Recent Alumni Bios

See also: active member bios

Class of G

Ankur Chavda [expand]
- MIT YEAR: G

James Salamy [expand]
- MIT YEAR: G

Michael Skuhersky [expand]
- MIT YEAR: G

Annie Wei [expand]
- MIT YEAR: G

Christine Zhang [expand]
- MIT YEAR: G

Class of 2024

Kelcey Allen [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2024

Katherine He [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2024

Ishika Shah [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2024

Leon Fan [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2024

Class of 2023

Toby Glenhaber [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2023

Theo Black [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2023

Nina Morch [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2023

Aquila Simmons [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2023

Lacthu Vu [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2023

Class of 2022

Valerie Chen [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Lori Won [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Alena Culbertson [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Joseph Bonavia [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Lulu Russell [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Sarah Knopf [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Alexander Tsao [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Diana Renteria [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Lainie Beauchemin [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Sualeh Asif [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Raul Alfredo Alcantara Castillo [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Crystal Su [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2022

Class of 2021

Laura Pierson [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

Maya Levy [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021
- MIT MAJOR(s): 20

Anjali Nambrath [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

Nelson Niu [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

Johnson Huynh [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

Alex Evenchik [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

Val Yearwood [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

Eryn Gillam [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

James Drayton [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

Jude He [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

Nabil Khalil [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

Patricia Gao [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2021

Class of 2020

Katie Henshaw [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Michelle Kornberg [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Grace Kuffner [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020
- Grace has finally fulfilled her dream of having a profile on the Ensemble website so she can stalk herself. (Disclaimer: This bio not written by Grace.) Grace desires to sleep, perchance to have an entire dream in iambic pentameter. (Disclaimer: This bio written by Grace.)

Joey Noszek [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020
- MIT MAJOR(s): 1
- "I wasn't on the website, so then I said something, and now I'm on the website."

Katherine Yee [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020
- Yeeeeeeeeeeeees!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have a bio!

Melody Tan [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Rona Wang [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Ryan Polk [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Mary Dahl [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Luke Bordonaro [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020
- MIT MAJOR(s): 8
- "Luke? He's like...the best guy I ever met." -Luke

Alicia Nimrick [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Zach Obsniuk [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020
- MIT MAJOR(s): 18
- As the webmaster, he should be updating bios for everyone else. If you're reading this he left it as a placeholder to remind himself to update everyone else bios. He hopes you enjoy the presence of at least one bio among these members, namely him, but obviously it would be nice if it were 1. Less meta 2. Accompanied by bios of all the other members and 3. didn't include an inline list and 4. wasn't super-meta-ironic.

Ruth Tweedy [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Talya Klinger [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Nicole Thumma [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020
- MIT MAJOR(s): 6-2

Sarah Powazek [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

PJ Hernandez [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Lauren Clamon [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Rishabh Chandra [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Natasha Stark [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Elton Zhou [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2020

Class of 2019

Kacie Bawiec [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2019

Sofia Ayala [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2019

Megan Goodell [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2019
- MIT MAJOR(s): 12
- Megan was discovered and selected as one flowering plant within the progeny of the stated cross by Cornelis P. VandenBerg on Jan. 16, 1986, in a controlled environment in Salinas, Calif. Horticultural examination of controlled flowerings of successive plantings has shown that the unique combination of characteristics as herein disclosed for Megan are firmly fixed and are retained through successive generations of asexual reproduction. Megan has not been observed under all possible environmental conditions. The phenotype may vary significantly with variations in environment such as temperature, light intensity and daylength, without, however, any variance in genotype. (Patent USPP8756)

Christopher Cassidy [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2019
- MIT MAJOR(s): 22
- Christopher studies nuclear engineering and does lighting for the Shakespeare Ensemble and other groups across campus. He enjoys the opportunity to continue doing theater/lighting at MIT and meet all the other wonderful people involved. In his occasional free time, he enjoys playing PC games, scuba diving, and digging up ancient villages.

Bethany Cates [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2019

Tuan Nguyen [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2019
- MIT MAJOR(s): 6-2

John Bond [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2019
- MIT MAJOR(s): 2A

Collin Fijalkovich [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2019
- MIT MAJOR(s): 6

Tyler Pleasant [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2019

Maura Hennessey [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2019

Class of 2018

Tal Scully [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018
- MIT MAJOR(s): Physics and Theater Arts
- Tal enjoys kittens sleeping in front of fireplaces, glass vases filled with chocolates, big pockets, flutes and piccolos, bunnies, long walks on the beach, short walks on the beach, swims in the ocean next to the beach, sand castles on the beach, killing sand castles, and yelling Shakespeare at random passers-by. She will probably like you too!

Peter Duerst [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018
- MIT MAJOR(s): Theater Arts and Mechanical Engineering
- Peter is usually found either acting on the stage or helping to build it. His life goal is to act as a wheel of cheese.

Kim Dauber [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018
- MIT MAJOR(s): 6-2
- Kim hangs around the Ensemble for friendship and because theater is gradually taking over more and more of her life. You've probably seen her around in Musical Theater Guild productions such as Hack Punt Tool. She hopes that her Ensemble legacy will be the tradition of a member who isn't involved in the show bringing snacks to Q2Q. Kim currently works as a software developer at Ab Initio Software Corporation.

Robert Thorpe II [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018
- MIT MAJOR(s): 6
- Robert was going to write a bio, but the Bard smote him before he was finished.

Azalea Weisblat [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018
- MIT MAJOR(s): 6-3 / 18
- Azalea has been a theater enthusiast since late high school and a member of the Shakespeare Ensemble since her freshman year. She enjoys both acting and teching, and looks forward to doing more of both in future shows. She's also a member of several other theater groups around MIT. She sings in various groups, does puzzles, and does outdoorsy things in her free time. You can find her portfolio at http://azalea.weisbl.at/shows.html

David Ricardo [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018

Victoria Longe [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018

Brandon Sanchez [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018

Chris Balaam [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018

Andres Galindo [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018
- MIT MAJOR(s): 3A-6

Max Evans [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2018

Class of 2017

Jake Gunter [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 21E
- Jake, as the implementer of this website, has the unique honor of being the numerically first entry in the Ensemble's digital member database.

Victor Gutierrez [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 2
- Victor Gutierrez left the ensemble to go on a quest to find the crystal skull. He hasn't been seen since.

Nathan Gutierrez [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 6-2
- Nathan is the unofficial resident sound designer and one of two official web admins for Shakespeare Ensemble. He spends his free time composing music that reverberates with darkwave, gothic, and indie influences. Additionally, Nathan enjoys gothic literature, vampires, and being introspective.

Amelia Smith [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 24-2
- Amelia was too hungry to write a bio.

Noelle Colant [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 10

Raine Hasskew [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 8
- WOOOOOOO ACTING. Also tech. :D

Colin Aitken [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 18
- "Do you want a bio for the website?" "Not really."

Melanie Abrams [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 21W

Rose Robb [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 18
- Rose is one of the madrasahs of the medina of Tunis, located in the Booksellers Street, near the Al-Zaytuna Mosque and in front of the Guachachine Hammam.

Elizabeth Parizh [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 14

Kris Kim [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 2A

Loren Sherman [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2017
- MIT MAJOR(s): 21E

Class of 2016

Charlotte Swasey [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2016
- MIT MAJOR(s): 17
- "writing a bio sounds hard so i'm not going to do it."

Samantha Harper [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2016
- MIT MAJOR(s): 1
- Sami has been involved in a lot of theater-y things at MIT and long before TFP was even on her radar. She enjoys acting, singing, dancing poorly, and building things sometimes. Hooray for the Ensemble!

Cami Ramirez-Arau [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2016
- MIT MAJOR(s): 2
- Cami is an unincorporated community near Opequon Creek in Berkeley County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Located on West Virginia Route 9 southeast of Martinsburg, Baker Heights is the site of the Martinsburg Veterans Affairs Medical Center.

Class of 2015

Linda Xu [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2015
- MIT MAJOR(s): 8

Stephanie Cheng [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2015
- MIT MAJOR(s): 14
- Stephanie swore she was going to stop donating parts of her soul to the Ensemble, but then awesome shows happened. And meeting fantastic friends. And now she can’t imagine life without it. Ah well. At least they feed her cheesy fries.

Delphine Kaiser [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2015
- MIT MAJOR(s): 2A
- Delphine has found that her passion in life is making sure things happen without anyone dying. The Ensemble allows her to do this for extra cool shows with awesome people which is a definite plus.

Lillian McKinley [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2015
- MIT MAJOR(s): 7
- "Lillian, do you have a bio?" "Oops. Not right now."

Shanté Stowell [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2015
- MIT MAJOR(s): 1C
- Shante enjoys organizing that which is hectic, especially if that which is hectic also includes amazing people. The Ensemble continues to give her a steady supply of hectic things and amazing people, so she's sticking around for a while.

Majdolene Khweis [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2015
- MIT MAJOR(s): 1

Class of 2014

Salvador Esparza [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2014
- MIT MAJOR(s): 9
- Salvador Esparza ('14) is so grateful to have gotten the opportunity to work with the Shakespeare Ensemble in his time at MIT. He will never forget the work he got to do with the amazingly talented bunch that were members when he was.

Neil Fitzgerald [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2014
- MIT MAJOR(s): 6-3

Allison Schneider [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2014
- MIT MAJOR(s): 12

Keenan Sunderwirth [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2014
- MIT MAJOR(s): 2
- Keenan is a person who was here for while. She did some acting and one time she built things. The ensemble was her family and her home, sometimes literally. She was best known for: making a heart with her hands then breaking it in half and eating it, the crab walk, and her extreme subtlety and charm.

Mark Velednitsky [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2014
- MIT MAJOR(s): 18
- Mark is grateful to the Shakespeare Ensemble for giving him a community to call home during his four years at MIT. He acted in all eight term shows! His favorite roles were Prospero and Hamlet. He also enjoyed serving as Chair and then President during his latter two years.

Adam Strandberg [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2014
- MIT MAJOR(s): 8

Class of 2013

Rebecca De Las Cuevas [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2013
- MIT MAJOR(s): 5

Jennifer Quintana [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2013
- MIT MAJOR(s): 16

Ari Smith [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2013
- MIT MAJOR(s): 9

Avanti Shrikumar [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2013
- MIT MAJOR(s): 6-7

Class of 2012

Anna Brunner [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2012
- MIT MAJOR(s): 12

Paul Romer [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2012
- MIT MAJOR(s): 5

Sarah Laderman [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2012
- MIT MAJOR(s): 22, 17

Alexandra Manick [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2012
- MIT MAJOR(s): 3

Elaina Present [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2012
- MIT MAJOR(s): 2

Class of 2011

Grace Kane [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2011
- MIT MAJOR(s): 2-OE

Brianna Conrad [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2011
- MIT MAJOR(s): 8

Sara Ferry [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2011
- MIT MAJOR(s): 22

Class of 2010

Marilyn Edobor [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2010
- MIT MAJOR(s): 1C

Deirdre LaBounty [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2010

Class of 2009

Hanna Kuznetsov [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2009
- MIT MAJOR(s): 7

Sabrina Neuman [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2009
- MIT MAJOR(s): 6

Class of 2008

Olivia Leitermann [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2008

Class of 2007

Holly Laird [expand]
- MIT YEAR: 2007
- MIT MAJOR(s): 2

Class of

Abby Simpkins [expand]

Mathieu Gomez [expand]