Austin Tichenor
@austintichenor.bsky.social
Actor/Author. POP-UP SHAKESPEARE; FOOL (adaptation); COMEDY OF HAMLET! (a prequel); DAISY THE LITTLEST ZOMBIE. Writer @folger.edu. A.D. @reduced.bsky.social + host of world's longest-running theatre podcast.
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1st Christmas in 30 years with no kids in the house. Yet @daisytich still woke us up yesterday morning with a FaceTime call and @quincetagram checked in from his honeymoon on the other side of the world. Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day to you and your family, wherever you/they are!
December 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
1st Christmas in 30 years with no kids in the house. Yet @daisytich still woke us up yesterday morning with a FaceTime call and @quincetagram checked in from his honeymoon on the other side of the world. Merry Christmas and Happy Boxing Day to you and your family, wherever you/they are!
Losing loved ones at the holidays sucks. My Dad died 10yrs ago today and 2 days ago we lost Pat Finn, the funniest and kindest actor in the history of the biz. He and Dee Second City’d together and he was like family to all who knew him. Sending love to his actual family and his MANY friends.
December 24, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Losing loved ones at the holidays sucks. My Dad died 10yrs ago today and 2 days ago we lost Pat Finn, the funniest and kindest actor in the history of the biz. He and Dee Second City’d together and he was like family to all who knew him. Sending love to his actual family and his MANY friends.
Time to bust out these classics again, to celebrate the early work of two legends, one miraculously still alive, the other taken from us tragically senselessly infuriatingly far too soon. #RobReiner #DickVanDyke #PhysicalMediaRules
December 15, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Time to bust out these classics again, to celebrate the early work of two legends, one miraculously still alive, the other taken from us tragically senselessly infuriatingly far too soon. #RobReiner #DickVanDyke #PhysicalMediaRules
At the risk of being That Guy (who am I kidding? I am That Guy) after having played Richard Burbage in Lauren Gunderson’s BOOK OF WILL, I was thrown out of the movie HAMNET when I saw Shakespeare’s Hamlet was played, not by Burbage, but by the actual actor playing the role in the movie! Just me?
December 12, 2025 at 6:54 PM
At the risk of being That Guy (who am I kidding? I am That Guy) after having played Richard Burbage in Lauren Gunderson’s BOOK OF WILL, I was thrown out of the movie HAMNET when I saw Shakespeare’s Hamlet was played, not by Burbage, but by the actual actor playing the role in the movie! Just me?
How did Lt. Cmdr. Shelby kill all those Borg?
SIDE-EYE.
#IYKYK #IYDKTAG #StarTrek #NextGen
@dennehye.bsky.social
SIDE-EYE.
#IYKYK #IYDKTAG #StarTrek #NextGen
@dennehye.bsky.social
November 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
How did Lt. Cmdr. Shelby kill all those Borg?
SIDE-EYE.
#IYKYK #IYDKTAG #StarTrek #NextGen
@dennehye.bsky.social
SIDE-EYE.
#IYKYK #IYDKTAG #StarTrek #NextGen
@dennehye.bsky.social
Happy 1st preview of CHRISTMAS CAROL at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. Thrilled to be back for Year Four, but Year ONE as a member of the regular cast. Here we go!
1. Obligatory front of theatre selfie
2. Distinguished London businessman or Mississippi riverboat gambler?
1. Obligatory front of theatre selfie
2. Distinguished London businessman or Mississippi riverboat gambler?
November 17, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Happy 1st preview of CHRISTMAS CAROL at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre. Thrilled to be back for Year Four, but Year ONE as a member of the regular cast. Here we go!
1. Obligatory front of theatre selfie
2. Distinguished London businessman or Mississippi riverboat gambler?
1. Obligatory front of theatre selfie
2. Distinguished London businessman or Mississippi riverboat gambler?
Immaturity knows no age limit.
November 8, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Immaturity knows no age limit.
Did you see Ryan Gosling channel that exact moment in THE NICE GUYS? Brilliant.
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
Did you see Ryan Gosling channel that exact moment in THE NICE GUYS? Brilliant.
On my way into work in my beloved hell hole of Chicago. @folger.edu
October 18, 2025 at 8:57 PM
On my way into work in my beloved hell hole of Chicago. @folger.edu
Been neglecting some personal news. Two weeks ago was the 36th anniversary of our wedding on Martha’s Vineyard, and we celebrated by attending the wedding of our son Quincy, ALSO on Martha’s Vineyard!!
October 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Been neglecting some personal news. Two weeks ago was the 36th anniversary of our wedding on Martha’s Vineyard, and we celebrated by attending the wedding of our son Quincy, ALSO on Martha’s Vineyard!!
Thanks for the follow…?
September 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Thanks for the follow…?
Having a blast directing "William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)" with a cast of 7 (!) at Creighton University in Omaha! Go...CUSS!!*
*Creighton University Shakespeare Society
*Creighton University Shakespeare Society
August 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Having a blast directing "William Shakespeare's Long Lost First Play (abridged)" with a cast of 7 (!) at Creighton University in Omaha! Go...CUSS!!*
*Creighton University Shakespeare Society
*Creighton University Shakespeare Society
Forgot I had this. Can’t wait to see how Big Blue smashes Zack Snyder.
August 2, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Forgot I had this. Can’t wait to see how Big Blue smashes Zack Snyder.
Anyone who’s heard my RSC songs knows how influential Tom Lehrer was to me. My high school senior quote from his “Folk Song Army” recognized that Art – Comedy especially – is an act of resistance. Grateful to my parents for this album and proud to have passed the #LehrerLove on to my kids.
July 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Anyone who’s heard my RSC songs knows how influential Tom Lehrer was to me. My high school senior quote from his “Folk Song Army” recognized that Art – Comedy especially – is an act of resistance. Grateful to my parents for this album and proud to have passed the #LehrerLove on to my kids.
Oh look. As of today, I've now been performing with @reduced.bsky.social over half my life. Hey ho.
July 1, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Oh look. As of today, I've now been performing with @reduced.bsky.social over half my life. Hey ho.
Loved @questlove.bsky.social’s film SLY LIVES, especially when Shakespeare holds forth about THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS. Bravo.
June 27, 2025 at 2:36 AM
Loved @questlove.bsky.social’s film SLY LIVES, especially when Shakespeare holds forth about THE BURDEN OF BLACK GENIUS. Bravo.
Me too, buddy! Come on over anytime!
June 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Me too, buddy! Come on over anytime!
This grim-visaged warrior actually got a few laughs in last Monday's CORIOLANUS by the Back Room Shakespeare Project, cut to a fleet & fierce 85 minutes by Sam Pearson (bloody C himself) and performed in Chicago's tiny Hideout tavern. #TheFaultDearBrutusIsNotInOurBars
June 22, 2025 at 3:35 PM
This grim-visaged warrior actually got a few laughs in last Monday's CORIOLANUS by the Back Room Shakespeare Project, cut to a fleet & fierce 85 minutes by Sam Pearson (bloody C himself) and performed in Chicago's tiny Hideout tavern. #TheFaultDearBrutusIsNotInOurBars
Happy #Juneteenth! I first learned about Crispus Attucks, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge & many others in BLACK AND WHITE by "Wee Pals" cartoonist Morrie Turner. Published 1969 by Troubador Press (which my dad joined in the 70s), I have 1 copy left. Somebody publish it again!
June 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Happy #Juneteenth! I first learned about Crispus Attucks, Mary McLeod Bethune, Shakespearean actor Ira Aldridge & many others in BLACK AND WHITE by "Wee Pals" cartoonist Morrie Turner. Published 1969 by Troubador Press (which my dad joined in the 70s), I have 1 copy left. Somebody publish it again!
Lovely to see THE WILDES by @louisbayard.bsky.social so prominently displayed in my local library, where it was recently (and unsurprisingly) a very popular book club pick!
June 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Lovely to see THE WILDES by @louisbayard.bsky.social so prominently displayed in my local library, where it was recently (and unsurprisingly) a very popular book club pick!
Happy closing to the company of FOOL @7agestheatricals.bsky.social! @theauthorguy.bsky.social and I were comically trepidatious then authentically delighted, and nothing's more valuable to a playwright than seeing the script on its feet in front of an audience. Many thanks, you wonders!
June 8, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Happy closing to the company of FOOL @7agestheatricals.bsky.social! @theauthorguy.bsky.social and I were comically trepidatious then authentically delighted, and nothing's more valuable to a playwright than seeing the script on its feet in front of an audience. Many thanks, you wonders!
Happy Pride Month from Javier & Samuel (and Felicity)!
June 3, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Happy Pride Month from Javier & Samuel (and Felicity)!
Audiences are loving FOOL! Even Sheboygan's poet laureate (apparently a real thing!) has weighed in. 8 performances of the @7agestheatricals.bsky.social production left, and I'll be there on June 7 with @theauthorguy.bsky.social himself. I hope you can see it!
May 30, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Audiences are loving FOOL! Even Sheboygan's poet laureate (apparently a real thing!) has weighed in. 8 performances of the @7agestheatricals.bsky.social production left, and I'll be there on June 7 with @theauthorguy.bsky.social himself. I hope you can see it!