Riverside, a play by ML Roberts at Indianapolis Shakespeare Theatre

Milicent Wright

Milicent Wright*+ played Maria in Twelfth Night for Indy Shakes when it was HART in WRSP, and at the Taggart she played Quince in A Midsummer Night's Dream and Margaret et. al. in Ricky III a hip-hop version of Richard III produced by Indy Shakes. She is most known in Indianapolis for performing at the Phoenix Theatre Cultural Centre, Indiana Repertory Theatre and the former Park St./9th St. Phoenix Theatre. She has also worked at the Fonseca Theatre Company and Cardinal Stage. In the fall of this year, she will return to Merrimack Repertory Theatre in Massachusetts to perform A Search For Signs Of Intelligent Life In The Universe. Milicent has been an Indianapolis teaching artist for many years and a drama coach for the Hancock County Children’s Choir for several concerts. Recently, Milicent was asked to join the board of Summer Stock Stage which she considers to be a true honor. She was a 2011 Arts Council Creative Renewal Fellowship Recipient and a 2015 award recipient from the Center for Leadership and Development.

Malik James

Malik James (he/him) is a recent graduate of the Yale School of Drama class of 2024. His theater credits include Choir Boy (Yale Repertory Theatre), Measure for Measure (Yale School of Drama), The Cherry Orchard (Yale School of Drama) and more. He is also the first place recipient of the 2023 National Society of Arts & Letters Drama Competition. Malik is excited to bring the story of Riverside to life and dedicates this performance to his ancestors, family and the people of Indianapolis.

Terra Chaney

Terra Chaney is entering her first season with Indy Shakes. She is based in NYC. Her NYC credits include: Women on Fire (Royal Family Productions); Othello (The Secret Theater). Other regional credits: Merry Wives of Windsor, Comedy of Errors (Elm Shakespeare Company); Midsummer Night’s Dream LIVE!, Macbeth LIVE!, Much Ado About Nothing (Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey); Upcoming: Sense & Sensibility (STNJ). Education: American Musical and Dramatic Academy. She would like to thank her family, especially her mother, and close friends for all their love and support. She is excited to perform in her hometown.

Ed Gonzalez Moreno

Ed Gonzalez Moreno is an Afro - Latino TV, Film, and Stage Actor currently residing in New York City/Harlem U.S.A. Moreno started his professional career in the Bay Area working with Theatre companies such as SF Playhouse, Berkeley Rep, San Francisco Shakespeare Theatre Company, and Cutting Ball Theatre. Moreno’s most recent work includes Guest Star roles on Chicago P.D., Law and Order: SVU, Blue Bloods, The Equalizer, East New York, FBI, and New Amsterdam. You can also find him on the indie film hits Freshman Year and the sequel Senior Year: Love Never Fails both available on Amazon prime as “Hector”. You can see what he’s up to next via edgonzalezmoreno.com or on IG: @emoreno3393

Akili Ni Mali

Akili Ni Mali (she/her) is returning to Indy Shakes stage for a second season. She is an actor and independent recording artist originally from San Diego, CA. Regional: Chlorine Sky (Steppenwolf Theatre); Sense and Sensibility (Indiana Repertory Theatre); Richard III (Indianapolis Shakespeare Company); Skeleton Crew (Summit Performance Indianapolis); Hairspray (Legacy Theatre). International: Norwegian Cruise Lines (2019). Film/TV: Heist 88 (Paramount), Chicago Fire, Chicago PD (NBC). Commercial: DenTek, Andre Champagne. Discography: Breathe EP (2020), Good Life (2020), Right (2021), Sold (2022), Lana Del Rey (2023), 9-5 (2024), and Changes EP (2024). Education: BFA Musical Theater, Ball State University (2019).

Kayla Carter

Kayla Carter is pleased to be returning to Indianapolis, where she was last seen in Indiana Repertory Theatre’s most recent production of A Christmas Carol. Chicago theatre credits include Roe, How to Catch Creation (Goodman Theatre), The Last Match, Smart People (Writers Theatre), and Mansfield Park (Northlight Theatre). Recent regional credits: Eurydice, As You Like It (American Shakespeare Center), The Moors (American Players Theater). Film/TV: Knives and Skin (IFC Films), neXt (Fox), Chicago Med (NBC) and APB (Fox). Kayla is a graduate of University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Instagram: @kaylacrater. For the ancestors, forever. For Ellis, forever.

Holiday

Holiday is excited to be making his debut with the fam in "Riverside" here in Indianapolis. Holiday recently starred in Alethea Pace's between wave and water at B.A.A.D located in the Bronx. Readings include Edi Ya's and Diamond's Grove by a.k. Payne, and served as line producer/casting director for Blue Reunion by Ned Dougherty, produced by The Playwrights Workshop under the direction of Josh Wilder and Adzua Amoa. Holiday made his professional regional debut in James Baldwin's The Amen Corner in 2022. Other regional credits include The Sign in Sidney Brustein in early 2023. A graduate of the Yale School of Drama/DGSD class of 2021-2022, he received his Master’s in Acting. Holiday also graduated from the Atlantic "Full-Time" Conservatory after graduating from Brookdale community college where he grew his roots for the love of Shakespeare and all things acting.

Olamide Asanpaola

Olamide Asanpaola is so excited to be a part of her first show with Indy Shakes for their production of Riverside! Television: Law & Order. Theater: Pamela in Head Over Heels, Deloris Van Cartier in Sister Act, Dionne in Hair, Lorrell Robinson in Dreamgirls & La Marquise de Merteuil in Dangerous Liaisons. Olamide firstly wants to thank Holiday & Rudi for bringing her in on this amazing opportunity. She would also like to thank ML for allowing her to be apart of bringing this beautiful original work to life. Also a special thank you to her family & friends for always being so supportive in all of her endeavors! Instagram & TikTok: @queenolamide_

Clarissa Todd

Clarissa Todd - Regional: Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (Naptown African American Theatre); Str8 up Fredrick Douglass in Rhythm, Rap, and Jazz (Indiana State Museum); More Light (Conner Prairie); Ricky 3: A Traveling Troupe (Indianapolis Shakespeare Company); Film: 365 The Short Film (Weatherhouse Institute), Mission Control Takeover (The Children’s Museum Of Indianapolis), Promise Land as Proving Ground (Conner Prairie); Commercial: Alligators and Crocodiles (Indianapolis Zoo). Clarissa would like to dedicate this show to the wonderful people in her beautiful city. She hopes that this show inspires you to see the beauty and potential in our own backyard. “I love you NAPTOWN!”

Jamaal McCray

Jamaal McCray - Actor, Director, Playwright, Performance Coach. He studied in IUB’s Theater and Drama Program. He received the David Howe award 2008. He is Co-Owner of Ankh Productions. The top of 2022 kicked off their Beautiful residency with Storefront Theatre Indy with the 2nd production of his play Love You Reckless. Regional: American Ma(u)l (Delaware Washington); The America Play (The Foundling Father); Prowess (Mark); Dutchman (Clay, Monument Theater); No6 (Felix, Indianapolis Repertory Theater. Two of his plays, God Barber of 49th Street and Small Boat, were featured in the American Lives Theatre 2020 play festival. McCray directed the World Premiere of Rachel Lynett’s Yale Award winning Play Apologies to Lorraine Hansberry… in the 2021 Fonseca Summer season. He’s also has produced written and directed Tales out of Twelve O’8, God Baber of 49th St, and the baddest play ever: So You’re Soulless. - @Ankhproductions & @aka_yee_yang.

Josiah McCruiston

Josiah McCruiston is an artistic director, board member, actor, teaching artist, accomplished writer, and youth pastor/director who believes in the power of the creative spirit. He has performed in theatres from Indiana Repertory Theatre to Carnegie Hall, has worked in museum theatres, and has worked in arts education for over 10 years. He has worked as the program director and youth pastor of Witherspoon Presbyterian Church and is a proud member. He is currently the department chair and lead instructor for performing arts at Providence Cristo Rey High School in Indianapolis. He roots his work in the memory of The McArthur Conservatory (1946-1963) and other Black Arts movements across the nation. He is currently working on a TV series called Rise, gearing up for another exciting year at Providence Cristo Rey, and currently planning to marry the love of his life.

Rudi Globlen

Rudi Goblen // Rudi (Director) is a theatre artist who creates solo theater and devised theater work. He is a recipient of the Vineyard theatre's Colman Domingo Award, a three-time winner of playwriting awards from the Kennedy Center, the Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting Award, and an O'Neill Finalist. His accolades include a Future Aesthetics Artist Award, two MiamiDade County Choreographer Awards, and a FEAST Award for his book of poetry, A Bag of Halos and Horns. He has trained and worked with Cirque De Soleil and DV8 Physical theatre and is a founding member of Teo Castellanos/D-Projects and Rosie Herrera Dance theatre. Selected venues where his work has been shown include New York theatre Workshop, Vineyard theatre, Fisher Center at Bard, Yale Cabaret, Alliance theatre, Rattlestick eater, and Spiegeltent. Publications include eater Magazine, Imagined theatres: Writing for a theoretical Stage, Concord theatricals, and PEN America. Rudi holds an MFA in playwriting from the Yale School of Drama. www.rudigoblen.com

ML Roberts

ML Roberts (he/him) is a writer and actor who believes in art’s capacity to model and illuminate paths toward collective liberation from Turtle Island to Palestine. He uses his work to examine and deconstruct the effects of what bell hooks called the “imperialist, white-supremacist, capitalist, patriarchy.” He is the son of a Navy veteran, and descendant of the Gullah Geechee of the Carolinas. His work has been developed with New Harmony Project, SPACE on Ryder Farm, Lifetime, Hulu, and GTG's Speaker's Corner. He is a Broadway Advocacy Coalition Fellow, Indianapolis Shakespeare Company member, inaugural Core Company Member at ACT Theatre (Seattle), and Co-Artistic Director of Yale Cabaret 57. As an actor, he has performed with Folger Shakespeare, Unicorn Theatre (UK), The Williams Project, and Santa Cruz Shakespeare, among others. MFA Playwriting Candidate at Yale School of Drama; BFA Acting from North Carolina School of the Arts IG:@marceselorenzo

Mysia Anderson

Mysia Anderson (she/her) is an assistant professor of Black Performance Theory in the Department of Theatre and Dance at the University of California, San Diego. Dr. Anderson is from Miami, Florida. She earned her PhD from Brown University’s Theatre Arts and Performance Studies department and BA from Stanford University’s African and African American Studies program. Her work engages the fields of Black feminisms, Black Studies, Black Performance Theory, and Environmental Humanities, and draws upon critical ethnography, embodied practice, and archival methodologies. As a scholar-artist, Anderson desires to tell stories grounded in African Diasporic world-making.

April Hickman

April M. Hickman (she/her) is a Connecticut-based costume designer and costume illustrator for theatre, opera, and film, originally from Denver CO. Her most recent design credits include, 2.5 Minute Ride (Hartford Stage), Maria di Rohan University of North Carolina School of The Arts, The Thanksgiving Play (Dorset Theatre Festival), Omar LA Opera/Spoleto Festival/Boston (Lyric Opera), Trouble In Mind (Dallas Theater Center), Nine Night (Roundhouse Theatre), and associate costume designer for The Shark is Broken (Broadway). April holds a position at Wesleyan University as an Assistant Professor in the Practice of Costume Design. She has an MFA in Costume Design from the Yale School of Drama and a BFA in Costume Design and Technology from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. www.aprilmhickman.com @aprilmhickmandesig

Marcelo Martinez Garcia

Marcelo Martínez García (he/him/él) is a proud Mexican Scenic Designer and Architect. Theater: Dial M for Murder (Alley Theater & CPIP), Sandra (TheaterWorks Hartford), The Garbologists (TheaterWorks Hartford), Manahatta (The Public Theater), Torera (Alley Theater), Mojada: A Medea in Los Angeles (Yale Repertory Theater). Martínez holds a degree in Architecture from ITESM MTY, a specialization in Scenic Design from CENTRO CDMX, and an MFA in Theater Design from Yale School of Drama. www.marcelomg.com / @marcelomgdesigns

Bailey Trierweiler

Bailey Trierweiler & Uptownworks - UptownSound is a collaborative design team specializing in theater, film, podcasts installations and other media. Guided by a shared love for storytelling, our collective merges skills and perspectives, while fostering a human first approach to design work. Select sound design highlights include Tiny Father (Geffen Playhouse); Problems Between Sisters (Studio Theatre DC); Dangerous Days (Miami New Drama); Las Borinqueñas (EST); Importance of Being Earnest (Pittsburgh Public Theatre/Baltimore Center Stage); Murder on the Orient Express (Syracuse Stage); FIVE The Parody Musical (Visceral Entertainment); Hotel Happy (Houses on the Moon); Munich Medea (WP/PlayCO); To The Ends of the Earth (JACK); Lady Day (Baltimore Center Stage); Working: A Musical (CUBoulder); Tiny Father (Barrington Stage/Chautauqua); bloodwork, BMLD (NBT); Avaaz (South Coast Rep); Singularity Play (HarvardTDM); Black Odyssey (Classic Stage); Espejos:Clean (Hartford Stage/Syracuse Stage); Which Way To The Stage (Signature DC); the ripple, the wave... (Berkeley Rep/Goodman); Complicity Island (Audible); Blues Clues & You! (Round Room Live); Queen (Long Wharf Theater/A.R.T.NY); Choir Boy, Today is my Birthday (Yale Rep); Fires in the Mirror (Baltimore Center Stage/Long Wharf Theatre); already there (The REACH at the Kennedy Center); First Down (59E59). This design was led by Bailey Trierweiler (btsounddesign.com), Daniela Hart (uptownworksnyc.com) and Noel Nichols (noelnicholsdesign.com). Bailey, Daniela & Noel received their MFAs in Sound Design from the Yale School of Drama.

Laura Glover

Laura E. Glover is an Indy Shakes Company member and the Resident Lighting Designer for Dance Kaleidoscope and the Phoenix Theatre, as well as a company member of Indianapolis Shakespeare Company. She also has also designed lighting for the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, Time for Three, Indianapolis City Ballet, the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Butler University, Wabash College and the University of Indianapolis, where she taught for 18 years. She has worked internationally with the Martha Graham Dance Company, Rioult, Taylor 2, Todd Rosenlieb Dance, Ballets de San Juan and Workshop Theatre Group. Her dance lighting includes over 200 world premieres and the reconstruction of the lighting of Jean Rosenthal, Thomas Skelton, Jennifer Tipton, and David Finley. She is a Creative Renewal Arts Fellow with the Indy Arts Council and holds an M.F.A. in Lighting Design from SUNY Purchase, where she studied with Brian MacDevitt and William Mintzer.

Nolan Brokamp

Rachelle Martin

Rachelle Martin is on her fifth show with Indianapolis Shakespeare Company. Currently the Props Manager at Indiana Repertory Theatre, she has also worked with Summer Stock Stage, Eclipse Theatre Company, Crossroads Repertory Theatre, University of Indianapolis, and Defiance Comedy. When she’s not working with props she performs improv and teaches classes with Behind the Couch Improv (@btcimprov), and sings with her band The Dog Moms (@dogmomsmusic). My love and thanks to Matt, Harvey, Wicket, and Charlie for putting up with all the weird stuff that I bring home. Mostly as part of my job.

Todd Mack

Sarah Podzielinski

Jeff Mountjoy

Nick Chamberlain

Jocelyn Sparkles

Jocelyn Sparkles is excited to return to Indy Shakes for her second season. Jocelyn has been a costume professional for theatre and live entertainment, including Broadway and Regional productions, academic productions, Mardi Gras events and krewes, and international touring events. She holds multiple undergraduate degrees from Indiana University as well as an MFA in costume technology from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. She is currently an independent freelance creative professional, and the human behind @IndyCraftivist. Jocelyn is also a proud member of I.A.T.S.E. 893.

Tim Dick

Tim Dick is excited to return as Indy Shakes’ Master electrician for a second time. They are a lighting designer and technician based out of Indianapolis. Currently, they are the resident master electrician for the Phoenix Theatre Cultural Center as well as frequent designer for the collectives that are partnered with the Phoenix. A graduate of Indiana State University, they’ve since worked out of the San Francisco Bay Area in California as well as Bellport, NY and Patchogue, NY. Paully Hawthorne (Lighting Assistant)

Paully Crumpacker

Paully Crumpacker (he/they) is a technician and lighting designer based in Indianapolis. They are excited to join the team of Indy Shakes for the first time. A previous graduate of Indiana University, they now do electrics for theaters across Indianapolis including the Indiana Repertory Theatre, Beef and Boards, and Civic Theatre. They also design for theaters in Indy including the Phoenix Cultural Centre, Dance Revelations, and IndyFringe Theatre. Enjoy the show!

Rob Johansen

Rob Johansen has worked on stage with Indy Shakes in A Winter's Take (on stilts playing ukulele and singing...his rock star fantasy!) And as a fight choreographer for last year's Hamlet. But every OTHER year Rob has come to the shows and reveled in this summer celebration of theatre that makes Indy and even greater artistic home. Rob has appeared in 50 IRT productions. His favorites being The 39 Steps, Irma Vep, The Grapes of Wrath, Underneath the Lintel, After Paul McCartney, The Game's Afoot and 14 years of A Christmas Carol. Rob had appeared in 20 Phoenix Theatre productions (Phoenix Xmas, Mr. Burns, and Clover Road are favorites) as well as regional theater around the country. Rob's second career, the one paid in licks, is working as a dog trainer at the humane society. Rob makes his home with his amazing wife Jen (woo hoo, we're both company members!) And their fur babies, Olive and Tibbs.

Matt Shives

Matt Shives is thrilled to be returning for his 4th production with Indy Shakes! Locally, Matt has also worked with Dance Kaleidoscope, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, and Summer Stock Stage. Matt has been on the production team for the 74th, 75th, 76th, and 77th Annual Tony Awards, The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back, The Super Bowl LIV Halftime Show, The 12th and 13th Annual NFL Honors, The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on CBS, and NFL events featuring Madonna, Meghan Trainor, Demi Lovato, Yolanda Adams, and Meek Mill. Talent logistics department credits include the 2022, 2023, and 2024 NBA All-Star Weekends, the 2021 and 2023 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony, and last fall’s Perelman Performing Arts Center Opening Night. For TV, he has worked on The Voice, Encore!, Dear…, Tough as Nails, among others. Matt holds a BA in Theatre Design and Production from Purdue University and lives in Indy with his wife and son.

Emma Lattau

Emma Littau is thrilled to be back with IndyShakes, having previously worked as the Assistant Stage Manager for Julius Caesar, Love's Labour's Lost, Mojada, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. Emma is a Production Assistant at the Indiana Repertory Theatre, recent IRT credits include Frida...A Self Portrait, Fannie: The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer, A Christmas Carol, and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. She frequently works with the Phoenix Theatre, the National New Play Network, Summer Stock Stage, Eclipse, Dance Kaleidoscope, Actor's Theatre of Indiana, and the IndyFringe Theatre. This year Emma was the Lead Talent PA for NBA All-Star Week. Emma is a recent graduate of Butler University where she studied theatre, business, and organizational leadership & communication. Thank you for coming to the show!