Elijah is incredibly honored to make their Boston acting debut and join the CHUANG family with Learning How To Read By Moonlight! Elijah is a S25 Company One Volt Lab alum where he wrote and developed Duma-Dara-Ting, or The Arrival for the Reshaping the American Theatre Showcase. Elijah is also a PhD student at Tufts University in the Department of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies researching contemporary Filipinx American theatre and performance. Elijah gives special thanks to the graduate students and faculty at Tufts TDPS, Prof. Ian Jay Sunio, and his family for all their love and support.

Jude returns to C1 and CHUANG Stage having worked previously as an actor (Vietgone, Last Ship to Proxima Centauri, Acts of Joy, Ghost of Keelung, Chosen Family), songwriter (Resolve and Stories of Our Streets), teaching artist, and emcee! Other credits: actor (Dracula, Middleton Heights, and White Rabbit, Red Rabbit – Umbrella Stage), singer-songwriter/musician (Boston Symphony Hall, The Bowery Electric, The Big E!), voiceover artist (My Blood The Ink and The Legion Tapes), stage operator (Moby Dick – A.R.T), cultural consultant (South Pacific – Reagle Music Theater), Emerging Artist (DUNAMIS), Speech Language Pathologist (Spaulding Rehab), and Doctoral Candidate (MGH Institute of Health Professions). Love to Kuya Gaven, the ensemble + crew, his pamilya, and his wife + life, Kelly.

A proud first-generation Filipino-American, Christine was raised by two resilient and inspiring immigrant parents. She is honored to join Chuang Stage and Company One for the first time in such a powerful and meaningful production, and to share the stage with this incredibly talented and passionate ensemble. Select credits include Serena in Legally Blonde (Actorsingers), Miss Sandra in All Shook Up (Majestic Theater), Cheryl in Evil Dead the Musical HD (Roshi Entertainment), Frank-n-Furter in The Rocky Horror Show (LALT), and Miriam in Hummingbird (Teatro Paraguas). Offstage, she is a Licensed Massage Therapist passionate about nurturing wellness, storytelling, and connection.

Atlantis Theatrical: Waitress (Dr. Pomatter), In the Heights (Sonny), The Bridges of Madison County, The Band’s Visit, Spamalot, Aladdin. Tours: Avenue Q (Nicky/Trekkie), Saturday Night Fever. New York: Matawan, 12 Angry Men (Juror 3). Boston: Learning How to Read by Moonlight (Company One/CHUANG Stage). Film: Somewhere All the Boys Are Birds (Apa Agbayani). Alfredo was a lead in the original cast of the hit original Filipino musical, Ang Huling El Bimbo, which has spawned numerous reruns. A graduate of Atlantic Acting School’s 2.5-Year Acting Conservatory, he received their Practical Aesthetics Full Scholarship Award upon acceptance. Currently in New York City.

Born and raised in Singapore, Nicholas currently attends Emerson College [BFA Theatre and Performance]. Boston credits: Moonbox Production’s Mermaid Hour (Jacob), Boston New Works Festival – The F&L at 1330 (Ensemble); Apollinaire Theatre’s The Suppliant Women (Men/Citizen’s Chorus). Emerson College credits include: I Love XXX (Ensemble Cast), 16 Winters… (Ghost of Dead Prince). In Singapore, he’s received training at the School of the Arts, Singapore (SOTA), Singapore Repertory Theatre’s The Young Company, and SAF’s Music and Drama Company (MDC). Select credits: The Tempest (Caliban/Alonso), The Fall (ONE/A), and The Three Questions (Co-Director; Asian Youth Theatre Festival).

Jenine Florence Jacinto is a nonbinary California raised Filipino-Chinese American actor/creative now turned New England native. Most notably found on stage playing Luna Jaffe in The Interrobangers (Company One), Izzy/Boy in Middleton Heights (Umbrella Stage Company), Green in Skinless (CHUANG Stage), and Kit/Ellery in Lyric BackStage (Lyric Stage Company). Their voice can be heard in various audio dramas like The Bastard Presents, Beyond the Furthest Stars, and Thank You D6. When not on stage, you can find them producing Thank You D6, playing board games, or crafting! @jenine.florence jenineflorencejacinto.com

Gaven D. Trinidad is a first-generation Filipinx American dramaturg, playwright, director, and educator from NYC. Their artistic work explores the intersections of race, language, immigration, queerness, ritual, community, and futurity. They have collaborated in artistic and administrative roles at New York Theatre Workshop, The Juilliard Drama Division, Ma-Yi Theatre Company, Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival, National Queer Theater, Breaking the Binary, and more. Selected plays: Learning How to Read by Moonlight (BAPF Finalist 2021), novena (Eugene O’Neill Playwrights Conference Semi-Finalist 2024). Selected dramaturgy credits: The Duat (Philadelphia Theatre Company, PlayPenn), PreP Play, or Blue Parachute (National Queer Theater, NCTC), June is the First Fall (Yangtze Repertory Theatre), Collidescope 2.0 (Ping Chong + Company). Selected directing credits: Joker (National Queer Theater), Are You There Truman? (Pride Plays, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, The Parsnip Ship, Leviathan Lab), Sa Aming Puso (Global Forms Theatre Festival, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, New York Theatre Salon). Gaven holds a B.A. in American Studies from Dickinson College and an M.F.A. in Dramaturgy from UMass Amherst. They were named a 2021 Rising Leader of Color by Theatre Communications Group. Playwriting Groups/Fellowships: Orchard Project Greenhouse Lab, Ma-Yi Writers Lab. As someone living with bipolar disorder, Gaven is a passionate advocate for mental health awareness. In these challenging times, they encourage folks to support organizations like Palestine Children’s Relief Fund, United We Dream, and Make the Road NY. www.gaventrinidadtheatre.com

Natsu Onoda Power specializes in adapting texts into new works of visual theatre, using techniques of comics/graphic novels, animation, and kamishibai (Japanese paper-placard storytelling form). Original works include Postcards from Ihatov (1StStage Tysons), Thumbelina (Imagination Stage), The Lathe of Heaven (Spooky Action Theater, Helen Hayes Awards for Best New Adaptation and Best Scenic Design), The T Party (writer/ director, Forum Theatre/ Company One), Astro Boy and the God of Comics (writer/ director, The Studio Theatre; Company One Theatre; Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director and Outstanding Production Design). Favorite directing credits include Qui Nguyen’s Vietgone (The Studio Theater), David Henry Hwang’s Yellow Face (Theatre J) and Mary Zimmerman’s The White Snake (Baltimore Center Stage), and the world premiere of Tennessee Williams’s lost play The Lady from the Village of Falling Flowers at Provincetown Tennessee Williams Festival.

Natsu holds a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, and is the author of God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post World War II Manga (The University Press of Mississippi, 2009).

Michelle M. Aguillon has directed, acted, designed, and produced in the Boston area for over 25 years. She is thrilled to be collaborating with the Learning How to Read by Moonlight production team and ensemble. Michelle has worked with Plays in Place, Footlight Club, Hope Rep Company, The Umbrella Stage Company, Chuang Stage, Company One, Central Square Theater, Emerson College, and Theater Uncorked, among others. Directing credits include The Kittie Knox Plays, Yellow Face, Natural Shocks, Middleton Heights (World Premiere), Dracula – A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Fences, The Joy Luck Club, Disgraced, Passion, Augusta and Noble, Vietgone, and Proof,  among others. Michelle is a playwright/producer/director for the Annual Asian-American Playwright Collective Annual Play Festivals (2020-2025). Michelle is the Executive Director at the Creative Arts School in Reading. She studied acting and theatre at San Francisco State University and the National Theater of London.

Jeffrey Song is delighted to return to Company One – and reunite with longtime friend and collaborator Natsu Onoda Power – as Music Director for Learning How to Read by Moonlight. Jeffrey is a musician, composer, music director, actor (AEA), and New England Foundation for the Arts grant recipient. Credits as composer/music director include Vietgone (Studio Theatre, DC) and Mary Zimmerman’s The White Snake (Baltimore Center Stage). He composed original music for Wild Goose Dreams (SpeakEasy Stage) and has been a music consultant for Imagination Stage (DC). Regional acting credits include work with American Repertory Theater, SpeakEasy Stage, Lyric Stage Boston, Fresh Ink Theatre, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Wheelock Family Theatre, Company One, Greater Boston Stage Company, Central Square Theater (CST), Revels, and the NPR storytelling podcast Circle Round. Jeffrey has performed in theater pits (recently for the Front Porch/CST production of Next to Normal), and at music festivals around the globe. He appears on over a dozen recordings – his original music featured on radio, television, stage, and the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. As touring bassist for Ute Lemper, Jeffrey performed at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Istanbul Jazz Festival, L’Opéra de Vichy, and The Palermo Festival Di Verdura. He is also a passionate advocate for social justice in both corporate and performing arts spaces, and works as an Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) consultant. www.jeffreysong.com

Becca Cottrell is excited to return to CHUANG Stage as PSM for Learning How to Read by Moonlight! Recent credits include Production Stage Manager for Did You Eat? (嫣 ‘歷棲?) with CHUANG Stage, ASM for Flora & Ulysses with Wheelock Family Theatre, and Staff Stitcher at The Santa Fe Opera. Becca is currently a Stitcher at the American Repertory Theater. Congratulations to this incredible team and thank you for all your hard work <3

Naomi Ibasitas is a Filipino-American actor, stage manager, and director within the Boston fringe and community theatre scene. After this production, you may see her reprising her role as Nora Charles in The Thin Man Returns with Post Meridian Radio Players. She will also be filming for the Mrs. Hawking play series on YouTube. She is honored to be a part of this incredibly beautiful project with such an amazing cast and crew!

Mavis Joy Manaloto is a Boston-based Filipina-American theatremaker, and she is beyond honored to be part of this magical celebration of Filipino immigrant stories. Recent acting credits include TC2 Art Salon’s Busing the Buffer Zone (Lisa Chan), AAPC Playfest 6 & 7 (Various Roles), SAATh Festival’s Happy Daughter (Carol), and BU Fringe Festival’s Ginkgo Express (Lady Plum Blossom). Maraming salamat to CHUANG Stage and C1, the dedicated SM team and Moonlight community, and her beloved family and friends for their support!

Carolyn is a Stage Manager and Theater Artist in the Boston area with a degree in Theater and English from UMass Amherst. Recent credits include Gloucester Stage Company – Production Apprentice, UMass Theater – Twelfth Night (PSM), Theatro Chelsea’s The Hombres – Props Designer, and more. She is delighted to have been part of the Moonlight team and is so happy this was her first show with both Company One and CHUANG Stage!

Mikayla is a Providence-based costume designer and craft artisan. She is excited to return to Company One after designing costumes for Hoops and Black Super Hero Magic Mama. Recent credits include Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Yellow Face, Thirst (Lyric Stage), Hamlet, Amadeus (The Gamm), Footloose (Theatre By The Sea), When the Mind’s Free (Real Live Theater), Orpheus in the Overworld, Shrike (Fresh Ink), and Fall Festival’s The Tempest, Cymbeline, Julius Caesar, and Hamlet (Shakespeare & Company). Guest Artist work has been seen at Northeastern University, Merrimack College, Rhode Island College, and the University of Rhode Island. She holds an MFA from The University of Massachusetts Amherst. Website: www.mikaylareid.com

Ashley Ting Yung is making her Company One Debut and excited to return to CHUANG Stage. She is a Chinese-American lighting designer, arts administrator, and community art-maker. Her lighting design credits include Nüwa in Fairyland (CHUANG Stage), Fortune Teller (CHUANG Stage), Party Bots (Lyric Stage), and SKINLESS (Found in Translation). Ashley has her BFA in Theatre Design/Technology from Emerson College. She is the Performance Program Manager at Pao Arts Center. She also serves on the Board of the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund. ashleyyung.com

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.

Katie Kuan-Yu Chen is a Boston-based sound designer and mixer. She is overjoyed to have worked on this production and feels very lucky to be a part of this process. Her recent credits include Did You Eat? 嫣 ‘歷棲? (CHUANG Stage), Crowns (Arrow Street Arts), Driving in Circles (Boston Playwright’s Theatre), 46 Plays for America’s First Ladies (The Hub Theatre Company), Yerma (Boston University), Orlando (Boston University). She is originally from Taiwan and an alum of Boston University (BFA). katiekychen@gmail.com

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 `

Grace Kroeger is a Boston based engineer and designer! But was born and raised in Minnesota, where they attended the University of Minnesota: Twin Cities to earn a dual Bachelor’s in German and Theater: Design and Technology. They have a love of QLab, bears, and excessive use of exclamation marks! Grace is very thankful to be designing projections with Company One and CHUANG Stage, as it’s an opportunity to grow her skills and help make incredible art.

Cinthia Chen is an interdisciplinary artist and creative technologist, engaging in image-making, performance, and multimedia installation to explore memory, hybrid identities, and spiritual futurisms. Cinthia’s artistic practice materializes in her work as a director, video projection designer, and Theater Mitu company member. She has developed and presented original work through Mabou Mines, Fault Line Theater, More Art, Theater Mitu, Target Margin Theater, and Asian American Arts Alliance. Her video projection design has been recognized at La MaMa’s Design Fest 2020 and USITT Prague Quadrennial 2023. Recent projects include: Salesman巃睚 (Connelly Theater), The Healing Shipment (La Mama), and american (tele)visions (NYTW, asst. designer).

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.

Andrew March is excited to bring his full range of management and fabrication experience to his first Company One production. 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.

Lisa is thrilled to be part of CHUANG Stage & Company One Theatre’s co-production of the Filipino world premiere play of Learning How to Read By Moonlight!  Lisa is a first-generation Filipino American, and a Boston based actor & educator, with a BA in Dramatic Arts.  Theater Credits: Middleton Heights (Umbrella Stage Company), Joy Luck Club (Umbrella Stage Company), The Partition (Off-Kendrik), Automat (Jakespeare Virtual Theater), AAPC Playfest(s) and AAPC Zoom productions.  Commercial/Industrial/Film Credits: HealthcareGov, Care Partners of CT, UMass Memorial Medical Center, Aspira Healthcare, The Big Y, Raytheon, Bluesight, Institute for Community/Boston, National Mentoring Month, F.W.Webb, Simmons College, JULIA (HBO).

Kathy Eow is an artist, writer, and talk interviewer-moderator whose work is influenced by her experience as a queer, adopted, Asian American woman. Drawn to music and dance as powerful forms of storytelling, her recent productions include Dear Mother, a music and dance short film centering transracial adoption, and Reclamation, which used live music, dance, and spoken word to explore family heritage through an adoptee lens. Kathy’s community building work involves serving as vice president of Boston Korean Adoptees and Outreach Coordinator/Moderator for the Boston Asian American Film Festival (BAAFF). As a moderator and panelist, Kathy has collaborated with SpeakEasy Stage, BAAFF, ASPIRE, and Seacoast NH LGBT History Project. She is an alumnus of American Repertory Theatre’s Arts &amp; Cultural Organizational Management program with Harvard University and the Network of Arts Administrators of Color (NAAC) Boston’s mentorship program. Currently, Kathy is Associate Director of Institutional Giving at ArtsEmerson where she helps support the creative ambitions of artists from around the world.