"Sense & Sensibility" Cast & Creative Team

By Kate Hamill 
Adapted from the novel by Jane Austen
Staging & Direction by Eric Tucker

The Actors and Stage Manager employed in this production are members of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.

Eric Tucker, Director
Eric was named “Director of the Year” by Wall Street Journal in 2014. Off-Broadway: Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet; Pygmalion; Peter Pan; Vanity Fair; Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility (Off-Broadway Alliance Award, Lucille Lortel nomination for Best Director; Drama League nomination for Best Revival; four Helen Hayes awards, including Best Director and Best Production); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Drama League nomination for Best Revival; Wall Street Journal’s Best Classical Production); Bedlam’s Saint Joan (The New York Times and Time Magazine’s “Top 10”; Off-Broadway Alliance Award for Best Revival); Bedlam’s Hamlet (The New York Times’ “Top 10”); Tina Packer’s Women of Will; New York Animals (world premiere by Steven Sater/Burt Bacharach), Twelfth Night / What You Will (The New York Times’ Critic’s Pick); The Seagull (Wall Street Journal’s Best Classical Production). Other: The Rivals (Bristol Riverside Theatre); The Merry Wives of Windsor (Two River Theater), Disney’s Beauty & The Beast (Oregon Shakespeare Festival); Pericles (American Players Theatre, Wall Street Journal’s Best Classical Production); Copenhagen (Central Square Theater); The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); and Mate (The Actors’ Gang). Eric resides in New York City where he is the artistic director of Bedlam. 

John McDermott, Scenic Designer
Design credits include: Sense and Sensibility (Off-Broadway, American Repertory Theater and Folger Theatre), Uncle Romeo Vanya Juliet, Pygmalion, and Peter Pan for Bedlam; Pride and Prejudice for Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and Seattle Repertory Theatre; Creditors, 4,000 Miles, The Taming, and Red Velvet at Shakespeare & Company; ms. estrada by The Q Brothers Collective at The Flea Theater; and Zurich, Dry Land, Fish Eye, and Everything is Ours for Colt Coeur Company. Seattle designs include The Psychic Life of Savages at Empty Space Theatre; Skin for Printer's Devil Theater; Prayer For My Enemy, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and Singing Forest for Intiman Theatre, all directed by Bartlett Sher; and four years as associate set designer at Seattle Repertory Theatre. He holds an M.F.A. from the University of Washington and is an associate professor at Adelphi University.  

Alison Heryer, Costume Designer
Alison is a costume designer for theater, film, and print. She is thrilled to be returning to Portland Center Stage at The Armory after designing costumes for Fun Home, Wild and Reckless, The Oregon Trail, Ain’t Misbehavin’, Our Town, Three Days of Rain, and Threesome. Other design credits include productions with Steppenwolf Theatre Company, 59E59 Theaters, La MaMa, The New Victory Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, Indiana Repertory Theatre, Portland Opera, Artists Repertory Theatre, and The Hypocrites. She has exhibited work at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, World Stage Design, and the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space. Alison is on the faculty in the School of Art + Design at Portland State University and a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829. alisonheryerdesign.com

Sarah Hughey, Lighting Designer
Sarah is happy to return Portland Center Stage at The Armory where other credits include A Christmas Memory/Winter Song, Major Barbara, and the upcoming Crossing Mnisose. Additional design credits include projects at Steppenwolf Theatre Company, Lookingglass Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, City Theatre Company, Writers Theatre, Chicago Children’s Theatre, Victory Gardens Theater, Kansas City Repertory Theatre, The Black Rep (St. Louis), and Court Theatre. Upcoming projects include As You Like It at Guthrie Theater, The Legend of Rock Paper Scissors at Oregon Children’s Theatre, and The Cake at Asolo Repertory Theatre. She has taught lighting design at Northwestern University, Columbia College Chicago, and Willamette University. She holds an M.F.A. from Northwestern University and is a member of USA Local 829. skhugheylighting.com

Alex Neumann, Sound Designer
Alex, a New York City-based sound designer, has worked extensively on Broadway as an associate to several sound designers, including Tony Award-winners Scott Lehrer and Leon Rothenberg, and Tony Award-nominees John Gromada and Matt Tierney. Alex is one of the sound designers on the current national tours of Fiddler on the Roof and The King and I. Regionally, Alex has designed at American Repertory Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Hartford Stage, La Jolla Playhouse, Alley Theatre, and Williamstown Theatre Festival. He is the sound designer of the Drama Desk Awards (Town Hall, New York City) and A Tribute to the Presidential Scholars (Kennedy Center). Alex recently spent two years lecturing on sound design technology at the Yale School of Drama.

Alexandra Beller, Choreographer
Off-Broadway: Sense and Sensibility (The Sheen Center, The Gym at Judson, Folger Theatre, and American Repertory Theater); How to Transcend a Happy Marriage by Sarah Ruhl (Lincoln Center Theater); The Mad Ones by Kerrigan-Lowdermilk (59E59 Theaters); Bedlam’s Peter Pan (The Duke on 42^nd Street). Regional: Two Gentlemen of Verona (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival); As You Like It (Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival and Folger Theatre); The Young Ladies Of by Taylor Mac, Chang(e) by Soomi Kim (HERE); and Spring Awakening (Wake Forest University). Her performance career includes seven years with the Bill. T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company, and projects with Martha Clarke and John Turturro. Alexandra is thrilled to be returning to Portland in March to teach a directing and dramaturgy workshop on with Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble. alexandrabellerdances.org

Amanda Quaid, Dialect Coach
Off-Broadway: world premiere of Bedlam’s Sense and Sensibility at The Sheen Center; Party Face; When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout; and The Chimes. Film: Playmobil: The Movie; The Chaperone; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon: Sword of Destiny; Non-Stop; and The Harrow. Television: NOS4A2 (AMC). Faculty: HB Studio and Freeman Studio. Private coaching practice in New York City for over 15 years. amandaquaid.com

Kristen Mun, Stage Manager
Kristen is originally from the island of Oahu and holds a B.F.A. from Southern Oregon University. She is excited to return for her sixth season at Portland Center Stage at The Armory. Previous credits at The Armory include stage manager for Constellations and Major Barbara; assistant stage manager for The Color Purple, Fun Home, and Astoria: Part Two; and production assistant on many others. Kristen is also a freelance fight chorographer and teacher. Thank you to Adam and her family for always having her back.

Molly Shevaun Reed, Production Assistant
Molly is thrilled to be joining Portland Center Stage at The Armory this season as a stage management apprentice. Recent credits at The Armory include Twist Your Dickens, The Color Purple, and A Life. Originally from Denton, Texas, Molly has worked in stage management, props design, and has developed new work as a director in Dallas and Portland. Local credits include stage manager for Spectravagasm X, director/designer/producer for the one-woman original play Endless Oceans, and assistant director/production assistant for The Few at CoHo Productions. Dallas credits include stage manager for Dry Land at Upstart Theater; and director/designer for the world premiere of Nomad Americana at WaterTower Theatre’s Out of the Loop Fringe Festival (formerly titled Rooting at Nouveau 47 Theatre). Love and thanks to Cam, Fam, Lyss, and Bear.  

Bedlam
Bedlam is a not-for-profit theater company based in New York City under the leadership of Artistic Director Eric Tucker and Managing Director Kimberly Pau Boston. Founded in 2012, Bedlam received instant recognition for its production of George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan, in which only four actors played over 25 characters. Other shows include Sense and Sensibility, Peter Pan, The Seagull, Dead Dog Park, New York Animals, Hamlet, and Twelfth Night. Bedlam has won three IRNE Awards, two Off-Broadway Alliance Awards, and an Obie Grant. Bedlam has also been nominated for two Lucille Lortel awards, a Drama League award, and five Elliot Norton awards, winning for Outstanding Visiting Production and Best Ensemble for Saint Joan and Outstanding Visiting Production for Twelfth Night / What You Will. bedlam.org