Arshan Gailus+ (Original Music & Sound Designer) they/them, Previous Central Square Theater Design: Marjorie Prime. Original Music and Sound Design for Boston Playwrights’ Theatre Shakespeare & Company, ArtsEmerson, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, California Shakespeare Theater, The Huntington Theatre Company, Capital Repertory Theatre, Contemporary American Theater Festival, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Plays in Place, A.R.T Institute, The Lyric Stage Company, Company One, and many more. In addition to their theater design work, Arshan creates works combining performance art, storytelling, video, music, and written and spoken words, exploring and reimagining questions of identity, alienation, belonging, and culture. Arshan previously taught theatrical sound design for Emerson College. They hold a BS in Music from MIT and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College. arshangailus.com
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Penney Pinette
Penney Pinette (Costume Design) grew up in the untamed woods of Maine where she spent hours studying the shapes and colors in nature. Creating clothes for leading ladies, starlets, ingénues, and dancers yielded an understanding of how to make flattering forms functional. As a Boston-based designer focusing in dance and theatre, she enjoyed employment as a draper for Huntington Theatre Company, and also supervised the costume shop at Tufts University. In addition to designing, she teaches at Mount Ida College and Boston University where she recently graduated with an MFA in Costume Design. Some of her work has been with local puppeteer Bonnie Duncan of They Gotta Be Secret Agents, theater companies like New Repertory Theatre, and others in the local dance community, including Prometheus Dance, Contrapose Dance, Cary McKinley, and Fort Point Theater Productions.
Karoline Xu
Karoline Xu is thrilled to join Precious Little! She was most recently seen as Agnes in A Dream Play (Harvard/Farkas Hall). Professional credits include Dry Land (Company One), Blood Wedding (Apollinaire), A Language to Hear Myself (American Repertory Theater), Hitting Bedrock (La MaMa ETC), Readymade Cabaret (Judson Church). This summer, she was an acting intern with Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the understudy for Hamlet in Hamlet. Senior at Harvard College.
Nancy E. Carroll
Nancy E. Carroll* Broadway: Present Laughter (Roundabout Theatre); International: The Cripple of Inishmaan, Big Maggie (Druid Theatre, Ireland) Return of the Winemaker (Cork Arts Theatre, Ireland); Regional: I Was Most Alive With You, The Seagull, Good People ,The Luck of the Irish, Prelude to a Kiss, Brendan, The Rose Tattoo, Dead End (Huntington Theatre); Rapture Blister Burn (Geffen Playhouse); Our Town, She Loves Me (Williamstown Theatre Festival); The Year of Magical Thinking, The Glass Menagerie (Lyric Stage); Return of the Winemaker, Trad (Tir Na); The New Electric Ballroom, North Shore Fish, Breath of Life, Doubt, Happy Days, My Old Lady, Collected Stories (Gloucester Stage); Uncanny Valley (Stoneham Theatre); The Clean House, Frozen, Sweeney Todd, Kindertransport (New Repertory); Mothers and Sons, Other Desert Cities, The Savannah Disputation, The Women, Company, A Man Of No Importance (Speakeasy Stage); Bailengangaire (Súgán Theatre); Humble Boy, Hamlet, The Winter’s Tale (Publick Theatre); Auntie and Me (Merrimack Repertory); Buried Child, The Unexpected Man (Nora Theatre). TV and Film: Spotlight, Olive Kitteridge, Irrational Man. Elliot Norton Awards Present Laughter, Brendan, Bailegangaire
Arianna Reith
Arianna is excited to be part of Journey to the West, her first Central Square Theatre production, having also performed at numerous Boston area venues. Credits include Zeitgeist Stage’s The Big Meal (Boston Center for the Arts), Wedding Band and A Christmas Carol (American Repertory Theatre), Pippi, Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, Alice and Trumpet of the Swan (Wheelock Family Theatre) and a reading of Identity Crisis, a collaboration between Boston Children’s Theatre and Barnes & Noble. An eighth grade student in Sudbury, MA, Arianna enjoys assistant teaching children’s theatre classes at Wheelock and rowing for The Community Rowing Institute.