Lava Alapai

Lava Alapai

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...

Adriana Baer

Adriana Baer

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...

Chris Harder

Chris Harder

Chris is an actor, director and theatre maker dedicated to artistic risk and the creation of new work. He has performed in numerous productions over the past 20 years in Portland and has received multiple nominations and awards for outstanding performance. Chris was...

Bobby Brewer-Wallin

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...

Jonathan Cole

Jonathan Cole

Jonathan (he/him/his) has been choreographing at ART since 2010, and has been the Resident Fight Choreographer here since 2013. He has worked throughout the northwest as a director, actor, and fight director, and is Department Chair and a tenured faculty member of the...

Linda Alper

Linda Alper

Linda Alper has co-written adaptations and translations of Great Expectations, The Three Musketeers, William Saroyan’s Tracy’s Tiger, Eduardo De Filippo’s Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Napoli Milionaria!, all produced at The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, with additional...

Ayanna  Berkshire

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...