Kai Clifton is thrilled to be making their Company One Debut in You’re Cordially Invited To The End Of The World. Favorite credits include Usher in the Regional Premiere of A Strange Loop (Speakeasy Stage Company). Sofia in The Color Purple (Umbrella Stage *2024 Elliot Norton Award Nominee) Ursula in The Little Mermaid (Palace Theatre) Mary Sunshine in Chicago (Arts Center of Coastal Carolina) and Gloria in Madagascar: The Musical (North Shore Music Theatre). Kai is a classically trained singer who has trained intensively at the New England Conservatory and at the Assisi Performing Arts Program in Italy on a full tuition scholarship. Kai is also a playwright and their play QUEENS won the 2022 Broadway World Boston Award for Best New Play or Musical. Kai would like to dedicate this performance to Queer and Trans youth past, present and future….we have been here and we will always be here! IG: @kai_clifton

Jade Guerra is excited to be returning to Company One after having been in Shockheaded Peter. Recent credits include Macbeth (Actors Shakespeare Project), The Piano Lesson (Shakespeare & Co/ASP) that won Best Play Broadway World Berkshires Awards, Her Portmanteau (CST and Front Porch), Piano Lesson (ASP), Taming of the Shrew (ASP). Jade is a Resident Artist Company member of Actors Shakespeare Project. Education: BFA Acting from Ithaca College.

Alex Alexander is a Massachusetts based, bicoastal actor who is an active member of the San Francisco Bay Area improv group Barewitness Films (barewitness.com). Although she primarily works on stage, Alex was also a principle actor in Another Country’s award winning web series Assigned Female at Birth. She loves helping to bring new works to life and has done so locally with Moonbox Productions, Fresh Ink Theatre, Company One, Exiled Theatre, TC Squared, Imaginary Beasts and Chuang Stage among others. Alex feels so excited & blessed to be a part of the cast of The Meeting Tree. A huge thanks to her supportive friends & family. Alex studied acting in San Francisco & London and has a BA in Theatre.

Nicholas is excited to return to Company One Theatre! Recent credits include Stories on Our Street: A Chinatown Musical (CHUANG Stage & Company One), Learning How to Read by Moonlight (CHUANG Stage & Company One), The Suppliant Women (Apollinaire Theatre), Mermaid Hour (Moonbox Productions), and The F&L at 1330 (Boston New Works Festival). Born and raised in Singapore, Nicholas made his professional debut as Young Simba in Disney’s The Lion King and received further training from the School of the Arts, Singapore Repertory Theatre, and the SAF Music and Drama Company. He has performed for the Asian Youth Theatre Festival, National Day Parade, and River Hongbao, and has provided voiceovers for brand ads including Spotify and Singtel.

Anjie Parker is excited to return to Company One Theatre after appearing in The Meeting Tree. She is a stage, film, voice actress, and writer, and her recent credits include: Daily Script Reads (Rox Film Festival); Skakzi: A Spell of Ice & Snow (Mystic Evidence Productions); The Suppliant Women (Apollinaire Theatre); Historical Plays (Theatre Espresso); and House Teams (Improv Asylum). Thank you for your time and enjoy the show!

Shawn LaCount is a co-founder of Company One Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts where he has served as Co-Executive Director & Artistic Director since 1998. Under Shawn’s co-leadership, Company One Theatre has grown into a nationally recognized theatre at the intersection of art and social change, having served over 15,000 students, 100,000 audience members, and presenting over 80 productions in 21 years. The company has been called “one of the most innovative theatre companies in the country” by the American Theatre Wing.; received an Official Resolution by (then) Boston City Councilor Ayanna Pressley for “countless contributions to Boston’s Art community and dedication to diversifying arts and theater in Boston.”; named Boston’s Best by Boston Magazine & Best of Boston by The Improper Bostonian multiple times; awarded over 30 local theatre awards for artistic achievement; three “50/50 Applause Awards” from the International Centre for Women Playwrights for C1’s focus on gender parity; participation in the Theatre Communication Group’s national Equity, Diversity & Inclusion Institute; a citation from The Boston Globe as one of the “12 Ideas for Making Boston more Inclusive”; selection as a Social Innovator by the Social Innovation Forum; received the TASC Social Justice Award; selected as part of the Arts Innovation Management program with Bloomberg Philanthropies; selected as a partner for the national Mellon Foundation Resident Playwright Program; named to the Barr-Klarman Massachusetts Arts Initiative; and most recently received a 2020 Modeling Equity Organization Award by Boston Cultural Council. As a stage director, Shawn’s focus has been on new play development and amplifying the stories of often marginalized communities. Recent directorial credits include the world premiere of Hype Man by Idris Goodwin (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Production); regional premieres of Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Really; Young Jean Lee’s We’re Gonna Die (American Repertory Theater / Company One Theatre); A. Rey Pamatmat’s Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them (Elliot Norton Award Nominee for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production); Annie Baker’s The Flick (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Production); the world premiere of Kirsten Greenidge’s Splendor (IRNE Award nominee, Best New Play); the Boston premieres of Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo by Rajiv Joseph; The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity by Kristoffer Diaz (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production); Annie Baker’s The Aliens (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production); the world premiere of Grimm (IRNE Award nominee for Best New Play); the Boston premiere of The Overwhelming by JT Rogers (Elliot Norton Award Nominee, Outstanding Production); the Boston premiere of Haruki Murakami’s After the Quake (Elliot Norton Award Nominee, Outstanding Production); Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins (IRNE nomination for Best Director and Best Musical); and the Boston premiere of Noah Haidle’s Mr. Marmalade (Elliot Norton Award Nominee, Outstanding Director/Outstanding Drama). He has taught at Emerson College, Boston Arts Academy, Huntington Theatre Company, Tufts University, Stage One and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Shawn is a proud alum of ArtEquity’s National Facilitator Training as well as the National Arts Strategies Chief Executive program, where he earned a certificate from Harvard Business School. Shawn holds an MA Ed. in Education from Clark University and an MFA in Theatre from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Jessie Baxter is a Boston-based dramaturg specializing in new work and nerdery of all kinds. Her Company One production credits include HYPE MAN; REVOLT, SHE SAID. REVOLT AGAIN.; DRY LAND; THE CHRONICLES OF KALKI; BRAHMAN/I; THE FLICK; and THE ELABORATE ENTRANCE OF CHAD DEITY. She is also the Literary Director and Co-Founder of Fresh Ink Theatre, a small company specializing in developing new work by New England-based playwrights. Jessie has had fellowships at The Playwrights Center and The Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, and earned a BA in Theatre Studies from Emerson College. She is the Northeast regional VP of the Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of America.

Danielle DeLaFuente is excited to be returning to the BPL as the scenic designer for Haunted! Some recent design credits include Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (American Players Theater), Driving in Circles (Boston Playwrights Theatre), The Crucible (WCSU), The Interrobangers (Company One), The Boy Who Kissed the Sky (Company One), and While We Wait (The New School). Danielle also works as an associate scenic designer on projects such as What Became of Us (Atlantic Stage 2), The White Chip (MCC Theater), The Covenant (Roundabout Theater), and Mr Parent (The Lyric Stage Company of Boston). Danielle is thrilled to back working with Company One and this incredible team. danielledelafuente.com

Elmer Martinez is excited to return to Company One for their fourth production! Elmer is a Puerto Rican-Dominican American interdisciplinary working theater artist, poet and dancer. Born in Lowell, MA he developed in the spoken word, theater and street dance communities before completing his BFA in Theater Studies focused on Lighting Design with a minor in Dance in 2019 at Emerson College. Boston based, Elmer has traveled the world for 15 years as a guest artist, educator, events producer, lighting designer, poet, DJ and dancer. Recent Credits Include: Actors Shakespeare Project: Macbeth; The Theater Offensive: Queer Republic Festival, Isabel, The Best Part of Night is Black; Boston Conservatory at Berklee: She Kills Monsters; Company One: The Meeting Tree, Haunted, Black Super Hero Magic Mama, Interrobangers; Lyric Stage: The Light, Art Northeastern University: Twelfth Night, Everybody, The Bacchae; SpeakEasy Stage Company: Case for the Existence of God; Brandeis University: Everybody, Wolf Play; New Repertory Theater: Nina Simone and Hip-Hop; Greater Boston Stage Company: Popcorn Falls; VLA Dance: In the space between, For Nina; Connecticut College: The Moors, Ophelia; The Boston Globe: Globe Live; Passion Fruit Dance Co: Dance Within Your Dance, Trapped, Dimensions. Elmer currently enjoys teaching advanced lighting design with Brighter Boston and is multi-award nominated in his field.

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 `

Nitsan Scharf (he/they) is a media artist and programmer, formerly based in Washington DC, currently a third-year MFA candidate in Integrated Media at the University of Texas, Austin. He is particularly interested in the expansive, collaborative, binary-busting, and thoroughly queer possibilities of media design and creative technology. Recent design credits include Cabaret (UT Austin), The Ghosts of Versailles (Butler Opera Center), Óxido (Points of Intersection, UT), tooth fairy (Fall For Dance, UT), Over/Under (Extreme Lengths Productions), Body of a Woman as a Battlefield (ExPats Theatre), The Ascension Project (Uprooted Dance), and A Chorus Within Her (Theater Alliance). He received his B.A. in Theatre from the University of Maryland. More of his work can be viewed at nitsanscharf.com.

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 second Company One production, following Learning How to Read by Moonlight. 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 is making their Company One Theatre debut with this production of The Meeting Tree! Their previous credits with Central Square Theatre include SPACE, Her Portmanteau, and Mrs. Warren’s Profession (Audio Engineer). With Emerson College, they served as production electrician for Bonnets: How Ladies of Good Breeding are Induced to Murder; assistant lighting designer for How We Got On, Are You Someone to Somebody, Three Romances; sound designer for Head Over Heels, Limber: A Love Story, The Impracticality of Modern Day Mastodons, Rareworks’ Five Times in One Night, Musical Theatre Society’s Dogfight; and production sound engineer for Amour, Imogen Says Nothing, Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, 16 Winters, Little Women, and The Loyals.

Athena Parkman is a Boston-based costume designer who views theatre through a contemporary lens with a color story. Recent wardrobe supervisor credits include CROWNS, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, and Once Upon a Carnival with Moonbox Productions. Emerson Stage credits: I Love XXX (Costume Designer), Little Women (Costume Designer), The Loyals (Assistant Costume Designer), The Secret in the Wings (Wardrobe Supervisor), Spitfire Grill (Assistant Costume Designer), As You Like It (Assistant Wardrobe Supervisor), The Late Wedding (Dresser).