Lisa Nguyen is delighted to make her professional debut in Journey to the West. Recently graduated from Fitchburg State University with a B.S. in Communications Media. She was heavily involved with the theater program there. Credits include: Dr. Sara Christ in FAUSTED (Edinburgh Theatre Festival Premiere), Abigail Williams in The Crucible, Thomasina Coverly in Arcadia, The Vagina Monologues, Rodeo/Lorleen in Talking With…, and Leeann in A Piece of My Heart. Other credits: Heidi Schwartz in SHUL (Sheldon Wolf)
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Tess Degen (Woman/ Mother) is excited to make her Central Square Theater debut. Most recent Boston credits include Catherine O’Neill’s The Fence, Laundry and Bourbon, A Dog Dreams, The Dating Game, Our Son and numerous staged readings and musicals. NY credits include Koshin by Mila Parish and Shadows of Mourning by Elyse McNergny. She can be seen in Almost Mercy and Slimebuck directed by Tommy DeNucci and available on Netflix. She is currently training to become a Linklater designated instructor and a Dalcroze teacher. She is also is the owner and creator of ‘Physical Actor™, a method combining several modalities to warm up the actor. Her greatest desire is be a student for the rest of her life. www.tessdegen.com
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Raya Malcolm (Little Match Girl/Swallow) is delighted to make her Central Square Theatre debut! Boston credits include: The Midnight Zoo (Puppet Showplace Theatre), Rhinoceros (Boston Playwright’s Theatre), The Servant of Two Masters, The Saint Plays, The Crucible (Suffolk University), Miss Havisham’s Wedding Night (Odyssey Opera). Other regional credits include: Romeo & Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor (Saratoga Shakespeare Company). B.A. in Theatre from Suffolk University, Alumnus of NYSSSA for Theatre. Endless thanks to Debra and her fellow cast members for their inspiration and kindness. Love and gratitude to Daddy-O, Mama, and Paul. A special dedication to Mary Ann and Ray Zywot.
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Thurston, production manager, has several years experience in production in the New York Metropolitan area. Most recently he was the production manager with the Harlem Arts Festival. He has also served as manager of production and technical director at The Riverbank State Park Cultural Center and other venues such as the Tribeca Performing Arts Centre, The LaGuardia Performing Arts Center, NJPAC in Newark New Jersey, and The Cross Roads Theater Company.
Thurston is also is an AUDELCO award winning lighting designer. His collaborations with performance artists include Indian Blood and My Father and The Wars with Robbie McCauley; Zeitgeist ’99 and Chronotapestry with Ichiro Kishmoto; and The Alchemist’s Hands with Mie Makishima. Thurston’s designs have been showcased internationally with the Theater of Movement and Images’ A Day In The Life of a Hysterical Woman at the Sankorn Festival in Karlsrue, Germany.
His dance credits feature Dance America, Honi Coles and the Copastetics, Black Pearl Dance, Creative Outlet Dance and Essence Footprints Dance Company.
Thurston’s work includes his role as the Associate Lighting Designer with Melody Beal for Judith Sloan’s Yo Miss at the Nuyorican Poets’ Café. He served as the Assistant Lighting Designer for Keiko Fuji Dance Company and for Dance Africa at BAM with William H. Grant III.
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Joseph Stein, Box Office Associate, has been with Central Square Theater since its opening in 2008. Joe currently works as an Academic Programs Assistant for the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program (HST) at MIT. Prior to this, Joe worked at the Boston University School of Education, where he was director of graduate financial assistance from 1999 until 2010. Prior to working at the BU School of Education, Joe worked at the BU College of Communication in the areas of graduate admissions, recruitment and financial assistance, after having spent a number of years there as an undergraduate academic counselor. Joe received his BA in Psychology from the University of Rochester, and his MA and EdM in Counseling from Teachers College, Columbia University.
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