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.

Sarah Elizabeth Bedard is thrilled to be returning to Company One for The Meeting Tree! New York credits include One Year Lease Theatre Company, The Workshop Theatre, Classics on the Rocks, The Actor’s Revolution, and Mettawee River Theatre. Some New England credits include The Wolves, Barbeque, (Lyric Stage Company); Popcorn Falls (Greater Boston Stage Company); Significant Other (SpeakEasy Stage); The Agitators, Measure of Normalcy (Gloucester Stage Company); Intimate Exchanges, Midvale High School 50th Reunion (Nora Theatre Company); Shockheaded Peter (Company One); Phèdre (Actors’ Shakespeare Project); A Christmas Carol (Berkshire Theatre Festival); DibbleDance (Shakespeare and Company); Three (Boston Public Works); Arcadia and Translations (Bad Habit Productions). Sarah has frequently directed at The Young Company at Greater Boston Stage Company and has done fight direction and choreography throughout New England. She is a professor of Theatre at Bridgewater State University, where she has directed Marie Antoinette, Urinetown, Deal Me Out, Antigone Ablaze, Heathers the Musical, and her own adaptation of Dracula. Her original play, Jesus Camp, will be presented this summer through a CARS grant. She earned an MFA in Acting from Brandeis University and is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Rachel Hall is a Boston-based actor. Recent credits include: Nina in Stupid F*cking Bird (Hovey Players); Sam in The Dog Days Are Now (Studio Theatre Worcester); and Athena in Athena (Real Live Theatre). This is her Company One debut.

Anjie Parker is excited to be making her Company One Theatre debut! 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!

Jacqui Parker is a Boston-born actor, playwright, director, producer, and theater activist. She has won numerous awards, including the Boston Theatre Hero Award, The Elliot Norton Award, several Independent Reviewer of New England Awards and numerous community leadership awards, including the DRYLONGSO Award for her work in the struggle for racial equality. Ms. Parker directed six short plays in the Hibernian Hall New Play-writing Lab in 2022. She is also directing Abria Smith’s book of poetry, Somebody Soup. Her play A Crack in the Blue Wall received critical praise and was nominated for an IRNE Award. She has written and produced several shows and employed numerous actors, directors, designers, and playwrights of color. Ms. Parker has directed plays at Harvard University, Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, Brandeis University, and numerous Boston Theatre companies as well as productions in New York and Los Angeles, California. “The stage is a sacred place and one of our greatest gifts.”

Elle Borders is a Boston based Actress, Voiceover Artist, Writer and Educator. Recent credits: Nassim, Common Ground Revisited (Huntington Theatre Company); The Light (WAM Theatre-Special Presentation); Mr. Joy (Kitchen Theatre Company-Special Presentation); We All Fall Down (Huntington Theatre Company); Black Odyssey Boston (Front Porch Arts Collective/ Underground Railway Theater- 2020 Elliot Norton Award Best Ensemble); The Wiz (Lyric Stage Company); An Octoroon, We Are Proud to Present… (Company One Theatre/ArtsEmerson); World Premiere of How Soft the Lining (Bad Habit Productions); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Othello (Actors’ Shakespeare Project). Written Works: Joy (Huntington Theatre Company), The Meeting Tree (Reading/Front Porch Arts Collective). Radio/Podcasts: “Circle Round Story Time”on WBUR. Elle holds a BFA in Acting from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU. She enjoys working on pieces that blend art, activism and education. Her greatest joy in life is performing/creating with her husband Brandon G. Green through their company Equals 8 (equals8.com)

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).

afrikah selah is a Boston-based cultural worker specializing in dramaturgy, new play development, and arts journalism,  currently serving as the New Work Manager at Company One Theatre. With a passion for dialogue and a commitment to exploring new ideas in innovative ways, they value creative collaboration that fosters community and work towards a more equitable world. They take pride in having contributed to the development of three world premiere plays and two Rolling World Premiere productions, curating accessible virtual masterclasses with esteemed artists, and being an alum of four nationally recognized arts and culture cohorts. To learn more about their work, visit itsafrikah.com.

Ilana M Brownstein is an artist-activist and parent whose current medium is an experiment with radical acts of rest. For 15 years, she was Company One’s Director of New Work and a co-member of the organization’s shared leadership team. While at C1 she mentored over 90 playwrights in the Circuit Labs, produced creative/professional learning programs, and led C1’s commissioning, development, and production dramaturgy. Previously, she created an award-winning writing program and new play festival as The Huntington Theatre’s Literary Manager; led the dramaturgy curriculum at Boston University’s School of Theatre for 10 years; and dramaturged for notable new play festivals in the US and abroad. A two-time winner of LMDA’s Elliott Hayes Award for excellence in dramaturgy, she’s also an NAS Creative Community Fellow, artEquity anti-racism facilitator, and an alum of Yale Drama. Professionally, she specializes in producing and developing new plays through a lens of social justice and public advocacy. Non-professionally, she’s appeared onstage as a number of maids (sometimes murderous), a dancing broom, and once, when she was in Estonia, she was drafted into a Chekhov adaptation, directed only in Russian, which she does not speak.

Anjaliyah is a Boston native who began teaching with Company One as a student apprentice in 2018. A dancer, choreographer, performer, stage manager and director, recent directing credits include Heathers: The Musical, and Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street; both for 20Cent Production Company, of which she was president. Recent stage management credits include Clue: On Stage, Unto This House, Lion King Jr., and Triggered. Recent choreography credits: Zombies from the Beyond, which she also assistant directed.

Erin is a Boston-based playwright and stage manager who can’t/won’t stop writing deeply queer sci-fi. They appeared on ArtsBoston’s July 2020 list of 10 Boston Playwrights You Should Know. Most recently, Erin produced their play Break, Break with Legion Theatre Project and Artists’ Theatre of Boston in September 2023. Erin’s play Shrike received its world premiere production with Fresh Ink Theatre in February 2022, directed by Josh Glenn-Kayden. Their first play, Crossing Flight, first in the Legion Cycle, received its premiere with TC Squared Theatre Company in January 2018. Erin is also the writer and co-producer of The Legion Tapes, a sci-fi podcast/audio drama series. As a stage manager and technician, Erin has worked with many Boston theatres including TC Squared, ART’s Institute for Advanced Theatre Training, Emerson College, Company One, Escena Latina Teatro, and more. They are excited to be back with Company One! Follow Erin on NPX or on their website at erinrlerch.com

Charlie is excited to be returning to Company One for another show after previously working on Morning, Noon, and Night! Other credits include The Light in the Piazza, The Band’s Visit, and Prayer for the French Republic (Huntington Theatre); Party Bots/Made You Look (Lyric Backstage); The Great Reveal, The Game’s Afoot, Sister Act, and The Light (Lyric Stage); She Kills Monsters (Suffolk University); Diary of a Tap Dancer (American Repertory Theatre); Pru Payne (SpeakEasy Stage); The Winter’s Tale and Macbeth (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company); Orfeo ed Euridice, Le Nozze di Figaro (North End Music & Performing Arts Center); and Caravana de Mujeres (MassOpera). Charlie is a freelance stage manager and technician, and holds a BFA in Stage & Production Management from Emerson College. Special thanks to their friends’ cats that decorate their black clothing with fur for every show!

Maya is excited to be making her Company One / Boston debut. She is a Philadelphia based stage manager and graduated from Hamilton College with a BA in Theatre. Recent credits include: The 39 Steps, Much Ado About Nothing, The Wanderers, The Comedy of Errors, Romeo & Juliet (Lantern Theater Company); The Invisibility of Female Rage, Rent, Measure for Measure (Hamilton College). To Cheryl, Ari, and Ahimsa, I love you to the other side of the world and back!

Cristina is pleased to be back at The Strand after designing can I touch it? with Company One. Previous Company One credits include: Greater Good, Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them, Splendor, 1001, The Aliens, Grimm, The Good Negro, The Pain and the Itch,  The Bluest Eye, and Mr. Marmalade. She has designed over 300 live performances with companies such as Boston Symphony Orchestra, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, Geva Theater Center, Huntington Theatre, Israeli Stage, Landestheater in Linz Austria, Lyric Stage Company of Boston, Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory, Shakespeare and Company, SpeakEasy Stage Company, and Trinity Rep. She teaches in the Scene Design department at Boston University where she received her master’s degree. She is a founding artist of Humphreys Street Studios Artist Collective, one of the first majority artist owned and operated affordable artist workspaces in perpetuity in the City of Boston, and a founding member of #artstayhere, an organization dedicated to helping prevent artist displacement.

Cleo Brooks is excited to be working with Company One Theatre for the first time. Recent credits include design for The Recursion of a Moth (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, 2025), The Fig Tree, The Phoenix, and The Desire to be Reborn (BPT, 2025), and designing and painting Julius Caesar (Boston University, 2024).

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).

Elmer Martinez is a Puerto Rican-Dominican American interdisciplinary working theatre artist, poet and dancer. Born in Lowell, MA he developed in the spoken word, theatre and street dance communities before completing his BFA in Theatre Studies focused on Lighting Design with a minor in Dance in 2019. Boston-based, Elmer travels the world as a guest artist, lighting designer, poet, teacher, DJ and dancer. His stage work centers around aesthetically, authentically bridging street dance and theatre cultures. Currently, Elmer serves as the Collaborative Arts Coordinator with Moonbox Productions where he is focused on producing community focused programming through the “Breaking Bread Project.” He is the founder of “Rebirth,” a weekend-long street and social Afro-Diasporic arts festival in Boston. The Meeting Tree is his fourth production with Company One! Some of his other work includes Company One’s Haunted, Black Super Hero Magic Mama, The Interrobangers; Lyric Stage’s The Light; Northeastern University’s Twelfth Night, Everybody, The Bacchae; SpeakEasy Stage Company’s A Case for the Existence of God; Brandeis University’s Everybody, Wolf Play; New Repertory Theatre’s Nina Simone and Hip-Hop; Greater Boston Stage Company’s Popcorn Falls; VLA Dance’s In the space between, For Nina; Connecticut College’s The Moors, Ophelia; The Boston Globe’s Globe Live; and Passion Fruit Dance Co.’s Dance Within Your Dance, Trapped.

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 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. 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 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.

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