Cast
John Behlmann
FATHER FLYNN
John Behlmann is proud to be making his Portland Center Stage debut. Most recently he could be seen off-Broadway in Ibsen’s Ghosts (Pearl Theatre), in the world premiere of Bill Pullman’s Expedition 6 at the Magic Theatre in San Francisco, and on Broadway in Journey’s End (2007 Tony Award for Best Revival of a Play). Other NY theater credits include 365 Plays and The Obstruction Plays (SLANT Theatre Project). Regional credits include Expedition 6 (Kennedy Center, NY Stage & Film); Measure for Measure, The Madwoman, A Flea in Her Ear, A Christmas Carol (Denver Center Theater Company); and H.Y.P.E. (Alley Theatre). Film credits include Revolutionary Road (directed by Sam Mendes); Pretty Bird (with Billy Crudup); and Unstoppable. TV credits include: 3 Lbs. and Guiding Light. John holds an M.F.A. from the National Theatre Conservatory at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts, and a B.A. from Wesleyan University. He is also a regular writer of online shows for CBS Interactive.
Lisa Renee Pitts
MRS. MULLER
Lisa Renee Pitts is an award-winning veteran actress of the stage, television and film. Selected off-Broadway credits include Florrie in Waiting for Lefty directed by Joanne Woodward, Lou Bessie in The Old Settler and Veronica in Valley Song directed by Athol Fugard. Lisa has numerous appearances on the regional stage, including Esther in Intimate Apparel (San Diego Rep.); Delia in Blues for an Alabama Sky (Cincinnati Playhouse); Parlor Maid in La Ronde (Williamstown Theater Festival); Emily Webb in Our Town, Susannah in Tintypes and Woman #2 in From the Mississippi Delta (Syracuse Stage productions). Selected television/film credits include Law & Order, Numb3rs, The Shield and Showtime starring Robert DeNiro and Eddie Murphy. Currently, Lisa has a recurring role on Lincoln Heights for the ABC Family Channel. She is an award-winning audio book narrator as well, having completed several titles for Blackstone and Hayhouse Audio, as well as national commercials for Geico, Liberty Mutual and Tyson dinners. A native New Yorker and proud Equity member, Lisa holds a B.F.A. degree in theater arts from Rutgers University. She resides in Burbank, California.
Jayne Taini
SISTER ALOYSIUS
Jayne is thrilled to be back at PCS, where she was last seen in Elizabeth Huddle’s The Bacchae Revisited. She was the associate artistic director at TRIAD Ensemble in Seattle for five years. She toured in the title role of Mother Courage and Her Children on the Canadian Fringe Festival circuit. She also toured Japan and the USA in Labor of Love: A Rice Farmer’s Musical, culminating at the Barcelona Olympic Arts Festival. Regional theater credits include the Mark Taper Forum, Seattle Rep, the Empty Space, Denver Center, Hartford Stage, San Francisco Opera, Cleveland Playhouse, Pasadena Playhouse and Circle X. Some of her favorite roles include: originating Mrs. Grogan in The Cider House Rules (Backstage West Garland Award), Mrs. Alving in Ghosts, Argia in The Queen and the Rebels, Marilla in Anne of Green Gables, Costanza in Enchanted April, Ruth in Collected Stories and Fenya in The Brothers Karamazov (L.A. Drama Critics Circle Award). Some film/TV credits include The Amateurs starring Jeff Bridges, Cold Case, The Unit, Six Feet Under, Lost, Criminal Minds, Numb3rs, Boston Legal and Without a Trace.
Jennifer Lee Taylor
SISTER JAMES
Past roles at Portland Center Stage include Viola in Twelfth Night, Ensemble in The Beard of Avon and Elizabeth Bennet in Pride and Prejudice. In Seattle, she has worked at Book-It Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre and the Empty Space Theatre. She has also performed in California at San Jose Repertory Theatre, and the Sydney Theatre Company in Australia with Windmill Performing Arts. Jen works extensively as a voiceover artist on radio and television and has voiced many video games, including Cortana in the Halo series and Princess Peach and Toad in the Mario Brothers games.
Creative Team
John Patrick Shanley
PLAYWRIGHT
Watch the Charlie Rose Interview
John Patrick Shanley is from the Bronx. He was thrown out of St. Helena’s kindergarten. He was banned from St. Anthony’s hot lunch program for life. He was expelled from Cardinal Spellman High School. He was placed on academic probation by New York University and instructed to appear before a tribunal if he wished to return. When asked why he had been treated in this way by all these institutions, he burst into tears and said he had no idea. Then he went in the United States Marine Corps. He did fine. He’s still doing okay.
Rose Riordan
DIRECTOR
Rose is in her 12th season at Portland Center Stage, where she serves as associate artistic director. Previously at PCS she has directed The Underpants, The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh and The Thugs by Adam Bock, which won four Drammy Awards including Best Ensemble and Best Director. Born and raised in Alaska, Rose began her career in theater before she had acquired a lexicon for describing the work. Prior to the age of 10, she wrote, directed and produced plays, most of them backyard productions for family, friends and neighbors. Her first “professional” full-length play, an intense examination of six stewardesses and their “man troubles,” was presented at Eagle River Elementary School. A defining moment for her, it solidified Rose’s commitment to a pursuit of theater with the sole desire to illuminate and be illuminated. A theater gypsy, she has been an actress, writer, producer and director and has directed plays in Alaska, Seattle, Miami, New York—finally landing in Portland, which she officially calls home. Rose has an extensive background in writing, directing and new play development. For five years she worked at Geva Theatre (Rochester, NY), which produced Reflections, a summer festival premiering three new plays in rotating repertory under the artistic direction of Anthony Zerbe. In 1999 she founded Portland Center Stage’s annual JAW: A Playwrights Festival, which will be celebrating its 10th anniversary next summer. JAW has been instrumental in developing new work for the PCS repertory: Outrage, Flesh and Blood, Another Fine Mess, O Lovely Glowworm, Celebrity Row, last season’s Act a Lady, The Thugs and this season’s A Feminine Ending. She directed staged readings for plays at three of the JAW festivals—The Thugs (2005), Telethon (2006) and A Story About a Girl (2007). She enjoys being part of a company committed to new work and having a beautiful building in which to work.
William Bloodgood
SCENIC DESIGNER
William Bloodgood returns to Portland Center Stage for his sixth production, having previously designed the scenery for The Cripple of Inishmann (2000), Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (2004), King Lear (2004), Misalliance (2007), and most recently The Beard of Avon and Twelfth Night. William has designed for many regional theaters in the U.S. and abroad, including Arena Stage in Washington, D.C., Birmingham Repertory Theatre in the U.K., Berkeley Repertory Theatre, Alley Theatre in Houston, Arizona Theatre Company, Chicago Shakespeare Theater, Children’s Theatre Company in Minneapolis, Denver Center Theatre Company, Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre in Seattle, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, and especially for the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, where he was responsible for the scenic design of 140 productions. He has complemented his work in theater with experience in interior design, space planning, display and graphics.
Stephanie Gaslin
DIALECT COACH
Stephanie has worked as a dialect coach for Portland Center Stage’s I Am My Own Wife, Misalliance, Cabaret and A Christmas Carol; Artists Repertory Theatre’s Vanya; Portland Actors Conservatory’s An Experiment with an Airpump; Oregon Repertory Theatre’s A Tuna Christmas; Coaster Theater’s See How They Run, Sojourn Theatre’s Throwing Bones; and Third Rail’s The Lonesome West, A Lesson from Aloes, Grace, Shining City and Nobody Here But Us Chickens. She is a founding company member of Third Rail Repertory Theatre in Portland. She earned her B.A. in theatre at Southern Oregon University and her M.F.A. in acting from Ohio University.
Jeff Cone
COSTUME DESIGNER
Jeff, costume shop manager for Portland Center Stage, has designed The Little Dog Laughed, Sometimes a Great Notion, A Christmas Carol, The Underpants, Cabaret, Bad Dates, The Pillowman, Act a Lady, Misalliance, This Wonderful Life, I Am My Own Wife and West Side Story since PCS opened the Gerding Theater at the Armory. Other PCS credits include the world premieres of Celebrity Row and Another Fine Mess, as well as Underneath the Lintel, Things of Dry Hours, Anna in the Tropics, King Lear, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, True West, Flesh and Blood, A New Brain, Closer, Blues for an Alabama Sky, Bus Stop and Dirty Blonde. Jeff received Drammy Awards for Best Costume Design for both Act a Lady and Dirty Blonde. Highlights of his 18-year career include the world premiere of Pearl Cleage’s Flyin’ West at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta, with subsequent productions at Indiana Repertory Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Long Wharf Theatre; an expressionistic Charlotte’s Web and 10 annual productions of A Christmas Carol at the Alliance; and the coordination of costumes for Seattle Opera’s productions of Andrea Chénier and La Traviata.
Daniel Ordower
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Daniel’s designs for Portland Center Stage include A Christmas Carol (2001 Drammy Award), Outrage, The Merchant of Venice, Things of Dry Hours, Celebrity Row (2006 Drammy Award), The Pillowman, Bad Dates and Cabaret. He has worked for operas and regional theaters including the Baltimore Opera, the Connecticut Opera, the Los Angeles Opera, San Jose Rep, Geva Theater Center, Coconut Grove Playhouse, American Stage Co., Actors’ Express and Writers’ Theater Chicago. Internationally, he has worked with Teatro alla Scala, Opéra National de Lyon, Festspielhaus Baden-Baden and Regent Seven Seas Cruises. Daniel’s designs have toured nationally with I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change (Boston, San Diego, Reno, national tour); West Side Story and Beauty and the Beast (Baci Productions). Festival and installation designs include MAKOR II at Pace-Wildenstein Gallery for Michal Rovner, the Tribeca Film Festival, New York Musical Festival, the New York Fringe Festival and the Broadway Cares/ Equity Fights AIDS Gypsy of the Year and Nothing Like a Dame benefits. He received the 2006 and 2001 Drammy Awards for Best Lighting Design and the 2005 NY IT Award for Outstanding Lighting Design. Daniel is a graduate of Northwestern University and has been published in Social Policy magazine.
Casi Pacilio
SOUND DESIGNER
Casi is excited to design her 14th production for Portland Center Stage and is thrilled to work at the Gerding Theater at the Armory as the sound supervisor and resident sound designer. Theater credits: The Little Dog Laughed, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Beard of Avon, Twelfth Night, A Christmas Carol, Cabaret, Bad Dates, The Pillowman, Act a Lady, Misalliance, I Am My Own Wife, West Side Story, Celebrity Row (PCS). Other credits include Squonk Opera’s Bigsmorgasbord- WunderWerk (Broadway, off-Broadway, regional, touring); I Am My Own Wife, I Think I Like Girls, Burning Deck (La Jolla Playhouse); Hair (Live On Stage); Playland, 10 Fingers and Lips Together, Teeth Apart (City Theatre). Film credits: Creation of Destiny, Out of Our Time, Powerful Thang. Recording credits: Squonk Opera, Abigail’s Attic, Jana Losey. She was the event production coordinator for Portland’s Village Building Convergence from 2004 to 2006.
Jamie Hill
STAGE MANAGER
Jamie is excited to be in her sixth season at Portland Center Stage. Previous PCS shows include A Feminine Ending, A Christmas Carol, Cabaret, The Pillowman, Misalliance, I Am My Own Wife, West Side Story, Celebrity Row, The Fantasticks, Pride and Prejudice, My Fair Lady, King Lear, Fully Committed, 36 Views, Another Fine Mess, Man & Superman, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and True West. Other regional credits include Missouri Repertory Theatre, Shakespeare Santa Cruz and Huron Playhouse. Locally, Jamie has also worked on JAW and with Third Rail Repertory Company. A huge thank you to the always fantastic PCS stage management team, and the brilliant Rose Riordan! Go Blue!
Mark Tynan
ASSISTANT STAGE MANAGER
Mark is happy to be in his sixth season with Portland Center Stage. Previous PCS shows include The Little Dog Laughed, The Beard of Avon, Twelfth Night, Cabaret, Bad Dates, Act a Lady, The Thugs, This Wonderful Life, West Side Story, Celebrity Row, The Fantasticks, Pride and Prejudice, O Lovely Glowworm, Things of Dry Hours, King Lear, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Bat Boy: The Musical, Outrage, The Merchant of Venice and for colored girls…. Prior to PCS, Mark toured nationally and internationally with musicals including Dreamgirls, The King and I with Rudolf Nureyev, How to Succeed…, The Phantom of the Opera and Rent. Mark is grateful for the hard work and support of the PCS production assistants. The past several summers, Mark has enjoyed being a part of the Broadway Rose Theatre Company productions in Tigard with shows including Jekyll and Hyde, Chicago and 42nd Street.
Kelly Cullom
PRODUCTION ASSISTANT
This is Kelly’s third production at PCS. Previously this season, she was P.A. for A Feminine Ending and A Christmas Carol. A graduate of The Evergreen State College, she has been busy in the Portland tech theater scene since her arrival. Area credits include: production assistant for They Came from Way Out There, Take Me Out and The Seagull (Artists Repertory Theatre). She has also been an electrician and light board operator for multiple shows at both ART and PCS since 2004.
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