First Casting Announcement

We have been making some wonderful progress with casting lately. Here are our first three confirmed actors. Selima Smith-Dell will be playing our lead Sarah. Shubhra Prakash will be playing Priya, the TA that all the professors wish that all the other students could be. And Kevin Kate will be playing Professor Messere who is sure that Sarah can finish her PhD if she could just do it his way.

Sarah - Selima Smith-Dell

Selima Smith-Dell is a BFA Acting candidate. Her previous BU theatre credits include Our Girl in Trenton, Hamlet, and Fen. Her other Boston theatre credits include Swords into Plowshares (Central Square Theatre), Billy Costa's High School Quiz Show (WGBH), Cambridge University Press: ESL Language Videos (Viewpoint & Touchstone Productions), Soldiers (Horton Productions LLC) Night Surf (Emerson College). She looks forward to graduating in May and moving to NYC. Aside from acting she enjoys modeling, dancing, painting, writing, playing sudoku and spending time with her friends and family. For more information check out her website at: www.selimasmithdell.com

Priya - Shubhra Prakash

Shubhra has lived in Kolkata, New Delhi, San Francisco Bay Area and now resides in New York City.  In NYC since 2012, she has acted in USA Network's Royal Pains, on stage in Columbia University's Vagina Monologues, sung in Brooklyn Community Theater's musical Once on this Island and acted in Marcus Yi's, The Procedure as part of the Planet Connections Festival 13'.  Her short film Three Dates, which she directed and produced was screened at New York Indian Film Festival 13' and WilliFest 13'.  She would like to thank her friends and family for always being supportive.
Contact : prakashnitza@gmail.com 

Professor Messere - Kevin Kate

Kevin Kate at the age of nine saw a film called "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" (1956) which started a dream, although not fully realized to him at the time. Later in life he performed in rock bands, writing, singing and playing guitar/harmonica. Then, that dream he had at nine was awakened. Now, acting for well over a decade he considers this to be the most cathartic, fulfilling activity in his life. Some productions he's been involved in include local commercials, playing characters in college/Indie films e.g. Mr. Moretta, in the feature “Swink”  and the lead role in the award winning film “Jack Milton: Fairy tale Detective”, won at The Boston International Film Festival. Kevin proudly supports Filmaid and other humanitarian organizations.