CCM PLAY SERIES PRESENTS
By Jack Thorne
Based on the novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist
A collaboration with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company (CSC)
Oct. 19-22 and Oct. 26-28, 2023, Patricia Corbett Theater
+The Director is a Member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society, a national theatrical labor union.
#Members of United Sceneic Artists, Local USA 829, IATSE
^CCM Student
Content Advisory: For mature audience, includes sexual situations, violence, blood and gore. This play is not appropriate for children 12 and under. Parents strongly cautioned.
Any video and/or audio recording of this production is strictly prohibited.
“Let The Right One In” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals on behalf of Samuel French, Inc. www.concordtheatricals.com
Estimated run time: 2 hours, plus a 15-minute intermission
Brian Isaac Phillips* (Producing Artistic Director and Ensemble, 25th Season) has been leading the Cincinnati Shakespeare Company since 2003. During his tenure, Mr. Phillips has guided the organization to artistic and financial success, including the opening of The Otto M. Budig Theater, a $17.5MM world-class facility at the corner of 12th and Elm Streets in OTR, as well as the completion of Shakespeare's 38 play canon, making Cincinnati Shakespeare Company one of the first five theatres in the United States to accomplish this milestone.
Mr. Phillips, originally from Pittsburgh, PA, is a graduate of Morehead State University and has been a resident of Cincinnati for over two decades. In that time he has collaborated with almost every arts organization in the region. He is a proud member of Actor’s Equity Association and the Stage Director’s and Choreographer’s Society.
In 2020, Mr. Phillips was awarded the international Shakespeare Theatre Association's prestigious Sidney Berger Award for excellence in artistic direction. He has been named one Cincinnati Magazine's 300 Most Powerful Business Leaders for the past four years. Mr. Phillips was also nominated three times for the SDCF Zelda Fichandler Award for outstanding artistic contribution to our region. Mr. Phillips was recognized by Cincinnati Mayors Aftab Pureval, John Cranley, and Mark Mallory for service at CSC and to the city of Cincinnati. He was also selected for the 2014 Class of Forty Under Forty and has been nominated for the Ohio Governors’ Arts Awards. In 2016, Mr. Phillips graduated from Cincinnati USA Chamber’s 39th Class of Leadership Cincinnati. Also in 2016, Mr. Phillips was selected as a finalist for the Business Courier’s 2016 C-Suite Awards for Chief Executive Officer.
Most recent CSC directing credits include The Importance of Being Earnest, King Lear, The Living Dead, All the Way, The Merry Wives of Windsor, August: Osage County, 1984, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Dracula, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Tempest (Co-Director), The Elephant Man, Antony and Cleopatra, Death of a Salesman, Cyrano de Bergerac, One Man, Two Guvnors, Waiting for Godot, The Birds, and The Great Gatsby.
*The Actor or Stage Manager appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
This production uses the Artist Engagement Services of the University Resident Theatre Association.
Barry Mulholland
Guest Artist from Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Off-Broadway: Wild Oats, Balloon, Danton’s Death, Ghost Sonata. Regional: Matt Dreyton in Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, Otto Frank in The Diary of Anne Frank, Cincinnati Shakespeare; Jon Burke in Burkie, Cincinnati Playhouse-In-The-Park; Christopher in Tribes, ETC; Sigmund Freud in Freud’s Last Session, Repertory Theatre St. Louis; Dick Dudgeon in Devil’s Disciple, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Doug Reardon in Belmont Avenue Social Club, Capitol Repertory, Aston in The Caretaker, Clarence Brown Theatre; Deke Winters in Minor Demons, Long Wharf Theatre. Film: Dark Waters, A Kind of Murder, Cirvature, Surviving Compton.
Kelly Mengelkoch
Guest Artist from Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Kelly Mengelkoch is a long-time ensemble member of Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Most recently she has been seen there in The Importance of Being Earnest, and The Rewards of Being Frank. Frank continued to perform Off-Broadway with New York Classical Theatre at the A.R.T. theatre. She can also be seen at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Ensemble Theatre of Cincinnati, Know Theatre Cincinnati, and The Human Race Theatre. Film: Dark Waters, Old Man and the Gun, Perception, A Kind of Murder, Healing River, and C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America. kellymengelkoch.com
Geoffrey Barnes
Guest Artist from Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
New York Theatre: Oberon in A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Storm Theatre Company); Clown in The Winter’s Tale (American Globe Theatre); others. Elsewhere: Ariel in The Tempest (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); John Heminges in Book of Will, Stephano in The Tempest (Illinois Shakespeare Festival), Gabriel in Fences, Walter Lee in A Raisin in the Sun, Sir Andrew Aguecheek in Twelfth Night (Cincinnati Shakespeare Company); Ronald McCowan in Hands on a Hardbody (Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati); Ragtime (Zach Scott Theatre, Austin TX); A Single Shard (Seattle Children's Theatre).
Billy Chace
Guest Artist from Cincinnati Shakespeare Company
Billy Chace is a resident-ensemble member with Cincinnati Shakespeare Company. Favorite roles with the company include Lane/Merryman in The Importance of Being Earnest, Charles/Silvius in As You Like It, Gremio in Taming of the Shrew, Falstaff in Merry Wives of Windsor, Victor/Poche in A Flea In Her Ear, Autolycus in The Winter’s Tale, Sir Toby Belch in Twelfth Night, Richard in Richard III, Guildenstern in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead, Clown 1 in The 39 Steps, Renfield in Dracula, and as Billy in Every Christmas Story. He has been seen as The Man in The Other Place with Ensemble Theatre Cincinnati and is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.
*The Actor or Stage Manager appears through the courtesy of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
This production uses the Artist Engagement Services of the University Resident Theatre Association.
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September 8, 2025
The University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music has once again been named as one of Playbill’s “Big 10.” Ranked as one of the top star-producing institutions in the nation, CCM was represented by at least 39 alumni performing on Broadway stages during the 2024-25 season according to Playbill's coverage.
August 26, 2025
In this new short film created by CCM Recording Productions, viewers can experience an insiders look at the April 2025 production of the whimsical ballet Coppélia. Follow along with CCM students Celeste Lau (BFA Ballet, ’25) and Regina Murphy (BFA Ballet, ’25), who play both Swanhilda and Coppélia, switching roles on different nights of the production.
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