he/him Ben brings years of experience and a passion for the stage to his work as a performer, choreographer, director and educator. SIGNATURE: Pippin, Fiddler on the Roof (Fyedka). BROADWAY: Frozen. NATIONAL TOURS: Jersey Boys (Frankie Valli alternate), Wicked, Tina: The Tina Turner Musical. OFF-BROADWAY: Jersey Boys, Only Human. DC AREA: Roundhouse Theatre: The Inheritance (Charlie Wilcox). REGIONAL: ACT of CT: Rent; Hartford Stage: The Flamingo Kid (World Premiere); Elgin Theatre: Sousatzka (World Premiere); Pittsburgh CLO: Mary Poppins; North Carolina Theatre: Mamma Mia. TV: Pose. CHOREOGRAPHY CREDITS: Clear Space Theatre Company: Spring Awakening; Sierra REP: Jersey Boys (associate dir/choreographer); Henegar Theatre: Shrek the Musical. EDUCATION: BFA University of Michigan. Instagram: @benmbogen   

Evan Casey has worked as an actor, director and teacher for over two decades. His extensive stage work has been seen Off-Broadway and in numerous regional theaters across the country, as well as locally at The Kennedy Center, Ford's Theatre, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Signature Theatre, Round House Theatre and Olney Theatre Center, among others. His most recent television work includes roles on HBO's We Own This City and FX's Impeachment: American Crime Story. His voice can be heard on numerous audiobook recordings for Graphic Audio and on the recent hit podcasts Circle Round and Who, When, Wow!. He toured the country - and recorded numerous albums and radio specials - with the longtime political satire group Capitol Steps, and he continues that work as a writer, performer, and co-director of its more recent incarnation, Capitol Fools. His cast recordings include Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus! and Elephant and Piggie's “We Are in a Play!”. He has taught acting for Howard Community College, National Conservatory of Dramatic Arts, Theatre Lab, Signature Theatre, Theater J and Adventure Theatre-MTC, among others. His most recent directing credits include multiple promotional short films for the Nevada Department of Education and The Spongebob Musical for Theatre Lab's Musical Theatre Institute for Teens. 

Susan Derry is an accomplished and versatile actor and singer noted for her “soaring soprano” and “striking theatricality.” (The New York Times) Ms. Derry is at home in a wide range of roles. She made her Broadway debut in the Tony-winning revival of Wonderful Town and performed the role of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera in Hamburg, Germany with the Neue Flora Theater. She garnered critical acclaim for her portrayal of Francesca Johnson in The Bridges of Madison County at Keegan Theatre in Washington DC; the Washington Post proclaimed ”the ace this staging is Susan Derry“ and Broadway World called it the role of her career. Susan sang Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady with the Utah Symphony Orchestra opposite the late Peter Scolari as Professor Henry Higgins and made her Off-Off Broadway debut in The Shrill Collective’s world premiere of Megan Bussiere’s A Period Piece as Sam; the play was a finalist for the 2019 O’Neill National Playwrights Conference Prize. Susan’s debut album, I Wish It So is available everywhere music is streamed.

Her most recent DC appearance was the exciting challenge of portraying the Witch in Stephen Sondheim’s iconic Into the Woods. Other theatrical career highlights include Marian in The Music Man; Kate/Lilli in Kiss Me Kate; Desdemona in Othello; Fiona in Brigadoon; Meg in Crimes of the Heart; Helen in Saturday Night; Agnes in I Do! I Do!; Betty Schaeffer in Sunset Boulevard; Betty in White Christmas, and Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest. Susan has professional experience in opera, as well, premiering the role of Olivia in Gary Glickmans’ adaptation of Twelfth Night with American Opera Projects and singing Jessica in the American premiere of Reynaldo Hahn’s The Merchant of Venice with Portland Opera.

Susan was the centerpiece of the Bold New Works series in Virginia, an initiative to create world-premiere musicals; her performance in the first piece, a new version of The Turn of the Screw, was hailed as “brilliant.” Since then, she has earned accolades as Mary Shelley in Monsters of the Villa Diodati; as a daughter struggling with her mother’s decline from Alzheimers in Kaleidoscope and as a hard-edged single mother in Witch, based on the #MeToo movement. All four works feature Susan prominently on the cast albums.

(Acting Instructor) SIGNATURE: This Ends in Blood. DIRECTING: The 25th Annual...Spelling Bee, A Christmas Story, Into the Woods, The Music Man. STAGE MANAGEMENT: Footloose, The Drowsy Chaperone. TEACHING: Signature Theatre, STARS Performing Arts, Fairfax County Public Schools. Signature’s Assistant Education Program Manager. EDUCATION: B.S. Theatre Education, Ball State University.  

Born in Washington D.C., Ian McEuen has served with The United States Army Band, Pershing’s Own, as a vocalist in the U.S. Army Chorus since 2020. As a freelance artist, he has proven his performing mettle on operatic, theatrical, and concert stages across the United States. Most recently, Ian portrayed Adolfo Pirelli in Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd at Signature Theatre, directed by Sarna Lapine. He has also been seen at Signature Theatre as Sondheim’s two other Italian tenors, Giuseppe Zangara in Assassins and LT. Torasso in Passion. Ian made his NSO Pops debut as A-Rab in a semi-staged production of Bernstein’s West Side Story.

In his operatic career, Ian has been a champion of both new works and the enduring repertoire of old. Ian created the roles of Uncle Rondo in Why I Live at the P.O. and Redwood Son/various in Florida, both world premieres with UrbanArias. Previously with UrbanArias, Ian could be seen as Dr. S. in The Man who Mistook his Wife for a Hat. With Washington National Opera, he created the roles of the Hippo, Holy Man, and Dog in the world premiere of The Lion, Unicorn, and Me. Other career highlights include Eland in Lost in the Stars, and Goro in Madame Butterfly (Washington National Opera); the Tanzmeister in Ariadne auf Naxos (Wolf Trap Opera and Fort Worth Opera); Tobias in Sweeney Todd (Atlanta Opera, Baltimore Concert Opera, and New Orleans Opera); Le Remendado in Carmen (Annapolis Opera); Pong in Turandot (Nashville Opera); Pang in Turandot (Virginia Opera); Monostatos in Die Zauberflöte (Arizona Opera); Alpheus in Lysistrata and Padre Antonio in the world professional premiere of With Blood, With Ink (Fort Worth Opera). Ian has appeared as a soloist at Carnegie Hall twice, with the New York City Chamber Orchestra. 
 
Ian has held the position of Adjunct Professor in Musical Theatre Voice at George Mason University’s Dewberry School of Music. He has also taught voice and choir at the Sheridan School, and has led masterclasses and workshops with students of all ages across DC, Maryland, and Virginia. He holds a BFA in Vocal Performance from Carnegie Mellon University, an M.M. in Voice Performance from University of Cincinnati's College-Conservatory of Music. 

Mary Myers is a professional actor and Teaching Artist based in Washington, DC. In her nearly 15 years as an educator, she has collaborated with students of all ages, teaching monologue performance, physical comedy, acting technique, improvisation, movement, devising, and oratory. Most prominently she has taught Shakespeare, and has worked with Chesapeake Shakespeare Company, WSC Avant Bard, and Educational Theatre Company (ETC), for whom she was on staff as their Director of Shakespeare in the Schools for seven years. She still regularly teaches with ETC, and is also a Teaching Artist with Ford's Theatre. As an actor, she has performed with numerous theatre companies around town, and has won a Helen Hayes award and received multiple nominations. Education: B.A. in Theatre, The College of William & Mary; Physical Theatre training, St. Mary’s University, Twickenham.

Eric Neuenschwander graduated from The Ohio State University with a Degree in Vocal Music Education in 2011. It was at Ohio State he discovered his love of Musical Theatre, performing with Off The Lake Productions, a completely student run musical Theatre Organization. Post graduation he taught choir and theatre in Ohio for over a decade, overseeing numerous school and community productions as a director, music director, accompanist and pit conductor. He moved to the DMV in 2023 and along with teaching, is a certified piano technician. As an actor his favorite roles include Nicky from Avenue Q, The Proprietor from Assassins, Uncle Fester from The Addams Family and William Barfee in Spelling Bee.

Kirsten Noetzel  works regionally as a Director and Teaching Artist. She learned to teach at the Tony award-winning Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, MN. She has directed for Theatre Prometheus (Miranda After the Storm), The Theatre Lab (Newsies, Matilda, Romeo and Juliet, As You Like It), Imagination Stage (Unlabeled, The Pencil is Mightier, O Wonder, Aladdin), Montgomery College (The BURN), Metropolitan School of the Arts (Alice in Wonderland, Wishful Thinking, The Odyssey, Peter Pan, The Tempest); and the Hub Theatre (Emerging Writer’s Festival). In addition to Signature Theatre, Kirsten serves on the faculties of Ford’s Theatre, The Theatre Lab, Imagination Stage, Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, and Metropolitan School of the Arts. She has been invited to present about educational theatre by the Kennedy Center, DC Arts and Humanities Council, DCJCC, Montgomery County Public Schools, and Fairfax County Public Schools.

(Music Director, Co-Song Writer and Teaching Artist) REGIONAL THEATRE: 1st Stage: How to Be Miserable; Maryland Theatre Collective: Garbage People; Maples Rep: Merrymaking; Matrix Theatre Co: Big Red Button; Regional Workshops in NYC, MD and NOLA: Perfectly Imperfect: A New Musical; Hollywood Fringe: Pocketmon: A Pokémon Musical Parody; Colorado Fringe Festival: An Evening with the World’s Greatest Actor; Cabin Boys – Oklahoma: Paper Flowers; Dixon Place: Wild Imagination; Fresh Grind Festival: An Unexpected Thing Happens; Secret Theatre One Act Festival: The News, The News, The Terrible News; M.E.T. PlayLab: 11 Days of Bloody, Bloody Carnage; The Pantry Theatre Co.: La Cresita; The Tank: CHINASHOP, MEET BULLS; FILM: The Conspiracists

(Playwright): The Possumneck Playhouse Presents Eli Thomas Neatherwood’s Award-Winning Adaptation of The Canterbury Tales; The Voices on Blackwell Island; Easy Women Smoking Loose Cigarettes; Accepts With Pleasure; Girlhood (Round House TPC commission); The Joy That Carries You (winner of the Charles MacArthur award for best new play or musical). Her previous Signature in the Schools piece, Just Great: an adaptation of some book by F Scott Fitzgerald, was recently published and is available through Playscripts. ACTING: SIGNATURE: Ragtime; Which Way to the Stage; Really Really; Dying City; Matt Conner Christmas Cabaret. DC AREA: Productions at Arena Stage, the Folger Theatre, Studio Theatre, Olney Theatre Center, Keegan Theatre, 1st Stage, and The Kennedy Center. EDUCATION: BFA Ithaca College MFA playwriting candidate Rome School CUA @danidangerstoller www.danistoller.com

Signature Theatre’s Education Program Manager, is a DC area educator, actor, director, writer and dramaturg. His Signature in the Schools assistant directing and dramaturgy credits include Failureland!; The Possumneck Playhouse...;The Voices of Blackwell Island; The Pursued, The Pursuing The Busy, and The Tired; Here’s the Deal; UnResigned; The Spoken Word; 12 Million Footsteps; Smile Lines; 295N; Veni, Vidi, Vici; Anne and Emmett (joint production with Arlington Public Schools); and Hero Worship. As a dramaturg for Signature Theatre his work includes: Gun and Powder; Titanic; West Side Story; Elmer Gantry; Cabaret; Threepenny Opera; and Cloak and Dagger. His dramaturgical work also supported the Kennedy Center premiere of Gigi. A graduate of The University of Maryland, College Park (BA Theatre / BA English), Matt has taught around the area in various capacities at several theatres for many years now. Some of his favorite teaching venues and relationships include Signature Theatre, Arlington County Public Schools, Fairfax County Public Schools, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, ArtStream – Gaithersburg / Arlington, Studio Theatre, The Space, Washington Improv Theatre and The City of Gaithersburg

Jennifer Storm Tyler is a music educator, vocal pedagogue, performer, and nonprofit arts leader with more than a decade of experience teaching voice, piano, and musical theatre. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from Christopher Newport University and a Master of Music in Vocal Pedagogy with a concentration in Musical Theatre from Rider University. Jennifer is the founder of Storm Music Lessons and Storm Performing Arts a non-profit community theater, where she provides high-level training and performance opportunities for students of all ages. She currently serves as Music Director and Vocal Director for Independence High School’s musical theatre program and has music directed 19 award-winning productions such as Hadestown, Sweeney Todd, Mean Girls, Into the Woods, Natasha Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, Once Upon a One More Time, A Chorus Line and many others. Jennifer’s students can be seen performing in community theaters around the DMV, Regional theater houses on the East Coast, Summer Stock Productions around the country, on the National Tour of Tina the Musical and on Spotify. Jennifer’s voice students have been accepted to many prestigious musical theater programs in the country including NYU, Oberlin, UNCG, Elon, Boston Conservatory, Shenandoah Concervatory and many more.Jennifer is passionate about helping performers develop healthy technique, artistic confidence, and a lifelong love of music and theatre.

David Zobell is Signature Theatre’s Education Director. His Signature in the Schools directing credits include Failureland!; The Possumneck Playhouse Presents Eli Thomas Neatherwood’s Award-Winning Adaptation of The Canterbury Tales; The Voices on Blackwell Island; The Pursued, The Pursuing, The Busy, and The Tired; Here’s the Deal; UnResigned; The Spoken Word; 12 Million Footsteps; Smile Lines; 295N; Veni, Vidi, Vici; Anne and Emmett (joint production with Arlington Public Schools); Hero Worship; Revolution; Un-American; and Shakespeare, Will (assistant director). Additional directing credits: Man to Man (premiere); Apologies; Dancing at Lughnasa (assistant director); and Walter Cronkite is Dead (Signature Theatre, premiere – assistant director). He has taught extensively with Signature Theatre, Adventure Theatre, The Rainbow Company (winner of the 2010 Children’s Theatre Association of America Medallion Award), Arlington County Public Schools Adult Education and Brigham Young University.