Elizabeth Rocha (Properties Co-Designer) studied at Rhode Island School of Design and Boston’s Museum school before receiving her bachelor’s degree from Harvard’s Extension School. She was working as an illustrator when she accidentally stumbled into theater, where she has been working primarily as a costume designer ever since.  She has designed for Perseverance Theater, the Theater at Monmouth, Theatre on Fire, the Institute at the A.R.T., Harvard College, Stoneham’s Young Company, the Contemporary Theater of Boston and the Prometheus Dance Company. She has done production work for Costume Works and the Boston Ballet and worked in props at the Boston Conservatory for three years.

As of November 2017.

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.