Austin Tichenor

(Bio as of September 2026)

Austin Tichenor (Crumb/Fezziwig Guest) returns for his fifth A Christmas Carol including three years as Alternate Scrooge. Other Chicago credits include The Book of Will (Northlight); In The Garden (Lookingglass); Coriolanus and The Merchant of Venice (Back Room Shakespeare Project). As artistic director of Reduced Shakespeare Company, he’s acted off-Broadway, in the West End and on PBS in The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged). Other TV includes 24, Ally McBeal, Felicity, Gilmore Girls, Chicago Med, X-Files and The West Wing. Regional credits include Twelfth Night, the world premiere of Kindred Spirits, and the international premiere of Dogberry & Verges Are Scared at the Edinburgh Fringe (Cincinnati Shakespeare); his own William Shakespeare’s Long Lost First Play (abridged) (Folger Theatre); and his own The Comedy of Hamlet! (a prequel) (Merrimack Repertory Theater). In 2026, his play Puritans received its world premiere in Colorado and his stage adaptation of Christopher Moore’s novel Fool received productions in both America and Canada. He co-created two illustrated children’s books, Pop-Up Shakespeare and Daisy the Littlest Zombie, hosts the Reduced Shakespeare Company Podcast, the world’s longest-running theater podcast, and received the 2025 Sandra & Sidney Berger Award from the Shakespeare Theatre Association, presented annually to artistic directors in recognition of outstanding talent and dedication to the works of William Shakespeare. @The.Shakespeareance