Affiliate Artists

The Affiliate Artists are local theater professionals who have longstanding ties to Portland Stage. Affiliate Artists have worked as actors, directors and educators, and play a prominent role in the artistic life of Portland Stage.

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The group also acts as ambassadors linking Portland Stage to other local, national and international arts organizations, building stronger connections to local theater artists and our community. The establishment of the Affiliate Artists is an effort to create an artistic home for theater artists who choose to devote themselves to the Portland community.

For a listing of Affiliate Artists events during the 2009-2010 season, please click here.

The Affiliate Artists are:

	RON BOTTING* (actor and director) has worked regionally and in NY. Last seen Portland Stage's productions of Syncopation and Much Ado About Nothing. Trained with Shakespeare & Company and worked extensively on their Shakespeare school residency program in the Berkshire and Boston regions.
	PETER BROWN (actor) PSC Production Manager and coordinator of Little Festival & From Away, Peter also directs the Mad Horse Theatre Company, is the advisor/director for the Portland High School Shakespeare Club, and producer of summer theatre for the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor.
	DANIEL BURSON (director and dramaturg) Literary & Education manager of PSC, where he co-produces Little Festival and From Away and coordinates PSC’s outreach programs. Local directing credits include two PSC Studio Series collaborations and three summers at the Opera House at Boothbay Harbor.
	MAUREEN BUTLER (actor) Acted in PSC's Lettice & Lovage and A Christmas Carol, and with the Theatre at Monmouth, Boothbay Opera House, Mad Horse Theatre, American Irish Repertory Ensemble, and the Bethel Performing Arts Festival. Does education work for L/A Arts Readers Theatre program.
	LISA DIFRANZA (director) Experience teaching, directing and developing new plays includes work at University of Iowa, The Juilliard School and the Eugene O’Neill Theatre Center. Has served as Artistic Director of The Children’s Theatre of Maine, and founding Director of the Arts Academy at PATHS.
	MOIRA DRISCOLL* (actor) Acted in the PSC productions of Two Rooms, The Price, The Foreigner, Women and the Sea, and The Misanthrope. Has acted off-Broadway and at theaters throughout the US and Europe, and has guest-starred on Law & Order: Criminal Intent, Cosby, and Law & Order.
	ANDREW HARRIS* (actor) Trained at the University of London and Guildhall School of Music & Drama, has worked with the R.S.C., The Globe, The Royal National Theatre, London, and was founding Artistic Director of ‘Merchants Theatre’, featuring medieval traveling players. Has also appeared on the History Channel.
	MARK HONAN* (actor) Mr. Honan trained at the Webber Douglas Academy in London and has worked extensively in theater on both sides of the Atlantic. He has numerous voice over and industrial credits as well as BBC audiobooks.
	MICHELLE LIVERMORE WIGTON (actor, playwright and singer), has performed in Maine with The Theatre Project, Mad Horse Theatre Company, The Children’s Theatre of Maine, and The Oratorio Chorale. Was Playwright-in-Residence for Children’s Theatre of Maine. Majored in Theatre at Bates College.
	R J McCOMISH (driector) has directed for the Boston Theatre Marathon, PSC’s Studio Series and Naked in Portland, as well as staged readings of Wet, Wonderland, Almost Maine, Apocalypso, Hallowed Ground and Our Good Neighbor. R.J. is a member of the Escapists, a Sketch Comedy and Improv Troupe.
	DANIEL NOEL* (actor) Has appeared in PSC's The Drawer Boy, Arcadia, The Foreigner, Rough Crossing, A Christmas Carol and Little Festival/From Away for the last 11 years. Gigs include TV, film, voice/print work, regional theatre, opera and Broadway experience. Created Longfellow: A Life in Words
	JANICE O'ROURKE* (actor, singer/songwriter) Has appeared in PORTLAND STAGE’s Out of Sterno as Dottie, Iron Kisses as Barbara, Lend Me a Tenor as Maggie and Comedy of Errors as Luciana. Teaches and coaches for The Actors Institute, NYC.
	MICHAEL RAFKIN (director, actor) Has worked in Maine as a director, actor, playwright and teacher for more than 30 years. A graduate of Beloit College and the University of Copenhagen, and earned his MFA in directing from Carnegie-Mellon.
	ED REICHERT* (music director, actor, singer) Faculty, School of Music at USM, is musical theatre vocal coach director. PSC highlights: A Christmas Carol, Loman Family Picnic, Master Class. NYC, Regional & Stock: North Shore Music Theatre, Circle Rep. AMAS Musical Theatre, Maine State Music Theatre and Ogunquit Playhouse.
	HANS INDIGO SPENCER Hans Indigo Spencer’s career stretches over twenty years of supporting stories for theater directors, filmmakers, animators, and choreographers. Composing credits include plays at Portland Stage – “Iron Kisses” (2007), “Magnetic North” (2008), “Passion of the Hausfrau” (2009) – as well as music for shows airing on National Geographic Channel, History Channel, PBS, Cartoon Network.
	DUSTIN TUCKER* PSC credits include: Crumpet in The Santaland Diaries, Sam in Fully Committed, Fred in A Christmas Carol and Peer Gynt. Broadway: The Rainmaker with Woody Harrelson and Jayne Atkinson (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: Stone Cold Dead Serious (Edge Theater Co./NY Premiere); Life is a Dream (Edge Theater Co./SoHo Rep); La Dispute (Primary Stages/ACT II Productions). Other PSC credits include: Sam in Fully Committed, Fred in A Christmas Carol and Peer Gynt. Broadway: The Rainmaker with Woody Harrelson and Jayne Atkinson (Roundabout). Off-Broadway: Stone Cold Dead Serious (Edge Theater Co./NY Premiere); Life is a Dream (Edge Theater Co./SoHo Rep); La Dispute (Primary Stages/ACT II Productions). Other NY: Falstaff and The Merry Widow (Dicapo Opera); Moonchildren and Pains of Youth (HERE); Woyzeck in Woyzeck (Culture Project) and The Maids (2001 NY Fringe Festival). Regional credits: ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, The Rainmaker (Williamstown); The Mystery of Irma Vep, Midsummer Night’s Dream, La Bete (Theater at Monmouth); Around the World in 80 Days, Perfect Wedding and No Sex Please, We’re British (Sierra Repertory Theater); Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew (Interlochen Shakespeare Festival). Dustin is a member of Actor’s Equity Association. www.dustintucker.com. Dustin is very proud to dedicate this performance to the celebration of his beautiful new goddaughter, Tucker Mathilda Wood.
	BESS WELDEN (actor) MFA/National Theatre Conservatory, has taught voice and speech at Vassar College, School for Film and Television, USM, and Colby College. At PSC she has performed in Manifest, The Comedy of Errors, The Passion of the Hausfrau, From Away and the Little Festival of the Unexpected.
	SALLY WOOD* (actor, director, and fight director) Has spent many summers with the Theatre at Monmouth and across the country, but makes Portland her home. MFA/University of Tennessee, has trained in New York, Russia, Germany, England, and Italy.