JUDITH KALAORA has worked on stages from London, to Montreal, and across the United States. Theatre credits include: Macbeth (Shakespeare’s Globe, London, UK); The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe (Hampstead Stage Company- National Tour); The Thugs (Apollinaire Theatre Company); A Body of Water (Molasses Tank Productions); and, with the CTB, The Maids and Oleanna, the latter which she also co-produced. Television/Film credits include: American Experience, Brotherhood, New England Guide (The Travel Channel), and Partnership Runs Deep, a televised NAVY documentary, which won two Gold Screen Awards. Judith has appeared in training videos for Guitar Hero: On Tour and AXE Body Detailer, and, as a voiceover artist, has recorded for TRANSAMERICA and the U.S. NAVY. For more information, visit JudithKalaora.com.
CTB DREAM TEAM
CHRIS CAVALIER founded the Contemporary Theatre of Boston in 2006. He has also produced, directed and written for the New York stage with the Zoo Theater Co. and The Starving Class Theater. His credits include numerous works by Sam Shepard: Geography of a Horse Dreamer, Killer’s Head, Curse of the Starving Class, Red Cross and Savage/Love; David Mamet’s Oleanna, American Buffalo, and Edmond; Jean Genet’s The Maids; Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot; as well as Camus’s Caligula, Ionesco’s The Lesson, Heller’s Catch-22, Rabe’s Sticks and Bones, and his original works Body of Christ, Spider & the Flies, and evoL, a rock cabaret. Under his Clockwork Films rubric, he also directed a film adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown.
TOM CAMPBELL has a long-time love of recorded music in all styles. Collaborating with Chris Cavalier, Tom selected the music for The Contemporary Theatre of Boston's productions of Oleanna, The Maids and The Blue Room, and for the Clockwork Films' production of Young Goodman Brown. For Oleanna, he also stepped into a producer's role. Since their Boston College days, Tom has served as Chris' trusted consigliere on theatre projects and has also collaborated with him on several screenplays and other creative endeavors.
ERICA LUSTIG is very excited to be part of A Midsummer Night's Dream, and to be working in Boston for the first time. Erica was last seen playing the role of Connie in Neil Simon's Come Blow Your Horn at the Broward Stage Door theatre in Coral Springs, FL. Other credits include Baby, Rock-a-my-soul, and Columbia in The Rocky Horror Picture Show. Erica holds a BFA in musical theatre from Syracuse University, and is based out of New York City. Please visit EricaSings.com for more information.
CATHERINE COPE CAVALIER holds a BA in Theater from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. She co-founded and performed with The Starving Class Theater Company in NYC. Favorite roles include Helena in A Midsummer Night's Dream, Drusilla in Camus's Caligula and the ensemble of Evita. She has headlined in pop music cabarets at Theatre East and Don't Tell Mama and was a featured vocalist in the CTB's Savage/Love. She studied at the HB Studio in New York, and regionally, performed at the Dorset Theatre Festival and the White River Theater Festival. Catherine designed the wardrobe for the CTB production of Genet's The Maids as well as the period wardrobe for Clockwork Films short subject adaptation of Nathaniel Hawthorne's Young Goodman Brown.
DAN UMBRO holds a BA in Graphic Design from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell. Dan has been working in the design field professionally for over 2 years, and specializes in both web and print design. If you are interested in speaking to Dan about freelance work, please contact him at Danumbro2001@gmail.com
MICHELLE RHEAUME holds a BFA in Art History from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She has spent the last six years working in Boston area museums and cultural institutions, and specializes in arts administration. Her most recent projects include developing and managing a successful Arts program at one of the top-10 hospitals in the country.
ELI MATZNER completed a full-time, season-long internship in the Huntington Theatre Company’s electrics department last May. Since then, he has been working at various theatres as a freelance electrician. He also serves as the Huntington’s Assistant House Manager. Eli's design aesthetic tends toward simple, minimalist lighting that tells a story with specificity. He holds a Theatre Arts degree from Brandeis University. His hobbies include running, vocal arranging, singing, and piano.
BETSI GRAVES AKERSTEIN is the Director of Boston-based contemporary dance company Urbanity Dance and holds a BA in English from Boston College. Her dance training includes studies in ballet, jazz, and modern dance at Studio 5d and the Orlando Ballet. She was selected by Mia Michaels to tour across the U.S. on full scholarship with LA Underground and has taught dance at Harvard University, Boston College, and several Boston-area dance schools. She is currently on faculty at Boston Ballet School. As a choreographer, Ms. Graves has won national choreography awards and judges for dance competitions throughout New England. She currently dances for Karen Murphy-Fitch’s Falling Flight Project and, in 2008, danced as a street performer for Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza. For more information, visit UrbanityDance.com.
VICKI SCHAIRER is currently working with a number of theaters in the Boston area in both artistic and management capacities. Previous directing credits include Aloha, Say the Pretty Girls by Naomi Iizuka, Runner the Novel the Play by Cassie M. Seinuk, and Shakespeare's Measure for Measure. She assistant directed Holland Productions' Kid Simple: A Radio Play in the Flesh and is working again with Holland this spring on Melancholy Play. She completed the Director Assistantship Program at The Berkshire Theatre Festival where she assisted the director on The Prisoner of Second Avenue. Vicki holds a degree in Physics from Brandeis University.
ALIX STRASNICK attended Wesleyan University, where in addition to studying physics and math fully, she developed her passion for technical theater. She has since been doing freelance lighting and carpentry in the Boston area. She is extremely excited to be working on A Midsummer Night's Dream, alongside the rest of the Contemporary Theatre of Boston.
CANDICE D. MONGELLOW Since relocating to Massachusetts, she has worked as a freelance stage manager with a variety of companies including Opera Boston (Tancredi), Actors’ Shakespeare Project (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), the Berkshire Theatre Festival (The Prisoner of Second Avenue, The Book Club Play and Noel Coward in Two Keys), The Publick Theatre of Boston (Humble Boy), and New Repertory Theatre (Exits and Entrances). She is currently working with Exquisite Corps Theatre on their production of Limonade Tous les Jours. Additional theatre credits include 13 Rue de’Lamour and Hedda Gabler with The Olney Theatre Center in Maryland. She holds a BFA in Stage Management from East Carolina University.
