Springs, the University of California Berkeley Anthropological Museum, Niketown Atlanta and the renovation of The Historic Grand Theatre in Salem, Oregon. He is Resident Lighting Designer at Milagro Theatre, earning four Drammy Awards in previous years. Past work for Artists Rep includes Seven Guitars and The Motherfucker With the Hat for director Kevin Jones, and Exiles and Cuba Libre for director Dámaso Rodriguez.
MATT TABOR Composer Originally a drummer and percussionist, Matt switched to piano when he met professor Darrell Grant while auditioning for the music department at Portland State University. That meeting ignited the inspiration for Matt to pursue a new path, studying jazz piano with Grant as his private instructor. Since graduating in 2008, Matt has established himself in the Portland jazz scene, leading his own trio as well as playing as a sideman with a variety of local acts. He has also been an in-demand composer and arranger, and is excited to be working on We Are Proud to Present…, his first collaboration with Artists Rep. Other recent work has included the 2012 PAMTA awardwinning musical Recognition, for which he received nominations for Outstanding Orchestration and Best Original Score, and the Portland Playhouse’s 2014 production of August Wilson’s The Piano Lesson. These days Matt can be found playing solo piano at Portland Prime on Thursday nights, as well as working as musical director for the Tony Starlight Showroom.
JEN RAYNAK Musical Director Jen has been designing sound for theatre and film in Portland since the mid-90s, including six years as a company member of Third Rail Repertory Theatre and a 10-year stint at Portland Center Stage. By day, Jen is the Carproelsofly Department Head in Portland’5’s Winningstad Theatre.
MARY MCDONALD-LEWIS Dialect Coach Mary McDonald-Lewis has been a professional artist since 1979. She resides in Portland, Oregon, and is an international dialect coach for film, television and stage. She also works as a voice actor, on-camera actor, stage actor and director. Last season at Artists Rep, MaryMac coached Intimate Apparel, Blithe Spirit, The Invisible Hand, The Price and Tribes; this year, she has
coached Cuba Libre, Broomstick and The Miracle Worker. As house coach for Portland Center Stage, she managed Threesome and Three Days of Rain, which featured two stars from the NBC hit show Grimm, who she also coaches. Listen for her work on Streetcar Named Desire at PCS, and Grand Concourse at Artists Rep soon! Her favorite new client is Patrick Stewart. MaryMac loves what she does, and she thanks Finnegan, Sullivan and Flynn for always wagging their tails when she comes home.
KEMBA SHANNON Choreographer Kemba received her BFA from Towson State University and trained at the Alvin Ailey American Theater, Martha Graham School, The Edge, Lula Washington, Peridance and Morgan State University. She has taught dance classes at, UCLA, Loyola Marymount, El Camino College, Portland State University and others. Kemba’s stage credits include The Lion King (LA cast), The Color Purple (Broadway cast), Zumanity (Cirque du Soleil), Aida and FAME. Kemba’s ambition and drive have won her world recognition with musical icons such as Madonna (Drowned World Tour), Pink (Try This World Tour), Celine Dion (Taking Chances World Tour), Rihanna (Nike RockStar World Tour), Kanye West, R. Kelly and Fantasia just to name a few. Her television credits include American Dreams (NBC), Oscars (Chicago Performance), MTV Music Awards (Pink performance), the Emmys (Kristin Bell performance), World Music Awards (Kanye West and R. Kelly), NAACP Awards and the Grammys.
LUAN SCHOOLER Dramaturg Luan joined Artists Rep as the Director of New Play Development & Dramaturgy in April 2015, to build the Table | Room | Stage program, which supports the creation and development of new work. Luan honed her skills as a company member of Perseverance Theatre in Alaska, working with then-artistic director Molly Smith on new plays and devised works with wide ranging artists including Paula Vogel, John Murrell and John Luther Adams. After leaving Alaska, Schooler became the Literary Manager/ Dramaturg for Berkeley Rep. During seven years there, she worked with many luminary writers, including David Edgar, Naomi Iizuka, Salman Rushdie, Dominique Serrand, Rinde Eckert, Lillian Groag, Bridget Carpenter, Adam Rapp and Robert Fagles, and astute directors
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Tony Taccone, Mark Wing-Davey, Stephen Wadsworth and Lisa Peterson, among others. She has also worked on several devised pieces at Denver Center with artistic team Pavel Dobrusky and Per-Olav Sørensen, and worked as dramaturg at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California Shakespeare Festival, A Traveling Jewish Theatre and Shaking the Tree Theatre.
MICHELLE JAZUK Production Stage Manager As a stage manager in Portland theatre for the past decade, it has been Michelle’s pleasure to collaborate with several companies. She has worked with Oregon Ballet Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Broadway Rose Theatre, Theatre Vertigo, Staged!, and also, Third Rail Repertory (A Bright New Boise, A Noble Failure, Penelope). However, her usual home was always with Artists Rep where some of her favorite projects include Cuba Libre, Tribes, The Big Meal, Ten Chimneys, God of Carnage, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, All My Sons, House, Garden, Orson’s Shadow and Theatre District. She is also proud to recognize her time with Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, where she was the Assistant Stage Manager for several shows including Metamorphoses, One, My Fair Lady, Sing Hallelujah! and Always Patsy Cline. She is lovingly appreciative of the continued support from her family. Chelle is a member of Actors’ Equity Association.
JONATHAN COLE Fight Director Jonathan has worked throughout the Northwest as a director, actor and fight director, and is a tenured faculty member of the Theatre Department at Willamette University. He is one of two Society of American Fight Directors Certified Teachers of stage combat in Oregon, and co-owns Revenge Arts, one of the largest stage combat consortiums in the United States. His choreography is most often seen on Artists Repertory Theatre’s stage, where he recently choreographed fights for The Miracle Worker, The Understudy, The Liar, Exiles, The Playboy of the Western World and The MonsterBuilder, and on Third Rail’s stage, where he choreographed Belleville, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, Middletown and The Mystery of Irma Vep. Jonathan’s choreography has also been seen at Portland Shakespeare Project, Clackamas Repertory Theatre and Profile Theatre.