World premiere production of THE PLEIADES by Darcie Dennigan 2018/19 Season; photo by Erin X. Smithers.
RESIDENT ARTISTS
The Wilbury Theatre Group began in 2010 as an ever-evolving collaboration of artists united by a shared commitment to boundary-pushing theatre.
In 2016 The Wilbury Group began assembling those artists who over the years embodied the Wilbury Group's mission in their commitment to their craft, to our shared principles of excellence and artistic provocation, who embraced work that took risks with style and content, and who demonstrate a shared commitment to the work of the Group.
The Wilbury Group's Resident Artists are the artists at the center of our commitment to the community, the force behind our re-imagining of classic and established plays, and important voices in our development of new works.
Contact Our Resident Artists: residents@thewilburygroup.org
In 2016 The Wilbury Group began assembling those artists who over the years embodied the Wilbury Group's mission in their commitment to their craft, to our shared principles of excellence and artistic provocation, who embraced work that took risks with style and content, and who demonstrate a shared commitment to the work of the Group.
The Wilbury Group's Resident Artists are the artists at the center of our commitment to the community, the force behind our re-imagining of classic and established plays, and important voices in our development of new works.
Contact Our Resident Artists: residents@thewilburygroup.org
BETH ALIANIELLO, she / her
An actor with The Wilbury Group since 2014, Beth has appeared in You Got Older, The Skin of Our Teeth, Cabaret; RESCUE! Or, The Fish, The Happy End, The Pleiades, Invisible UpSouth (New Works/Studio W); The Debt parts 3 & 4, Ask the Void, A Painting (and Murder!) by Numbers, Chernobyl Babies (2020 Streaming Series); Unfortunate Fits, a/s/l (Staged-Reading Series); Jenny Must Die, The Servant of 2 Masters (FRINGEPVD). Beth's work with other theatres includes; The Rocky Horror Show, Club Grimm, Dream, King Lear, Marat/Sade, Jane Eyre (OUT LOUD Theatre); The Penelopiad (Epic); Bad Money (Perishable). Beth is a member of OUT LOUD Theatre’s Core Ensemble and a frequent volunteer with the Manton Avenue Project. A graduate of Tulane University, she lives in Providence. DARCIE DENNIGAN, she / her
Darcie Dennigan is interested in poets theatre, otherworldliness, and female absurdists. She was named Resident Playwright with The Wilbury Theatre Group in February 2019, where her roductions developed and produced with the Group include; The Pleiades, The Happy End, and RESCUE! Or, The Fish. In 2019 Dennigan was a co-creator of The Olneyville Expo: A Celebration of Olneyville Past, Present, and Future with Jesse Hawley and James Stanley, and her latest work, Chernobyl Babies, received a staged-reading as part of The Wilbury Group's Streaming series in March 2020, and will receive its world premiere production in the Wilbury Group's 2020/21 Season. For the Providence Fringe Fest, she has staged three books of poetry: Monica de la Torre's The Happy End / All Welcome, Kate Colby's I Mean, and her own poem-play Dandelion Farm, which was inspired by Pina Bausch's "1980." An award-winning poet, she is also the author of the novel Slater Orchard (coming in Fall 2019) and a collection of performance texts, The Parking Lot and other feral scenarios. Favorite living playwrights: Adrienne Kennedy and Sibyl Kempson. 
DARAJA HINDS, she / her
As an actor with The Wilbury Group, Daraja has appeared in The Burn / More Weight, The Climate Change Plays, Spring Awakening, Mr. Burns - a Post Electric Play, Straight White Men, Ui; Other theaters(select): A Midsummer Night's Dream, Hamlet (Boston Theater Company); Me, Myself and Three, Polkadots: The Cool Kids Musical (Ocean State Theatre Company); Theory of Seduction (Appolinaire Theatre); Legally Blonde, Caucasian Chalk Circle, In the Next Room, All My Sons, Avenue Q, Metamorphoses (University of Rhode Island); The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Mad Hat Theatre). |
Diego Guevara and Daraja Hinds in Ui [oo-ey] 2016/17 Season; photo by Maggie Hall.
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KERI KING, she / her
Keri King is a cross-disciplinary artist based in Providence, RI. Previous productions with the Wilbury Group include Dance Nation, You Got Older, Miss You Like Hell, The Burn, Futurity, The Pirates of Penzance or, The Slave of Duty, The Skin of Our Teeth, and Church. Her large-scale public art installations have been featured at Providence Public Library, the Dirt Palace, and the Pawtucket Arts Festival, among others. In addition to her work with The Wilbury Group, Keri teaches Integrated Arts to students K-8 at the Wolf School and she is currently an artist-in-residence at AS220. www.kerikingstudio.com 
BRIEN LANG, he / him
Directing with Wilbury include The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Futurity, Mr. Burns: A Post-Electric Play, Passing Strange, A Public Reading of…Walt Disney We Won't Pay, We Won't Pay! Acting with Wilbury –Stupid F@#$ing Bird (Trig), 10,000 Things(Priest) Cabaret (Ernst Ludwig), Threepenny Opera (Tiger Brown), Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson (John Calhoun), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Donny). Also with Wilbury – Sound & Music Design for Ill Seen, Ill Said and Not I, Co-Music Director of This Beautiful City (with Milly Romanzi) and Music Director for DeStefano on the Air and The Teller. He also composed original music for Caucasian Chalk Circle at URI. Other directing projects (select) Medea, Waiting for Godot and Polish Joke – NewGate Theatre, The Gays of Our Lives – Boston and Providence Pride Festivals, The Frogs – adapted and directed for a City of Providence sponsored tour. His original musical Road House: The Return of the Concert of the Musical received its premiere as part of Wilbury New Works and his musical The My Way Murders debuted in the PVD Fringe 2016. 
MARCEL MASCARO, they / them
Marcel Mascaro is a non binary Theatrical artist located in Providence, who is interested in contradictions, change, social justice, truth, immigrants, refugees, politics,representation, complexity, intersectionality, radical accountability,anti racism, pain, love and patience. Previous productions with The Wilbury Group include: Decameron, Providence; Miss You Like Hell; The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart; The Olneyville Expo; and Red Bike. 
DON MAYS, he / him
Don Mays is a Writer, Filmmaker, Director, and Photographer based in Providence. As a filmmaker, Mays has one feature film, one HBO short film, a documentary and several short films and scripts to his credit. As a theatre director, Mays has worked with several local theaters including The Providence Black Rep and The Wilbury Theatre Group, where his work has appeared in Decameron, Providence, and as Director of Hype Man: a break-beat play and the Group's 2020 production of the musical Miss You Like Hell. In 2021, Don wrote, directed, and starred in the twelve-part audio play God Talks To An Agnostic, presented by The Wilbury Group in collaboration with AFRI Productions and The Public's Radio. Currently Mays has used his photography skills to document the uprising in association with the Black Lives Matters movement. |
Brien Lang, Jennifer Mischley, and Jason Quinn in The Pirates of Penzance Or, The Slave of Duty 2017/18 Season; photo by Maggie Hall.
JENNIFER MISCHLEY, she / her
A Resident Artist with The Wilbury Theatre Group since 2019, Jennifer Mischley earned her B.A. in Theatre from Rhode Island College and M.S. from Boston University. Previous roles at the Wilbury Group include Fun Home (Helen Bechdel), The Pirates of Penzance (Major General/Pirate), Mr. Burns, a post electric play (Maria/Lisa Simpson), and The Revel. Jennifer's work with other theatres includes; Gloria, "Gloria/Nan" (GAMM Theatre); She Loves Me (Greater Boston Stage Company); Far From Heaven (Speakeasy Stage Company); Ocean State Theatre Company: Gypsy, The Addams Family, The Miracle Worker, Avenue Q. 
JASON QUINN, he / him
An actor with the Wilbury Theatre Group since 2015, Jason Quinn has appeared in Miss You like Hell, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart, Resuce or The Fish , The Servant of Two Masters, Futruity, The Pirates of Penzance, Father Ubu, Church, Passing Strange. Jason has also provided musical direction with Wilbury for The Pleiadas and Red Bike. With other theaters, Jason has appeared in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (2nd Story Theatre) ; When Mahalia Sings, Jesus Hopped the A-Train (Mixed Magic Theatre);Titus Andronicus , Twelfth Night (Burbage Theatre Company); Booty Candy, Mr Marmalade (Epic Theatre);String Theory, Ophelia's Cotillion (Rites and Reasons); He resides in Pawtucket. MATT REQUINTINA, he / him
Matt's productions with the Wilbury Group include Miss You Like Hell (Music Director); The Pirates of Penzance or, The Slave of Duty (Music Director); Ubu Roi (The Bass Player); Skin of Our Teeth (Music Director); Church (The Guitar Player) Spring Awakening (Music Director); and Passing Strange (Music Director). Matthew is a member of band Toy Sale. |
Matt Requintina in rehearsal for CHURCH 2017/18 Season; photo by Maggie Hall.
SHEY RIVERA RÍOS, they / them
Shey Rivera Ríos is an interdisciplinary artist, cultural strategist, and arts administrator. Their artistic creations span a myriad of topics, from home to capitalism to queerness and magic. Rivera has 10 years of experience in the nonprofit arts sector intersecting creative practice with urban planning and racial equity. Rivera was also former Artistic/Co-Director of AS220, a renowned arts organization and creative incubator in Providence, RI, and successor to AS220 founder Umberto Crenca. After 8 years at AS220, Rivera is now Director of Inclusive Regional Development at MIT CoLab, in the Dept of Urban Studies and Planning of MIT, where they co-design and implement workshops on collective leadership and community innovation in Colombia. Rivera has a BA in Psychology and Sociology from the University of Puerto Rico (UPR-Rio Piedras), and graduate studies in Contemporary Media and Culture from the University of the Sacred Heart, San Juan, Puerto Rico. They serve on the City of Providence's Design Review Committee of the Dept of Planning, appointed by the Mayor of Providence. And is on the board of directors of the Alliance of Artist Communities. Key artistic projects are the LUNA LOBA performance series and the FANTASY ISLAND transmedia project. Shey Rivera Ríos is a 2020 Artist-in-Residence at The Wilbury Group. During their time with The Wilbury Group, they will present the LUBA LOBA series, and premiere a Queer Latinx short play and immersive experience based on the story of Antigone. 
ANDY RUSS, he / him
As a designer with the Wilbury Group, Andy's work has appeared in The Burn, Hype Man: a break-beat play, How I Learned to Drive (lights/sound/projections); The Pirates of Penzance (lights/sound); The Skin of Our Teeth (lights); New & Dangerous Ideas (lights/sound/projections); Caretaker (lights/sound); Spring Awakening (lights); Mr. Burns (lights/sound); Betrayal (lights/sound); Di and Viv and Rose (sound); 10,000 Things (lights); Ui (oo-ey) (lights/sound); Jerusalem (sound); Cain + Abel (sound); Since 2016 Andy has served as the Technical Director for FRINGEPVD The Providence Fringe Festival. In addition to his work with the Wilbury Group, Andy is the Artistic Director of Passive Aggressive Novelty Company, based in Providence, RI. |
MONICA SHINN, she / her
An accomplished designer, painter, steel fabricator, and electrician; having a technician’s knowledge and a fine art training informs all of Monica Shinn's design work and her painting. As a theatrical designer, Monica's work has appeared with Perishable Theater, the Providence Black Repertory Company, and the Brown Playwriting Festival. With the Wilbury Group Monica's designs include Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Krapp's Last Tape, Lifted, Dance Nation, You Got Older, Fun Home, Blasted, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Dry Land, Jerusalem, 10,000 Things, How I Learned to Drive, and The Flick which had the Providence debut in a site-specific production at the Cable Car Theatre. As a visual artist Monica's paintings describe her neighborhood, bits and pieces of daily life in Providence and other places. She composes as a colorist, pushing depth and dimension with the force of color rather than traditional time perspective. Her drawings tend more toward reality than realism and her spare works on paper are often achingly stark and true. www.monicashinn.com
An accomplished designer, painter, steel fabricator, and electrician; having a technician’s knowledge and a fine art training informs all of Monica Shinn's design work and her painting. As a theatrical designer, Monica's work has appeared with Perishable Theater, the Providence Black Repertory Company, and the Brown Playwriting Festival. With the Wilbury Group Monica's designs include Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Krapp's Last Tape, Lifted, Dance Nation, You Got Older, Fun Home, Blasted, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Dry Land, Jerusalem, 10,000 Things, How I Learned to Drive, and The Flick which had the Providence debut in a site-specific production at the Cable Car Theatre. As a visual artist Monica's paintings describe her neighborhood, bits and pieces of daily life in Providence and other places. She composes as a colorist, pushing depth and dimension with the force of color rather than traditional time perspective. Her drawings tend more toward reality than realism and her spare works on paper are often achingly stark and true. www.monicashinn.com
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Andy Russ in his show VESSEL at the Providence Fringe Festival; photo by Erin X. Smithers.
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