(re)Dressing Miss Havisham

John Minigan

​(Playwright) is a recent Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellow in Dramatic Writing. After three decades in theater education, he’s been focused on playwriting since 2018. In that time, he has completed new play commissions from Concert Theatre Works, Back Porch Theater, Gloucester Stage Company, and Lyric Stage Company of Boston. His solo adaptation of The Legend of Sleepy Hollow premiered at Greater Boston Stage Company and received the Broadway World Best New Play Award and the Elliot Norton Award for Best Solo Performance. Out of the Scorpion’s Nest won the 2022 Royer Award from the Kennedy Center, and his comedy Noir Hamlet was a 2018 EDGE Media Best of Boston Theater selection. He is honored to work with this brilliant and inspiring team of theater artists and, in particular, to write for his long-time collaborator, Miranda Jonté. johnminigan.com

Peter Sampieri 

(Director) has directed over 50 productions including plays, independent and documentary films, musicals, and opera at Off-Broadway and Regional/Equity theatres in NYC,  Boston, Chicago, and LA. He has brought more than two dozen world premieres to life by writers like Dan LeFranc, Antoinette Nwandu, Joe Roland, Sylvan Oswald, and Quiara Alegria Hudes. His university teaching credits in theatre include NYU, Brown, Northwestern, Providence College, and New England Conservatory. He’s a tenured professor of directing and performance at Salem State University. Proud union member, SDC.

Miranda Jonte

(Actor) is a Bay Area raised, longtime New Yorker, honorary Texan, and recent washashore to Cape Cod. 

MFA: Actors Studio Drama School, NYC; BA in Theatre & German: Chico State, CA, & University of Tuebingen, Germany. 

She has originated roles in several new plays, including Mara,Greasemonkey; Tessa, St. Francis; and Sully in The Shark Play. She has recently retired her one-woman show, Good & Kissed, after seven years of touring, and is now working on a new piece, The Goat Is In the Freezer.

She has played Nina: The Seagull, Masha: Three Sisters, Julie: Miss Julie, Mercy: I Am Yours, Sybil: Private Lives, at Saco River Theatre in Maine, and most recently, Gisella Purl: Mere Waters, at Portland Stage, and Lizzie: The Rainmaker, Glass Town Stage.

As a playwright, her plays have been produced across the country and appear in several Smith & Kraus books. (Best Plays From American Theatre Festivals 2015 & Contemporary Monologues for a New Theater, 2017, The Best Women’s Stage Monologues 2022) 

Offstage, she spent two years exploring the country in her trusty van, Mathilda. She drinks an exorbitant amount of coffee, loves thrift stores, yoga, true crime and the paranormal. But most of all, she loves being mom, mama, mommy, bruh, to her two rescue dogs, Red and Trudy. 

She gives deepest thanks to longtime collaborator, John, for creating this beautiful piece of storytelling, to Neil for being her creative champion as well as champion of all the Arts, and, to every woman who has shirked the appointed mantle of Spinster.

Member of Actors Equity and Dramatists Guild.

www.mirandajonte.com

Brian Aloisio

(Sound Design) is a composer, sound designer, and engineer for stage, film, and recording artists. Theatre credits include productions at Oregon Center for the Arts, Off-Broadway at the 47th Street Theatre, Joe’s Pub/The Public Theater, and Salem State University. He has two New York Emmy® nominations for his compositions in documentary short films, Election Day 2016 and Don’t Define Me. Feature film credits include Sophomore, Signs of the Time, and Restoring a Masterpiece: The Renovation of Eastman

Summer Bates

(Stage Manager) is an actor, singer, and stage manager. Recent stage management work includes:  The Rainmaker with Sandwich Arts Alliance, We are the Land produced by Nutahkeemun Artist Collective, and Man from Earth at the Cotuit Black Box Theater. Recent acting work includes Something Borrowed (Kurt Vonnegut's “Lost Masterpiece”) at Eventide Theatre Company.

Neil McGarry

 (Producer) is an actor, director and producer.

Neil has worked across the United States, and Europe in theatre, film, television, and radio. He was the founder of The Bay Colony Shakespeare Company. Neil is recently returned from the Italian Alps after almost nine years abroad. Recent work includes acting in & directing the American classic, The Rainmaker, for Sandwich Arts Alliance and the film The Weight, with Ethan Hawke. He is premiering a new solo performance by Francis Boyle of the Melville classic, Moby Dick. Neil received his training at the National Shakespeare Conservatory and is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association.

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