(He/They) 14^th Season
Cincinnati: Titus Andronicus, Fences, Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Favorite CSC); A Christmas Carol (Cincy Playhouse in the Park); Fiona the Musical, Detroit '67, The Legend of Georgia McBride (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati); Kill Move Paradise, Angels in America (Know Theatre); Regional: Romeo and Juliet, A Raisin in the Sun (Hope Summer Repertory); Taming of the Shrew (Kentucky Shakespeare Festival); Film/TV: Long Story Short, Notzilla, Santa's Promise; Education: University of Houston (MFA), UL Lafayette (BFA). Affiliations/Awards: Artswave’s Truth and Reconciliation Grant, Cincinnati Black Pride Vizazi, Encore Michigan Wilde Award for “Best of the Bard”, Shakespeare Theatre Association.

(She/Her) 2^nd Season  
Cincinnati: Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Fat Ham, Amen Corner (Favorite CSC); The Twunny Fo'(Know Theatre); It's Not a Trip, It’s a Journey (Know Theatre). TV/Film: Wildfire (Amazon Prime). Education: Northern Kentucky University (BA).

(He/Him) 16^th Season
Cincinnati: The Play That Goes Wrong, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, Let The Right One In, As You Like It, Taming Of The Shrew, Richard III, A Flea In Her Ear, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, The 39 Steps, Dracula, King John, & Every Christmas Story Ever Told (Favorite CSC). The Other Place (Ensemble Theatre). Regional: Nathan The Wise (Theatre Of The First Amendment). Education: Alumnus of George Mason University (BA).

(She/Her) 7^th Season
Cincinnati: Our Town, Romeo & Juliet, Amadeus, Miss Julie, Hamlet,Titus Andronicus, The Seagull, The Cherry Orchard (favorite CSC). Regional: Collaborator (Macha Monkey Theater), Almost Maine, The Underpants (Howmet Playhouse), Midsummer Night's Dream (Vpstart Crow). Education: West Virginia University (BFA).

(He/Him) 2nd Season
Cincinnati: Romeo and Juliet Educational Tour, Macbeth Educational Tour, The Comedy of Errors Park Tour (Favorite CSC) Education: BFA in Acting from Northern Kentucky University Website: https://www.jasoncoffenberry.com

(He/Him) 17^th Season
Cincinnati: Gaslight, King Lear, The Living Dead, All the Way, Hamlet, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, August: Osage County, The Diary of Anne Frank, Julius Caesar, Of Mice and Men, Much Ado About Nothing, Romeo and Juliet, Dracula, Henry VIII, Pride and Prejudice, Oliver Twist, Midsummer, Othello, The Grapes of Wrath, The Seagull, Cymbeline (Favorite CSC); Hands on a Hard Body (twice!) (Ensemble Theater); Manbeast, Bankers (Know Theater); White Privilege (Cincinnati Fringe Festival). Regional: The Liar, School for Wives (Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey); Jerry Springer: The Opera (Playhouse on the Square Memphis); Romeo and Juliet (Human Race)

(He/Him) 8^th Season
Cincinnati: Fences, All the Way, Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo & Juliet (Favorite CSC). Regional: Faust (Aimee Rose - Frankfurt, Germany), Death of a Salesman, Comedy of Errors (American Players Theatre), Superior Donut's (Birmingham Equity Theatre). Education: Alumnus of Purdue University (MFA), Berea College (BA)

(She/Her) 5^th Season
Cincinnati/NKY/Dayton: The Taming of the Shrew, Pride and Prejudice, Wrecking Ball, Hamlet (Favorite CSC); Rutka (u/s)(Playhouse); Fun Home, Wonderettes, Hands on a Hardbody, Mauritius, Others and Holiday offerings for 25 years (ETC); Hello Dolly, Pump Boys (Carnegie); Frankie and Johnny… (NET); An Act of God, This is Tom Jones, (Human Race Theatre Company). Film/TV: The Public, Dark Waters, The Bikeriders, The Christmas Spirit. Education: BFA Acting Wright State University. Website: saramackie.com

(She/Her) 20^th Season
Cincinnati: Much Ado About Nothing, Importance of Being Earnest (Favorite CSC); A Christmas Carol (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park); Let the Right One In (CSC/CCM); This is Tom Jones! (Human Race Theatre Company). Regional: The Spitfire Grill (Old Creamery Theatre Company Amana, Iowa); Grease and The Scarlet Pimpernel (New Theatre Kansas City). New York: The Rewards of Being Frank (New York Classical Theatre). TV/Film: Dark Waters, Perception, Old Man and the Gun, A Kind of Murder, Healing River, Dusk, C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America. 

Elizabet(She/Her) 3^rd Season
Cincinnati: Julius Caesar, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, Little Women, Twelfth Night (Favorite CSC), All One! The Dr. Bronner’s Play, In the Nighttime (Before the Sun Rises), Puffs, Mercury (Know Theatre), The 39 Steps (Falcon Theatre). Education: Smith College.

(She/Her) 2nd Season        
Cincinnati: The Comedy of Errors Park Tour (Favorite CSC). Regional: As You Like It (Nashville Shakespeare Festival), The Comedy of Errors, Measure for Measure (Hoosier Shakespeare Festival), Much Ado About Nothing (Commonwealth Shakespeare Company). Education: Wright State University (BFA). danigracenissen.com

(He/Him) 10^th Season
Cincinnati: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Little Women, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Titus Andronicus (Favorite CSC), Tick, Tick… BOOM! (The Carnegie), Hands On a Hardbody, Luna Gale, Cinderella, Bloomsday (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati), Mercury (Know Theatre of Cincinnati). Regional: This Is Tom Jones!, Around the World in 80 Days (Human Race Theatre Co.), The Caine Mutiny Court Martial (Arrow Rock Lyceum Theatre). Education: Xavier University (BA) and St. Xavier HS

(She/Her) 3^rd Season
Cincinnati: The Tempest, Richard III, Henry VI Parts 2 and 3, The Elephant Man, Much Ado About Nothing, Antony and Cleopatra (Favorite CSC), Macbeth, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Romeo and Juliet as Juliet (CSC tour), Bloody Mary, Gentrification: The Musical, Current, dream&, Between 3&5, Damage, Bed: A Fever Dream (Cincy Fringe), Up-the-As*pirin: Pain Management (Artswave), Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens (Ensemble Theatre), Beertown (Know Theatre), A Klingon Christmas Carol (Hugo West Theatricals). Regional: Well by Lisa Kron (Falcon Theatre), Company as Marta (Carnegie). Education: Cincinnati's School for Creative and Performing Arts

(He/Him) 10^th Season
Cincinnati: Richard III, Hamlet, Julius Ceasar, King Lear, Measure for Measure, Macbeth, Henry IV-VI, All the Way, Waiting for Godot, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Elephant Man, The Grapes of Wrath, The Crucible, Luna Gale and Red Velvet (Ensemble Theatre) Harry and the Thief (The Know Theatre) Regional: The Voysey Inheritance (Milwaukee Rep), The Lieutenant of Inishmore (Syracuse Stage), King Lear (Riverside Theatre) New York: Sight Unseen (InProximity Theatre), Third Man (Godlight Theatre), Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet (National Shakespeare Company). TV/Film: Miles Ahead (Sony Pictures), Donnybrook (IFC Films). Education: Alumnus of Ohio University (PATP, MFA) and Syracuse University (BFA).

Cincinnati: Hamlet, Pericles, Romeo & Juliet, Midsummer Nights Dream, 12th Night, Tempest (CSC Summer Camp); The Ramayana, Sif’s Golden Hair, Queen Ester, Michaelmas (Cincinnati Waldorf School). Ceridwyn is a 5th grader at the Cincinnati Waldorf School.

(She/Her) Debut
Cincinnati: 42nd Street, The Laramie Project, Chicago, Rock of Ages, The Unsinkable Molly Brown (Walnut Hills High School) Marian or the True Tale of Robin Hood (CAST). Film: Strike Team Justice (Dances With Films Fest).

Christopher V. Edwards is a distinguished theatre director, actor, and administrator with over 25 years of experience creating captivating productions across national, regional, and international stages. Currently the Artistic Director of the Actors’ Shakespeare Project in Boston, he is known for his innovative directing style of blending contemporary aesthetics with classical works, producing acclaimed productions such as Fences at Shakespeare & Company (recipient of the Berkshire Theatre Critics’ Best Production award), Equivocation at Actors’ Shakespeare Project (Elliot Norton Award nomination), and The Bomb-itty of Errors at Nevada Conservatory Theatre (Las Vegas Desert Companion’s Best Theatre Director award).  Chris is also proud of the shows he has directed at Cincinnati Shakespeare Company: A Raisin in the Sun, Othello, and Fences. Other directing venues include HERE Arts Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Pregones Theatre, The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, and the National Theatre of Norway. His work often explores diverse narratives and pushes theatrical boundaries.  Other projects include audio and podcast productions for iHeart Podcasts, Def Jam Recordings, and the upcoming runboyrun at the Huntington Theatre.

As a theatre administrator, Chris has demonstrated exceptional leadership in fostering artistic excellence and audience engagement. He has previously served as the Artistic Director at Nevada Conservatory Theatre and as the Associate Artistic Director and Director of Education and Apprentice Training at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival.  He is also the founder of Point of Entry Theater in New York City.  

In addition to directing and administration, Chris is an accomplished actor with performances in London’s West End, Off-Broadway, and regional theatres. He spent several years as a company member at the Guthrie Theatre in Minneapolis, The Rude Mechanicals in New York City, and The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in New York.  A passionate educator, he is currently a Senior Lecturer at Boston University and has taught at Montclair State University, Bennington College, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. He holds an MFA from the University of Minnesota in association with the Guthrie Theatre, and he resides in Boston with his wife Jennifer and daughter Anya.

Jon Savage (he/him) teaches set design at Boston University where he also served as the Head of Design, Production & Management BFA programs within the School of Theatre from 2010 to 2019. Based in Boston, MA, Jon’s past New England credits include work with Actors Shakespeare Project, Gloucester Stage, New Rep Theatre, Huntington Theatre, Front Porch Arts Collective, Central Square Theatre, and Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, to name a few. Some Regional credits include work at Olney Theatre Center, DC Area; Walnut Street Theatre, Philadelphia; ACT Theatre, Honolulu, HI; Bay Street Theatre, NY; and Bucks County Playhouse, PA.  He was the Associate Scenic Designer for Broadway’s Hot Feet, a musical based on the music of Earth, Wind and Fire. He has also worked on tv and film productions for HBOMax, HBO, Discovery Channel and Normandie Films.
Jon served as one of the curators of the 2007 Prague Quadrennial National Student Exhibit and has conducted workshops on design and storytelling for the Southeastern Theatre Conference, United States Institute of Theatre Technology, Accademia dell’arte, Arezzo, Italy, the Bok Center at Harvard University and will be teaching again this summer with the Prague Shakespeare Company, Prague, Czechia. He is a proud member of United Scenic Artists.

Nia Safarr Banks is a Costume Designer and Educator. Her design work has been seen in various productions, including William Shakespeare’s Hamlet at American Shakespeare Center, August Wilson’s Fences at Shakespeare and Company, and Self Portrait (Deluxe) at The Bushwick Starr. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Costume Design from Boston University in 2023, and her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2019. She has been nominated for two Richmond Critic Awards for her outstanding work in Costume Design, for both An Octoroon (2019) and A Christmas Kaddish (2022). 

Sk Watson (she, they, y’all) 13th Season. Watson is thrilled to be back in the Queen City! Having worked with CSC on over 50 MainStage productions over the past 19 years. Some of their favorite credits are: Othello, King John, Long Day's Journey into Night, Cymbeline, and Timon of Athens. They have designed theater all around the tri state and NYC. Watson is currently Assistant Professor of Live Experience Design and Production for Pennsylvania College of Art & Design at the Academy of Live Technology at Rock Lititz. 

_{Zack Bennett (He/Him) (4th Season) is excited to return to CSC!  Cincinnati theatre patrons may have also seen Zack’s work in CSC’s Comedy of Errors, Living Dead, & As You Like It, or Julius Caesar. Zack’s credits include Thoughts of a Colored Man (Assoc), Broadway; A Christmas Carol, Guthrie Theatre (Asst.); True West, Seattle Rep (Asst.); Hedwig and the Angry Inch; Actor’s Express; This is Our Youth, Around the World in 80 Days (Assoc.), & South Pacific (Assoc); Clarence Brown Theatre. Zack’s corporate Sound Designs include the 2022 & 2024 National Order of the Arrow Conference and the 2023 National Scout Jamboree.  Zack is a proud graduate of The University of Tennessee (BA) and Purdue University (MFA). Zack is an Assistant Professor of Sound Design & Engineering at the University of North Georgia where he also serves as the Resident Sound Designer for the Gainesville Theatre Alliance. Zack would like to thank his wife, Alex for her support and encouragement throughout this and every production. ZackBennett.com}

Gina Cerimele-Mechley (she/her) (30th Season), a Cincinnati native, has been involved with CSC as a performer and fight director since its inception as Fahrenheit Theatre Company. Gina is a 33-year member and one of the few female Fight Directors with the Society of American Fight Directors. She has done fight direction for Cincinnati Opera and Ballet, Ensemble Theatre, Playhouse in the Park, and Human Race Theatre in Dayton. Gina runs the nationally recognized Cincinnati Actor’s Studio & Academy, and she was the first recipient of the CAA’s Arts Educator Award. Some of her favorite regional credits outside of Cincinnati include Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Denver Center Theatre Company, Opera Theatre St. Louis, and Alaska Cabin Nite Dinner Theatre.

Cole Sweasy (they/them) (4th Season) is thrilled to return for their fourth season in a stage management role at CSC! Previously, Cole acted as the production associate throughout CSC's 28th season, as well as the AEA assistant stage manager throughout the 29th season. Before moving to Cincinnati, Cole was a stage manager for events in Nashville, Atlanta, and other cities in the southeast. Cole has received three Bachelor of Arts from Western Kentucky University in theatre, communication studies, and English

Rowan Rozzi (he/him) (1st Season) is ecstatic to be joining CSC as an Assistant Stage Manager! Rowan's previous stage management credits include Beauty and the Beast Jr, The Prom, Heathers The Musical, POTUS, etc. Rowan received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a Specialization in Design/Technical Theatre from Bowling Green State University this past April. Outside of work, you can find Rowan either reading a book or playing with his cat Persie.