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“Can you guess what my character does for a living?” Elizabeth Dowd asked with a chuckle, moments after revealing she portrays one Broomhilda Hoover-Tyson.

If the image of a housekeeper who dusts the floor and maybe polishes the candelabra popped into your head, congratulations.

It seems you have just the kind of deductive mind that would enjoy uncovering the secrets of “Fair Food Foul Play,” an interactive online murder mystery the Bloomsburg Theatre Ensemble will present via Zoom for three weekends, beginning Thursday, April 1.

Each weekend, the identity of the murderer will change — and from the safety of their own homes audience members will be able to ask questions of the characters and try to figure out whodunit.

Audience members will be grouped into teams, BTE’s Richie Cannaday said, explaining it could be a team of your own design, such as everyone in your household, or a group of friends in farflung locations. If you sign up as an individual, BTE will put you into a team.

Among the zany characters you will meet are Dowd’s Broomhilda, who speaks <em>mit ein </em>German accent <em>und ist</em> “devoted to her boss, Herr Duncan.”

“She has been somewhat inspired by the late, great Cloris Leachman in ‘Young Frankenstein,’ ” Dowd said.

Other roles in the production include — don’t you just love their names? — Daniel Roth and James Goode as, respectively, attorneys Lee T. Gator and Will O’Tierney; Amy Rene Byrne as TV reporter Joy Nolitz, and Abigail Leffler as flavorist Dr. M.C. McCormick.

They’re all connected to the Duncan family, who owe their fortune to Deep Fried Duncans.

“It’s a combination of freeze-dried ice cream and deep-fried dough,” Dowd said, “and, boy did it take off.”

Jon White-Spunner plays Donald Duncan, inventor of Deep Fried Duncans; Michaela Tloczynski plays his trophy wife Goldie Reese-Duncan, and Eric Wunsch is Donald’s somewhat immature son, Richard “Dickie” Duncan.

The murder mystery promises lots of laughs, said Dowd, who is particularly charmed by the idea that “my husband and my children — one in L.A. and one in Chicago — can be on the same team.”

Of course, she wouldn’t dream of tipping them off with any clues.

“Why would I ruin the fun?” she said.

Speaking of fun — or less fun than usual — BTE has been missing its regular stage schedule during this past year of the coronavirus pandemic.

“It’s been so sad,” Dowd said. “It’s kind of like the whole zen thing. If a tree falls in the forest; does anybody hear it? If an actor exists without an audience, do they have a purpose?”

“We’ve done online play readings, virtual school classes, created PSAs (public service announcements) and found as many ways as we could to support the community and recognize that we’re all going through this together.”

“While we’re very glad to offer some form of entertainment, we’re very, very much missing our audience,” Dowd said. “And we hear pretty reliably how much they are missing us.”

“If I go to the grocery store, someone will holler across the parking lot: ‘We miss BTE.’ And we are so very grateful. It will seem all the more precious when we come back. We have a heightened sense of how we love what we’re doing, and we love the people we’re doing it for.”

Will Ralston, a 1989 graduate of Bloomsburg High School and one-time BTE intern with a long career in television and film (including writing credits on HBO’s Treme and The Deuce) cooked up the tale for BTE. He also serves as director of photography and editor of the filmed segments which accompany the live, interactive event.

Amy Rene Byrne also serves double duty in the project, as both actor and director, and the program features original music by Nick McGaw.

The 90-minute, PG-rated show will be presented Thursdays through Sundays, April 1 through April 18, at 7:30 p.m. (excluding Easter, April 4, on which the show is closed.) For technical purposes, tickets must be purchased 24 hours in advance of the show.

For tickets, see bte.org, or call the BTE Box Office at 570-784-8181, and don’t hesitate to leave a message.

Bloomsburg Theatre Ensembleto present ‘Fair Food Foul Play’