BE BOULAY (Feste) is thrilled to make their debut at ATC, and in Ohio, as your “corrupter of words.” Originally from California, Be moved north and earned a BFA in theatre from Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR, where favorite roles include Bad Idea Bear in Avenue Q and Linda in The Drunken City. After graduating, they co-founded Puppeteers for Fears, a company specializing in horror comedy musical puppet shows, and directed and performed several productions, including Inspector LaGrasse in Cthulhu: The Musical! With other theaters: Annelle, Steel Magnolias at Oregon Cabaret Theatre; Jill, Equus at City Lights San Jose; Perdita, A Winter’s Tale at Foothill College; Daniel, Complete Works of Shakespeare (Abridged!); and Catherine, The Foreigner, both at the Camelot Theatre. Be will always be grateful to Chase for their love, support, and sass.

OLLIE WORDEN (Cesario/Viola) has been performing professionally for the past eight years, and will readily tell you their favorite stage is here in Schiller Park. They previously appeared here in Sense & Sensibility (2023), Queen Margaret (2022), Much Ado About Nothing (2021) and more! It’s a massive (and intimidating) honor to be living out every nonbinary actor’s dream of dancing across gender in the summer heat like it’s a silly little circus. Endless thanks and love to Nina and Rowan for their trust, this cast and crew for their remarkable work, and to you – for being here to see it.

TIARRA DAPO (Olivia) is very excited to fulfill her lifelong dream of performing in the park and wants to thank her husband, kids, family, and friends who encourage her. She would also like to especially thank her mom who has been the president of her fan club since the day she started performing with the local community center at age 6. I love you and appreciate you for supporting me in everything I do.

JAMES GEORGE (Orsino) is a lover of all things performance and entertainment. He primarily focuses on writing, directing, and acting on screen, but is always seeking other fun and interesting storytelling mediums.

PHILIP J. HICKMAN (Malvolio) 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.

SHA-LEMAR DAVIS (Sir Toby Belch) is so excited to bring this wacky tale to audiences for their first summer In the park with ATC! Sha-Lemar works as an artist, educator, and community organizer working to entertain and liberate communities in Columbus. Previous works include Fairview (Available Light Theatre), What the Constitution Means to Me (Available Light Theatre), and The Wolves (The Contemporary Theatre of Ohio). Sha-Lemar is dedicated to the liberation of all oppressed people, and recognizes that this moment is filled with communities who suffer at the hands of imperialist rule – free Palestine, free DRC, free Haiti, free Sudan. Free the people!

ARI ELGIN (Sir Andrew Aguecheek) is excited to make their return to Actors’ Theatre this summer. They previously walked this stage as John Brooke in Little Women which was one of their favorite roles. Other favorites include Robin Hood in A Somewhat True Tale of Robin Hood, Rick in An Irish Curse, and Max in Lend Me a Tenor. When not on stage, Ari is more than likely nerding out over comic books, playing with their cats, or spending time with family. Ari would like to thank their beautiful wife Emma for always supporting their dreams and making them come true.

TYREESE BOWMAN (Maria) is thrilled to be performing for a second year with Actors’ Theatre of Columbus. You may have caught him in Robin Hood and A Raisin in the Sun last year. Tyreese is a graduate of Capital University, where he studied both business management and theater studies. He’s had the opportunity to perform locally, collegiately, and internationally. When he’s not on stage, he’s working with various community nonprofits, doing yoga, swimming, and spending time with friends and family. (Instagram: @Tyreesebowman)

MAKANAKA CHIWANDAMIRA (Fabian) is a student at Ohio Dominican University and is excited to be in his first production with Actors’ Theatre!

MADI BURWELL (Valentine) is thrilled to be performing in her first season with Actors’ Theatre! It has been a dream of hers to do “Shakespeare in the park,” and she could not be more grateful for the opportunity. Madi was most recently seen in WCT’s Spring Awakening (Thea). Other credits include The Lightning Thief (ASM, Playhouse Square) directed by Chris McCarrell, BWMT’s Into the Woods (ASM), and Marginalia (The Raven, Baldwin Wallace). Many thanks to the Twelfth Night team! For the three, always.

CASEY MAY (Sebastian) is a Columbus (Clintonville!) native actor with a nomadic streak of moving from theatre-to-theatre, to local film and voice acting, to improv comedy, and back to the stage again! He is thrilled to be joining Actors’ Theatre once again and thanks his friends and family for the support and hopes to make friends with everyone but the mosquitos at Schiller this season.

LEO SANTUCCI (Antonio) 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!

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/Co-Director/Lighting Designer) 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).

NINA MARTIN (Co-Director/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.

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.

JANE CARNEY (Stage Manager) is so excited for another summer in Schiller Park! This is her fourth show with ATC: she previously stage managed Love’s Labour’s Lost and was an assistant stage manager for A Tale of Two Cities and Eurydice. She is a senior at The University of Dayton, and enjoys iced coffee, playing frisbee, and (of course) theatre.

FINCH IVEN (Assistant Stage Manager) is a senior in high school looking to pursue a career in backstage theater. They are ecstatic to work on this production and with such lovely people.

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.

OLLIE LAMBRYCH (Run Crew) is excited to have the opportunity to work with ATC. This is her first time working with them as she usually spends her time doing theater at her high school or Hilliard Arts Council. They’ve stage managed Our Town, assistant stage managed The Awakening, and has been a part of flight crew for Mary Poppins and flight captain for The Little Mermaid. They’d like to thank their friends and family for where she is right now.

KATIE GOLONKA (Scenic Designer/Build Crew/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!

JAYLENE JENNINGS (Costume Designer/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.