Nora Hussey

Nora is currently the Director of Theatre and Theatre Studies here at Wellesley College.  Her Wellesley credits include: Working, Medea, Our Town, The Cherry Orchard, Under Milkwood, Ladybird...Ladybird, Goodnight Desdemona...Good Morning Juliet, Noises Off, Elektra, A Doll's House, A Piece of My Heart, On the Twentieth Century, Memory of Water, Never In My Lifetime, and Prides' Crossing. These last two productions were awarded the prestigious Moss Hart Award for Theatrical Excellence. Nora's most recent success include the completion of the world premier of the musical Joan of Arc by Laura Harrington and Tony award winner Mel Marvin, as well as the Boston premiere of  Wendy Kesselman's adaptation of The Diary of Anne Frank.  Nora is also the director of the Wellesley Summer Theatre Company, which involves students working full time in conjunction with actors from the greater Boston area on differing productions.  Prior to Wellesley, she taught and guest directed at colleges and universities from Bangor, Maine to Providence, Rhode Island.

Ken Loewitt

Ken Loewit is theSet & Light Design/Technical Director ath Wellesley College and is the Production Manager for Wellesley College. While at Wellesley Ken has done design for many shows and supervises the set crews for departmental show. In addition he teaches and acts as an advisor to students in Upstage.  Ken also designs in Regional theatre and was a 1999 nominee for an IRNE award for set design for Humpin' Glory Bay at the Boston Playwrights Theater.  Ken thanks his students for all their hard work and endless hours devoted to Theatre.

 

Diego Arciniegas

Diego Arciniegas is a lecturer on acting at Wellesley College. He is also the Artistic Director of the Publick Theatre, Inc., Boston's oldest resident theatre company. As a performer, Diego has worked in the New England area for the past fifteen years. Diego is the recipient of the prestigious Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Actor for performances as Wolfgang Mozart in Peter Shaeffer's Amadeus and "The Skinhead" in Steven Dietz' God's Country, both at the Merrimack Repertory Theatre.  As a director, Diego has devoted himself to new plays and the reinterpretation of classics. Hisdirecting projects have included Christopher Hampton's adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos' epistolary novel Les Liaisons Dangereuses, as well as Diego's own translation of The House of Bernarda Alba by Federico Garcia Lorca for the Emerson Stage. A native of Colombia, South America, Diego was educated at Williams College and trained in theatre at the British and European Studies Group, 9 York Terrace East, London, U.K., James Wilson (Oxon., dir.).

Katie Griswold

Katie Griswold's first love was dance and she pursued it in college (much to her parents' distress) earning a B.A. in dance from UCLA and an M.A. from American University. She danced professionally in the Washington D.C. area and taught at Georgetown University for nine years. She became interested in acting after being persuaded to choreograph the musical Grease! Since then she has studied acting and voice, performed in numerous plays and musicals, and done commercial video work. Favorite roles include Scraps in Talking With, with the Wellesley Summer Theatre, Timothea in Sea Marks for which she won EMACT's 1996 Best Actress award, and Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream.   Working at Wellesley College has provided a wonderful opportunity for combining her interests in dance and acting - she teaches dance and theatre dance courses in the Department of Physical Education, choreographs for the Wellesley College Dancers, and also choreographs for and can be seen performing in some of the Wellesley College Theatre productions.

 

Lois Roach

LOIS ROACH most recently directed the Boston premiere of Crowns for the Lyric Stage Company where she also directed the 2005 Boston premiere of Living Out. Lois also directed Boston premiere of The Old Settler which received numerous awards from the 2000 Independent Reviewers of New England, including Best Director and Best Play.   The Old Settler also received the 2000 Elliot Norton Award for "Outstanding Production/Small Theater."  Lois also directed "Hey Sistah, Welcome Home" for the debut of the Show of Hands Theater Company.  She was commissioned to write and direct a performance piece for the 25th anniversary of Casa Myrna Vazquez, a shelter for battered women.  She is the first recipient of The Banner's Alice Childress Theatergoers Award for her support to Boston's theater and the Our Place Theater - African American Theater Festival award where she received the 2005 honor.  Roach is the former Director of Public Affairs for WBZ-TV and Radio  She is currently the Project Manager for First Night's Neighborhood Network and has been a Lecturer and Visiting Artist in the Theater Department at Wellesley College for the past 13 years.

 

Melinda Lopez

Ms. Lopez was the first recipient of the Charlotte Woolard Award, given by the Kennedy Center to a “promising new voice in American Theatre”.  She was a 2003 recipient of a Mass Cultural Council grant in playwriting, and a resident playwright at the Huntington Theatre.  Her award-winning plays include SONIA FLEW (Huntington Theatre Company, Coconut Grove Playhouse, “Best New Play”, Independent Reviewers of New England, “Outstanding New Play” Elliot Norton Award,) GOD SMELLS LIKE A ROAST PIG (Women on Top Festival, Elliot Norton Award— Outstanding Solo Performance,) MIDNIGHT SANDWICH/MEDIANOCHE, (Coconut Grove Playhouse), THE ORDER OF THINGS (CentaStage, Kennedy Center Fund for New Plays) HOW DO YOU SPELL HOPE? (Underground Railway Theatre,)  and SCENES FROM A BORDELLO, (Boston Playwrights Theatre.  Ms. Lopez has enjoyed residences with the New York Theatre Workshop, Harvard University and Dartmouth College.  She is  graduate of Dartmouth College and Boston University and teaches Theatre Studies at Wellesley College.