Our Resident Artist program deepens our relationship with key artists through two-year residencies that guarantee each artist work on four productions, while engaging them in teaching, season planning, and donor cultivation. These actors and designers become part of the Round House team, working year-round rather than on a per show basis – providing much needed job security.

Resident Artists

Ro Boddie

Actor

Ro Boddie has previously appeared in The Tempest, A Boy and His Soul, and "Master Harold” ...and the Boys. Select DC credits include Pipeline, Three Sisters, and No Sisters at Studio Theatre; Off-Broadway credits include Socrates at the Public Theater and Seize the King at Classical Theatre of Harlem. Select regional credits include Windfall at Bay Street Theater; A Play is a Poem at Mark Taper Forum; Blueprints to Freedom at La Jolla Playhouse; The Mountaintop at Cleveland Playhouse; and Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at Baltimore Center Stage. Television credits include Godfather of Harlem, Run the World, The Good Wife, Elementary, and Person of Interest. Ro is an alum of University of the North Carolina School of the Arts and recipient of the 2016 Actor of the Year Craig Noel Award.

Matthew M. Nielson

Sound Designer

MATTHEW M. NIELSON returns to Round House, where design and composition credits include Homebound, Spring Awakening, The Legend of Georgia McBride, The Book of Will, Two Trains Running, Around the World in 80 Days, and A Prayer for Owen Meany. DC-area credits include Arena Stage, Ford’s Theatre, the Kennedy Center, Woolly Mammoth, Signature Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Studio Theatre, Theatre Alliance, CATF, and The Smithsonian. Off-Broadway credits include The Public Theatre, Lincoln Center, and 59e59. Regional credits include Denver Performing Arts Center, Cincinnati Playhouse, Milwaukee Rep, Portland Center Stage, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Philadelphia Theatre Company, and Barrington Stage Company. Film/TV credits include Those Who Wait, The Hero Effect, Elbow Grease, From Hell to Here, Discovery Channel, National Geographic, and Delivery.com. Matthew has won five Helen Hayes Awards and several regional theatre and film festival awards. CuriousMusic.com.

Meghan Raham

Scenic Designer

Meghan Raham (Scenic Designer) is thrilled to return to Round House Theatre, where previous credits include Master Harold…and the Boys, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Night Alive, and Fool for Love. DC credits include My Lord, What a Night and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at Ford’s Theatre; JQA at Arena Stage; Daphne’s Dive and Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes at Signature Theatre; District Merchants, Romeo and Juliet, and The Conference of the Birds at Folger Theatre; Pike St. and She The People at Woolly Mammoth; The Aliens and Red Speedo at Studio Theatre; and Life Sucks at Theatre J. Off-Broadway credits include CLAY at Lincoln Center/ LCT3. Regional design credits include productions at Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Center Theatre Group, Barrington Stage, and Kansas City Repertory Theatres.