Meet the Cast & Crew
LIZ ADAMS (Henrietta, Loretta, Sister Glenna) is delighted to be back with Hub and this spectacular creative team. Selected recent performance work: M'Lynn in Steel Magnolias (Hub Theatre Co. of Boston), Jackie in Trigger Warning (Zeitgeist Stage), Lord Aster in Peter and the Starcatcher (Hub Theatre Co. of Boston), Negra/Ensemble in Dark Room (Bridge Rep), Gertrude in Noir Hamlet (Centastage - Norton Award nominee, Best Actress, Small/Fringe), Julius Caesar/Octavius/Caesar's Ghost in Julius Caesar (Actors’ Shakespeare Project), Mercedes/Chop in Plank (Alley Cat Theatre), Vivian in Wit (Hub Theatre Co. of Boston - IRNE awards, Best Actress & Best Production, Fringe), Zetta in Dog Act (Theatre on Fire - IRNE nominee, Best Production, Fringe), Cherry Pie in A Beautiful Day in November... (Apollinaire Theatre - Norton Award, Best Production, Fringe), Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (It's a Fiasco, Cambridge), Jacques in As You Like It (Merely Players, Cambridge). Other performance work: voice actor, Republic of Camberville; touring productions of Macbeth (Lady M) and Romeo and Juliet (Capulet) with Bay Colony Shakespeare Co., various roles with The Murder Mystery Company New England and with Pazzi Lazzi commedia dell'arte troupe. New York: The Van Meder Trust, NY Fringe Festival. Liz also does ghost tours with Ghosts & Gravestones, sings holiday carols with Big Smile Entertainment, directs around town, and teaches theater. She holds a master's degree from Emerson College in Theatre Education. Website: http://thereallizadams.wixsite.com/mysite
BLYSS CLEVELAND (Saint Monica, Soldier)
LAUREN ELIAS (Fabiana Cunningham)
MATTHEW DRAY(Saint Peter, Caiaphas the Elder, Uncle Pino, Soldier)
JAIME HERNANDEZ (Jesus, Soldier) Is thrilled to be making his Hub Debut! As an actor he was most recently seen in Last Night on Planet Earth (Green Door Labs) SLAM BOSTON (Open Theatre Project) Vicuña (Zeitgeist Stage Company) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Apollinaire Theatre Company) Childhood is Fun, Power Play, and Miss Reflection (Emerson Theatre Playmaking Group) at Emerson College. Other credits include Spanish Folk Tales (Apollinaire Play Lab), Sadman (Laugh Harder Productions), as well as many short films written and directed by himself. During the day you can find Jaime playing Nicholas Campbell, a valiant patriot at Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum saving the country from tyranny! Upcoming: Blood Wedding
RORY LAMBERT-WRIGHT (Pontius Pilate) is a recent Suffolk University Graduate and Boston-based actor. Fresh off of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s apprenticeship program, Rory is excited to jump back into contemporary plays. Recent performances include Stuff in Everybody at Suffolk university’s modern theater, ensemble member in Orlando with the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, and as an actor and educator for Speak About It, a nationally touring company dedicated to sexual consent education. Rory also works as a sound designer and photographer.
CRISTHIAN MANCINAS-GARCIA (Judas Iscariot)
ENOSA OGBEIDE (Gloria, Mary Magdalene)
ROBERT ORZALLI (Judge Littlefield) is happy to be back on stage with the Hub, where his previous credits include: Peter and the Starcatcher (IRNE nomination, Best Ensemble), True West, Waiting for Waiting for Godot (IRNE nomination), Coyote on a Fence, Laughing Wild (IRNE nomination), Goodly Creatures and Sand Mountain. Robert is also a Producing Associate for Hub. Some recent acting credits include The Sound of Music and La Cage aux Folles (Reagle Music Theater), Caroline or Change (Moonbox Productions), Ragtime (Company Theatre) Three Sisters (Apollinaire); Faceless (Zeitgeist Stage); Fiddler on the Roof (IRNE nomination, Best Ensemble) (New Rep). He received a BA from Brandeis University.
MAURICE PALMER (El Fayoumy) is delighted to be making their debut with the HUB Theatre Company of Boston. A Boston based actor from Las Vegas, they are dedicated to using performance as a medium for civic engagement, and as a means to continually expand representation. Recent credits include: Life After Lust and One Small Step (Open Theatre Project); Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, and A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Boston Theater Company); This Place Displaced (Artists’ Theater of Boston); My Children! My Africa!, As You Like It, Kiss Me Kate, and Much Ado About Nothing (Nevada Conservatory Theater); and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Majestic Repertory Theatre). Maurice holds a BA in Theatre with a concentration in Stage and Screen acting from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and has also trained with the Commonwealth Shakespeare Apprentice Company. Mauricedpalmer.com
DAN PRIOR (Butch Honeywell) New England credits include: Little Shop of Horrors (Lyric Stage Co.); 1776 (New Rep); Cabaret (Moonbox); The Liar (Wellesley Rep - IRNE nomination: Best Actor); The Music Man (Theatre by the Sea); Sense and Sensibility (Maiden Phoenix Theatre Company); Fiddler on the Roof (New Repertory Theatre); Carousel (Reagle Music Theatre); The Last Five Years (Arts After Hours) and Polish Joke (Titanic Theatre Company). A Boston based actor, writer, musician and voice teacher, Dan attended Ithaca College and received a BM in Vocal Performance and Education. danprior.com
VICTOR SHOPOV (Satan) has been acting in and around Boston for more than a decade and is happy to return to the Hub Theatre Company after previously appearing in True West and Art. Other local credits include Steve, Faceless,The Boys in the Band, The Submission, Bent (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Actor; IRNE Award, Best Actor & Best Play), The Normal Heart (Boston My Theatre Award, Best Actor; IRNE Award, Best Play), Punk Rock (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Production), Enron (IRNE Award, Best Actor), and Farragut North, all with Zeitgeist Stage Company; The Little Dog Laughed (Take Your Pick Productions); Eyes Shut. Door Open. (Wax Wings & CMS Productions); Bad Jews (SpeakEasy Stage); and Death of a Salesman, 33 Variations, and The Temperamentals (Lyric Stage Company). He holds degrees from Emerson College and Northeastern University.
FELTON SPARKS (Bailiff, Simon the Zealot) is excited to be making his Hub Theatre debut with one of his favorite plays! Select Boston acting credits include O Beautiful (Ty), A Chorus Line (Richie), The Antigone Project (Actor 4), Stuart Little (Stuart Little), Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Ensemble), 1776 (John Witherspoon), and The Ebonic Woman (Aladdin). Sparks placed first runner up in the Jerry Herman Awards LA 2014 for Leading Male Singer and was nominated for Best Choreography. He graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Theatre & Performance and a minor in dance. You can see him next year as Samuel in Pirates of Penzance with the brand new Yorick Ensemble. Thank you so much to my friends, my family, my love, and my teachers for supporting and pushing me to be my best self.
JON VELLANTE (Matthias of Galilee, Saint Thomas, Saint Matthew) is a Boston-based performer who is thrilled to be working with Hub for the third time in year having previously been in Peter and the Starcatcher and The Clearing. Favorite past credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Apollinaire Theatre Co.); Peter and the Starcatcher (Hackmatack Playhouse); Heritage Hill Naturals (Fresh Ink Theatre); An Education in Prudence (Open Theatre Project); Romeo & Juliet (CRC/New Repertory Theatre) and DIASPORA! (The Boston Project - Speakeasy Stage Company). A graduate of BU (BFA Acting, '16), Jon sends love to his family, his friends and all the saints/sinners currently reading. Visit jonvellante.com for dates, shows and more information.
ARTHUR WALDSTEIN (Mother Theresa, Dr. Sigmund Freud) is delighted to be making his first appearance with Hub Theatre. He was last seen in The Christians at Apollinaire Theatre after appearing there earlier in Three Sisters and Informed Consent. Area credits include Into the Woods (Norton and IRNE Outstanding Musical), Follies, Kiss Me Kate and Blythe Spirit (Lyric Stage), The Cherry Orchard (Actors Shakespeare Project), Much Ado About Nothing (Arts After Hours), Reflections of a Rock Lobster (Boston Children's Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Happy Medium Theatre), The Fantasticks (Fiddlehead Theatre), Arcadia (IRNE Outstanding Production) and A Man of No Importance (bad habit productions), 42nd Street and Miracle on 34th Street (Greater Boston Stage Company), Hello, Goodbye, Peace (The Theater Offensive), A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), To The Orchard (Boston University), and Genesis of Genesis and The Seagull (Chekhov Theater Company). He has been seen as Arnolphe in School for Wives, Touchstone in As You Like It, George in All My Sons and Creon in Jean Anouilh's Antigone, and is a seasoned performer of the Gilbert and Sullivan patter parts. A retired lawyer, Arthur lives in Boston with his wife, Andrea.
BLYSS CLEVELAND (Saint Monica, Soldier)
LAUREN ELIAS (Fabiana Cunningham)
MATTHEW DRAY(Saint Peter, Caiaphas the Elder, Uncle Pino, Soldier)
JAIME HERNANDEZ (Jesus, Soldier) Is thrilled to be making his Hub Debut! As an actor he was most recently seen in Last Night on Planet Earth (Green Door Labs) SLAM BOSTON (Open Theatre Project) Vicuña (Zeitgeist Stage Company) A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Apollinaire Theatre Company) Childhood is Fun, Power Play, and Miss Reflection (Emerson Theatre Playmaking Group) at Emerson College. Other credits include Spanish Folk Tales (Apollinaire Play Lab), Sadman (Laugh Harder Productions), as well as many short films written and directed by himself. During the day you can find Jaime playing Nicholas Campbell, a valiant patriot at Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum saving the country from tyranny! Upcoming: Blood Wedding
RORY LAMBERT-WRIGHT (Pontius Pilate) is a recent Suffolk University Graduate and Boston-based actor. Fresh off of Commonwealth Shakespeare Company’s apprenticeship program, Rory is excited to jump back into contemporary plays. Recent performances include Stuff in Everybody at Suffolk university’s modern theater, ensemble member in Orlando with the Lyric Stage Company of Boston, and as an actor and educator for Speak About It, a nationally touring company dedicated to sexual consent education. Rory also works as a sound designer and photographer.
CRISTHIAN MANCINAS-GARCIA (Judas Iscariot)
ENOSA OGBEIDE (Gloria, Mary Magdalene)
ROBERT ORZALLI (Judge Littlefield) is happy to be back on stage with the Hub, where his previous credits include: Peter and the Starcatcher (IRNE nomination, Best Ensemble), True West, Waiting for Waiting for Godot (IRNE nomination), Coyote on a Fence, Laughing Wild (IRNE nomination), Goodly Creatures and Sand Mountain. Robert is also a Producing Associate for Hub. Some recent acting credits include The Sound of Music and La Cage aux Folles (Reagle Music Theater), Caroline or Change (Moonbox Productions), Ragtime (Company Theatre) Three Sisters (Apollinaire); Faceless (Zeitgeist Stage); Fiddler on the Roof (IRNE nomination, Best Ensemble) (New Rep). He received a BA from Brandeis University.
MAURICE PALMER (El Fayoumy) is delighted to be making their debut with the HUB Theatre Company of Boston. A Boston based actor from Las Vegas, they are dedicated to using performance as a medium for civic engagement, and as a means to continually expand representation. Recent credits include: Life After Lust and One Small Step (Open Theatre Project); Romeo & Juliet, Hamlet, and A Midsummer’s Night Dream (Boston Theater Company); This Place Displaced (Artists’ Theater of Boston); My Children! My Africa!, As You Like It, Kiss Me Kate, and Much Ado About Nothing (Nevada Conservatory Theater); and Two Gentlemen of Verona (Majestic Repertory Theatre). Maurice holds a BA in Theatre with a concentration in Stage and Screen acting from the University of Nevada Las Vegas and has also trained with the Commonwealth Shakespeare Apprentice Company. Mauricedpalmer.com
DAN PRIOR (Butch Honeywell) New England credits include: Little Shop of Horrors (Lyric Stage Co.); 1776 (New Rep); Cabaret (Moonbox); The Liar (Wellesley Rep - IRNE nomination: Best Actor); The Music Man (Theatre by the Sea); Sense and Sensibility (Maiden Phoenix Theatre Company); Fiddler on the Roof (New Repertory Theatre); Carousel (Reagle Music Theatre); The Last Five Years (Arts After Hours) and Polish Joke (Titanic Theatre Company). A Boston based actor, writer, musician and voice teacher, Dan attended Ithaca College and received a BM in Vocal Performance and Education. danprior.com
VICTOR SHOPOV (Satan) has been acting in and around Boston for more than a decade and is happy to return to the Hub Theatre Company after previously appearing in True West and Art. Other local credits include Steve, Faceless,The Boys in the Band, The Submission, Bent (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Actor; IRNE Award, Best Actor & Best Play), The Normal Heart (Boston My Theatre Award, Best Actor; IRNE Award, Best Play), Punk Rock (Elliot Norton Award, Outstanding Production), Enron (IRNE Award, Best Actor), and Farragut North, all with Zeitgeist Stage Company; The Little Dog Laughed (Take Your Pick Productions); Eyes Shut. Door Open. (Wax Wings & CMS Productions); Bad Jews (SpeakEasy Stage); and Death of a Salesman, 33 Variations, and The Temperamentals (Lyric Stage Company). He holds degrees from Emerson College and Northeastern University.
FELTON SPARKS (Bailiff, Simon the Zealot) is excited to be making his Hub Theatre debut with one of his favorite plays! Select Boston acting credits include O Beautiful (Ty), A Chorus Line (Richie), The Antigone Project (Actor 4), Stuart Little (Stuart Little), Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Ensemble), 1776 (John Witherspoon), and The Ebonic Woman (Aladdin). Sparks placed first runner up in the Jerry Herman Awards LA 2014 for Leading Male Singer and was nominated for Best Choreography. He graduated from Emerson College with a BFA in Theatre & Performance and a minor in dance. You can see him next year as Samuel in Pirates of Penzance with the brand new Yorick Ensemble. Thank you so much to my friends, my family, my love, and my teachers for supporting and pushing me to be my best self.
JON VELLANTE (Matthias of Galilee, Saint Thomas, Saint Matthew) is a Boston-based performer who is thrilled to be working with Hub for the third time in year having previously been in Peter and the Starcatcher and The Clearing. Favorite past credits include A Midsummer Night's Dream (Apollinaire Theatre Co.); Peter and the Starcatcher (Hackmatack Playhouse); Heritage Hill Naturals (Fresh Ink Theatre); An Education in Prudence (Open Theatre Project); Romeo & Juliet (CRC/New Repertory Theatre) and DIASPORA! (The Boston Project - Speakeasy Stage Company). A graduate of BU (BFA Acting, '16), Jon sends love to his family, his friends and all the saints/sinners currently reading. Visit jonvellante.com for dates, shows and more information.
ARTHUR WALDSTEIN (Mother Theresa, Dr. Sigmund Freud) is delighted to be making his first appearance with Hub Theatre. He was last seen in The Christians at Apollinaire Theatre after appearing there earlier in Three Sisters and Informed Consent. Area credits include Into the Woods (Norton and IRNE Outstanding Musical), Follies, Kiss Me Kate and Blythe Spirit (Lyric Stage), The Cherry Orchard (Actors Shakespeare Project), Much Ado About Nothing (Arts After Hours), Reflections of a Rock Lobster (Boston Children's Theatre), Romeo and Juliet (Happy Medium Theatre), The Fantasticks (Fiddlehead Theatre), Arcadia (IRNE Outstanding Production) and A Man of No Importance (bad habit productions), 42nd Street and Miracle on 34th Street (Greater Boston Stage Company), Hello, Goodbye, Peace (The Theater Offensive), A Midsummer Night's Dream and Othello (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company), To The Orchard (Boston University), and Genesis of Genesis and The Seagull (Chekhov Theater Company). He has been seen as Arnolphe in School for Wives, Touchstone in As You Like It, George in All My Sons and Creon in Jean Anouilh's Antigone, and is a seasoned performer of the Gilbert and Sullivan patter parts. A retired lawyer, Arthur lives in Boston with his wife, Andrea.