Member of Actors Equity Association – Artists Repertory Theatre https://artistsrep.org exhilarate + illuminate Fri, 17 Jan 2025 20:22:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://artistsrep.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/cropped-ART_Logo-Vert_Color_OverDark_SMALL_rgb-32x32.png Member of Actors Equity Association – Artists Repertory Theatre https://artistsrep.org 32 32 Amy Newman https://artistsrep.org/artists/amy-newman/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=amy-newman Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:25 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/amy-newman/ Amy is back in her favorite city after joining the acting company at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.  In three seasons in Ashland, she played a wide range of roles including Fanny Dashwood/ensemble in Sense and Sensibility (and as an understudy, three performances playing Elinor!), Lady Capulet in Romeo and Juliet, Mistress Ford in the Merry Wives of Windsor, Calypso/Muse/ensemble in Mary Zimmerman’s The Odyssey, Mrs. Joe/Narrator in Great Expectations, and Ronda/ensemble in the world premiere of Lisa Loomer’s Roe.  After her first season at OSF, Amy went on the road with Roe to perform it at the Arena Stage in Washington D.C and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.  It was a highlight of her career to tell that story at such a critical time in our nation’s history.  

Born in Gainesville, Florida Amy has lived all over, including San Pedro, Belize.  After two years of college, she moved to Philadelphia to pursue theater and explore a bigger city.  She studied with the late George DiCenzo at the Acting Studio of Philadelphia and later earned her BA from Temple University.  She continued her training by taking classes and workshops as well as performing with many companies around town.  She built her resume doing small, scrappy theater and after seven years in Philadelphia, Amy moved to Portland in 2005.  She first found a home with Theatre Vertigo and worked there as an ensemble member for five years.  Her final production with Theatre Vertigo earned her a Best Supporting Actress Drammy for God’s Ear in 2010.  Amy has worked with many other companies in town including Portland Center Stage, defunkt theatre, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Profile Theatre, Liminal and Third Rail Repertory Theatre.  She was awarded a 2014 Best Actress Drammy for her role in Third Rail’s production of Gidion’s Knot.  Outside of theater, she’s done a few small films over the years and appeared on Season 3 of Grimm. 

Amy is grateful to have an artistic home at Artists Rep where she has appeared in ten productions so far: Ann in All My Sons, Helen in Design for Living, Belle/Nora in Ah, Wilderness!, Anya in The Cherry Orchard, Becky in Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol, Lynn in Red Herring, Pegeen Mike in The Playboy of the Western World, Sylvia in Tribes, Clarice in The Liar, and Kate Keller in The Miracle Worker.  Amy lives in North Portland with her husband Josh and two cats, Rory and McDuff.  When not at the theater she can be found in a yoga class, hiking in the woods, at the movies, or cooking.  She is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association.  Amy considers it a great privilege to be a working artist and is thrilled to be a part of the growth at Artists Rep.

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Anya Pearson https://artistsrep.org/artists/anya-pearson/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=anya-pearson Wed, 25 Nov 2020 23:11:49 +0000 https://artistsrep.org/?post_type=artists&p=229876 Anya Pearson is an award-winning actress, playwright, poet, producer, and activist. She was the inaugural winner of the $10,000 Voice is a Muscle Grant from the Corporeal Voices Foundation, for her choreopoem, Made to Dance in Burning Buildings. Made to Dance in Burning Buildings was showcased at Joe’s Pub at The Public Theater and received its World Premiere at Shaking The Tree Theatre where Anya was the Playwright-in-Residence for the 2018-2019 season. Anya received the $10,000 Problem Play Commission to adapt Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure focused on mass incarceration and the numerous other failings of our criminal justice system and their complex and nuanced effects on the black family unit. Her adaptation, The Measure of Innocence, was selected for the 2020 Kilroys List and won the 2020 Drammy Award for Best Original Script. She was a finalist for the 2020 George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship in Playwriting and the National Black Theatre’s 2019 I Am Soul Playwriting Residency. Her reimagining of Agamemnon, The Killing Fields, was recently developed at Seven Devils New Play Foundry and will head to the Great Plains Theatre Conference in 2021. Anya runs a multimedia production company called Urban Haiku whose mission is to produce groundbreaking work that transcends the traditional boundaries of performance while also serving as the catalyst for art and community action to combine for real social change. She is currently launching a BIPOC collective through Corporeal Writing, finishing her debut collection of poetry, writing three pilots, launching a BIPOC-owned, PDX-based clothing label, and constantly plotting, planning, devising, creating, imagining, and revising visions of a better world. She is a member of Linestorm Playwrights, Couch Film Collective, Actors’ Equity Association, and the Dramatists Guild. Anya is a graduate of the acting program at William Esper Studio in New York City and continues to train at AMAW in Los Angeles. Her best production is her 8-year-old daughter, Aidee, who can be seen, most nights, trying to circumvent bedtime by asking deep philosophical questions like: “When are we going to see the world? When is my life going to truly begin?”

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Aubrey Saverino https://artistsrep.org/artists/aubrey-saverino/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=aubrey-saverino Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:39:24 +0000 https://artistsrep.org/?post_type=artists&p=7503 Aubrey Saverino is a writer and AEA, SAG-AFTRA actor with an MFA from The Old Globe/USD.

Her writing credits include The Fields of Asphodel (selected for the Red Bull Short Play Festival in 2018, published in 2019), Dido & Aeneas (selected for the Red Bull Short Play Festival in 2015, published in 2016), the television pilot Monogamish (selected for IFP’s 2015 Film Week at Lincoln Center), and episodes of the award-winning web series “The Digressions”.

As an actor, Aubrey has performed on screen (recently in Adam Sandler’s The Week Of on Netflix) and in professional Off-Broadway and regional theaters productions around the country including King Lear, Twelfth Night (The Old Globe); Henry IV Parts I & II, Twelfth Night (Independent Shakespeare Company); The Great Gatsby, Love’s Labour’s Lost (Orlando Shakespeare Theater); Pride & Prejudice (Capital Repertory Theatre); In The Next Room or the vibrator play (San Diego Repertory Theatre). Additional credits include Vineyard Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Furious Theatre Company, Chester Theatre Company, various commercial work and more.

She is also a Theater Instructor at Moorpark College. www.aubreysaverino.com

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Ayanna Berkshire https://artistsrep.org/artists/ayanna-berkshire/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=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 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/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=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, 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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Bern Tan https://artistsrep.org/artists/bern-tan/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bern-tan Wed, 15 Sep 2021 23:40:34 +0000 https://artistsrep.org/?post_type=artists&p=231562 Bern Tan (he/him) is a pretty jolly human, if fed. He’s thrilled to join the Artists Repertory Theatre litter, and deeply grateful to be performing in live theatre again. (Please sweet bajeebus, can we be done with this plague already?) Apart from working as an Equity actor, he also finds joy in preparing singers for Broadway/film/TV/college (herding cats), conducting research with a voice lab (eavesdropping on sexually excited rats), and gathering with loved ones at the feeding trough.

He has been on display recently as Stine (City of Angels, Skirball Center, NYC), Kralahome and u/s King of Siam (King and I, National Tour), Sky Masterson (Guys and Dolls, NYU), and Look Young (Discount Ghost Stories, Local Theater Company, CO).  Bern also loves creating new works, and was recently seen in Joshua Vrana’s and Maggie Moe’s My Pet Dragon, Annie Sherman’s Piaf Lives, and Finding Home, an original musical featuring the music of Ricky Ian Gordon. Bern holds an M.M. in Vocal Performance and Pedagogy from NYU, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago. For Eric.

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Bobby Bermea https://artistsrep.org/artists/bobby-bermea/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=bobby-bermea Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:18:03 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/bobby-bermea/ Bobby Bermea is the co-artistic director of The Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project, a proud member of Sojourn Theatre, and a long-time member of Actors’ Equity Association. He has worked in theatres literally from New York, NY to Honolulu, HI. Bermea has appeared at La MaMa in New York, Centerstage in Baltimore, Kansas City Repertory, Vortex Repertory in Austin, the Albuquerque Little Theatre in Albuquerque, NM, Hawaii Theatre in Honolulu, HI, Intiman, ACT, The Group, The Langston Hughes Cultural Center, A-Ha, The Empty Space, and The New Mercury Theatre in Seattle, and the Cleveland Public Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio. In Portland, Bermea has performed with Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Playhouse, Profile Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Sojourn Theatre, Cygnet, Tygres Heart, Milagro and Beirut Wedding. In recent years he’s directed My Soul Grown Deep, Reborning, The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents, Wait Until Dark, Hollow Roots, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Blue Door. He has written four previous plays, Saint Heroin, Mercy, Rocket Man and Heart of the City.

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Brandon Contreras https://artistsrep.org/artists/brandon-contreras/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=brandon-contreras Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:06 +0000 http://artistsrep.wpengine.com/artists/brandon-contreras/ Brandon played Hector in Artists Rep’s Cuba Libre.

TELEVISION: Mr. Robot (USA), Awkwafina is Nora from Queens (Comedy Central). NEW YORK: Almost Famous (Pre-Broadway), Road Show (City Center Encores!), Jerry Springer: The Opera (The New Group), The Connector (NYTW), Our Lady of 121st Street (Off-Broadway), The Secret Garden (Developmental Lab), & The Hamilton Mixtape (The Public Theater). He was also seen in the 1st National Tour of In the Heights & has worked at multiple regional theaters around the country. Brandon is a filmmaker who’s work focuses on the experience of Queer BIPOC narratives. He is also the co-creater, writer & executive producer of the sketch comedy platform, The Homo Sapien Experience (@TheHomoSapienExperience on all platforms)

Brandon is a graduate of Pace University with a BFA in Musical Theatre and a Minor in Dance. A huge thank-you to his incredible family for making his dreams a reality, and to Wolf Talent Group for their endless support. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity Association. FOLLOW: @OhHey_Brandon

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Carol Ann Wohlmut https://artistsrep.org/artists/carol-ann-wohlmut/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=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 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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Charles Grant https://artistsrep.org/artists/charles-grant/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=charles-grant Wed, 25 Nov 2020 19:32:00 +0000 https://artistsrep.org/?post_type=artists&p=229818 Charles is filled with joy and gratitude to be collaborating with so many amazing artists in Mercury Company (and this is his first time working with Artists Rep)! As an actor, producer, and teaching artist, he’s worked with various companies over the years: Portland Center Stage, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, Broadway Rose, Portland Playhouse, Confrontation Theatre, Staged!, and Milagro. Thank you to Dámaso and the entire team at Artists Rep for bringing us all together and providing a platform for artists to create and connect in a time when it is much needed. Check out thecharlesgrant.com to say hello!

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