Judy Gailen has designed sets (and sometimes costumes) for theater and opera throughout the US, including Asolo Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, Trinity Rep, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Geva Theatre, Merrimack Rep, Beau Jest Moving Theater, Music Academy of the West, Opera Theatre of Philadelphia, and Anchorage Opera, as well as off and off-off Broadway, Emerson, Bates, and Dartmouth Colleges, and Bowdoin College, where she is currently a Lecturer in design. She also designed and directed The Stooge: A Troubled Clown for Troubled Times and other works written and performed by Michael Lane Trautman. A graduate of The Yale Drama School, she was awarded a Maine Arts Commission Fellowship for artistic excellence.

Erik Nikander is a New England-based theatre artist who specializes in writing, dramaturgy, and criticism. A recent graduate from Fitchburg State University and Spring 2016 Nora Theatre Company intern, he’s glad to have the opportunity to contribute to Central Square Theater on a professional level. In addition, Erik works as a freelance script reader and dramaturg for New York Rep, where he is helping to develop the original rock musical A Wall Apart. Erik also wrote the program notes for this season’s productions of Good and Thurgood at the New Repertory Theatre in Watertown, and his theatre criticism can be read in The Arts Fuse.

Esme Allen is a Boston-based actor, educator and scenic designer. Boston-area acting credits include Muckrakers, Elephant Man and Amadeus (New Repertory Theatre), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (IRNE Nomination- Best Supporting Actress); Gloucester Blue, North Shore Fish (Gloucester Stage Company); The Cherry Orchard, Middletown and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); Dog Paddle (Bridge Repertory Theater) and Coriolanus (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Television credits include The Devil You Know (HBO); The Good Wife (CBS); Ask the Bartender (FOXNEWS). Scenic design credits include Bridge Repertory Theater’s production of Mud Blue Sky, Julius Caesar and Gidion’s Knot. She earned her MFA in Acting from The California Institute of the Arts. She is a Founding Artistic Associate of The Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston and teaches acting at Salem State University and Wheelock College.

Anne Sherer is a scenic designer based in Brooklyn NY. Boston design credits include, Hello Again (Bridge Repertory Theater); Working, Intimate Apparel (Lyric Stage Company of Boston); Radium Girls (Suffolk University); Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day, School House Rock (Boston Children’s Theater); and Be a Good Little Widow (Aim Stage). New York area design work includes Book of Days, Secret in the Wings (New Players Company); What Would Critics Do? (NYMF); Next to Normal (Gallery Players);  We Were Wild Once, and Red Wednesday (Built for Collapse).  She has also assisted on shows including Hold on to me Darling (Atlantic Theater Company) and School of Rock on Broadway. She has a BFA in Design/Tech Theater from Emerson College.