Tobias Andersen serves as Artistic Director for Mt. Hood Repertory Theatre Company. A 35 year veteran actor with many of our leading regional theatres, he has been resident artist with such companies as The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Playmaker's Repertory of Chapel Hill and The Pacific Conservatory of Performing Arts.

Since moving to Gresham seven years ago, Mr. Andersen has been busy with appearances on Portland stages, performing as John in Amazing Grace and Walter in Keely and Du (Artist's Repertory Theatre), Vandergelder in Hello Dolly and Higgins in My Fair Lady (The Musical Company), Professor Moriarty in Sherlock Holmes and the Baker Street Irregulars and Atticus in To Kill A Mockingbird ( Northwest Children's Theatre), C.S. Lewis in Shadowlands (Portland Repertory), Jim in Tales of the Lost Formicans (Profile Theatre, for which he won a Drammy for Best Supporting Actor), and Prospero in The Tempest (Tygres Heart Shakespeare Co.). With Mt. Hood Repertory Theatre Company he has played The Stage Manager in Our Town, Whiteside in The Man Who Came to Dinner, Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey, and Henry Drummond in Inherit The Wind.

About The Playwright

Daniel Sullivan, one of the the professional theater's busiest directors, serves as associate director of the Lincoln Center Theater and directed the company's run of "Far East." He has directed, both on and off-Broadway, the current productions of "Ten Unknowns" and "Proof" and the recent "A Moon for the Misbegotten," as well as "The Heidi Chronicles," "Conversations with My Father," "I'm Not Rappaport," "Ah! Wilderness," "The Sisters Rosensweig," "An American Daughter," "Dinner with Friends," and "London Suite." He has also directed both the stage version and film adaptation of "The Substance of Fire."

As the former artistic director of the Seattle Repertory Theatre, a post he held from 1981-1997, Mr. Sullivan directed more than six dozen productions including "Uncle Vanya," "Caucasian Chalk Circle," "As You Like It," and "Major Barbara." He teaches theater at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

"Inspecting Carol" was written by Mr. Sullivan in collaboration with the core acting company of Seattle Repertory and, no doubt, reflects many of their first hand experiences, although obviously heightened considerably for comedic effect. The play began as an antidote to the "annual production of A Christmas Carol" that so many audiences see each year, and grew into the wild, zany Christmas revelry that audiences across the country have come to love.