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)

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.

Jada Saintlouis (she/her) is making her Company One Theatre debut! Jada is a theatre student at Northeastern University. By performing locally around the greater Boston area for several years, she continues to explore new artistic experiences. Recent credits include: Dee in Ladies Night at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, and Detox Counselor / Ensemble in Northeastern University’s production of This is Treatment. She is passionate about artist activism and plans to continue to engage in work for change.

Mark W. Soucy* (he/him) is making his Company One Theatre debut. Recent credits include: Capital Repertory Theatre (Albany, NY) in Lobby Hero (Bill) and The Royale (Max); Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Much Ado About Nothing (Leonato); Merrimack Repertory Theatre in The Royale (Max – IRNE Award, Best Supporting Actor); Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Romeo and Juliet (Lord Montague), The Boys from Syracuse (Aegean), Love’s Labour’s Lost (Sir Nathaniel), and King Lear (Albany); and Wheelock Family Theatre in Beauty and the Beast (Monsieur D’Arque) and Billy Elliot: The Musical (Mr. Wilkerson). Other past roles include The Elephant Man (John Merrick), The Real Inspector Hound (Moon), and The Dresser (Norman). Mark lives in Wilmington, MA with his wife Jennifer and child Finn. *member of Actors’ Equity Association

Karimah Williams is excited to be taking part in her second staged production with Company One! She has worked with C1 on Black Super Hero Magic Mama and other projects including Acts of Joy, as well as training with the Professional Development for Actors classes. She was most recently seen in Onward, Votes for Women (Birch Tree Productions); as well as Coriolanus and For Colored Girls… (Praxis Stage). Karimah’s film credits include The History Channel’s Aftershock, and most recently, the award-winning web series Love Undone. Karimah has a BFA in theatre from Salem State University. She can only hope she serves as a source of inspiration to all her past and present students in the Boston Public Schools while fulfilling her passion for the arts. Karimah dedicates this show to all of us born and raised Brown Bostonians who continue to prosper in this great city despite the odds!!

Victoria Omoregie’s recent professional credits include The Bomb-itty of Errors (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), LORENA: a Tabloid Epic (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre), and Antony and Cleopatra (New York Classical Theatre). She received her BFA in Acting from Boston University, where she appeared in In the Red and Brown Water by Tarell Alvin McCraney, Othello by William Shakespeare, and The Legend of Georgia McBride by Matthew Lopez. In her freetime, she loves to write poems, listen to music, read books, and write freestyle monologues. Victoria also has her own jewelry line (osakutreasures.com) where she sells jewelry to encourage people to be not only confident in themselves, but bold!

Mason Sand is a proud founding member of Company One, where he has acted in over a dozen productions including: Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo (Uday); Assassins (Sam Byck, IRNE Award, Best Supporting Actor in a Musical); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (El-Fayoumy); Den of Thieves (Flaco); Jesus Hopped the A Train (Valdez, 2004 Elliot Norton Award, for Best Fringe Production); Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 (IRNE nomination, Best Ensemble Cast). Also in Boston: Sugan Theatre Company: Talking to Terrorists; Zeitgeist Stage: Flesh & Blood; A.R.T.: Three Sisters; New Repertory Theatre: Romeo & Juliet; A Girl’s War (IRNE Nomination, Best Supporting Actor). Regional: Gloucester Stage Company: The Heidi Chronicles. Mason holds an MFA in Theatre Education from Boston University.

Francisca Da Silveira is a Cape Verdean-American playwright and Boston native who holds a BFA in Dramatic Writing from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and an MSc in Playwriting from the University of Edinburgh. She has been featured in ArtsBoston, The LA Times and American Theatre Magazine. Her plays have been developed with Theatre503 (London), The Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Company One Theatre (Boston), The Fire This Time Festival (New York), The Playwrights Realm (New York), The Public Theater (New York) and La Jolla Playhouse (San Diego). Fran’s play not-for-profit (or the equity, diversity, and inclusion play) was featured in The Playwrights’ Realm’s INK’D Festival in April 2021 and in La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA New Works Series in July 2021. Her play can i touch it? was featured in the National New Play Network’s 2020 National Showcase of New Plays in November 2020 and receives its World Premiere production at Company One Theatre in July 2022. Fran was a 2020-2021 Playwrights Realm Writing Fellow, is currently a member of The Public Theater’s 2020-2023 Emerging Writers Group, and a 2022-2023 Jerome Fellow with the Playwrights’ Center. She is working on commissions from the University of Virginia’s Drama Department and Brooklyn-based theater Colt Coeur Theatre. Fran gives special shoutouts to TC Squared Theatre Company, Fresh Ink Theatre, Flat Earth Theatre and Company One for always supporting her playwriting and dramaturgical work while in Boston!

Summer L. Williams is an award-winning director and Co-Founder/Associate Artistic Director of Company One Theatre in Boston. Her most recent directing credits include Jump by Charly Evon Simpson at Everyman Theatre in Baltimore, MD,  can i touch it?, a National New Play Network Rolling World Premiere by Francisca Da Silvera at Company One Theatre, sandblasted by Charly Evon Simpson with Vineyard Theatre and WP Theater, Off-Broadway. 

Local/Regional credits: The Arboretum Experience at American Repertory Theater (A.R.T), Daddy Issues at Salt Lake City Acting Company New Play Sounding Series, the Digital World Premiere of Downtown Crossing at Company One Theatre, Wolf Play at Company One Theatre, School Girls, or The African Mean Girls Play at SpeakEasy Stage Company, Miss You Like Hell with Company One Theatre and OBERON at American Repertory Theater, the World Premiere of Leftovers at Company One Theatre, Wig Out! with Company One and OBERON at A.R.T.; Smart People at Kitchen Theatre Company in Ithaca, NY and Geva Theater in Rochester, NY; Barbecue at Lyric Stage Company of Boston—Winner of the 2018 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director; Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. at Company One Theatre; Bootycandy at SpeakEasy Stage Company; An Octoroon and Colossal with Company One Theatre—Winner of the 2016 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director for both productions. Intimate Apparel at Lyric Stage Company of Boston; Shiv as a part of The Displaced Hindu Gods Trilogy; Shelter of Last Resort by Miranda Craigwell as a part of XX PlayLab 2014; the New England Premiere of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s We Are Proud To Present A Presentation About The Herero Of Namibia, Formerly Known As Southwest Africa From The German Sudwestafrika Between The Years 1884-1915; Idris Goodwin’s How We Got On; Lynn Nottage’s By The Way, Meet Vera Stark at the Lyric Stage Company of Boston; The Brothers Size and Marcus; Or The Secret Of Sweet as part of The Brother/Sister Plays (2012 Elliot Norton Award nominated for Outstanding Production and winner of the 2012 IRNE Award for Best Play); Neighbors, Grimm; The Good Negro; Voyeurs De Venus (Winner of 2009 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director); The Bluest Eye (IRNE and Elliot Norton Award nominated); The Last Days Of Judas Iscariot; Spell #7 (IRNE nominated); Jesus Hopped The A Train (2004 Elliot Norton Award for Best Fringe Production); and Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 (IRNE nominated).

afrikah selah is the 2022-23 NNPN New Work Producer in Residence at Company One Theatre, and a Boston-based cultural worker with a focus on producorial dramaturgy, new play development, and arts writing. Outside of producing, collaborating, and supporting new work in development, they are a freelance writer who has written for the American Repertory Theater (A.R.T.), New England Theatre Geek, The Public Theater, and 3Views on Theater. As a cultural worker, their mission is to create intentional work that activates and bridges community action and dialogue at the intersections of identity, time and space, social change, and healing-centered engagement for artists and audiences. You can learn more about their work at itsafrikah.com.

Ilana M. Brownstein is a dramaturg and facilitator specializing in new plays, public arts advocacy, and collaborative work centered on a mission of equity, diversity, and inclusion. In her public-facing work, she is a frequent moderator/facilitator, panelist, and invited delegate at conferences and convenings, and has adjudicated numerous dramaturgy and playwriting residencies and awards. She is an experienced producer, designing responsive containers that allow artists to identify and meet their own goals in creative ways.

Previously, she was the Director of New Work at Company One Theatre and organizational co-leader. In addition to production dramaturgy, she trained early career dramaturgs in creative producing; curated and produced professional and creative development programs; represented the Company with the National New Play Network, and in the field at large; and supported playwrights at all stages of their careers.

As the Founder of Playwrights’ Commons, she created social programs to support and connect Boston’s numerous playwrights to one another; and designed and ran the annual Freedom Art Retreat, bringing playwrights, designers, and dramaturgs to the New Hampshire woods for a week of collaborative creation and artistic renewal. As Literary Manager at the Huntington Theatre, she created and produced the Huntington Playwriting Fellows program and Breaking Ground Festival, programs celebrated as part of a 2013 regional Tony Award. She served as editor in chief for the annual Limelight Literary Guide journal; and managed distribution of the substantial Calderwood Commissioning Fund. At the Boston University School of Theatre, she created and developed the dramatic literature core curriculum for BFA students; forged a curricular concentration in dramaturgy and new plays for undergraduate and graduate students; and was the director of the Theatre Minor program, connecting the resources of a professional school to the university at large.

Her dramaturgy in the new play sector includes productions, workshops, commissions, and collaborations with a wide-ranging pool of writers including Kirsten Greenidge, Idris Goodwin, Francisca da Silveira, Tara Moses, Josh Wilder, Aditi Kapil, Jackie Sibblies Drury, Natsu Onoda Power, Rajiv Joseph, Lauren Yee, Lydia R. Diamond, Mia Chung, Qui Nguyen, Kristoffer Diaz, Melinda Lopez, August Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, A. Rey Pamatmat, Theresa Rebeck, Naomi Iizuka, David Lindsay-Abaire, and Lisa Kron, among many others. She has been a guest artist at festivals and theatres around the world, including The O’Neill, Kennedy Center, New Harmony Project, PlayPenn, New Dramatists, HowlRound’s Mellon Workshops, Ensemble Studio Theatre, Denver Center New Play Summit, Humana Festival, The Baltic/American New Play Workshop in Estonia, the Tofte Lake Center, and on Broadway.

She holds an MFA in Dramaturgy (Yale), and a Directing BA (College of Wooster), and served on the National Advisory Board for HowlRound/A Center for The Theatre Commons. She is an enthusiastic member of several artist cohorts, including ArtEquity’s anti-racism facilitators; National Arts Strategies New England Creative Community Fellows; and Todd London’s Third Bohemia. She is a two-time winner of the LMDA Elliott Hayes Award for excellence in dramaturgy (2008, 2014).

Based in Boston, Cristina Todesco (she/her) is a scenic designer working in both theater and film and this is her 12th collaboration with Company One. Theater companies and institutions include Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Boston Conservatory at Berklee, Company One, Capital Rep, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, the Culture Project, Huntington Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theater, New England Conservatory, New Repertory Theatre, Olney Theater Center, Poet’s Theater, Shakespeare and Company, Speakeasy Stage Company, Summer Play Festival, Trinity Rep, Williamstown Theatre Festival among many more. She is a frequent collaborator with Sally Taylor and the artists in Taylor’s Consenses, a festival which presents the deep connectivity between art mediums. Ms. Todesco has designed productions with Boston Symphony Orchestra at Symphony Hall in Boston and at Tanglewood in the Berkshires, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, For Outstanding Design, she is the recipient of four Elliot Norton Awards and an IRNE Award. She received her MFA in scenic design from Boston University’s School of Theatre Arts, where she currently teaches.

Eun Jeong Paik (she/her) is the assistant scenic designer for Company One’s production of can i touch it?. To learn more and see photos of her past design work, visit eunpaik.com

Cassandra Queen (she/her) is an artist and designer born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts. Her background and experience has taken her many places, and her work is often at the intersection of design, function, art and science. Her interests include fabric and fiber manipulation, textile design, garment construction, and millinery. She is the founder of QUUEENN, a lifestyle brand specializing in handmade goods and accessories (quueenn.com). She previously collaborated with C1 on Hype Man (2018 world premiere & Mixed Blood Theatre transfer, 2021 film adaptation with A.R.T.). Other credits include For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf with Praxis Stage and most recently BLKS with Speakeasy Stage Company (Elliot Norton, Outstanding Design).

Boston Bred but universally cultivated, Ashley “Saturn” Cooper (she/her) is a visual artist, poet, hair/makeup artist, curator, and entrepreneur, who from a young age has been highly dedicated to her crafts. As an all-around artist, Saturn is self-taught and classically trained in her fields. Saturn indulges most of her creative energy into 3 avenues: her freelance makeup and artistry business (Saturn Makeup Artistry), her visual art, and her creative directing and performance. Her creative practice has been featured in street theatre productions in the city of Boston, as well as performance-based projects and curated events. Saturn is excited to debut her skills for the first time with Company One, as an assistant costume and wig designer, and hopes to continue to contribute and grow in the big theater world.

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!

Christopher Brusberg is a regional lighting designer based in NYC who is passionate about Opera, Dance, and New Theatrical Work, including how the intersection of design and storytelling can influence the relationships between art, the viewer, and the artist. Chris is happy to return for his seventh show with Company One. He has designed for the following companies: Opera Lafayette (DC/NYC), Annapolis Opera (Resident Designer), Tri-Cities Opera, Syracuse Opera, EMERGE125 (Resident Designer), BANDPoteir, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Arrow Rock Lyceum, The Cherry Arts Space, New Repertory Theatre, NYU Steinhardt, and Boston Conservatory. Christopher holds a MFA from the University of Maryland and is a proud member of USA829. For upcoming design work, check out: Website: www.ctblighting.com, Instagram: @ctblighting

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.

Tory Bullock is an artist and content creator with 15+ years of experience, recognized for on-air skills, as well as for creating innovative multimedia production and educational instruction programs. Professional focal points include creative writing and editing, program management, storyboarding, curriculum development, and script writing. Previous work with Company One Theatre includes ARTiculation, a slam poetry play conceived by Bullock, as well as performances in Neighbors, Outside the Box, Six Rounds Six Lessons, and The Overwhelming. His work has been featured on WGBH, Hot 96.9, The Boston Globe, The New York Times, CNN, and The Today Show.

Victoria Hermann is a graduate from Ithaca College with a degree in Theater Studies, concentrating in Theater Education and Directing. She has worked in a wide variety of roles on productions throughout Boston, though favorites include A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Director, Rebel Shakespeare Company), The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Stage Manager, IC Macabre Theater), and Shrek JR (Stage Manager, Marblehead Little Theater).

Jolie Frazer-Madge (she/her) is excited to be returning to Company One after working as an Assistant Stage Manager on Greater Good in 2019. Jolie a stage manager, theater artist, and collaborator with a particular interest in new work, devised pieces, immersive theatre, and really anything else that people might consider “impossible”. She holds a BFA in Stage Management with a Concentration in Playwriting/Dramaturgy and a minor in Political Science from Boston University. Credits include Once on This Island (ASM, SpeakEasy Stage Company), Romeo and Juliet (Stage Manager, Apollinaire), and Winter People (ASM, Boston Playwrights Theatre).

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!

Makenzie Wright (they/them) is excited to be a part of their first show with Company One Theatre, and in Boston! Their favorite stage management credits to date include Macbeth (Foul Contending Rebels Theatre Cooperative) and Popcorn Falls (Vermont Stage).

Ben Lieberson is excited to collaborate with Company One again, after serving as Technical Director for can i touch it? and Set Designer for Really. As a Technical Director, Ben has recently worked with Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Arlekin Players Theatre, and Liars and Believers. Design credits include As You Like It (ASP), Shrike (Fresh Ink Theatre), Not Medea (Flat Earth Theatre), This Place/Displaced and Drunk Enough to Say I Love You (Artists’ Theater of Boston), True West and The Taming (Hub Theatre Co.) Ben also works as the Scene Shop Supervisor at Wellesley College and is a member of the immersive design studio Clerestory Light. website: www.benlieberson.com

Jon Gonda is a freelance lighting designer, programmer, and production manager based in Boston, MA. He studied computer science and electrical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he also designed sets and lighting for dance theatre productions. He has provided moving light programming services for commercial, theatre, dance, galas, and corporate events including Boston Ballet, Doug Varone and Dancers, High Output, Childsplay, and New England Conservatory.

Lucas Kery makes his C1 debut with can i touch it?

Elizabeth Gove is back again with Company One. Her previous work with C1 began with Vietgone and she is thrilled to join the amazing artists on and off stage! For more projection, A/V, and gallery credits please visit
her site / portfolio: zabet.space

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.

Coty Lennon Markee is pleased to make his Company One debut with can i touch it?! Local credits include Moonbox Productions, Seacoast Rep, Central Square Theatre, Lyric Stage and Speakeasy Stage Company where he most recently just concluded The Inheritance. Though he is partially deaf in both ears, he found sound design in college and has since taken steps and developed skills in the sound field to make it even more inclusive, and hopes to do the same with production management as well. He is so happy that theatre is back in full swing and can’t wait to see what comes next!