in residence at the Jim Petosa Harriet Sheets mosesian center for the arts Artistic Director Managing Director 321 ARSENAL ST, WATERTOWN PRESENTS classic repertory company HARPER LEE’S TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD DIRECTED BY CLAY HOPPER production designer assistant director SEAN PERREIRA JULES TANNER cast (IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER) ALEX DEROO Jem/Heck Tate LILLIAN GOMES Calpurnia CHRIS KANDRA Atticus SARAH MORRISETTE Scout EMMA TAYCE PALMER Ms. Maudie/Mayella Ewell ADRIAN PEGUERO Tom/Reverend Sykes SLAVA TCHOUL Dill/Bob Ewell Funded in part by generous individual contributors, the National Endowment for the Arts, Massachusetts Cultural Council, Esther B. Kahn Foundation, Fuller Foundation, The Marshall Home Fund, Roy A. Hunt Foundation, and Watertown Community Foundation. This program is also supported in part by grants from the Boxford Cultural Council, Brookline Commission for the Arts, Carver Cultural Council, Dedham Cultural Council, Framingham Cultural Council, Granby Cultural Council, Marlborough Cultural Council, Milford Cultural Council, Shrewsbury Cultural Council, Waltham Cultural Council, and Watertown Cultural Council, local agencies which are supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency. Classic Repertory Company is produced in cooperation with Boston University College of Fine Arts School of Theatre ALEX DEROO (Jem/Heck Tate) makes his her love of storytelling from many points of view. New Repertory Theatre debut. Emma has trained in both contemporary and Alex graduated from Salem State classical acting at the Guthrie, Boston University, University in 2016 with a BFA and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic in Theatre Performance. He is Art (LAMDA). Recent credits include Tanya in originally from Reading, MA. Recent credits Punk Rock and Dunyasha in The Cherry Orchard. include Romeo & Juliet and Julius Caesar with ADRIAN PEGUERO (Tom/Rev Sykes) makes Commonwealth Shakespeare Company. Alex is his New Repertory Theatre debut. extremely excited to bring the classic works of Adrian is a recent graduate from William Shakespeare and Harper Lee to students Salem State University with a BFA who are currently studying these amazing in Theatre Performance. Recent writers. credits include: Clybourne Park (Albert/Kevin), LILLIAN GOMES (Calpurnia) makes her The Seagull (Sorin), Angels in America Part One New Repertory Theatre debut. (Belize), and The Grapes of Wrath (Jim Casy). Recent credits include Exit Strategy Adrian is most excited about making Shakespeare (Zeitgeist Stage Company) and The and theatre more accessible to those around us. Threepenny Opera (Bridgewater State SLAVA TCHOUL (Bob Ewell) makes his New University). Lillian recently earned her BA in Repertory Theatre debut. Slava Communications and Theatre from Bridgewater graduated from UMass Amherst State University. a little over a year ago with a BA CHRIS KANDRA (Atticus) makes his New in Theatre. Recent credits include Repertory Theatre debut. Chris Circle Up (Youth Underground at Central Square just graduated from Salem State Theatre), All’s Well that Ends Well (Vermont with a BFA in Theatre Arts with Theatre Company), and Love and Information a performance concentration and (University of Massachusetts). spent the summer touring with Speak About CLAY HOPPER (Director) returns to New It, a show about consent and sex-positive Repertory Theatre after directing A Number and communication for high-school and college Classic Repertory Company’s Othello, Romeo students. He is most excited to be bringing and Juliet, The Scarlet Letter, 1984, Julius Caesar, Shakespeare and classic literature to the stage and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Macbeth, Of Mice enabling people to appreciate these wonderful and Men, and Great Expectations. In Washington pieces outside a conventional classroom! He is D.C., he served as the Associate Artistic Director originally from Westford, MA. of Olney Theatre Center and Director of both the SARAH MORRISETTE (Scout) makes her New National Players and the Summer Shakespeare Repertory Theatre debut. Recent Festival. He now serves as lecturer in Directing credits include: All in the Timing and and Theatre Arts at Boston University’s School of Doubt: a Parable (Newton Nomadic Theatre. Directing credits include Two Gentlemen Theater), Macbeth (Bay Colony of Verona, Twelfth Night, The Tempest, Othello, Shakespeare Company), My Children, My Africa!, The Taming of the Shrew, Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Romeo Psychosis 4:48 and The Bacchae (Ithaca College) and Juliet, Amadeus, Farragut North, Triumph and As You Like It and A Midsummer Night’s of Love, and Call of the Wild (Olney Theatre). Dream (Ithaca Shakespeare Company). Sarah Other recent credits include On the Verge, or The received her BFA in Acting from Ithaca College Geography of Yearning (Contemporary American and is a graduate of the internship program at Theatre Festival Actor’s Lab). Off-off-Broadway the Center for Theatre of the Oppressed in Rio de credits include A Home Without and Different Janiero, Brazil. Zen (Third Eye Rep); Earthworms (The Working EMMA TAYCE PALMER (Ms. Maudie/Mayella Group); and Triage and The Interrogation (The Ewell) makes her New Repertory Miranda Theatre). Theatre debut. Emma is a recent graduate of Boston University’s School of Theatre. Originally from WEB newrep.org/crc Minneapolis, MN, Emma grew up surrounded facebOOK /classicrepertorycompany by a diverse artistic community that cultivated INstaGRAM @newrepclassicrep.