Aaron Posner
DIRECTOR AND PLAYWRIGHT
Aaron is an artistic director, director and playwright. He is the founding artistic director of Philadelphia’s Arden Theatre Company, and the current artistic director of Two River Theater in Red Bank, New Jersey. Aaron has directed more than 100 professional productions at major theaters across the country, including Seattle Rep, Arizona Theatre Company, the Alliance Theatre, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Folger Shakespeare Theatre and many more. Directing awards include a 1998 Barrymore Award for A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Arden, the 2005 Helen Hayes Award for The Two Gentlemen of Verona at the Folger, and the 2007 Helen Hayes Award for Measure for Measure, also at the Folger. Measure for Measure also won for outstanding overall production. Aaron’s produced adaptations of literature include Who am I This Time? by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., What Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky, Echoes of the Jazz Age by authors from the ’20s, Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons, Third & Indiana by Steve Lopez, and Brief Interviews with Hideous Men by David Foster Wallace (with Scott Greer, Tony Lawton and Michael Hollinger). His adaptation of The Chosen with Chaim Potok was originally presented by the Arden and City Theatre and won the 1999 Barrymore Award for Best New Play. It is published by Dramatists Play Service and has been produced by more than 40 theaters across the country, and will be produced within the next year in Brazil and South Africa. His musical adaptation of Mark Twain’s A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage (with James Sugg) premiered in 2005 at the Delaware Theatre Company and the Roundhouse Theatre in Maryland and was nominated for 10 Barrymore Awards and the Charles MacArthur Award for Best New Play at the Helen Hayes Awards. His upcoming adaptations include another Chaim Potok novel, My Name Is Asher Lev (Arden Theatre, winter 2009), and So It Goes, from short stories by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (Two River Theater, winter 2009). Aaron is an Eisenhower Fellow, holds a B.S. in performance studies from Northwestern University, and is originally from Eugene, Oregon.

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Andy Paterson
JOE BEN STAMPER
Andy’s off-Broadway credits include work with La MaMa and the Acting Company. Regionally he has worked with Arizona Theatre Company, Center Stage (Baltimore), Geva Theatre Center, Great Lakes Theater Festival, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Intiman Theatre, McCarter Theatre Center, Montana Shakespeare in the Parks, North Shore Music Theatre, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pioneer, PCPA Theater Fest, San Francisco Mime Troupe, Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey, TOTS, TUTS, Utah Shakespearean Festival and Yale Repertory Theatre. Andy is a proud member of Actors Equity Association.

Karl Miller
LELAND STAMPER
Karl’s off-Broadway credits include Alice in War (SPF ’07) and columbinus (New York Theatre Workshop). Regional credits include: Hamlet, The Seagull, Arcadia (Rep Stage); Passion Play, a Cycle (Arena Stage); The Tattooed Girl, Passing the Love of Women (Theatre J); Galileo, This Is Our Youth, Kit Marlowe (Studio Theatre); The Cherry Orchard (Round House Theatre); Henry V, The Maids (Washington Shakespeare Company); Accidental Death of an Anarchist, Lord of the Flies (Rorschach Theatre); columbinus (Perseverance Theatre, Round House Theatre). Karl has participated in readings and workshops at the Kennedy Center, New York Stage & Film, Baltimore Center Stage, Ford’s Theatre, Curious Theatre, Arden Theatre and Two Rivers Theatre Company. He attended Wittenberg University. He was nominated for the Helen Hayes Award, Outstanding Lead Actor in 2006 and 2007 for columbinus and Hamlet, respectively. He is a contributing writer for the United States Theatre Project and a company member of Rorschach Theatre in Washington, D.C.

Sarah Grace Wilson
VIVIAN STAMPER
Sarah’s off-Broadway credits include Jump! (The Exchange); The Story (The Public—original cast); Voyage of the Carcass (Greenwich Street Theatre); Three More Sleepless Nights (Drama League) and Far Away (New York Theatre Workshop—u/s). Regional credits include A Christmas Carol (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Hay Fever, Christmas on Mars (Old Globe); Three Sisters (American Repertory Theatre, Edinburgh International Festival); The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (Studio Theatre—Helen Hayes nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actress); Othello (California Shakespeare Theatre—Dean Goodman Award for Principal Performance); The Story (Long Wharf); Six Degrees of Separation (Guthrie) and Wintertime (ACT—Seattle). Her TV and film work includes “Law & Order”, The Last Romantic, Dark September Rain and Leadcatcher. She is a graduate of the Juilliard School, where she received the John Houseman Award for exceptional ability in classical theater.

Tobias Andersen
HENRY STAMPER
Tobias has been seen at PCS in The Seagull, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Much Ado About Nothing, Measure for Measure and Pride and Prejudice. Local appearances: Alexander in Vanya, George Pye in Humble Boy and Darrow in Never the Sinner (Artists Rep); Scrooge in A Christmas Carol and Cardinal Richelieu in The Three Musketeers (NWCT); U.S. Grant in A Few Stout Individuals, Jim in Tales of the Lost Formicans (Drammy Award) and Charlie in Seascape (Profile Theatre Project). Tobias is in his 12th year as artistic director of Mt. Hood Repertory Theatre, where he has directed Born Yesterday, A Thurber Carnival, You Can’t Take It with You and Lend Me a Tenor and performed as the Stage Manager in Our Town, Walter Burns in The Front Page and Norman in On Golden Pond. He recently starred in The Illustrated Bradbury, a new solo show written for him by Ray Bradbury (Clackamas Repertory—Rubicon Theatre, Ventura, CA). Tobias’ latest film appearance is in Feast of Love with Morgan Freeman.

P.J. Sosko
HANK STAMPER
P.J. is dedicated to helping develop, workshop and perform plays in the NY theater scene with the likes of Naked Angels, HB Studios, EST, the Atlantic, Playwrights Horizons, the New Group and the Abingdon. Off-Broadway favorites include the world premiere of The Jazz Age (Ernest Hemingway, 59 E 59); the New York premiere of Leap (Abingdon); The End of You (The Lion) and Automatic Earth (Vining, the Signature). Regional credits include: Orphans (Treat, Penguin Rep); Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick, the Folger); Spike Heels (Edward, Syracuse Stage); Ten Unknowns (Judd, Florida Studio Theater) and Angels in America (Joe Pitt, the Hangar). He has also helped to produce several shows in NYC and L.A. (most recently John Yearly’s The Unrepeatable Moment directed by Joe Calarco at the Lark). TV/film credits include: “Law & Order”, “Law & Order: Criminal Intent”, The Black Donnellys, Paul Sorvino’s Looking for Cali, EZ, Church and State, The Standard Man, The Deer & The Cheetah, Company K and The Reunion (1st Run and Avignon Film Festival winner).

Kevin-Michael Moore
GIBBONS & others
Kevin-Michael Moore is pleased to be returning to PCS, where he was seen in Lost Wavelengths and Telethon for JAW ’06. Other regional credits include The Ghosts of Celilo, They Came from Way Out There, Assassins, The Weir, Birdsend, Red Noses and Joined at the Head (Artists Rep); The Rocky Horror Show, W! The Musical and Compleat Wks. of Wllm. Shakespear (Triangle Theater); Loot (CoHo Theater); The Physicists (Vertigo Theater ); The Mystery of Irma Vep (Lake Oswego and Storefront Theaters); Juno and the Paycock (New Rose Theater) and Talk Radio (Painted Maniacs Theater). Kevin-Michael is a writer and performer for nationally touring sketch comedy troupe The 3rd Floor, was the late-night sci-fi movie host for Saturday Night Dead, and plays host for a weekly stand-up comedy showcase at the Boiler Room in Old Town every Monday.

Chris Murray
HENDERSON & others
Chris is stoked to be working with Aaron again, after working with him on Number Three (JAW). Past PCS credits include Visions and Voices (2004-2007), BFE, Bullrusher, The Thugs, A Story About a Girl and Bruise Easy (JAW). Other credits include Mr. Marmalade and Take Me Out (Drammy, Best Supporting Actor) at Artists Rep, Six Degrees of Separation and The Sisters Rosensweig at Profile Theatre Project and A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Lakewood Theatre. Chris has also hit the road with several improvisational comedy tours, including Star Can’t Dead and Improv-A-go-go. Films include Decrypter, Loser’s Lounge, The Lie Detector and Uncle Sam’s House, and he played Jesus in Everclear’s music video, “Hater.”

Scott Coopwood
NEWTON & others
Scott has performed frequently at Portland Center Stage, including the title role in Hamlet, Edmund in King Lear, Shylock in The Merchant of Venice and Trigorin in The Seagull. Other favorites include the title roles in Macbeth and Cyrano de Bergerac, Iago in Othello, Orsino in Twelfth Night, Angelo in Measure for Measure, Carl in Lonely Planet, Kippy in Take Me Out, Jacques in As You Like It, Benedick, Don John and Dogberry in Much Ado About Nothing, Bill in Lobby Hero, Goss in Bug, Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet, Harry Brock in Born Yesterday and Brutus in Dirty Story. Scott has worked at regional theaters, including Arkansas Repertory Theatre, Capital Repertory Theater, Capital Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, the Utah, Orlando and Lake Tahoe Shakespeare Festivals, the Arizona Theatre Company, the Marin Theatre Company, the Marin Shakespeare Company, the Seattle Shakespeare Company, Profile Theatre Project, Center Rep and Borderlands Theatre.

Tim True
SORENSON & others
Tim was seen at Portland Center Stage in A Christmas Carol, The Pillowman, The Intelligent Design of Jenny Chow, The Fantasticks, Pride and Prejudice, JAW ’05 (Number Three and Celebrity Row), O Lovely Glowworm, King Lear, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Apollo II: The Dark Side of the Moon and JAW ’03 and ’04. Other Portland credits include Number Three, The Lonesome West and Recent Tragic Events (Third Rail Repertory Theatre); House and Garden, Take Me Out, The New House, Touch, The Night of the Iguana, The Laramie Project, Art (Artists Repertory Theatre); Gilgamesh, Happy Days (Haven Project) and A Moon for the Misbegotten (CoHo Theatre). Regional credits include: Othello (Actors Theatre of Louisville); Love’s Labour’s Lost, Cymbeline, Macbeth (The Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Much Ado About Nothing, Henry VIII, Cyrano de Bergerac (Utah Shakespearean Festival); Richard II, Troilus and Cressida (The Idaho Shakespeare Festival); Henry IV part I, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Taming of the Shrew (Oregon Shakespeare Festival). New York credits include: Richard II (Douglas Fairbanks Studio Theatre) and Sweat (Westbeth Theatre). Television/film: The Guiding Light, All My Children, Green Lights and The Spiral.

Todd Van Voris
BROTHER WALKER & others
Todd’s most recent role at PCS was in this season’s A Christmas Carol. Local credits include Giles in House and Garden, Orson in Orson’s Shadow, Larry in Inspecting Carol, Trigorin in The Seagull and Felix in Humble Boy with Artists Rep; Robert in Betrayal with Imago Theatre (2007 Drammy Award, Actor in a Lead Role); Bernard in Arcadia with Lakewood Theatre; Mendy in The Lisbon Traviata with Profile Theatre Project; Prologue in The Flu Season with Theatre Vertigo; Macbeth in Macbeth with Quintessence: Language and Imagination Theatre. Other favorite roles include Rushton in P.J. d’Amour at Backstage Theatre, Breckenridge, CO; Vershinin in The Three Sisters at H.E.R.E., NYC; and Richard in Exiles at Ontological/Hysteric Theatre, NYC. Todd attended NYU, where he studied acting at Playwrights Horizons Theatre School.

Jim Wisniewski
FLOYD EVENWRITE & others
This is Jim’s first show with Portland Center Stage. Other regional credits include: The Foreigner (Pioneer Theatre Co.); Sherlock Holmes: The Final Adventure (Cleveland Playhouse, Geva Theatre Center); Dial M for Murder (Geva); Reckless (Cincinnati Playhouse); Philadelphia, Here I Come, Proof, Three Days of Rain (BoarsHead Theater); Much Ado About Nothing (Alaska Theatre Alliance); Mornings at Seven (Cape Fear Regional); A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Boy Meets Girl (American Stage Company). NY theater includes Adobe Theatre, Soho Rep, the Working Theatre, American Globe, Théâtre Trouvé and Kaleidoscope. Film and TV: The Sopranos, Law & Order: Criminal Intent, All My Children, The Late Show with David Letterman, Mattie Fresno and the Holoflux Universe, The Kingdom and Edge of Town.

Tony Cisek
SCENIC DESIGN
Tony has collaborated with Aaron Posner on the premiere of A Murder, A Mystery, and A Marriage at Delaware Theatre Company and Round House Theatre, Headsman’s Holiday with Theatre Alliance, As You Like It and the premiere of Daedalus at Arden Theatre Company, and The Tempest, Othello and Twelfth Night at Folger Theatre. He has designed Portland Center Stage’s productions of A Feminine Ending and Anna in the Tropics. His work has also been seen at Roundabout Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Goodman Theatre, Arena Stage, Guthrie Theater, South Coast Rep, Milwaukee Rep, Actors Theatre of Louisville, the Kennedy Center, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Syracuse Stage, Berkshire Theatre Festival, Wolf Trap Opera, Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company, City Theatre and Signature Theatre, among others. He holds an M.F.A. in theatre design from New York University and is a four-time recipient of the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Set Design.

Jeff Cone
COSTUME DESIGNER
Jeff, costume shop manager for Portland Center Stage, has designed 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.

Dan Covey
LIGHTING DESIGNER
Dan is proud to be making his Portland Center Stage debut with this beautiful new play, Sometimes a Great Notion. He has worked with director Aaron Posner in Washington, D.C. five other times, both at the Folger Theater (The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Melissa Arctic and Othello) and at Theater Alliance (Headsman’s Holiday). Last season, Dan’s work was seen off-Broadway in Roundabout Theatre’s production of Beyond Glory, and previously he designed for New York Theatre Workshop’s columbinus. He works regionally all over the U.S., but is based in our nation’s capital. Dan is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. In 2001, he received the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding Lighting Design for his work on The Tempest at Folger Theatre and he has been nominated nine other times for this award. To view show photos, upcoming projects and contact information, please visit www.dancovey.com.

Casi Pacilio
SOUND DESIGNER
Casi is excited to design her 12th 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 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); Lips Together, Teeth Apart, Playland, 10 Fingers (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.

John Armour
FIGHT DIRECTOR
John is an actor, director and fight director. He has assisted or choreographed violence for Portland Center Stage in previous productions such as Twelfth Night, The Beard of Avon, Cabaret, The Pillowman, Misalliance, West Side Story, O Lovely Glowworm, King Lear, Bat Boy: The Musical, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, True West, Dirty Blonde, Closer and Hamlet. Twice his fight work has been recognized with Drammy Awards for Best Fight Design: Macbeth (1992) and Henry VI, parts 1-2 (1995). John has choreographed or assisted in choreography for many other Portland theaters, including Portland Repertory, Tygres Heart Shakespeare, Broadway Rose, Portland Opera and Artists Repertory Theatre. He also teaches workshops and choreographs productions at many colleges, middle, junior high and high schools in the Portland area and abroad.

Jim Ragland
COMPOSER
Over the past 25 years, Jim has composed and designed sound for more than 120 theater productions, including the Broadway production of The Kentucky Cycle with Stacy Keach. Portland Center Stage credits include Fences and Macbeth. Other credits include Seven Guitars, Julius Caesar, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, The Cider House Rules (Seattle Rep); Angels in America, The Royal Family, Faith Healer, Molly Sweeny, Hamlet (Intiman Theatre); Born Yesterday, Fuddy Meers, Our Country’s Good (ACT); Djinn, Sub Rosa (House of Dames); The Rocky Horror Show, Etta Jenks, Love and Anger (The Empty Space); Marisol (The Group) and Jitney (The Alley in Houston). Jim was a founding artist at Seattle’s New City Theater in the ’80s and received the Gregory Falls Sustained Achievement Award from Theater Puget Sound for his contributions to Seattle theater (2005). Jim also performs as a singer/songwriter and guitarist.

Erin Robson-Smith
STAGE MANAGER
After graduating with her B.A. in theater arts from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, Erin moved to Portland and joined the stage management team at Artists Repertory Theatre. Working her way from production assistant to stage manager, she collected a fondness for unique director requests and for the cueing of various objects falling from the “sky.” Favorite productions from the last several years include The Beard of Avon and The Underpants (PCS); Metamorphoses, The Retreat from Moscow, Frozen, Mrs. Bob Cratchit’s Wild Christmas Binge, Humble Boy (ART); Lonesome West, Number Three (Third Rail Repertory Theatre); and Under Milkwood (Ironclad Productions). She heartily looks forward to adding more shows to her favorite list with Portland Center Stage in 2008.