the company

Travis Boswell received his formal training from Saginaw Valley State University, where he had the great fortune of working with his mentor, the late Marc Gordon. Since graduating, he has been working as an actor several different markets as well as mediums. In the world of cinema, he played the role of Darryl Jacobi in the multi-award winning short film Rhapsody in Red, and Stuart 'Stoop Lova' Jones, for The Westminster Wives Show. Travis is pleased to be returning to Boston with his good friends at Whistler in the Dark.

Ben Fainstein is Co-Artistic Director of Whistler in the Dark and is excited at this first opportunity to be on the other side of a Whistler stage.  Past acting credits include Bunnicula (Imagination Stage), The Best Man (Potomac Theatre Project), and Seal Skin (Dangerous Animal), in addition to roles performed at Middlebury College, where he received his B.A. in Theatre and Music.

Lorna Nogueira studied theater at UMass Boston and has been acting in and around Boston for the past ten years.  Most recently she appeared as the mercenary Mama in imaginary beasts' production of The Tragicomedy of Don Cristobal and Mistress Rosita, Helene Hanff in the Medway Players' 84 Charing Cross Road and was part of Whistler in the Dark's pub tour of All This Flying, All This Tumbling Down - four short plays by Dario Fo and Franca Rama.  In her off-time, she co-hosts - with Michael Legge - a public access horror show called The Dungeon of Dr. Dreck which now airs in Brookline!

Jennifer O'Connor graduated from Salem State College with a BFA in Theatre Performance.  She is a company member of Whistler in the Dark as well as Company Manager for imaginary beasts where she will be performing this June in Impossible Things, a new work inspired by Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland at the Boston Center for the Arts.

Beth Pearson is a 2007 Connecticut College graduate (BA Theatre and French) and company member with imaginary beasts, where she most recently performed as Rosita in Lorca's The Tragicomedy of Don Cristobal and Sena Rosita.  Other highlights include Truffaldino in Servant to Two Masters and Sumiko in Charles Mee's Fêtes de la Nuit at Connecticut College, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet and Miranda in The Tempest with Sleepy Lion Theatre.   

Nick Ronan is an actor and director returned to Boston after graduating the George Washington University with a BA in English and Theatre.  He studied classical acting at the London Dramatic Academy, and spent last summer at the Williamstown Theatre Festival as an acting apprentice.  Most recently, he directed the new one act What We Save as part of the Boston Actors Theater Summer Play Festival.  Favorite roles include Carter in Neil Labute's Fat Pig, Bacchus/Eriscython in Zimmerman's Metamorphoses, and Ross in Albee's The Goat or Who is Sylvia?