David Alan Anderson Fezziwig, Ghost of Christmas Present, Old Joe, Ensemble
IRT audiences have seen David inRomeo and Juliet, 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. Recently he played the title role in Othello at the Idaho Shakespeare Festival and the Great Lakes Theater Festival, and Walter Lee in a tour ofA Raisin in the Sun that took him to the Cleveland Play House, Arizona Theatre Company, and the Guthrie Theater. He has directedThe Color of Justice (2002) andMost Valuable Player (2004) on the Upperstage andTwo Trains Running andTopdog/Underdog at the Phoenix Theatre. He is a company member with the highly acclaimed Penumbra Theatre in St. Paul, Minnesota. Regional credits include the 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 Ebenezer Scrooge
Ryan’s IRT credits include Holes, Romeo and Juliet, 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. Later this season he will be seen in Fire in the Garden. Ryan is a member of Heartland Actors Repertory Theatre where he has appeared in Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Merchant of Venice, and In a Dark Dark House. Regional credits include Reasons to Be Pretty at the Studio Theatre in Washington, D.C., and at the Phoenix Theatre here in Indianapolis; 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 New Jersey Shakespeare and Playmakers Rep. Ryan is a graduate of Ohio University and the Juilliard School.
Matthew Brumlow Fred, Young Scrooge, Broker, Ensemble
Matthew Brumlow has appeared at the IRT in the title role of Hamlet and in last season’s A Christmas Carol. He is an ensemble member of Chicago’s critically acclaimed American Blues Theater Company where he has 14 production credits, including Tobacco Road, Catch 22, A View from the Bridge, True West, and Oklahoma! A two-time Equity Jeff Award nominee in Chicago, Matthew recently played Jim Reston in Timeline Theatre Company’s Frost/Nixon and has also 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, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, and Montana Repertory Theatre's national tour ofA Streetcar Named Desire in which he played Stanley. He will next appear at Milwaukee Repertory Theatre in Nobody Lonesome for Me, a one-man show about country legend Hank Williams Sr.
Mark Goetzinger Portly Gentleman, Schoolmaster, Topper, Ensemble
Mark has had roles in more than 70 IRT productions, including the Sheriff in Holes, Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (2009), 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 (1997), 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.
Jennifer Johansen Sister of Mercy, Roses Sister, Charwoman, Ensemble
Jen was just seen at the IRT as Kissin’ Kate Barlow in Holes. Also at IRT she has appeared as Lady Macbeth in Macbeth and Viola in Twelfth Night, as well as in The Giver, The Ladies Man, A Christmas Carol, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Most Valuable Player. She played Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet and Past and Future in A Christmas Carol at the Human Race Theatre in Dayton. She is a member of ShadowApe Theatre Company, whose original creation Not a Peep was the highest grossing show at the 2010 Indy Fringe Festival.Other notable ShadowApe productions include Welcome to the Monkey House, Gorey Stories, and The Love Song of J. Robert Oppenheimer. 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.
Constance Macy Mrs. Cratchit, Mrs. Fezziwig, Plump Sister, Ensemble
Constance came to the IRT in 1990 as an ensemble member of the Junior Works company. Since then, she has performed at the IRT as Barbara in Iron Kisses (directed by David Bradley), Titania in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Roxanne in Cyrano,Kate Keller in The Miracle Worker,Belinda Blair in Noises Off,and Becky Foster in Becky’s New Car. She recently appeared as the Warden in Holes; later this season she will be seen as Mrs. Van Daan in The Diary of Anne Frank. She is a founding member of ShadowApe Theatre Company, with whom she appeared most recently in Not a Peep, and most notably in Welcome to the Monkey House and Gorey Stories. She has also worked with Cardinal Stage in Bloomington, the Phoenix Theatre, Shattermask in St. Louis, Missouri Rep, and Syracuse Stage. Recently she played a cop in the indie film Suck It Up, Buttercup. Constance teaches acting in the IRT Summer Conservatory for Youth and at Butler University, where she directedThe Underpants andTop Girls. She is a native Hoosier, a graduate of Indiana University, and a 2004 Arts Council of Indianapolis Creative Renewal Fellow.
Robert Neal Marley’s Ghost, Lamplighter, Ghost of Christmas Future, Poulterer’s Man, Ensemble
This is Robert’s tenth season with the IRT in such shows as Holes, Becky’s New Car, 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, andAs 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.
Jerry Richardson Bob Cratchit, Postboy, Broker, Ensemble
Jerry made his IRT debut in This Wonderful Life. Other credits include Anniversary at the Ensemble Studio Theatre; FUBAR at 59E59; The Unexpected Guest, The Mousetrap, Lightning Rod, and Dracula at the Fulton Opera House; Mythellaneous at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival; A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Vermont Shakespeare Company; Hay Fever at the Cape Cod Playhouse; Sweet Bird of Youth at the Shakespeare Theatre; Coffee with Richelieu at the Olney Theatre; As You Like It and Shakespeare’s R&J at the Folger Theatre; In the Garden at the Signature Theatre; The Comedy of Errors at Stages on the Sound; Love’s Labor’s Lost, Henry IV Part 1, andA Midsummer Night’s Dream at the American Shakespeare Center; and the national tour of Scooby Doo for Clear Channel/Warner Bros. Film and TV credits include The Producers, Gigantic with Paul Dano, Crazy Like a Fox, Riders for Sundance/IFC, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Guiding Light, Homicide, and the upcoming HBO pilot The Miraculous Year directed by Kathryn Bigelow.
Ben Tebbe Young Marley, Nutley, Undertaker, Ensemble
At the IRT, Ben most recently appeared as Mr. Pendansky in Holes; other appearances have included Benvolio inRomeo and Juliet, Bob Cratchit inA Christmas Carol, Lennox inMacbeth, Rosencrantz inHamlet, and Andrew Aguecheek inTwelfth Night, as well asAmadeus. Other regional credits includeThe Complete History of America (abridged) at Contemporary American Theatre Company in Columbus, Ohio;The Lieutenant of Inishmore, Urinetown, andOrson’s Shadow at the Phoenix Theatre;Gorey Stories and most recentlyNot a Peep at IndyFringe with ShadowApe Theatre Company; andMuch Ado about Nothing, The Merchant of Venice, andDeath 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.
Cora Vander Broek Felicity, Ghost of Christmas Past, Laundress, Ensemble
Cora has appeared at the IRT as Sister James in Doubt and in last season’s A Christmas Carol. A Chicago actor, her recent credits there include The DNA Trail at Silk Road Theatre Project (with Goodman Theatre); All My Sons at TimeLine Theatre; Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde at Northlight Theatre; and Dead Man’s Cell Phone at Steppenwolf Theatre (understudy performance). 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. For her acting work, Cora has received an After Dark Award and a Jeff Citation nomination and has been featured in the Chicago Tribune as one of the top five actors to watch now. She is a proud graduate of the School at Steppenwolf. She will next be seen in the Midwest premiere of J. T. Rogers’s Madagascar at Next Theatre in Chicago.
Leah Walsh Fan, Belle, Martha, Ensemble
In New York Leah has been seen in The Orphans’ Home Cycle at Signature Theatre Company. Regional credits include the Guthrie Theater, Chautauqua Theater Company, the Berkshire Playwrights Lab, and the New Harmony Project. At Juilliard she appeared in THE GREEKS Part III: The Gods, Dancing at Lughnasa, Reborning, Julius Caesar, Under Milk Wood, Savage in Limbo, The Cherry Orchard, and Farragut North. Film credits include No Sè and Sense. Leah is a graduate of the University of Evansville and the Juilliard School Drama Division.
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