Six actors brought the characters of Big Work to life during its first readings and productions. That cast reunited to record this audio performance. Click the Q&As below to find out what drew them to the play, and what they'd pack for a one way trip to Mars.

MELISSA BERGSTROM (Playwright)
Herself, Helen, Paul, & Remy

Melissa Bergstrom is an actor and playwright who earned her M.A in Theatre Education at Emerson College, and her B.A. in Theatre Performance/History from SUNY Geneseo. Recent performances include Letters to Medford with Two Roads Performance Projects, Blogging Unplugged with Sue Bear Productions, Too Quick a Pick at the 2016 Boston Theatre Marathon, and What We Lost Along the Way with Boston Children’s Theatre.

CHRISTA BROWN
Rachelle, Kevin, & Megan

A Massachusetts native, Christa obtained a B.F.A. in Theatre Performance from Longwood University in Farmville, VA. Recent credits include: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf with I’naru Productions, The Music Man with The Greater Lowell Music Theatre, Open Theatre Project’s SLAMBoston 2014, and Revolt.she said.revolt again with Company One Theatre.

TEDDY CRECELIUS
Marvin, Tricia, & Jack

Teddy is a director and performer based in the Boston area. Teddy spends most of his days as John Gammell or Samuel Adams and others at the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum. Other past engagements include professional, community, and university productions in the United States and Asia. From 2013-2015 he taught at Mahidol University in Thailand. He was a 2015 Glimmerglass Festival Young Artist. This spring, he directed Handel’s Esther at the Middlebury Bach Festival. Teddy maintains his own website at www.teddycrecelius.com.

EMILY DUGGAN
Jill, James, Safiya, & Tim

Emily wrote her first play when she was eight years old, and has been trying to live up to that ever since. She graduated with a B.A. in Creative Writing from Brandeis University, where she also regularly performed improv and sketch comedy. Since spring 2015, she has worked at least eight part-time jobs. Work is a lot of work. She currently works by day (sunlights?) at the Puppet Showplace Theater in Brookline, MA, and moonlights as a ghost-tour guide downtown.

KATE MARPLE (Playwright)
Herself

Kate is a playwright driven to tell stories about what shapes who we are and where we belong. She has a Masters degree in Nationalism Studies, where her research focused on the role trauma plays in collective memory and rebuilding national identity post-genocide. Big Work has been an amazing adventure combining field research and storytelling.

SUMIT SHARMA
Dana, Sam, Adewale, & Omari

Sumit was born and raised in India and fell in love with theatre at the age of 10. He has previously appeared in several Indian mythology plays as Vishnu and Shiva, and also played Bomkesh in Bomkesh Bakshi (An Indian Detective).