Fireflies

Matthew Barber was born in Los Angeles, California, and studied film, theatre and literature at UCLA. Moving to San Francisco after graduating, he enjoyed early careers as an arts journalist and publicist, while continuing to work in a creative capacity with a variety of small theater companies and arts organizations. This led to a commission to adapt for the stage the 1922 Elizabeth von Arnim novel The Enchanted April. The resulting stage play premiered at Connecticut’s Hartford Stage in 2000, followed by a Broadway production in 2003, earning the John Gassner Award for Outstanding New American Play and Drama League and Tony Award nominations for Best Play. Matthew Barber currently lives in New York City. He also authors the original screenplay Independence and the stage play Eleanor & Abel.

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S&Co: Director, Coriolanus, Intimate Apparel, Ugly Lies The Bone, Red Velvet, Shakespeare’s Will, Romeo and Juliet, Sea Marks, Martha Mitchell Calling, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, Love Letters, Collected Stories, The Winter’s Tale, Wit, A Room of One’s Own, The Turn of the Screw. New York: Abingdon; Culture Project; EST; HERE; Joe’s Pub; Lincoln Center Theater Directors’ Lab; Mud/Bone; New Dramatists; the Public; Shakespeare Society; Symphony Space; 78th St. Theater Lab; Upstart Creatures; Vineyard Theatre. Regional: Boston Playwrights’; Connecticut Repertory; LA Women’s Shakespeare; the Modern; Northern Stage; Sun Valley Shakespeare; Tygre’s Heart Shakespeare; Vineyard Playhouse; VoxFest; Wharton Salon. Co–founder with Kristin Linklater, The Company of Women; co–creator, Conversations with Shakespeare; Drama League Fellow; NYTW Usual Suspect. Faculty/Guest Artist: The Linklater Center, Barnard, Bennington, Columbia, Dartmouth, David Geffen School of Drama, Emerson, NYU, Purchase, Shakespeare & Co., Smith, U. Conn., Yale University. International theater exchange projects: Sfumato Theatre Laboratory, Sofia, Bulgaria; Pro Rodopi Art Centre, Bostina, Bulgaria. Artistic Research Fellow, The Folger Institute, 2025-2026.

S&Co: Much Ado, Twelfth Night, Macbeth, Merry Wives, As You Like It, 4000 Miles, Tartuffe, The Tempest; Ed. tours of Othello/Midsummer, Twelfth Night/Macbeth, Hamlet, R&J. Seven-time director for the Fall Festival of Shakespeare. Regional: Dear Jack, Dear Louise, Waitress, The Ladyslipper (The Majestic Theater); Marcus is Walking (Mixed Company); A Christmas Carol (Hanover Theater); As You Like It (Catskill Mountain Shakespeare); The Feast (Urbanite Theatre); Mary’s Wedding (The Theater at Woodshill); The Old Man and The Old Moon (The Umbrella Stage Company); WAM Theatre, Emergent Ensemble Theater, The Theatre at Monmouth, Looking Glass Theater (NY), and more. Greg serves on the faculty at Community Access To The Arts, and produces independent film, music and artwork. His short film Notification won Best Screenplay at the 2026 Easthampton Film Festival and is now available free on Youtube. Training: S&Co 2017 Month-long Intensive; (BA) UMass Amherst. For Caroline and Owen always.

Jeb Brown debuted on Broadway at age 10 in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; and survived the original cast of Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark. Other Broadway: Dead Outlaw (Tony nomination); Beautiful: The Carole King Musical; Ring of Fire; Time Stands Still; High Fidelity; I’m Not Rappaport; Aida; Bring Back Birdie; Grease. Off-Broadway: Beau: The Musical (OutoftheBox), Dead Outlaw (Lortel, OCC noms); Pal Joey (City Center); Becomes a Woman (the Mint); Whisper House (The Civilians); Scotland PA (Roundabout); The Undeniable Sound of Right Now (WP/Rattlestick); Romantic Poetry (MTC); Terms of Endearment (The Directors Co). Film: My America (Hal Hartley); The Namesake (Mira Nair); Salt (Philip Noyce); Renaissance Man (Penny Marshall); I’ll Do Anything (James L Brooks.) Favorite TV: The Path; The Good Fight; Star Trek: DeepSpace9; Neon Joe: Werewolf Hunter; Romper Room. Founder of Evidence Room Theatre co; former Whiffenpoof; in Germantown with Elyse, Eleanor and Nicky.

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Isabel Keating most recently appeared on Broadway this season in The Queen of Versailles. She also starred in Doubt, Wicked, It’s Only a Play, Hairspray, Spider-Man, Enchanted April and The Boy from Oz (Tony Award, Drama League, Outer Critics nominations; Drama Desk and Theatre World Awards). Off Broadway appearances include A Sherlock Carol (New World Stages); Atlantic Theatre Company; Primary Stages; Rattlestick; and others. Isabel won the Helen Hayes Award for her work in Tom Stoppard’s Indian Ink at DC’s Studio Theatre, and has played regionally at Arena Stage, Old Globe, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf, Williamstown, Bay Street, and others. Films include Indignation, Life Before Her Eyes and The Nanny Diaries. Television: New Amsterdam; The Path; Emmy Award-winning PBS American Masters Judy Garland: By Myself.

Annette Miller has performed on Broadway, Off-Broadway, in Boston, in Regional Theaters, and in Film and Television. She has been a leading actor at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Mass. for 25 seasons. Annette was seen in the well-received new play by Lawrence Goodman The Victim. In 2024, she was awarded a Special Citation at the Elliott Norton awards ceremony, for her body of work and her recent sold-out reprisal of Golda’s Balcony at Shakespeare & Company and at Boston’s Emerson Paramount Theater, February and March 2024. She was acclaimed by The Wall Street Journal as the best actor of the 2020 season in regional theater for her performance as Gladys Green in The Waverly Gallery. She received the 2018 Berkshire Theater Critics Association Award for Outstanding Actor in a Leading Role for her portrayal of Katherine in Mothers and Sons. Annette originated the role of Golda Meir in Golda’s Balcony before it went to Broadway for which she received both Boston’s Elliot Norton Best Actor Award and the Independent Reviewers of New England Best Actor Award. In Florida, she received the Carbonell Best Actor Award nomination for her portrayal of Vi in August Osage County and the Elliot Norton Best Actor Nomination for her role as Martha Mitchell in Martha Mitchell Calling. Other favorite roles include Maria Callas in Master Class, Madam Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, Vera in 4,000 Miles, Diana Vreeland in Full Gallop, Duchess of York in Richard III, and Maria in Twelfth Night.

Film role credits include: Mrs. Tanken in Don’t Look Up with Leonardo DiCaprio, You Will Not Play Wagner (featuring Annette, which has been successfully seen at the New Plaza Cinema in NY and the Miami, Sarasota, Boca, Chicago, and Vancouver Jewish film Festivals and this June at the prestigious Berkshire International Film Festival.), Company Men, Autumn Heart, The Imported Bride Groom, The Next Karate Kid, The Eye Has to Travel (documentary on Diana Vreeland), and See How She Runs. On TV, Annette had recurring roles on As The World Turns and Ryan’s Hope. Other awards include the Boston Jewish Film Festival Award and the Zev Cohen Leadership Award. Annette studied with Stella Adler and holds a BA and MFA from Brandeis University. She is currently an Alumni Scholar at Brandeis University Women’s Studies Research Center where she wrote and continues to perform for organizations and colleges. Now is Our Time: for a Theatrical Collage on the Pleasures and Perils of our Third Chapter.

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Marcelo Martínez García is a proud Mexican Scenic Designer and Architect. Off-Broadway: Manahatta (The Public Theater), The Wind and The Rain (EnGarde Arts & Vineyard Theater). Regional: The Heart Sellers (Studio Theater), AZAD: the rabbit and the wolf (Hakawati & Golden Thread), Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill (Gulfshore Playhouse), Dial M for Murder (Alley Theater & CPIP), Sandra (TheaterWorks Hartford), The Garbologists (TheaterWorks Hartford), Torera (Alley Theater), Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Yale Repertory Theater). Associate/Assistant Credits: SUFFS (Broadway), Lempicka (Broadway), Scene Partners (Vineyard Theater), Spelling Bee (Off-Broadway). Martínez holds a degree in Architecture from ITESM MTY, a specialization in Scenic Design from CENTRO CDMX, and an MFA in Theater Design from Yale School of Drama. www.marcelomg.com / @marcelomtzg

Alicia is a Brooklyn-based costume designer for theater, dance, and film. In NYC, she has worked Playwright’s Horizons, Roundabout Theatre Company, Page73, Clubbed Thumb, and LaMama ETC, among others. Regionally, she has designed at Baltimore Center Stage, Northern Stage, Ancram Center for the Arts, and the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College. Notable TV & Film projects include: Babes (Film Nation), Bupkis S1 (Peacock), Only Murders In The Building S2, S3 (Hulu). She is the Assistant Professor of Costume Design at Skidmore College. She graduated from Yale School of Drama and is a recipient of the Princess Grace Theater Award, Pierre Cardin Honor.

I dedicate my work on this production to my grandfather, Ike—the eternal ladies man. I love and miss you.

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James McNamara is the Professor of Light/Sound Design and the Founding Chair of the Theatre Arts Department at Westfield State University. Professional Design: The Chester Theatre Company, Great Barrington Public Theatre, The Majestic Theatre, Silverthorne Theatre Company, Ancram Center for the Arts, LaMaMa ETC, CompanyOne, Lost Nation Theater, Pilgrim Theater Company, New Century Theatre, Strong Coffee Stage, New World Theater, Vermont Commons Group, Sankofa Dance Project, World Myth and Music and The Calvin Theater. Assistant design: The Guthrie Theatre Center, The McCarter Theatre, Yale Repertory Theatre, The Clarence Brown Theatre and Bard SummerScape. James received his MFA in Theatre Design from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Bryn Scharenberg is a New York-based sound designer and engineer. She grew up in Seattle, where the murmur of rain is near-constant. The vividness of the natural world is a core theme in their designs, as well as an earnest love for the moody and melodramatic. Her professional credits include a mix of designing, associate designing, and engineering for New York Theater Workshop, Juilliard, the International Festival of Arts and Ideas, Yale Repertory Theater, and the New School, among others. Brynscharenberg.org

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Josh is overjoyed to be returning to Shakespeare & Company for another Season after last season’s The Victim and 2022’s Much Ado About Nothing! A Proud AEA Member and Massachusetts Native, they have worked around the country settling for now in Philadelphia. Some other favorite credits include (Pirates of Penzance) Quintessence Theatre Group (School of Rock, Escape to Margaritaville) Little Theatre On the Square, (The Play That Goes Wrong) Lyric Stage Company of Boston, (Murder for Two) Greenbrier Valley Theatre, (The Underpants) Lake Dillon Theatre Company.