Van Ackerman
Van Ackerman has an M.F.A. in acting from Ohio State University and has worked professionally as an actor and director. He is the director of marketing and public relations for Cincinnati Arts Association.

Anne Arenstein
Anne Arenstein is a freelance theatre and opera critic.  She has written for the Cincinnati Post, the Enquirer, and is a regular contributor to CityBeat. 

Lyle Benjamin
Lyle Benjamin is an actor, director and producer. He is artistic director of Queen City Off-Broadway, based at Cincinnati Artist Warehouse in Northside.

Blake Bowden
Blake Bowden is an actor, writer, producer and life-long fan of the theatre and performing arts. When he's not on stage, writing for stage, securing grants for the stage, or watching a great performance - he's a Clinical Psychologist and educator working with kids and families across Cincinnati. Blake is also a husband and daddy to two great sons, Sam and Spencer.

Bruce Bowdon
Bruce Bowdon has taught music, film, speech, and drama at Summit Country Day School for 36 years.  He has written 3 song cycles including The Diary of Anne Frank, and an opera, Tom Sawyer. Bruce spent a year as artistic director of Peanut Butter Theatre. He has attended at lot of theatre in New York and Cincinnati in the past 3 decades.

Dee Anne Bryll
Dee Anne Bryll is married to Ed Cohen, and together they are the busiest marrieds in local theater. Bryll is an actress, a choreo grapher, director and teacher across the region.

Rob Bucher
Rob Bucher has been involved with local theater for over 20 years. He created and served as webmaster for the Cincinnati Theatre Web for  seven years until it merged into www.CinStages.com where Rob volunteers as content editor. By day, Bucher is the calendar/directories product manager for Cincinnati.Com.

Burgess Byrd
Burgess Byrd is a local actress who hads performed has performed with many theatres in the region and locally with Know Theatre of Cincinnati, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Ovation Theatre, The Children's Theatre, Women's Theatre Initiative and more.

Ed  Cohen
Ed Cohen is married to Dee Anne Bryll. Cohen is an actor, a director and a producer. Among their current projects is the Madisonville Community Arts Center.

Kevin Crowley
Kevin Crowley is an actor and writer who has recently returned to his hometown of Cincinnati after 12 years in Los Angeles. While in LA, he primarily worked in television and film, but is excited to return to the theater. He has performed with the Playhouse in the Park, Ensemble Theater of Cincinnati and is currently teaching at Northern Kentucky University.

Gion DeFrancesco
Gion is an associate professor of theatre at Miami University where he designs scenery and serves as scenic charge artist and production manager. He has designed at a number of theatres across the country including the Gallery Players of Brooklyn, Florida Repertory Theatre, Illinois Opera Theatre, the Croswell Opera House, and the Ovation Theatre in Cincinnati. He is a member of Local 829 United Scenic Artists.

Jackie Demaline
Jackie Demaline has been theater critic and arts reporter at The Enquirer since 1994. Her first theatrical memory is from age six, at a summer stock production (at Kenley Players in Warren, Ohio, a long time ago) of The Student Prince. She was so upset that the prince dumped the barmaid and left her to serve beer to German frat boys while he pouted in the castle that Demaline swore off theater forever. Until the following year when she saw The Music Man, fell in love and never looked back. She has won numerous awards for arts criticism and arts reporting in a 30-year career.

Wendy J. Dorn
After graduating from Northwestern University, Wendy spent several years working as an Equity stage manager in Chicago and on national tours, including the Pulitzer Prize/Tony Award winning Angels in America and the German production of The Who's Tommy. Since she returned to her native Cincinnati, she has proudly been a part of numerous productions for the Ballet, Opera, Cincinnati Arts Association, Playhouse in the Park and Dayton's Human Race, as well as many special events.

Herb DuVal
Since moving to Cincinnati in 2005 from New York,  Herb has been busy trying to Mapquest his way into citizenship. He has been busy doing print, film and commercials locally, appeared in The Tempest and A Delicate Balance at the Human Race, was Artistic Director of The Rising Phoenix Theatre, and has several directing and acting jobs coming up this season. Prevously, he toured the country several times (including Cincinnati at the Taft) with such plays as Children of a Lesser God, Equus, and Broadway Bound. In New York, he was a regular with The Meat and Potatoes Theatre, performed at the Atlantic Theater with Elizabeth McGovern and W.H. Macy, and on Broadway with Elizabeth Ashley. Daytimes, he edits video for Rumford Productions and tries to put corny stuff on YouTube.

Mary Edwards
Since coming to Cincinnati 30 years ago from London, Mary has been involved in community theatre. She has worked with a number of groups, most notably Mariemont Players and Cincinnati Music Theatre as a costumer, producer, stage manager and board member.
Her 'day' job is advertising account management for a local consultancy company.

Laura Lowe Everhart
Laura is a graduate of Miami University with a degree in English Literature and a minor in Theatre History. For six years she served as a Development Officer at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Laura was a founding member of the League of Cincinnati Theatres (LCT) and served as its President from 2003-05, incorporating the organization and achieving their 501(c)3 status. Laura is a successful grantwriter and the founder/owner of Granted by Everhart, LLC, a local consulting agency specializing in grantwriting and prospect research for arts nonprofits.

Mark Femia
Mark Femia is an area actor, musician and director, and has worked with many groups, including Footlighers, Cincinnati Music Theatre, Ovation Theatre Company and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. He is currently the Director of Drama for Cincinnati Country Day School, and is also on the musical theatre faculty of University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music's Preparatory Department.

Skip Fenker
Skip Fenker is a local director who has staged dozens of award winning productions for such groups as Cincinnati Music Theatre, Mariemont Players and Footlighters. He also served as Artistic Director for Aurelia Theatricals for five seasons.

Daryl Harris
Daryl Harris is an assistant professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance and the Institute for Freedom Studies at Northern Kentucky University. He has 40 years experience in alternative, traditional, ethnic and academic theatre.

Lisa Huneke
Lisa Huneke is a recent graduate of Ohio State Univeristy where she was head of publicity for her student theater group, Off the Lake Productions, for three years.  She is currently Public Relations Director for Transit Five Productions.  Lisa is also a swing dancer and member of the dance troupe Cincinnati SnapShots with whom she practices, performs, and competes.

Dana Kadison
Dana Kadison is a professional photographer. She has an MFA in Theatre Directing from Boston University where she studied with Alan Schneider and Zelda Fitchandler, among others. She interned with Gordon Davidson at the Center Theatre Group in Los Angeles and with Hal Prince on the original Broadway production of "Pacific Overtures." For Warner Cable Kadison created, produced and directed live and live-interactive as well as taped programming for QUBE and NICKELODEON.

David Lyman
David was The Cincinnati Enquirer's theater critic back in the mid-1980s. Since then, he has written about film, dance, theater and the visual arts for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and the Detroit Free Press. He was also editor of the Chivas Life Guide. He is now a freelance writer/editor and a contributor to the Enquirer, writing about dance and, occasionally, theater.

Joseph McDonough
Joseph McDonough is a playwright whose work has been produced at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, the Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, and at other theaters locally and across the country.

Alan McLaughlin

Alan has been a Cincinnati resident since he was eight years old. He started acting in high school, majored in Speech and Drama at Xavier, and has been acting in Community Theater and more ever since. His work history includes the Kroger Company, public relations and advertising for Coldwell Banker residential, and work with two advertising agencies, including his own. He has to adult sons, Dylan and Patrick. His life partner's name is Linda Rubel.

Danute Miskinis

Shawn Mummert
Shawn Mummert is the Director of Web Strategy for Bicycle City, LLC, but is most known in the arts community for his three years as Director of Technology and Operations at Enjoy the Arts. A native of Lincoln, Nebraska, Shawn has an M.A. in English Literature from Miami University. Shawn serves on the board at the New Stage Collective and has built numerous websites for non-profit arts groups in Cincinnati.

Sandy Osher
Sandy Osher is a Cincinnati Reproductive Surgeon, who has just discovered a profound love for the Performing Arts. He acted, poorly, in Mrs. Shreve's 4th grade Drama class and just recently recovered from the trauma.

David Pyron
David Pyron has been involved in community theatre since his arrival in the Cincinnati area in 1998. He has performed with six groups, most notably Cincinnati Music Theatre and Mariemont Players. Other performing assignments have included the Cincinnati Opera, the Cincinnati Pops, and the Cincinnati Men's Chorus. As a former member of Actors Equity, David performed for five seasons at Artpark in the Niagara Falls area.

Jerry Rape
Jerry Rape is a friend and fan of Cincinnati area theatre. He is currently serving his 18th year on the Board of Playhouse in the Park. Jerry is also a sometimes performer on the community theatre stages. His work on stage has been recognized with many ACT and OCTA awards and in 2000 he was the CEA winner for Actor in a leading role. Jerry's 'day job' is Account Executive for SpringDot, a regional commercial printing company.

Bryan Schmidt
Bryan is a junior theatre major at Miami University with a minor in arts management. He has been seen on Miami's stage, as well as various community stages, including the New Gate Celtic Theatre, the Janus Project, and Mariemont Players. Recently, Bryan won first place at the regional competition for the O'Neill Critic's Institute, part of the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival. He also received a grant from Miami to study fringe festivals around the country this summer. Bryan is a certified Actor Combatant by the Society of American Fight Directors.

Derek Snow
Derek has been on stage most of his life, continuing a journey that began at seven years of age at Cincinnati's School for Creative and Performing Arts. In addition to regular shows with the Know Theatre and Performance Gallery, Derek has also performed extensively in North Carolina, Chicago, New York and Minneapolis. He is employed as an engineer by day, but just can't resist the temptations of his night mistress, the stage.

Kate Spencer
Kate Spencer began her theatrical career (at age 11) directing and starring in neighborhood productions of her own plays, but soon recognized that her true calling was not as performer but as scholar and teacher of literature and theatre. Advanced degrees in both fields led to a 20-year stint teaching around the country.

Kate arrived in Cincinnati in 1995 to teach lit at Cincinnati State Tech & Community College, where she created a partnership with the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company to bring live theatre to Cincinnati Public School students on Cincinnati State's campus. Consultations with local theatre artists helped her develop a cluster of courses in theatre arts for Cincinnati State students. Recently retired, Kate is delighted to contribute her analytical skills and passion for theatrical excellence to the Cincinnati Theatre community, both as an adjudicator for the local ACT chapter, and now as a member of the Acclaim panel.

Cathy Springfield
Cathy Springfield is the director of performing arts at Xavier University. She was a professional actor for 12 years and has appeared at Alliance in Atlanta and Seattle Repertory. She was a co-founder of ART Reach Touring Theatre and Peanut Butter Theatre.

Jim Stump
A native of Cincinnati, Jim is the President of the League of Cincinnati Theatres and bases his vision for LCT on his passion for theatre and strong belief in the power of community. We should not just be a community, we should be part of the community as well. Jim has a B.A. in Theatre from Indiana University and is a graduate of the American Musical and Dramatic Academy. His performance resume includes credits from around the U.S. and Canada as well as an extensive list of local performances.

Kimberly Sullivan
Kimberly Sullivan is marketing communications manager for People Working Cooperatively Inc., a former editor at the Community Press, and a freelance writer in Cincinnati for over 20 years. A graduate of Fordham University in New York, Kim was a theater minor and studied acting at the HB Studio in NYC.

Jeff Syroney
Jeff Syroney is executive director of InkTank, a writing resource center in Over-the-Rhine. He is also a founding board member of Cincinnati Experimental Arts, which produces Cincinnati Fringe Festival, board president of Cincinnati Tomorrow and a board member of Enjoy the Arts/START.

Eric Vosmeier
Eric Vosmeier is currently the Theatre Director for the Carnegie Visual and Performing Arts Center. He is a graduate of Northern Kentucky University's Department of Theatre. He has worked for several venues in Cincinnati and in Houston, TX, where he accidentally spent 4 1/2 years once. 

Timothy Waldrip
Timothy Waldrip began his acting career playing the title role in Oliver at the Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Over the years he has worked on Broadway with Yul Brynner, appeared on television and film with James Earl Jones, Aiden Quinn, Sigourney Weaver, John Malkovich and many others. Tim is acting and directing theater and film locally and is the Midwest Acting Instructor for both Barbizon and International Model and Talent Association (IMTA). Tim, also, is a private coach for actor of all ages and levels out of his studio in Northside.

Kate Wilford
Kate Wilford, born into the Cincinnati Theatre family of Otto and Diane Kvapil (both prominent actors/directors and teachers at Xavier and CCM) has been a professional actress for over 25 years. In recent years she has returned to the local stage at Ensemble Theatre and Cincinnati Shakespeare Festival. She is also the Executive Director of Afterschool Acting, Inc. a non-profit dedicated to bringing professional actors and low income students together to share the
joy of being on stage.

Julie Woffington
Julie Woffington has been active as an actor, producer, and musical director in local theater with many groups such as the Footlighters, Falcon Theater, Showboat Majestic and Covedale Performing Arts Center. She is a Marketing Director for Procter & Gamble and has her MBA from University of Chicago and BA from Duke University. She is married to Jay Woffington, also involved in Cincinnati theater, and has two young children, Wendy and Brett. 

Jennifer Wolfe
Growing up in Northern Kentucky, Jennifer has always enjoyed attending regional theatre productions. In her early student years she was a member of the Speech and Drama Team at Notre Dame Academy and participated in classes and summer camps hosted by Playhouse in the Park. Jennifer ultimately obtained her Bachelors of Arts degree from Bellarmine University before continuing on to Northern Kentucky University for her Master's Degree. She currently works as a Marketing Coordinator for AHS, Incorporated. When she is not busy cheering on the Cincinnati Bengals and enjoying theatre, she can be found taking Rhythm and Motion dance classes at the Cincinnati Ballet Academy.

Caren Young
Caren Young has a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre from Bluffton University and is the owner and proprietor of the Cincinnati Costume Company. She enjoys hanging out with her eleven year old son, Joe, reading, gardening, and of course, seeing lots of theatre.

Carrie-Ellen Zappa
Carrie-Ellen has over 15 years of professional experience in the entertainment business as an actor, director and acting coach. She has worked as a talent agent and Assistant Director of a Tri-State Talent Agency as well as the Artistic Director of Pacific School of Music and the Arts in Southern California.