Michael G. Bath was last seen at Ensemble Theatre in Hands on a Hardbody and Fiona: The Musical, as well as The Dancing Princesses, Tiny Beautiful Things, Fly By Night, The Legend of Georgia McBride, and countless others. Michael is a graduate of Wilmington College and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. Much love to his wife Tricia and dog Misha.

Timothy Belton is happy to be back home doing shows with his family again at Ensemble Theatre, where he was last seen in The Dancing Princesses and MLM Is for Murder. He graduated from Northern Kentucky University’s School of the Arts with a BFA in musical theatre. He can do all things through Christ and wouldn’t be here without the love and support from his parents Sean and Julie. All love.

Phil Fiorini was last seen at Ensemble Theatre in Hands on a Hardbody and What the Constitution Means to Me, as well as Fly By Night, Violet, Alice in Wonderland (2019), Hands on a Hardbody (2014), and others. He performed in the Broadway national tours of The Lion King (Pumbaa) and Greater Tuna. Some of his Cincinnati credits include A Flea in Her Ear with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and The Realistic Joneses with Clifton Performance Theatre. Some of his Kansas City credits include La Cage Aux Folles and The Legend of Georgia McBride, Kansas Repertory Theatre; Sherwood: The Adventures of Robin Hood, New Theatre & Restaurant; Mauritius and Dirty Blonde, Unicorn Theatre; Finian’s Rainbow, Spinning Tree Theatre; Twelfth Night and King Lear, Heart of America Shakespeare Festival; and Inspecting Carol and Little Women, Kansas City Actors Theatre. Phil was seen in the film Dark Waters. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

Amira F. Jackson is a Pittsburgh native and has a degree in theatre and film studies. Amira has made a total of five films that have been screened along the East Coast and in Prague, Czech Republic. Her recent film Cycle of Women won Best Horror of 2024 at the Kuumba Black Arts and Film Festival. Some of her favorite credits include Lady Capulet in Call Me By Any Other Name (a queer deconstruction of Romeo and Juliet), Black Woman #6 in We Are Proud to Present…, Emcee in Chicago, and Demeter/Damascus in …And Jesus Moonwalks the Mississippi. She is excited for her debut at Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati!

TaShauna Ajoi Jenkins is a performer, writer, and creative born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama. She is a senior at the University of Alabama at Birmingham earning her BA in general theatre. Blaze on, baby! Her most recent credits include Poppy in Where the Lost Children Play and Bearcat/Wanda in Fiona: The Musical at the lovely Ensemble Theatre, as well as Narrator in The Calling: The Story of Judge U.W. Clemon and Sarah in Pink Clouds at Red Mountain Theater Company. She is extremely proud to be a member of the Ensemble family! She’d like to thank her incredible family, friends, and everyone who has poured into her career and life.

Brandi La ‘Sherrill is thrilled return to Ensemble Theatre this season! Her most recent roles include Margaret in POTUS, Falcon Theater; Zoe in Fiona: The Musical, Ensemble Theatre; and Billie Holiday in Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill, The Carnegie. Brandi is also the visionary behind Artifacts Storytelling Experiences (ASÉ), where she crafts educational and immersive storytelling experiences.

Sara Mackie has had the greatest honors of her life playing Dolly, Helen, and Katherine, and can now retire on a secluded island herding cats—but she loves being in the Cincinnati theatre community too much! Selected credits include Fun Home, Hands on a Hardbody, all three Wonderettes iterations, Mauritius, and Fiona: The Musical, Ensemble Theatre; Rutka: A New Musical, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park;  This is Tom Jones!, An Act of God, Family Ties, Human Race Theatre Compnay; Hello, Dolly! and Pump Boys and Dinettes, The Carnegie; Wrecking Ball, The Taming of the Shrew, and Pride and Prejudice, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company; and Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune, New Edgecliff Theatre. You can also catch her in some of the great feature films shot in Cincinnati, such as The Bikeriders, The Public, and Dark Waters. Thank you for supporting live works!

Elli Maddock (she/her) is beyond excited to be making her Ensemble Theatre debut! She was most recently seen in Disney’s Finding Nemo Jr. with The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati and Hello, Dolly! at The Carnegie. Elli’s favorite credits include Susan in Narnia: The Musical with The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati and Becky in Incident at Our Lady of Perpetual Help with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. She is so grateful for this opportunity and wants to thank everyone who has encouraged her to follow her dreams.

Sean Miller-Jones (he/him) is very excited to make his Ensemble Theatre stage debut, having previously worked in the front of house as a house manager. Most recently, Sean was seen as Stewpot in South Pacific with Dayton Opera. This past summer, he performed as Eddie/Dr. Scott in The Rocky Horror Show and Don Kirshner in Beautiful at The Carnegie. Other favorite roles include Enoch Snow in Carousel, George in Sunday in the Park with George, and Dusoleil in Amour. Sean has a BFA in musical theatre from Wright State University. He would like to thank Ben, Frasier, and all the other lovable weirdos in his life for their love and support.

Erin Morton was last seen at Ensemble Theatre as the understudy for Norma in Hands on a Hardbody. She is a rising junior majoring in musical theatre at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music, where some of her credits include Shadow in In the Green and Ti Moune in Once on This Island. Additional credits include Ensemble in 30 Years of Stephen: The Music of Stephen Flaherty at Carnegie Hall and Chiffon in Little Shop of Horrors at New Stage Theatre.

KG Rucker (they/them) is so excited to be returning to the Ensemble Theatre stage, where they were last seen as Chrys in Where the Lost Children Play and DJ Red in Fiona: The Musical. KG is a Muhlenberg College graduate with a BA in theatre and dance. Some of their favorite Muhlenberg credits include The Bacchae, A List, Anything Goes, and Too Much Light Makes the Baby Go Blind. KG also studied physical theatre and commedia dell’arte at the Accademia dell’Arte in Arezzo, Italy. In their free time, KG loves to photograph birds. KG is so grateful to their friends and family for all their support!

Brooke Steele was last seen at Ensemble Theatre in Hands on a Hardbody and Fiona: The Musical. Some of her favorite ETC credits include Cinderella in Cinderella, Vasilisa in The Frog Princess, Miriam in Fly By Night, Violet in Violet, and Suzy in The Marvelous Wonderettes. Brooke lives in Kennedy Heights with her husband, two daughters, one bunny, and their little black dog.

Kate Wilford is delighted to return to Wonderland with this wonderful cast! She was last seen in Hands on a Hardbody with Ensemble Theatre and Ellis Island: The Dream of America with the Cincinnati Pops. Some of her favorite ETC credits include Good People, Becky’s New Car, and Women of Lockerbie. She has worked at every professional theater here in Cincinnati such as Cincinnati Shakespeare Company and Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Kate has taught theater arts for over thirty years and is now working on her yoga teaching certificate. She loves gardening, kayaking, and her talented painter husband Jay. She has been a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association for over forty years and hopes for forty more!

Joseph McDonough has collaborated with David Kisor on ETC’s holiday musicals for over twenty seasons. Several of these shows are published by Playscripts and Theatrical Rights Worldwide. His plays have also been produced by Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, and The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, as well as other theaters around the country. His play Ordinary Americans received its world premiere just before the pandemic in a co-production by Palm Beach Dramaworks and GableStage in Miami. His new musical (with collaborators Mark Friedman and Janet Vogt Yates) about infamous Cincinnati bootlegger George Remus was produced at the Carnegie Theater this summer. Joe teaches playwriting at Miami University and is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild.

David Kisor is a songwriter, performer, and producer who splits his time between Cincinnati, Ohio, and Spokane, Washington. He has a master’s degree in composition from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music but is a songwriter at heart. He has written extensively for musical theater since 1990, including works for Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati and The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati. His children’s songs, written and recorded for the non-profit music publisher Growing Sound, promote positive social-emotional development in young children. He is proud, humbled, and blessed to be a part of the ETC family.

D. Lynn Meyers has been with Ensemble Theatre for over twenty-five years, having directed more than a hundred world and regional premieres, including Hands on a Hardbody, Fun Home, Morning Sun, The Wolves, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, I Am My Own Wife, Next to Normal, Tiny Beautiful Things, and the world premiere of The Dancing Princesses. She began her career as the associate artistic director at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, has directed off-Broadway at the York Theatre, and has directed extensively throughout the US and Canada. As a member of the Casting Society of America, Lynn’s recent feature credits include The Bikeriders, Shirley, and Dark Waters, in addition to serving as the location casting director for The Shawshank Redemption. Lynn recently directed the world premiere of Fierce for the Cincinnati Opera. She was named a finalist for the Zelda Fichandler National Award in 2011, is a past recipient of the YWCA Career Woman of Achievement Award, and received the 2018 Rosa F. and Samuel B. Sachs Fund Prize for regional arts impact and leadership.

Brian c. Mehring (he/him) has designed more than 100 productions at Ensemble Theatre. His favorite productions include Thom Pain (based on nothing), Next to Normal, 33 Variations, Freud’s Last Session, and I Am My Own Wife. Mr. Mehring’s regional favorites for set design include The Last 5 Years and I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park; Henry IV, Part 1, The Georgia Shakespeare Festival; and I Am My Own Wife, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Peterborough Players, and Florida Studio Theatre.

Steve Goers is thrilled to return as music director at Ensemble Theatre, where some of his credits include Fun Home, The Great American Trailer Park Musical, and Grey Gardens as conductor and keyboardist. He is a member of the musical theatre faculty at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music and has worked locally with theatres throughout the region, including Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, The Carnegie, Cincinnati Landmark Productions, and NKU. Steve has composed numerous works for a variety of media, including ten feature film scores and twenty internationally produced musicals for young audiences. He has toured the U.S. and Africa with productions of Barnum, Jersey Boys, and Bubbling Brown Sugar and was featured as pianist and session producer on the album Ella Jenkins and a Union of Friends Pulling Together, which received a Grammy nomination for best children’s album. When not doing shows, Steve is a keyboardist and vocalist in several local bands including the Clyde Brown Band, the Ultrasonics, Aja: A Tribute to Steely Dan, and Just Strange Brothers. He is a graduate of the DePaul University School of Music and UC-CCM.

Dee Anne Bryll (she/her) is very pleased to return to Ensemble Theatre, where her credits include The Dancing Princesses, Alice in Wonderland, Cinderella: After Ever After, and Cinderella, among others. Additional theatre credits include work as directing and choreographing for Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Cincinnati Landmark Productions, Northern Kentucky University, The Carnegie, Xavier University, Commonwealth Theatre Company, and Kings Island Entertainment. Dee Anne has had a long career working in educational theatre and is currently the director of NKU Prep’s Mainstage Musical Theatre Company, the director of CCM’s High School Musical Theatre Summer Workshop, and a mentor for the JumpStart Theatre Program at The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, which brings theatre to underserved middle schools in the tri-state area. She serves on the faculty of Northern Kentucky’s School of the Arts Department of Theatre & Dance.

Cat Schmeal-Swope is a costume designer in the Greater Cincinnati area and the costume shop manager at Northern Kentucky University. Various costume design credits include Torch Song and The African Company Presents Richard III, NKU; Looped and Around the World in 80 Days, The Human Race Theatre Company; Little Shop of Horrors, The Carnegie; Daddy Long Legs, CATCO; Othello, The Ohio State University/Royal Shakespeare Company; and True West, Minnesota State University. Cat holds an MFA in theatre design from Ohio State University and a BFA in theatre with an emphasis in costumes from NKU.

Trey Tatum (he/him) is a playwright and composer who makes silly things about serious stuff. He is the resident composer for the Off the Hill Touring Series at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park. Trey is one-half of Queen City Flash, a theater company currently in residence at Playhouse in the Park. Ongoing projects include the audio dramas ZOiNKS! and Have Monster, Will Travel, available wherever you get your podcasts. Upcoming projects include two new Choose Your Own Adventure-style plays at Playhouse and Xavier University. Trey lives in Cincinnati and makes theater and mischief with his wife, director Bridget Leak

Shannon Rae Lutz  (she/her) earned her Master’s degree from the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music in 1996 and became Properties Master at Ensemble Theatre. Trained as a performer, she first appeared on ETC’s stage during the 1988-1989 New Works Festival. In 1991, she was granted an ETC internship. Now the Director of Apprentice Programming, she is honored to guide ETC’s essential ensemble: The Professional Acting Apprentice Company. Shannon would like to thank D. Lynn Meyers, Ruth Sawyer, and the Cincinnati theatre community and patrons for their generous, supportive, and tenacious spirit.

Jacob Dowell (he/him) is thrilled to be in his second season at Ensemble Theatre, this time as technical director. Jacob is a graduate of Morehead State University where he received a BA in theatre. Some previous technical direction credits include Kinky Boots, The Who’s Tommy, and A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. Jacob would like to thank his family, friends, and cat (Ronnie) for their continued support

Lexi Muller (she/her) is delighted to be back at Ensemble Theatre, where some of her credits include include Fun Home, The Wolves, Skeleton Crew, and Fly by Night. Other regional credits include Sex with Strangers, The House, Legendale, and 26 Pebbles with the Human Race Theatre. She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and a graduate of Wright State University, where she received her BFA in Stage Management.

Abby Sauer (she/her) is thrilled to be making her Ensemble Theatre debut! Recently, she was the production stage manager for tick, tick… BOOM! at The Carnegie, where she is also on staff as the events manager. Other stage management credits include The Children’s Theatre of Cincinnati, Summer Repertory Theatre Festival (Santa Rosa, CA), The Cincinnati Ballet, and Aspen Music Festival and School. Abby holds a master’s degree in arts administration from Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of the Performing Arts and a BFA in stage management from University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music.