdom (produced with Orbiter3, a playwrights’ collective that included L Feldman) won the 2017 Philadelphia Award and their play Night Science won the Terrence McNally Award in Playwriting in 2024. Their solo work has been seen at FringeArts, Penn Radicals Conference, the Kimmel Center, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, the Annenberg Center and the Playwrights’ Center. They are a company member of Applied Mechanics Theater Company and an associated artist with the Bearded Ladies experimental queer cabaret. As a director, their recent collaboration with John Jarboe, Rose: You Are Who You Eat has been seen at the Guggenheim Museum, LaMama (Under the Radar) and Woolly Mammoth Theater. A New England native, this is their first time in over 20 years performing back on their home turf. www.mkplays.com

Monica Risi (Christina Hernández, Jerri Sloan) she/her/ella, is an international theater practitioner. Off Broadway: Water (HERE Arts Space); On The Faultlines (Ruffled Feathers Theater), Brooklyn At Eye Level (The Civilians), Some Historic/Some Hysteric (New Stage Theater Company). Regional: Mermaid Hour(Moonbox Productions), Stand Up if You Are Here Tonight (The Huntington), The Clean House (Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble), 619 Henricks (Teatro Chelsea), La Batuta & El Premio (KONTENEDORES, Peru), Cualquiera / Everyman (Teatro La Plaza, Peru). Feature Film: Un Mundo Para Julius (Independent film, Peru), Igualita A Mi (Tondero, Peru), Asu Mare 3 (Tondero, Peru). Workshops: Trust (Boston Playwrights Theatre), House of Sueños (Actors Shakespeare Project). Teaching credits: The Juilliard School Drama Teaching Fellow 2022/23; Tenured Professor at the Performing Arts Department of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. Education: MFA in Acting (Actors Studio Drama School, NY). Monica is the proud co-founder of TEATRA, an international collective of female Spanish speaking producers in the Americas (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru) IG: @teatra_productoras

Hui Ying Wen (Hazel Ying Lee, Wally Funk, Ivy Rieker) she/her, has performed in numerous stage and independent film productions in Los Angeles and with Theater Arts at Caltech, including consulting for and performing in the staged reading of “S P A C E” at the MACH 33 Festival of New Science-Driven Plays at Caltech.  She has studied acting at the American Conservatory Theater and clowning with The Clown School of Los Angeles and Philippe Gaulier.  Hui Ying holds degrees in theater arts and aerospace engineering from MIT, and is a software engineer at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

Jade A. Guerra (Iniabasi Ekpeyong) she/her,  is a Boston based actor and educator. She is a resident company member of Actors Shakespeare Project. Some of her credits include Thanks but no Thanks (Letters Aloud), The Meeting Tree (Front Porch reading series), Taming of the Shrew (Actors Shakespeare Project), Miracle on 34th street (Greater Boston Stage Co.), King Lear (ASP), Calendar Girls (Greater Boston Stage Co.), Well (Wellesley Rep), Macbeth (ASP) and Young Nerds of Color reading (Central Square theatre). She also has been a reader for Blue Heron, a vocal choir that brings music and poetry from the renaissance.

Patrice Jean-Baptiste*, (Abasiama Ufot) she/her, is thrilled to be returning to Central Square Theater in “Her Portmanteau” after appearing in CST 2017’s “Building the Wall”. Her recent and previous credits include: Huntington Theatre’s “The Grove” (2nd Ufot Cycle Play); Actors Shakespeare Project’s “King Hedley”, “Taming of the Shrew”, “Coriolanus” and “Hamlet”; Lyric Stage’s “Trouble in Mind” and “Brokeology”; Commonwealth Shakespeare’s “Henry V”; Centastage’s “BoyXMan”; Coyote Theater’s “The Monogamist”. Patrice attended Boston University and Trinity Rep Conservatory. Next up: Plays in Place’s “A New Era”. She was previously a performing arts teacher/ speech and debate coach at Milton Academy and is now a teaching artist with Company One.