Jed Diamond retired from teaching at UTK in July of this year but is happy and honored to return to A Christmas Carol as Scrooge for his 10th time. He has played many roles at the CBT since 2005, most recently Boris Kolenkhov in You Can’t Take It With You and Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind. Beyond the CBT, Jed has acted at Wheelhouse Theatre Co; The New York Shakespeare Festival; Roundabout Theatre; The Acting Company; Signature Theatre; Arena Stage; Syracuse Stage; and more. Prior to UT, he was founding faculty of the New York Shakespeare Festival Shakespeare Lab and the Actors Center in NY, and he taught at NYU Tisch School of the Arts; Stella Adler Studio; Playwright’s Horizons Theatre School; Fordham University, etc. He is an AmSAT* certified teacher of the Alexander Technique, trained in New York and London. He is profoundly grateful his colleagues in the Department of Theatre, to his students, and to UT and the Knoxville community for many wonderful years of life, good work, and creativity. THANK YOU! Let’s keep it going! (*American Society of the Alexander Technique)