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Andria Tieman is a lifelong theatre fan. She has an MFA in fiction, play & screenwriting and presently works as an academic librarian in Providence teaching students how to find and use information. She has been reviewing for BroadwayWord since 2015, and has been a member of the American Theatre Critics Association since 2016.

Caitlin Howle is a writer, educator, and digital marketing pro based in Providence, Rhode Island. With a background in creative writing and English, Caitlin’s work spans journalism, poetry, short stories, and creative nonfiction—with bylines in a range of magazines and journals.They teach composition, rhetoric, and arts marketing at Rhode Island College and Dean College, and run a small business that helps other creatives and entrepreneurs get their stories out into the world.

Caitlin is an avid traveler with 41 states and six countries under their belt and spends their time engrossed in words, media, and with their pug, Winston. They define themselves as an Oxford comma enthusiast and are currently located in Providence, Rhode Island.

Chris has been reviewing theater throughout Rhode Island and Southeastern Massachusetts since 2006. He recently moved back to Massachusetts and now works in Boston, but spends his free time at his home in Southern Rhode Island.

Jay Pateakos, a former full-time newspaper journalist, started his theatre review journey more than 20 years ago and has reviewed hundred plays for the Herald News of Fall River, Cape Cod Times and has been reviewing for BroadwayWorld Rhode Island since the fall of 2021.
 

John G. McDaid is an award-winning science fiction writer and freelance journalist from Portsmouth, RI. He grew up in NYC, where visits to Broadway sparked a life-long love of theater. He worked both on-stage and off during college — including as tech director on a national tour — before moving into a career in corporate communications. A graduate of New School University with an MFA in fiction from Salve Regina Univeristy, he did doctoral work in media ecology at NYU and is an adjunct professor of communications at Roger Williams University. He is a member of the American Theatre Critics Association, and sees as many shows as he can in Rhode Island -- and beyond.