Kyler
Taustin
EXECUTIVE ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
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Kyler Taustin
Kyler Taustin is the co-founder of Brown Box Theatre Project and has served as the Executive Artistic Director since its founding. Originally hailing from the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Kyler has first hand knowledge of challenges faced by those living in areas where cultural opportunities are limited and distance is a barrier to access of the arts. Kyler received his Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Studies from Emerson College in Boston, Massachusetts and soon thereafter founded Brown Box Theatre Project to return home to invigorate a culturally vibrant community in his hometown. For Brown Box, Kyler directed all 9 installments of Outdoor Free Shakespeare (Measure for Measure, As You Like It, Hamlet, Cymbeline, The Taming of the Shrew, Macbeth, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo and Juliet, and Twelfth Night). Contemporary productions Kyler directed include both Broadway Jukebox Cabarets, Songs for a New World, Brilliant Traces, Lab Rats, Echoes, Two Wrongs, The Nina Variations, Some Explicit Polaroids, and Two Rooms. As part of the Boxer Shorts series, Kyler directed Capricho, Play, and Talk to Me Like the Rain. Kyler was the co-director for both devised bi-lingual collaborations with Brown Box’s Mexican sister company Ícaro Compañia Teatral (When We Lived Together in the Belly of the Whale; No Soy Lo Que Soy). Kyler is honored to lead Brown Box as it strives to serve communities up and down the east coast as it has his home region.
Angela Harrington
Angela is a stage manager and theatre artist in the Boston area who is thrilled to be joining the administrative team of Brown Box. She graduated with a BA from Bridgewater State University in 2018. Her recent Stage Management credits include We are Proud to Present… (Brandeis University), Murder for the Orient Express (ASM, The Lyric Stage) Jukebox 2.0, As You Like It (Brown Box Theatre Project), Bare Stage (Boston Center for the Arts), Wizard of Oz (Family Performing Arts Center) and she worked as a Production Assistant for The Roommate (The Lyric Stage Company.) In 2017, she presented her work on Immersive theatre at the United States Institute for Theatre Technology. She looks forward to Production Stage Managing Mox Nox and Much Ado About Nothing with Brown Box Theatre Project in 2020.
Ashley Cabral
Ashley Cabral holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Rhode Island College. She works with children with Autism as a Behavioral Therapist. After a long hiatus from the theatre world, Ashley is thrilled to be a part of the Brown Box administrative team.
Cameron Torres
Cameron Torres is a Boston based actor and playwright. Cameron holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre Studies with a concentration in Acting from Emerson College. Acting credits include Angles in American Pt. 1, Jerusalem, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, A Winter’s Tale, James Franco and Me (World Premiere), and Brown Box’s 2016 Free Shakespeare Tour of Cymbeline. With knowledge of Brown Box’s model and the knowledge of the communities and venues visited through his time on Cymbeline, Cameron joined Brown Box Theatre Project’s administrative staff as the Tour Manager in 2016.
Spencer Parli Tew
Spencer Parli Tew holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre Arts from Boston University, received in May of 2015. He began his work with Brown Box as an Actor in their production of Brilliant Traces. Since then he worked in that capacity for three consecutive years of Summer Shakespeare tours. In that work he has found an incredible amount of passion for the company’s mission and is ecstatic to be joining the administrative staff to take a more proactive role in helping to bring Brown Box’s beautiful work to even more communities in the years to come.
Nick Perron
Nick Perron graduated from Dalhousie University with a BA in Acting. Since then he has worked internationally as an actor before moving to Boston. As the Social Media Manager, Nick is excited to bring the community together to make art with Brown Box!
Alice Corvo
Alice Corvo is an actor, director, and theatre educator who has lived in Boston since 2015. Her most recent projects include directing a staged reading of the new play The Art of Intelligence, and playing Gertrude in the Boston premiere of {miss} with Hardly Working Productions. She holds a BA in Theatre from the University of Vermont, where she directed Brilliant Traces, and an MFA in Acting from East 15 Acting School in London, where she studied at Shakespeare’s Globe and at GITIS in Moscow. She also served as a teaching artist with the Target Arts program, bringing theatre and poetry to underserved communities in Boston. She is dedicated to using theatre as a tool to change the world for the better, and she hopes to educate people of all ages in Boston, Maryland, and beyond. She is truly delighted to be the Education Director for Brown Box.