Creative Team
STEVEN DITMYER
Director
Steven is a Director and Acting Teacher. He studied with Sanford Meisner, Uta Hagen and Zoe Caldwell. He is a scholarship graduate of The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City where he later was invited to train as a teacher of the Meisner technique. He is the Founder and Director of MEISNER INTERNATIONAL currently teaching workshops around the world in cities such as New York, London, Paris, Rome, Vienna, Berlin, Amsterdam, and Lisbon to name a few. As an actor, Steven worked with many great artists such as Al Pacino, Arthur Miller, Tony Randall, Ron Rifkin, Zoe Caldwell, Sam Waterston, Diane Wiest, Blythe Danner and more.
He recently directed Bettinger’s Luggage by Al Tapper Off-Broadway at the new AMT Theater in New York and the Florida premiere of Sarah Ruhl’s play How To Transcend A Happy Marriage.
He was the co-producer and director of the OFF THE PAGE Reading Series for Tony Randall’s National Actors Theatre in New York with such notable productions as: The Night Of The Iguana with Alec Baldwin, Golf With Alan Shepard with Jack Klugman, Charles Durning, Len Cariou and John Cullum and Ladies In Retirement with Rosemarry Harris.
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ALAN BURGON
(John)
Alan graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland (RCS) in 2008, with a Bachelor of Arts in acting. He went on to spend one year with the Dundee Rep ensemble, where he was given the opportunity to play both leading roles and ensemble parts such as: Nick Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf, Beast Beauty and the Beast, Ensemble Peer Gynt national UK tour in cooperation with the National Theatre of Scotland. Alan moved to Vienna in 2010, and is the former Artistic Director and co-founder of OPEN HOUSE THEATRE, an English language theatre company based in Vienna, Austria. He works as an actor and writer for independent films and series, has appeared on German national television (Tatort Mainz, Das Netz), and has acted in international cinema films such as Thank You For Bombing and Me We. In the world of podcasts, Alan plays the voice of The Interviewer The Amelia Project, Lockie in The Secret of St. Kilda, and Dr. Van Helsing in Re:Dracula.
FLORIAN SEBASTIAN FITZ
(M)
Florian is an actor, singer and musician. He graduated from Musik und Kunst Privatuniversität der Stadt Wien (MUK) in 2017. After that, he went on to split his work between film, TV, theatre, writing and producing original music as one half of the “Fitz Brothers”, together with his brother Felix.
Recent Television/Film credits include: Walking on Sunshine (Season 1-3), Soko Donau (2 episodes) and Your Christmas or mine 2, where he was fortunate enough to work alongside Asa Butterfield
Theater credits include: Drei Männer im Schnee (Gärtnerplatztheater, München), Die Frau vom Meer (Armes Theater Wien), Mozart! The Musical (Shanghai Culture Square), Eating Raoul (MUK-Theater Wien)
In 2022, he was nominated for “Best Actor in a Leading Role” for his portrayal in the film Ground Control, at the Rome Prisma Film Awards.
ISABELLA JESCHKE
(W)
Isabella got her diploma in acting in 2012 and is working as a freelance-actress for theatre, film and performance ever since. She is a member of the aktionstheater ensemble (Martin Gruber) that has won awards multiple times (e.g. Nestroypreis, Heidelberger Theaterpreis). In 2013 she founded the art collective E3 Ensemble where she functions both as artistic director and actress. In addition to her theatrical work she works in front of the camera regularly for international movie productions and has been invited to many renowned film festivals such as Max Ophüls Preis, Diagonale or Manchester Film Festival.
ALEXANDER E. FENNON
(F)
Alexander has spent his 1st life doing research in social & cultural sciences and spends his 2nd life as an actor, teacher, songwriter. Viennese from cradle to the last time he checked. Survived a lot & still loves to be in the here and now more than anything else.
On screen he appeared in Murer - Anatomie eines Prozesses (A 2018), Phaidros (A 2018), Ema the Death-Head (SLO 2023), The Woman in Gold (US 2015), The Debt (US 2010,) …