Jackie Davis  is an actor, director, choreographer and intimacy director/advocate. She has worked in theater, film and television primarily on the east coast. Notable theatre directing credits include Notes from The Field, at Portland Playhouse; Blues for an Alabama Sky (Trinity Rep); Ruined (Boston Arts Academy). Notable Intimacy Direction include The Inheritance and References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot. Notable choreography projects include The Wiz, Dance Nation, and Caroline or Change. Jackie is a member of the Resident Acting Company of Trinity Repertory Company and was last seen on stage as Robyn in The Roommate. Notable roles at Trinity Rep:  Rose, Fences; Margaret, The Inheritance; and Benevolence, black odyssey. Jackie is on staff in Trinity's Education Department as a Teaching Artist/Master Instructor for TRC's Young Actors Summer Institute (YASI) and part of the Movement Faculty for the Brown/Trinity MFA Program.  Jackie is the founding artistic director of New Urban Theater Laboratory, where she produced and directed five seasons of new works in Massachusetts.

Marcel Mawulorm Johansen is an interdisciplinary artist from Tema, Ghana, currently based in Portland, Oregon. His art comes from a place of childlike curiosity about the world, and himself in relation to it—in search of the thin through lines that thread our shared and individual human experiences. His work is deeply rooted in personal experience, ancestral memory, and cultural lineage. It is a spiritual practice as much as a creative one—cathartic, revealing, and sometimes healing.

Marcel’s modes of expression follow the flow of inspiration and opportunity. He currently weaves between film photographs, video, poetry, event production, film/theatre acting and experimental performance art. You can often find him hosting Portland’s iteration of the on-going “RNBAFTERDARK” series at L’atelier Yaffe, or on a leisurely walk, staring at things.  

Online, you can find Marcel and his work  @efo.celus and @efothehuman on instagram 

Clinton Lowe is excited to be making his Portland Center Stage debut! This proud father and New York native appeared on Broadway in the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Tony Award-nominated play, Between Riverside and Crazy, by Stephen Adly Guirgis (directed by, Austin Pendleton). Select theater credits include: Kill Move Paradise (World Premiere, NY Times Critics Pick, dir. Tony-nominated, Saheem Ali, National Black Theatre); Kim’s Convenience (Orange County Theatre Guild Award-nomination, Laguna Playhouse); The First Deep Breath (World Premiere, Black Theatre Alliance Award, Victory Gardens Theater); The Mountaintop (TheatreSquared); and Holler If Ya Hear Me (Broadway Workshop, dir. Tony Award winner, Kenny Leon). Select TV/Film credits include: S.W.A.T. (CBS), Blue Bloods (CBS), Law & Order: SVU (NBC), All American (CW), Insecure (HBO), The Hustle (Series Regular); Grimcutty (Hulu), American Gangster (starring Oscar winners, Denzel Washington & Russell Crowe, dir. Oscar-nominated, Ridley Scott). "Shout out to my moms, Rest in Peace POPS, & Boogie Down Bronx represent!" Hit him up on instagram @clinton_lowe, or visit clintonlowe.com.

"Brevity is the soul of wit."

Ashlee Radney is an actress originally from Denver, Colorado. She attended PSU with a major in Theatre and then completed an Acting internship at the Portland Playhouse. Since moving to Portland, she has worked with the Artist Repertory, Portland Playhouse, Salt & Sage Productions, and Crave Theater. Her favorite roles include Juliet from Romeo & Juliet, Lulu from Shopping and Fucking, and Pete from Angry, Raucous, and Shamelessly Gorgeous. In addition to Theatre Ashlee has performed with Spectral Transmissions, an installation art piece through the Portland Art Museum. Ashlee would like to dedicate this and future performances to her biggest fan, George Radney (her father).  

Isaiah is so excited to be back home at PCS. Last seen as Tobias Ragg in Sweeney Todd. Isaiah has had the privilege of travel all over the country performing. Some favorite credits include : Beautiful the Carole King Musical (Paper Mill Playhouse), Spunk (Yale Rep), Choir Boy (Portland Center Stage), Five Guys Named Moe (The Fulton), Singing In The Rain (Weston Theater), Buddy (Cape Playhouse), and Hairspray (Theater Aspen). Boston Conservatory, BFA. He would love to thank his friends, family and DGRW for their love and support. @Isaiahreynolds55.

Austin is thankful to be making a return to the PCS stage in Fat Ham. He was previously seen in The Brothers Size and Primary Trust. Austin deeply loves the craft of acting and the art of storytelling. Some of his screen credits include Black Mirror on Netflix and Tyler Perry's House of Payne. He is forever grateful for the love and support his family and friends continuously give him. Especially Mom, Tyler, Kelly, Will and Marina. Love you always. 

Charles is honored to step into the world of this play so beautifully crafted by James Ijames. As an artist who wears a number of hats (Director, Actor, Producer, Teacher, Writer), he’s worked with Portland Center Stage, Many Hats Collaboration, Third Rail, Profile Theatre, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, Broadway Rose, and Portland Playhouse where he is currently in the role of Producing Director. Recent Directing Credits include A Christmas Carol (Portland Playhouse 2025), Great Wide Open (co-dir. Jessica Wallenfels, co-production with Many Hats Collaboration & Portland Playhouse) and Assistant Director for What the Constitution Means to Me (Marissa Wolf, Portland Center Stage). Love to the entire cast, creative team, crew, and staff for giving their all to this experience. May we continue to share our stories on our terms. Thank you for being here with us and supporting live theatre! Visit thecharlesgrant.com or IG @thecharlesgrant to say hello.

Kemba is a celebrated dancer and educator whose career spans various facets of the performing arts. With extensive training in different dance styles, she has made significant contributions to both stage performances and dance pedagogy locally and globally. Kemba holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) from Towson State University. Her training is extensive and diverse, having honed her skills at the Alvin Ailey American Theater and Martha Graham School. Kemba has shared her passion for dance through teaching positions at UCLA, Loyola Marymount University, El Camino College, Maryland Dance Academy, and Portland State University, among others. Kemba’s stage credits include performances in the LA cast of The Lion King, the Broadway cast of The Color Purple, and Cirque du Soleil's Zumanity. She has worked alongside Madonna on the Drowned World Tour, P!nk during the Try This World Tour, Celine Dion on the Taking Chances World Tour, and Rihanna for the Nike RockStar World Tour. Kemba has also contributed her talents to performances with Kanye West, Fantasia from American Idol, and Grammy Award winner Esperanza Spalding. Kemba has developed her distinctive dance methodology known as K-Technique; this innovative curriculum incorporates elements of Afro-Funk, Hip-Hop, Modern, and jazz dance. It is designed to improve cardiovascular health, increase flexibility, strengthen the whole body, and boost mood through floor work, dynamic center techniques, and explosive choreography. Kemba is excited to be a part of the dynamic Dance Department at Reed College this fall.

Alex is a Portland-based scenic designer, happy to be in the backyard with this creative team! Recent designs with PCS include The Light and Lizard Boy. Other credits include with Artists Repertory Theatre (Apple Hunters!, The Bed Trick, Sapience), 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

Wanda Walden–Visual Artist, Costume Designer/Stylist–has been on the scene for decades. Wanda is excited to return to Portland Center Stage for this Co-Production of Fat Ham with Portland Playhouse. Some of her credits include Portland Center Stage (The Ripple, the Wave That Carried Me Home; Gem of the Ocean; It's a Wonderful Life; and African Mean Girls), Portland Playhouse (Sponge Bob; Angry, Raucous, Shamelessly Gorgeous; Joe Turners Come & Gone; Paradise  Blue; Notes from the Field; Afro-litical; Passing Strange; Bella; Barbecue; and Crowns), Prenumbra Theater (Don't Bother me, I Can't Cope, Paradise Blue), Tacoma Little Theater (From the Mississippi Delta), Detroit Opera (Central Park Five), Portland Opera (Shishue, Beatrice, Central Park Five), Artist Repertory Theater (The Children, Skeleton Crew, An Octoroon), Third Rail Repertory (Intimate Life), and Corrib Theater (Pass Over). Wanda is Resident Costumer for Passin Art Theater (Annual Langston Hughes Gospel play Black Nativity, 7 Guitars, Blues for An Alabama Sky, Two Trains Running, A song for Corretta, The No Play, The Gospel of Love & Kindness).

Regional: In The Heights, Once On This Island, The Wedding Singer (Winnipesaukee Playhouse); Revolution (Red Orchid Theatre); Pride and Prejudice, Fat Ham (Cleveland Play House); The Inferior Sex, La Cage Aux Folles, Blues For An Alabama Sky (Trinity Repertory Co.); Sense and Sensibility (Idaho Shakes & Great Lakes Theater); Jelly’s Last Jam, Once On This Island (Cape Fear Regional Theatre); Matt & Ben (Penobscot Theatre Company); Amerikin (Alley Theatre); Notes From The Field (Portland Playhouse). Assistant Designer: Just In Time (Broadway), The Notebook (Broadway), The Notebook 1ST NATIONAL TOUR (Broadway). Associate Designer: Mary Jane (Broadway), Little Bear Ridge Road (Broadway), “Not About Race” (Gerald Casel Dance Co.). Affiliations: USA-829, Black Theatre Network, Cat’s Cradle Theatre (Artistic Board Member), Design Action (Advisory Council). Education: Lighting Technology Certificate, Stagecraft Institute of Las Vegas; BA, West Chester University; MFA, Illinois State University. IG @ericalaurenmaholmes | Website: ericalaurenmaholmes.com

Cullen and Saibi (Weirdbird Sound Design) are a design team based out of Portland, Oregon. Saibi grew up in Santa Fe and studied sound design at both Sarah Lawrence College and Santa Fe University of Art and Design; Cullen studied sound design at Southern Oregon University. They met while working at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and have been making art together ever since! Recent credits include Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really (Santa Fe Playhouse), Mother Russia (Profile Theatre), A Subtle Kind Of Murder (New Mexico Actors Lab), Notes From The Field (Portland Playhouse), and As You Like It (Cal Shakes).

Kennedy is an innovative, versatile composer and researcher whose imaginative music captures beauty, bursts of melodic and rhythmic energy. Kennedy uses his experience as a film composer to create innovative work that challenges the audience to reexamine their usual mode of appreciation. In addition to his work in contemporary music, Kennedy dedicates his time to research and education. Examples of this work can be observed in works like Soundcheck Earth (in partnership with Lou Harrison House Music, Arts, and Ecology and Joshua Tree National Park), which examines the relationship between instruments, nature, and the audience’s temporal experience.

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.

Kristen Mun-Van Noy was born and raised on the island of Oahu. She has been working as a fight choreographer and teacher in the city of Portland, OR since 2010. Her work in fight choreography led to her work in intimacy. She has been training with IDC (Intimacy Directors and Choreographers). Expanding her education into intimacy work also expanded her knowledge as a fight choreographer and an artist. Recent intimacy and fight work: A Mirror, Third Rail Repertory and Dear Evan Hansen, Broadway Rose Theatre.

Tré Cotten is a voice and dialect specialist, actor, and educator proudly from North Carolina. A graduate of the University of Washington’s Professional Actor Training Program, he is also an instructor at the University of Washington School of Drama, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate Screen Acting. His voice, text, and dialect work spans film, television, theatre, and video games. His work has been seen in the Oscar-nominated film One Night in Miami and the Tony Award–winning Broadway revival of Purlie Victorious, working with Tony winner Kara Young. Screen credits include CBC’s The Porter, Prime’s The Peripheral, and The First Lady, and he served as Acting Coach on The Exorcist: Believer. His video game work includes Assassin’s Creed Shadows with Ubisoft Montreal. Cotten was a keynote speaker for the Voice and Speech Trainers Association (VASTA) Conference in 2021 and would like to give a Haawa and Dang dii k’uuga ga to Gwankii and his family for their support.

Keela Johnson is a cultural consultant with over eight years of experience in theater, supporting productions that foster confidence, accountability, and connection. Her love and commitment to the work led to the creation of a Capstone Course called Community Healing and Theater, which she teaches each spring at Portland State University. Her work includes promoting connection, conflict resolution, cultural understanding and research, and hosting post-show (TalkBacks) and/or activities for audience and artists to reflect together. Keela centers her work on fostering empathy and authentic connection through the arts. As she likes to say, we build stronger community ties by owning and sharing our stories without apology or permission.

Kristina Mast is a stage manager based in Portland. Previous Portland Center Stage credits: The Brothers Size (Stage Manager), Lizard Boy, HAIR, August Wilson's Gem Of The Ocean (Assistant Stage Manager), Wild and Reckless, Lauren Weedman Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Production Assistant), and two summers of JAW. She has worked locally with Portland Playhouse, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, CoHo Productions, and Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble. She is a company member and resident stage manager for Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble.

Previous PCS credits include The Play that Goes Wrong, Little Women, The Brothers Size, & Mrs. Harrison. Additional credits include work at Asolo Repertory Theater, The Santa Fe Opera, The Muny, The Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, the Park Avenue Armory, and The York Theater Company. When not at work, you can find her reading, thrifting, or fishkeeping (shout out to her betta, Houdini). Enjoy the show!

Alea Tran is a theatre artist whose interests lie in creating art that is impactful and collaborative. Past productions include Primary Trust, The Light (stage manager, PCS); Liberace & Liza: Holiday at the Mansion (A Tribute), Coriolanus (production assistant, PCS); A Mirror (stage manager, Third Rail Repertory); Diné Nishłį (i am a sacred being) Or, A Boarding School Play (stage manager, Native Theatre Project); American Fast (production manager, Artists Repertory). Alea is a past member of the PATHWAYS mentorship program through Artists Repertory Theatre.