Meet the Team
Producing Artistic Director
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Wendy Lippe, Ph.D. 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, Edge Media Network, and other local newspapers and radio stations.
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Resident Director & Actor
Lida McGirr is a longtime actor, mother and a founding member of the Little Theater on 26th Street. She won an EMACT DASH Best Actress Award for her portrayal of Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, appeared as Dean Kenny in the Elliot Norton Award-winning Spinning Into Butter, and received IRNE nominations for her portrayals of Edith Frank in RCC’s production of The Diary of Anne Frank and for Alice in Bully Dance at the Boston Playwrights’ Theatre. As a director, her production of A Piece of My Heart earned four DASH nominations and won two, and as a writer, her play Dorothy Parker: Men celebrated Valentine’s Day at the Producer’s Club in New York.
Resident Director & Actor
Alex Aponte has been performing and directing in local theatres for the past twenty years, and was Vice President of Attleboro Community Theatre. Favorite roles include Lucien in "The Boys Next Door", Scrooge in "The Trial of Ebeneezer Scrooge", Dr. Einstein in "Arsenic and Old Lace", Mike Tolman in "Wait Until Dark", and Nunzio in "Over the River and Through the Woods". Alex is a retired Police Sergeant for the City of Attleboro.
Director of Post Show Discussions
Goldie Eder, LICSW, BCD is a clinical social worker practicing in Cambridge, where she sees individuals, couples and families. She is a Teaching Associate at Harvard Medical School and Associate Clinical Professor at Smith College School for Social Work. Goldie programs an educational film series for social workers and others, and also assists at the Boston Jewish Film Festival, the Reel Abilities Film Festival, and at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on programming in the Museum’s Disability Access Program. Goldie has a background in theatre, film and radio.
Literary & Technology Consultant
William Stofega received both his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park. His master's curriculum focused on the literature of the English Renaissance. His thesis "Silent Rebellion, Silent Dissent: The Case of Elizabeth Cary and The Tragedy of Mariam, the Faire Queene of Jewry" explored textual disruption and social dissent during the English Renaissance. Some scholars consider Elizabeth Cary to be the first female playwright. William also directs IDC's Mobile Device research and consulting efforts on a worldwide basis.
William Stofega received both his B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of Maryland at College Park. His master's curriculum focused on the literature of the English Renaissance. His thesis "Silent Rebellion, Silent Dissent: The Case of Elizabeth Cary and The Tragedy of Mariam, the Faire Queene of Jewry" explored textual disruption and social dissent during the English Renaissance. Some scholars consider Elizabeth Cary to be the first female playwright. William also directs IDC's Mobile Device research and consulting efforts on a worldwide basis.
Graphic Design & Web Maintenance
Kate Southern received her B.A. in Theater Studies from Emory University and her M.F.A. in Scenic Design from Brandeis University. She has been working with The Psych Drama Company since 2011. Kate has performed, designed, and trained in Raleigh, Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, New York, Washington DC, Detroit, Toledo, Anaheim, Los Angeles, and Southern Oregon.
Social Media Manager
Jessica "Jae" Unker
Jessica "Jae" Unker
Volunteer Social Media Assistant
Autumn Dion is a junior at Hofstra University as a BFA Theater Performance major with a minor in musical theater. She is from Saugus Massachusetts. She has grown up costuming, choreographing, and performing for several Community Theaters around the Boston area.
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