JOHN MICHAEL HOLMES (The King of Navarre) is very excited to make his return to acting on a stage he knows and loves so well. He would like to thank Actors’ Theatre for not just this opportunity, but the past chances they have given him to act Shakespeare, whom he loves dearly. He would like to thank his family and friends for their love and support. Special shout out to his mom, grandma, sister Natalie, and especially his children, Johnie and Jane, who inspired him to return to the stage. I love you both more than anything. You are my shining stars.

JOHN CUOZZO (Lord Berowne) is from Doylestown, PA and is currently pursuing his BFA in acting from Wright State University. He was seen in last summer’s production of Hamlet, 1603 and is thrilled to be returning to the ATC stage!

MITCH WORDEN (Lord Longaville) is excited to be making his official ATC debut this summer season. Previously, he was involved in the Cincinnati community theater scene, participating in productions such as The Philadelphia Story and Hay Fever. Mitch would like to thank his family, best bud/dog Hardy, and all the wonderful people that have supported him in his artistic pursuits. Above all else, he hopes you enjoy the show!

CAT McALPINE (The Princess of France) is delighted to return to the park this summer! Previously she played Warrick in Queen Margaret, Emile in Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Starveling in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Marie in The Countess of Monte Cristo. Recently she co-directed Much Ado About Nothing. Cat is also a proud member of eMBer Women’s Theatre. When she’s not acting, you can find Cat spending money she doesn’t have at her favorite local indie bookstores.

KATE GIFFIN (Rosaline) This is Kate’s debut production with Actors’ Theatre and she is so grateful for the opportunity to work with this incredible cast. She was recently in Lord Denney’s production of Henry V as Kate/Hostess and Imagine Productions’ Cabaret as Fritzie. Kate would like to thank Tori Mollenkopf for listening to all of her audition monologues and Brian Waligura for being a ray of sun and helping her write this bio. Enjoy the show!

ARRIAH RATANAPAN (Maria) is a recent graduate of The Ohio State University and is thrilled to make her Actors’ Theatre debut! She has previously worked with the company as an artist educator for The Globe School and is excited to return to Schiller Park. Recent performances include RENT at Short North Stage and Freaky Friday with Off the Lake Productions.

CHRISTINA YOHO (Don Armado) Good Medicine Specialist (nursing home and pediatric program) since ’17, and involved in Columbus theater since ’98. Recent shows include Machinal (The Sound Company), Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy… and A Tale of Two Cities (Actors’ Theatre), and Uptown Scrooge (Good Medicine). A few other favorites: Cowboy Mouth (Warehouse), The 39 Steps (SRO), Mother Courage and Her Children (Civic), and a couple A Midsummer Night’s Dreams (’01, ’10). Supporter of soup and bikes. Has a cat. “Yea, he loveth.” LLL 1.2.

KEEGAN HARDIN (Mote) plays the role of Mote in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Keegan is 12 years old and attends middle school in Gahanna. She has performed in various productions – Marcy in School of Rock: The Musical (Columbus Children’s Theater), Molly in The Happy Elf (Columbus Children’s Theater), Liesl in Luchadora! (CATCO), and Nancy in A Christmas Story: The Musical (Columbus Children’s Theater). Keegan is supported by her parents, sisters (Quinn and Kevynn), and her four-legged companion (Leggo). She loves acting and singing and has recently started playing the violin. Keegan is excited for her first experience with Actors’ Theatre of Columbus.

DREW EBERLY (Costard) Drew Eberly loves returning to Schiller Park and made his Actors’ Theatre debut 15 years ago as Costard in Love’s Labour’s Lost. Most recently, he performed as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing, earning a Jebby Award for best lead actor in a play. Drew is a proud company member of Available Light Theatre and also writes, records, and performs his own songs. This past June, he toured as a solo artist, playing Pride festivals throughout Ohio. In 2021, he started his own record label in order to release his songs and named it Costard Records. Check it out: www.dreweberly.com.

MEGG MULLARKEY (Jaquenetta), originally from Louisville, KY, came to Columbus to pursue her PhD at The Ohio State University in theatre performance, history, and theory. She holds a master’s degree from the Shakespeare Institute in Stratford-upon-Avon and is a director, playwright, and actor. She has worked in theatre and film internationally in Italy, Ireland, and England as well as throughout the US. This is her first production with ATC. Favorite stage credits include Dead Man Walking (Sr. Helen), Lost in Yonkers (Bella), If (Pygmalion), and Othello (Emilia).

WILLIAM SCARBOROUGH (Boyet) is currently a graduate student at The University of Akron, working on his MA in English. This year marks his third appearance on the Schiller Park stage, having previously performed as Lysander in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Le Chevalier Danceny in Dangerous Liaisons. He has also participated in The Shakespeare Underground. He would like to thank his wife, Chelsea, for her continued support and encouragement in the face of an already packed schedule. He hopes his eldest daughter enjoys seeing her first play.

PHILIP J. HICKMAN (Artistic Director) is the artistic director of Actors’ Theatre. He has been part of ATC since 2010, and directed Robin Hood this summer and Queen Margaret this past summer in Schiller Park. Love and gratitude to Mikelle.

ROWAN WINTERWOOD (Director/Lighting Designer) is returning for her seventh season in Schiller Park. She has worked with ATC as a lighting designer (Hamlet, 1603, Eurydice, and others), stage manager, artist educator, and sound board operator, and she directed Or, ATC’s most popular show of the 2020 season, at MadLab. She is thrilled to direct on the Schiller Park stage for the first time. In the “off” season, she is the master electrician at The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio (formerly CATCO) and a freelance lighting designer for companies such as Available Light Theatre (Cry it Out, Everybody, Witch), Columbus Children’s Theatre (A Christmas Story), CATCO is Kids (Luchadora!, Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins), and Denison University (You on the Moors Now). In her spare time she practices trapeze and grows dahlias.

ADAM SIMON (Managing Director) continues to be honored and humbled at being allowed to work with the finest theatre artists this city has to offer, presenting accessible art in the heart of his community. Thank you for your part in making that happen, whether you’re backstage, in the audience, or treading the (concrete) boards. Special thanks to Beth and Ruby for understanding and tolerating this passion.

MEGAN LEAR (Producing Director) is thrilled to be back on her favorite stage once again this summer. Previously with ATC: Phoebe (As You Like It) Dogberry/Hero (Much Ado About Nothing). Endless gratitude to Scarf & Nina. All of her love to Cody, Lily, and Mom.

NINA MARTIN (Production Manager) is stoked to be back for her fifth season with ATC! She is grateful for the opportunities to try on new hats with her ATC fam. Special thanks to her cats, Hamlet and Puck, for always offering her a snuggle after a long rehearsal!

JANE CARNEY (Stage Manager) is thrilled to be returning for another summer in the park! She has previously worked with Actors’ Theatre as an ASM for Eurydice (2021) and A Tale of Two Cities (2022). In seasons other than summer, Jane can be found at the University of Dayton, where she works in a theater, drinks lots of iced coffee, and occasionally does her homework. Enjoy the show!

ELEANOR RAUSCHENBERG (Assistant Stage Manager) Actors’ Theater of Columbus: Queen Margaret (Assistant Stage Manager), The African Company Presents Richard III (Assistant Stage Manager). Ohio University School of Theater: Squeakers (Stage Manager)  what the Gods gave me (Assistant Stage Manager), Everybody (Production Assistant). Eleanor is a junior in Ohio University’s BFA Stage Management program.

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 (Alice in ATC’s Robin Hood – she’s the best), daughter, and mother-in-law for all the love and support.

BRADEN GRAVES (Scenic Designer) is a third year MFA candidate in scenic design at Ohio State University and is thrilled to be joining ATC this summer. While his focus is in scenic design, he is also a lighting designer and occasionally designs both. He is also interested in experience design and has worked with Curtis Elliott Design, an Ohio-based interior design company. In Ohio, Braden has designed for CATCO, Opera Project Columbus, and Ohio State University. Before moving to Ohio, he designed for Broadway Rose Theatre Company and several educational theatres in Portland, OR. Braden is also very involved in education and research and has taught theatre design and carpentry to a wide range of ages at several institutions. This fall, he will be joining Belhaven University as an assistant professor of theatre design.

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

KATIE GOLONKA (Build Crew/Charge Artist) is an artist, designer, and muralist operating out of Columbus as Cherry Alley Paint. Locally, she has worked as a scenic painter for CATCO and Opera Columbus. Katie’s permanent mural work can be seen in several locations throughout Columbus as well as other cities.

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.

JAZ R. NAPPIER (Sound Board Operator) is a contract theatre artist pursuing a career in community engagement arts in the Columbus area. She knows a little bit of everything performing arts! In her spare time, recently she likes to cook. Ig: theallthatjaz.

NIKKI PRICE (Sound Engineer) is excited to be back in the park pursuing their passion of supporting art. Thanks to the constant, loving support of their mother.

JAYLENE JENNINGS (Costume Designer) is an Ohio State University graduate and a company member of Available Light Theatre in Columbus as costume designer, stage manager, and collaborator. 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 the regional tour of One Night with Janis Joplin and A Map of Myself: My Odyssey to America. Some of her favorite credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, bobrauscenbergamerica, Remain in Light, and Dance Nation. She would like to thank Actors’ Theatre for this opportunity to be in the park this summer and her family for all of their support.

MAGGIE WELSH (Wardrobe Manager) is excited to be back with ATC after serving as an assistant house manager in 2022 and working with the Globe School in 2021. They received their BA in theatre and dance in 2021 from Ohio Wesleyan University, where their favorite onstage credits include Medusa’s Tale (Medusa) and Eurydice (Big Stone). They hope you enjoy the show!

ALEXANDER “XAN” NELSON (Props Designer) is a Philadelphia native who has been an active part of the performing arts scene in Columbus for the past ten years. He spent last ATC season climbing ladders with an impact driver in hand to help build ATC’s sets. This year he is back for the 2023 season in the role of props designer. 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 (most recently The Secret Garden at the Short North Stage) and at the occasional Gallery Hop with his saxophone quartet, Drastic Measures.

ERIN FLANAGAN (Props Manager) is super happy to be part of such a wonderful creative community for her second season with Actors’ Theatre. Erin is a Columbus suburb native who recently wrote a book of poetry titled Haikus to Irish Tunes. If you pass her reading in the park say hi! 

LEO SANTUCCI (Violence Designer) is a fight choreographer and actor in the Columbus area, and is ecstatic to be returning to Shiller Park as the season violence designer. He has been involved in a number of sword fights, both on and off stage, and his choreography has previously been seen with ATC in Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy… He is also an avid and semi-competitive fencer, in addition to being a certified actor/combatant with the Society of American Fight Directors. Most of all, he hopes you enjoy another magical season of theatre in the park!

BETH JOSEPHSEN (Movement/Intimacy Coach) has been with ATC for 15 years in various roles as an actor, director, and staff member. When not in the park, she takes Shakespeare programming to local schools. Beth would like to thank her husband for his love and support.

COLTON WEISS (Voice and Speech Coach) is excited to spend his summer in the park with Actors’ Theatre for the season! An actor, teacher, and dialect coach, Colton has worked on and off stage with companies throughout central Ohio and beyond. Favorite performance and coaching credits include: Newsies (CCT – Dir. Joe Deer), The Happy Elf (CCT – Dir. Dr. Aviva Neff), Verdi’s Rigoletto (Opera Columbus & Columbus Symphony), Matilda the Musical (Worthington Comm. Theatre), and Violet the Musical (A.R.T.@Oberon – Dir. Sammi Cannold). Outside the park, Colton works at Ohio State as an academic advisor/lecturer and offers private coaching and training through his business (CW Coaching: Voice, Speech, Dialects, & Acting). Learn more and contact him at coltonweiss.com. He is a proud graduate of OSU and Harvard University, and a member of the Voice and Speech Trainers’ Association (VASTA). Thanks to the ATC company and love to friends and family!

SARAH MARIE WILSON (Social Media Manager/House Manager) is thrilled to return to the park this summer! Previously with ATC: Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy… (assistant director); Hamlet, 1603 (Ofelia); Little Women (Beth). Follow @actorstheatrecolumbus on Instagram and Facebook!

ROCHELLE HEUSER (House Manager) is happy to return to Schiller Park as a house manager. When she was in college, Rochelle loved participating in her university’s Shakespeare club and is happy to reignite that interest with ATC. Rochelle enjoys spending time with her dogs (she will sometimes bring her two poodles to the show), knitting, sewing, and reading cozy fantasy books. She is excited to welcome patrons to the shows!

COLLEEN UNDERWOOD (House Manager) is thrilled to be a part of the 2023 ATC season! She is so grateful to her director Robyn for gifting her with this incredible experience. She gives a big shout out to her friends and family who understand how bad she is with time management, but still give her all the love and support she could ever need.

KATHERINE DUNHAM (Assistant House Manager) is excited to be back helping at Actors’ Theatre this summer. She is a sophomore at Baldwin Wallace University majoring in acting/directing and minoring in dance and arts management. She is a house/backstage manager for Baldwin Wallace Conservatory. Her previous shows have been Bare, Assistant Stage Manager; The Importance of Being Earnest, Backstage Crew; Hamlet 1603, Backstage Crew; and The Secret Garden as the puppeteer. Thanks to all my friends and family for their support over the years. Especially my mom and dad who are always my biggest cheerleaders.

TERRA MILLER (Assistant House Manager) has participated in many plays and musicals in both cast and crew. She is excited to help once again! Terra would like to thank her cats for their endless love and support.

ASHLEY PULLINS (Assistant House Manager) is pleased and excited to be joining this production and is looking forward to the season ahead.