In 2000, Allen traveled to Vietnam and co-directed a bilingual, bicultural production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream as well as a production of The Glass Menagerie as part of the Vietnam/America Theater Exchange. In May 2007 Allen directed All My Sons with the Palestinian National Theater in Jerusalem as a Cultural Envoy with the U.S. Department of State. In 2010 Allen directed The Odd Couple in Islamabad, Pakistan also as a Cultural Envoy. In 2015 Allen directed for the Dramatic Theatre of Tobolsk in Siberia, Russia.

Allen has also appeared in feature films and on national television. In 2003 Allen was the recipient of the Oregon Governor’s Arts Award.

Andrea’s play Recent Unsettling Events is a commission from Artists Repertory Theatre. The play was a finalist for the 2020 Eugene O’Neill Theatre Conference, was the 2020 winner of the American Blues Theater Blue-Ink festival, the 2002 Portland Civic Theatre Guild’s New Play Prize.

The Berlin Diaries has toured nationally and internationally. The play was on the 2019 Kilroy’s List, is the recipient of the NYFA/NYC Mayor’s office award for Theater, Film and TV, and first premiered at English Theater Berlin/International Performing Arts Center in Berlin, Germany. The play was scheduled to have its off-Broadway premiere in March 2021 (postponed to 2022). The Berlin Diaries audio drama was released 1/25/21 through Artists Repertory Theater’s Mercury Company initiative. You can listen to it here.

Andrea is a collaborating writer and affiliated artist with the award-winning devised company Hand2Mouth Theatre. About one of their collaborations The San Francisco Chronicle writes, “The genius is that it is at once a collective unburdening in the way the best drama has always been, while also being very funny and self-aware.” As a Hand2Mouth teaching artist Andrea has been training in international conflict resiliency sponsored by the US State Department.

Andrea’s work in theater and audio is often based on real events, interviews, testimony, oral history, and found documents. She has been trained and works in a joint stock model of creation. Andrea has made and toured plays based on interviews with returning women combat soldiers, police officers of color, Syrian refugees, and members of intentional communities. Andrea’s international work centers around gathering real-life testimonies using storytelling as the medium for deeper social understanding.

Andrea is the Lacroute Playwright-in-Residence at Artists Repertory Theater, a member playwright at New Dramatists (NYC), and an affiliated writer at The Playwrights’ Center in Minneapolis. Andrea teaches at Willamette University and as a guest artist at New YorkUniversity’s Tisch School of the Arts. Andrea has served on the faculties at The University of Portland, Duke University, and UC-San Diego.

Ayanna’s work includes: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Portland Center Stage); The Revolutionists, Wolf Play, Teenage Dick, Small Mouth Sounds, Between Riverside and Crazy, An Octoroon, The Importance of Being Earnest, A Civil War Christmas, Grand Concourse, The Understudy, Intimate Apparel and Race (Artists Repertory Theatre) and The Scottsboro Boys (Dir. Susan Stroman, Ahmenson Theatre). www.ayannaberkshireinfo.com

Carol Ann served as a production manager for Mercury Project 2 & 3, as well as for the New Plays Festival in 2022. In addition, Carol Ann has been a board operator, company manager, and even an accountant for a variety of theaters in the Portland area over the past 30+ years. These theaters include Portland Center Stage, Portland Rep, Stark Raving Theater, New Rose Theatre, Triangle Productions, Musical Theater Co, Metro Performing Arts, Northwest Children’s Theatre, and Carousel Co.
Carol Ann is on staff at The Actors’ Conservator, as well as a guest lecturer who teaches Theater Management, Stage Management, and Making a Living in the Arts at both the high school and college levels.

Plays by Lewis include: How the Light Gets In (winner of the Steinberg Award, and a semi-finalist for the O’Neill, that premiered at Boston Court Pasadena), Apple Season (which received a rolling world premiere from the National New Play Network in 2019), The Gun Show (which has had more than forty productions across the country and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in Scotland), Infinite Black Suitcase, Reading to Vegetables, True Story, Dorothy’s Dictionary, and You Can See All the Stars (a play for college students commissioned by the Kennedy Center). Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Fallen Giant, a new opera commissioned by American Lyric Theater that Lewis is working on with composer Evan Meier, had an orchestral workshop in New York City in February 2020. Town Hall, her opera about health care in America, created with composer Theo Popov, was produced at University of Maryland and Willamette University.

Lewis is currently working on a big, new play called The Great Divide, commissioned by the Oregon Shakespeare Festival as part of their American Revolutions program. The play was co-commissioned by Artists Repertory Theater, and Lewis has received a three-year National Playwright Residency from the Mellon Foundation to support her work with them. Lewis is a proud member of LineStorm Playwrights and the Dramatists Guild. She lives on her family’s farm in Oregon.

Mr. Pulver holds an MFA in costume design and choreography from Humboldt State University, CA. He is the 1993 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival National Costume Design Winner for his work on Three Penny Opera. He is a member of the international board of advisors for The Last Frontier Theatre Conference and participates yearly as a guest artist, mentoring new American playwrights.

Among designing both sets and costumes for Bag & Baggage Productions, and costumes for Broadway Rose Theatre Company. His Artists Rep credits include Trevor, The Skin of Our Teeth, Broomstick, Cuba Libre, Foxfinder, God of Carnage, Red Herring and Design for Living. Gregory has also designed for several short films and TV spots in Washington including a dance for the camera. Gregory is also an accomplished director, singer, actor and dog owner.

Among JoAnn’s many roles for Artists Rep are Katherine Gerard in Mothers and Sons, Hattie in Ten Chimneys, Vivian Bearing in Wit, Flora in Humble Boy, Leo in Indiscretions, Agnes in A Delicate Balance, Mrs. Rafi in The Sea, Margaret Civil in A Perfect Ganesh, Alice in Retreat from Moscow and Rev. Chausable in The Importance of Being Earnest. Other favorite roles include Sister Aloysius in Doubt and Kate Keller in All My Sons (Arkansas Repertory Theatre); Big Mama in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Portland Center Stage); Leni Riefenstahl in Leni (Insight Out Theatre Collective); Sarah Bernhardt in Memoir (CoHo Productions); Madame Arcati in Blithe Spirit, Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest and Judith Bliss in Hay Fever (Tacoma Actors Guild); and Meg in The Birthday Party, Nancy in Seascape and Aunt Sally in Fifth of July (Profile Theatre). 

Other theatres include Many Hats Collaboration, Shaking the Tree, Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble, The Old Globe, Sacramento Theatre Company, San Jose Repertory Theatre, Liminal, The Empty Space, Pioneer Theatre, Utah Shakespeare Theatre, Imago Theatre, and many seasons with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. JoAnn toured internationally with Artists Rep in the role of A in Three Tall Women. She is proud to be a Resident Artist at Artists Rep and a member Actors’ Equity and of SAG-AFTRA.