Cast
Michelle Wafford - Jemilla
Michelle Wafford is excited to lead the tribe in her silly 4th Wall debut! She's been acting around the Indy area since 1992 with Booth Tarkington Civic, Beef & Boards, IRT, Footlite, Southbank, CCP, Catalyst, Betty Rage, Clerical Error, Mud Creek, and more. Eric and Gretel back home are always cheering for me, love you! WE'RE THE BEST!
Silvia Seidle - Emberly
Silvia is so excited to be a part of 4th Wall's first musical! Some of her favorite previous roles include Eponine in Les Miserables, Gwendolen in The Importance of Being Earnest, and Belle in Disney's Beauty and the Beast. Aside from theater, her other hobbies include ballet, crochet, petting cats, and numerous other shenanigans. Silvia feels so blessed to have such a lovely directing team and cast to work with during this show. Praise the Duck!
Tracy Fouts - Molag
Tracy has always had a love and passion for the performing arts. She Played Gwydion in Beauty and the Beast last Fall with The 4th Wall Players. She is excited to play Molag in another 4th Wall production and can't wait to see what roles the future holds!
Alex Paddock - Chorn
Alex is very excited to be a part of Firebringer at Stage Door. She also currently works with TLT Rocky Horror Picture Show as Magenta and various other characters. She has been in numerous performances such as The Lion King Jr., Into The Woods, Aida and The Addams Family. Alex studied Theatre at Brownsburg High School, where she is from. For fun, Alex records covers of songs and does arts and crafts at home! She hopes you enjoy this amazing show with this wonderful cast!
Taylor Shelton - Tiblyn
Taylor Shelton is new to the community theatre scene. She graduated in June of 2023 and this will be her first time performing in almost a year. She’s thrilled and honored to be a part of 4th Wall’s first musical. She’s been learning alongside everyone and has made so many amazing new friends. They’ve shown her over and over again that the sky’s the limit! She hopes you can see her excitement for this show and connection with her cast mates through her performance! And mostly, she hopes you have so much fun watching this hilarious show!
Josh Gibson - Smelly Balls
Josh is very excited to be onstage for 4th Wall's very first musical. He has performed with various Indianapolis groups, such as Mud Creek, The Belfry and IFTC but has spent a bulk of his time with this group. His last two plays onstage with 4th Wall had him playing the same character, Professor Krempe, in two original adaptations that he helped pen. He also has quite a bit of experience in directing, heading 4th Wall's production of The Importance of Being Earnest last year, and gearing up to direct our next production, Tartuffe, this year. He could not be more elated with his cast mates and much like his character, views this group as his family. He hopes you enjoy the show!
Sarah Kinsey - Claire, Trunkel, Snarl
Sarah wears multiple hats in this production. She plays Claire (a beautiful woman) as well as being assigned Chief Puppeteer. She created the large puppets of both Snarl and Trunkell and will perform as part of each. Sarah is an artist and actor and is excited to combine these two practices to create and perform as puppets in this hilarious musical comedy. “It’s been really cool working with this group of actors and trouble shooting the puppet choreography. It’s basically like three people acting as one creature!” Sarah graduated from Herron School of Art and design. As an actor, Sarah is trained in both classical and modern technique. She is credited on IMDB for her role as Courtney in the Naptown Films YouTube comedy series #. As a visual artist, she works in a variety of mediums including painting, printmaking, fiber arts, soft sculpture, metal smithing, woodworking, installation, and performance art. She studied and performed dance with Motus Dance Co. Indianapolis (now called Indianapolis Movement Arts Collective.) She is also a model and former Miss Howard County 4H Fair pageant contestant.Sarah is excited to be able to combine her visual art and theater practices into the creation and performance of the puppets. As a star of both stage and screen, she is what Beyoncé would call a “Triple Threat,” as 1. she can act, 2. she can dance, and 3. she can puppet….If she could sing she would be a “quadruple threat,” and it would be over for everyone. Despite her inability to sing, Sarah is excited to embark on this journey in her first ever musical stage production starring as Snarl, the true star of the show who the night actually belongs to.
Elena McKinney - Kid 1
Elena is a middle schooler at Maconequah Middle School and has already caught the theatre bug with choir concerts under her belt and two school plays including Disney's Newsies. She also has been in a number of short films directed by her Father. Elena enjoys cooking and spending time with friends and hopes to one day own her own bakery.
Breanna Helms - Zazzalil
Breanna Helms is so excited to get to perform as Zazzalil as her first Lead role in a musical! Breanna has been acting since she was in elementary school and has been in a myriad of plays and musicals where she has played Yvette from clue!, Anne Frank in YAT’s version of Anne Frank, Betty Parris from The Crucible and many more. This is Breanna’s second show with 4th wall Players and she is so excited and honored to get to be a part of their first musical production, Firebringer!
Aidan Morris - Grunt
Aidan is ecstatic to have been offered the role of Grunt in his first show with The 4th Wall Players! This will be Aidan’s 27th production and his first ever Starkid musical! Previous credits include Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Macbeth in Macbeth, Angus Tuck in Tuck Everlasting, and Jonas Fogg in Sweeney Todd. He has also served as a director, acting coach, and crew on several other productions. He would like to thank the directing team for graciously allowing him to join the tribe last minute, his castmates for being such a great group, and his amazing girlfriend Claire for being so incredibly supportive! Aidan hopes you enjoy being transported to the dawn of our time!
Miranda DeHaai - Keeri
Miranda is very excited to sing and dance as Keeri in her first musical production since high school. Miranda is a recent graduate of Butler University, where she took private voice lessons and performed with the choir. Within the choir, Miranda participated in the world premiere of Towards a Secret Sky Composed by Augusta Reed Thomas. Miranda is a mezzo-soprano whom has mainly performed within the realms of operatic, musical theatre, choral, and traditional/classical singing. Miranda has participated in several Operas through MIOpera (a professional Opera Company in Bloomington, Illinois), including Die Fledermaus, La Boheme, and Pirates of Penzance. Miranda has been involved with her high school's musical productions, including the role of The Mad Hatter in Shrek the Musical.
Emily Spencer - Shwoopsie
Emily Spencer is honored to be playing the role of Shwoopsie in 4th Wall’s production of “Firebringer”. This is her first show since graduating highschool in 2022. She is very honored and excited to be part of an incredible cast who embraces each other, and all of their shwoops, as one big tribe. She hopes you enjoy the show!
Peyton Rader - Ducker
Peyton is stoked to be playing Ducker! Firebringer is Peyton's first production with The 4th Wall Players, and 19th show overall. Last spring he performed in Ricks-Weil Theater Co. "Addams Family Musical" as Lurch. In 2022 Peyton was in RWTC's "Suessical the Musical" as Wickersham Brother #3, then he was the eccentric Sir Studley in "Once Upon a Mattress" with CrazyLake Acting Company. In the fall (2022) he sang & danced in the ensembles of "Young Frankenstein" at Guyer Opera House, and in "Hands on a Hardbody" with Mud Creek Players (2022). And on a rather special (Saturday) night every month he currently plays as either Magenta, Riff Raff, Brad Majors, or The Criminologist in "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" (Oct 2021-present) with Indy's favorite shadow cast, Transylvanian Lip Treatment.
Ryan Powell - Clark, Trunkel, Snarl
Ryan has been around the Indy scene for a minute, mostly appearing in original works with Q Artistry, Catalyst and Player 2 Productions. Most recently he performed in a musical called Scary Scary! with Q Artistry, Hector in Troilus & Cressida at BardFest, Mario in Super Mario Is Dead at IndyFringe, and Mark in People Places & Things at The District. Thanks to 4th Wall for the great experience!
Zach Moore - Nicolai, Snarl, Duck
Zach is a social worker with Community and a mallard trainer in his off time to overcome his Anatidaephobia (fear of ducks). This will be Zach’s third time onstage with 4th Wall, previously playing in 4th Wall’s adaptation of Frankenstein twice. The first one in 2014 (as Professor Krempe) and then again in 2022 (The Creature). He has also lent his hand offstage with 4th Wall, wearing multiple hats as part of the crew.
Tyler Gibson - Kid 2
Tyler is excited to be playing the role of Kid 2 in Firebringer! His previous plays include Babes in Toyland and Charlotte’s Web with Page & Stage; and Frankenstein with The 4th Wall Players. The most exciting part of Firebringer for Tyler is working with such a wonderful cast!
Crew
Katherine is absolutely thrilled to experience her directorial debut with 4th Wall’s first ever musical, Firebringer. She’s been a part of 4th Wall Productions since 2013 and currently serves on the board. It has been exciting working with this wonderful cast and crew and watching the show come together.
Katherine Gibson Director
Kelly has been involved in theatre since grade school and has been dancing and roller skating professionally for over 20 years. Kelly grew up skating with Break Sk8 and with that experience has choreographed and executed many shows and routines throughout the years and was eager to bring his passion for expression through movement to 4th Wall Players first musical. Kelly also directs the video department for 4th Wall Players.
Kelly McKinney Choreographer Videographer Sound/Light Board
Joel Johnston is new to Indianapolis community theatre. He graduated from Nelson University with a music degree in performance and direction in 2008 and has spent much of his musical career performing, writing, recording, teaching private lessons and directing various music programs in Texas and Indiana, as well as internationally. He is honored to have the opportunity to work with this cast and hopes everyone enjoys the show.
Joel Johnstone Vocal Director
Leslie(They/Them) is returning to the world of theater once again as stage manager. Their first debut behind the scenes, another 4th Wall Players production, was a total accident that led to a newfound love for the theatrical arts. Now they are excited once again to help this amazing company bring another play to life!
Leslie Blackwell Stage Manager
Emily is overjoyed to be involved in theatre for the first time since 2013. As a huge Starkid fan, being able to do so on this show was perfect. She’d like to thank her mom and dad for always supporting(and buying the sewing machine that got us through) and her dear friends Sam, Brian, Jordan, Tara, Will, and Nik for being willing to see me a bit less often/sewing at karaoke. Duck is lord.
Emily LaBrash Costumer
Connie Salvini Thompson (Props Mistress) is proud to be a part of 4th Wall Players’ production of Firebringer, which is the musical that first sparked her interest in theatre so many years ago! A Martinsville resident, her previous roles include Rapunzel’s Prince in INTO THE WOODS at Merry MAC Players, Twyla in SHARTT'$ CREEK LIVE with Circle City Improv, and Mrs. Kirk/Ensemble in LITTLE WOMEN: THE BROADWAY MUSICAL at Buck Creek Players. Her other credits include assistant directing and designing and operating sound and lights for various shows at BCP, as well as performing with the all-drag improv comedy group Pink Slip. Special thanks to Robb Enlow for sharing his prop building techniques!