McLANE NAGY (The Poet) is proud to appear as The Poet in her seventh season with ATC, under the guidance of Cat McAlpine. She was most recently seen on stage as Lady Rosa in Robin Hood and can be found focused on her fiber art studio and beekeeping apprenticeship when not auditioning. She would like to thank Seth, her partner for his support, encouragement, and advice in all her artistic experiments. Seth, all my art has your signature on it somewhere. I love you.

ASA LEININGER (Achilles) is an actor, writer, and educator who holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in theatre and history from Missouri State University (though he likes to say that he got his degree in Hamlet). He is passionate about using art as a space to encourage ethical development and self-introspection, as well as to spark meaningful debates and dialogues.

COSETTE PAYNE (The Muse Clio/Hector) is absolutely delighted to be working on their fourth ATC show! They had a blast performing in Queen Margaret and Robin Hood, and assistant directing Beauty & the Beast earlier this summer. Their other hobbies include art, guitar, and picking the onions off of their burger. They are very grateful for this opportunity and have immensely enjoyed working with all these wonderful people!

AMOS SMITH (Patroclus) is very pleased to be returning to the park for another season. You may have seen him in last year’s production of Robin Hood. He would like to thank his teachers, friends, and family.

KATE GIFFIN (The Muse Euterpe) is so excited to be working on her second production with Actors' Theatre. Some of her recent productions include Dave Malloy’s Ghost Quartet and Shakespeare’s Love's Labour’s Lost. She hopes you enjoy the show!

ADRIANNA QUIÑONES (The Muse Polyhymnia) is excited to return for an EPIC summer, previously appearing as Lady Marian in Robin Hood with ATC last season. She is forever grateful to her family and friends for all their support. Endless thanks to all those involved with An Iliad! 

BRIANA HARGER (The Muse Talia) is excited for her first production with Actors' Theatre. You may have seen her in several Curtain Players productions, including Rest Assured (Mary), Women Playing Hamlet (Jessica), and most recently, Men on Boats (Seneca Howland). Briana would like to thank the cast and crew for this amazing experience. Most importantly, she would like to thank her husband for all his support. It's not easy solo parenting while your wife is out pretending to be a Greek muse five nights a week.

PHILIP J. HICKMAN (Co-Artistic Director) is the co-artistic director of Actors' Theatre. He has been part of ATC since 2010, and most recently directed Beauty & the Beast this summer and Robin Hood  this past summer in Schiller Park. Love and gratitude to Mikelle.

ROWAN WINTERWOOD (Co-Artistic Director) is returning for her eighth season in Schiller Park. She has worked with ATC as a director (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Or),  lighting designer, stage manager, artist educator, and sound board operator. Rowan is the lighting supervisor at the Wexner Center for the Arts, a company member of Available Light Theatre, a member of IATSE Local 12, and a freelance lighting designer. Selected lighting design credits: ATC (Love’s Labour’s Lost, Robin Hood, Hamlet, Eurydice), AVLT (Fairview, Ghost Quartet, What the Constitution Means to Me, Cry it Out, Everybody, Witch), and CCT (The Sleepwalker of Holstenwall).

CAT McALPINE (Director/Costume Designer) is grateful to everyone who believed she could do this - most days she was faking it and the show happened anyway. You’ve seen her at Actors’ Theatre in Love’s Labour's Lost (Princess), Queen Margaret (Warwick), Dangerous Liaisons (Emilie), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Starvling), and The Countess of Monte Cristo (Marie). Previous directing credits include Much Ado About Nothing (Actors’ Theatre) and Romeo and Juliet (Lord Denney’s Players). She is a proud ensemble member of eMBer Women’s Theatre. Cat couldn’t do most things, including theatre, without the support of her loving and patient husband, Elias. Her cats, Winston and Cleo, did nothing to help.

ADAM SIMON (Managing Director) is in his fifteenth year with ATC. He thrives on the opportunity to enrich his local community with accessible art for all, and hopes that you enjoy consuming it as much as he enjoys creating it. Much love to Beth and Ruby.

NINA MARTIN (Production Manager) is honored to get the chance to make art with incredible artist friends, new and old. This experience has been everything she could ask for. Some of Nina's highlights over the years in the Columbus theatre scene are Fairview (Available Light), Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy... (ATC), Eurydice (ATC), and Falsettos (Gallery Players). Special thanks to her partner Erin and their cats, Hamlet and Puck, for always offering her a snuggle after a long rehearsal.

ELEANOR RAUSCHENBERG (Stage Manager) Actors’ Theatre of Columbus: Love’s Labour’s Lost, Queen Margaret, The African Company Presents Richard III (Asst. Stage Manager) Other: Ohio University: Squeakers (Stage Manager), what the Gods gave me (Asst. Stage Manager), Everybody (Production Assistant), Vibrancy Theater: We Are Proud to Present…. (Stage Manager). In the fall she will return for her final year at Ohio University where she will receive a BFA in stage management.

KAY ROBERTS (Assistant Stage Manager/Run Crew) is excited to be back with ATC! This is their third time working at the Schiller Park Amphitheatre, and the 18th show they have participated in. Kay has stage managed Stinky Cheese Man, operated lights for The Little Mermaid, co-designed lighting for Failure: A Love Story, played Delilah Strict in Zombie Prom, and been co-student technical director in high school. They would like to thank their friends and family for always supporting them!

CODY SCHMID (Facilities Manager) is honored to be involved with ATC again. He was last seen in the park as Rosencraft in Hamlet, 1603. He wants to thank his wife, daughter, and mother-in-law for all the love and support.

KATIE GOLONKA (Scenic Designer/Charge Artist) is a Columbus designer and muralist who has worked as a scenic painter for CATCO, Opera Columbus, and other local companies. Most recently she designed the set for Available Light Theatre’s 2023 production of Ghost Quartet and the sets for ATC’s 2024 season. Katie has been operating her mural business, Cherry Alley Paint, since 2014 and is a proud member of IATSE Local 12.

STEVE PUHL JR. (Master Carpenter) is excited to be back in the theater world doing all the fun things!

CATHERINE RINELLA (Sound Designer) is an audio llama that has wandered back to the ATC corral. What is an Audio Llama? We don’t know, and now it won’t leave. This one is ATC’s resident sound designer - making noise, creating mild havoc, and stealing our coffee supplies. Has also been spotted as a board-op at WCBE 90.5 FM, and audio masterer for Rusty Quill podcasts. Warning: May Attract Spiders.

ANNE LANG (Sound Board Operator) is a recent graduate from Ohio State with a BA in theatre and LGBTQ+ studies, and this is their first show with Actors' Theatre. In their free time, they like to read and spoil their friends' cats. They would like to thank everyone in the ATC community for being so welcoming, kind, and inclusive!

NIKKI PRICE (Lighting Designer)

McLANE NAGY (Costume Designer) has been in the Columbus theater community as an actor and theater technician since 2016. She is particularly proud to appear as The Poet in this production of An Iliad as well as make her debut as a costumer alongside the director, Cat McAlpine. She would also like to thank Alex Burks for all his help on any costume task she handed him (we could not have pulled this off without you). And to Seth, you've seen me in nearly every production I have ever done. I'm honored to have had you next to me all these years while I get to tell stories. To everyone in the park, thank you for coming, tell your friends, tell your enemies, and enjoy the show.

JAYLENE JENNINGS (Wardrobe Manager) is a teacher by day and an Ohio State University graduate and a company member of Available Light Theatre. In addition to being part of AVLT's creative team, she also oversees the costume shop at Ohio Wesleyan University and other local schools. She has spent time working on Unanswered We Ride at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and regional tours including One Night With Janis Joplin and A Map of Myself: My Odyssey to America. Some of her favorite credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Ghost Quartet, bobrauscenbergamerica, Remain in Light, and Dance Nation.

ALEXANDER "XAN" NELSON (Props Designer/Build Crew) is a Philadelphia native who has been an active part of the performing arts scene in Columbus for the past ten years. This is his second year with Actors' Theatre of Columbus as Props Designer and third as part of the set build team making sure the setting is just right to let the actors shine. Xan’s background is in music education and performance, but his passion for building and making things pushed him to make a career change and take up woodwind instrument repair in 2018. When he is not working on musical instruments, sets, or props, Xan can be found playing in pit orchestras and at the occasional Gallery Hop with his saxophone quartet, Drastic Measures.

LINDSEY BLAGG (Props Manager)

LEO SANTUCCI (Violence Designer/Armorer) is a fight choreographer, armorer, and actor in the Columbus area, and is elated to be choreographing violence for a second season with ATC. He has been involved in a number of sword fights, both on and off stage, as he is also a semi-competitive fencer in addition to being an actor combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. He thanks you for supporting the arts, and helping to keep theatre accessible!

BETH JOSEPHSEN (Movement Coach/Intimacy Director) has been with ATC for 16 years in various roles as an actor, director, and staff member. Favorite shows over the years include playing Marian in Robin Hood, Mrs. Kate Sullen in The Beaux’ Stratagem, Dr. Watson in The Hound of the Baskervilles, the villainous Mrs. Cheveley in An Ideal Husband, and Mrs. Dashwood/Anne Steele in last year’s production of Sense & Sensibility as well as directing Little Women and the Jebby Award-winning production of Eurydice.  When not in the park, she takes Shakespeare programming to local schools. Beth would like to thank her husband and niece for their love and support. 

SCOTT VEZDOS (Director of Marketing & Development) has served as the Director of Marketing & Development for Actors’ Theatre for nine years. He is also the founder and producer of the HER2-Revue, a new burlesque showcase based in Columbus, OH, He has more than 25 years of experience in the nonprofit arts sector, including 10 years as a radio personality for WCBE Public Radio. Scott also currently serves as a member of the marketing team of CAPA (Columbus Association for the Performing Arts) and as an arts consultant and strategist for several nonprofit arts organizations in central Ohio.

SARAH MARIE WILSON (Social Media Manager) is thrilled to return as Social Media Manager for a third season! She has served in various capacities at ATC since 2019, including assistant director (Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy...), performer (Sense & Sensibility; Hamlet, 1603; Little Women), artist educator, and house manager. By day she works for a wildlife conservation nonprofit. Follow us on @theactorstheatre on Instagram, Facebook, and X!

BEATRICE FELDBUSH (Front of House Manager) is excited to return for her fourth season at ATC, now as the Front of House Manager! Her previous credits with the company include Stage Manager (Sense & Sensibility and Queen Margaret), Assistant Stage Manager (The Secret Garden), and usher. Beatrice will graduate at the end of the summer with her Masters degree in arts administration with an emphasis on theatre and production management from Ohio University.