Twelfth Night Cast

[she/her] BFA, Acting, Fourth Year. Ohio University: Men on Boats (O.G. Howland/Chief Tsauwiat); Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 (Actor-Musician Ensemble/Marya US); Julius Ceasar (Artemidorus). Other: Black Sheep Improv, Ohio University.

BFA, Acting, Fourth Year. Ohio University: Imaginary Audiences (Father, Announcer, Demon, Guard, NPR, Manfried the Man). Other: Moss Performing Arts Center: Alice in Wonderland (King of Hearts), Mary Poppins Jr (Ensemble), Once Upon a Mattress (Prince Dauntless The Drab).

Steven Strafford is an actor, playwright, director, and assistant professor/Head of Musical Theatre here at Ohio University. He played Prince Herbert in Spamalot (Original Vegas Cast) and appeared in the national and international tours of Peter Pan, Cinderella, and Grease! In Chicago, he appeared in plays and musicals at Goodman Theatre, About Face Theatre, Windy City Playhouse, Marriott Theatre, Drury Lane Theatre, and First Folio. Regionally, he has performed at Cape Playhouse, Portland Stage Company, Sacramento Music Circus among many others. He has played men, women, rivers, giraffes, and aliens. He is the author and performer of the award-winning solo show, Methtacular! His plays, Small Jokes About Monsters, Greater Illinois, The Match Game, Mona Quimby: Age 38, and The Model Congressman have been produced and workshopped around the country. Small Jokes About Monsters was recently published and licensed by Dramatists Play Service. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

BFA, Musical Theatre, 2nd Year, Ohio University: Carrie: The Musical (Billy u/s, Stokes), Ride The Cyclone (Mischa Bachinski), Spring 2024: 9 to 5 (Hart u/s, Dwayne, Male Ensemble 1), Other: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Lysander) Pablo Center at Confluence, Wisconsin Shakespeare Festival.

MFA , Acting, Third Year. Ohio University: A Murder/ The Proposal (Man/Lomov), Hotel Berry (Edward Berry), MotherFucker With The Hat (Jackie). Spring 2024: We Are Proud to Present (Actor 2). Other: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Demetrius) Pennsylvania Shakespeare Festival, Passover (Kitch) Theatre Exile.

[He/Him] BFA, Musical Theater, Second Year. Other roles: Ride the Cyclone (Noel) Ohio University Lab Productions, 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Barfeé), Into the Woods (Jack) Blake High School.

BFA, Acting, Third Year. Ohio University Student Film Credits: Still Living with It (George), The Dentist & The Ballerina (George), Loss of Light (Jake).

BFA, Musical Theatre, Dance Performance and Choreography minor, Third year. Ohio University: Spring 2024: 9 to 5 (Ensemble). Other: The Final Voyage of The Edmund Fitzgerald (Kevin) Ohio University Lab Shows. EQT Young Playwrights Festival (Miles) City Theater Company. Grease (Vince Fontaine), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Stan/Chuck/Frank/Mark), Mamma Mia (Harry Bright) PMT Conservatory. Film: Thinking in the Wrong (Pierre).

BFA, Musical Theatre, Third Year. Ohio University Lab Shows: The Easy Way to Find Love (Stella), The Alchemist (Stage Manager), The Revolutionists (Marie).

MFA, Third Year. Ohio University: Twelfth Night (Olivia); Yerma (Yerma); Everybody (Love); Men on Boats (Dunn); Regional Theater: For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow is Enuf (Girl in Yellow) BNR Productions, University of North Carolina at Charlotte: Blues for an Alabama Sky (Angel), Twelfth Night (Feste); Film: Peace for Christmas (Renee) Have Life Productions, Thony 2.0 (Corin) A Dr. Mets Film, My Roommates a Ghost (Pandora) Student Film; Commercial: Cone Health (Party Guest) Cone Health, ESPN (Fan) ESPN/ACC

Chivas Michael is happy to be making his Tantrum Theater debut! He most recently appeared as Sir Toby Belch off Broadway in the Classical Theater of Harlem’s Afro-futurist Twelfth Night. He has also appeared at Yale Rep in Today Is My Birthday, Twelfth Night, Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3; The Caucasian Chalk Circle; and A Doctor in Spite of Himself; Antony and Cleopatra (The Royal Shakespeare Company, London; The Public Theater); Brooklyn Omnibus (Brooklyn Academy of Music); Romeo and Juliet (Classic Stage Company); The Broadway Problem (Lincoln Center concert); Sliding Into the Beast (New York Theatre Workshop); Wild With Happy (Baltimore Center Stage); The Servant of Two Masters (Guthrie Theater); A Doctor in Spite of Himself (Berkeley Rep); Father Comes Home From the Wars, Parts 1, 2 & 3 (ACT San Francisco);A Funny Thing Happened on the Way To The Forum (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Much Ado About Nothing, A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare on the Sound); Education: B.A., Dillard University; M.F.A., NYU’s Graduate Acting Program. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

[he/him] MFA, Acting, Third Year. Ohio University: Squeakers (John), Julius Caesar (Brutus), Everybody (Death), Summer and Smoke (Rev. Winemiller). Theater: Blue Man Group (Blue Man), Wonderful Town (Frank Lippencott) Goodman Theatre, Gay Bride of Frankenstein (Harry - Spotlight Award Nomination) Seacoast Repertory Theatre, Altar Boyz (Abraham) and Hello, Dolly! (Ambrose) Gateway Playhouse. TV/Film: Chicago Fire (NBC), Bert and Arnie’s Guide to Friendship. MM Northwestern University; BM UNC- Greensboro. www.wadeelkins.com *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

[any pronouns] MFA, Acting Third Year. Ohio University: The Secretaries (Susan), what the Gods gave me (Bedelia), Men on Boats (Sumner, US Powell), The Motherfucker with the Hat (Victoria). Other: King John (Blanche) with Praxis Stage, 1776 (US John Dickinson), Animal Farm (Squealer), and A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Helena) with New Repertory Theatre. BFA Acting from Emerson College.

MFA, Acting, Third year. Ohio University: Imaginary Audiences (Lola), Julius Caesar (Cassius); Everybody (Somebody); Summer and Smoke (Rosemary/ u/s Alma); Other selected: Mixed Messages (Kim) Mixed Company Theatre; Cymbeline (Imogen) UC Playhouse; The Seagull (Nina) UC Playhouse; Macbeth (Lady Macbeth) UC Playhouse; Escape from Happiness (Mary-Ann) LCR Performance Space; Legally Blonde (Serena) Follies & Hart House Theatre; Anne & Gilbert (Josie Pye) Blue Canoe. BFA Drama Specialist from University of Toronto, Ontario Canada.

BFA, Acting Second Year. Ohio University: Throuples Counseling (Pascal). Other: Bingo Bango Swordfish Tango (Scamp) Student Film, Sweaty Hands (Zack) BFA Short Film.

[she/her] BFA, Musical Theatre, Second Year. Ohio University: …And Others (Amanda), Into the Woods (Granny), For the Tenth Time (Sarah). McCarter Theatre Center: A Christmas Carol (ensemble) Bucks County Playhouse Student Theatre Festival: These Shining Lives (Charlotte), All of You (Erin)