Meet the Cast of A Christmas Carol's Past: Joel Carpenter

Meet Joel Carpenter

I followed in my brother Adam's [Editor's note: see 11/5 entry] footsteps and played Tiny Tim for a couple seasons and then moved up to Matthew Cratchit and eventually the Turkey Boy and even Dick Wilkins.  I was in the show from the late '90's thru mid '00's except for 2001.  That season instead I played one of the "no-neck monsters" in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof where my sisters were two other Carol veteran child actors - Hannah Mathers [Editor's note: see 11/21 entry] and Lauracindy Plague.  After my time with Carol, I spent my senior year of high school working on my uncle's dairy farm in upstate NY and then returned to MI where I have since worked for a crop farmer, an industrial contracting company and currently a landscaping firm.  Even though I haven't been on the stage in years, I think I can recite all my lines and most of the others in Carol.