2007 Acting Company

Carl Anthony-Tramon (Mozart, Amadeus) Broadway: Peter Pan, Rags. National Tours: Fame (nominated for Best Actor in a Broadway National Tour by the League of New York Theatres and Producers), Penny by Penny and Gypsy. Off-Broadway and New York: What Makes Sammy Run? (West End Theatre), Flyer (Lamb’s Theatre), Angry Housewives (Minetta Lane), Tokyo Can-Can (Theatre at St. Clemens), Sleeparound Town (Playwrights Horizons), Hunchback of Notre Dame (Joseph Papp Public Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Lincoln Center), and The Jeweler’s Shop, a play by Pope John Paul II staged at Carnegie Hall. Regional: Paper Mill Playhouse, Bristol Riverside Theatre, Portland Stage, Pasadena Playhouse, Missouri Rep, etc. Film/Television: Spaceboyz, Saved by the Bell, Saturday Night Live, Pizza Palace, Growing Pains, Just the Ten of Us, One Life to Live, and Tosca with Luciano Pavarotti (PBS). Training: Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.

Getchie Argetsinger (Miss Prism, The Importance of Being Earnest) National Tour: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. Off-Broadway and New York: Uncle Vanya (The Barrow Group), The Kathy and Mo Show (Greenwich Street Theatre), Endgame (Hunger Theatre). Regional: Goodman Theatre and Theatre V (Washington D.C.). Film/Television: Annie Hall, The Sopranos, Gypsy in My Soul. Getchie is a professional storyteller and featured artist for the New York Public Library system. Training: Michael Howard, William Esper, American Academy of Dramatic Arts. Studied French at the Sorbonne at the University of Grenoble.

Darrin Baker (Michael, I Do! I Do!) Broadway: Tarzan, Wonderful Town, Laughing Room Only, Footloose, The Scarlet Pimpernel, Sunset Boulevard. Off-Broadway: Hello Muddah, Hello Faddah; I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change; Little by Little; Exactly Like You. Regional: Dirty Blonde at Cincinnati Playhouse, A New Brain at Portland Center Stage, Hot ‘n’ Cole at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Jesus Christ Superstar at The Muny (St. Louis), and the original Toronto company of Les Miserables. Film/Television: A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (independent), Queer as Folk, TV Fun House, Law & Order, My Secret Identity, War of the Worlds, Crime and Punishment.

Kensington Blaylock (Cecily, The Importance of Being Earnest) University of Southern Indiana: Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Eleemosynary, Quilters, The Birthday Party, Little Shop of Horrors, The Laramie Project, Charley’s Aunt, A…My Name is Alice. Kensington will be a senior in the Department of Performing Arts at USI in the fall.

Joseph Bowen (Orsini-Rosenberg, Amadeus; Chasuble, The Importance of Being Earnest) Regional: Sunday in the Park with George (Ravinia Festival), Richard II and Cyrano de Bergerac (Playmaker’s Rep), Great Expectations (Mill Mountain Theatre), A Christmas Carol (Meadow Brook Theatre), Leaving Iowa (Royal George Theatre), The Boy in the Basement (William Inge Theatre Festival), The Crucible (Wheelock Family Theatre), Caesar and Cleopatra, Fanny’s First Play, On the Rocks and Back to Methuselah with ShawChicago, where Joe is a company member. Training: American Repertory Theatre, SITI Company. Thanks to Lila for her constant support.

Joshua Buente (MajorDomo/Citizen of Vienna, Amadeus) University of Southern Indiana: Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Zeus, Cinyras, and Erysichthon in Metamorphoses; Charley in Charley’s Aunt; The Laramie Project; Antigone. Josh will be a senior in the Department of Performing Arts at USI in the fall.

Vichet Chum (Venticello, Amadeus) University of Evansville: Sam Goldman in 1918,Howie Newsome in Our Town, Hot Blades Harry in Urinetown: The Musical, Bert in Landscape of the Body, Reporter in Handler. Harlaxton College, England: Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing. Vichet will be a senior in the theatre program at the University of Evansville in the fall.

Diane Ciesla (Lady Bracknell, The Importance of Being Earnest) National Tour: Lost in Yonkers. Off-Broadway and New York: Great Expectations (Lucille Lortel), deathvariations (59 E 59 Street Theatre),  Mamillius (La MaMa e.t.c.), Night Sings Its Song (Culture Project), No Time for Comedy (The Mint), Cannibal’s Waltz (Hudson Guild Theatre), Macbeth (Playhouse 91). Regional: The Bird Sanctuary (Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Pittsburgh Public), String of Pearls (Playmakers Rep), Splitting Infinity (Brand:New Hartford Stage), Gigi and Carousel (North Shore Music Theatre), Mount Allegro and A Christmas Carol (GeVa Theatre), and Oliver! (Starlight/Muny). Television: Law & Order, All My Children, Guiding Light.

Nikki Coble (Constanze, Amadeus) Regional: Sibyl Chase in Private Lives (Seattle Rep), Juliet in Romeo & Juliet (performing understudy, Syracuse Stage), Nora in Brighton Beach Memoirs (Virginia Stage, Syracuse Stage), Emily in Our Town (Foothills Theatre). London: Ophelia in Hamlet (RADA Studio), Perdita in The Winter’s Tale (GBS Theatre). Film: Mona Lisa Smile. Nikki produced her own solo performance 5x7, Life in the Frame at the Trilogy Theatre in New York City. Training: B.F.A., Syracuse University. Acting Shakespeare Certificate, Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts, London.

Joseph Dellinger (Emperor Joseph II, Amadeus) Regional: Henry IV in Henry IV, Part I, Albany in King Lear, Adam in As You Like It, Norfolk in Henry VIII, Egeus in A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and Porter in Macbeth, all at Virginia Shakespeare Festival. Film/Television: Flags of Our Fathers, Commander in Chief. Joe is a retired United States Air Force officer and a professor of American literature and creative writing. He has been soloist with the Florida Symphony and the Charlottesville Symphonic Chorus. Training: Paul Baker, Baylor University.

Susan Derry (Gwendolen, The Importance of Being Earnest; Agnes, I Do! I Do!) Broadway: Wonderful Town (Eileen, performing understudy). Regional: Fiona in Brigadoon, Maria in West Side Story, Susan in Company, and Mame at the Kennedy Center. Also Christine in Phantom of the Opera inHamburg, Germany. Opera: False Angèle, Kurt Weill’s The Tsar has his Photograph Taken, Alexandra in Regina,Adele in Die Feldermaus,Jessica in Portland Opera’s world premiere production of Reynaldo Hahn’s The Merchant of Venice, and Miss Jessel in The Turn of the Screw, among others.  City Center Encores!: Nine appearances and two cast albums. Concert: Guest soloist with the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall: An Evening of Frank Loesser, My Fair Lady at Avery Fisher Hall with Kelsey Grammer, Joe’s Pub. Training: Northwestern University, Manhattan School of Music. www.susanderry.com

Loren Dunn (Algernon, The Importance of Being Earnest) Regional: Timmy in The Subject Was Roses, Richard in The Lion in Winter, Jack in The Importance of Being Earnest, Greg in Relatively Speaking, and Giles in The Moustetrap, all at Dorset Theatre Festival; Maurice in Fallen Angels, Florizel in The Winter’s Tale, Albert in Hobson’s Choice, and Archibald in The Secret Garden at Peterborough Players. Training: B.A., Johns Hopkins University.

Ian Gould (Venticello, The Importance of Being Earnest) Off-Broadway and New York: Richard III and The Merry Wives of Windsor (Pearl Theatre Company), King Lear (La MaMa e.t.c.), Waiting for Godot (Gallery Players), The Devil’s Disciple (Metropolitan Playhouse). Regional: The Miser (Center Stage), Rough Crossing (MetroStage, Virginia). Film/Television: The Sandman, Law and Order: Criminal Intent. Training: B.F.A., New York University Tisch School of the Arts; M.F.A., Shakespeare Theatre Academy for Classical Acting at The George Washington University. Pittsburgh native and proud AEA member.

Leo Kempf (von Strack, Amadeus) University of Southern Indiana: Waiting for Godot, Tartuffe, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Loot, Charley’s Aunt, In the Boom Boom Room. Evansville: Productions at Actors’ Playhouse of Evansville and Evansville Civic Theatre. Leo is a founder of IMPROVfessionals, an Evansville-based improv troupe. Training: Second City Training Center, Chicago; B.S., University of Southern Indiana.

Chris Kipiniak (Jack, The Importance of Being Earnest) Broadway: Original company of the Tony Award-winning production of Metamorphoses. Off-Broadway: Kit Marlowe (Joseph Papp Public Theatre), Wanderer (Flea Theatre Company), Jane (Peccadillo Theatre Company), Silence (Roundtable Ensemble). New York and London: How to Act Around Cops (Singularity Theatre Company in New York and Soho Theatre in London; won the Fringe First Award at the 2004 Edinburgh Fringe Festival). Regional: LaJolla Playhouse, Mark Taper Forum, Hartford Stage, Seattle Rep, Berkeley Rep, Goodman Theatre, Next Theatre. Television: The Black Donnellys, Law & Order, All My Children, Guiding Light. Training: B.S., Northwestern University. Playwriting: Stalled (Kraine theatre in New York and the Hangar Theatre Lab in association with the Drama League Directing Fellowship), Pass the Buck, For The First time Together Again, Save the World and The Nature of the Beast.  Other Writing:  Nightcrawler, Amazing Fantasy and Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man for Marvel Comics.

Gary Olson (van Swieten, Amadeus) Local theatre: Visiting Mr. Green, No Sex Please We’re British, Over the River and Through the Woods, and Funny Money at Evansville Civic Theatre; Mornings at 7, Jumbalaya Gumbo, Annie, Greater Tuna, and It Runs in the Family at Old Town Players in Vincennes. Other venues: Mixed Emotions, Noises Off, Males Order Brides (Phoenix); Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Miracle Worker, You Can’t Take It With You, Corpse, Cheaper by the Dozen (Las Vegas); Rags, Kiss Me Kate, Ten Little Indians (Rockford, Illinois). Film/Television: Many training videos and commercials.

Rachel Schenk (Teresa Salieri/Citizen of Vienna, Amadeus) University of Southern Indiana: Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, Hermia in A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Rachel will be a sophomore in the Department of Performing Arts at USI in the fall.

Kenneth Tigar (Salieri, Amadeus) Broadway: Translations. Regional: Custody of the Eyes at Cleveland Play House, The Sunshine Boys and Willy Loman in Death of A Salesman at Majestic Theatre, Right of Way at South Coast Rep, Nourish the Beast at American Place Theatre, Joe Keller in All My Sons at Two River Theatre Company, and four seasons at Williamstown Theatre Festival. Los Angeles: The Coming of the Stork (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award), Kvetch and Chicago Conspiracy Trial (L.A. Dramalogue Awards). Film: Primal Fear, Lethal Weapon II and III, Conspiracy Theory, Just One of the Guys, My Life, A Thousand Acres. Television: Law & Order, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, NCIS, The West Wing, Will and Grace, NYPD Blue, Star Trek: Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, ER, Dallas, Dynasty, Hill Street Blues, Barney Miller, and many others.

Elliot H. Wasserman (Lane/Merriman, The Importance of Being Earnest) Regional directing credits: A Few Good Men with Lou Diamond Phillips at Theatre Under the Stars (Texas), productions of Guys and Dolls, The Sound of Music, Cabaret, Gigi, Man of La Mancha, and I Do! I Do! featuring performers such as Donna McKechnie and Kay McClelland. Elliot is the chair of University of Southern Indiana’s new Department of Performing Arts. As an actor, some of his favorite roles include Frank Butler in Annie Get Your Gun! and Joe Keller in All My Sons. Member, Society of Stage Directors and Choreographers.

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