Anderson Stinson, III is ecstatic to return to the Boston Public Library as Zodiac to solve mysteries and explore cryptozoology with Company One! Anderson is an Atlanta born actor and voice actor. However, once graduating from Brandeis University with high honors in film and theater, he became a local to the northeast. Recent theatrical credits include: Bud in Bud, Not Buddy with Wheelock Family Theater, MC Antipholus in The Bomb-Itty of Errors with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, and Flat Joe/ Black Superman in Black Superhero Magic Mama with Company One, which was a performance that was nominated for a 2023 Elliot Norton Award. Anderson loves the weird and cryptic and his pet hedgehog currently named “The Hedgehog” is proof. This stellar group of teens will pull the mask off this production and reveal the true beauty of this piece. Enjoy! www.thethirdanderson.com

Jay Connolly is an actor, director, producer, and fight choreographer, based out of Boston. Since receiving a BFA in Performance from Salem State, Jay has been acting and teaching theatre throughout Massachusetts. Jay is also a professor of Theatre and Stage Combat at Endicott College. Some previous acting credits include: Through The Big Times and Back, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot, Hamlet, The Critic. Jay would like to thank you his family, friends, and all for coming to support live theatre!

Jenine Florence Jacinto is making their Company One Theatre debut! Jenine Florence is a nonbinary California raised Filipino-Chinese American actor/creative now turned New England native. Recent credits include Izzy/Boy in Middleton Heights (Umbrella Stage Company), Chris in Swan (Moonbox Productions), Green in Skinless (Chuang Stage), Kit/Ellery in Lyric Back Stage (Lyric Stage Company), Hoku Bayani in Of Kith and Pen (queeRPG), and Sam in The Kasha of Kaimuki (Kumi Kahua Theater). When not acting on stage or producing with queeRPG, you can find them playing board games with friends or crocheting. Special thanks to all those who have supported them through their acting journey! Instagram: @jenine.florence

Schanaya Barrows (she/her) is excited to be taking the stage with Company One! She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Performance with a minor in Dance and composition at Salem State University 2021. Her recent credits include A Wrinkle in Time (Assistant Director) Wheelock Family Theatre, The Interrobangers (Dani Bundy) Company One, The Color Purple (U/S Squeak, Olivia) The Umbrella Arts Center, Dance Nation (Ashlee) The Apollinaire Theatre, can i touch it? (Meeka, Beth) by Summer L. Williams at Company One (Won an Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Performance 2023) , The Colored Museum (Hair Designer) by Pascale Florestal at The Umbrella Arts Center, Once on This Island (Hair Designer) by Pascale Florestal at SpeakEasy Stage, Dream Love Escape by Kate Kohler Amory (Helena, Peter Quince, Choreographer) The Ridiculous Project, Machinal by Sophie Tredwell (Adding clerk, Lawyer of Defense, Reporter, Bridesmaid, Choreographer) Salem State University, The Long Christmas Ride Home by Paula Vogel (choreographer), Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare (Choreographer), Bedroom Farce by Alan Ayckbourn (Female swing, Fight Captain), Gunplay:A play about America by Frank Higgins (George Washington, Shante Johnson, Lois Milberger, Woman, Announcer), Ragtime by Terrence McNally (Sarah’s Friend, Harlem Ensemble, Dance Captain), Poison of Choice by William Cunningham (Haley/Chavez) Salem State University, A Freeman of Color by John Guare (Melpomene, Leda, Margery Understudy, Dance Ensemble) Salem State University.

Awards: Elliot Norton Winner (2023), Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival Region 1 Irene Ryan Best Scene Partner (2019), Merit Nomination for best ensemble (Ragtime). Irene Ryan Nominee Kennedy Center College Theatre Festival (2019)

Jupiter Lê is a queer transmasculine Vietnamese-American theatre-maker, a child of immigrants born, raised, and based on the lands of the Massachusett people, known as Boston, MA. Education: BA in Theatre and Cultural Anthropology (Northeastern University). Recent credits: ‘SKINLESS’ (CHUANG Stage), ‘SWAN’ (Moonbox Productions), ‘IN THE CAMPS: A REFUGEE MUSICAL’ (reading w/ HowlRound Theatre Commons), ‘ISABEL (reading w/ NAATCO & Long Wharf Theatre), ‘Interstate’ (East West Players).

Chris Everett  is an Elliot Norton Award nominated actor, singer, writer, and voiceover artists based in Boston. She is psyched to be working with Company One again on the debut performance of The Interrobangers and to work with such an amazing cast and crew.

Recent theater and reading credits include Break, Break (Legion Theater Project), Stew (Front Porch Art Collective), Bud, Not Buddy (Wheelock Family Theater) and the debut performances of Confidential Informant (TC Squared), I’ll Be There for You (2nd Act), and can i touch it? (Company One). Television credits include, Kevin Can F*** Himself (AMC), SMILF (SHOWTIME), and Castle Rock (Hulu). Film credits include Don’t Look Up, I Care A Lot (Netflix), About Fate, Godmothered (Disney+), The Good House, and TED. Chris is also the lead singer for the blues, funk & soul band, Umami.

Michael J. Blunt is so excited to be making their Company One premier! Based in Salem, and signed to Model Club, Inc, Michael participates in a variety of theatre and independent films throughout the northeast. Past theatre credits include; Break, Break” (Legion Theatre Project), Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (Firehouse Center for the Arts), Skinless (CHUANG Stage) A Nutcracker Panto (Theater in the Open), As You Like It (Third Citizen Theatre Co.), and many more! Enjoy the show! www.michaelblunt.com

Alex Jacobs is delighted to be returning to C1 after appearing in 2016’s The T Party. A Boston based teaching artist some of Alex’s other credits include, John Deserves To Die (Fresh Ink), The Rocky Horror Show (Moonbox), Baskerville (Gloucester Stage), Tiny Tim’s Christmas Carol (Greater Boston Stage), The Lyons (Titanic Stage Co.) Steve (Zeitgeist), The End of the World (Boston Actors Theatre), Dr Jekyl & Mr Hyde & Animals Out Of Paper (New Hampshire Theatre Award winner, Best Supporting Actor) (Hampstead Stage Co.), 39 Steps & Noises Off (Winnipesaukee Playhouse). Alex holds a BA in Theatre from Leeds University England, MFA in Acting from Brandeis and is an Assistant Professor at Salem State University.

M Sloth Levine is a playwright, director, dramaturg, and designer. Sloth’s plays have been developed at thousands of coffee shops and several theatre companies including Roundabout Theatre Company, Parity Productions (Parity Development Award Winner 2021), Central Square Theatre, and Theatre [Untitled]. They were the Script Supervisor on Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Bad Cinderella and a former barista at Flour Bakery + Cafe. Sloth’s been a long-time fan and collaborator of Company One, as a member of the VoltLab and PlayLab writing groups, and assistant director for Wig Out! In 2020 their live web-series Tales from Camp Strangewood was produced with a grant from the Mayor’s Office of Boston. mslothlevine.com

Josh Glenn-Kayden is a Boston based director, the Artistic Producer and Casting Director at Company One Theatre, and a co-producer of the Legion Theatre Project. Josh‘s work centers around new plays that help us imagine a more equitable and just world together.

Recent directing projects include Break, Break by Erin Lerch (Legion Theatre Project & Artists’ Theatre of Boston), Muse by Sarah Wendy Burman (Wellesley College), Shrike by Erin Lerch (Fresh Ink Theatre), Wild Flowers by Tatiana Isabel Gil (Company One Better Future series), Visionary Futures: Science Fiction Theatre for Social Justice Movements (consisting of new plays by Phaedra Michelle Scott, M Sloth Levine, and Jaymes Sanchez) at UMass Amherst, Baltimore by Kirsten Greenidge (UMass Amherst), workshops of Walden by Amy Berryman and The Interrobangers by M Sloth Levine (UMass Play Lab), Greater Good by Kirsten Greenidge (A.R.T. & Company One, associate director), the world premiere of This Place/Displaced (Artists’ Theater of Boston, ArtsFuse Best Stage Productions of 2018), The Lyons by Nicky Silver (Titanic Theatre), and Don’t Give Up the Ship by Laura Neill (Fresh Ink Theatre). Josh is also the director and co-producer of The Legion Tapes, a sci-fi podcast written by Erin Lerch.

Josh has directed and developed new work for the A.R.T., Company One Theatre, Fresh Ink Theatre, Flat Earth Theatre, Artists’ Theater of Boston, the Museum of Science, UMass Amherst, Wellesley College, and Hub Theatre, among others. Josh holds a BA in Drama from Tufts University and an MFA in Directing from UMass Amherst.

REgine Vitalis a storyteller, theatre artist, educator and current Associate Producer at Actor’s Shakespeare Project. Most recently, she was seen onstage in ASP’s productions of As You Like It (Celia) and Seven Guitars (Louise). As an actor, director, dramaturg, teaching artist, and coach, she has worked with several theatre companies, programs, and schools. She teaches performance studies, composition, literature, and public speaking at Boston area universities; text and performance to high school students; and has taught continuing adult education classes in literature. A hometown girl from Somerville, MA, she is the previous Manager of Curriculum and Instruction at The Huntington. Regional credits: The Huntington, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, American Repertory Theatre, Actor’s Shakespeare Project, ArtsEmerson, Company One, SpeakEasy Stage, Central Square Theatre. Fringe/Local: Fresh Ink Theatre, Boston University School of Theatre, Moonbox Productions, Plays In Place, Flat Earth Theatre, HUB Theatre of Boston, Open Theatre Project, Concord Players, Birch Tree Productions, Green Door Labs. NYC/Podcasts/Film: The Huntington, Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, Broadway Podcast Network, The Penumbra Podcast, Revolutionary Spaces. Education: BA, Boston University; MA, University of Massachusetts, Boston; MA candidate, King’s College London/Shakespeare’s Globe. “Merde, folks! 😉”

afrikah selah is a Boston-based cultural worker specializing in dramaturgy, new play development, and arts journalism. With a passion for dialogue and a desire to explore new ideas in innovative ways, they value creative collaboration that strives to build community towards a more equitable world. Currently, they hold the position of NNPN New Work Producer in Residence at Company One Theatre, and are also a 2023-24 TCG Rising Leader of Color. You can find out more at itsafrikah.com

Des Bennett is honored to be back at Company One Theater with their dear friend Sloth Levine! Their recent directing work includes: Dear Helena (The Front Portch); we and other queer goddexxes (Company One); True Colors Troupe (The Theater Offensive); Sunday Swings an Old-New Gospel (Huntington); Common Ground: Revisited (Ass. Dir., Huntington); My Body Is a A Season (SpeakEasy); and Scenes From Metamorphoses (Northeastern University). Des is currently the Queer (Re)Public Programs Manager at The Theater Offensive, and a co-leader of Gender Explosion, a coalition of trans* artists across the country empowering, advocating, and creating space for trans* artists in theater and the performing arts sector locally and nationally. Des holds a BA in Theater and a minor in Psychology from Northeastern University.

Liz is delighted to be returning to work with Company One. They’ve recently been with Central Square Theatre ASMing on Rocky Horror and with Real Live Theatre as the PSM on Pussy Sludge. They have loved working with C1 on can i touch it? and Black Super Hero Magic Mama and are excited for this upcoming season!

Erin is a Boston-based playwright and stage manager who can’t/won’t stop writing deeply queer sci-fi. They appeared on ArtsBoston’s July 2020 list of 10 Boston Playwrights You Should Know. Most recently, Erin produced their play Break, Break with Legion Theatre Project and Artists’ Theatre of Boston in September 2023. Erin’s play Shrike received its world premiere production with Fresh Ink Theatre in February 2022, directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden. Their first play, Crossing Flight, first in the Legion Cycle, received its premiere with TC Squared Theatre Company in January 2018. Erin is also the writer and co-producer of The Legion Tapes, a sci-fi podcast/audio drama series. As a stage manager and technician, Erin has worked with many Boston theatres including TC Squared, ART’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, Emerson College, Company One, Escena Latina Teatro, and more. They are excited to be back with Company One to help this spooky story come to life! Follow Erin on NPX or on their website at erinrlerch.com.

Becca is excited to return to Company One on The Interrobangers as an Assistant Stage Manager! Recent credits include Production Manager for The Fortune Teller with Chuang Stage, Substitute Wardrobe Supervisor for POTUS with SpeakEasy Stage, and Special Effects Design for Break, Break with the Legion Theatre Project. Congratulations to this wonderful mystery gang‽

Danielle DeLaFuente is thrilled to return to Company One as the Set Designer of The Interrobangers. Her recent design credits include The Sitayana (The Tank), The Boy Who Kissed the Sky (Company One), and While We Wait (The New School). Her recent associate design credits include The Covenant (Roundabout Theatre), Bulrusher (McCarter Theatre), and Proof (American Players Theatre). She would like to thank Company One and this wonderful team for this process!

E. Rosser is thrilled to be choosing the clothes, rather than supervising the clothes, for this one! Rosser has been behind the scenes for several Company One projects, including Greater Good, Hype Man, Black Superhero Magic Mama, can i touch it?, and The Boy Who Kissed the Sky. Rosser works magic as a freelance costume designer, puppet enthusiast, and general theater wizard in the Boston scene for such varied groups as Speakeasy, the A.R.T., the Young Company at Greater Boston Stage Company, and Moonbox Productions. See more at erosser.com!

Phillis in Boston (Revolutionary Spaces); Old Jake’s Skirts and Next to Normal (Emerson Stage); Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (Mercutio Troupe); sub (RareWorks Theatre Co.); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Emshakes); Fefu and Her Friends (Full Fathom Productions). BFA Emerson College.

Anna Drummond is a Boston-based sound designer specializing in live theatre and SFX curation for professional theatre companies and educational institutions. Credits Include: Front Porch Arts Collective – Chicken & Biscuits; The Huntington – K-I-S-S-I-N-G (Elliot Norton Award) and Dream Boston: 3 Miles; SpeakEasy Stage – BLKS and Pass Over; Company One (C1) – Leftovers, Black Super Hero Magic Mama, and can i touch it?; Fresh Ink Theatre – Shrike and Truth or Consequences; Trinity Repertory Company/Brown University – Eurydice, Prowess, soul tapes, and The Book of Lucy; Harvard University – Married or Made, Cells; Boston Conservatory at Berklee – Everybody, Machinal, and As You Like It; Northeastern University – Deferred, This Is Treatment, Problem Play, and Sisterhood of the Survivors; Emerson College – Paris. Anna holds a BA with Honors in Sound Design/Audio Post-Production from the Visual & Media Arts Department of Emerson College. Love to Dyl, Eleanor, Jeremy, and the Bad Luck Crew for everything, always.

Maria Servellón is an award-winning filmmaker, multimedia artist, educator, and arts advocate from Boston, MA. Her expertise spans across various mediums, including film, media art, projection, installation, photography, and design. Maria’s work explores the synesthetic connections between art, music, and dance as they contribute to the formation of a self-identity.

Maria has garnered recognition through numerous screenings and exhibitions across Massachusetts, New York, California, Oregon, the UK, and Mexico. Among her notable works are the magic-realist short film, Hyphen (2018), the projection design for the Company One/American Repertory Theater play Black Super Hero Magic Mama (2022), and the immersive installation Hibiskiss (2022), showcasing the breadth of her creative work.

Maria’s contributions to the arts earned her being named one of 2018’s “Latinos 30 Under 30” by El Mundo Boston and a finalist for the 2019 New England Film Star Award. In 2020, she was honored as a “Latina Leader” by Amplify Latinx and an “Outstanding Young Leader” by the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce. She has been awarded grants, fellowships, and residencies from the Boston Mayor’s Office Of Arts & Culture, Boston Arts & Business Council, Boston Public Schools, Boston Dance Theater, Danza Orgánica, Collective Futures, and Mass MoCA. Maria received her BA from UMass Boston, an MFA from Emerson College, and has taught at Emerson College, UMass Boston, and Northeastern University.

Amanda Gibson is an artist and craftsperson living and working in Worcester, Massachusetts. She received a BFA in Illustration from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. Utilizing her illustrative skills, she has been working as a puppet maker and scenic builder in the world of theater. Not her first time working with Company One, she built the puppet for their past production of iWolf Play. Recently, she worked on White Snake Projects’ Monkey: A Kung Fu Puppet Parable and Harvard University’s The Poacher. She also worked on UConn’s award-winning show, Feel Your Best Self.
Storytelling has always been a driving force in Amanda’s work and a major reason for her study of illustration and later pursuit of the field of puppet building and puppetry. Outside of theater, she creates cosplays, draws portraiture, and enjoys gardening.

Kelly Smith is a multi-hyphenate artist with a new work focus, having ushered in over 30 world premieres in New England. Selected credits include: Props: Company One/A.R.T. (GREATER GOOD, VIETGONE), Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING), Hub Theatre (WIT), Fresh Ink (SHRIKE, THAT TIME THE HOUSE BURNED DOWN), Legion Theatre Project (BREAK BREAK), Titanic Theatre, Sleeping Weazel, PF Pictures, and Brown Box among others. Writing: RESET, THE WHITE ROOM (Flat Earth Theatre), RAINING ALUMINUM (theatreKapow – Best Drama Finalist, NH Theatre Awards), ShotzBoston, StoryClub Boston, 1MPF, and others. Directing: Second Act Prod. (SISTER ANONYMOUS), Hub Theatre (ROBYN IS HAPPY), AKA Theatre (IN THE FOREST, SHE GREW FANGS), and shorts for Playbill Virtual Theatre Festival, Open Theatre Project, Boston Theatre Marathon, and 1MPF. In addition to stage managing all over, Kelly produced the raucous Irish backroom bar series Solas Nua, the heartwarming Grownup Storytime at Aeronaut Brewery, and founded Also Known As Theatre Theatre. www.kellyesmith.com `

Kevin is glad to rejoin Company One Theatre for this production. He has worked with performing arts organizations across New England for the past decade, including production roles on projects with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, North Shore Music Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Gloucester Stage, Goodspeed Musicals, and many others. He has mentored aspiring theatre artists through performing arts education programs, including at Merrimack College, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Northeastern University, Concord Academy, and Melrose, Wakefield, Wilmington, and Burlington Public Schools. During the academic year, he teaches STEAM courses at Pingree School. BS Northeastern, M.Ed. Salem State, www.kdeaneparker.com

Grace Kroeger is a Minnesota born, new to Boston engineer and designer in both audio and video. She earned her BA in German and Theater: Design & Technology at the University of Minnesota: Twin Cities. Their favorite aspects of theater are the puzzle of putting complicated systems together, creating system schematics, and (most importantly) programming within QLab. They are excited to be working again with Maria Servellón and Company One for Morning, Noon, and Night!

Recent credits include – Projections Technician: Interrobangers, Company One. Video Programmer: La Voix Humaine, Des Moines Metro Opera; A Thousand Acres, Des Moines Metro Opera. Video Engineer, La Voix Humaine, Des Moines Metro Opera. Assistant Video Designer: Interstate, Mixed Blood Theater; Hometown to the World, Town Hall.

Ae Jee Booth is ecstatic to be joining company one for the first time. They are a nonbinary, queer, Asian freelancer in audio and lighting for theatre and production. They are stand-in board operating for projections and sound for multiple shows. aejbooth.wixsite.com/aej-sound

Elijah Brown is so excited to be a part of this process, much love to the wonderful cast and creatives! <3 His recent credits include: Orpheus in the Overworld (Orpheus) with Fresh Ink Theater Company, Romeo and Juliet (Lady Montague) and Macbeth (Caithness) with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Power Play (Sarah) Artist’s Theater of Boston, Antigone (Creon), and As You like It (Duke Senior) with Emerson College. So much love to this beautiful cast who has spread such an immense amount of love throughout this process <3 Enjoy the show!!

Shira Helena Gitlin is a trans nonbinary director, gender consultant, intimacy director, and musical theatre enthusiast. Shira most recently worked as the intimacy director for Legally Blonde at Moonbox Productions and The Rocky Horror Show at Central Square Theater. They have worked in various artistic capacities for Moonbox Productions, Central Square Theater, New Repertory Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage Company, Flat Earth Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and more. As a gender consultant, Shira has held Transgender Inclusion workshops for theatres, universities, and organizations across the US and Canada. Shira is a member of the Gender Explosion Initiative, a graduate of the Arden Professional Apprentice Class 26, an alumni of Directors Lab North in Toronto, Canada and previously served as an Artistic Fellow at SpeakEasy Stage Company. They have a BA from Hampshire College in directing with an emphasis on musical theatre studies. For more information, please visit shirahelenagitlin.com.

Cagen Luse is a Boston based visual artist and entrepreneur. He is the artist and author of two comic series, the 2021 Association of Alternative Newsmedia award-winning LunchTime ComiX and The Market. They have been published in local Alt-weeklies DIG Boston and the Boston Compass as well as various social media platforms. He also runs his own business, 950design, that produces hand-made items such as tee shirts, art prints, buttons, and note cards featuring his original artwork. Cagen is the co-founder of Comics in Color, a monthly meet-up event series, and the Boston Comics in Color Festival, an annual comic arts festival for enthusiasts, artists, and writers of comics by and about people of color.

Peter Duerst is delighted to be working on his second Company One production! Previously with Company One, he was a Production Assistant on The Interrobangers. Peter has also done scenic and electric work as a Production Technician with Boston Conservatory at Berklee. When not working on theater, he does software engineering for Medtronic’s surgical robotics team. Peter has a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering and Theater Arts from MIT. While in college, he worked with the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble and Theater Arts department in a plethora of roles, including carpentry, technical directing, and video engineering. Peter also does community theater, having acted with Theatre@First, the Post-Meridian Radio Players, and the Quannapowitt Players! Special thanks to my partner Tal for all her support and to my friend Robert for always reading my bios. peter.duerst.me