Kelly Galvin (Director) is the founder of the rig, a project that brings live performance to audiences with limited access to professional theater. She is a company member with Shakespeare & Company where she has directed The Taming of the Shrew, Love’s Labor’s Lost, and The Clean House (reading), and serves on the faculty of the Young Company Summer Conservatory. She previously served as Artistic Associate for WAM Theatre, where she has directed The Last Wife and readings of The Virgin Trial, The Tall Girls, and Blue Stockings. Regionally, she has directed for Southwest Shakespeare, Boston Playwrights’ Theatre, Berkshire Playwrights’ Lab, and The Theater at Woodshill. She has assisted for the Guthrie, Asolo Rep, Orlando Shakespeare, and Shakespeare & Company. Kelly received a 2018 Directing Fellowship at Asolo Rep and has completed Directing Internships with Arena Stage and the Huntington Theatre Company. She holds an MFA from Boston University and a BA from Wellesley College. kellydirecting.com

Karen Zacarías (Playwright) is one of the most produced playwrights in the nation. She is one of the inaugural Resident Playwrights at Arena Stage in Washington, DC, and is a core founder of the LATINX THEATRE COMMONS. She is the founder of Young Playwrights’ Theater, an award winning theater company that teaches playwriting in local public schools in Washington, DC. Karen lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband and three children.

Marcella Barbeau (Lighting Design) is ecstatic to return to Gloucester Stage since last season’s True West (for which she received an IRNE nomination) and this season’s Barefoot in the Park. She recently completed her Master of Fine Arts at Boston University  where she designed the lights for Dolores Claiborne and Pelléas et Mélisande with the Opera Institute, Cabaret, Much Ado About Nothing, and Mad Forest. Marcella spent the fall season in the UK and Europe assisting designers at the English National Opera, National Theatre Munich, and National Theatre Mannheim.

Jessica Brennan (Assistant Stage Manager, Apprentice) Jess is thrilled to have the opportunity of joining the Gloucester Stage Company’s 2019 Apprentice Program! She fell in love with theatre when she was a little girl and has had the privilege of working on many shows both on and off the stage. Jess hails from Leicester, MA and has an MA in Theatre Arts from Middlesex University (London, UK) and a BA in Creative Arts from Siena College (Loudonville, NY). Some of her credits include Top Girls (Ghost Light Players, Stage Manager), When We Came Here (Cuckoo Bang, SM), I Don’t Speak Spanish (Middlesex University, SM), Hamlet (GLP, Assistant Director/Assistant SM), Pippin (GLP,SM), Bach At Leipzig (Flyleaf Theatre, SM), Romeo and Juliet (GLP, SM), Godspell (GLP, Gilmer), and House of Blue Leaves (GLP, AD). Jess would like to thank her family and friends for their continued love and support.

Madison Cook-Hines (Assistant Director, Apprentice) Madison just graduated from the University of Rhode Island with a Theatre BFA in Directing and Stage Management. During her senior year, she received a grant to research, write, direct, design, build, manage, and produce Daughters of Lavinia, a puppet-filled play that uses Lavinia from Titus Andronicus to tell the story of Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Women’s Suffrage Movement. Madison also spent the year as a TA for the Sophomore Acting Class, a job she’ll miss dearly. Her favorite on-stage role (at URI and of all time) was playing the Provost in Measure for Measure. She adores making the most out of the littlest characters. But a close second favorite was performing in The Wolves. Madison is over the moon to be jumping in at Gloucester Stage and can’t wait to learn something different from everyone. She hasn’t had spare time in several years, but if she did, she might go hiking.

Lindsay Genevieve Fuori (Scenic Design) is a Boston based scenic designer thrilled to be making her Gloucester Stage debut. Lindsay holds a BFA in Scene Design from Boston University. Recent design credits include The Crucible (The Nora Theatre Co./Bedlam), Hazardous Materials (Creede Rep), Pride and Prejudice (Creede Rep), Measure for Measure (Spicy Witch Productions), The Earth Room (Fresh Ink Theatre), Die Fledermaus (Mass Opera), Paride ed Elena (Odyssey Opera), Ragtime (Wheelock Family Theatre), Death Comes to Us All, Mary Agnes (Hangar Theatre). lindsayfuori.com

Chelsea Kerl (Costume Designer) is glad to be back at Gloucester Stage, having previously designed Ben Butler, Madame Defarge, To Kill a Mockingbird, Man in Snow, Every Christmas Story Every Told (And Then Some!), A Measure of Normalcy, and Gloucester Blue.  She is a Boston based freelance artist; she previously received her MFA in Costume Design from Boston University and earned degrees in both Theatre and English from the University of Maryland.  Select recent productions include Greater Good (Company One/American Repertory Theatre), James and the Giant Peach (Wheelock Family Theatre), Twelfth Night (Actors’ Shakespeare Project/Lyric Stage Company of Boston), and Straight White Men (New Repertory Theatre).  Chelsea is also the Costume Shop Manager, Costume Designer, and Costume Design Professor at Wellesley College, and she often works in the costume shop of the American Repertory Theatre.  More of her work can be seen at www.ChelseaKerl.com.

Alexis Rappaport (Sound Design, Apprentice) Alexis is a recent graduate of College of the Holy Cross who received her BA in Theatre and Psychology. While at Holy Cross, Alexis was able to be involved in a number of different production areas, including directing, acting, sound design, and stage management. Her studies also included the opportunity to spend a summer in London studying dramatic criticism.  Last year she worked as an intern with the Ko Festival of Performance in Amherst, MA, where she took on a variety of technical and front of house roles for touring productions. Alexis is looking forward to learning about production management at Gloucester Stage Company, and is thrilled to be working with a company that emphasizes the collaborative processes that are necessary in order to bring a show to life.

Emme Shaw (Props Design) is very happy to be back at GSC and designing for Native Gardens. Previous collaborations as a Property Designer include this season’s The 39 Steps,  last season’s Cyrano and 2017’s Out of the Mouths of Babes. Acting credits with GSC include Lebensraum (work premiere) and Jump/Cut (Nina Beeber). More of Emme’s recent design work could be seen at Greater Boston Stage’s last two seasons, which included the IRNE nominated world premiere of Salonnieres, and this season’s world premiere of The Lasdt Night at Bowl-Mor Lanes. Emme is a founding member of Pittsburgh Theater Labs, and recipient of the West Coast Drama Clan Alumni Award in Acting from CMU Drama, where she trained. Thank you to Phoebe. Thank you to the 2019 apprentice team.

Alexis Rappaport (Sound Design) is thrilled to be a part of Gloucester Stage’s first all-female design team, especially for such a vibrant and timely production. She is a member of GSC’s Apprentice Company, through which she has served as assistant production manager for every show this season, as well as production manager for this year’s Neverdark series. Alexis holds a BA in Theatre and Psychology from College of the Holy Cross. Thanks to Joe for this incredible opportunity and the whole team at GSC for their constant support

Melissa Richter* (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be working at Gloucester Stage Company for the first time! She spent the past three years at Capital Repertory Theatre in Albany, NY where previous credits as PSM include: The Full Monty, Shakespeare in Love, Red Maple, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, The Royale, Ring of Fire, Blithe Spirit, Paris Time, and Sex with Strangers. Additional PSM credits include Chicago and The Little Mermaid at Park Playhouse. She earned a BA in Theatre Art from Concordia College in Moorhead, MN. Proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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