Wendy Lippe, Ph.D. (HER/Artistic Director) is a clinical psychologist and Producing Artistic Director of The Psych Drama Company, a 501©3 non-profit theater company which has performed in Boston, NYC and Rhode Island. Dr. Lippe was on the faculty of Harvard Medical School for over a decade, and has been on the faculty and served as a Visiting Researcher at Boston University for over twenty years. She has private practice offices in Brookline and Cambridge, MA. Dr. Lippe has an extensive history in the theater. Most notably, Dr. Lippe developed and portrayed a female Hamlet for three different Boston area theater companies. She was most recently seen as Ann in Albee’s At Home at the Zoo. Other favorite roles include Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter, Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire, Martha in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Amanda Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie, Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard, Goneril in King Lear, Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Inez in No Exit, and Lady MacBeth in MacBeth. Dr. Lippe's theater work has been featured on WBUR, WCVB/Channel 5, in the Boston Globe, Motif Magazine, Edge Media Network, BU Today, The New England Psychologist, The Brookline Tab, The Worcester Telegram and Gazette, and other local newspapers and radio stations. Wendy is a member of Actors' Equity Association.
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Kenny Kelliher (HE) - Bio Coming Soon...
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David Lee Vincent (Director) has been a film, television, and stage actor since 2015. He’s worked in Boston, Providence, New York, the Midwest, and New England. On stage, he has appeared in the premiere of Love in An Elevator, Psych Drama’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and At Home at the Zoo, the Shawshank Redemption, and the Comedy of Errors, among over thirty others. In film, Vincent has appeared in feature films and shorts, including Rocket Club, A Therapeutic Dose, Portrait of the Artist as a Dead Man, This Bar, and over twenty other short and feature films. His recent web series appearances include Hearts of New England and Sherlock Holmes: The Doctor’s Stories. He has appeared in local and regional commercials playing a wide range of characters, from the goofy to the poignant and dramatic. He has trained at the Portland Acorn Studios, Boston Casting, Blackwood’s Master Class, and currently with James DuMont’s On Camera Workouts. David lives in Newburyport, MA, with his partner Sandra Garron and his German Wirehaired Pointer, Dee. He is thrilled to be part of Stage Kiss at the Boston Center for the Arts.
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David Noelle Scarlett (Millicent/Laurie) is excited to be in her first the Psych Drama Company production! She has been acting since the age of 7 and received her BA in Theatre Arts at Boston College ('18). You can also see her perform in Sh!tfaced Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream this fall at the Lil Chuck! |
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Julia Trueblood (Angela) is a Boston based artist, making her Psych Drama debut. Selected theater credits include The Arsonists (Praxis Stage), Destiny and all it Toils (Greg Allen, dir), Homage to Curiosity (Chashama Gala, NYC), Table Manners (TCAN), Alphabetical Order (Mugford Street), Rescue, Betrayal (u/s, performed), and Downward Facing Dog all with (Another Country) and 1:23 (Perishable Theatre), among others. Her one-act play Dancing, without Touching was recently produced as part of the Act One: One Act Festival at the Secret Theatre in Queens, NY. A member of SAG/AFTRA, Julia has worked on numerous films, including most recently PISS(Apophis Films) and Pumpkin Pie, which she also co-produced.
Melissa Myers (Angela/Maid/Millie u/s) is a recent graduate of Dean College, having received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in musical theatre. Melissa has been performing since the age of 2, at first as a dancer, and then transitioning to theatre at age 11. Currently a performing arts educator at Mercymount Country Day School, Melissa has a passion for working with children. She hopes to spend her post-grad years directing, performing, and engaging with young artists. Melissa’s favorite credits include Little Women (Director), She Loves Me (Ilona u/s), Godspell (‘By My Side’ Soloist), Puffs (Sally Perks), and Freaky Friday (Gretchen). Melissa would like to sincerely thank each and every one of her students for consistently questioning if she’s old enough to be a teacher, and of course, inspiring her to be better.
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Eric Cheung (Husband) - Bio Coming Soon...
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Tara Brooke Watkins (DIRECTOR of STAGE KISS) is a theatre director, instructor, playwright and activist. She holds a PhD in Theatre and Performance Studies from Tufts University and an MA in Theatre Education from Emerson College. Much of her research focuses on the effect of theatre in communities experiencing cultural trauma. In 2019-2020, she worked with students at Eastern Nazarene College and guests and administration at Father Bill's Place, a homeless shelter in Quincy, Massachusetts to hear stories and use applied theatre, story circles, and drama therapy techniques to respond to needs. From 2016-2018, she worked with the Black community of North Tulsa to run story circles and used theatre to create a play showing how the history of the Tulsa Race Massacre still lives in Tulsans' lives today. She is a member of Bethel AME Church where she co-facilitates the Shatter the Silence ministry which uses story circles and drama therapy to address sexual victimization. She is the creator of several plays which originated in this type of community engagement work using story circles. Such plays include The Bible Women’s Project, Tulsa ’21: Black Wall Street, and The Father Bill’s Play. She is an award-winning director for Sleeping Weazel Theatre company in Boston where she directed The Audacity: Women Speak and is currently working on Charlotte Meehan's new play, Everyday Life and Other Odds and Ends, an original play about Parkinson's. She founded the Theatre for Social Justice Program at Eastern Nazarene College and is the founder and executive director of South Shore School of Theatre in Quincy, MA, a children's theatre school.