The 39 Steps

is thrilled to return to IRT, where past productions include The Mousetrap and The Game's Afoot. Broadway: Brighton Beach Memoirs. National tour: The Lion King. Chicago: Life & Limb, Huck Finn (Steppenwolf); Rabbit Hole (Goodman); Billie Jean, The Comedy of Errors, Amadeus, Romeo and Juliet (Chicago Shakespeare); The Audience, The 39 Steps, A Christmas Carol (Drury Lane); Isaac's Eye, The Chosen (Writers); The Hard Problem (Court); The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (ATC); Paradise Lost (TimeLine). Regional: Wanamaker's Pursuit (Arden Theatre), The Cherry Orchard (Milwaukee Rep). TV/film: Chicago Med, Crisis, Chicago Fire, Suits, Game Day. "For Blair, Charlie, Madeline, and Saint Rita."

Tyler's Chicago credits include Inherit the Wind, The Penelopiad, The Cherry Orchard, Twilight Bowl, Graveyard Shift (Goodman Theatre); Little Women (Northlight Theatre); Campaigns, Inc. (Timeline Theatre); Translations, Eurydice, The Mystery of Love and Sex (Writers Theatre); The Tempest, A Midsummer Night's Dream (Chicago Shakespeare Theater). Regional credits include A Phoenix Too Frequent (American Players Theatre); At the Wedding, Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, My Father's War (TheatreSquared). Tyler is a graduate of Interlochen Arts Academy, School at Steppenwolf, and the University of Illinois Chicago. She is represented by Gray Talent Group. @tylermckenziemeredith

is a native Hoosier who has performed and taught acting and improvisation regionally, across the United States, and internationally for more than 15 years. She is a third-year M.F.A. Acting candidate at Indiana University Bloomington. IRT Credits: The Little Choo Choo That Thinks She Can (Conductor) and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (Rona understudy). Frankie is a proud company member of ComedySportz Worldwide and Indianapolis Shakespeare Company. She is an alum of AMDA NYC. "Many thanks to the whole IRT Team and this small (but mighty) cast and crew." FrankieBolda.com

is a Midwest-based actor, director, and arts educator. He has performed and taught throughout the Midwest and Southeast for nearly three decades. Locally, Jay has been on stage with American Lives Theatre, Phoenix Theatre, Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre, Defiance Comedy, IU Summer Theatre, and Constellation Stage. In May 2020, Jay received his M.F.A. in Theatre and Drama from Indiana University. Most recently, he directed The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at Booth Tarkington Civic Theatre. Offstage, Jay is the director of community engagement for Dance Kaleidoscope and lives in the historic Herron-Morton neighborhood with his fiancée and their pups, Georgie and Otto.

has designed The Folks at Home, You Can't Take It with You, A Midsummer Night's Dream, God's Pictures, Odd Jobs, and more at the IRT. Her work has been seen in Chicago at theatres such as the Goodman Theatre, Steppenwolf, and Court Theatre, and regionally at Arena Stage, the Alley, Cleveland Play House, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Kansas City Rep, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Rep, Seattle Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Syracuse Stage, Yale Rep, Resident Ensemble Theatre, Great Lakes Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Festival, and many others.

An award-winning costume designer, Linda's opera, theatre, and ballet designs have been featured throughout the United States and internationally. She has been featured in three World Design Expos and represented the United States three times at the Prague Quadrennial Design Exhibition. Professor and Chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance at Indiana University Bloomington, Linda is happy to celebrate her 21st season with IRT, where some of her memorable designs include A Christmas Carol, A Little Night Music, Romeo and Juliet (twice), and Cyrano. See her most recent Nutcracker costume design on PBS this December from IU School of Music.

is a New York-based lighting designer who has created designs for theatre, dance, live events, television, and exhibitions around the world. Off-Broadway and regional credits (selected): John Wilkes Booth: One Night Only!, Akeelah and the Bees (Baltimore Center Stage); Matilda the Musical (Theatre Three); Clowns like Me (DR2 Theatre); Fat Ham (regional debut, the Huntington, Alliance Theatre), The Chinese Lady (regional debut, American Stage). International credits (selected): Huang Liang Yi Meng (National Centre for the Performing Arts, China). Education: M.F.A. in Design, NYU Tisch. xiangfuxiao.com, @xiangfuxiao_design

Leraldo is a Fight Master, Fight Director, Certified Teacher with Society of American Fight Directors; an Intimacy Director with Intimacy Directors and Coordinators.; and a Fight Choreographer with Stage Directors & Choreographers. Theatres: Prague Shakespeare Company, Actor's Theatre of Louisville, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre, Cincinnati Shakespeare Company, Houston Grand Opera, Colorado Shakespeare Festival, Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festival, Cleveland Playhouse and more. He has a Master's Degree in Acting from University of Houston. Currently an Assistant Professor of Movement and Stage Combat with the Department of Theatre & Dance at Indiana University. leraldoanzaldua.com.

This is Richard's 36th season with the IRT, and his 28th as resident dramaturg. He has also been a dramaturg for the New Harmony Project, Write Now, and the Hotchner Playwriting Festival. He has directed IRT productions of A Christmas Carol, Bridge & Tunnel, The Night Watcher, Neat, Pretty Fire, The Cay, The Giver, The Power of One, and Twelfth Night. Locally he has directed for Actors Theatre of Indiana, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, the Edyvean, and many more. Richard studied music at DePauw University and theatre at Indiana University and was awarded a Creative Renewal Arts Fellowship from the Arts Council of Indianapolis.

is a local AEA stage manager originally from the Pocono Mountains but now calling Indianapolis home. They are proud to call IRT their artistic home for their ninth season. They can also be found working with Summer Stock Stage, Phoenix Theatre, Indy Shakes, and Summit. They are grateful for the opportunity to work with so many incredible theatre artists in this city and are thankful for the support from their friends and family!