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 Theatre Club & other Off-Broadway credits)
- Markus Potter (Artistic Director of New York Rep)
- Jade King Carroll (one of American Theatre’s 6 Theatre Workers You Should Know)
- Liz Diamond (Chair of the Directing Department & Resident Director at Yale Repertory Theatre)
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, LOVE/SICK)
- Deborah Zoe Laufer (Out of Sterno)
- Quiara Alegria Hudes (Yemaya’s Belly)
- Nilo Cruz (Bicycle Country, Sotto Voce)
- Kate Moira Ryan and Kim D. Sherman (Leaving Queens)
- Monica Wood (Papermaker)
- Brenda Withers (String Around My Finger)
Past educators include:
- Kevin Coleman (Tony nominated teaching artist and Director of Education at Shakespeare & Company)