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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A dual U.S./German citizen, Stolowitz divides her time between New York, Portland, Berlin, and Ireland. Her work often combines documentary inquiry, theatrical experimentation, and personal narrative to explore questions of history, identity, memory, and belonging. Her recent work includes “Numbered Be Our Days”, an Irish Arts Council Project Award-winning play about the Jewish community of Cork, Ireland, was presented at Cork Midsummer Festival in 2025. “The Berlin Diaries” recently completed an NNPN Rolling World Premiere with productions across the United States and Berlin and is published by Concord Theatricals.

Stolowitz’s play “Recent Unsettling Events”, commissioned by Artists Repertory Theatre, won the 2025 Kernodle New Play Award and the American Blues Theater Blue Ink Award and was a finalist for the Eugene O’Neill National Playwrights Conference. Other plays include “Knowing Cairo”, recipient of San Diego’s Billie Award for Best New Play and an LA Times Critics’ Pick; “Antarktikos”, winner of the Oregon Book Award and a Susan Smith Blackburn Prize nominee; and “Ithaka”, winner of the Oregon Book Award for Drama. Stolowitz is a New Dramatists alumna and a Core Writer alumna of the Playwrights’ Center. She has taught dramatic writing at Duke University, UC San Diego, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Willamette University, and the University of Galway. She holds an MFA in Playwriting from UC San Diego.

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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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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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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.

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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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He has also performed at Portland Center Stage (It’s a Wonderful Life, Twist Your Dickens: The Second City’s Christmas Carol, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline), Profile Theatre (Gloria, Reggie Hoops) Portland Playhouse (Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson, Bingo with the Indians), Third Rail Repertory Theatre (A Noble Failure, The Pain and the Itch), Oregon Children’s Theatre (The Red Badge of Courage, The Pressure Point!), Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (Three Sisters), Badass Theatre Company (Invasion!), Miracle Theatre (Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue, Sonia Flew), The Anonymous Theatre Company (Clue, The Crucible, The Good Doctor, Lend Me a Tenor, Rumors), Clackamas Repertory Theatre (Baskerville, Sherwood, The Gods of Comedy), Shaking the Tree Theatre (Fucking A, Far Away), CoHo Productions (Reasons to Be Pretty), Fusion Theatre Co. (Wakey, Wakey, Witch, Life X 3, Old Times, Disgraced), Milagro Theatre (The Play You Want, Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue, Sonia Flew) and several others.

He has appeared on the television show Leverage and has made several appearances on IFC’s Portlandia. He also teaches acting and directs on occasion, most recently directing the World Premiere production of Play by D.C. Copeland and teaching scene study classes at ART and Jana Lee Hamblin’s Act Now Studio. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association and SAG-AFTRA. He is always incredibly grateful to share the ART stage.

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