SDC Associate – Artists Repertory Theatre

Adriana Baer

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:18:04 +0000

Adriana Baer (she/her). Adriana has directed for Alley Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Playhouse, Profile Theatre (Artistic Director, 2012-2015), The Cutting Ball Theater (Associate Artistic Director, 2004-2007), and others. She has worked with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Opera Boston, The Public Theater, Berkeley Repertory Theatre, San Francisco Circus Center/Pickle Circus, California Shakespeare Theater, and American Conservatory Theater. Among other institutions, she has taught for Portland State University, Columbia University School of the Arts, The Acting Company, and Berkeley Repertory Theatre. She has lectured as a guest speaker at dozens of colleges and universities nationwide. Adriana holds a Bachelor of Arts from Sarah Lawrence College and a Masters of Fine Arts in Directing from Columbia University. She is a member of SDC, the professional union of stage directors and choreographers. Adriana is the host of the podcast The Speaking Academy and offers online courses and coaching through her company Claim Center Stage.

Anderson Carr

Aki Ruiz — Tue, 30 Aug 2022 16:43:49 +0000

Anderson Carr is a fiercely curious artist-educator based in Portland, Oregon. As an intimacy director, Andy specializes in supporting productions with thoughtful, inclusive, trauma-informed, and culturally competent choreography. He is a founder of Cascadia Theatre Company and a past associate director with ANU Productions. Recent intimacy direction work includes: Angel’s in America: Part One, Eurydice, The Moors, and Constellations. Andy currently teaches directing at the University of Portland. Andy received his MFA in Theatre Directing from The Lir Academy of Trinity College Dublin/RADA and training in intimacy direction with Theatrical Intimacy Education.

Avital Shira

LC Dawes — Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:05:34 +0000

Director Avital Shira’s work focuses on building and empowering communities through sharing stories. Avital (she/hers) is particularly drawn to language-rich, ensemble-driven work that encourages us to embrace the cultural traditions that preceded us, while crafting art that speaks to the here and now.

Avital recently graduated from Boston University with an MFA in Directing and graduate certificate in Arts Administration. Directing credits at BU included her thesis production of Photograph 51 by Anna Ziegler, Everything That Never Happened by Sarah B. Mantell, Lerner and Loewe’s My Fair Lady, Cymbeline by William Shakespeare, and Intimate Apparel by Lynn Nottage. Recent professional directing credits include Winter People by Laura Neill (Boston Playwrights Theatre), Lifeboat by Nicola McCartney (Corrib Theatre), Between Friends by Danielle Frimer (Sycamore Theatre Co @ The Brick), and Love’s Labour’s Lost (Post 5).

Avital has also directed and dramaturged workshops of new plays including Why This Night by Dan Kitrosser (Artists Repertory Theatre), Bisland & Bly by Marialena DiFabbio and Susannah Jones (NYMF), and Elise Thoron’s translation of Merchant of Venice (Play On Shakespeare).

In addition to directing for Mercury 3, Avital is currently working as a DEI consultant and directing a workshop of Juliet Roll’s A Play About a Baby Carrot for San Diego Rep. Avital is a graduate of Yale University, a member of the Lincoln Center Director’s Lab, and an associate member of SDC.

Fiely Matias

Aki Ruiz — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 18:41:48 +0000

Fiely Matias (Nobu) is a freelance artist, writer and theatre maker. Some of his favorite projects have been touring with IMAGO as well as directing/developing Dennis T. Giacino’s Off Broadway musical DISENCHANTED! which was nominated for an Outer Critics and Off Broadway Alliance Award for Best Musical. DISENCHANTED! Is currently being licensed by BroadwayLicensing.com, has been translated into 5 languages and is set for a national tour in 2025. Fiely is currently developing a new TYA musical with Giacino entitled ZAZZIE SINGS!, which is based on his children’s book Reebee dedoo dada published by Redhawk Publications. Fiely is so excited to be working with Artists Rep!

Isaac Lamb

Aki Ruiz — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 20:42:25 +0000

Isaac Lamb is an award winning actor, director, and educator. He is a graduate of Loyola Marymount University and a proud company member of Third Rail Repertory Theatre. Select Local credits: A Case for the Existence of God, The Aliens, The Mystery of Irma Vep, Noises Off, Belleville, The Flick (Third Rail); Every Brilliant Thing, The 25th Annual…Spelling Bee, A Small Fire, Great Expectations, Twist Your Dickens, Miss Bennet, Gem of the Ocean, Sweeney Todd (PCS); Assassins, Playboy of the Western World (ART); Sound of Music, The Addams Family, Ripper (Broadway Rose); Mr. Burns: a post electric play, Peter and the Starcatcher, Scarlet (Portland Playhouse); The Three Sisters (PETE); How to Make an American Son (Profile). National Tour: Defending the Caveman, Broadway’s longest running one-person show. Select Regional: Timeless: Barbara Streisand (Staples Center), Sweet Charity (Red Mountain), One Sunday in Mississippi (Bannister). Film: Lean on Pete (Film4), North Starr (Sundance). TV: The Rehearsal (HBO), American Vandal (Netflix), Portlandia (IFC). Proud member AEA, SAG/AFTRA. isaaclamb.com

Lava Alapai

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:18:35 +0000

Lava Alapai (She/Her) is a playwright and director, born in Okinawa, Japan, and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. Her recent directing credits include School Girls, or; the African Mean Girls Play for Portland Center Stage, The Chinese Lady, The Revolutionists, and An Octoroon (co-direction) for Artists Repertory Theatre, King of the Yees for Profile Theatre, Is God Is for Washington Ensemble Theatre, Columbinus, Charlotte’s Web and Locomotion (Drammy award – Direction) for Oregon Children’s Theatre. Writing credits include Middletown Mall, getting its world premiere at Third Rail Repertory Theatre in May 2024 (Eugene O’Neill NPC semi-finalist), The Event for Artists Repertory Theatre’s Mercury Festival, T.I.N.A for 48-hour Film Festival, redline for 24-hr Theatre Festival, and Mutt for ManyHats Collaboration. She is finishing her MFA in Creative Writing – Theatre at the University of British Columbia. She is a proud member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society (SDC) and Dramatists Guild. https://lavaalapai.com

Melory Mirashrafi

LC Dawes — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 19:49:46 +0000

Melory Mirashrafi is an Iranian-American theatre artist born and based in Portland, Oregon. Melory’s work spans from new plays and translations to live music and opera, focusing on work that is relevant, rigorous, and theatrical.

Melory is the Artistic & Producing Associate at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, and has spent time at the Huntington Theatre Company in Boston, and American Conservatory Theatre in San Francisco. Melory is a Stage Directors & Choreographers Foundation Directing Fellow (Young Americans, Pittsburgh Public Theater & Portland Center Stage), attendee of the MusaMadre Rebeccu “One year for freedom of writing” residency in Sardinia, curated by Nassim Soleimanpour, and recipient of the Opera America Robert L.B. Tobin Director-Designer Prize (Glück’s Orfeo), LimeArts/20×20 Fringe Excellence in Technical Achievement Award (Abundancia, Matchbox Theatre Company), and Thomas Derrah Emerging Artist Award (English, SpeakEasy Stage Company). Melory is a Resident Artist Company member at Bag&Baggage Productions, and Stage Directors & Choreographers Associate Member.

Melory has developed and presented works at organizations across the country as a director, dramaturg, and actor, including National Queer Theatre (Layalina, <>), Third Rail Repertory Theatre (Middletown Mall, Sanctuary City, The Music Man), SpeakEasy Stage Company (English), Portland Center Stage (Young Americans, the ripple, the wave that carried me home), Gloucester Stage (Wish You Were Here), Bag&Baggage Productions (Who’s Holiday, Our Utopia, Romeo&Juliet(Layla&Majnun)), Renegade Opera (Adam’s Run), Fuse Theatre Ensemble (The God Cluster), Pittsburgh Public Theater (Young Americans), Shaking the Tree Theatre (Shahmaran), and Artists Repertory Theatre (Sapience, American Fast, True Story).

Beyond the theatre, Melory is a co-founder of the SWANA Rose Culture + Community Center (@swanarosepdx), where they co-curate of the Through the Looking Glass Artist Residency Program, co-organizer of the Beaverton Food Project (@beavertonfoodproject), and vocalist of Portland-based chamber rock band CHERA CHERA (@cheracheraband).

Melory’s writing can be found in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays and Routledge’s Troubling Traditions: Canonicity, Theatre, and Performance in the US.

Find Melory on Instagram @meloryjasmin.