Michael J. Bobbitt (Artistic Director) joined New Repertory Theatre as an arts leader, director, choreographer, and playwright in 2019. Michael J. Bobbitt served as Artistic Director for Adventure Theatre-MTC in Maryland since 2007, where he led the organization to be a respected theatre/training company in the DC region, as well as a nationally influential professional Theatre for Young Audiences. He led a merger with Musical Theater Center, increased the organizational budget and audience, commissioned new works by noted playwrights, transferred two shows to Off-Broadway, built an academy, and earned dozens of Helen Hayes Award Nominations including eight wins. Bobbitt has directed/choreographed at Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, Olney Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Woolly Mammoth Theatre, Center Stage, Roundhouse Theatre, The Kennedy Center, and the Washington National Opera. His national and international credits include the NY Musical Theatre Festival, Mel Tillis 2001, La Jolla Playhouse, Children’s Theatre of Charlotte, Jefferson Performing Arts Center, and the Olympics. As a writer, his work was chosen for the NYC International Fringe Festival and The New York and Musical Theatre Festival. He has two plays published by Rogers and Hammerstein Theatricals. He trained at Harvard Business School’s Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management, The National Arts Strategies Chief Executive Program, and other top leadership programs. He earned the Excel Leadership Award (Center for Nonprofit Advancement) the Emerging Leader Award (County Executive’s Excellence in the Arts and Humanities), and Person of the Year Award (Maryland Theatre Guide), among others.
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Betsy S. Goldman is a director, dramaturg, and educator in the Boston area. She holds a Ph.D. in Theatre History from Tufts University and an M.A. in Educational Theatre from New York University. Betsy has been working in the arts, education, social justice, and community building for over 15 years. She is a Professor of Theatre at Curry College, a trained Joker (a facilitator of Theatre of the Oppressed workshops and forum theatre), and an ASL-English translator for the theatre. Betsy has taught courses and facilitated workshops in communities and universities across New England, including Tufts University, Brown University, and Stonehill College.
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j. sebastián alberdi is a mexican-basque playwright. originally from san diego, ca, he now lives and works in boston, ma, and writes about queer, mexican, and catholic identity—or all three at once. he was a 2018 lambda literary fellow, a finalist for the playwright's center many voices fellowship, as well as a semi-finalist for the princess grace award. in addition to playwriting, he is a published erasure poet and his collection of erasures queering the final chapter of james joyce’s ulysses, y es is available through ghost city press. he holds a b.a. in english from northeastern university.
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Alexis Scheer was named Rising Theatre Star by the Improper Bostonian in the Boston’s Best Issue. Plays: Our Dear Dead Drug Lord (WP Theater/Second Stage, NYT Critic’s Pick, Kilroy’s List, LTC Carnaval of New Latinx Work finalist, Relentless Award semifinalist, Bay Area Playwrights Festival finalist), Laughs in Spanish (Kennedy Center’s Harold & Mimi Steinberg National Student Playwriting Award), Christina (Roe Green Award), and The Sensational (Actors’ Theatre of Louisville). She is currently working on commissions for Manhattan Theatre Club and Second Stage. Her work has been developed at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, McCarter Theatre Center, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Cleveland Playhouse, San Diego REP, and more. Alexis’ favorite acting credits include the Boston premiere of Blasted, a storefront Equus, and a regional production of Fiddler on the Roof she did when she was 13 instead of getting Bat Mitzvah’ed (true story). She also moonlights as the Producing Artistic Director of award-winning fringe company, Off the Grid Theatre. Alexis is a proud Miami native and New World School of the Arts alum, and holds a BFA in Musical Theatre from The Boston Conservatory and MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. www.alexisscheer.com
Mal Malme is a proud Boston based queer and nonbinary theater artist and activist. Mal is co-founder of Queer Soup Theater, currently touring THE PINEAPPLE PROJECT, a play for kids that celebrates gender creativity. Mal is a StageSource member, currently serving on the board, and is part of StageSource's Gender Explosion Initiative. By day, Mal is Dr. Mal Adjusted with THE LAUGHTER LEAGUE at Boston Children’s and Hasbro Children's Hospitals. Mal also serves on the Cambridge LGBTQ+ Commission and volunteers as a canine companion at the Animal Rescue League of Boston.
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Mary ElizaBeth Peters has been working in the field of access, inclusion and theatre education since 2002. Beth is an inclusion-based drama teacher for the Boston Public Schools, where she teaches drama to K0-5th grade students, including students with Autism and multiple disabilities. Her work centers on social emotional learning and wellness, and includes a focus on trauma-sensitive teaching and bullying intervention. Beth is also a playwright and director, and founded the Accessible Theatre in 2013, with the mission of creating art for and with disabled artists and patrons. Beth holds a Masters Degree in Theatre Education from Emerson College and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in Performance Studies from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Beth has worked with Boston Actors Theatre, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, New Repertory Theatre, Watertown High School, the Boston Health Commission, The Learning Center for Deaf Children in Framingham, the Watertown Children’s Theatre, and the Community Art Center in Central Square, Cambridge, among other organizations. Professional affiliations and conference presentations include the American Alliance for Theatre Education, the Massachusetts Educational Theatre Guild, the Emerson College Theatre Festival, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, and the Cystic Fibrosis Research Institute. Her play, "Jonathan" will open with Moonbox Productions at the Boston Center for the Arts on June 26th.
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MICHELLE M. AGUILLON has been a director, actor, and teaching artist in the Boston area for over 25 years. She
studied acting and theatre at San Francisco State University, California State University at Long Beach, and the National Theater of London. Since 1995, she has been member of Hovey Players in Waltham, MA, currently serving as Vice President. She recently served on the Board of Directors of the Eastern Massachusetts Association of Community Theaters (EMACT). Her professional directing credits include Fences, The Joy Luck Club, Disgraced, True West, To Kill A Mockingbird (Umbrella Stage Company); the latter two shows earned Best Production Distinguished Achievement Special Honors (DASH) for Best Production. Also: Augusta and Noble (Emerson Stage, Paramount Theater), Vietgone (Company One) Sylvia (Theatre Uncorked), Proof (Nora Theatre Company, Central Square Theater), and A Return to Morality (Titanic Theater, Central Square Theater). Directing credits in community theater include Clybourne Park, Terra Nova, Of Mice and Men, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Marjorie Prime, The Pillowman, Rabbit Hole, Good People, Kimberly Akimbo, Sense and Sensibility, Looking for Normal, G.R. Point (IRNE Best Director winner), God of Carnage, The Secret Garden, Miss Saigon, and Godspell. Favorite stage roles include A View from the Bridge (Beatrice Carbone), Uncle Vanya (Yelena), How I Learned to Drive (Female Greek Chorus), The Crucible (Elizabeth Proctor), Taming of the Shrew (Katharina), Twelfth Night (Viola), and Communicating Doors (IRNE Best Actress winner). Michelle is workshopping a new musical called Radiance of the Day by Ginger Lazarus for In Good Company. Upcoming directing projects include new plays for the Asian American Theater of Boston, the Asian American Playwrights Collaborative 3rd Annual Festival (Woods Hole, MA), Kate Hamill’s Sense and Sensibility (Concord Players), Christopher Durang’s Vanya, Sonia, Masha and Spike (Vokes Players), and for the Umbrella Stage Company (TBD). Michelle just wrote her first short play, SnapCrackleYum, performed by the Open Theater of Boston this May. She recently joined the Board of Directors at Stagesource and is the new Executive Director at Creative Arts in Reading, MA. |
Steven Cuevas is a music director, musician, actor, and singer. He was most recently the Music Director and Conductor of the first national tour of the Tony Award-winning revival of Once On This Island. Broadway: Once On This Island, Anastasia, Kinky Boots. Off-Broadway: I Spy a Spy, We Are The Tigers, Trip of Love, Closer Than Ever, Iron Curtain. Tours: Kinky Boots, Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical, Spring Awakening, My Fair Lady (Marina Bay Sands, Singapore). Recordings: Once On This Island, How the Grinch…, Monstersongs. Steven is the Chair of Local 802 AFM’s Diversity Committee and a proud member of Actors' Equity and the Recording Academy/Grammy Awards. BFA Musical Theatre: Emerson College. @StevenMCuevas
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Jessica Ernst is a freelance director/producer in the greater Boston area. Her directing credits include Romeo and Juliet (Eastern Nazarene College), Henry IV (Praxis Stage), The Women Who Mapped The Stars (The Nora Theatre Company, world premiere), Daughter of Venus (Artists’ Theatre of Boston), The Love of the Nightingale (Open Theatre Project), The Weaver of Raveloe (Oberon, world premiere), Hedda Gabler (The Longwood Players), and various short plays and staged readings. She is currently developing a 3-actor adaptation of The Tempest in collaboration with Queen Mab: A Micro-Theatre, which incorporates Shakespeare’s text in both its original form and translated into Sign Language. She is the managing director of Sleeping Weazel, a Boston fringe theatre company focused on creating experimental and multimedia new theatrical works with a social justice focus. Jessica is currently pursuing a Master’s Degree in Arts Administration at Boston University and is a graduate of Gettysburg College.
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