Curry Theatre provided a Curry student with a chance of a lifetime in Spring 2006, an opportunity to see his own student written play performed. The play also included having a guest director oversee the production. Michelle Baxter, an accomplished Boston theatre director, brought the students through all aspects of the drama.
The play, “Shared Guilt”, was written by Curry College senior, Michael Miceli. “Shared Guilt” first appeared as a scene in the Spring 2005 theatre “Finale”, the event that ends the Theatre semester as all of the performance classes present their work to each other.
Michael first started the play in his Scriptwriting class, taught by Curry professor Michelle Gabow. He continued the play in Advanced Scriptwriting where he expanded his scene into a full play. Michael, from Fairfield, CT, graduated with a major in English and a minor in Theatre in May.
As Director of Performing Arts & Outreach and Manager of the Strand Theater, Ms. Baxter is responsible for all of Boston’s major public arts festivals throughout the year.Michelle Baxter has been a community activist, cultural program director, theater director and actor in Boston for the last 22 years. Her goal is to use the arts as a way to create dialogue, cross-cultural exchanges and greater communication among and between different racial/ethnic and cultural communities of Boston.
Ms. Baxter also serves as the Artistic Director of Hysterical Performance, a theater company that seeks to unite multiracial, multiethnic, intergenerational women in a collaborative effort aimed at the production and exhibition of mix media artwork and performance. She has extensive experience as an actor and director for the stage.