Creative & Production 

Vanda (Playwright) an Edward Albee Fellow and Lambda National Literary Award Finalist, was profiled in the Dramatist Guild’s Magazine article, 50 (playwrights) To Watch. Original Works published her play, VILE AFFECTIONS, in 2008 after five standing room only performances at the international New York Fringe Festival. Another play, WHY’D YA MAKE ME WEAR THIS, JOE?, won first place in Celebration Theater’s Best LGBT Play Contest. 

Kimberly Loren Eaton (Director/Producer) the Principal and Founder of Theatrum Mundi Productions, a New York City company which provides theatrical producing, directing, and general management services, and most recently served as an above-the-title producer on The Velocity of Autumn, on Broadway, starring Estelle Parsons (TONY Nomination, Best Actress in a Play) and two-time TONY winner Stephen Spinella. During her tenure as the Artistic and Managing Director of the Off-Broadway Marjorie S. Deane Little Theater, Kimberly oversaw the $2 million capital renovation of the historic space, re-branded it, developed an audience, and had the theater operating at a profit within two years. She curated compelling productions, including Freud’s Last Session, which received an Off-Broadway Alliance Award, a Jeff Award, and was honored by the Library for the Performing Arts. Selected directing credits include: Closer, Once on This Island, The Music Man, Guys and Dolls, Private Lives, and Jack London: Sex, Love and Revolution. She is a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, serves on the Board of two non-profit organizations, and also works as a non-profit Consultant. She received her formal education at Queens College, Hofstra University, and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts.

Cassie M. Seinuk* (Production Stage Manager) Hello Again (Bridge Rep), Romeo & Juliet; Middletown (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). The Boston Theatre Marathon XV; The Sussman Variations (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre). Absurd Person Singular (sub); Arabian Nights (sub) (Central Square Theatre). ASM Regional: Futurity: A Musical by The Lisps (American Repertory Theatre). Reasons To Be Pretty; Body Awareness (SpeakEasy Stage Company). Hysteria; The Lady With All The Answers; Not Enough Air (The Nora Theatre Company). Macbeth (Shakespeare Now!). Cassie holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Lesley University, and a BA from Brandeis University. Her plays have been produced nationally; she’s the co-founder of Interim Writers, and a member of Boston Public Works. Cassie is a proud member of AEA.

Shura Baryshnikov (Movement Design) a Teaching Associate in the Brown/Trinity MFA Programs, a faculty member at Festival Ballet Providence School and has also taught movement at MIT, Dean College and Rhode Island College.  She has worked as a choreographer and movement consultant for Trinity Repertory Company, The Wilbury Theatre Group, Elemental Theatre Collective and on a number of Brown/Trinity MFA productions.  Shura has appeared in works by Heidi Henderson, Ali Kenner-Brodsky, Betsy Miller, among others, and with Aerplaye Dance, American Dance Legacy Initiative, Festival Ballet Providence, Lostwax Multimedia Dance, Elemental Theatre Collective and Workhorse Theatre.  Her original performance work has been presented by the RISD Museum, the Providence Fringe Festival and in Earthdance's Moving Arts Lab.John Tracey (Assistant Stage Manager)

Bevin Kelly (Musical Composition & Sound Design) is a composer, sound designer, and electronic music/multimedia performer. Her work is in radio plays, electronic toys, theater spaces, film/television scores, advertisements, clubs, concert halls, headphones, and galleries. She has released critically acclaimed recordings on labels such as Aagoo, Tigerbeat6, and Orthlorng. With Kristin Grace Erickson she received a top prize in Digital Music at Prix Ars Electronica (Austria) 2001. She has toured extensively throughout the United States and Europe since 1998. Her work is featured in: Wire magazine (UK), Pitchfork, Time Out (New York/London), Art Forum, Vogue (Italy), and Rolling Stone. Bevin received her PhD in Computer Music/Multimedia from Brown University in 2014.

Meganne George (Costume Design) Broadway: A Wonderful Life (Actor's Fund Benefit).  Off-Broadway:  For mabou mines: Finn (NYSCA commissioning grant recipient) Dollhouse (international tour); Red Beads, Cara Lucia (American Theatre Wing Hewes Nomination), Two Little Indians. For adobe: Superpowers, Orpheus and Eurydice; Hurray for Iceboy. International: Choeophorae (European Capital of Culture Festival 2006), Lucia’s Chapters and A Prelude to a Death in Venice (Kilkenney Arts Festival) Regional: Grey Gardens. Other NY: John Goldfarb Please Come Home (FringeNY Best Costume Design 2007) Bronx Opera (eight seasons); Robin Becker Dance; Sal LaRussa Dance Theatre; Nicholas Andre Dance Theatre. Film and Television: mabou mines' Dollhouse (producer, Arte, France); Don't Nobody Love the Game (PBS Independent Lens).  

Peter Fogel (Assistant Costume Designer) Holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in costume design from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.  NY design credits include: Dog Sees God (Synapse Theatre Ensemble), Toxicity, Dead Reckoning (New Perspectives Theatre Company), The Little Princess (InViolet Theater Company), and I-Pod (The United Solo and The Strawberry One Act Festival).  University design credits include: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Julius Caesar (Rutgers Theater Company), and Cyrano de Bergerac director by Gabriel Barre.

Julia Noulin-Mérat (Scenic Design) is the principal designer at Noulin-Mérat Studio, an intrepid New York design firm that has designed over 200 productions for opera, film, television, and site specific immersive theatre. She is the Associate Producer at Boston Lyric Opera, the Director of Design and Production for the Boston-based, Guerilla Opera, and is the resident designer for New York companies Attic Theater and Exit, Pursued By a Bear. Previous theater work includes The Light Princess at A.R.T., Restoration Comedy at the Flea Theater, Rocky Horror Show at the Hangar Theater, Moonchildren with the Attic Theater. Previous opera work includes Clemency with Boston Lyric Opera; Bluebeard’s Castle with Omaha Opera; Madama Butterfly with El Paso Opera; Gallo and Giver of Light with Guerilla Opera; Sumeida’s Song with Boston Opera Collaborative; La Descente d'Ophee with Gotham Chamber Opera. For more www.noulinmerat.com 

Annie Wiegand (Lighting Design) is a freelance lighting designer who happens to be Deaf. Boston: Tribes (Speakeasy Stage Company); You For Me For You, Love Person (Company One); Othello (Actors Shakespeare Project). New York City: Square Peg, Round Hole (Tectonic Theatre Project, associate); Miss NoWhere Diner (Akadēmeia Theatre) (Planet Connections Theatre Festivity Best Lighting Design Nominee); The Medicine Showdown (The Flying Carpet Theatre Company); A Hard Wall at High Speed (Astoria Performing Arts Center, associate). Other: Penelope of Ithaca (Hangar Theatre); Adjunct Professor, Theatre Arts Department, Gallaudet University; Production Manager, New York Deaf Theatre; Lighting Director, The Acting Company Tours 2010-2013. www.anniewiegand.com

Eamonn Farrell (Projection Design) a theater maker and video designer based in Brooklyn, NY. His company, Anonymous Ensemble creates ‘live films’ that have been presented in venues and festivals in NYC, Regionally, the UK, Germany, Norway, Australia and Greece. He also designs video extensively for Lee Breuer of Mabou Mines and for theater, opera and dance productions throughout America and the world. Eamonn teaches “Live Film: Media Design for Performance” at Princeton University. www.EamonnsGarden.com

Esme Allen (Props Masters)is a Boston-based actor and educator. Boston-area acting credits include Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (IRNE Nomination- Best Supporting Actress) Elephant Man and Amadeus (New Repertory Theatre), North Shore Fish (Gloucester Stage Company); The Cherry Orchard, Middletown and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); and Coriolanus (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Other professional credits include Youth Ink! (McCarter Theatre, NJ); Jack, or the Submission and The Whole Arrangement (Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Film and television credits include The Good Wife (CBS); Ask the Bartender (FOXNEWS). Scenic design credits include Bridge Repertory Theater’s production of Gidion’s Knot. She earned her MFA in Acting from California Institute of the Arts. She is a Founding Artistic Associate of The Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston and teaches at Salem State University and Wheelock College.

John Tracey (Props Masters) a recently transplanted actor and educator from Baltimore-by-way-of-New York. He holds an MFA from Brown University/Trinity Rep, where he appeared in  The Lady from Dubuque  (Sam), The Duchess of Malfi  (Bosola),  and  Much Ado About Nothing  (Don John/Oatcake). Other theaters include Trinity Rep, Fault Line Theater, Brown Playwrights Rep, and readings/workshops with Baltimore CenterStage, REV Theatre, and Huntington Theatre Co.  John completed his undergraduate studies at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, where he also worked in the college’s costume shop, assisting in costume construction and property design.

Niko Companies (General Managers) a theatrical production and management company formed by its president, Manny Kladitis in 1988.  Recent productions include a national tour of MAN OF LA MANCHA, BILLY CRYSTAL 700 SUNDAYS and LADY DAY starring Tony and Grammy Award-winner Dee Dee Bridgewater, FRANKIE VALLI & THE FOUR SEASONS ON BROADWAY, the Drama Desk nominated FALLING, MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH directed by Spike Lee, THE LYONS by Nicky Silver and starring Linda Lavin, KATHY GRIFFIN WANTS A TONY and RAIN: A TRIBUTE TO THE BEATLES ON BROADWAY. 

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Theatrum Mundi Productions a  commercial production company, focusing on theatrical productions. Theatrum Mundi provides production, directorial, and general management services for theater and events. “Theatrum Mundi” – written across the heavens of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre – means, “all the world’s a stage,” or, “theatre of the world.” The company is focused on sharing inspiring stories that reflect the many voices throughout our world, and is particularly inspired by new work.  

Bridge Repertory Theater of Boston just completed its inaugural season, which included a large-scale co-production, a world premiere, a musical, and an award-winning contemporary drama.  In just one season, Bridge Rep earned eight nominations from the Independent Reviewers of New England, including Best Play and Best Director, and has been featured in all of greater Boston’s major media outlets, including the Boston Globe and WGBH.  With a mission to “connect actors to audiences, artists to artists, and the theatre to our city,” Bridge Rep has already built a strong reputation for staging intimate productions rooted in top-notch acting.

Cole Burden (Producer)  a graduate of Baldwin-Wallace Conservatory and has called New York City home for the past eight years. In New York, he has been primarily an actor and currently studies at HB Studio under the guidance of Austin Pendleton. His passion has always been for developing new plays and musicals and has worked at City Center ENCORES!, The Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center, The New York Musical Theatre Festival, Planet Connections Theatre Festival, and Two River Theatre Company. Cole was on tour with the 25th Anniversary production of Les Miserables, and has enjoyed playing the roles of Warner in Legally Blonde at the Marriott Lincolnshire, Joe/Jerry in Grey Gardens at the Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Che in Evita at Mason Street Warehouse. His TV/FILM credits include: Beautiful Creatures for Warner Bros, The Real Housewives of New York for Bravo, 30 Rock, One Life to Life, and As The World Turns. Aside from acting and developing new works in NYC, he co-manages GET SERVICES, a private concierge service to artists within the entertainment industry. He has had the pleasure of working alongside, and learning from, Tony Goldwyn, Zach Braff, Patrick Wilson, William H. Macey, and Felicity Huffman. Having two Grandparents that were affected by Alzheimer’s disease, Cole is very passionate about The Forgetting Curve. He is most excited to help bring this story to Boston audiences!

Alan Swanke (Producer) recently co-produced a presentation of the new musical Wild and Willful Women as part of annual TRU Voices Reading Series. Other theater projects include managing the marketing efforts for the New York International Fringe Festival production of Jack London: Sex, Love and Revolution, The Midtown International Theatre Festival production of Teach Me to Cry, and the Rock Tonic Theatrical Concert Series presented by The Show Goes On Productions. Outside of theatre Alan spent 6 years in brand management with MillerCoors. During this time he led many high profile marketing campaigns. Alan holds a Bachelor’s degree in economics from St. Norbert College and a Master’s degree in applied economics from Marquette University.

Theater Resources Unlimited A nonprofit organization formed to promote a spirit of cooperation and support within the general theatre community by providing information and a variety of entertainment-related services and resources that strengthen the capacity of producing organizations, individuals producers, self-producing artists and other theater professionals. www.truonline.org  

Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company, NYC non-profit organization committed to working with a diverse network of artists, and to giving back to the community it serves.  In September of 2013, Playhouse Creatures Theatre Company partnered with Bridge Rep of Boston to produce The Libertine, by Stephen Jeffreys – a collaboration that garnered a prestigious Elliot Norton nomination for Best Production of a Play.

*Member, Actors’ Equity Association, the union for professional actors and stage managers in the United States.