Tolu is thrilled to be making her Company One Theatre debut as part of the cast of A New Era! She holds a BS in Theatre Arts from MIT and recent credits include Inventing Samanta (Central Square Theatre). As a Boston-based actor, she is excited to help bring to life the stories of influential Black women in the city’s history. Tolu is forever grateful to her friends and family for the constant support & endless laughs.

Aislinn Brophy is excited to be returning to Company One after having been in Morning, Noon, and Night! Additional acting credits include Little Women (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Playing Mercury (ISLE Theater Company), A Story Beyond (Liars & Believers), and Heritage Hill Naturals (Fresh Ink Theatre). Aislinn is also the author of two queer young adult novels—Spells to Forget Us and How to Succeed in Witchcraft. aislinnbrophy.com

Aliyah is happy to be back on stage with Company One, where she made her Boston theatre debut in 2018 with Wig Out! More recently she has performed as Helen Robinson in To Kill a Mockingbird at the Umbrella Stage and was also a part of the Elliot Norton nominated production of Crowns with Moonbox Productions. She recognizes the people and blessings that have lead her to this moment and is excited to share this long awaited production this summer!

Sydney Alicia Jackson is excited to be back on stage with Company One! She is a Boston and New York-based theatre artist. Sydney’s acting credits include Dailyn in Morning, Noon, and Night (Company One), Squeak in The Color Purple (Umbrella Arts), Ensemble in Beauty & the Beast (Summer Theatre of New Canaan), Ensemble in The SpongeBob Musical (Wheelock Family Theatre), Lack in Make Way for Ducklings (Hangar Theatre), and Mom in Pete the Cat (Hangar Theatre). She is a recent graduate of Boston University, where she received her BFA in Acting with a concentration in Musical Theatre. www.sydneyaliciajackson.com @sydjackss

Patrice Jean–Baptiste is happy to make her Company One acting debut. She is also one of Company One’s Stage One Teaching Artists. Her most recent works include: Angry, Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Lyric Stage), The Hills of California (Huntington Theatre),The Grove (Huntington Theatre), Her Portmanteau (Central Square Theater), Trouble in Mind (Lyric Stage), King Hedley, Taming of the Shrew, Coriolanus and Hamlet (Actors Shakespeare Project), Henry V (Commonwealth Shakespeare). You can look for her in The Huntington’s fall production of To Kill A Mockingbird. Her education includes a Master of Arts Degree in Theater Arts from Trinity Rep Conservatory, a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Boston University and a certificate in French civilization and language from the University of Grenoble. Patrice also had the honor of coaching Milton Academy’s speech and debate program for which she is recognized as a Two Diamond Coach by the National Forensic League. Patrice runs “SpeakWell” a public speaking coaching business. You can find her @pppppatrice and LinkedIn.

Regine Vital is 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! 😉”

Miranda Austen ADEkoje is making her Company One Theatre debut as a playwright. Recent credits include The Come Up (BTM 2021), In any Face (Lyric Stage Walking Plays), Keyp-ing (New Rep Showstopper Series), Virtual Attendance (Huntington Theatre Dream Boston Audio play series), Shelter of Last Resort (Front Porch Arts Collective Summer reading series, The Huntington Theatre Breaking Ground Reading Series, Company One XX PlayLab), 36 Days (Apollinaire Theatre New Play Night reading, Bob Jolly Fellowship Reading Series, Emerson College Student Workshop), The Strongest Shape (Paines Plough Future Perfect Finalist), Reply Please, Requests and Sugar Moth. 

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 Jaja’s African Hair Braiding at SpeakEasy Stage Company, August Wilson’s King Hedley II at Actors’ Shakespeare Project (2024 Elliot Norton Award Nominated), How We Got On by Idris Goodwin at Emerson Stage, The Boy Who Kissed The Sky by Idris Goodwin at Company One Theatre, 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).

Lizzy Cooper Davis, PhD, is an artist and scholar interested in how the arts can facilitate community conversation, resistance, and change. Particularly focused on Black freedom movements, she has conducted research in Cuba, Brazil, and New Orleans and is currently developing a performance and healing project with incarceration survivors in partnership with the Emerson Prison Initiative, New Beginnings Reentry Services, and Ritual4Return. Other work includes: co-editing A Field Guide to Applied Imagination, a forthcoming volume amplifying artists working for community change; 20 years supporting community engagement and cultural organizing with Urban Bush Women; a leadership role with the Embodying Antiracism Initiative at Wesleyan University; two projects at Jacob’s Pillow Dance in partnership Angela’s Pulse and Berkshire artists and activists; training with Augusto and Julian Boal and use of their Theatre of the Oppressed in an array of settings; and partnerships with Anna Deavere Smith, Liz Lerman, Jacob’s Pillow Dance, American Repertory Theatre, ArtsEmerson, and Live Arts Boston. Lizzy has also performed nationally as an actor in such theaters as Second Stage, The Public Theater, The Long Wharf, Berkeley Rep, and American Repertory Theater and with such directors as Liesl Tommy, Anne Bogart, and Mary Zimmerman. She is on the Advisory Council for the Emerson Prison Initiative and HowlRound Theatre Commons and the National Advisory Boards for Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life and the American Alliance for Theatre and Education. Lizzy is an Associate Professor at Emerson College where she runs the graduate and undergraduate programs in Theatre Education and Applied Theatre.

Lily Barnes is a freelance stage manager currently based in Salem, MA and is grateful to be making their Company One debut! Some previous stage management credits include Not Sightly (MIT Theatre Arts), Antigonick (MIT Theatre Arts), Dear Jack, Dear Louise (Penguin Rep Theatre), Something Rotten!, Blood Wedding, The Thing They Love, and Orlando (Salem State University). She is a Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center Stage Management Fellow (2023) and a BFA graduate of Salem State University. Outside of theatre, Lily can be found trying to keep their sourdough starter alive or taking a walk to the ocean. She is a proud Puerto Rican and a Pisces sun.

Janie returns to C1 after designing Wolf Play and How We Got On. Recent shows include: Swept Away (Speakeasy Stage Company), Breaking the Code (Central Square Theatre), Come From Away (Springfield Majestic), Penelope and Angry Raucous and Shamelessly Gorgeous (Lyric Stage Company), To Kill a Mockingbird (Umbrella), Urban Nutcracker (City Ballet Boston). Credits include: The REV (NY), Willamette University (OR), Trinity Rep (RI), InterAct Theatre (PA), Southwark Playhouse (UK), Berkshire Opera Festival, CONSENSES at Mass MOCA, Reagle Music Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, New Rep, Actors’ Shakespeare Project, Lynn Redgrave Theatre (NY), Weston Playhouse (VT), Gloucester Stage. 2024 recipient of Elliot Norton Award for Sustained Excellence, 8 prior design awards, adjunct faculty at Wellesley College. Founder of Prop Co-Op. USA Local 829. janiehowland.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

Credits include Haunted; Morning, Noon, and Night; Downtown Crossing, Vietgone (Company One); Winter People (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); Paradise Blue, The Thin Place, Stew (Gloucester Stage Company); Queens, Torch Song, The House of Ramon Iglesia (Moonbox Productions); Toni Stone, Fat Ham, Clyde’s, The Bluest Eye, Joe Turner’s Come and Gone (Huntington): Trayf, Good (New Rep); Vinegar Tom, Monster, Serious Money, Pentecost (PTP/NYC), Fences (Umbrella Theatre); Simona’s Search (Hartford Stage) The Fortune Teller (Chuang Stage); A Case for the Existence of God, Potus (SpeakEasy Stage) Trouble in Mind (Lyric Stage); A Taste of Honey (Boston Center for American Performance). University: Cymbeline, Pilgrims of the Night (Suffolk University); Orlando (Brandeis University); Antipodes, Love and Information, As You Like It, Sensitive Guys (Northeastern University); Education: MFA in Sound Design (Boston University).

Jason returns to Company One after working on 1001, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, We Are Proud to Present, Wolf Play, and Morning, Noon, and Night. Recent work: Adam Theatre’s Library Lion (TD). Arlekin Players/BAC: The Orchard (PM), The Gaaga, The Dybbuk (TD). Central Square Theater: Young Nerds of Color. Lyric Stage: The Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder. Reagle Music Theatre: Evita. A collaborative world builder, Jason has also designed and executed sets and lights for numerous dance, theatre and immersive gaming companies in New England, Northern California and various other places on this planet.  He has previously served for multiple years as Production Manager for ASP and Monkeyhouse and has won Norton and IRNE awards for set and prop design (Chad Deity with Company One at the Roberts) and a Norton as part of the design team (Twelfth Night with ASP at the BCA Plaza). Love to Karen Krolak, his absolute, all-time, favorite conspirator (both artistically and otherwise), along with two smaller, furrier, lady beasts often found snoozing nearby for the constant and immense support and generosity of spirit. ries.en.scene.com

Allyssa Jones returns to Company One with devised music in the spirit of Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. (Alice Birch) and We Are Proud To Present a Presentation…(Jackie Sibblies Drury). A long-time collaborator in the Boston theatre scene, Jones’ credits include music direction and original music for black odyssey (Front Porch Arts Collective), Invasion/Bocón (Apollinaire Theatre Company), Hidden Faces of Courage (OWLL Theatre), The Wiz, Mr. Burns and Intimate Apparel (Lyric Stage Company of Boston). Sound Designer credits include School Girls, Or, The African Mean Girls Play (Speakeasy Stage Company) and Peggy Pickit Sees the Face of God (Apollinaire Theatre Company). In addition, she worked on the musical Brother Nat (Jabari Asim and Liana Asim) and the film Knockaround Kids (John Oluowle ADEkoje). Currently, Jones is Director of Vocal Ensembles at the University of South Florida (Tampa, FL). She also runs Rising Tide Music Press, a nonprofit publishing program connecting BBIA composers with music educators and performers nationwide.

Josh Glenn-Kayden is a Boston based director, the Creative 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. Favorite directing projects include The Interrobangers by M Sloth Levine (Company One Theatre, nominated for 4 Elliot Norton Awards, including Outstanding Play); 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); Walden by Amy Berryman (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 also directed and co-produced 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, Gloucester Stage, 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.

Liam is a production and stage manager from the New England area who received his BFA in stage management and design from the University of Rhode Island. Liam has previously worked across the Massachusetts and Rhode Island arts scene, and has a deep connection to the growth of underground artists in these areas. He is excited to be part of Company One and to create art in the city he was born!

Andrew March is excited to bring his full range of management and fabrication experience to his fourth Company One production, following Learning How to Read by Moonlight, The Meeting Tree, and The Great Privation. Prior to this, Andrew worked for three years as Assistant Technical Director for the Brown-Trinity MFA program, producing full seasons in the downtown Providence PCPC Theater. He has worked for four seasons at Providence’s Trinity Repertory Company; building sets, fabricating props, scenic painting, and serving as Production Carpenter. Credits include: La Tempestad, La Cage Aux Folles, A Christmas Carol, Sueńo, and Fairview. He also worked as Master Carpenter for the Festival Theater’s production of Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Zeiterion Theater in New Bedford.

Jo Williams is excited to be working on their fourth production with Company One! Previous productions with the company have included You Are Cordially Invited to the End of the World!, The Great Privation, and The Meeting Tree. Other credits include: Smoke, Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding Are Induced to Murder, Mary Sweet Mary (Production Electrician). The Lighting Thief (Lighting Designer). How We Got On, Are You Someone to Somebody, Three Romances, 43rd Annual Evvy Awards (Asst. Lighting Designer). I Love XXX, Little Night Music, New Moon, Holiday Inn (Lighting Programmer).