Past Guest Artists

Portland Stage interns have the opportunity to work with talented guest artists from many different fields of theater.

Past directors include:

• BARTLETT SHER  (Tony Award Winner; former Artistic Director, Intiman Theater)
• ANNE BOGART  (Founder, SITI Company)
• TONY GIORDANO (nationally known director: Yale Rep, Trinity Rep, numerous NYC productions)
• CHRISTOPHER GRABOWSKI  (Director of Theater, Vassar College)
• PAUL MESHEJIAN  (Founding Artistic Director, PlayPenn)
• GABRIEL BARRE  (Tony Award Nominee; Manhattan Theater Club & other Off-Broadway credits) 

Past designers include:

• TYLER MICOLEAU  (Obie and Lucille Lortel Award winner)
• BRYON WINN  (Director of Theater, University of Iowa)
• CHRISTOPHER AKERLIND  (Tony Award Winner - Light in the Piazza)
• ELLEN McCARTNEY  (Cal Arts Faculty)
• MARCUS DILLIARD  (The Guthrie Theater, Theater de la Jeune Lune)
• JENNIFER TIPTON  (Yale School of Drama)

Past performers include:

• JONATHAN McMURTRY  (40-year veteran of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego)
• KAREN MACDONALD  (Harvard Faculty; former longtime ensemble member at A.R.T. in Boston)
• DON HARVEY  (films include The Untouchables, Eight Men Out, and Die Hard II)
• LARRY MARSHALL  (Tony and Drama Desk Nominee; numerous Broadway & Metropolitan Opera credits)
• KRISTIN LINKLATER  (author of Freeing the Natural Voice and Chair of
Columbia University's Graduate Theater Department)
• ANN HARADA  (many Broadway credits; originated role of Christmas Eve in Avenue Q)
• AVNER EISENBERG  (Avner the Eccentric, International Solo Performer)

Past playwrights include:

• JOHN CARIANI  (Almost, Maine, Last Gas)
• DEBORAH ZOE LAUFER  (Out of Sterno)
• QUIARA ALEGRIA HUDES (Yemaya's Belly)
• NILO CRUZ  (Bicycle Country)
• KATE MOIRA RYAN and KIM D. SHERMAN  (Leaving Queens)