Founders
Daniel Berger-Jones
Daniel Berger-Jones is a Boston-based actor and professional storyteller. As a founding member of the Fringe Theatre Company Orfeo Group, he has taken part in countless plays, such as Marisol, Look Back in Anger, Complete Works of Shakespeare, Island of Slaves, and Love Song, winning the prestigious Eliot Norton Award for Best Show by a Fringe Company three times in four years. Daniel also credits other organizations, including Lyric Stage Company, Shakespeare and Company, Actors Shakespeare Project, SpeakEasy Stage/Boston Playwrights’, Nora Theatre Company, Company One, Shakespeare Now!, Huntington Theatre Company, for shows he participated in. He found his home at the Freedom Trail for several years as a teacher and storyteller, honing the art of the joke within truly enlightening and educational stories. After seeing one of his performances, he hopes you’ll wonder why history (or even math) is not always taught this way. |
Christopher Schults
Christopher Schults has worked in the Greater Boston and Massachusetts Hospitality for the last 15 years. He has served in several positions, including as an Operations Manager and General Manager for several privately owned boutique properties on Cape Cod and in Rhode Island, as well as several well-known hotel brands including Marriott, Intercontinental Hotels and Wyndham Worldwide. For four years, Chris was a practicum instructor for Johnson & Wales University in Providence, RI; he worked to help educate the next generation of hospitality industry professionals. Chris has also worked as the owner and producer of Faire Stories, a children’s’ entertainment and event management company. Chris hopes to bridge his love and knowledge of the hospitality and tourism industry with his love of storytelling and entertainment through his work with Cambridge Historical Tours. He wants every guest to leave with a greater sense of history, a greater love of Cambridge, and a better sense of humor than when they arrived. |
Our Guides
Max Sklar
Max Sklar is an actor, translator and lover of history from Salem MA. He has his undergraduate BA from McGill University. He has been working as a tour guide with Cambridge Historical Tours since its third year, where he has given tours as the philosopher George Santayana, and Nathaniel Ward, the Harvard scientist and librarian, and of course, as himself. He is in charge of conducting and maintaining the foreign language program at Cambridge Historical Tours, focused on tours for French and Spanish speaking clients. His other theatrical activities include being a long time cast member of "Cry Innocent! The People versus Bridget Bishop" with History Alive!, and "Othello in the Seraglio" with the musicians' collective Dünya. Stewart Smith
Stewart Evan Smith has always been fascinated with U.S. history, and was able to recite the name of every president by the third grade. Nobody asked him to do this, he just did, even when people did eventually ask him to stop. Having grown up just outside the San Francisco Bay Area, he attended Solano Community College in Fairfield , CA, studied theatre, and graduated from their Actor Training Program in 2006. After moving to Boston in 2010, he's worked steadily an actor with several companies in the New England area, including Central Square Theatre, Hibernian Hall, Company One, and Weston Playhouse. He currently can be seen regularly performing with Shit-Faced Shakespeare, Mystery Cafe, and Bye Bye Liver. |
Caitlin Johnston This guide was asked repeatedly for a bio, but did not submit one. This is likely due to a case of Sezlinas, which is an anagram, if you care to figure it out. Alissa Cordeiro
A Massachusetts native, Alissa has been involved with performing and general geekery for as long as she can remember. She attended Rhode Island College in Providence and graduated with a degree in Musical Theatre, which she then parlayed into a Resident Artist position with a Shakespeare company (as you do). After four seasons of touring with Shakesperience Productions and five of living in NYC, Alissa returned to her New England roots and has been happily living in the Camberville area ever since. As an actor, she has been involved with many fringe companies in Boston and New Hampshire, and is a Teaching Artist for the Huntington Theatre Company, American Repertory Theatre and the Jewish Community Day School of Boston. And of course, she has been a proud member of the Cambridge Historical Tours family since 2013. Michael Barry
Michael Barry is an actor out of the town of Andover, MA, and is the Director of Community Relations and the Pub Crawl Manager for Cambridge Historical Tours. He graduated from The Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts in 2011 with a bachelors degree in Fine and Performing Arts. He has been performing for the past 4 years as a professional actor in the city of Boston. He has been with CHT since the beginning, starting in 2012. Along with being a historical tour guide in Cambridge, he also has recently been working as a historical interpreter in the city of Boston with The Boston Tea Party Ships & Museum. Growing up in the town of Wilmington, MA, Michael has always had a strong passion for the local history of Boston, and finds great joy in spreading that love of history to others. |