Our Mission

We strive to create excellent theatre
that compels our audience 
​to seek out more theatrical experiences
​and to make it a part of their lives. 

Who We Are

Bryn Boice, Artistic Director
Bryn has spent over 30 years in the theatre, as a classically-trained actress, director, producer, playwright, educator and some-time designer. For Anthem: My Fascination with Creepy Ladies (opens Oct 17); I, Snowflake (devised with the acting company); Twelfth Night of the Living Dead by Brian MacInnis Smallwood; her new play with song, The Merry Way; Romeo VS. Juliet, by Johnny Kinsman; and The Comedy of Errors (for four) by Will Ditterline and Shannon Michael Wamser. Recent Boston directing credits: Blue Kettle & Here We Go by Caryl Churchill for Commonwealth Shakespeare Company (Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Director, Large Theater); an all-female Julius Caesar (Actors' Shakespeare Project); Red Velvet by Lolita Chakrabarti (OWI Theatre, Boston premiere) and Sickle by Abbey Fenbert (Boston Playwrights Theatre). NOW PLAYING: Last Night at Bowl-Mor Lanes by Weylin Symes (Greater Boston Stage Company). UPCOMING: Admissions by Joshua Harmon (The Gamm Theatre); The Children ​by Lucy Kirkwood (Boston premiere, Speakeasy Stage) and A Midsummer Night's Dream (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company's young professional ensemble, CSC2). Ms. Boice holds an MFA in Directing from Boston University (CFA '16) and an MFA in Acting from FSU's Asolo Conservatory ('02). She is currently a Lecturer at Salem State University (Voice for Performance, Dialects, Directing, Dramatic Theory & Criticism, Applied Stage Movement, et al). www.brynboice.com 

Michael Poignand, Producing Director
Mike started work in New York City as an actor playing Badger in The Wind in the Willows at the New Victory Theatre in 1998. Since then he has acted in over fifty productions on New York, Regional and Off-Broadway stages. Recent Boston credits include: The Christians (Apollinaire Theatre Co), Or, (Maiden Phoenix/Simple Machine; Elliot Norton Best Actor Nominee) and Anthem's The Merry Way. Mike got his start producing plays with Ring of Fire Productions in 1999 with a production of Henry IV parts 1 and 2. The unique challenges of that production, which boasted a nine-unit video wall used as an interactive, live backdrop fed by off-stage cameras and pre-recorded media, quickly piqued his interest. Thus, in the years that followed, if he wasn’t acting, Mike was producing. He has had the pleasure of serving the production needs of InProximity Theatre, Lucky Productions, taxdeductible theatre, CEO Theatre, PST and Monday Morning productions. In addition to plays, he has produced two feature-length films with Chatham Light, a web series with Lucky Productions as well as two musicals. Originally from Concord, MA, Mike is honored to serve as Anthem’s Producing Director and is grateful for your support. He’s also wicked psyched to be back in Boston and to continue his long-standing collaboration with Johnny Kinsman. BFA, Syracuse.

Lindsay McConchie, Managing Director
​Lindsay has spent more than fifteen years working in marketing and communications in both non-profit and for-profit, with experience in public relations, event management, and fundraising. She has planned events and marketing campaigns for Boston non-profits The Freedom Trail Foundation, Big Sister Association, and Concord Youth Theater, and spent five years as a publicist in Los Angeles for clients such as UNICEF, Operation Smile, Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts, The Geffen Theater, The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Diageo, The Fulfillment Fund, and Harry Winston. She is the Director of Alumni Engagement for Harvard Business School, and Publicist for LA's yearly Oscar Wilde Awards. Originally from Lincoln, MA, Lindsay holds a BA in Art History from Colby College.

Johnny Kinsman, Associate Artistic Director
Johnny is an actor, director, and producer whose career was launched by a BFA in Theater from Syracuse University. Having enjoyed a long-standing collaboration with Anthem Theatre's Producing Director Michael Poignand, Kinsman co-produced feature films with Chatham Light Productions and multimedia theater in New York with Ring of Fire Productions. In Los Angeles Johnny worked a screenwriter, as well as behind the scenes on feature films and TV episodics including Bobby, There Will Be Blood, Gilmore Girls, NCIS, and HBO's hit series Entourage. In Boston, Kinsman's involvement in Lucien E.G. Spelman's award-winning featurette, What Ever Happened to that Weird Kid?, (Winner, Best 30-Minute Film--SNOB Film Festival 2012; Winner, Best Comedy Short--Bloody Hero International Film Festival 2013) served as inspiration to write, direct, and produce his own comedy pilot (currently in post-production), called Bostontowne. Work for Anthem includes: both Dromios in A Comedy of Errors; Fezziwig in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol; Coach "Friar" Lawrence in Romeo vs. Juliet (which he also penned); Flynn in The Merry Way; ​and Sir Toby Belch in ​Twelfth Night of the Living Dead. He recently adapted and performed a one-man A Christmas Carol for audiences in Concord, MA. Johnny serves as coach and quality control for talent at Boston Duck Tours.