Devorah Kengmana (Lighting Designer) is a New York based Lighting and Projections Designer. She received her Bachelor’s from MIT and her Master’s in Lighting and Projection Design from University of Missouri-Kansas City. Design credits include:Clybourne Park (Unicorn Theatre), Journey’s End (Kansas City Actors’ Theatre), Wylliams-Henry Contemporary Dance Company (Season Designer, 2014-15), Donna Micelli Dance Center (Lighting and Projections Designer, 2012-2015), Tom Gold at the Mahaiwe (Tom Gold Dance), and [AI] (The Brick Theatre). Assisting Credits: American Buffalo, A Christmas Carol, Angels in America (Kansas City Repertory Theatre), Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike(Kansas City Repertory Theatre, CenterStage Theatre), FLY (Projections Assistant, Florida Studio Theatre), Black Pearl Sings! (Spinning Tree Theatre), The Barber of Seville (San Francisco Opera). She has also worked with The Wooster Group in New York and just completed a three month internship with the San Francisco Opera this Fall.
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Vahdat Yeganeh
Vahdat Yeganeh (Assistant Director) is very honored to be back at CST as the assistant to Daniel Gidron. Iranian born Vahdat is the founder of Boston Experimental Theatre Company (B.E.T.). Currently Vahdat is studying and practicing the philosophy of Dialogue Among Civilizations in theatre, creating an environment for American, Iranian and Jewish artists to develop cultural and psychoanalytic dialogue among each other and spectators. Vahdat has created two new plays: SHAHNAMEH: the Persian Book of Kings (The Tale of ZAHHAK, 2015 and The First King, 2014). Mr. Yeganeh has also worked on Sadegh Hedayat’s Blind Owl (2015), and produced and directed the first American-Iranian co-production “Creatures” (2013).
Some of Mr. Yeganeh’s other work includes producing and directing Antonin Artaud’s Spurt of Blood and To Have Done with the Judgment of God (2012), Albert Camus’ The Misunderstanding (2011), Walter Davis’ There Is Another Court (2011), Friedrick Durrenmatt’s Play Strindberg: Dance of death (2007), which won him the best directing award from KCACTF (2007); working as the Production Manager and associate director for the Children’s Theatre Company in Boston (CTC 2005-2007); and directing Afshin Hashemi’s The Most Honest Murderer of the World (Iran, 2000). Vahdat has worked with The University of Massachusetts, Boston (UMASS Boston), Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis (BGSP), Boston University (BU), American Repertory Theatre (A.R.T.), and Yale Repertory Theatre.
Additionally, Vahdat has worked on several films as an actor and producer. His last film project as a co-producer (Over There) was featured at the Cannes Film Festival, the Chicago International Film Festival, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and won the best prize Golden Alexander at Thessaloniki International film festival for the best future movie (2008).
Jordan Clark
Jordan Clark* is returning to Central Square Theater in Journey to the West, having previously appeared in Arabian Nights. Other Boston credits include: Significant Other (SpeakEasy Stage); Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, Light Up the Sky, and Death of a Salesman (Lyric Stage); The Trumpet of the Swan, Pinocchio, and Where the Mountain Meets the Moon (Wheelock Family Theatre); You For Me For You and She Kills Monsters (Company One); and Blue Window (Brown Box Theatre Project). She also works with educational and interactive theatre companies such as Theatre Espresso and The Bok Players. Jordan holds a degree in Vocal Performance from The University of the Incarnate Word, in her hometown of San Antonio, TX.
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde’s rich and dramatic portrayals of the human condition came during the height of the prosperity that swept through London in the Victorian Era of the late 19th century. At a time when all citizens of Britain were finally able to embrace literature the wealthy and educated could only once afford, Wilde wrote many short stories, plays and poems that continue to inspire millions around the world.
Between 1888-1893, Wilde published two collections of children’s stories, “The Happy Prince and Other Tales” (1888), and “The House of Pomegranates” (1892). His first and only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was published in an American magazine in 1890 to a storm of critical protest. He expanded the story and had it published in book form the following year. Its implied homoerotic theme was considered very immoral by the Victorians and played a considerable part in his later legal trials. Oscar’s first play, Lady Windermere’s Fan, opened in February 1892. Its financial and critical success prompted him to continue to write for the theater. His subsequent plays included A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). These plays were all highly acclaimed and firmly established Oscar as a playwright.
David Keohane
David Keohane(Ensemble Member) Central Square Theater: Frankenstein, A Christmas Carol, Matchless & The Happy Prince; He is delighted to be making magic again with the inimitable Beldam family after assisting on last year’s production of Pygmalion. Chicago area credits include productions with Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Jackalope Theatre, Commission Theatre, and Oak Park Festival Theatre. David received his BFA from Boston University with an acting certificate from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.
August 2019