Staff

Sara was the Supervising Producer of four seasons of INSIDE This Old House for the A&E television network.  She served as Project Manager for cellist Yo-Yo Ma for nearly six years, where her work included educational projects, contracts, recordings, tours, scripting and staging, and collaborations with artists such as Edgar Meyer, Mark O'Connor, Bobby McFerrin, Mark Morrris, Toni Morrison, Torvill & Dean, Atom Egoyan and others.  She served as Associate Producer on eight films, including Yo-Yo Ma:  Inspired by Bach, which received international awards including several Emmys.  She was the Director of Education for NPR's From the Top for nearly six years where she designed curriculum, trained teachers, and created a national Make Your Own Radio Program and a Cultural Ambassador Program for teenage artists.  As a freelancer, Sara produced A Taste of Chanukah for PBS, PRI, and Rounder Records in 1998 and was the Executive Producer of the MIT Media Lab's Toy Symphony, an international project run by Tod Machover and featuring violinist Joshua Bell and conductor Kent Nagano.  She serves as a consultant to The Berkshire Institute for Theology and the Arts. Sara received a degree in theater from Oberlin College and interned as a director at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre in 1992.

Contact Sara:
sstack@actorsshakespeareproject.org
617-776-2200 x221

ASP’s graphic designer since 2004. Sandra studied fine art at Parsons School of Design in NYC, the School of the MFA, and the Art Institute of Boston. She received a painting fellowship from The Massachusetts Cultural Council in 2008 and was juried into The Copley Society of Art (Co|So) in 2000. Sandra was the singer and guitarist for the Boston bands Grind and Planet Queen, and the drummer for Pink Mantis. Her fine art, graphics, and some musical links are posted at www.sandracohen.com.

Contact Sandy:
sandy@actorsshakespeareproject.org
617-776-2200 x223 

Actors’ Shakespeare Project: founding member and associate artistic director 2004-2009. Roles: The Duchess in The Duchess of Malfi, Helena in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Constance in King John, Helena in All's Well That Ends Well, Goneril in King Lear, Calpurnia/Trebonius/Pindarus in Julius Caesar, Elizabeth in Richard III. Other local credits include Boston Marriage, Tartuffe, and Dollhouse at New Repertory Theater; Les Liaisons Dangereuses at the Huntington Theatre; Table Manners at Gloucester Stage; Living in Exile at the Vineyard Playhouse; Molly Maguire at the Sugan Theatre; Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Phoebe in As You Like It for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company; Undine's Valediction, Summer, The Scarlet Letter, and Macbeth with Shakespeare & Company. Regional credits include Yale Repertory Theatre, Actors' Theatre of Louisville, Lincoln Center Theatre, Theatre Building Chicago, The Greenwich Street Theatre, Ohio Theatre Soho, Sun Valley Shakespeare Festival, and Chautauqua Theatre Festival. Film and television credits include Rudy for TriStar Pictures, Guiding Light, and Coming to Litchfield, an independent film. Most recently, Jennie directed Measure for Measure for The Hyperion Shakespeare Company at Harvard College where she previously directed Romeo and Juliet. Jennie also directed Chicago, Macbeth and The Beaux Stratagem for The Concord Academy Performing Arts Department. In 1992 Jennie founded Chicago's Eclipse Theatre, still in existence today. She has taught Shakespearean text, voice, and acting at Bowdoin College, Boston College, SUNY/Purchase, The Boston Conservatory, Concord Academy, Harvard University, and Emerson College. Jennie is the lead teacher for ASP's yearly teacher's institute at Salem State College and also a lead teacher with incarcerated girls through ASP's Incarcerated Youth at Play project. She holds an MFA in Acting from the Yale School of Drama.

Contact:
jennie@actorsshakespeareproject.org 

Actors’ Shakespeare Project:Lady Percy/Ensemble, Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew, Portia in The Merchant of Venice, Lady Faulconbridge/Hubert in King John, Macduff and Lady Macduff in Macbeth, Princess/Jacquenetta/Longaville in Love's Labour's Lost, Viola in Twelfth Night, Cordelia in King Lear, and Lady Anne in Richard III. Sarah recently played the role of Annie in Table Manners, by Alan Ayckbourne at Gloucester Stage Company. Other Boston area credits include: Six Characters in Search of an Author, The King Stag, Macbeth, Picasso at the Lapin Agile at the American Repertory Theater, Desdemona—a Play About a Handkerchief at Boston Center for the Arts, King of the Jews at Boston Playwrights' Theatre, The Sweetest Swing in Baseball with Boston Theatre Works, La Vita Claire at Centastage, Shear Madness at the Charles Playhouse, Legacy of Light, Red Herring, Lost in Yonkers, and The Miracle Worker at the Lyric Stage Company, Imperialists at the Club Cave Canem and The Square Root of Minus One at The Market Theater, Much Ado About Nothing and As You Like It at The Publick Theatre, Picnic and The Sweepers at Stoneham Theatre, and Twelfth Night at Worcester Foothills Theatre. Regional and NYC credits include: American Stage Festival, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Jane Street Theater, Manhattan Punchline Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theater, Synchronicity Space, and The Kraine. Film & TV credits include: “As The World Turns”, “Another World”, “MTV”, “Saturday Night Live”, “The Legend of Lucy Keyes”, “Dischord”, “Chain of Desire”, “Expired”, and “The Stupid Years”. Sarah is a graduate of Hampshire College and the A.R.T. Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University

Contact Sarah:
sarah@actorsshakespeareproject.org

Magda has been working in the Boston non-profits arts education scene for over 10 years. A graduate of ASP's Teacher Institute in 2006, Magda became a regular teaching artist with the company in 2008. She is the lead teacher of Shakespeare on the Out, a year-round after school program for girls; she is a lead teaching artist on the ASP SWAT team (through which she and a team of artists conduct performance workshops in schools throughout the state); and has taught through ASP's Incarcerated Youth at Play Program. Previously, Magda served as Manager of Youth Programs at the Boston Center for the Arts and the Strand Theater. In 2004 she founded The Drama Club, Inc., a non-profit theater education organization that was enveloped by the City of Boston and became the Strand Youth Theater Project. In addition to ASP, she has served as teaching artist for The Theater Offensive/True Colors: Out Youth Theater and CitiCenter for the Performing Arts. She is an actor, having performed locally with Company One and Roxbury Rep.

Contact Magda:
magda@actorsshakespeareproject.org