Milo Marami is a NYC based Actor/Musician. Great in the kitchen. Previously understudied with the original Lizard Boy company productions Off-Broadway (‘23) and Oregon Shakespeare Festival (‘24). It’s a joy to play these songs again, bringing this story with new voices, a new team, and new audiences. Pace MT. Thank you PCS and all who make this happen. Love to Mom, Dad, and Christine. Be silly. Be honest. Be kind. IG: @theyoungkeanu

Lo Steele is a Portland and Chicago-based multi-disciplinary artist. Her recent acting credits include: The Importance of Being Earnest adapted by Kamilah Bush (PCS), A Christmas Carol (Portland Playhouse), Amelie (Portland Playhouse) and Clyde’s (PCS) and Passing Strange (Portland Playhouse). Also a celebrated singer and songwriter, Lo has performed on many Portland stages and beyond. Check out her music on all streaming platforms.

Benjamin Tissell is a Portland-based actor and musician. He is delighted to return to the PCS stage after being previously seen in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, RENT, and Astoria. Locally, Ben has also performed at Portland Playhouse, Third Rail Repertory, Profile Theatre, Broadway Rose, and others. An active singer-songwriter, Ben's music can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and elsewhere. For more about Ben's work and upcoming projects, visit BenTissell.com.

Ashley Song is an actor, producer, and co-founder of Desert Island Studios, a Portland-based film production company and studio facility. She has performed at Seattle Rep, Profile Theatre, 21ten Theatre, Portland Shakespeare Project, Corrib Theatre, Chapel Theatre, and the Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. She has produced narrative films/documentaries Mother of Color, Borrufa, The 100-Year Effect, Empano Gleasium and Private Chat, and has worked for commercial clients including xfinity, Straightaway Cocktails, Rice Krispies, National Geographic, and Dell. Ashley is a board member of Catalyst Film Collective and a graduate of NYU’s acting program. ashley-song.com, @ashleysongofficial, @desertislandstudiospdx

Local credits: Mr. Wormwood, Bob Cratchit, Bus Driver. Regional: Here Lies Love, Million Dollar Quartet, Wizard of Oz, Chicago, Xanadu, Les Mis. PCPA & Cornish Grad.

Chip is a director and producer, currently in the role of Associate Artistic Director at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. They were previously the Artistic Associate / Resident Director at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Directing: The Brothers Size; The Light; Sweeney Todd; Liberace & Liza Holiday at the Mansion: A Tribute; Choir Boy; It’s a Wonderful Life; Rent; August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean; Hedwig & The Angry Inch; the world premiere of Redwood (Portland Center Stage at the Armory); Clyde’s (Syracuse Stage, PCS); Larry Owens’ Sondhemia (Carnegie Hall); Rent (Cape Playhouse); Journeys to Justice (Portland Opera); the world premiere of American Fast (Artists Repertory Theater); School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play; Welcome to Fear City; Sex with Strangers; A Raisin in the Sun (KCRep); the world premiere of Becoming Martin by Kevin Willmott (The Coterie); dwb: driving while black (Lawrence Arts Center, Des Moines Metro Opera, Greensboro Opera); 4:48 Psychosis (The Buffalo Room). Chip has developed work with playwrights including Kevin Wilmott, Kara Lee Corthron, Brittany K. Allen, Catherine Trieschmann, Darren Canady, Andrew Rosendorf, Susan Kander & Roberta Gumbel, Michelle T. Johnson, and Michael Finke. They have developed work at The William Inge Theatre Festival, NYU’s New Plays for Young Audiences, La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA Series, Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, The Midwest Dramatists Center, KCRep’s OriginKC New Works Festival, The Colorado New Play Summit, The Living Room Theatre, and Musical Theatre Heritage.

DeReau K. Farrar is Artistic Director of A Notion, A Scream, Artistic Director of Bridging Voices, and Director of Music Ministry for Ainsworth United Church of Christ. Additionally, he sings with Resonance Ensemble and served on its Artistic Advisory Team for the 2022 premiere of Damien Geter’s An African American Requiem with the Oregon Symphony. DeReau’s local theater and opera credits include Portland Center Stage (Lizard Boy, 2026, Music Director; Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, 2025, Music Consultant; The Brothers Size, 2025, Music Consultant; Sweeney Todd, 2024, Music Director/Conductor; Choir Boy, 2023, Music Director), Portland Playhouse (A Christmas Carol, 2025, Music Director), Portland Opera (The Juliet Letters, 2024, Music Director/Conductor), and the Portland Revels (Un Pajarito Canto, 2022, Music Director). Prior to moving to Portland in 2016, he was a music director in Los Angeles, where he worked with A Noise Within (The Threepenny Opera, A Christmas Carol), DC6 Singers (SxSW, Jessye Norman’s Stand Up Straight and Sing! Tour, Sundance, Norman Lear, Jerry Kohl), Monkeypaw Productions (Get Out), HBO (All the Way), Selah Gospel Choir (Coachella, RuPaul’s DragCon), University of California Los Angeles (The First Lady), California State University Los Angeles (A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum), The Verdi Chorus, The RED Stamp (The Wiz, Ragtime, Songs for a New World), MUSE/IQUE Symphony Orchestra, and others.

Alex is a Portland-based scenic designer, happy to be on the Lizard Boy team! You may have seen her work last season on The Light in the Ellen Bye Studio. Other credits include with Artists Repertory Theatre (Sapience, The Bed Trick), Profile Theatre (Tiger Style!, Mother Russia, Samsara), Third Rail Repertory Theatre (Precipice, Middletown Mall, The Music Man), and Shaking The Tree Theatre (We Wrote This With You In Mind), as well as designs with Orpheus PDX, Oregon Children’s Theatre, The Theatre Company, PassinArt, Broadway Rose Theatre Co., 21Ten Theatre, Bag&Baggage Productions, Crave Theatre, Imago Theatre, Hand2Mouth, and others. She has production designed for clients such as Visit Seattle, Intel, and the Portland Timbers. She is a proud recipient of this year’s 1/52 Project grant. IG: @alley_my

Dominique Fawn Hill is a costume designer/fabric-composer that merges an everlasting dance between Faith, Texture, Image, and Purpose. Her belief in Jesus Christ and her hometown Bronx, NY, have over the years instilled in her glamour, grit, and the willingness to always look at the world through an empathetic lens. Her designs include Broadway: Fat Ham (Tony Award and Lucille Lortel nominations). Off-Broadway: Bust (Alliance Theatre), Primary Trust (Alley Theatre), Tambo & Bones (Lucille Lortel nomination),Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Manhattan Theatre Club), The Dark Girl Chronicles (The Shed), and 125th & FREEdom (National Black Theatre).

Jesse Klug (Lighting Designer) Off-Broadway: The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity (Lortel, Hewes nominations), The Screwtape Letters (Off-Broadway and National Tour), Romulus, and The Hunchback Variations. Regional: Goodman, Chicago Shakespeare, Marriott Theatre, Milwaukee Rep, Indiana Rep, American Players Theatre, Arizona Theatre Company, Paramount, Lookingglass, Victory Gardens, Geffen Playhouse, The Old Globe, Asolo, Shakespeare Theatre Company, Court Theatre, Virginia Stage Company, Northlight, Writers Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre. International: Edinburgh Fringe Festival, INFANT, Market Theatre of South Africa, Sydney Fringe Festival, as well as others on five different continents. Mr. Klug teaches at Linfield University in McMinnville, Oregon. He is a multiple Joesph Jefferson award winner and twenty-two-time nominee. JesseKlug.com

Scott Thorson is a licensed architect designing schools and theatres with BRIC Architecture. He was a sound engineer at Portland Center Stage from 2010 to 2017. PCS Credits include sound designer for HAIR, Sweeney Todd, The Mountaintop, The Typographers Dream, Sex with Strangers, People’s Republic of Portland and live audio engineer for the world premiere musicals of Somewhere in Time and LIZZIE. Other Portland designs include Third Rail Rep's Sweet and Sad, Noises Off, and Middletown, Ivy and Bean for Oregon Children's Theatre, Up the Fall for PHAME, Erin Leddy’s My Mind is Like an Open Meadow (Drammy Award), Hand2Mouth’s Uncanny Valley and Sean Andries’s Fish Girl (Best in Fest, San Francisco Fringe). Scott is a proud Cully resident and Rigler Elementary parent. In memory of Casi Pacilio.

Dante Lawrence is a projections and lighting designer based out of Minneapolis, MN and from Kansas City, Missouri. He is thrilled to be back with the wonderful team at Portland Center Stage and can not wait for you to see this work come to life.

Teniece Divya Johnson is an Intimacy Director, Fight Director, Stunt Performer, and Movement Storyteller working across television, film and stage. The first Black and first non-binary intimacy director on Broadway with Slave Play and first Black intimacy coordinator working on TV/Film, Teniece serves as a resolute advocate for a decolonized collaborative approach to art, Black intimacy, Kink and Queer representation. They are also the founder of www.BlackIntimacyConsentCollective.org, a community based educational organization around intimacy, consent and wellness. Off stage they share consent-based advocacy  with colleges, universities, corporations and other organizations to promote healthy community practices. Additional credits: Succession, Pose, Paradise, Reacher, She Hulk, StarTrek Picard, Blackkklansman, West Side Story, MJ the Musical, Bowl EP, and RAQI on Power Book II Ghost.

Adam is a theatre maker and performer with nearly thirty years of experience creating movement-driven storytelling. His work as a director and movement director includes productions such as Amélie, Secret In The Wings, Clue, and The Play That Goes Wrong, as well as choreography for projects including Toe Pick at NYC’s Dixon Place, West Side Story with the Sioux City Symphony, and the Sundance favorite Dick Johnson Is Dead. An alumnus of PETE’s Institute for Contemporary Performance and a co-founder of Trick Pony Theatre (@heytrickpony), his recent work includes movement direction for Madonna Of The Cat at 21Ten Theatre and Everybody’s Eyes Are On the First for The Hatchery. As a performer, he has appeared on Broadway in Hairspray (Sketch, OBC) and Wicked (Boq). He originated the role of Lucas in bare: a pop opera Off-Broadway and Ben in the films dare and The Dare Project. www.alphahotelfoxtrot.com

Kamilah is a playwright, dramaturg, and educator originally from North Carolina. She holds a B.F.A. in theater education from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was a NC Teaching Fellow. She currently holds the position of Literary Manager at PCS. Kamilah has spent several seasons at celebrated regional theaters across the country, including Triad Stage in Greensboro, NC, Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota, FL, and Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. She was a Playwright in Residence at Williamstown Theater Festival in 2024 and was featured as part of their Fridays @ 3 Reading Series in 2023