Company Members
Emily K. Harrison, Boulder/New York
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Producing Artistic Director
Gleason Bauer, Los Angeles/Colorado Springs
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Associate Artistic Director
Emily K. Harrison grew up in East Texas and holds an MFA in Performance from the Savannah College of Art & Design, a PhD in Theatre from the University of Colorado Boulder, and a Bachelor's in Acting and Writing from Emerson College. With square, Emily has appeared in Things We Will Miss, Dance Nation, House of Gold, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, This Aunt is Not a Cockroach, How I Learned to Drive, Ham McBeth, SLAB, Peggy Jo & the Desolate Nothing, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Gidion's Knot, The Ding Dongs, Songs of Meat & Cake, One Woman Show, Why We Have a Body, Good Girls Don't, But I Do, Tornado Season, The House of Yes, and Skeet Shootin' Prodigy. Additionally, she directed square's productions of Things We Will Miss, Everything was Stolen ., Celebration, Florida, 44 Plays for 44 Presidents (2012 & 2016), Love Songs for Poomouse, HOWL, and Good Country People. Harrison currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Theatre at Hamilton College and previously served as Visiting/Guest Faculty at Sewanee: The University of the South, Whitman College and Brunel University London. She also taught for many years as a Lecturer at CU Boulder and Naropa University. In 2016 she was honored with a True West Award, in 2013 was featured as part of Westword’s "100 Colorado Creatives" series, and in was recognized by The Denver Post as a 2011 Pathmaker, one of only seven individuals working in an arts field to receive the honor.
Originally from Colorado, Gleason Bauer is a theatre artist and educator who has worked throughout the country and extensively in Los Angeles. They received their BA from Sarah Lawrence College and an MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University in Boulder, CO, where they began cultivating a contemplative arts practice and pedagogy. Prior to graduate school, Gleason was the Artistic Director of Zoo District, a multi-award winning LA theatre company they co-founded in 1997. Their work has been nominated in multiple categories including: Best Costume Design (1999) by the LA Weekly for Drums in the Night and Best New Play by the Colorado Theatre Guild (2015) for their adaptation of SLAB with Emily K. Harrison (from the novel by Selah Saterstrom). They have won a number of awards, including: Downtown News’ Best of Downtown (2000) for their direction of The Two-character Play, two LA Weekly Awards (2009) - Best Costume and Best Production Design - for [home] or the Lost Tablet of Ur, and a True West Award (2014) for their direction and production design of SLAB with square product theatre. Additional directing credits with square product include the Regional Premieres of Clare Barron’s Dance Nation (2022) and Gregory S. Moss’ House of Gold (2017). In 2019 they directed the World Premiere of Jay B. Muskett’s 1N2IAN at the University of New Mexico. They currently serve as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Theatre at Colorado College.
Jess Buttery, Denver/New York
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Lighting Designer
Jess Buttery studied lighting and production design at the University of Colorado Boulder and has worked professionally for Theatre/Sewanee, Harper Joy Theatre at Whitman College, the Boulder International Fringe Festival, The Dairy Center for the Arts, The Lakewood Cultural Center, The Catamounts, Quake Theater, TinHOUSE Experimental Dance Theatre, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, the Band of Toughs, and others. For square, Jess designed lights for Things We Will Miss, Dance Nation, Everything was Stolen ., Celebration, Florida, TesserACT, House of Gold, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, The Box Marked Black, This Aunt is Not a Cockroach, How I Learned to Drive, Ranch Dressing & Other Coping Mechanisms, Ham McBeth, SLAB, 5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche, Gidion's Knot, The Ding Dongs (or What is the Penalty in Portugal?), 44 Plays for 44 Presidents (2012 and 2016), This Show Might be Terrible, The Great Goddess Bazaar, HOWL, One Woman Show, BRUISER, and Songs of Meat & Cake. Jess formerly served as faculty at the Denver School of the Arts, and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Instruction at Hamilton College.
Rosamond Glasscock, Boulder
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Company Stage Manager
Rosie Glasscock has worked with square product theatre since 2015, serving as Stage Manager for Things We Will Miss, Dance Nation, Everything was Stolen ., Celebration, Florida, TesserACT, House of Gold, She Rode Horses Like the Stock Exchange, This Aunt is Not a Cockroach, How I Learned to Drive, and Ham McBeth. Rosie earned a Bachelor's in Theatre with a double major in Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder and has worked professionally with the Boulder International Fringe Festival, the Colorado Shakespeare Festival, and Little Theater of the Rockies. She is a master baker of pies and gluten free cakes.
Artistic Associates
Mary-Laurence Bevington, Boulder
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Todd Bilsborough, Boulder
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Amy C. Buckler, Boulder
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Niki Dreistadt, Chicago
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Janet Feder, Denver
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Mark Hatfield, Chicago
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Kelsie Huff, Chicago
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Tammy Meneghini, Boulder
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Charlotte Brecht Munn, Los Angeles
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Ryan Walker Page, Los Angeles
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Laura Ann Samuelson, Boulder
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ayla xuân chi sullivan, Denver/New York
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2024 interns
Leslie De La Rosa, Emerson Scholar, Hamilton College
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Del Gonzales, Emerson Scholar, Hamilton College
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Meraly (Mer) Morales, Hamilton College
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RECENT interns
Huda Aljidaa, Metropolitan State University of Denver
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Jake Dorr, University of Colorado Boulder
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Alyx Kruger,
Whitman College
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Michael "Red" Oehler, University of Colorado Boulder
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Irmak Sagir, Hamilton College
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McKenna Warren, University of Colorado Boulder
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Ash Cossey, Metropolitan State University of Denver
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Rodrigo Gallardo-Antunez, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Victoria Lacoste, University of Colorado Boulder
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Teresa Orosco, University of Colorado Boulder
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Sierra Smith, University of Colorado Boulder
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Ryan Winchester, University of Colorado Boulder
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Luc D’Arcy, University of Colorado Boulder
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Stephanie Higgins, Denver School of the Arts
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Mariana Mondragón, Boston University
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Reed Otto, University of Colorado Boulder
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Mei Taylor, University of Colorado Boulder
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Ruby Diaz, University of Colorado Boulder
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Isabella Cho Jones, University of Colorado, Boulder
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Hayden Nault, University of Colorado Boulder
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Katie Ross, University of Colorado Boulder
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Jean Yvonne Tyson, Whitman College
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