Tales of Chelm

Jesse Garlick is a Boston based actor, director and theater educator. 

Off-Broadway credits: Good (PTP/Atlantic), Who Would Be King (Ars Nova/Liars & Believers). Regional credits: A Christmas Carol, Journey to the West, Arcadia (Central Square Theatre) Good, Assassins, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (New Repertory Theatre) Who Would Be King, Yellow Bird Chase, A Story Beyond (Liars & Believers), Hamlet, As You Like It (Brown Box Theatre Project) Salome (Bridge Rep) Beowulf (Poets Theatre). Jesse is a former faculty member at the Boston Ballet’s ECI Department. In addition, Jesse has taught acting, devising and movement at numerous schools and summer programs across the Northeast. Jesse holds a BFA in acting from Boston University as well as having attended the Academia Dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy and Shakespeare&Company in Lenox, MA. He is currently an MFA candidate at the Actors Studio Drama School at Pace University as well as acting Education Director for the Boston based devising company Liars & Believers, with whom he will be bringing the original deaf-accessible play Yellow Bird Chase to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2022. 

Dori Robinson is a director, playwright, dramaturg, and educator. She seeks and develops projects that explore social consciousness, personal heritage, and the difference one individual has on their community. Some of her great loves are the Oxford comma, trees, intersectional feminism, and exchanging with artistic collaborators. 

With a Masters degree from New York University’s Educational Theatre program, Dori has been a director and experiential educator for years.  As an avid teaching artist, she shares her love of Shakespeare, new play development, physical theatre, political theatre, and gender in performance. Directing credits include: Silent Sky (Elliot Norton Winner for Best Production – Fringe, Flat Earth Theatre), A Bright Room Called Day, Julius Caesar (co-director), The Merchant of Venice, Die Kleinen (Parts 1 & 2), The Lion in Winter, Extremities, Flight, Pippin, James and the Giant Peach, and Peter and the Starcatcher. Dori’s original plays have been produced in New York, Chicago, and Boston, including: The Great Harvest, The Principal Stream, Name of a Woman, Six Wings to One, and most recently The Elm Tree with her company, Alight Theater Guild.