Sheila Bandyopadhyay (Jesse/Betty) is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist who is happy to be marking her first season with Great Barrington Public Theater! In New York, Sheila has acted with The Humanist Project, Leviathan Lab, Hunger & Thirst Theatre Collective, Stages on the Sound, among others. Her collaboratively devised and directing credits have been seen in NYC at the West End Theater, the Tank, The Gural, the 72nd St Theater Lab, and Brooklyn’s Brick Theater. Sheila is Director of the Center for Actor Training at Shakespeare & Company in Lenox where she was seen last summer in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Puck/Starveling).

Chris Tucci (Avery/Atila) is a company and faculty member of Tectonic Theatre Project. Regional credits include Barrington Stage Company, The Geffen Playhouse, The Warner Theatre, and multiple festivals in NYC and the Berkshires - including a premier of Joy Behar’s comedy with Aida Turturro (dir. John Gould Rubin). Film credits include premieres at Cannes, LA International Film Festival, LA Shorts Festival, and BIFF- including The Sweet Taste of Freedom (dir. Matt Penn) at over 25 festivals. His voice features in many episodes of Circle Round on WBUR/NPR as nearly every animal, mythical creature, or historical figure. He and his family have been actively involved for over eight years with Guiding Eyes for the Blind where they raise, train, and foster dogs for the visually impaired. Thanks to Kate, Nyx, Susan, and our current pups Yoshi, Duck, and Madeline.

Judy Braha (Director) has been a director, actor, teacher and arts activist for over four decades. Long-time head of the M.F.A. Directing Program at Boston University’s School of Theater, credits include theaters and universities throughout New England. Additionally, Judy proudly collaborates with Andre de Ouadros in BU’s Race, Prison, Justice, Arts, teaching inside and outside Mass. prisons and jails. Recent work: Things I Know To Be True (GBPT), Shakespeare in Love, The Exonerated (BU), Mr. Fullerton, Between the Sheets (GBPT + Gloucester Stage), Representation and How to Get It, a new solo work about Julia Ward Howe. Upcoming: Flight of the Monarch by Jim Frangione (Shakespeare and Company), You Can Live If They Let You by Moshe Waldoks coming to Boston, Sept. 2024. Judy is the Associate Artistic Director of Great Barrington Public Theater in the beautiful Berkshires. https://judybraha.squarespace.com/

Leigh Strimbeck (Playwright) Plays written include: Dog People, Poor Bastard, Loss for Words; as well as the one woman show The Queen of Fenway Court: Isabella Stewart Gardner - all with the support of Berkshire Voices. Other plays include the commissioned history plays Yours: A Centennial Celebration of Russell Sage College and This House Builded. Devised plays: Mirror, Mirror; I’m Not a Feminist But... Plays co-written include: Berwick, America!, with Gerard Stropnicky; Here Be Dragons with Paul Outlaw; Letters to the Editor with the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble in PA. For acting reel and more info: leighstrimbeck.com