Sharman Altshuler (Producing Artistic Director, Founder, Moonbox Productions) - She, her, hers - Sharman practiced veterinary medicine for 15 years prior to stumbling happily into the world of theater production. She founded Moonbox Productions in 2011 as a place to create great theater using local talent, and as a forum for connecting audiences with the non profits serving our community. The thrill of watching Moonbox blossom into an IRNE and Elliot Norton Award-winning enterprise is exceeded only by the true joy of getting to know and work with all of the wonderful, generous and ridiculously talented people that make up our area’s vibrant theater community.

And yes, I am happy to answer any pet questions you might have.

Terry Byrne has been covering the Boston arts scene for nearly three decades, first at the Boston Herald, then for WGBH TV's “Greater Boston” and currently at the Boston Globe. Her theater criticism was featured in a segment on ABC-TV's 20/20. She earned her MFA in Playwriting from Boston University in 2010, where she received a Robert Pinsky Global Travel Fellowship. Her play, “Rivals in the Clay,” was selected as a semi-finalist for the O’Neill Theater Conference in 2016. She is an Affiliated Scholar at the Women’s Studies Research Center at Brandeis University and a member of the advisory council at StageSource.

Andrew Child (he/him/his) is a multi-hyphenate, Boston-based theatre artist with a penchant for shows without couches in them and a belief that no cornerstone of our form is too sacred to demolish. His work as director, actor, and designer has been seen recently with groups including A.R.T., Villa La Pietra, Moonbox Productions, New England Conservatory, Clark University, Massasoit Community College, and Sparkhaven Theatre and he has created site-specific works in partnership with institutions including the Fuller Craft Museum, Charles River Museum of Industry and Innovation, and the Oliver Mill Estate. He is currently a freelance contributor for Broadway World Boston and the performing arts coordinator for the Boys and Girls Club of South Boston. More at www.andrewtchild.com

Allison Olivia Choat (Associate Artistic Director/ Co-Founder, Moonbox Productions) I'm an IRNE- and Elliot-Norton-Award-winning theater artist whose work lies at the intersection of direction, design, and physical storytelling; my most recent projects include Cloud 9 with Central Square Theatre and Caroline, or Change and Parade with Moonbox. Outside of Moonbox, I'm also an academic administrator at the Harvard University School of Engineering, where I serve on the Committee for Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging. I love reading, writing, and studying language, as well as movement pursuits like yoga, calisthenics and powerlifting. I'm a proud member of the EDS and LGBTQIA+ communities and I use she/ her/ hers and they/ them/ theirs.

Melinda Lopez is a multiple award winning playwright and performer, and the Artist-in-Residence at the Huntington Theatre Company. She is the recipient of the 2019 Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Achievement, and a National Mellon Foundation Resident Playwright. Her plays include: MALA (available on Audible in Spanish and English,) YERMA (adaptation,) BACK THE NIGHT, BECOMING CUBA, and SONIA FLEW (Elliot Norton, Best New Play, Best Production.) Melinda also teaches MFA playwrights at BU. 

Davron S. Monroe is a Boston based award winning singer and actor with vocal talents that run the gamut from Opera to Musical Theatre, gospel to jazz and everything else in between. Davron is the 2019 recipient of The Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Musical performance in Breath and Imagination the story of Roland Hayes, African-American classic concert artist (who was also a Boston based artist in the later years of his life). Other performances of note include Murder on the Orient Express, The Wiz, Camelot, Company, My Fair Lady, City of Angels, Sweeney Todd, One Man, Two Guvnors, The Mikado, Avenue Q, and Ain’t Misbehavin’ (Lyric Stage Co.), The View Upstairs (Speakeasy Stage) The Little Mermaid, RAGTIME (Company Theatre), Man of La Mancha (New Rep), Caroline or Change,

Godspell (Moonbox Productions), Hairspray (Reagle Music Theatre), Dreamgirls, Jesus Christ Superstar, Children of Eden, Songs for a New World (premiere, Key West Symphony, Broadway Across America), Smokey Joe’s Café, Cinderella, Streakin’!, a ’70s musical revue, and Sweet Charity. Davron has also appeared with many orchestral and vocal organizations, such as Boston Landmarks Orchestra (Lost in the Stars – a celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the “I Have a Dream” speech, and The Chariot Jubilee), Brevard Music Center, Finalist in the Orlando Opera’s Heinz Rehfuss Singing Actor Awards, Disney Entertainment’s Voices of Liberty, South Florida Symphony, Houston Ebony Opera Guild, the New England Spiritual Ensemble and many other organizations throughout the greater Boston area. Davron was the first recipient of the Bob Jolly Award for local actors. Future engagements include Jelly's Last Jam- Story of Jelly Roll Morton African-American Jazz pioneer and 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Both with New Repertory Theatre Company 2021.

Cheryl D. Singleton is a professional actress and arts leader with stage, screen, television and voice-over experience. Originally from Brooklyn NY, Cheryl learned her craft by working both on and off-stage. Some of her regional credits include: The American Place Theatre and The Women’s Project, Theatre Matrix and Theater for the New City, The American Repertory Theatre, Lyric Stage Company, Wheelock Family Theatre, New Repertory Theatre, Gloucester Stage, Zeitgeist Stage Co., Queer Soup and ImprovBoston. Cheryl currently serves on the boards of StageSource (former VP) and the Theatre Community Benevolent Fund and recently finished her tenure on the board of ImprovBoston.