Zack Buell Gauthier Ralph et al.
Zack is very proud to be making his IRT debut with Around the World in 80 Days. Recent credits include the world premiere of Rewind by Laura Eason (The Side Project), Awake and Sing (u/s, Northlight Theatre), Blue Man Group as well as the world tour of Blue Man Group: How to Be a Megastar, and Cowboy Mouth (Producer’s Club, New York). Zack is a graduate of the School at Steppenwolf, Circle in the Square Theatre School in NYC, and New England Conservatory in Boston, where Buda and Moses taught him jazz drumming. “Thanks to Mom and Dad for their love and support.”

Jeff Cummings Phileas Fogg
Jeff is thrilled to make his IRT debut in Around the World in 80 Days. Recent credits include Garry in Noises Off for Theatre at the Center in Munster, Indiana, and as the theater critic in Curtains at the Drury Lane Theater in greater Chicago. Jeff worked for seven seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where favorite roles included Berowne in Love’s Labor’s Lost, Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Dr. Paramore in Shaw’s The Philanderer. Other regional credits include Cassius in Julius Caesar, Septimus in Arcadia, and Einstein in Picasso at the Lapin Agile.

Minita Gandhi Aouda et al.
Minita is thrilled to make her IRT debut! Regional credits include Mary Zimmerman’s The Arabian Nights at Lookingglass Theatre; Half-Life, A Christmas Carol, and The Voysey Inheritance at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre; and Distracted at ATC. She will next be seen this summer as Viola in First Folio Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night. Minita is a graduate of the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts and is currently studying aerial arts at the Actors Gymnasium. “I am thankful to God, my family, friends, and Dawn and Brooke of Gray Talent for supporting my dreams.”

John Lister Detective Fix et al.
Having grown up in West Lafayette, John is thrilled to be back home in Indiana performing with the IRT. Chicago credits include productions with Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, The Goodman Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Writer’s Theatre, Eclipse Theatre, and CollaborAction. Regional credits include productions with Peninsula Players, Notre Dame Summer Shakespeare, and the International Mystery Writer’s Festival. Film and television credits include Public Enemies (Universal), Prison Break (FOX), and The Beast (A&E). John received his B.S. from Ball State University and his M.F.A. from Michigan State University. He is a proud member of Actors Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers.

Mark Brown Playwright
Mark Brown is an award-winning writer and actor who has performed in theatres across the country. His films include Out of Sight, Holy Man, and Amy’s O. Notable TV credits include From the Earth to the Moon, House, Ally McBeal, Providence, Diagnosis Murder, and countless commercials and made-for-TV films. His play Around the World in 80 Days has literally been produced around the world. Awards for 80 Days include two Lillie Stoates Awards, including Best Production (Orlando Shakespeare Festival), four Shellie Awards, including Best Production (Center Rep Theatre), five Sarasota Magazine Theatre Award nominations (Florida Studio Theatre), and two Los Angeles Ovation Award nominations (the Colony Theatre). The Sacramento Bee named 80 Days Best Theatrical Comedy of 2004. His other plays include The Trial of Ebenezer Scrooge, China: The Whole Enchilada, and Poe: Deep into That Darkness Peering.

William Brown Director
Chicago director William Brown recently directed the world premiere of Brett Neveu’s Old Glory at Writers’ Theatre, where he has directed Jeff-nominated productions of As You Like It, Another Part of the Forest, Arms and the Man, Our Town, Rocket to the Moon, Misalliance, The Glass Menagerie, and Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy. At Northlight Theatre he has directed his own adaptation with original music of She Stoops to Conquer (After Dark Award), as well as The Chalk Garden and Lady Windermere’s Fan. At American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin, he has directed Hay Fever, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Night of the Iguana, Shaw’s You Never Can Tell, Antony and Cleopatra, All’s Well That Ends Well, The Cherry Orchard, Twelfth Night, and Thornton Wilder’s The Matchmaker. As associate artistic director of Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, he most recently directed his adaptation of Romeo and Juliet for Shakespeare in the Schools, touring the rural areas of Montana. He also directs A Christmas Carol at the Goodman Theatre. Bill’s website—containing slideshows of some of his work—is at williambrowndirector.com.

Kevin Depinet Scenic Design
Kevin is delighted to be working at the IRT for his first time. Recent credits include American Buffalo, Dublin Carol, First Look Repertory of new plays 08 and 09, and associate designer for August Osage County at Steppenwolf; The Crowd You’re In With and High Holidays at the Goodman Theatre; American Buffalo at the McCarter Theatre; What The Butler Saw at the Court Theatre; Oh Coward at Writer’s Theatre; Miss Saigon, Thoroughly Modern Millie, and Ragtime at Drury Lane; and Comedy of Errors at American Players Theatre, where this summer he will design Another Part of The Forest. Kevin just recently finished working on Michael Mann’s new film Public Enemies. He is also an adjunct professor of design at DePaul University. He studied at Ball State University and the Yale School of Drama.

Rachel Anne Healy Costume Design
Based in Chicago, Rachel has designed costumes for various stages, including the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, the Court Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, American Theatre Co, the Next Theatre, Timeline Theatre, and Remy Bumppo Theatre. Regionally, she has designed with the Alliance Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, First Stage Children’s Theatre of Milwaukee, American Players Theatre, and Long Wharf Theatre. Upcoming productions include Milwaukee Repertory’s The Seafarer and American Players Theatre’s Another Part of the Forest.

Charles Cooper Lighting Designer
Charles is thrilled to be making his IRT Debut. Recent credits include Curtains at Drury Lane Oakbrook; Of Mice and Men and First Look Repertory of New Work at Steppenwolf Theatre; Old Glory, As You Like It, Another Part of the Forest, Seagull, and The doctor’s Dilemma at Writers’ Theatre; she Stoops to Conquer and The Chalk Garden at Northlight Theatre; Blue Door, the Defiant Muse, Court-Martial at Fort Devens, and Shoes at Victory Gardens Theatre; Around the World in 80 Days at Peninsula Players; Well and The Overwhelming at the Next Theatre; True West and Top Dog/Underdog (in rep), Speech and Debate, Half of Plenty, Heritage, and Orpheus Descending at American Theater Company; Rhymes with Evil, Creole, and The Last Supper for Infusion Theatre. Charles is an associate artist at TimeLine Theatre, where his many credits include All My Sons, Weekend, Dolly west’s Kitchen, Harmless, Guantanamo: Honor Bound to Defend Freedom, A Man for All Season’s, Martin Furey’s Shot, and This Happy Breed. Other credits include work at Apple Tree Theatre, Teatro Vista, and numerous other theaters in and around Chicago. Charles is the recipient of five Jeff nominations and two After Dark Awards. He is proud to be a member of United Scenic Artists local 829. Charles lives in Oak Park with his wife Angela, son Ethan, and golden retriever Shelby. Please visit his web site at cooperportfolio.com.

Andrew Hansen Original Music and Sound Design
Andrew makes his IRT debut. He is an associate artist with Chicago’s TimeLine Theatre where he most recently designed The History Boys, selected as one of the 10 best productions of 2009 by the Wall Street Journal. In Chicago he has worked with the Goodman, Steppenwolf, Northlight, Writer’s Theatre, and others. He regularly collaborates with William Brown and will team again with him this summer on Another Part of the Forest at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, Wisconsin. He has composed music for short films, documentaries, one feature, and Lifetime’s Project Runway.

Richard J Roberts Dramaturg
As dramaturg for 12 of his 20 seasons with the IRT, Richard provides research for the IRT’s productions and works with playwrights in the development of new plays. He has also been a dramaturg for the New Harmony Project and the Bonderman Symposium. He has directed the IRT’s productions of Pretty Fire, The Giver, The Power of One, and Twelfth Night. Other directing credits include the Phoenix Theatre, Edyvean Repertory Theatre, Indianapolis Civic Theatre, and Anderson University. He was editor-in-chief of Arts Indiana magazine and has taught theatre courses at Butler University and IUPUI. He studied music at DePauw University and theatre at Indiana University. In 2003 he received a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

Nathan Garrison Stage Manager
This is Nathan’s 14th season at the IRT. He has also worked at Center Stage in Baltimore and at the Utah Shakespearean Festival. In 2005, he was awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis. This past summer, Nathan directed Much Ado about Nothing for HART in White River State Park.

Claire Simon Casting
Claire Simon and her associate Teresa Thoma have worked with the IRT on the casting for 23 productions, including Romeo and Juliet, The Heavens Are Hung in Black, Crime and Punishment, Doubt, Hamlet, Our Town, Young Lady from Rwanda, Inherit the Wind, Searching for Eden, Pride and Prejudice, and many more. Other regional credits include Missouri Rep, the Guthrie Theater, Madison Rep, Milwaukee Rep, the Clarence Brown Theatre, St. Louis Repertory, Cleveland Play House, and Jeff Daniels’s Purple Rose Theatre. Claire also casts for film, television, and commercials. Most recently she has worked on the A&E series The Beast starring Patrick Swayze and the films The Lake House with Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, Eagle Eye with Shia Lebouf, The Informant with Matt Damon, and A Home at the End of the World with Colin Ferrell and Sissy Spacek. She also cast the pilot and first season of the 20th Century Fox television series Prison Break, for which she won an Artios Award for casting.

Constance Macy

Local actor Constance Macy plays Becky in Oxford Financial Group presents BECKY’S NEW CAR.  Making her IRT debut in 1990 and appearing in over 18 IRT productions, she is a familiar face on the IRT stage.  We caught up with Constance during rehearsals for a brief interview.

IRT:  What first attracted you to BECKY’S NEW CAR?

CM: I love the style of the play. It’s cleverly crafted, expedited story-telling. So I was attracted to that aspect of it. But I also liked Becky right away. She spoke to me. She’ll speak to you too, just wait.

IRT:  What do you like most about your character, Becky?

CM: Her humanity. She invites the audience into her story, into her perspective. And she is honest and vulnerable with the audience, more than with anyone else in the play, including herself. So as her circumstances mount up, you feel for her, hopefully root for her, because you know her.

IRT: How did you prepare for this role?

CM: Well, because I feel like Becky Foster probably lives in my subdivision, I didn’t need to do a lot of research. I did visit an auto dealership to research the job though. And, like with any role, I mined any elements of myself or other people in my life. Then, of course, daily explorations of character in rehearsal with James (Still, director), trying out different choices, exploring persectives.

IRT:  There is a lot of comedy in this play.  Does comedy come natural to you?

CM: I don’t really think of myself as a funny person, but recently I was talking to an old friend, a guy I went from first through twelfth grade with. We were talking about our kids. My son had just started kindergarten, and I was worrying about him, and I said something about my son being a “clown.” And my friend said “Yeah, well, so were you.” So maybe it does come naturally. I also love to laugh, and I’m working with six wonderful, funny actors, so that’s dangerous for me.

IRT: What do you think people will take away from this play?

CM: I think people will maybe examine their perspective. I had an epiphany at the Childrens Museum. They have this little triangular room with mirrors covering the three walls, each reflecting the others, and on and on and on until there are hundreds of you but each one reflected from a slightly different angle, a slightly different version of you. If you think back through your life and all the choices you’ve made, it could have gone a million different ways. “Fate is just the weight of circumstances.” (That’s Rush, Roll the Bones.)

IRT: One personal question. Do you remember your “aha” moment when you decided you wanted to pursue acting?

CM: I remember going to the Broad Ripple Playhouse with my mom when I was maybe 12. I don’t remember the play, sadly, I think it was probably over my head. But I remember sitting forward in my seat, just mezmorized by this actress. That was probably when I became enchanted by the idea of acting.

IRT:  Okay, now for the important question; Team Edward or Jacob?

CM: Edward. Seriously, he’s the new Mr. Darcy.

Adriano Gatto  Chris Foster
Adriano is proud to make his IRT debut with such a talented group of artists. His regional credits include Eurydice at the Round House Theatre; Edward II, Major Barbara, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Tamburlaine the Great at the Shakespeare Theatre Company; Henry IV Part 1 at the Folger Shakespeare Library; and Othello and The Importance of Being Earnest with the Olney Theatre Company, Tour 58. He participated in original workshops and readings of The Eclectic Society at the Walnut Street Theatre and 1,952 Miles at the Source Theatre. After earning his B.F.A. in theatre studies from Niagara University, he was awarded an acting fellowship with the Shakespeare Theatre Company. Currently, he is a candidate for an M.S. in arts administration at Drexel University. Adriano is also a dedicated theatre teaching artist and fight choreographer. “Eternal gratitude and love to Mom, Dad, Julie, and my boo, Heather.

Nicholas Hormann  Walter Flood
Nick played Abraham Lincoln in James Still’s The Heavens Are Hung in Black earlier this season. He is delighted to reunite with James. As the IRT’s first associate artist, Nick played the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac in 1990 and directed The Cocktail Hour in 1992. He made his Broadway debut with the New Phoenix Repertory Company in 1973 and has performed over 100 principal roles in New York and regional theatre. Television credits include The Wonder Years (Emmy nomination), Desperate Housewives, Medium, Bones, and many others. He attended Yale Drama School and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

Constance Macy  Becky Foster
Constance came to the IRT in 1990 as an ensemble member of the Junior Works company and has appeared in Iron Kisses, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano, The Miracle Worker, Noises Off, All My Sons, A Christmas Carol, and To Kill a Mockingbird, among others. She is a founding member of ShadowApe Theatre Company, where her repertoire includes Transformations, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Welcome to the Monkey House, Life Is a Dream, Gorey Stories, Rope, and The Turn of the Screw. She has also worked with Cardinal Stage in Bloomington, the Phoenix Theatre, Shattermask in St. Louis, Missouri Rep, and Syracuse Stage. Constance teaches acting in the IRT Summer Conservatory for Youth and at Butler University where she directed The Underpants and Top Girls. She is a native of Indianapolis, a graduate of Indiana University, and a 2004 Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellow. She lives in Fishers with her husband, set designer Rob Koharchik, and their six-year-old son, Mike.

Robert Neal  Joe Foster
This is Robert’s ninth season with the IRT in such shows as Romeo and Juliet, The Heavens are Hung in Black, Interpreting William, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Inherit the Wind, A Christmas Carol, Arcadia, and As You Like It, to name a few. Other local theatres include Heartland Actor’s Repertory Theatre, ShadowApe Theatre, and the Phoenix Theatre, and he has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. Regional theatre credits include Syracuse Stage, the Blackstone Theatre, the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Pennsylvania Center Stage, the Oklahoma and Kentucky Shakespeare festivals, and the Brown County Playhouse, as well as the English American Theatre Festival in Dusseldorf, Germany. Robert’s training is from Penn State (M.F.A.) and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Cindy Phillips Ginger
Cindy has been seen at the Phoenix Theatre in The Laramie Project, Tongue of a Bird, The Gene Pool, and All in the Timing. Most recently at Theatre on the Square she has appeared as Lois in In Bed with Chuck and Lois and in Mid Life: The Crisis Musical, Straight Jacket, Proof, and A Chorus Line. Cindy has also performed at the Indianapolis Civic Theatre and with the Sapphire Theatre. At the Lilly Theatre at the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis she has been seen as Beauty in Beauty and the Beast, in Many Moons, in The Velveteen Rabbit, as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, and in more than 25 different gallery theatre exhibits.

Michael Shelton  Steve
Michael’s IRT credits include Macbeth, Our Town, Ah, Wilderness!, A Christmas Carol, The Taming of the Shrew, and The Miracle Worker. He has worked extensively at the Phoenix Theatre in such productions as The Pillowman, Bug, Three Days of Rain, Bluff, The Laramie Project, Touch (which was also presented at Victory Gardens Theatre in Chicago), and Take Me Out, which he also performed at the Caldwell Theatre in Boca Raton, Florida. He played Andy Lee in 42nd Street in Moscow, Russia, and Dr. Roberto Miranda in Heartland Actors’ Repertory Theatre’s Death and the Maiden. Michael currently serves as HART’s artistic director.

Karen Aldridge Nurse

Karen makes her IRT debut. At Chicago Shakespeare Theatre she has played Olivia in Twelfth Night, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth, Isabella in Edward II, and the Princess of France in Love’s Labor’s Lost; she also appeared in the international tour of Le Costume directed by Peter Brook, which included performances at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre. Other Chicago credits include The Ballad of Emmett Till, The Cook (Jeff Nomination for Best Actress), and Proof (Black Theatre Alliance Award for Best Actress) at the Goodman Theatre; Seagull at the Writers’ Theatre; Man from Nebraska at Steppenwolf Theatre Company; and Far Away and In the Blood (Jeff Nomination for Best Actress) at Next Theatre. Regional credits include productions with Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theatre, Magic Theatre, Aurora Theatre Company, and Marin Theatre Company.

David Alan Anderson Capulet

IRT audiences have seen David in The Heavens Are Hung in Black, Interpreting William, Looking Over the President’s Shoulder, Gem of the Ocean, The Gentleman from Indiana, Searching for Eden, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Julius Caesar, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Fences, A Christmas Carol, and others. Last season he played Walter Lee in a tour of A Raisin in the Sun that took him to the Cleveland Play House, Arizona Theatre Company, and the Guthrie Theater. He has directed The Color of Justice (2002) and Most Valuable Player (2004) on the Upperstage and Two Trains Running and Topdog/Underdog at the Phoenix Theatre. He is a company member with the highly acclaimed Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota. Regional credits include Lake Tahoe and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kansas City Rep, Delaware Theatre Company, Centerstage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, St. Louis Black Rep, and People’s Light and Theatre. David was a recipient of the 2007 Creative Renewal Fellowship sponsored by the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

Ryan Artzberger Mercutio

Ryan’s IRT credits include The Heavens Are Hung in Black, Rabbit Hole, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Iron Kisses, Tuesdays with Morrie, Our Town, Death of a Salesman, Inherit the Wind, He Held Me Grand, Macbeth, The Herbal Bed, and A Christmas Carol. Ryan is a member of Heartland Actors Repertory Theater where he has appeared in The Merchant of Venice and In a Dark Dark House. Regional credits include The Arabian Nights at Berkeley Rep and Kansas City Rep; Argonautika at the Lookingglass; Silk and Pericles at the Goodman Theatre; Pericles, Cyrano, and many others at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Hamlet, The Sea Gull, and The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Romeo and Juliet at Great Lakes Theater Festival; The Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Denver Center; and As You Like It at both New Jersey Shakespeare and Playmakers Rep. Ryan is a graduate of Ohio University and the Juilliard School.

Wayne T. Carr Tybalt

Wayne is ecstatic to be making his first appearance here at IRT. He just finished A Christmas Carol at the Milwaukee Rep, where he has also been seen in Eurydice, Trouble in Mind, and The Glass Menagerie. Wayne has had the pleasure of performing at American Players Theatre, Goodman, Illinois Shakespeare, Nebraska Shakespeare, Rennaissance Theatreworks, and others. He is a Penn State and Frostburg State Alum. “Thank you for supporting the arts.”

Claire Aubin Fort Juliet

Claire is proud to make her Indiana Repertory Theatre debut. Chicago credits include Anna in Burn This, War Music at Fourth River Theatre Ensemble, and Macbeth at Candid Theatre Company. Other credits include Antigone in Antigone; Emily in Our Town; Angie in Juvenilia; Diaphanta in The Changeling; Lucetta in Two Gentleman of Verona; Juliet in Measure for Measure; Myrra, King Midas’s Daughter, and Iris in Metamorphosis; and a Bride in Big Love. Claire is also an avid poet and modern dancer, and she enjoys cooking and designing jewelry. She is a proud teaching artist at Lookingglass Theatre in Chicago. She holds a B.A. in drama from Kenyon College and trained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. “I thank my family and friends for their loving support.”

Erik Hellman Romeo

Erik is thrilled to make his IRT debut. Other regional credits include Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet and Bertram in All’s Well That Ends Well at Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Mr. Marmalade at Houston’s Stages Repertory, and I Just Stopped By to See the Man at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, as well as appearing Off-Broadway in Macbeth at the Mirror Repertory Theatre. Erik is a Chicago-based actor, where he has appeared at Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Court Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Remy Bumppo, Chicago Dramatists, and the House, and as a company member of Strawdog. His film work includes The Dark Knight.

Cynthia Kaye McWilliams Lady Capulet

Cynthia earned her B.F.A in Acting from DePaul University. Since moving back to Chicago, she has appeared in the Warner Bros. film The Lake House, in a recurring role on Fox’s Prison Break, and in Robert Townsend’s independent feature Of Boys and Men, and she enjoyed working on the Lifetime pilot Family Practice. On stage, she had the pleasure of working at the Court Theatre in First Breeze of Summer and is excited to make her Indiana Repertory Theatre debut. Cynthia is blessed to have a successful voiceover and commercial career, representing clients such as McDonalds, Always, Special K, and Chevrolet. Passionate about artistic outreach, Cynthia also works with MPAACT Theater and CAPE (Chicago Arts Partners with Education) in the field of arts integration.

Brandon Miller Paris

Brandon is very proud to make his IRT debut. He is a southerner currently working in Chicago, where his credits include Romeo and Juliet at Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, The Siddhartha Project at Collaboraction Theatre, Flyin’ West at the Court Theatre, and Layla’s Dream at Congo Square. Regional credits include Magnolia at the Eugene O’Neil Playwrighting Conference and Columbo Takes the Rap at Riverpark Center. Brandon has appeared in various commercials both on camera and as a voiceover. He earned his B.F.A. in theatre arts and acting from Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.

Robert Neal Friar Laurence

This is Robert’s ninth season with the IRT in such shows as The Heavens are Hung in Black, Interpreting William, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Inherit the Wind, A Christmas Carol, Arcadia, and As You Like It, to name a few. Later this season he will be seen in Becky’s New Car. Other local theatres include Heartland Actor’s Repertory Theatre, ShadowApe Theatre, and the Phoenix Theatre, and he has performed with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Indianapolis Early Music Festival. Regional theatre credits include Syracuse Stage, the Blackstone Theatre, the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Pennsylvania Center Stage, the Oklahoma and Kentucky Shakespeare festivals, and the Brown County Playhouse, as well as the English American Theatre Festival in Dusseldorf, Germany. Robert’s training is from Penn State (M.F.A.) and the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art.

Ben Tebbe Benvolio

At the IRT, Ben most recently appeared as Bob Cratchit in A Christmas Carol; other  appearances have included Lennox in Macbeth, Rosencrantz in Hamlet, Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet (2004), as well as Amadeus. Other regional credits include The Complete History of America (abridged) at Contemporary American Theatre Company in Columbus, Ohio; The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Urinetown, and Orson’s Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre; Gorey Stories with ShadowApe Theatre Company; and Much Ado about Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and Death and the Maiden with Heartland Actors’ Repertory Theatre, where he is a founding company member. Ben earned his B.A. from Marian University and is an artist in the classroom for the IRT and an instructor for Jr. Civic at Indianapolis Civic Theatre. Ben is preparing for his newest role this coming spring as husband to Adriana.

IRT audiences have seen David in The Heavens Are Hung in Black, Interpreting William, Looking Over the President’s Shoulder, Gem of the Ocean, The Gentleman from Indiana, Searching for Eden, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Julius Caesar, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Fences, A Christmas Carol, and others; he will appear later this season in Romeo and Juliet. Last season he played Walter Lee in a tour of A Raisin in the Sun that took him to the Cleveland Play House, Arizona Theatre Company, and the Guthrie Theater. He has directed The Color of Justice (2002) and Most Valuable Player (2004) on the Upperstage and Two Trains Running and Topdog/Underdog at the Phoenix Theatre. He is a company member with the highly acclaimed Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota. Regional credits include Lake Tahoe and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kansas City Rep, Delaware Theatre Company, Centerstage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, St. Louis Black Rep, and People’s Light and Theatre. David was a recipient of the 2007 Creative Renewal Fellowship sponsored by the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

Ryan Artzberger Schoolmaster, Nutley, Ghost of Christmas Future, Poulterer’s Man

Ryan’s IRT credits include The Heavens Are Hung in Black, Rabbit Hole, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Iron Kisses, Tuesdays with Morrie, Our Town, Death of a Salesman, Inherit the Wind, He Held Me Grand, Macbeth, The Herbal Bed, and A Christmas Carol; he will appear later this season in Romeo and Juliet. Ryan is a member of Heartland Actors Repertory Theater where he has appeared in The Merchant of Venice and In a Dark Dark House. Regional credits include The Arabian Nights at Berkeley Rep and Kansas City Rep; Argonautika at the Lookingglass; Silk and Pericles at the Goodman Theatre; Pericles, Cyrano, and many others at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Hamlet, The Sea Gull, and The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Romeo and Juliet at Great Lakes Theater Festival; The Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Denver Center; and As You Like It at both New Jersey Shakespeare and Playmakers Rep. Ryan is a graduate of Ohio University and the Juilliard School.

Matthew Brumlow Fred, Young Scrooge, Undertaker

Matthew made his IRT debut in the title role of Hamlet. He is an ensemble member of Chicago’s critically acclaimed American Blues Theater Company where he has thirteen production credits including True West, The Hairy Ape, Catch 22, A View from the Bridge, and Oklahoma! A two-time Equity Jeff Award Nominee in Chicago, Matthew has performed with Court Theatre, Writers’ Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Northlight Theatre, Appletree Theatre, Chicago Dramatists, About Face Theatre, and many others. Regional credits include work with Long Wharf Theatre, Kansas City Repertory, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Door Shakespeare, and Montana Shakespeare in the Parks where favorite roles include Tybalt, Orlando, Tartuffe, and Shylock. He also traversed 40 states playing Stanley in a national tour of A Streetcar Named Desire with Montana Repertory Theatre. Matthew is happily married to Chicago actor Cora Vander Broek.

Charles Goad Ebenezer Scrooge

This is Chuck’s 11th season as Scrooge. Other IRT credits include The Fantasticks, Our Town, Driving Miss Daisy, Romeo and Juliet, Twelfth Night, And Then They Came for Me, and The Gentleman from Indiana. He appeared in The Merchant of Venice and Much Ado about Nothing for Heartland Actors Rep. Other Hoosier credits include November, Take Me Out, and Gross Indecency at the Phoenix; Welcome to the Monkey House, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Gorey Stories for ShadowApe; The Odd Couple and Tuna Christmas at Brown County Playhouse; Some Like It Hot and Patent Leather Shoes at Beef & Boards; and Amadeus for Cardinal Stage. In New York he was in Henry IV at LaMaMa, Tea among the Tamaracks at Center Stage/NY, and Flights of Angels at the Emelin Theatre. Regional credits include Cincinnati Playhouse, Missouri Rep, Syracuse Stage, Next Theatre, and the Depot Theatre. Film and TV credits include Law & Order: SVU, One Life to Live, The Salesman, and Two Weeks Notice.

Mark Goetzinger Marley’s Ghost, Fiddler, Topper, Old Joe

Mark has had roles in more than 70 IRT productions, including Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird, Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Hucklebee in The Fantasticks, Dr. Gibbs in Our Town, Charley in Death of a Salesman, Old Tom Martin in The Gentleman from Indiana, Albany in King Lear, Rev. Brown in Inherit the Wind, the Man Going Back and other roles in The Grapes of Wrath, Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice, the title role of The Drawer Boy, Milton Perry in The Immigrant, Sid in Ah, Wilderness!, Heck Tate in To Kill a Mockingbird, Luther Billis in South Pacific, and Bob Cratchit, Christmas Present, Marley’s Ghost, the Portly Gent, Fezziwig, Topper, Nutley, Broker, Old Joe, and the Undertaker in several editions of A Christmas Carol, as well as dozens of Cabarets.

Constance Macy Mrs. Cratchit, Roses Sister

Constance came to the IRT in 1990 as an ensemble member of the Junior Works company and has appeared in Iron Kisses, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Cyrano, The Miracle Worker, Noises Off, All My Sons, A Christmas Carol, and To Kill a Mockingbird, among others; later this season she will be seen in Becky’s New Car. She is a founding member of ShadowApe Theatre Company, where her repertoire includes Transformations, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, Welcome to the Monkey House, Life Is a Dream, Gorey Stories, Rope, and The Turn of the Screw. She has also worked with Cardinal Stage in Bloomington, the Phoenix Theatre, Shattermask in St. Louis, Missouri Rep, and Syracuse Stage. Constance teaches acting in the IRT Summer Conservatory for Youth and at Butler University where she directed The Underpants and Top Girls. She is a native of Indianapolis, a graduate of Indiana University, and a 2004 Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellow. She lives in Fishers with her husband, set designer Rob Koharchik, and their six-year-old son, Mike.

Ben Tebbe Bob Cratchit, Postboy, Young Marley

At the IRT, Ben’s appearances have included Lennox in Macbeth, Rosencrantz in Hamlet, Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night, and Benvolio in Romeo and Juliet, as well as A Christmas Carol and Amadeus; later this season he will be seen in Romeo and Juliet. Other regional credits include The Complete History of America (abridged) at Contemporary American Theatre Company in Columbus, Ohio; The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Urinetown, and Orson’s Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre; Gorey Stories with ShadowApe Theatre Company; and Much Ado about Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, and Death and the Maiden with Heartland Actors’ Repertory Theatre, where he is a founding company member. Ben earned his B.A. from Marian University and is an artist in the classroom for the IRT and an instructor for Jr. Civic at Indianapolis Civic Theatre. Ben is preparing for his newest role this coming spring as husband to Adriana.

Cora Vander Broek Felicity, Ghost of Christmas Past, Laundress

Cora made her IRT debut as Sister James in Doubt. A Chicago actor, her recent credits there include Ann in All My Sons at TimeLine Theatre; Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at Northlight Theatre; Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Steppenwolf Theatre, understudy performance; Dancing at Lughnasa, Book of Days, and Nina in The Seagull at Raven Theatre; and Dead End at Griffin Theatre. Regional credits include The Merry Wives of Windsor and Ellie in Heartbreak House at Montana Shakespeare in the Parks. Her writing has been featured in Serendipity Theatre’s 2ndStory series. Cora has received a Jeff Citation Nomination and an After Dark Award for her work as an actor in Chicago. In 2006 the Chicago Tribune featured her as one of the top five actors to watch now. She is a proud graduate of the School at Steppenwolf. She is pleased to be acting with her husband, Matthew Brumlow, for the first time.

Lilia Vassileva Belle, Fan, Martha, Maid

Lilia makes her debut with the Indiana Repertory Theatre in A Christmas Carol. Chicago credits include work at Pegasus Players, the Attic Playhouse, About Face Theatre, and Imagination Theatre. Area credits include Cardinal Stage Company and the Brown County Playhouse. A native of Sofia, Bulgaria, Lilia spent 18 years in Nigeria before moving to the United States. She is a recent graduate of the M.F.A. Acting Program at Indiana University–Bloomington and makes her home in New York City along with her husband and tiger-tabby cat, Sassy.

Milicent Wright Sister of Mercy, Mrs. Fezziwig, Plump Sister, Charwoman

Milicent is happy to be a part of the company of A Christmas Carol again. Other appearances at the IRT include The Power of One, A Woman Called Truth, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Mother of the Movement, Hard Times, and On the Razzle; later this season she will be seen in Pretty Fire. Milicent is the IRT’s manager of outreach programs and a resident teaching artist in the IRT’s Summer Conservatory for Youth. She has been fortunate to have had the time recently to share her talents with the Phoenix Theatre in And Her Hair Went with Her… and Black Gold and with the Asante Children’s Theatre.

Jennifer Johansen Mother, the Chief Elder
Jen has appeared at the IRT as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Viola in Twelfth Night, as well as in The Ladies Man, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Most Valuable Player. She played Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet at the Human Race Theatre in Dayton, where she will return to perform A Christmas Carol for the second season. Jen is a member of ShadowApe Theatre Company, where she has performed in Transformations, Welcome to the Monkey House, Gorey Stories, The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer, and Life Is a Dream. She has trained with Anne Bogart and the SITI Company and studied aerial arts at the Actors Gymnasium, and she is a certified yoga instructor. ”Everlasting love to my best friend, Rob. I dedicate my performance to him, and to all of my family and friends, who teach me to live in color.”

Robert K Johansen Father
This is Robert’s 14th season with the IRT, where he has appeared in the one-man show Underneath the Lintel as well as such shows as To Kill a Mockingbird, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, The Fantasticks, The Unexpected Guest, Twelfth Night, Inherit the Wind, The Grapes of Wrath, The Turn of the Screw, As You Like It, Cyrano, and A Christmas Carol. He is also a teacher and director in the IRT’s Summer Youth Conservatory. He is a member of the ShadowApe Theatre Company, which produced Welcome to the Monkey House on the IRT Upperstage. He performed another one-man show, After Paul McCartney by David Hoppe, at the Edinburgh Festival two years ago, and will do so again on the Upperstage this season. “So much love and thanks to my best friend and best love, my wife, Jen.”

Frederick Marshall the Giver
Frederick has appeared at the IRT in To Kill a Mockingbird, Macbeth, Inherit the Wind, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Pride and Prejudice, Arcadia, As You Like It, and A Christmas Carol. He received his B.A. in theatre arts from Hanover College and has studied with Dr. Tom Evans, Barbara Farrar, and Rose Kleiman. He was the recipient of the American College Theatre Festival Award of Excellence for his performance in Brecht’s A Man’s a Man at the Kennedy Center. Locally he has appeared with ShadowApe, Edyvean Rep, and Indianapolis Civic. He has also performed at South Carolina Repertory Company in Hilton Head, Kaleidoscope Players in Raton, New Mexico, and Hollywood Actors Theatre and Burbank Playhouse, both in Los Angeles.

Garrett McKenna Jonas
Garret McKenna is an eighth grader at St. Lawrence Catholic School. This is his first major role at the IRT, although he has appeared in A Christmas Carol in 2006 and 2008, understudied the role of Jem in To Kill a Mockingbird, and has participated for three years in the Summer Conservatory. Garrett discovered acting as a Mud Creek Barn Rat under the direction of Lynn Perkins and Matt Socey. He has also appeared at the Scottish Rite Cathedral, the Artist’s Studio, and Footlight Musicals. “I would like to thank my mom, dad, brother, and grandparents for supporting me, and my school for allowing me to take part in this production.”

Anna Miller Lily
Anna is thrilled to be joining the cast of The Giver and performing at the IRT for the first time. She is nine years old and in fourth grade at Lantern Road Elementary in Fishers. Anna loves acting and creative play, but also enjoys competitive swimming, art, gymnastics, and reading. “I would like to thank my IRT theatre family for welcoming me, and a special thank you to my school, coaches, and teachers for all their support. Love and thanks to Mom and Dad for all the driving to downtown!”

Maggie Williams Fiona, Rosemary
Maggie is thrilled to be returning to IRT after recently performing as Belinda Cratchit in A Christmas Carol. Other credits include: the title role in Annie, Young Jane in Jane Eyre, Snoopy in You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Marta Von Trapp in The Sound of Music, Baby June in Gypsy, Shprintze in Fiddler on the Roof, and ensemble in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Maggie is 13 years old and has been performing since the age of 8. “Thanks to Richard Roberts and Priscilla Lindsay for this opportunity, and to my mom and dad for all their support.”

Nick is a (young) old friend of the IRT, getting his start on this very stage in To Kill a Mockingbird twelve years ago, and later appearing in A Christmas Carol, Macbeth, The Red Badge of Courage, and more. Now he is thrilled to be returning to the IRT as an adult after a four-year stint in college at the University of Evansville, from which he graduated in May. After Heavens closes, Nick will be moving to New York City to pursue a professional acting career. “I want to thank the IRT for all its support throughout the years. Working here has always felt like coming home.”

David Alan Anderson Dred Scott, Old Soldier, Uncle Tom, Servant

IRT audiences have seen David in Interpreting William, Looking Over the President’s Shoulder, Gem of the Ocean, The Gentleman from Indiana, Searching for Eden, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Julius Caesar, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Fences, A Christmas Carol, and others; he will appear later this season in A Christmas Carol and Romeo and Juliet. Last season he played Walter Lee in a tour of A Raisin in the Sun that took him to the Cleveland Play House, Arizona Theatre Company, and the Guthrie Theater. He has directed The Color of Justice (2002) and Most Valuable Player (2004) on the Upperstage and Two Trains Running and Topdog/Underdog at the Phoenix Theatre. He is a company member with the highly acclaimed Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota. Regional credits include Lake Tahoe and Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festivals, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Kansas City Rep, Delaware Theatre Company, Centerstage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Syracuse Stage, Geva Theatre, St. Louis Black Rep, and People’s Light and Theatre. David was a recipient of the 2007 Creative Renewal Fellowship sponsored by the Arts Council of Indianapolis.
Ryan Artzberger Walt Whitman, ensemble

Ryan’s IRT credits include Rabbit Hole, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Iron Kisses, Tuesdays with Morrie, Our Town, Death of a Salesman, Inherit the Wind, He Held Me Grand, Macbeth, The Herbal Bed, and A Christmas Carol; he will appear later this season in A Christmas Carol and Romeo and Juliet. Ryan is a member of Heartland Actors Repertory Theater where he has appeared in The Merchant of Venice and In a Dark Dark House. Regional credits include The Arabian Nights at Berkeley Rep and Kansas City Rep; Argonautika at the Lookingglass; Silk and Pericles at the Goodman Theatre; Pericles, Cyrano, and many others at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C.; Hamlet, The Sea Gull, and The Comedy of Errors at Shakespeare Santa Cruz; Romeo and Juliet at Great Lakes Theater Festival; The Beauty Queen of Leenane at the Denver Center; and As You Like It at both New Jersey Shakespeare and Playmakers Rep. Ryan is a graduate of Ohio University and the Juilliard School.

Jason Bradley John Hay, ensemble

Jason has appeared at the IRT in the title role of The Gentleman from Indiana and as Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice, Miles in The Drawer Boy, and Septimus in Arcadia, as well as various roles in A Christmas Carol. Other theatre credits include The Diary of Anne Frank at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, A Month in the Country and Pride and Prejudice at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Pride and Prejudice at Cleveland Play House, Candida and Macbeth at American Players Theatre, The Drawer Boy at Madison Repertory Theatre, To the Green Fields Beyond at the Writers Theatre, and Stripped at Circle Theatre (Jeff Citation Nomination, Best Actor).

Patrick Clear William Seward, Jefferson Davis, ensemble

Patrick is delighted to return to the IRT. He appeared here in the 2004 production of Plaza Suite opposite Priscilla Lindsay, with whom he will be reunited later this season in Love Letters. A longtime resident of Chicago, his roles there have included Mr. Bennet in Pride and Prejudice at Northlight Theatre, Martin in The Goat and Bernard Nightingale in Arcadia at the Goodman, Patrick Bronte in Bronte at Remy Bumppo, Leonato in Much Ado about Nothing at First Folio, Serebryakov in Uncle Vanya at Apple Tree, and Gloucester in King Lear at Chicago Shakespeare. He appeared on Broadway in Noises Off and Hollywood Arms. Regional credits include the Guthrie, Arena Stage, Huntington Theatre, Cincinnati Playhouse, and Center Stage.

Adam Crowe Ward Hill Lamon, ensemble

Adam has been seen at the IRT in The Gentleman from Indiana and Inherit the Wind. He has appeared on most Indianapolis stages, including Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre and the Phoenix Theatre. Favorite roles include the title roles in Tartuffe and Galileo as well as roles in The Laramie Project, A Tuna Christmas, The Boys Next Door, Mame, and Asylum. He has also appeared at the Brown County Playhouse and with Cardinal Stage in Bloomington. A graduate of Wabash College, Adam thanks his entire family.

Robert Elliott Edwin Stanton, Stephen Douglas, ensemble

At the IRT, Bob has been seen in Our Town, The Gentleman from Indiana, King Lear, Inherit the Wind, The Grapes of Wrath, The Drawer Boy, Angel Street, Broadway Bound, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Arms and the Man, and That Championship Season. He has worked extensively in the regional theatre for over thirty years. He is a native of Missouri and spends his off time at the family lake house in the Missouri Ozarks with his sweetheart, Manon Halliburton.

Mary Beth Fisher Mary Todd Lincoln

Mary Beth previously appeared at the IRT in Arcadia. Her Chicago credits include Rock ’n’ Roll, The Clean House, Dinner with Friends, Heartbreak House, Spinning into Butter, Design for Living, Light Up the Sky, and Marvin’s Room at the Goodman; Dead Man’s Cell Phone, The Dresser, and The Memory of Water at Steppenwolf; The Wild Duck, What the Butler Saw, Travesties, and The Glass Menagerie at the Court; and The Little Dog Laughed at About Face. In New York she has appeared in Frank’s Home at Playwrights’ Horizons; Boy Gets Girl (Drama League Honoree, Drama Desk and Lucille Lortel nominations), The Radical Mystique, and By the Sea … at Manhattan Theatre Club; The Night of the Iguana at the Roundabout; and Extremities at Westside Arts. TV and film credits include State of Romance, Without a Trace, Numb3rs, Prison Break, NYPD Blue, Profiler, Dragonfly, and Trauma. Mary Beth is a Lunt-Fontanne Fellow.

Nicholas Hormann Abraham Lincoln

Nicholas appeared at the IRT in 1990 in the title role of Cyrano de Bergerac; as the IRT’s first associate artist, he directed The Cocktail Hour in 1992. He made his Broadway debut in 1973 with the Phoenix Repertory Company under Harold Prince. Also on Broadway: Saint Joan with Lynn Redgrave, Moose Murders with Holland Taylor, and Execution of Justice by Emily Mann. He has performed over 100 principal roles with the nation’s leading professional theaters and has received numerous nominations and awards. Television appearances include The Wonder Years (Emmy nomination), Desperate Housewives, Medium, Bones, and Seinfeld. He attended Oberlin and Yale Drama School and lives in Los Angeles with his wife and son.

Diane Kondrat Mrs. Winston, Young Woman, ensemble

Diane made her IRT debut in Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure. She is delighted to be back! This summer in New York City she received excellent reviews for her performance in the two-woman comedy, Assholes and Aureoles. Her next role is with Cardinal Stage, Bloomington’s new professional theatre company, as Barbara in boom. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and has worked extensively at the Phoenix Theatre. She has served as the artistic director of InterAction Theater, an Indianapolis-based not-for-profit, since 1992. Diane’s favorite recent roles include the title role in Christopher Durang’s Miss Witherspoon and Winnie in Beckett’s Happy Days.

Gus Leagre Willie Lincoln, Newsboy, ensemble

August (Gus) Leagre is excited to make his IRT debut on the same stage that his late great-grandfather (for whom he is named) debuted on more than 25 years ago. He is in eighth grade at Clay Middle School where he performed as the Major General in The Pirates of Penzance, Jr. Gus recently completed the IRT Conservatory where he played Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and has attended Children’s Theatre Institute since 2003. He was a screenwriter and actor in the film Bullied for the 48-Hour Film Project, and has been seen in various local commercials. Gus has also been a presenter for Indy’s Best and Brightest and the Central Indiana Business Hall of Fame.

Robert Neal John Brown, Billy Brown, ensemble

This is Robert’s ninth season with the IRT in such shows as Interpreting William, To Kill a Mockingbird, Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure, Hamlet, Twelfth Night, King Lear, Inherit the Wind, A Christmas Carol, Arcadia, and As You Like It, to name a few; later this season he will be seen in Romeo and Juliet and Becky’s New Car. Other local theatres include Heartland Actor’s Repertory Theatre, ShadowApe Theatre, and the Phoenix Theatre. Regional theatre credits include Syracuse Stage, the Blackstone Theatre, the Bailiwick Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, Pennsylvania Center Stage, the Oklahoma and Kentucky Shakespeare festivals, and the Brown County Playhouse, as well as the English American Theatre Festival in Dusseldorf, Germany. Robert’s training is from The Pennsylvania State University (M.F.A.) and LAMDA.

Anthony Prostyakov Tad Lincoln

Anthony was born in Indianapolis in August 2000. He is a fourth grade student (fifth grade math) in College Wood Elementary School in Carmel. He has participated in several productions including Charlotte’s Web, 101 Dalmatians, Honk, and Marriage. In 2009 he played Oliver Twist in Oliver! at the Carmel Repertory Theatre. Anthony’s first appearance on stage at the Indiana Repertory Theatre was as Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol last season. “I want to thank all those at the IRT who work together to bring the most admirable experience, enlightenment, and entertainment to the Hoosier public.”

Martin Yurek Edwin Booth, Union Officer, ensemble

This is Martin’s first appearance at the IRT. A Chicago native, Martin’s area stage credits include productions at the Goodman Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare Theatre, Court Theatre, Northlight, Drury Lane Oakbrook, Marriott Lincolnshire, Shaw Chicago, Ravinia Festival, Victory Gardens, Chicago Dramatists, Buffalo Theatre Ensemble, Theatre at the Center, and the Theatre Building. Regionally, Martin has appeared at the Utah Shakespearean Festival, Riverfront Theatre, Madison Repertory, Kansas City Repertory, American Players Theatre, New American Theatre, Milwaukee Shakespeare, Riverside Shakespeare, both Illinois and Wisconsin Shakespeare festivals, and five seasons with Summer Shakespeare at Notre Dame. He appeared off-Broadway at the New Victory Theatre. Martin received his theatre training at the Theatre School at DePaul University.