Artists Rep Resident Artist - Artists Repertory Theatre https://artistsrep.org exhilarate + illuminate Thu, 19 Feb 2026 21:35:58 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://artistsrep.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-ART_Logo-Vert_Color_OverDark_SMALL_rgb-32x32.png Artists Rep Resident Artist - Artists Repertory Theatre https://artistsrep.org 32 32 Allen Nause https://artistsrep.org/artists/allen-nause/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:25 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/allen-nause/ Allen is currently resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre where he previously served as Artistic Director for 25 years. Besides directing many productions at Artists Rep, Allen directed at many professional theaters throughout the Northwest. As an actor Allen appeared at Portland Opera, Corrib Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, […]

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Allen is currently resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre where he previously served as Artistic Director for 25 years. Besides directing many productions at Artists Rep, Allen directed at many professional theaters throughout the Northwest. As an actor Allen appeared at Portland Opera, Corrib Theatre, the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, Imago Theater, Seattle Repertory Theatre, A Contemporary Theatre, Intiman Theatre and many others. Allen has toured Artists Rep productions throughout the U.S. as well as Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

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.

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Andrea Stolowitz https://artistsrep.org/artists/andrea-stolowitz/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:25 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/andrea-stolowitz/ Andrea Stolowitz is a three-time winner of the Oregon Book Award in drama. Her plays have been developed and presented nationally and internationally at theaters such as The Long Wharf, The Old Globe, The Cherry Lane, and New York Stage and Film.  The LA Times calls her work “heartbreaking” and the Orange County Register characterizes […]

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Andrea Stolowitz is a three-time winner of the Oregon Book Award in drama. Her plays have been developed and presented nationally and internationally at theaters such as The Long Wharf, The Old Globe, The Cherry Lane, and New York Stage and Film.  The LA Times calls her work “heartbreaking” and the Orange County Register characterizes her approach as a “brave refusal to sugarcoat issues and tough decisions.”

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.

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Andrea Vernae https://artistsrep.org/artists/andrea-vernae/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:18:13 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/andrea-vernae/ Andrea is so excited to perform her second show with Artists Rep after performing in A Civil War Christmas last season. She is a native of Miami, Florida. She is also a former Portland Playhouse Apprentice. She was last seen in Building the Wall with Triangle Productions, Pen/Man/Ship with Portland Playhouse, The Every 28 Hours Plays with Confrontation Theatre, Antigone Project with Profile Theatre, and at Portland […]

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Andrea is so excited to perform her second show with Artists Rep after performing in A Civil War Christmas last season. She is a native of Miami, Florida. She is also a former Portland Playhouse Apprentice. She was last seen in Building the Wall with Triangle Productions, Pen/Man/Ship with Portland Playhouse, The Every 28 Hours Plays with Confrontation Theatre, Antigone Project with Profile Theatre, and at Portland Playhouse in Peter and the Starcatcher. When not onstage, Andrea is proud to serve as Managing Director of Confrontation Theatre.

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Ayanna Berkshire https://artistsrep.org/artists/ayanna-berkshire/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:16:49 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/ayanna-berkshire/ Ayanna (She, Her, Hers) is a professional actress based in the Pacific Northwest. She is a Resident Artist of Artists Repertory Theatre, member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA and recipient of the Round 14 TCG and Fox Fellowship Foundation grant for Distinguished Achievement. Ayanna is thrilled to join round 3 of the Mercury Project […]

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Ayanna (She, Her, Hers) is a professional actress based in the Pacific Northwest. She is a Resident Artist of Artists Repertory Theatre, member of Actors Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA and recipient of the Round 14 TCG and Fox Fellowship Foundation grant for Distinguished Achievement. Ayanna is thrilled to join round 3 of the Mercury Project and continue to define and develop the DNA: Oxygen group alongside her friends and colleagues.

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

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Barbie Wu https://artistsrep.org/artists/barbie-wu/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:18:46 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/barbie-wu/ Wu is a Portland based actor, director, and professor. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from Southern Methodist University. She is a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre (ART). Her past productions at ART include The Chinese Lady, Today Is My Birthday (Audio Drama), Magellanica (Audio Drama), Everybody, A Doll’s House, […]

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Wu is a Portland based actor, director, and professor. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in acting from Southern Methodist University. She is a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theatre (ART). Her past productions at ART include The Chinese Lady, Today Is My Birthday (Audio Drama), Magellanica (Audio Drama), Everybody, A Doll’s House, Part 2, Magellanica. Her other Portland productions are The Wolves at Portland Playhouse, and The Mermaid Hour at Teatro Milagro. Wu is an assistant professor in the theatre department at Reed College. Barbie is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.

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Bobby Brewer-Wallin https://artistsrep.org/artists/bobby-brewer-wallin/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:25 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/bobby-brewer-wallin/ Bobby Brewer-Wallin (he, him, his) Resident Artist. Professor of Theatre. With an MFA in costume design from CalArts, he joined the faculty at Willamette University in 2000. He teaches courses in Costume Design, Global Fashion History, and seminars on the subjects of Clothing + Memory, Protest Clothing, The Material Culture of Resistance, Material Culture & […]

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Bobby Brewer-Wallin (he, him, his) Resident Artist. Professor of Theatre. With an MFA in costume design from CalArts, he joined the faculty at Willamette University in 2000. He teaches courses in Costume Design, Global Fashion History, and seminars on the subjects of Clothing + Memory, Protest Clothing, The Material Culture of Resistance, Material Culture & The Art of Storytelling, and Voices of the Pacific Northwest. He spent spring 2022 teaching in Ireland at The University of Galway. Recent theatre designs include The Revolutionists, A Doll’s House Part 2, Everybody, and Magellanica at Artists Repertory Theatre, Las Meninas at Profile Theatre, The Liar and Blithe Spirit at Willamette University, The Events at Third Rail Repertory Theatre, and Richard III and King Lear at Arkansas Shakespeare Theatre.

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Carol Ann Wohlmut https://artistsrep.org/artists/carol-ann-wohlmut/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:08 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/carol-ann-wohlmut/ Carol Ann has been stage managing for 20+ years and is currently a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theater in Portland, Oregon. While at ART she has stage-managed: The Weir, Art, The Shape of Things, Copenhagen, Top Dog/Underdog, The Lobby Hero, Mercy Seat, Enchanted April, The Seagull, Assassins, Mr. Marmalade, Mars on Life – The […]

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Carol Ann has been stage managing for 20+ years and is currently a resident artist at Artists Repertory Theater in Portland, Oregon. While at ART she has stage-managed: The Weir, Art, The Shape of Things, Copenhagen, Top Dog/Underdog, The Lobby Hero, Mercy Seat, Enchanted April, The Seagull, Assassins, Mr. Marmalade, Mars on Life – The Holiday Edition, Rabbit Hole, Blackbird, Three Sisters, Design for Living, Othello, Ah, Wilderness!, Mars on Life-Live!, The Cherry Orchard, God of Carnage, Red Herring, Ithaka, Mistakes Were Made, The Playboy of the Western World, Blithe Spirit, The Invisible Hand, The Liar, Broomstick, Mothers and Sons, Grand Concourse, Feathers and Teeth, The Importance of Being Earnest, An Octoroon, The Humans, The Thanksgiving Play, Skeleton Crew, It’s a Wonderful Life: a Radio Play, The Revolutionists, 1984, La Ruta, Indecent and The Children.

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.

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E.M. Lewis https://artistsrep.org/artists/e-m-lewis/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:18:35 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/e-m-lewis/ E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, teacher, lyricist, and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. She received the Steinberg Award for HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN and SONG OF EXTINCTION and the Primus Prize for HEADS from the American Theatre Critics Association, the Ted Schmitt […]

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E. M. Lewis is an award-winning playwright, teacher, lyricist, and opera librettist. Her work has been produced around the world, and published by Samuel French. She received the Steinberg Award for HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN and SONG OF EXTINCTION and the Primus Prize for HEADS from the American Theatre Critics Association, the Ted Schmitt Award from the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle for outstanding writing of a world premiere play, a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, a playwriting fellowship from the New Jersey State Arts Commission, the 2016 Oregon Literary Fellowship in Drama, and an Edgerton Award for her epic Antarctic play MAGELLANICA that was produced at Artists Repertory Theatre in 2018 and released as a five-part audio podcast in 2020. Other plays by Lewis include: APPLE SEASON (National New Play Network rolling world premiere, locally at 21ten Theatre), THE GUN SHOW (more than fifty productions across the country; Edinburgh Fringe), TRUE STORY (locally at Artists Repertory Theatre), DOROTHY’S DICTIONARY (soon to be available in print from Concord Theatricals), YOU CAN SEE ALL THE STARS (a play for college students commissioned by the Kennedy Center), and STRANGE BIRDS (finalist for the Lanford Wilson New American Play Festival, workshop production at UC Santa Barbara). SHERLOCK HOLMES AND THE CASE OF THE FALLEN GIANT, a new opera commissioned by American Lyric Theater that Lewis wrote with composer Evan Meier, premiered at Opera Modesto in 2024.

Lewis is now working on a big new play called THE FRANKENSTEIN PROJECT, which had a workshop production at Florida Atlantic University in spring 2025, and will be part of Boston Court Pasadena’s New Works Festival in May 2026. Lewis is currently playwright-in-residence at Artists Repertory Theatre through the Mellon Foundation’s National Playwright Residency Program. She is a proud member of LineStorm Playwrights, Opera America, and the Dramatists Guild, and co-founder of ARTwrite and ARTsong. She lives on her family’s small farm in the Willamette Valley.

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Gregory Pulver https://artistsrep.org/artists/gregory-pulver/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:08 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/gregory-pulver/ Gregory is currently Theater Program Director and Associate Professor of costume design, make up and choreography for the University of Portland Drama Department and one of Artists Rep’s Resident Artists. He moved to Portland after a successful run as an Associate Professor of Costume Design at Western Washington University for 12 years and Chair of […]

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Gregory is currently Theater Program Director and Associate Professor of costume design, make up and choreography for the University of Portland Drama Department and one of Artists Rep’s Resident Artists. He moved to Portland after a successful run as an Associate Professor of Costume Design at Western Washington University for 12 years and Chair of the WWU Theatre Department for three and a half of those years.

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 TeethBroomstickCuba Libre, FoxfinderGod 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.

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JoAnn Johnson https://artistsrep.org/artists/joann-johnson/ Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:25 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/joann-johnson/ JoAnn’s directing credits for Artists Rep include Ballerina, Birdsend, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Vanya, Blackbird, The Gin Game, Grand Concourse, and I and You. Other directing credits include The School for Lies and Boom (Theatre Vertigo); Macbeth (Quintessence Theatre Group); Richard II and King Lear (Northwest Classical Theatre Collaborative); Precious Little (defunkt theatre); […]

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JoAnn’s directing credits for Artists Rep include Ballerina, Birdsend, Crumbs from the Table of Joy, Vanya, Blackbird, The Gin Game, Grand Concourse, and I and You. Other directing credits include The School for Lies and Boom (Theatre Vertigo); Macbeth (Quintessence Theatre Group); Richard II and King Lear (Northwest Classical Theatre Collaborative); Precious Little (defunkt theatre); Big Love and Eurydice (University of Portland); The Detective’s Wife (Hellfire Productions); and The Turn of the Screw (Portland Shakespeare Project). 

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.

 

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