Portland Center Stage

Scott Coopwood
Actor 3 (Cymbeline/Philario/1st Lord/Captain)
Scott is thrilled to return to Portland for his 20^th show with PCS. Regional favorites include the title roles in Hamlet, MacBeth, and Cyrano De Bergerac; Iago in Othello; Edmund in King Lear; Angelo in Measure for Measure; Carl in Lonely Planet; Charlie in The Scene; Kippy in Take Me Out; Shylock in The Merchant Of Venice; Jacques in As You Like It; Trigorin in The Seagull; Benedick, Don John and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing; Petruchio in The Taming Of The Shrew; Bill in Lobby Hero; Goss in Bug; Harry Brock in Born Yesterday; Brutus in Dirty Story; Brennan in Frost/Nixon; Edward in Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me; and Johan in Groundswell. Regional theatres include Arkansas Rep; Artists Rep; Capital Rep; San Jose Rep; Center Rep; Capital Stage; The Utah, Orlando and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals; The Arizona Theatre Co; The Marin Theatre Co; The Seattle and Marin Shakespeare Companies; Profile Theatre Project; Shotgun Players; San Francisco Playhouse; and Borderlands Theatre. Scott has also worked with the Toronto, Windsor and Oregon Symphony Orchestras. He just finished a collaboration with the California Academy of Sciences and the Morrison Planetarium in San Fransisco creating a one-man show about astronomer Johannes Kepler. 

 

Kelley Curran
Actor 4 (Imogen)
Kelley is delighted to be making her PCS debut. She was most recently seen off-Broadway in LAByrinth Theatre Company's world premiere of The Atmosphere of Memory alongside Ellen Burstyn and John Glover. Other off-Broadway credits include Angels In America (Signature Theatre Company, Lucille Lortel Award - Best Revival), Henry V (New Victory), Jane Eyre, The Tempest and Moby Dick – Rehearsed (The Acting Company). Regional credits include As You Like It, Romeo & Juliet (Shakespeare & Company), Hamlet, All's Well That Ends Well (Alabama Shakespeare Festival), Henry V  (The Guthrie and The Arizona Theatre Company), Romeo & Juliet (workshop with The McCarter), and several plays with The Barnstormers. Film credits include Still On the Road. She was trained at Fordham University, The Public Theatre Shakespeare Lab and BADA at Oxford. She was a 2005 Princess Grace Award Nominee.

 

Michael G. Keck

Actor 1 (Piano Player/ Lady/Cornelius /Second Lord)
 Michael was previously seen at PCS in The Bacchae. Other theaters credits include work with Arena Stage, Milwaukee Rep, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Guthrie Theatre, McCarter Theatre, Berkeley Rep, Indiana Repertory, Mark Taper Forum, Syracuse Stage, Cincinnati Playhouse and Alliance Theater. International credits include The National Theater of Croatia, The Barbican Theatre Center and Bristol Old Vic. He shares the AATE Distinguished Play Award with James Still, received three Barrymore Award nominations for his work in Philadelphia, and is the recipient of the Spencer Cherashore Award.  Mr. Keck has served as a panelist for the National Endowment for the Arts, The NY State Arts Council and Meet the Composer, and is a member of AEA, AFTRA, ASCAP, PEN and The Dramatists Guild.

 

Ryan McCarthy
Actor 5 (Posthumous/Cloten/Belarius)
As the son of an Oregon native, Ryan is especially proud and delighted to be making his Portland Center Stage debut. Ryan is based of out New York where his credits include Spirit Control (Manhattan Theater Club), After Miss Julie (the Roundabout), King Lear (Public Theater), Henry V (Shakespeare in the Park/Public Theater), All Day Suckers (FringeNYC), FUBAR (59E59/Project Y), Obama Drama (Creative Destruction), God Sex and Blue Water (Living Image Arts) and We Declare You a Terrorist (HERE). His regional credits include Current Nobody (La Jolla Playhouse), Romeo & Juliet (Portland Stage Company), Hamlet (Theater at Monmouth) and Mary Stuart (Huntington Theater). He was trained at the Public Theater Shakespeare Lab and received his M.F.A. from U.C. San Diego.

 

John San Nicolas 
Actor 6 (Queen/Iachimo/Arviragus/Second Captain)
John is thrilled to make his PCS debut. Born and raised in San Diego, he received his acting training at The American Musical and Dramatic Academy in New York City. Now a proud Portland resident, he has most recently been seen in Third Rail Rep's The Pain and the Itch, CoHo/Lucky Apple Productions' Reasons to Be Pretty (for which he won a Drammy Award for Outstanding Performance in a Supporting Role), Jack Goes Boating at Artist's Repertory Theatre and Bingo With the Indians at Portland Playhouse. He has worked extensively with Action/Adventure Theatre on the improvised serial comedies Fall of the House and Captured by Aliens. He has performed twice with Anonymous Theatre, in Rumors and Lend Me a Tenor, and has appeared on the television shows Leverage and Portlandia. He is a proud member of Actors Equity Association and The American Federation of Television and Radio Artists.

 

Danny Wolohan   
Actor 2 (Pisanio/Frenchman/Caius Lucius/Guiderius/ First Captain)
Danny Wolohan returns to PCS for Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline after appearing in three JAW Festivals and as Claude in The Imaginary Invalid.  He recently completed the world premiere of Steve Yockey's Bellwether at the Bay Area's Marin Theatre Company, as well as performing in The Germ Project with Manhattan's New Georges Theatre.  Danny has been featured on the cover of American Theatre magazine as one of seven actors in the nation one should travel to see. He is a member of Campo Santo and The esp Project, the resident theatre and dance theatre companies at San Francisco 's Intersection for the Arts.  Danny was named “San Francisco's Best Ensemble Actor” by SF Weekly and The Bay Area's “Best Drag Performer of the Year” by The Bay Area Reporter. Danny currently lives in Brooklyn, where he and playwright Will Eno defeated the team of "Sausage and Peppers" to win the Williamsburg Brooklyn Doubles Tennis Championship.

Chris Coleman
Adaptor & Director
Chris joined Portland Center Stage as artistic director in May 2000. Before coming to Portland, he was artistic director at Actor’s Express in Atlanta, a company he co-founded in the basement of an old church in 1988. In the 12 years of his leadership, the Express grew from a shoestring operation to one of the most highly regarded small theaters in the country.  At PCS recent direction includes Oklahoma!, The Imaginary Invalid, Sunset Boulevard, The Chosen, Snow Falling on Cedars, Ragtime, Grey Gardens, Crazy Enough, The Importance of Being Earnest, Guys and Dolls, Cabaret, The Beard of Avon and The Little Dog Laughed.  He also made his Portland acting debut last season in Opus.  Chris has directed at major theaters across the country, including Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ACT Theatre, The Alliance Theatre, Dallas Theatre Center, Asolo Center for the Performing Arts, Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop and Center Stage in Baltimore. A native Atlantan, Chris holds a B.F.A. from Baylor University and an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon. He has long been a public advocate for the arts, both locally and nationally. From 1998 – 2004 he served on the board of directors of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national service organization for professional theaters, and he currently chairs the Creative Advocacy Network board. Since moving to Oregon, Chris has skied down Mt. Hood, rappelled in The Dalles, climbed a ropes course in Eastern Washington, biked through most neighborhoods of the city and hiked all over the state. Chris’s favorite things about Portland:  farmer’s markets, Timbers games, Ruby Jewel ice cream, zoo concerts, chamber music, food carts and cars that stop for pedestrians.

 

Alan Schmanke

Scenic Designer

Alan is thrilled to be designing his first show at PCS! Regionally, Alan's design work has been seen at Chicago Shakespeare and the Milwaukee Repertory. In the Pacific Northwest, Alan has designed for theatres such as Third Rail Repertory, Salem Repertory, Bag&Baggage Productions, Lakewood Theatre, Broadway Rose, Artists Repertory, Profile Theatre and Spokane Opera. Various honors include an award in 2010 for “Outstanding Scenic Design” from the Oregon Theatrical Awards Society and a nomination for “Outstanding Scenic Design” from the Portland Area Musical Theatre Awards. In 2008, Alan was chosen to display his work at both the USITT Young Designer’s Forum and Ming Cho Lee’s legendary Clambake Portfolio Review in New York City. Alan has also received several commendations for “Excellence in Scenic Design” from the Region VI Design Chair of the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Festival. Alan earned his MFA in Scenic Design from Northwestern University. Currently Alan resides in Ashland, Oregon as the Resident Design Assistant for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

 

Eric Southern

Lighting Designer

 

Jeff Cone
Costume Designer
This is Jeff’s thirteenth season at PCS. In that time he has designed costumes for fifty-two productions. Of those shows, thirty-one have been in the last five seasons at the Armory. Favorite productions include West Side Story, Cabaret, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion, Snow Falling on Cedars and The Imaginary Invalid. Jeff received Drammy awards for his costume designs for Dirty Blond and Act A Lady. In addition to his resident costume designer duties, Jeff is happy to manage the costume shop here at Portland Center Stage.

 

Casi Pacilio
Sound Designer
Here we go again for another season at the Armory. Music, comedy , suspense, history and some fun. Casi's credits with PCS include Futura with composer Jana Losey, Ragtime (PAMTA award), Opus, One Night with Janis Joplin, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Chosen, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, Snow Falling on Cedars, A Christmas Story, Grey Gardens, The Little Dog Laughed, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Beard of Avon, Twelfth Night, Cabaret, The Pillowman, Act a Lady, I Am My Own Wife, West Side Story, Celebrity Row and six seasons of JAW. Other credits include H2M's My Mind is Like an Open Meadow (Drammy award), Squonk Operaís Bigsmorgasbord-WunderWerk (Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, touring, PGH awards), I Am My Own Wife, I Think I Like Girls, Burning Deck (La Jolla Playhouse, CA), Playland, 10 Fingers and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (City Theatre, PA). Her film credits include Creation of Destiny, Out of Our Time and A Powerful Thang.

 

Randall Tico
Composer

 

John Amour
Fight Director
John has been choreographing violence for more than 20 years.  He is based in Portland, Oregon where he choreographs for many local theater companies and teaches throughout the region at colleges, high schools and middle schools.  John's work is regularly seen on stage at the Portland Opera, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theater, Oregon Children's Theater, Miracle Theater and many others in the Portland metropolitan area. John’s work has twice been recognized within the Portland theater community for best fight design.

 

Mary McDonald-Lewis

Dialect Coach

Mary McDonald-Lewis has been a professional artist since 1979. She resides in Portland and works nationally. As director, she launched Readers Theatre Repertory's 11th Season with American Dreamers. She is dialect coach for Portland Center Stage, and coached The 39 Steps, Snow Falling on Cedars, Ragtime, Grey Gardens, The Chosen, Sunset Boulevard and more. She’s the series coach for the TV series Leverage and coaches other films and TV shows, including Being Human and Grimm. On stage she has been found in everything from comedy to the classics, and was last seen onstage in You Can't Take It With You for Anonymous Theatre. Voice acting is MaryMac’s day job, and she’s been heard by millions in her commercial and animation work. Mary was “Lady Jaye” on GI Joe, along with dozens of characters on other cartoon shows, and puts people to sleep as the voice of "Lunesta." Mary holds her M.F.A. in Theatre Arts from the University of Portland. She thanks Finnegan and Sullivan for always wagging their tails when she comes home.

 

Emily N. Wells
Stage Manager

Emily was thrilled to finish visiting all 50 states on her move to Portland earlier this year! Proud Equity member for 15 years spent in NYC, on tour and regionally. Broadway highlights include Electra, Swan Lake and Jersey Boys. Off-Broadway production stage manager credits include Adrift in Macao, Dedication or the Stuff of Dreams (with Nathan Lane and Marian Seldes), The Right Kind of People and String of Pearls at Primary Stages, Floyd and Clea Under the Western Sky at Playwrights Horizons, and Summer of the Swans and Sarah, Plain & Tall at the Lucille Lortel Theatre. Emily has also managed readings and workshops for Playwrights Horizons, the National Alliance for Musical Theatre and North Shore Music Theatre. She was the production stage manager and production supervisor for two national tours of Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story. Regionally, she has worked with the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Ogunquit Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse and TheatreworksUSA, among others. In her free time she directs and was delighted to be a guest teaching artist for the aspiring actors on Yokota Air Base (US) in Tokyo last summer.

 

Kailyn McCord

Production Assistant

Kailyn McCord is thrilled to begin her first season as a production assistant. She has lived in Portland for the last seven years, where she attended Reed College and found her love for theater first on the Portland Center Stage Run Crew. Run Crew credits at PCS include Ragtime, A Christmas Carol, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps, The Chosen, Sunset Boulevard, A Christmas Story and Oklahoma!. Thanks to Mark Tynan, Emily Wells, Jamie Hill, Joey Edwards, Kelsey Daye and Katie Nolen for all of their support and encouragement, and to Team Irish for giving her a place to call home at the beginning of all this business.