Wally Napier (Illusionist Consultant) is honored to be consulting on his first production with Central Square Theater for their staging of A Christmas Carol. A long-standing member of the Society of American Magicians for over a decade, Wally has had the opportunity to study the art of deception and stage illusions under some of the world’s most renowned illusionists, including David Blaine, Jeff McBride, and David Oliver, among many others. Wally has performed his magic for numerous public and private events, both in America and abroad. A recent graduate of Tufts University, Wally holds the world’s only degree in BioDramatics – an interdisciplinary study investigating the cross-section of biological sciences and stagecraft, neuroscience and performance art, and artistic adaptation and science history — which culminated in the production of Luminesce: A BioDramatic Fiction, a thesis for which Wally served as both Playwright and Director.

As of November 2017.

Meghan Murphy (Youth Mentor) is a soon-to-be graduate of Northeastern University who has produced for film, television and theater in Boston, London, and New York City. What began as a love of visual art as soon as she was old enough to hold a paintbrush later grew into a love of art in its more collaborative forms, particularly film, theater, and dance. She is an alum of the Commercial Theater Institute in New York City, and her next film project, Wise Gals, is slated for release in summer 2018. She is committed to serve with Teach for America after graduation, teaching special education. She would like to give a special thank you to her big brother Joe (her first and best mentor) and to Tom, Julia and Erin, her original mentees and her greatest inspirations. 

As of November 2017.

Siobhan Carroll (Assistant Director & Dramaturg) is delighted to have been a part of the process in creating this production of A Christmas Carol. Siobhan graduated from Boston University’s acting program in 2016. Since graduating she has been a part of New Repertory Theatre’s (CRC) productions of Romeo and Juliet and The Scarlet Letter, Anthem Theatre Company’s I, Snowflake, and Arts After Hours’s Next To Normal. Thanks to Debra Wise, Central Square Theater, and this cast and crew for welcoming her into the creative process. 

As of November 2017.

Charlotte Anne Dore (Punch & Judy) has been building puppets since she was 5 years old when she used a cracker box to make a womble (these were cute TV characters in England in the 1970s). She received a degree in Creative Arts from Nottingham Trent University which included a semester at the Art institute of Chicago and internship with Movingstage marionette company. She toured with Underground’s Are You Ready My Sister for about 5 years and has run her own puppet company “Rosalita’s Puppets” for 24 years performing all over New England  in schools, for parties and events like First night and venues like Faneuil Hall, Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum etc. She is also a proud union member of  Equity and Sag/Aftra.  She worked with Oscar winner Tom Woodroff on the movie Zookeeper with Kevin James assisting with the animatronic Gorilla. RosalitasPuppets.com or “Rosalita the Puppet” on Facebook.

As of November 2017.

Stephen Lewontin (Miniature Buildings) is a photographer, painter, and engineer who has collaborated for more than 20 years with the Underground Railway Theater on puppets and sets for numerous productions, including Creation, Alice’s Adventures Underground, Galileo, and Arabian Nights. In 2013 he designed and built a 15-foot tall puppet of Toussaint L’Ouverture for the URT production of Roots of Liberty, starring Danny Glover as Toussaint. The village of miniature houses for the set of A Christmas Carol is the product of a lifelong fascination with the department store holiday window displays, model train sets, dioramas, and other miniature glowing worlds. Stephen’s photographs have been published in many newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times, The Boston Review, and Popular Photography. He was winner of the 1984 Boston Globe and Kodak International photography prizes.

As of November 2017.