Creative Team
Lyndsay Allyn Cox*
Lyndsay Allyn Cox* (Vicky) is a Boston based actor, director, curator, and champion of new work. As a proud queer woman of color, Lyndsay is thrilled to bring this story to Boston audiences in her Actors’ Shakespeare Project debut. Boston regional credits: Three Musketeers (Greater Boston Stage) Caroline, Or Change (Moonbox Productions); Winter People (Boston Playwrights’ Theatre); With Glittering Eyes (Hibernian Hall); Leftovers (Company One); Crossing Flight (TC Squared); Men On Boats (SpeakEasy); Barbecue (Lyric Stage); By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (Lyric Stage); and The Overwhelming (Company One). TV/Film Credits: Consumed (dir. Sloane Turner). Upcoming productions: Our Daughters, Like Pillars (Huntington Theatre Company). Lyndsay studied acting at Appalachian State University and the University of Florida and holds a B.A. in Theatre Performance with a minor in vocal music. She is the Director of Theatre Arts at the Boston Center for the Arts and is a proud member of the Actors’ Equity Association. www.lyndsayallyncox.com
Lauren Burke*
Lauren Burke* (Production Stage Manager) is thrilled to be back at ASP. Other ASP shows include: Macbeth, Equivocation, Hamlet and The Winter’s Tale. Other area credits include: Revels, WAM, Central Square Theatre, American Repertory Theatre, Reagle Music Theatre, Boston University, North Shore Music Theatre, SpeakEasy Stage, Lyric Stage, Brandeis University, Boston Opera Collaborative, Harvard University, Suffolk University, Poets’ Theatre, Israeli Stage, and Boston Ballet. Lauren received her BA from Suffolk University and is a member of Actor’s Equity Association.
Elizabeth Cahill
Elizabeth Cahill (Sound Designer) is returning to ASP after designing Complete Works…, Macbeth and Equivocation. Select Sound Design credits include: The Wolves, Road Show, Camelot, and Warrior Class (Lyric Stage), Nixon’s Nixon (New Rep), Hamlet (Gloucester Stage), Small Mouth Sounds, Men on Boats (SpeakEasy Stage), Familiar (A.R.T. Institute), Dark Room (Bridge Rep), The Earth Room, Nomad Americana (Fresh Ink Theatre), The Magic Flute (New England Conservatory), The Revolutionists, Photograph 51 (The Nora), ‘Twas The Night Before Christmas, Alligator Road (Greater Boston Stage Company), The Hotel Nepenthe, Hamlet (BrownBox Theatre Project), Kinky Boots, Cabaret, Be More Chill, Tick Tick Boom (Baldwin Wallace University). A/V Supervisor for various operas with New England Conservatory, Boston Early Music Festival, and Boston University. Graduate of Emerson College, BFA Theatre Design/Technology. The deadline to register to vote in the Massachusetts Primary Election is February 12, 2020.
Kelly Chick
Kelly Chick (Erica) is a New York based actor and a graduate of the BFA Acting program at Emerson College. Favorite Boston credits include The Good Person of Setzuan (Fort Point Theatre Channel), The Edge of Peace (Central Square Theatre), and the world premieres of Three (Boston Public Works) and Dark Room (Bridge Rep Theatre). Most recently, Kelly made her New York debut in the world premiere of Parlor Tricks (Fresh Fruit Festival). She is beyond thrilled to be back in Boston and working with ASP.
Rosie G. Hartunian Alumbaugh
Rosie G. Hartunian Alumbaugh (Assistant Stage Manager) Rosie is overjoyed to be working with ASP! Rosie made their Boston debut with Actors’ Shakespeare Project this past Fall as ASM for King Lear. Rosie is a theatre-maker who hails from Connecticut and has worked professionally as a theatrical manager in both Minneapolis and Santa Barbara. Selected credits include: Staging Concepts (Asst. Project Manager), Penumbra Theatre (Carpenter, Lighting Programmer), Music Academy of the West Summer Festival 2018 (Production Manager), Mixed Blood Theatre (Stage Management). For my Brother, Parents, Aunt KT, and long-time friend/collaborator Amanda: Home is where the art is.
Aja M. Jackson
Aja M. Jackson (Lighting Design) is a Boston-based lighting designer. Recent regional credits include Hear Word! (American Repertory Theatre), Ragtime (Wheelock Family Theatre), The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) and Nat Turner in Jerusalem (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Straight White Men and Nixon’s Nixon (New Rep), Leftovers (Company One – Strand Theatre), The Last Wife (WAM Theatre), and Wit (Calderwood Pavilion – Boston Center of Performing Arts). Other credits include the Midwest tour of What the Wind Taught Me and The Biomorphic Dance Festival in NYC. Aja is Resident Lighting Designer and core collaborator for interdisciplinary, site-specific movement company, Nourishment (www.thisisnourishment.com). Previously she worked as a stage manager with the Denver Center Theatre Company and in Production Management at The Santa Fe Opera. Aja holds an M.F.A. in Lighting Design from Boston University, a B.F.A. in Lighting Design from the Johnny Carson School of Theatre and Film, and a B.A. in Dance Performance from the School of Music. Aja is a Mentor in Residence with Brighter Boston, an outreach organization aimed at giving urban teens practical training in event and theatre productions.
Megan Sandberg-Zakian
is a freelance theater director based in Jamaica Plain, MA, and a co-founder of Maia Directors, a consulting group for artists and organizations engaging with stories from the Middle East and beyond. Recent projects include the world premieres of Madhuri Shekar’s House of Joy at California Shakespeare Theatre, Nathan Alan Davis’ Nat Turner in Jerusalem at New York Theatre Workshop, and Eleanor Burgess’ Chill at Merrimack Repertory Theatre. Megan is a graduate of Brown University, holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College, and is a proud member of SDC, the national union for stage directors and choreographers. Her first book, There Must Be Happy Endings: On a Theatre of Optimism and Honesty is forthcoming from The 3rd Thing Press in March. Megansz.com
Zoë Sundra
Zoë Sundra (Costume Designer) is thrilled to be designing her first show at Actors’ Shakespeare Project. Regional costume design credits include Nixon’s Nixon at New Repertory Theater, Ragtime, Stuart Little, and Charlotte’s Web at Wheelock Family Theater, Poppea at New England Conservatory and season four of “Ru Paul’s Drag Race All Stars.” Sundra holds a degree from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She teaches Costume Design at Boston Arts Academy and resides in Cambridge, MA.
Cristina Todesco
Cristina Todesco (Set Designer) is pleased to be returning to ASP where previous credits are Julius Caesar, Winter’s Tale, God’s Ear, Phedre, The Cherry Orchard, and Twelfth Night (2012 Elliot Norton, Outstanding Design, Outstanding Production). Theater companies include ART Institute, Boston Conservatory, Capital Rep, Company One, Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, the Culture Project, Huntington Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theater, New Repertory Theater, Olney Theater Center, Shakespeare and Company, Speakeasy Stage Company, Summer Play Festival, Trinity Rep, New England Conservatory, and Williamstown Theater Festival among many more. For Outstanding Design, she is the recipient of four Elliot Norton Awards and an IRNE Award. She earned an MFA in scenic design from BU’s School of Theatre Arts, where she currently teaches.