Member of United Scenic Artists – Artists Repertory Theatre

Alex Meyer

Aki Ruiz — Fri, 13 Dec 2024 01:11:23 +0000

Sapience marks Alex’s debut at Artists Rep! As a scenic designer, her recent favorites include Middletown Mall at Third Rail Repertory and We Wrote This With You In Mind at Shaking the Tree Theatre. Other scenic design credits include with Orpheus PDX, Oregon Children’s Theatre, The Theatre Company, Bag&Baggage Productions, Portland Shakespeare Project, PassinArt, Broadway Rose Theatre Co., Crave Theatre, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, Imago Theatre, and others. She has production designed for clients such as Visit Seattle, Intel and the Portland Timbers. More at www.designbyalexmeyer.com.

Christopher Acebo

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:08 +0000

CHRISTOPHER ACEBO (Set Designer) is the Associate Artistic Director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon and is thrilled to finally be working with Dámaso at Artists Rep!

Christopher has designed several world-premiere plays including All The Way (OSF/ART/BROADWAY 2014 Tony Award for Best Play), Head Over Heels by Jeff Whitty and the Go Go’s, Fingersmith by Alexa Junge, The Great Society, The Clean House, Cloudlands, The Further Adventures of Hedda Gabbler, My Wandering Boy, Hold Please, The Beard of Avon, Electricidad (Garland Award – Best Costumes), Equivocation (OSF/Seattle Rep/Arena Stage), Throne of Blood (OSF/BAM Next Wave Festival), Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner, The Tenth Muse, Living Out, and Peace, Water & Power, Border Town, Palestine New Mexico, Zorro in Hell and Chavez Ravine by Culture Clash, among others.

For seven years he was an ensemble member of the nationally acclaimed Cornerstone Theatre Company and has had the privilege of designing at many major regional theatres including the Goodman, Guthrie, Lincoln Center, CTG, ART, Yale Rep, Seattle Rep, South Coast Rep, Denver Center, Portland Center Stage, Artists Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, and Berkeley Rep to name a few.

He currently serves as a Commissioner with the Oregon Arts Commission, on the Board of Directors for Theatre Communications Group, and has served on the Steering and Advisory Committees for the Latino Theatre Commons. He’s also been on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts and for The Playwrights Center in Minneapolis and produces the Latina/o Play Project at OSF.

He is a recipient of an NEA/TCG fellowship and several awards. He received his MFA from the University of California, San Diego and his BA in Political Science from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo.

Kaitlyn Pietras

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:08 +0000

Selected Credits– New York: projections for A Fable (Cherry Lane Theatre), projections for The Gin Baby (IRT Theatre), scenery and projections for Do Like the Kids Do and Shiner (IAMA Theatre Co.).

Los Angeles: projections for OZ 2.5 (South Coast Repertory), projections for Thieves (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), scenery and projections for The Other Place and The English Bride (Road Theatre Co.), scenery and projections for The Noir Series (Heretick Theatre Lab), projections for Melissa Arctic (The Road Theatre), scenery and projections for RII (Theatre @ Boston Court), projections for Slipping (Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre), projections for Sixty Miles to Silver Lake (IAMA Theatre Co.).

Awards– New York Innovative Theatre Award Nomination for The Gin Baby (Outstanding Innovative Design– Projection Design), LA Drama Critics Circle Award for RII (Video Design), two LA Weekly Award nominations for RII and Slipping (Projection Design). Kaitlyn is a member of United Scenic Artists, Local 829.

Kristeen Willis

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:16:49 +0000

Kristeen received her BA from Centre College in Danville, KY and received her MFA in lighting design from Wayne State University, Hilberry Company in Detroit, MI. Previously, she designed lights for several Artists Rep productions, including It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Everybody, I and You, The Thanksgiving Play, The Humans, Feathers and Teeth, American Hero, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Miracle Worker, The Understudy, Tribes, Foxfinder, The Cherry Orchard and Eurydice. She designed the set for Between Riverside and Crazy, Marjorie Prime, We Are Proud To Present…, Broomstick, 4000 Miles and Foxfinder. She has designed scenery and/or lighting for several area theatres including Northwest Children Theatre’s Shrek The Musical; Profile Theatre’s True West and Master Harold And The Boys (2013 Drammy) and Thief River; Coho Productions’ Frankie and Johnny in the Clair De Lune and The Outgoing Tide; Miracle Theatre’s Oedipus El Rey (2012 Drammy) and Third Rail Repertory Theatre’s The Aliens, A Bright New Boise (2014 Drammy) and Gideon’s Knot (2014 Drammy).

Kristeen Willis

cdeyoung@artistsrep.org — Mon, 20 Jul 2020 19:46:46 +0000

Kristeen received her BA from Centre College in Danville, KY and received her MFA in lighting design from Wayne State University, Hilberry Company in Detroit, MI. She joined the ART staff as Associate Producer and Production Manager in 2016 and was Production Manager for Third Rail Repertory Theatre and Portland Shakespeare Company prior to that. Kristeen has freelanced in the areas of Lighting Design, Scenic Design, Properties, Technical Direction and Production Management. She was a full-time college professor of all things design and production from 2001-2011 and has taught courses and mentored students in scenery, lighting, props, sound, stage management, scenic painting, and technical direction. Since leaving full time teaching she has adjunct taught intro design, lighting, scenic painting and scenic design for several area colleges and managed the Third Rail mentorship company for three seasons.

Megan Wilkerson

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:18:46 +0000

In her five seasons at Artists Rep Megan has designed: scenery for The Humans, Caught, The Importance of Being Earnest, American Hero, Feathers and Teeth, The Understudy, and Xmas Unplugged, scenery and projections for Exiles and The Skin of Our Teeth, and most recently projections for Magellanica. This season she’ll be designing scenery for Small Mouth Sounds, A Doll’s House, Part 2, and The Revolutionists here at Artists Rep, and Tiny Beautiful Things at Portland Center Stage. An Artists Rep Resident Artist, Megan is also a member of the women’s theatre company The Rivendell Theatre Ensemble in Chicago and a founding member of the artistic collective Bad Soviet Habits. Since arriving in Portland, Megan has had the pleasure of working with Teatro Milagro (Óye Oyá, American Night), Third Rail Repertory Theatre (The Realistic Joneses, Lungs, The Events), Profile Theatre (The Secretaries, Blue Door), defunkt theatre (The Children’s Hour), Theatre Vertigo (Jekyll & Hyde, The Sexual Neuroses of Our Parents), and Northwest Classical Theatre (Wait Until Dark, Mary Stuart).

Prior to Portland, Megan spent 10 years in the Midwest where she worked with Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Renaissance Theaterworks, Milwaukee Chamber Theatre, Next Act Theatre, The Skylight Opera, First Stage Children’s Theatre, Michigan Opera Theatre, Pittsburgh Public Theatre and the Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. As Design Assistant, Megan spent two seasons at Oregon Shakespeare Festival (American Night, The Music Man, Ruined) and has long-running relationships with designers Marjorie Bradley Kellogg and Michael Ganio that have led to work on diverse national projects such as Kenny Leon’s production of the modern opera Margaret Garner to Bill Rauch’s Pirates of Penzance here in Portland. Megan is a proud member of United Scenic Artist Local 829.

Rodolfo Ortega

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:16:49 +0000

Rodolfo Ortega is an award winning composer for film, television and theatre. Rodolfo received his Bachelor’s Degree in Music from the University of Arizona and his Master’s of Music degree from Manhattan School of Music where he studied piano and composition. He has sound designed and composed for some of the most prestigious theatre companies in the United States including The Oregon Shakespeare Festival (Romeo and Juliet, The Tenth Muse) and Denver Center Theatre Company (The Three Musketeers, Romeo & Juliet). Rodolfo is also an Associate Artist with Santa Cruz Shakespeare (Hamlet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream Much Ado About Nothing, Macbeth, Julius Caesar, Man in the Iron Mask, Henry IV, Parts I & II). His composition for Santa Cruz Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost drew high praise from the Wall Street Journal who called his music “unexpectedly haunting”. Since 2008, he has composed an original musical every year for Northwest Children’s Theatre including Hansel and Gretel, Snow White, Pinocchio, Peter Pan, The Little Mermaid and El Zorrito (which was published by Dramatic Publishing in 2014). For Artists Repertory Theatre he has designed and composed music for Caught, The Liar, Feathers and Teeth, The Talented Ones, Trevor and Intimate Apparel. For Profile Theatre Company his credits include sound design and music for The Blue Door (Portland Drammy Award), A Lesson Before Dying, Lips Together Teeth Apart and Master Harold and the Boys. He has recently composed the music for Aurora Theatre Company’s production of The Monster Builder (San Francisco Drama Critics Award). He has also worked with Cleveland Playhouse Native Gardens and South Coast Repertory Theater The Monster Builder. He has composed for Miracle Theater Group including their productions of Lorca in a Green Dress (Portland Drammy Award), Ardiente Paciencia, Elliot a Soldier’s Fugue. He recently was commissioned to compose the music for Oye’ Oya’ a bilingual musical adaptation of The Tempest for Teatro Milagro. Rodolfo composed the scores for Oregon Children’s Theatre’s productions of Charlotte’s Web, Tuck Everlasting (Portland Drammy Award), BFG, Holes and Cyrano. Additionally he composed the music for the recently published play The Illustrated Bradbury by Ray Bradbury. Rodolfo recently won the Prague Quadrennial Competition in Music for his composition for Artist Repertory Theater’s Magellanica where he was a featured Artist in Prague in June 2019.

Sharath Patel

Casey Landreth — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 22:17:08 +0000

Sharath (he/him/his) was raised between Appalachia and India while spending the following years studying across Europe and New England. Before arriving in the Pacific Northwest, he spent nearly a decade as a lead sound designer in New York City.

Design highlights include Wolf Play, Teenage Dick, Skeleton Crew, I and You, Between Riverside and Crazy, Grand Concourse, The Price, Tribes, The Motherfucker with the Hat (Artists Rep); In the Heights, Macbeth, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (Portland Center Stage); Nina Simone: Four Women (Alabama Shakespeare Festival); Amadeus (Folger Theatre-Washington D.C.); The Wickhams: Christmas at Pemberley (Marin Theatre Company-San Francisco); Ibsen in Chicago, Tiny Beautiful Things (Seattle Repertory Theatre); Pass Over, The Royale (ACT Theatre-Seattle); WIG OUT! (American Repertory Theatre/Company One-Boston); As You Like It (California Shakespeare Theater- Oakland); Coriolanus: Fight Like a Bitch (12th Avenue Arts-Seattle); Free Outgoing (East West Players- Los Angeles); 26 Miles, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Buried Child (Profile Theatre); The Piano Lesson, Jitney, King Hedley II, The Brother Sister Plays (Portland Playhouse).

Regional/International credits include designs in New York City, Washington D.C., Boston, Norfolk, Raleigh, Aspen, Columbus, India, France, England, Germany, and Romania. He has previously served as a visiting assistant professor, lead designer, guest artist, instructor, or lecturer at Reed College, Yale, Fordham, Columbia, Willamette, Ohio, Portland State, and Butler Universities.

Sharath is a member of United Scenic Artists Local 829, The Theatrical Sound Designers and Composers Association (TSDCA), and is an Arts Envoy for the U.S. Department of State. He holds an MFA in Sound Design from the Yale School of Drama, a BFA in Production Design & Technology from Ohio University, and is very proud to be a Resident Artist at Artists Rep.