John Campbell Finnegan
Producing Artistic Director
John Campbell Finnegan has been a professional actor, director & designer for the past 40+ years. Some of his credits include: Actors Theatre of Louisville-Actor: Petrone-Suicide in B Flat, Director: Wit-Man, The Painter, Ticklish Tales (Children’s Theatre), Compatible (Heidemann Award Winner), Suicide in B Flat. Hardin County Schools PAC: Porter-MacBeth (also fight choreographer), Gandalf-The Hobbit, O’Brien-1984, Rooney-Arsenic and Old Lace. Acting Against Cancer: Adult Male-Spring Awakening. South Bend Civic Theater-Director: Art (ICT Winner Best Ensemble), Proof, Betrayal; Design: Art, Proof, Betrayal. Indiana University Southeast-Actor: Mr. Klemper-The Boys Next Door, Larry-Company, Joe-Shadow Box, Multiple roles-The Good Doctor, Giles-Mousetrap, Higgins-Come Slowly Eden; Director: Arsenic and Old Lace, Prelude to a Kiss, Amadeus, Extremities, You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown, Antigone (Fight Director); Design: Makeup & Lights-Puss ‘N Boots, Sound-Amadeus, Lights-The Nerd. Bunbury Theatre Company-Actor: Hank-‘Til Beth Do Us Part, Jeffrey-The Sum of Us, Moon-The Real Inspector Hound, Joseph-Butterfinger’s Angel. . . ; Director: Romantic Fools, Butterfinger’s Angel. . . 1996 Production; Design-Dearly Departed (both set and lights), Christmas Belles-set, Butterfinger’s Angel… 1996 Production-set, Romantic Fools-lights, set and sound . WhoDunnit Murder Mysteries: Directed many productions. Actor: Count Federov-Murder by Quarry, Dr. MacCrimmon-Murder by Post, Dr. Vanpires-Fashion Show at the Castle of Blood, Fisher-Deception Beta, and O’Malley-Murder at Lenny’s Speakeasy. Clarksville Little Theater: Actor: Baker-Into the Woods, Director: Wedding Singer, Hair, The Nerd, The Foreigner; Design: Hair-set, Into the Woods-set. East Carolina Playhouse-Actor: Camille-Danton’s Death, Harold-Boys in the Band. Stadium and Thurber Theatres, Columbus, Ohio-Actor: Renfield-Dracula, Solyony-Three Sisters, Mazzini Dunn-Heartbreak House, Woolsey-Auntie Mame, Worcester-Henry IV, part I, Jay-All the Way Home. ACT, Greenfield, Massachusetts-Actor: James Leeds-Children of a Lesser God. The Rand & Curtain Theaters, Amherst, Massachusetts-Actor: Eben-Desire Under the Elms, Amos-The Runner Stumbles, Actor-Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth, 3rd Merchant-The Comedy of Errors, Soldier-Man is Man, Man-Lover’s/Winners. Theater 14-Actor: Oberon/Theseus-A Mid-summer Night’s Dream
John has been teaching acting since 1985. He holds the Master of Fine Arts Degree from The Ohio State University and has additional study in the following areas among others: Decroux Movement with Reid Gilbert, Neutral Mask Work with Jacques LeCoq, Viewpoints Work with Jennifer Hubbard and Anne Bogart, (Actors Theatre of Louisville), Directing with Jon Jory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Fight Choreography with Robin McFarquhar and Cass Foster, Solo Performance with Tim Miller.
• John is the former President and Creative Director of WhoDunnit, Inc.
•John is currently the TD/Designer at Louisville Collegiate School
• John is a faculty member with Purdue University Polytechnic, New Albany in the department of Computer Graphics Technology
•John is the former Associate Director of the Apprentice/Intern Company at Actor’s Theatre of Louisville.
•John is the former President of the Board at The Bunbury Theater, Louisville, Kentucky.
•John is a former member of the acting faculty at Indiana University Southeast in New Albany, Indiana.
The Board of Directors
Gary Luhr-President
Janine Linder
Tom Morton
Jim Boswell
Stephanie Peeler-Treasurer
Clara Burton
Megan Reynolds
Lewis Gentry
Scott Medley
Rosemary Sims
John Broyles
John Campbell Finnegan- ex officio
Juergen K. Tossman
Producing Artistic Director Emeritus 1991-2022
Juergen (pronounced Yurgen) retired from Bunbury in June of 2022. He had been Bunbury's Producing Artistic Director since 1991. Thirty years ago, he guided a struggling fledgling company to health and artistic prominence.
Juergen has dedicated his professional life to Bunbury Theatre Company, a graduate of Otterbein University (class of '77) and an alumnus of the Apprentice program of Actors Theatre of Louisville, Juergen completed his final act with Bunbury and looks forward to future growth of the company.
Under Juergen's leadership, Bunbury developed two venues; in 1991, a 99-seat Off-Broadway-style theatre converted from an aging mechanical garage, and in 2007 the company turned an old gymnasium in The Henry Clay building into a 140 seat state of the art theatre. The theatre currently serves two companies; Bunbury, Pandora Productions, and The Liminal Playhouse.
Before Bunbury, Juergen worked as an artist-in-residence, teacher, actor, freelance director, assistant director, production stage manager, stage manager, prop master, acting coach, and co-founded an improvisational theatre company. The myriad positions at theatres all over the country prepared him for a job that would last over 30 years. At Bunbury, Juergen has produced over 200 shows.
In 2020 he received the Kathi EB Ellis Lifetime Achievement Award from Louisville Visual Art. Juergen is excited about guiding the organization beyond the Covid-19 Pandemic and mentoring a new group of artistic leaders at the pinnacle of his career.