Equiano Mosieri is very excited to be working with Central Square Theater for the first time. After receiving an MFA from Brandeis University, he has performed in First Suburb by Chana Porter at Cloud City, NY. Also recently seen in the piece The Fall of The Kings at The Andrew Freeman mansion. Last summer saw him at the Fairbanks Shakespeare Festival as teacher/ director with the summer drama camp and as a lead in Two Gentlemen of Verona. He was a lead and team writer in Summer Blue (named “most innovative show of 2015” winner) at the NY Fringe Festival. Other credits include the powerful off-Broadway play In Fields Where They Lay at The New Ohio Theater. He has performed at B.A.M’s Next Wave Festival in The Parables Conference,  Romeo And Juliet at Shakespeare & Company, Macbeth at The Berkshire Theatre Festival plus others. He directed the NY premiere of The Clark Doll: A Bedtime Story at Manhattan Rep, The Merrywives of Windsor with FST (Alaska), and was the artistic director of Pistarckle Theater’s Shakespeare Festival in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. For more info visit www.mrequiano.com

Nehassaiu deGannes; Recent credits include: “Cordelia” King Lear, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre; “Mrs Muller” Doubt (Oldcastle Theatre); “The Angel” Marisol (Luna Stage); “Kate” Good People (Hampton Theatre Co.); “Nurse” EQUUS with Alec Baldwin (Guild Hall); and in Canada  “Mustapha Mond,” Brave New World (Litmus Theatre), “Gertrude” Hamlet (Driftwood Theatre); “Lady Capulet” Romeo & Juliet (directed by Tim Carroll), “Queen Anne” The Three Musketeers and The Merchant of Venice (Stratford Festival); Off-Off Broadway Credits include: Celia, Three Gifts for Lenny Bruce (Target Margin Theatre), Room For Cream (La MaMa ETC). Nehassaiu is a graduate of Brown University and Trinity Rep Conservatory, joined Trinity’s Resident Acting Company (Proof, The Skin Of Our Teeth, Cider House Rules) and acted at The Providence Black Rep (Jar The Floor, House of Bernarda Alba) and The GAMM (Top Girls) before moving to NYC.

Jesse Garlick (Bob Cratchit et al.) is thrilled to be returning to Central Square Theater after previously appearing in Journey to the West and Arcadia. Off-Broadway credits include Good (PTP/NYC). Regional credits include Good, Assassins (New Repertory Theatre), Hamlet (Brown Box Theatre Project), Salome (Bridge Rep), Beowulf (Poets Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Classical Repertory Company), Who Would Be King, Yellow Bird Chase, Talk to Strangers (Liars&Believers). Jesse is a faculty member at Boston Ballet’s ECI Department as well as a freshman drama director at Newton South High School. He is also a co-founder of 360 Dance Ensemble. Jesse graduated from Boston University with a BFA in Acting as well as having attended the Academia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy.

As of November 2017.

Adobuere Ebiama is very excited to be making her Central Square Theater debut with The Convert.  Adobuere began her professional acting career at 19 with Boston’s Company One in The Bluest Eye (Pecola-IRNE Nom). She also appeared in Company One’s New England premiere of She Kills Monsters.  Adobuere’s recent stage credits include Where the Mountain Meets the Moon with Wheelock Family Theatre, The Black-Jew Dialogues with Dialogues on Diversity, Dreaming Again with the New Hampshire Theatre Project.  Adobuere has worked with The Boston Playwrights’ Theater, The Boston Actor’s Theater, Raw Fruit, and Nollywood America to name a few. In 2011 Adobuere landed a role in Nollywood film Unwanted Guest, which premiered in movie theaters in Lagos, Nigeria. Adobuere can also be seen playing the role of Maité in the new comedic web series, The Pineapple Diaries. She is also Founder & Artistic Director of Theatre Arts company, Can’t Wait Productions. Adobuere is a proud member of the Actor’s Equity Association.

Paul S. Benford-Bruce: (Uncle) after a brief hiatus, Paul is thrilled to make his debut with the Underground Railway Theatre. Other credits include: August Wilson play reading series, UMass, Boston, (Eddie), Duck And Cover at The West End Studio Theatre, Portsmouth, NH, (Crime Scene Witness) PBS  Documentary, Brains On Trial, hosted by Alan Alda, (Imam) in The Moment at The Apollinaire Theater, Chelsea Ma. (Father) in Write Something for Me, The Apollinaire Theater, (Cheswick) in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at The Player’s Ring, Portsmouth, NH, (Judge Rufus B. Hayes) in Oy Yea, Oy Vey, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, (won best play in the 2010 Playwrights’ Platform 38th Annual Festival of New Plays, (Chuck) in Stories I Never Told My Daughter at Players’ Ring, (Crooks) in Of Mice and Men at the Players’ Ring, (The Teacher) in The Visit, Apollinaire In The Park,  (Midge) in I’m Not Rappaport at the MillPond Center for The Arts, Durham, NH.  Love you Tanishpas.