Directors and Designers

Jeff Adelberg

Lighting Designer, Medea

Actors' Shakespeare Project: Anthony and Cleopatra, John Kuntz'sThe Hotel Nepenthe, Timon of Athens, The Duchess of Malfi (IRNE aware for Best Lighting Design), The Tempest, Macbeth, Titus Andronicus. Recent work: Red, Adding Machine: A Musical (Eliot Norton Award for Outstanding Design), reasons to be pretty, Nine, Body Awareness (SpeakEasy Stage Co.); John Kuntz's The Salt Girl (Boston Playwright's Theatre); The Christmas Revels(since 2010); Four Places (Merrimack Repertory Theatre); Buddy Cop 2, 42^nd Street, The Rimers of Eldritch, Gaslight (Stoneham Theatre); The Balcony, The Factory Girls, The Mikado, 12^th Night,Rent, La Rondine, and Machinal (The Boston Conservatory);Enron (Zeitgeist Stage Co.); Sexual Perversity in Chicago and The Duck Variations (American Repertory Theatre). Jeff attended the University of Connecticut and teaches at Boston College.www.LDJeff.com

Carlos Aguilar

Scenic Designer, Medea

Previous Work: Next Fall (SpeakEasy Stage Company); Hound of the Baskervilles (Central Square Theater); Little Monsters (Primary Stages collaboration at Brandeis University) Sunday In The Park With George, Funnyhouse of a Negro (Brandeis University); Endgame, Woyzeck, Taming of the Shrew (Cutting Ball Theater Co.) Other Productions at Pearl Theater, New York; Pecadillo Theater, New York; Magic Theater, San Francisco; San Francisco State University. Carlos is a recent graduate of Brandeis University.

Erin Baglole

Assistant Stage Manager, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Erin is a recent graduate of Salem State University with a BFA in stage management. Past credits include: Summer Theatre at Salem's Lend Me A Tenor and Into the Woods, Salem State University's Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Crimes of the Heart, and The Weir, for which she received a nomination for the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. Erin is very grateful to be making her debut with Actors' Shakespeare Project working on The Merry Wives of Windsor.

Melia Bensussen**

Director, Twelfth Night

Melia is the recipient of an OBIE Award for Outstanding Direction, and has directed extensively around the country and here in Boston, including work at the Huntington Theatre Company, Merrimack Repertory Theater, ArtsEmerson, Baltimore Centerstage, Hartford Stage Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, the New York Shakespeare Festival/Public Theater, Manhattan Class Company, Primary Stages, the Long Wharf, Actor's Theater of Louisville, People's Light and Theater Company (Barrymore nomination for Best Direction), and many others. She was given two Directing Awards by the Princess Grace Foundation, USA, including their top honor, the Statuette Award for Sustained Excellence in Directing. Her edition of the Langston Hughes translation of Garcia Lorca's Blood Wedding is in its sixth printing by Theatre Communications Group. Melia is a featured artist in Women Stage Directors Speak by Rebecca Daniels (McFarland) and Women Direct Shakespeare, by Nancy Taylor (Farleigh Dickinson Press), and is the Chair of the Performing Arts Department at Emerson College. She is delighted to be back with ASP, where she previously directed The Merchant of Venice and The Taming of the Shrew.

Rebecca Butler

Costumer Designer, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Costumer for Cymbeline. Rebecca holds a BFA in Fashion Design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Recent costume design credits include Commonwealth Shakespeare’s gala, Une Soirée à Paris, and Intermezzo’s Rocket’s Red Blare. Rebecca manages the Costume Shop at The Boston Conservatory, and is a founding member of the collaborative studio, The Industrial Stitchers Guild. She has done freelance work with Opera Boston, SpeakEasy Stage Co., Commonwealth Shakespeare, the New England Conservatory, Opera Louisiane, and the Flying Karamazov Brothers, amongst others. Rebecca also works as a freelance artist, and has recently created custom pieces for runway shows, weddings and balls.

Skip Curtiss

Scenic Consultant, Troilus and Cressida

Skip Curtiss (Scenic Consultant) Actors' Shakespeare Project: Scenic designer for both Merchant of Venice and Henry V. Other credits include Broke-ology, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grille, Stephen Karam's Speech and Debate, Dying City, Souvenir, A Number and Fully Committed for the Lyric Stage Company of Boston; Romeo and Juliet with David Wheeler for ShakespeareNOW!; Gray City, Killing Game,and Tough Titty for the ART Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. He is currently the Associate Production Manager for the American Repertory Theater and OBERON, ART's club venue.

Melissa Daroff*

Stage Manager, Troilus and Cressida

Melissa Daroff* (Stage Manager. Troilus and Cressida) Regional: North Shore Music Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre Company, Hangar Theatre, Boston Playwrights' Theatre, The Nora Theatre Company, Stoneham Theatre, Chester Theatre Company, Boston College Theater Department. Melissa recently spent 3 years in Dallas as the Production Stage Manager for Dallas Theater Center where shows included Give It Up! (now Lysistrata Jones), It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman and A Midsummer Night's Dream which marked DTC's move into the brand new Wyly Theatre. She is thrilled to be working with Actors' Shakespeare Project.

Susan Dibble

Choreographer, The Merry Wives of Windsor and Medea

Professor Susan Dibble is the Barbara Sherman ’54 and Malcolm L. Sherman Chair of the theater arts department at Brandeis University. Her areas of expertise, among many, include movement for the actor, historical dance, movement styles, modern dance, composition and choreography, clown, mask, Rudolf Laban Movement Theory, and history of dance and movement training. She is the director of Susan Dibble Dance Theater and has performed her work for over 30 years in New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont as well as numerous times at Shakespeare & Co. (Lenox, Mass.) in the program DibbleDance. Susan is a founding member of Shakespeare & Co. where she is a master teacher and resident choreographer. She has choreographed for the Berkshire Theatre Festival, Phoenix Theatre Company, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Manhattan Theatre Club, Nora Theater, Súgán Theater, Madison Repertory Company and numerous theaters in NYC. Before Brandeis, she taught at New York University’s Tisch School for the Arts, the Denver Center Performing Arts Center, University of Ohio, University of Utah and Webster College. She also traveled to Orvietto, Italy where she taught in a theater and movement workshop sponsored by Fordham University. Susan has presented lecture demonstrations on dance, theater and therapy for The Boston Institute for Psychotherapy, and The Erikson Institute of The Austen Riggs Center. Shakespeare Honors the Three Centers of the Body is an article written by Susan Dibble in Movement for Actors published by Allworth Press. Susan received the 2006 Leonard Bernstein Festival of Creative Arts Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Arts at Brandeis.

Kate Downey

Assistant Director, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Kate Downey recently graduated from Northeastern University. She completed an apprenticeship with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company this summer, acting in the touring production of Shakespeare on Love and assisting with the mainstage Boston Common production of All's Well that Ends Well. She is a founding member of Full Contact Theater Company, and directed its first production, Titus Andronicus this fall. While at Northeastern University she co-created the acclaimed Vagina Play and assistant directed Richard III. She interned with Actors Shakespeare Project last spring, and is thrilled to continue working with the company.

Arshan Gailus

Sound Designer, Twelfth Night

Recent credits include composition and sound design for 1001, GRIMM, The Overwhelming, After the Quake, and Voyeurs de Venus (Company One), The Understudy, Blithe Spirit, and Legacy of Light (Lyric Stage Company), The Sing Song Show (Boston Arts Academy), and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Emerson Arts Umbrella). He has served as house sound engineer and sound supervisor for the Huntington Theatre Company at the Calderwood Pavilion and is active in the Boston independent video game community as a composer, sound designer, and game designer. He holds a B.S. in Music from MIT. www.arshangailus.com

David R. Gammons

Director, Medea

Actors' Shakespeare Project: The Hotel Nepenthe (Director, Scenic and Costume Design); The Duchess of Malfi (Director, Scenic Design); The Tempest (Scenic Design); Titus Andronicus (Director and Scenic Design), and King Lear (Scenic and Costume Design). David is a director, designer, visual artist, and theatre educator. He is the recipient of the 2007 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director for Titus Andronicus; The Hotel Nepenthe won the 2011 Elliot Norton Awards for Outstanding Ensemble and Outstanding New Play. Recent directing projects include the Boston premieres of Red and Blackbird at SpeakEasy Stage Company; Marlowe's Doctor Faustus at Suffolk University's Modern Theatre; the world premieres of Walt McGough's The Farm and John Kuntz's The Salt Girl at Boston Playwrights Theatre; the New England premieres of Cherry Docs, The Lieutenant of Inishmore and My Name is Rachel Corrie at The New Repertory Theatre; The Winter's Tale as part of the Shakespeare Exploded Festival at the American Repertory Theatre; Adrienne Kennedy's Funnyhouse of a Negro at Brandeis Theatre Company; and Romeo and Juliet for The Boston Conservatory. David is a graduate of both the directing program at the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, and the visual and environmental studies department of Harvard University. He has been director of the theatre program at Concord Academy since 2000, where he has directed productions by Sophocles, Shakespeare, Chekhov, Pirandello, Brecht, and Suzan-Lori Parks, as well as the first ever high school production of The Laramie Project, in February 2001. At Concord he directs a company of student artists committed to creating original experimental work, with whom he has conceived and directed eleven world-premieres, including Sea of Troubles, LHOOQ, Double Negative, HOWL, Permanent Fatal Errors, and FLUX. For more information, please visit davidrgammons.com.

Melanie Garber

Assistant Director, Medea

Melanie is a playwright, director and actor based in the Boston area. ASP credits: Assistant Director for Timon of Athens (Director Bill Barclay) and The Coveted Crown: Henry IV Parts 1 & 2 (Director Paddy Swanson). Directorial credits: Boston Theatre Marathon (Late, Lamented by Lynne Cullen),11:11 (Poe; A Fever Dream) and upcoming, Crave by Sarah Kane (Heart & Dagger Productions) and The American Plan by Richard Greenberg (Happy Medium Theatre Company). Melanie's compilation of plays,Two People: A Series of Shorts, received a staged reading by The Provincetown Theatre last winter. Her writing has also been seen on stage at Boston Playwrights' Theatre (Boston Actors Theatre, New England Russian Theatre Festival) and the Factory Theatre (Mill 6 Collaborative, Whistler in the Dark). Acting credits: Imaginary Beasts (Dracula ReVamped!, Jonathan Harker), Vanquero Playground (Bear Patrol, Huggy Bear) and Heart & Dagger (MilkMilkLemonade, Elliot). Proud member of The Hangar Theatre Lab Company. B.A. Theatre Education/Acting, Emerson College 2009.

Kenneth Helvig

Lighting Designer, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Kenneth Helvig (Lighting Designer) Recent designs include: I Speak Therefore I Am, Trojen Women: A Love Story; Neighborhood 3: Requisition of Doom & Betty’s Summer Vacation (ART/MXAT Institute); Book of Grace & The Overwhelming(Company One); Threepenny Opera, Macbeth & Angels in America Pt I (Boston College); An Ideal Husband, The Woman in Black, and Last of the Red Hot Lovers(Gloucester Stage Company); Orchids to Octopi and The Life of Galileo (Underground Railroad Theater, Bethesda Theatre); Entertaining Mr. Sloane & Travesties (The Publick Theatre);Bat Boy: The Musical & Picnic (Concord Academy); No. 11 Blue and White and The Marriage of Bette & Boo (Northeastern University); Who’s Afraid of Virginia Wolff and Travesties (Boston Publick Theatre); Figaro (Associate,Theatre de la Jeune Lune/ Berkeley Rep); …Young Woman from Rwanda (Stoneham Theatre); Orpheus X (Associate, Hong Kong Arts Festival); Copenhagen, Island of Anyplace, & No Man’s Land (American Repertory Theater); No Exit (tour, ART, Hartford Stage).

Ted Hewlett

Violence Designer, Twelfth Night

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: (as Violence Designer) Antony & Cleopatra, The Duchess of Malfi, Hamlet, Julius Caesar; (as Actor) Coriolanus (Aufidius), Hamlet (Rosencrantz / Priest / Fencing Master). New York: Shogun (original Broadway cast), Mettawee River Company, Pan Asian Repertory Theatre, Lincoln Center Institute, Manhattan Class Company. Boston: New Repertory Theatre, Huntington Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, North Shore Music Theatre, Publick Theatre, Boston Theatre Works, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Regional: Elm Shakespeare Company, Shakespeare & Company, Syracuse Stage, Kennedy Center, Fulton Opera House, Westchester Broadway Theatre, Birmingham Theatre. Film/TV: HOOK, ARMY OF DARKNESS, BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE, GRAY AREA. As Fight Director: BILL W. AND DR. BOB (Off-Broadway), Boston Lyric Opera, Boston Ballet, A.R.T., Berkshire Theatre Festival, Boston Conservatory, M.I.T., New Century Theatre, Vineyard Playhouse, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Gloucester Stage Company. Training: MFA Brandeis University, Academy of Theatrical Combat. Faculty: Emerson College, Bay State Fencers.

Adam Howarth

Sound Designer, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Taming of the Shrew. Adam is a New England based knob turner and speaker tweaker involved in all things pro-audio including free-lance sound design, system design (including Disney and Universal parks) and educator while maintaining a full time presence as Product Manager at Eastern Acoustic Works wrangling R&D for new pro-audio technology. Trinity Rep: Hedwig and the Angry Inch. Emerson College: three years as part-time faculty, over 20 shows including Into the woods, The Color of Rose, Man of La Mancha, Light Up the Sky. Center for New Theater: numerous productions including September 11, 2001(in conjunction with Theatre Dijon Bourgogne), Macbeth a Modern Ecstasy (Ovation Award nomination). Village Theater: The Break Up Notebook (Ovation Award). Harvard Westlake: progressive series with artists Herbie Hancock, Macy Gray, Kenny Garret, and others, performances for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Selections screened at the LA Shorts Fest, Moondance International Film Fest, and Festival de Cannes.

Hannah Kaplan

Assistant Stage Manager, Medea

Hannah has recently worked at Berkshire Theatre Festival (Snow White, Period of Adjustment, No Wake, Endgame), New Repertory Theatre (Passing Strange and the tours of Hamlet, A Christmas Carol, and Scarlet Letter), and the Brandeis Theatre Company (Cocktail Time in Cuba, A Game of Love and Chance, Hecuba). She graduated from Brandeis University in 2010.

Karen Kopryanski

Vocal Coach. The Merry Wives of Windsor & Medea

Karen is an instructor of voice & speech at The Boston Conservatory. She has also taught and coached with the Actor's Shakespeare Project (Coriolanus, Midsummer Night's Dream, The Duchess of Malfi), the Williamstown Theatre Festival, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Harvard Extension School, Boston College, Brandeis University, Tufts University, the Museum School for the Fine Arts, Indiana University, the American Repertory Theatre, and the Moscow Art Theatre. Karen has trained with The Shakespeare Theatre, Patsy Rodenburg, Anne Bogart and SITI Company, the Old Trout Puppet Workshop, and received her MFA from the American Repertory Theatre's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training. She is an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework and a member of AEA and VASTA.

L. Arkansas Light*

Stage Manager, Medea

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: The Hotel Nepenthe; Other Stage Manager credits include: A Child’s Christmas in Wales, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre/Boston Children’s Theatre; To Kill a Mockingbird, BCT, Sunday in the Park with George, Brandeis Theatre Co; Shear Madness, The Charles Playhouse; Assassins, Never the Sinner, The Judas Kiss, No Way to Treat a Lady, And the World Goes ‘Round, Sideman, Inspecting Carol and The Curse of the Bambino, The Lyric Stage; Pageant, How Many Miles to Basra?, It’s a Wonderful Life, A Year with Frog & Toad, Picnic, Strangers on a Train and Dear Miss Garland, Stoneham Theatre; Patience, Yeoman of the Guard, A Little Night Music, Nine and Gypsy, The Publick Theatre; The Orphan Queen, The Jewish Theatre of New England; Repossession, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. Arkansas is also the Co-Director of the Young Artists at Play program at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. She holds a B.A. from Mount Holyoke College and an M.A. from Purdue University.

Jenna McFarland-Lord

Scenic Designer, The Merry Wives of Windsor

Jenna McFarland Lord is excited to be designing her first show with ASP. Selected Boston area credits: Fighting over Beverly, Living Together, Last Day, Table Manners, Trying, Breath of Life, Sins of the Mother, Doubt: A Parable, The Widow’s Blind Date, The Belle of Amherst, My Old Lady, Dinner with Friends, LifeX3, Spinning into Butter, The Loman Family Picnic (Gloucester Stage Co.)The Drowsy Chaperone, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, The Mystery of Edwin Drood,Theatre District, and Moonlight Room (SpeakEasy); Collected Stories, Cherry Docs (IRNE award nominee in set design) (New Rep);Groundswell, November, This Wonderful Life (Lyric Stage); Steel Magnolias, Hockey Mom Hockey Dad, The Porch, Guys on Ice, A Christmas Story, The Mousetrap (Addison Award- Best Set Design),As Bees In Honey Drown (Stoneham Theatre); Don Giovanni (New England Conservatory); Forum, Children’s Scientology Pagent, The Kringle Kult (Boston Theatre Works); Twelfth Night, Cosi Fan Tutte(The Boston Conservatory); Hamlet, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth (Shakespeare Now!); The Full Monty, The Rocky Horror Show (Foothills); Better Off Dead (Village Theatre Project). Off-Broadway: The Secret of Mme. Bonnard’s Bath (New York Playwrights Lab). Ms. McFarland Lord received her theatre training at Emerson College and she is currently the set design teacher at the Boston Arts Academy, a public high school for the arts.

Kara Midlam

Costume Designer, Troilus & Cressida

Kara Midlam (Costume Designer, Troilus & Cressida) Shakespeare & Company: The Winter's Tale, Irma Vep, The Memory of Water, The War of the Worlds, RED CAT, LA: Moonshine, Pas de Duex, Edinburgh Fringe: Standing Alone, Moonshine, Peepshow, Montreal Fringe:The Immaculates, Ontological Hysteric: La Santa, Pistola y Corazon. Ms. Midlam received her BFA in sculpture from Alfred University and her MFA is Design from Cal Arts. Kara is a free-lance costume designer and an adjunct faculty member at LeMoyne College. www.karadmidlam.com

Tina Packer

Director, Troilus and Cressida

Founding Artistic Director of Shakespeare & Company, is a leading authority on Shakespeare, not only in American but in the world. At Shakespeare & Company Tina has directed over 50 Shakespeare productions, as well as new and contemporary works including the world premiers of The Taster, Ice Glen, The Scarlet Letter by Dr. Carol Gilligan,Summer, adapted from Edith Wharton by Dennis Krausnick, and The Fly-Bottle by David Egan. Other productions of note include the critically-acclaimed King John, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth, Coriolanus, Richard III, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Julius Caesar, Henry IV, Part 1, and most recently, an all-male production of Coriolanus in England for the Mercury Theatre in Colchester. Last summer at Shakespeare & Company, Tina also channeled Texan journalist Molly Ivins in the hit one-woman show Red Hot Patriot:The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins. Previously for Shakespeare & Company, Tina took on the the Queen of the Nile when she played Cleopatra in the Company's 2007 season's critically-acclaimed production of Antony & Cleopatra. Other S&Co. Roles include Queen Gertrude in Hamlet where she playaed opposite her son, Jason Asprey, in the title role, and her husband, Dennis Krausnick, who played Polonius. Audiences flocked to see Tina as Lettice in Lettice and Lovage, and her many turns as Edith Wharton and Shirley Valentine which she has played numerous times over the past 30 years. Tina trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, where she won the Ronson Award for Most Outstanding Performer. In Britain, she was an associate artist with the Royal Shakespeare Company, performed in the West End, and acted with repertory companies in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Leicester, and Coventry. She also worked for the BBC ad ITV television companies and in film. She has worked with John Barton, Peter Hall, John Schlessinger, Sir Ian McKellan, Paul Scofield, Janet Suzman, and Ian Richardson, among others.

Ashley Peters

Assistant Director, Twelfth Night

Emerson College, 2011. Directing credits include, An Evening of Ionesco (RareWorks Theatre Company), Edmond (Mercutio Troupe), Light Up The Sky (Emerson Stage), Lethologica (2010 NewFest Readings), The Laramie Project: Ten Years Later (Celebrity Series Boston), Kim and Delia (Art Farm Enterprises). While at Emerson she founded an SGA certified, comedy improv troupe, StroopWafel. As an improvisor she's performed in the 09 Boston Improv Festival, 09 Providence Improv Festival, and 07 Chicago Improv Festival.

Elisabetta Polito

Costume Designer, Medea

Elisabetta is very excited to be designing with ASP. Recent work includes: Imaginary Invalid for Concord Academy, Dr. Faustus for Suffolk University, 1001 for Company One, The Nutcracker and Rimers of Eldritch for Stoneham Theatre, Funnyhouse of a Negro and Three Sisters for Brandeis Theatre Company, Hamlet for GAN-e-meed Theatre Project, and Cyrano for Apollinaire Theatre Co. She also assisted Costume Designer, Charles Schoonmaker on NINE: The Musical for Speakeasy Stage Co. She holds an MFA from Brandeis University.

Amanda Sheehan

Assistant Stage Manager, Troilus and Cressida

Amanda is a freelance stage manager/assistant stage manager who has been living and working in Boston for the past year. She's been grateful to work with companies like Shakespeare Now! (SM-Julius Caesar), Fort Point Theatre Channel (ASM/Props-Codes of Conduct), GAN-e-meed Theatre Project (SM-Silence), Underground Railway Theater (ASM-Ti-Jean and His Brothers, Breaking the Code) and Holland Productions (Props-Hideous Progeny). She has also been company manager at the New London Barn Playhouse in New London, NH for the past two summers. Prior to moving to Boston, Amanda was pursuing her masters degree in globalization studies at Dartmouth College and working with the Dartmouth College Theater Department.

Phyllis Y. Smith*

Stage Manager, Twelfth Night

Actor’s Shakespeare Project: Stage Manger for Henry IV: Parts 1 & 2, Cymbeline, and Living in Exile. Other stage management credits she has included stage manager, assistant stage manager, and production coordinator for Menopause the Musical during its two & a half year Boston run at the Stuart Street Playhouse, it’s Providence production at Trinity Rep, and it’s national tours. She has also stage managed Respect- The Musical Journey with GFour Productions, Tony William’s Urban Nutcracker with BalletRox, Jose Mateo: Dance for World Community, Fancee Panties, and Boston Citylights 2011. Phyllis also worked as technical director of National Tour’s Flamenco Tour and director of productions for access to theatre in Boston and production stage managed Commonwealth Shakespeare’s 2010 Fundraiser Gala at the Mandarin Hotel. In addition to working in theater, Phyllis also works in events management, make-up artistry, and varying aspects of theater production.

Annie Thompson

Vocal & Text Coach, Twelfth Night

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Vocal Coach for Cymbeline and Antony & Cleopatra. B.Ed, University if Leicester, England; MFA (Directing) Brandeis University. Studied dance and mime in London, Alexander Technique in Boston and functional voice pedagogy with Eugene Rabine from Germany. Has continued to develop her skills in the field of voice and speech with studies with Patsy Rodendurg, Catherine Fitzmaurice, Dudley Knight, Louis Colaianni and in the field of body and breath with teachers of Ayengar Yoga. Before she came to America she performed with repertory theaters in England and street theater projects in Northern Ireland. Teaching venues include Brandeis University and Walnut Hill School. Has been a long time member of the The Boston Conservatory faculty where she currently coordinates the voice and speech program and teaches voice, speech and Shakespeare text. She has and continues to be vocal coach for shows at TBC and other schools and theaters in the Boston area. Recently she has coached Twelfth Night, Sweeny Todd, Tommy and Machinal at TBC.

Cristina Todesco***

Scenic Designer, Twelfth Night

Recent designs include 1001, The Aliens, Elliot Norton Award (Company One), Love Song (Orfeo Group), Farragut North, Opus (Olney Theater Center), The Last Five Years (NewRep), The Understudy (Lyric), Circle Mirror Transformation (Huntington), Body Awareness (Speakeasy). Cristina received the 2008 Elliot Norton Award for The Clean House (NewRep) and a Norton design nomination for Island of Slaves (Orfeo Group). She received her MFA in scenic design from BU’s School of Theater Arts where she currently teaches.

Molly Trainer***

Costume Designer, Twelfth Night

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: Coriolanus, The Taming of the Shrew. A graduate of Northeastern University, Ms. Trainer studied photography at the University of the South, Sewannee, TN, and studied design at both The School of the Museum of Fine Arts and The School of Fashion Design in Boston. Molly has worked as costume designer for New Repertory Theatre, Emerson Stage, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Publick Theatre of Boston, Gloucester Stage Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Boston Theatre Works, Súgán Theatre Company, Salem State Theatre. Molly is an adjunct faculty at Salem State University. For more information, including upcoming productions, log on to www.mollytrainer.com.

Amber Voner

Hair & Makeup Design, Twelfth Night

Recent projects include hair and makeup designer and associate costume designer on The Color Rose (ArtsEmerson), hair and makeup designer and associate costume designer on Big River (Lyric Stage Company of Boston) and hair and makeup designer on Tonya and Nancy: The Rock Opera (Oberon Theater). Amber's Emerson Stage hair and makeup design credits include: Into the Woods, Light Up the Sky, The Golden Age, Bud, Not Buddy and millinery design for Man of La Mancha.

Emily M. Wharton

Assistant Stage Manager, Twelfth Night

Emily is excited to be back in Boston after a five year absence. She holds a BA from Tufts University and a MFA from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Recent projects include the production assistant position at Hartford Stage Company where she worked on The Orphans' Home Cycle (world premiere), Christmas Carol, Sheila's Day, Snow Falling on Cedars (East Coast premiere), Motherhood Out Loud (world premiere), and Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps among many others. Other credits include the world premieres of The Brother/Sister Trilogy and Eclipsed at the McCarter Theatre Center in Princeton, NJ and the Juneteenth Legacy Theatre's Jamboree New Play Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville.

Cameron Willard

Sound Designer/Composer, Medea

Actors' Shakespeare Project: A Midsummer Night's Dream, Duchess of Malfi, King John, Titus Andronicus, and Measure for Measure (Sound Design and Composition). Other credits: Blackbird (Speakeasy Stage); A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello (Boston Theatre Works); Romeo and Juliet (The Boston Conservatory); True West (New Repertory Theatre).

David Wilson

Music & Sound Design, Troilus and Cressida

David Wilson has designed lighting or sound for over 300 productions of opera, theater, concert and dance. He served on the faculty of Brandeis University for 26 years, heading the graduate program in sound design; six years as resident lighting designer for Central City Opera, and 18 years as resident lighting designer for Reagle Music Theater. He currently serves on the Faculty of Emerson College, and in the past year has designed as a guest artist at Emerson, Suffolk University, Boston College, and Bowdoin College. Other area productions include sound design and music for The River was Whiskey and The Deported at Boston Playwrights, Neighbors and Book of Grace, at Company One, A Comedy of Errors at Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Elliot Norton Award for Best Sound Design), Fighting over Beverley at Gloucester Stage,Bad Dates at Shakespeare & Co and Merrimack Rep; Actors’ Shakespeare Project’s Macbeth (Irne Nomination), A Christmas Story,Exits and Entrances and A House With No Walls at New Rep, Gizmo Love at W.H.A.T., The Nora Theater Company’s A Dublin Carol (sound and lighting design), Stoneham Theater's Steel Magnolias, A Christmas Carol (sound design) and George M. Cohan Tonight! (Lighting Design).

Vivian Yee

Assistant Director, Merry Wives of Windsor

Vivian is a recent graduate of Northeastern University with a BA in theatre, concentration in Production. Vivian works in many facets of theatre with her main interests lying in directing, costume design, and stage management. Vivian is ecstatic about working with the ASP team again! She has worked on a number of productions with ASP both as an intern and as assistant stage manager, including Much Ado About Nothing, Taming of the Shrew, and Timon of Athens. Recent work includes The Vagina (LowBrow Collective), RICHARD III (Northeastern University), Bobby Gould in Hell (Fortnight Collective). Many thanks to Steve for this opportunity!

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