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)

 

2012-2013 SEASON

Last Gas
by Wendy Wasserstein
SEP 25 - OCT 21, 2012



WORLD PREMIERE
by William Donnelly
OCT 30 - NOV 18, 2012


Santaland Diaries
by David Sedaris
NOV 23 - DEC 16, 2012
In the Studio Theater


A Christmas Carol
by Charles Dickens
NOV 30 - DEC 23, 2012


Trouble Is My Business

by Jaston Williams, Joe Sears
and Ed Howard 
JAN 22 - FEB 17, 2013



by Noël Coward
FEB 26 - MAR 17, 2013


LOVE/SICK
WORLD PREMIERE
by John Cariani
MAR 26 - APR 21, 2013
 


by David Davalos
APR 30 - MAY 19, 2013