A Hoosier in Canadian cottage country is a good setup for a story. For Eddie Curry, it is also the latest chapter in a performing career spanning more than 40 years.
The Indianapolis-based actor, director and producer has spent decades bringing stories to life on stage. Now he is taking that experience onto film sets, playing Josef Megele in Andromeda Studios’ horror thriller Storm Warning and joining the headline cast of the lakeside comedy Lake Patrol. One calls for dread. The other brings in a militia of tipsy beavers. It is a lively range for an actor who says he still feels like a student.
A theatre career built in Indianapolis
Curry is a Hoosier by birth and long residence, and a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. He joined Beef & Boards Dinner Theatre in Indianapolis in 1994, building much of his career there. From 2013 through the end of the 2024 season, he served as Artistic Director and Casting Director. He remains with the theatre as a Producer and continues to direct and perform.
His stage résumé reflects both sides of that work: more than 100 appearances as a performer and nearly 90 productions directed. A 2025 feature about his work at Beef & Boards noted his plans to direct The Mousetrap for the theatre’s 2025–2026 season.
“For over 40 years, I've been fortunate to make a living doing what I love. Performing on stage, directing productions, and producing theatre,” Curry has said.
That breadth matters. Performing teaches an actor how to listen and respond in the moment. Directing sharpens an eye for the whole scene. Producing demands a practical understanding of what it takes to bring a production together. Those skills travel well, whether the stage is a theatre or the location is a church under siege or a Canadian lake facing a developer’s bulldozers.
From curtain calls to close-ups
Moving from theatre to film is not simply a change of venue. The audience is closer. The camera catches small choices that might disappear in a large auditorium. Curry has been candid about learning that shift.
“For most of my life, I measured my work in curtain calls, projecting every thought to the back row. Now, I'm learning to let a camera catch what barely needs to be said.”
The work still begins with honesty and preparation, but the tools change. As Curry puts it: “People often say, 'Acting is acting.' At its core, that's true. Honesty, preparation, listening, and storytelling never change. But the craft absolutely changes.”
His description of that adjustment gets right to the heart of the difference: “After decades of making sure every thought and emotion reached the person sitting in the last row of the balcony, I've had to learn that a camera doesn't want me to project. It wants me to think. It wants my eyes to tell the story. Sometimes the most powerful choice is the one no one in a theatre would ever notice.”
Film also rearranges the actor’s sense of time. A scene may be shot out of sequence, with the ending captured before the beginning. Curry explains, “In theatre, you rehearse a story from beginning to end, then live it every night. Film asks you to trust your homework. You may shoot the ending before you've filmed the beginning. You might not even know when your next scene is coming. It requires a different kind of discipline, and a different kind of confidence.”
That curiosity is part of the appeal. “The funny thing is, after all these years, I feel like a student again. I ask more questions. I watch more closely. I leave every set having learned something I didn't know that morning. And I love that feeling.”
In a LinkedIn essay on his stage-to-screen transition, Curry describes actively pursuing more television and film work while continuing to build on what the stage has taught him. “That doesn't mean I'm walking away from theatre,” he writes. “It means I'm charting the course for what comes next.” After four decades in the business, he says, “it's a gift to discover there's still another mountain to climb.”
A storm with serious teeth
In Storm Warning, Curry plays Josef Megele, a character in a horror thriller built around a hidden SS experiment that unleashes undead Nazi stormtroopers in present-day Canada. As the threat closes in, a local constable, a doctor and the town’s residents must defend a church from the bloodthirsty attackers.
Written by Bill Dever, produced by Sam Dever and directed by Drew Antzis, the film brings Curry into an ensemble led by Kate Mayhew and Marc Rico Ludwig. The cast also includes Curtis Harrison, Lambros Bryan Demos, Jemilla Mills-Smith, Ross Mullan and Rick Bland. Cinematography is by Jack Peresin.
Andromeda announced the completion of principal production in June 2026, describing a film that draws on classic horror traditions while aiming for a fresh, contemporary feel. The production has also highlighted its practical effects. Curry noted in a July 2026 post that Storm Warning was expected to be released in October; the studio has not announced a firm release date here. Read the production completion announcement for the cast and production details.
The premise is pure genre-movie fuel: a community, a looming siege and a threat that does not politely wait outside. Curry’s theatre experience meets a different kind of storytelling challenge: one where a glance, a pause or a tightly held reaction can carry as much weight as a speech.
Cottage country needs a patrol
Then comes Lake Patrol, which trades undead soldiers for trouble on the water, and a decidedly unusual line of defence.
The comedy follows a beloved Ontario lake under threat from greedy developers. An unlikely group of lakeside inhabitants rallies to protect home, tradition and the lake itself, with chronically inebriated beavers joining the resistance. Curry is one of four headline stars, alongside Izzy Carter, Matthew Gallagher Heakes and Lambros Bryan Demos. His character name has not been announced.
Directed by Drew Antzis, produced by Sam Dever and written by Bill Dever, Lake Patrol filmed near Roseneath, Ontario, on Rice Lake from September 7 to 29, 2026, with production support from Alpine Resort. Principal photography is complete, and the film is in post-production.
Bill Dever has called it “a wacky, fun-filled comedy and heartfelt tribute to Canada, cottage country, and the great Canadian summer.” Producer Samuel Dever describes it as a “love letter to cottage country,” built around “a comedy with heart, a real villain, and a cast of underdogs (feathered, furred, and otherwise) worth cheering for.”
The completion announcement has more on the production. For a local perspective on the Rice Lake shoot, see the Peterborough Examiner’s coverage.
One actor, two very different kinds of trouble
Curry’s Andromeda projects put his range in sharp relief. Storm Warning asks him to enter a tense horror story with a community’s survival at stake. Lake Patrol sends him into a broad comedy about developers, lakeside locals and an exceptionally unorthodox defence force.
That contrast is part of the fun. Genre filmmaking thrives on a clear premise and committed performances. Whether the story is building suspense or leaning into absurdity, the audience needs people who make the stakes feel real. A veteran performer with experience onstage, behind the scenes and in the director’s chair brings a grounded craft to both.
Curry also connects the films through a recurring member of the creative ensemble: Lambros Bryan Demos appears in both casts. That continuity helps give Andromeda’s slate a sense of community while each production builds its own world.
For an independent film production company, strong ensemble casting is a practical asset: it brings experienced performers together around distinct, pitchable stories. Andromeda Studios is building genre movies for broad audiences, with projects that move between horror, thriller and comedy. Its current slate offers a look at that range, while its distribution page is the place for platform and territory conversations.
A Hoosier with a place in the Canadian lineup
Eddie Curry’s path from Indianapolis theatre to Canadian genre films is not a departure from his craft. It is an expansion of it. He brings decades of stage experience to a camera that asks for a different kind of precision, and a willingness to learn something new on every set.
The Hoosier is working with the hosers. One moment, he is facing a supernatural siege. The next, he is helping protect cottage country from developers and a beaver brigade. Both adventures have a place on Andromeda’s growing slate.
Explore Storm Warning, Lake Patrol and the rest of the Andromeda Studios slate. For distribution, partnership or project inquiries, get in touch with the studio.