Alexander Cook was part of the original 2011 award-winning cast of Arabian Nights, and this will be his fourth time performing these roles. Films: Black Mass, The Finest Hours, Joy, The Forger, Almost Mercy, The Congressman, This Killing Business, and Dawn of the Dead (1979). Theater: Saving Kitty (Nora), Lend Me A Tenor (Ocean State Theatre), A Picasso (Theater Workshop of Nantucket), Blasted (Wilbury Theater Group),Burning (Boston Playwrights), Fools (Ocean State Theatre), and The Lily’s Revenge (American Repertory Theater). He received his BFA in Acting from Carnegie-Mellon’s School of Drama.

Lydia Barnett-Mulligan has trained and performed at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, MA since the age of 15, where selected credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Ice Glen, both directed by Tina Packer, The Servant of Two Masters, The Tamer Tamed, Dibbledance, and Twelfth Night. She most recently played Pompey in Measure for Measure at Actors’ Shakespeare Project, where credits includeThe Cherry Orchard (Anya), Macbeth, and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Dr. Caius/Ann Page). Selected regional credits include The Physicists (w. Roger Rees) at Williamstown Theatre Festival, Pericles at Elm Shakespeare Company in New Haven, CT, Romeo & Juliet (Juliet) at the Putney Gardens, Steel Magnolias and Miracle on 34th St at Stoneham Theatre, 123 and Outlaw Jean with Fresh Ink Theatre, Shakespeare On Love (Juliet) at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo & Juliet, and Macbeth with Shakespeare Now. Directing credits: King John, The Tempest, and Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, all at Williams College. www.lydiabarnettmulligan.com

Eddie Shields*, he/him (Prior Walter) Eddie is thrilled to return to CST for Angels in America: Perestroika after opening Millennium Approaches last spring. Local Credits: The Inheritance (Elliot Norton Nom. Best Actor), Shakespeare in Love (IRNE Nom.), Significant Other (IRNE Award best support actor), The View Upstairs, and Casa Valentina (IRNE Nom.) at SpeakEasy Stage. Edward II (IRNE Nom.) and Comedy of Errors at ASP, Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Central Square Theater), Hair (New Rep), Edith Can Shoot Things and hit them (Company One), The Seagull (A.R.T/BTC), The Nosebleed (The Jar). Off Broadway/NY: A Class Act (Playwrights Horizons), Billy Redden (Theater Row), Europia Escapes Europe (Austria Stage), Miss Julie (Workshop Theater), Twelfth Night, Henry VI.3, & A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Drilling Theater Co.). FILM/TV: Kill that Man, Moonrise Kingdom, Unsure/Positive, Road to Joy, The Entertainment. PLAYS: Julie (Midtown Theater Fest. Best in Show), The Good Girls High (Manhattan Rep. Official Selection). MFA Brandeis University, BFA Adelphi University. AEA/SAG-AFTRA. @eddiestagram/@brightartistsmanagment. Eddie-Shields.com 

Lisa Sowle Cahill, Ph.D.,  J. Donald Monan, S.J., Professor at Boston College. Dr. Cahill is a past president of the Catholic Theological Society of America (1992-93), and the Society of Christian Ethics (1997-98), and is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Her works include Global Justice, Christology and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2013), Theological Bioethics: Justice, Participation, and Change (Georgetown University Press, 2005), Bioethics and the Common Good (Marquette University Press, 2004), Family: A Christian Social Perspective (Fortress, 2000), Sex, Gender, and Christian Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 1996); and ‘Love Your Enemies’: Discipleship, Pacifism, and Just War Theory. She is the editor of Genetics, Theology, Ethics: An Interdisciplinary Conversation (Crossroad, 2005), Sexuality and the U.S. Catholic Church: Crisis and Renewal (Herder and Herder, 2006), and other works. Dr. Cahill received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Chicago Divinity School. She is married to Lawrence R. Cahill, an attorney. They are the parents of five children.