Marisa Smith’s Saving Kitty premiered at the Wellfleet Actors Harbor Theater on Cape Cod and was produced by the New Jersey Repertory Theater, workshopped at the Williamstown Theater Festival and is a Clauder Competition winner (Portland Stage.) Marisa’s comedy Mad Love (O’Neill Festival semi-finalist, NH, Clauder competition winner, Portland Stage) will be the first world premiere produced at the new Northern Stage Theater, White River Junction, Vermont in the winter of 2016. Theresa Rebeck will direct. Other produced plays include: Book Group, The Divine Family Comedy (finalist, Orlando Shakespeare Festival) Kong’s Reunion and The Lumpkin Sisters Christmas Caper. Marisa’s 10-Minute plays have been produced in the Boston Marathon of 10- Minute Plays, Barrington Stage in NY and in other theaters in VT, NH, Florida, New York and Massachusetts. They include:  The Dress Rehearsal, Getting into Vassar, The Pre-num, Polar Bear Swim, Day One, Welcome to the Beekman Arms, and Total Expression (Heideman Award Finalist, Actors Theater of Louisville). In 2014 Marisa penned her first film, Second Wind, shot in England, staring June Brown, Harriet Walter and Tamzin Merchant, an Andrew Silver Production. Ms. Smith is the co-owner and Publisher of Smith and Kraus Publishers, a theater book publisher with over 600 titles in print.

Jennifer Coolidge is known for her many memorable roles in the American Pie films, Legally Blonde films and A Cinderella Story. Jennifer has also starred in Christopher Guest’s Best in Show, A Mighty Wind and For Your Consideration. She is currently a series regular on the hit CBS series 2 Broke Girls and was seen opposite Steve Carell in Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, which was released this past October. Jennifer was also on Broadway in all-star casts of The Women and Elling with Brendan Fraser and Denis O’Hare.

Along with his work at CST, Andrew, Patron Services Manager, is a professional Fight Director & Intimacy Specialist. Andrew’s local credits include: Don Giovanni (Boston Lyric Opera) I Puritani (BLO), A Little Night Music (The Huntington Theatre), Don Giovanni & La Tragédie de Carmen (Boston University Opera Institute).

In NYC Andrew’s work has been featured on stage at The Metropolitan Opera in their production of Armida staring Renee Fleming and Lawrence Brownlee. Directed by Mary Zimmerman. Off-Broadway at New World Stages, 59E59, Theater for a New City, CAP 21, and Theatre54. His international work includes the 75th Anniversary Tour of Porgy and Bess which toured North America and Europe. Andrew created the violence and sexuality for the inaugural production of West Side Story at the Adger Teater Kilden in Kristiansand Norway. Andrew’s work was also featured at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in SAFE. From 2008 to 2014 Andrew was the Resident Fight Choreographer for Central City Opera . His work was featured in numerous productions including: West Side Story, Carmen, Dead Man Walking, Seven Deadly Sins, Gianni Schicci, Oklahoma!, Show Boat, and Rinaldo.

While at CCO Andrew taught Stage Combat for the Bonfils-Stanton Artists Training Program. Andrew has been a Guest Instructor/Lecturer at: NYU, CAP 21, University of Oklahoma, Boston University, The New England Conservatory, Oklahoma City University, Hofstra University, The School of Visual Arts, and Charleston Southern University.

Andrew lives with his amazing wife and two great pups!

Tabitha, Marketing Associate, joined Central Square Theater as a volunteer in October 2014, before coming on board officially as part of the Patron Services team last year. Having had a brief break to become a mother, Tabitha is delighted to back at CST. Originally from England, Tabitha graduated from the University of Cambridge in 2007 and has worked in theater (or theatre as she thinks of it!) ever since. In London, she worked as an actor, in press and marketing, in production and as an assistant for an actors’ agency. She is very happy to be continuing her work in theater/theatre in Boston at CST.

Gwendolyn Baptiste is a member the Youth Underground Ambassador Ensemble at Central Square Theater. She’s sung with Opera Boston through the Boston Children’s Chorus in their production of Madame White Snake. She’s also acted in ensembles through the Charles River Creative Arts Program. She looks forward to exploring the topics of science and spirituality, both individually, and how they relate.  She looks forward also to dialoguing about the philosophies touched upon in Mr g.