Our Members

• Melissa Cogswell

  Melissa Cogswell grew up in Vermont where she completed the Performing Arts: Acting program at the Southern Vermont Technical Career Center in 2002, working on such shows as Jesus Christ Superstar (ensemble), Talk to Me Like the Rain & Let Me Listen (director), Brighton Beach Memoirs (Nora), and Dracula (assistant director). She then took a break from the stage and obtained her BA in Social Science and Education from Keene State College.

  Melissa made her Boston area theatre debut in 2009 with Flat Earth's production of Blood Relations (Miss Lizzie/Bridget) and has been with the company since, assisting with props and costumes on The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and directing 2010's On This Moon and 2011's The Goat or Who is Sylvia?.

• Laura Cunningham

• Leigh Downes

  Equipment Manager; Chair, Incorporation Committee

  Leigh graduated from the Rochester Institute of Technology in 2009 with a BSEE-Tech and returned to his hometown of Watertown. He's an alum of the Watertown Children's Theatre, WHS Drama Club, former RIT Players' President and treasurer, and advocate of deaf theatre at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at RIT. He has been working tech for live music, theatre and dance for over ten years, specializing in sound systems and lighting design.

  His theatrical highlights include Charlie Bucket in WCT's Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Brick in WHS's Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, producing and artistic director of RIT's Isaac Asimov's: The Last Question, director and TD of Flat Earth's The Actor's Nightmare, lead sound engineer for RIT's Little Shop of Horrors, and most recently both sound designer and the role of Bernard Nightingale in Tom Stoppard's Arcadia at RIT.

  Leigh has worked with Flat Earth since the first production of Kevin Mullins's Joe in 2006 and is happy to be on board full time with his friends now that he's returned from school.

• Amelia Fountain

  Many experts believe that Amelia B. Fountain was born and raised in the deep woods of central Massachusetts. Research suggests that she has studied and experimented with several creative avenues, often with a primary focus on the visual arts. It is rumored that she has assisted Flat Earth Theatre with several artistic endeavors, including live sound effects for the Halloween productions of The War of the Worlds in 2008 and 2009, props for the 2009 production of Twelve Angry Jurors, and the poster for the original play Evening Primrose for Halloween 2010. It has also been implied that she has offered some assistance at the ticket sales table, and has reportedly been observed on many occasions clapping loudly and hollering from the audience during curtain calls. If you have any information as to the current whereabouts of Amelia, we want to keep the mystery alive, so please don't tell us.

• Coriana Hunt Swartz

  Secretarial Scribe; Costume Manager; Marketing & Public Relations Manager

  

  Coriana Hunt Swartz has belonged body and soul to Flat Earth Theatre since early 2008, with brief sabbaticals to design costumes for The Commonwealth Opera of Western Mass (Brundibar, 2008) and Lobsterback Entertainment (The Celebration and Natalie, Queen of Scots) and to act with the Happy Medium Theatre (Family DeValues, 2010) and the Independent Drama Society (Eurydice, 2011).

  Within Flat Earth, Coriana has appeared as Thomas in Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All for You and as Juror #2 of the Twelve Angry Jurors. Her costume design credits include No Exit, A Night With Durang, Blood Relations, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and The Goat, or, Who is Sylvia? She has dabbled in stage management and props design and is currently exploring the world of arts marketing.

  Coriana is utterly fascinated by the bounded tensions inherent in the construction of wings.

• Sarah Kimball

  Company Development Manager

  Sarah joined Flat Earth Theatre in their first season after playing the role of The Valet in John Paul Sartre's No Exit in 2008. Since then, she has played many roles in Flat Earth's productions both on and off stage. She has appeared in The Actor's Nightmare (Ellen), Twelve Angry Jurors (Juror Five), and As Bees in Honey Drown (Bethany et alia), as well as produced Rossum's Universal Robots. In January 2010, she made her directoral debut with The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged).

• Kevin Kordis

  Facilitator; Chair, Fund Raising Committee

• Nathan Kruback

• Amy Lehrmitt

  Selectman; Chair, Play-Reading Committee

  Ames was graduated from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst with a Bachelor's of the Arts in English. While there, she co-founded and served as secretary for the underground sketch comedy troupe Don't Make a Scene, in which she acted, wrote, and directed pieces in shows until she moved to Boston.

  Flat Earth Theatre then endowed her with roles in Rossum's Universal Robots (Fabry) and Twelve Angry Jurors (Juror Twelve). Since then, Ames has found a comfortable niche behind the scenes, stage managing for Flat Earth's productions of Blood Relations, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), On This Moon, As Bees in Honey Drown, The Goat or, Who is Sylvia?, The Underpants, Bug, and Copenhagen. She also chairs the play-reading committee, serves as the company's Selectman, and writes when she can.

• Kevin Mullins

  Kevin graduated from Hampshire College in 2007 with a BA in Playwriting and Arts Management. A native of Watertown, Kevin got his start in theatre with the Watertown Children's Theatre. While studying at Watertown High School, Kevin was highly involved in the school's theatre arts program. At Hampshire, he served as facilitator of the school's Theatre Board which controls which direction the theatre department will take throughout the year including monetary allocation and slotting.

  An accomplished playwright, several of Kevin's own plays have been produced. Including the true-crime drama, Thrill, which explores the story of early thrill killers Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb; Joe, the tale of a disenfranchised man seeking revenge for the death of his wife; and The Empress, a twisted, futuristic whodunit story of regicide, greed, and forbidden love.

  Kevin's major areas of interest are playwriting, producing, theatre for young audiences, and theatre for social change. He is a firm believer that the medium of Theatre can be used as a powerful tool to teach and enlighten - as well as entertain.

• Kelly Noonan

• Justus Perry

  

  Justus Perry is an actor, writer, and general foolhardy person. He is a graduate of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he helped form a sketch comedy troupe, Don't Make A Scene, and spent much of his free time giggling and watching professional wrestling. Occasionally he was known to do his coursework. Occasionally.

  He first worked with Flat Earth on Rossum's Universal Robots, and has been unable to extricate himself ever since. He has acted in or worked on a number of productions with Flat Earth, including Twelve Angry Jurors, Blood Relations, On This Moon, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged) (which he had been wishing to put on since high school), and As Bees in Honey Drown. When he's not working with Flat Earth, he's working with the sketch troupe MOSAIC at ImprovBoston, or working on other theater projects or short films. He is surprisingly amusing to spend time with, if you like that sort of thing.

• James Rossi

• Jake Scaltreto

  Treasurer; Production Manager; Chair, Finance Committee

  Jake has been a member of Flat Earth since its founding in 2006 and continues to be involved both on and off stage. Growing up in Watertown, he was a member of the Watertown Children's Theatre.

  His directoral credits with Flat Earth include, Joe, segments of All In The Timing, The Glass Menagerie, R.U.R, Blood Relations, the 2009 production of The War of the Worlds, and As Bees in Honey Drown. As a producer, he's worked on Flat Earth's productions of No Exit, Twelve Angry Jurors, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), and The Goat or, Who is Sylvia? On stage he's appeared in Sure Thing as part of All in the Timing, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it all For You, and Twelve Angry Jurors.

  Jake also serves as the company's Treasurer and Production Manager.

• Michael Wayne Smith

• Adam Teti