Cheryl Daro is a Filipino-American actror/producer. She was most recently seen in Rock of Ages as Regina Koontz, and as Gigi Van Tran in Miss Saigon at the Tony Award winning Signature Theatre in Washington DC. She enjoyed writing, producing and acting in her first short film, Forefathers, a story about an Asian-American woman and African-American woman who discover that they are twin sisters…comedy ensues.

A daughter of immigrants, Ms. Daro grew up in Silicon Valley and is very proud to be the first-born American citizen in her family. She studied graphic design and photography in San Francisco before deciding to pursue a professional acting career.  Working in LA, she cultivated her passion for storytelling and theater, which compelled her to complete her training at Atlantic Theater School in 2009.

Currently living in Las Vegas, she and her husband recently opened The Space (thespacelv.com), a multi-functional raw performance venue. They hope to help cultivate the local performing arts scene by bringing quality professional theater into Las Vegas, providing a place to develop the local youth, and help bridge the gap between professional and community level theater by eventually producing their own productions. She is also the Co-Creator of the charity event, Mondays Dark (www.mondaysdark.com) where they raise 10k for a different local charity bi-weekly. In its fourth year, Mondays Dark will have raised 500k for charity this July.

Ms. Daro hopes to continue to create art in anyway she can, share her story and the stories of those before her.  She hopes to keep blurring the lines between different ethnicities and races of people, as the stories we see on stage and screen are about sharing the human experience with each other and no matter what color our skin is, these are stories about all of us.

She’s a proud member of Actor’s Equity. Follow her at Twitter: @cheryldaro Instagram: @seedaro

Gabriel Vega Weissman 1(Director) Previously for Central square Theatre: Guards at the Taj (Boston Globe Top 10 Theatre of 2018). Gabriel has directed and developed work with companies including New York Theatre Workshop, Atlantic Theater Company, Primary Stages, A.R.T., Williamstown Theatre Festival, New Dramatists, Northern Stage, San Diego REP, National Black Theatre, Castillo Theatre, BRIC, and NYMF. He has directed concert events for Emmy Award nominated actor and musician Tituss Burgess at the Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall and co-directed productions of 2:22-A Ghost Story on the West End in London and in Melbourne, Australia. He has served as associate director on seven Broadway productions. Gabriel is an alum of the Drama League Director’s Project, Lincoln Center Directors Lab, Manhattan Theatre Club Directing Fellowship, Williamstown Theatre Festival Professional Training Program and New York Theatre Workshop 2050 Fellowship. In 2015, he was the finalist for the inaugural Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s National Directors Fellowship.  His collection of short plays, Loose Canon, and his adaptation, Aristophanes’ The Birds, are licensed and published by Broadway Licensing and have been produced around the world. Knocked 7,000 doors in Pennsylvania and Georgia during 2020 and 2022 elections. Proud father to Caleb.
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1 The Director is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.

Charles Dickens (Author) is much loved for his great contribution to classic English literature. He was the quintessential Victorian author. His epic stories, vivid characters and exhaustive depiction of contemporary life are unforgettable. His own story is one of rags to riches. He was born in Portsmouth on February 7, 1812, to John and Elizabeth Dickens. The good fortune of being sent to school at the age of nine was short-lived because his father, inspiration for the character of Mr. Micawber in David Copperfield, was imprisoned for bad debt. The entire family, apart from Charles, were sent to Marshalsea along with their patriarch. Charles was sent to work in Warren’s blacking factory and endured appalling conditions as well as loneliness and despair. After three years he was returned to school, but the experience was never forgotten and became fictionalised in two of his better-known novels David Copperfield and Great Expectations. Like many others, he began his literary career as a journalist. His own father became a reporter and Charles began with the journals The Mirror of Parliament and The True Sun. Then in 1833 he became parliamentary journalist for The Morning Chronicle. With new contacts in the press he was able to publish a series of sketches under the pseudonym ‘Boz’. In April 1836, he married Catherine Hogarth, daughter of George Hogarth who edited Sketches by Boz. Within the same month came the publication of the highly successful Pickwick Papers, and from that point on there was no looking back for Dickens. As well as a huge list of novels he published an autobiography, edited weekly periodicals including Household Words and All Year Round, wrote travel books and administered charitable organizations. He was also a theatre enthusiast, wrote plays and performed before Queen Victoria in 1851. He was inexhaustible and he spent much time abroad – for example lecturing against slavery in the United States and touring Italy with companions Augustus Egg and Wilkie Collins, a contemporary writer who inspired Dickens’ final unfinished novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood. He was estranged from his wife in 1858 after the birth of their ten children, but maintained relations with his mistress, the actress Ellen Ternan. He died of a stroke in 1870. He is buried at Westminster Abbey.