Atticus was Foley artist for Sundays by the Philco for the second year at the Mt. Hood Repertory Theater. Atticus has been working with the Willamette Radio Workshop since their production of Dracula and has acted and provided Foley for a half dozen productions since. He especially enjoyed repriseding his roles in Around the [...]
Bill Gregory has been retired in Portland for four years. Before that, he was a university librarian/bureaucrat/racehorse breeder/journalist. His writing has included a volume of poems, several magazine articles, and a thesis entitled The Theater Architecture of Sir Christopher Wren.
—
In addition to her work as a child and family therapist, Catherine Beckett has been performing since the age of five; while her primary background has been on the stage, she has been pleased to expand her artistic repertoire into improvisational theatre, radio and film since moving to Portland in 2000. Favorite roles over [...]
Chris Porter (Actor) is a founding member of the WRW and has served as an actor in most of its productions. He was the doomed radio correspondent Carl Phillips and the Secretary of the Interior in War of the Worlds. He was good guy Professor van Helsing in Dracula and bad guy [...]
Curtis Hanson started acting at Oregon State University, receiving best actor awards in 1965 (as Thomas More in A Man for All Seasons) and 1968 (as Jack Absolute in The Rivals.) An alumnus of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Curt began acting in Portland in 1972. He has played “Doc” in Come Back Little [...]
Cynthia McGean, WRW’s dramaturge and resident playwright is an award-winning published writer, director, actress, social service veteran and educator. Her original script Pandora’s Box received the Grand Prize from the National Audio Theatre Festival’s 2005 Script Competition and her adaptation of Frankenstein was awarded a Special Gold Ogle Award for Best Adaptation. [...]
David Ian has provided Foley artistry for Coaster Theatre, OPB radio, Imagination X Web Radio, and most successfully for Tapestry Theatre’s Christmas From Home series where he was awarded Portland’s prestigious Drammy Award for designing and performing live staged sound effects using circa 1940s materials. As an actor, David’s voice talents contributed to [...]
David Loftus (Actor) is a native Oregonian who lived several years in Europe as a child and had a ten-year layover in Boston before returning to his home state in 1987. His first roles with WRW were Second Swordsman and Shogun in Hiro and Liling in December 2004. Since then, he has performed in [...]
Eric graduated in 1989 from University of Portland with a B.A. in theatre and business mgmnt. He also studied in Bennington Vermont at Shakespeare and Company with Tina Packer and Kristin Linklater. Eric currently works as a casting director’s assistant for films, television, and commercials. He has also appeared in numerous television [...]
Holly Spencer has played Miranda in Speak-the-speech.com’s The Tempest and was compelling as the Orator in WRW’s Fall of the City. Holly has also been seen as Allison in Mall America (Coho Theatre), and Zoe in Flesh and Blood. She has toured with the National Shakespeare Company (NYC) as Lady Macbeth (Macbeth) and Rosalind [...]
James Lawrence- Although James has been active in Portland theater for 25 years, the last 4 years he has been an actor more heard than seen.
His first project with WRW was, William S. Gregory’s The Wind That Shakes the Corn. James can also be heard on KBOO 90.7 fm in the Sudden Radio Project [...]
Jerrel McQuen (Author) of Jewel for the UFO Festival,and Writer and Illustrator for Dry Smoke, is a writer, illustrator and graphic artist. Working originally for print shops, and then in advertising for the past twenty years, he is most comfortable in front of a computer screen, digitally channeling alternate dimensions and detailing them from [...]
Jodi Eichelberger has written both book and music for Other Hand Productions’ Snow Queen and Pinocchio. He has also composed for the Raleigh Symphony and Spectre Productions. He served as artistic director for Tears of Joy Theater for three years.
He performed in the Tony award-winning musical Avenue Q on Broadway and has recently returned [...]
Laura Faye Smith has appeared with WRW in Next Year’s Girl and Hiro & Liling, working both shows from the Writer’s On the air Workshop to final broadcast. Recent Portland appearances on stage include Loot and Spinning Into Butter at Coho, The Heiress, Bash, Blood Brothers, Torch Song Trilogy, Unidentified Human Remains, and Christmas With [...]
Lee Forrest (Actor) trained in Los Angeles, California with Val Dufour and Richard Boone. He performed with Accent Theater, Hermosa Beach Playhouse, and Cornet Theater. Moving his talents to Portland, OR he appeared on stage with Shakespeare Martyr Complex, Tygers Heart, Civic Theater, Columbia Theater, Sumus Theater, A.R.T., New Rose Theater, Willamette [...]
Linda Goertz has been acting since she was 14 and has been involved in Portland theatre since the 1970’s. She appeared in many of the original Portland Actors Ensemble’s Shakespeare-in-the-Park presentations, and also performed with Tygres Heart Shakespeare Company during its inaugural year. She has worked with Tapestry Theatre, Oregon Children’s Theatre, [...]
Marc is a composer, sound designer who has been co-producing Dry Smoke & Whispers Holodio Theatre on and off for 23 years. In addition to bringing to life the inter-dimensional exploits of Emille Song and company, Marc has composed themes for the likes of AT&T, Jack Hanna’s Wildlife Adventures, Busch Entertainment and Capitol [...]
Margie Boulé has forged a professional career that has enabled her to pursue her interests and talents in writing, reporting, singing and acting. To date she has had leading roles in over 50 musicals, operettas, operas and plays. In Seattle Ms. Boule founded her own commercial jingle production company, writing, arranging and recording [...]
Mark Homayoun has been with WRW since the beginning (at least he thinks so). He has been heard in Dracula, War of the Worlds, Miracle on 34th St., A Murder of Crows ( he also contributed the short story I’m Here for that production), the Hobbit, and The Poetry Readings of Sam Gregory. Mark [...]
Mark Twohy has been acting and singing since he was ten. He had the great fortune of studying theatre and theatre management under Dr. Tom Lasswell at the University of Portland. Since ‘89, Mark has been active in the Portland theatre scene as a stage and radio actor, technical director, lighting and sound [...]
Martin John Gallagher (Resident Sound Designer) is an award-winning national musical director, computerized musical arranger and sound designer based in Portland, Oregon. He is a three-time Drammy winner, and a five-time nominee. He works in five Western states, and he’s worked with every significant theatre company in Portland. He designed the synthesizer [...]
Mary Robinette Kowal has worked as a professional puppeteer since 1989. During that time she performed, using a wide range of character voices, for the Center for Puppetry Arts, Jim Henson Pictures and her own company, Other Hand Productions. Her work has garnered two Drammys and an UNIMA-USA Citation of Excellence, the highest [...]
Peter Armetta is an actor/playwright/composer whose scores, both synthesized and live, for Oregon theater productions include The Tempest, Twelfth Night, Measure for Measure, The Diary of Anne Frank, Wait Until Dark, Uncle Vanya, No Exit, Rumi, Six Characters in Search of an Author, and Fahrenheit 451. He is also the composer/librettist of What [...]
Peter Pressman is the founder and current president of Speak the Speech, a small company committed to providing free audio productions of Shakespeare’s plays online. Peter’s acting credits include Orsino in Twelfth Night, Arkady in A Month in the Country after Turgenev, the Policeman in Blood on the Cat’s Neck, Epihodov in [...]
Mr. Rudolph was born and grew up in Portland, Oregon, attending a series of Portland public schools. He joined the Air Force in 1961 and served a tour or duty, returned to Portland and entered Portland State College. During this period he met and married Ann Johnson, and after graduation and grad school [...]
Robert A. Kowal (Producer, Audio Engineer) is a New York University graduate holding a B.F.A. degree in Film & Television with two decades industry experience.
Robert is a co-founder of the Willamette Radio Workshop.
Through A Priori Sound, Robert has served as location sound recordist, editor and sound designer for features, episodic television, documentaries, and commercials.
In addition [...]
Born in Pittsburgh, PA, Sam moved across the country before settling in Portland, OR in 1979. A professional actor and director for the last 24 years, Sam has produced dozens of independent productions on stage. Founder and director of the Heart Theater (notable productions include, The White Devil and The Trial) and The Shakespeare [...]
Scott Jamieson (Actor) was very active in Portland theater when he lived here in the 1980s, mostly with groups that were great in their day but sadly don’t exist anymore, such as New Rose and Sumus. He spent most of the ’90s as a disk jockey and producer for KTIL radio, in Tillamook, [...]
Tim McKennie (Actor) enjoyed working with WRW in A Christmas Carol and War of the Worlds. He has performed with Portland Actor’s Ensemble (Comedy of Errors, As You Like It), Epicurean Productions (Twelfth Night), Coho Productions (The Folio), Sylvia’s (Laura, The Foreigner), Heartland Theatre (A Few Good Men), NW Children’s Theatre (Dracula), Masque [...]
Toni Lima has been performing with WRW for many years, including past Halloween productions such as: Frankenstein, Jekyll and Hyde, Dracula and others. Her favorite roles have included: Melly, from the radio play Sunshine, and the nefarious French Housekeeper, Madame DuBley from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Toni has been acting since she [...]
A graduate from Portland State University, with a degree in Theatre Arts as an actor and director, William has been involved in the Portland theatre scene for the past 12 years. He provided his vocal talent in a variety of roles for the WRW in their live show A Murder of Crows performed Halloween 2003 [...]
William S. Gregory is a Portland area playwright. He has written over 36 scripts and is known for the richness of his language and use of unexpected humor. Coho Produtions produced his plays Mary Tudor 1999 and Child of Pleasure (2003) produced by Coho Productions, and he has contributed to A Grimm Late Night [...]
Yani Berkshire-Cruse(Actor) Originally from the San Juan Islands in Washington, Yani has been performing since the early age of three. Many moons and a whole lot of training later you can find her performing for the city of Portland in everything from Film-The Good Lot, The Dust Factory, Television-The Gold Door, Theatre-The Canterbury Tales, [...]