CREATIVE TEAM
new works has led to directing staged
readings at the Kennedy Center’s New
Visions/New Voices Festival and NYU’s
New Plays for Young Audiences. He
had the privilege of working with two
Newbery Award-winning authors—Lois
Lowry and Louis Sachar—to adapt their
novels for OCT’s stages. In addition,
Stan’s direction and guidance was
instrumental in bringing Eric Coble’s
adaptation of Lois Lowry’s The Giver to
audiences in Portland and around the
country.
Stan loves teaching and mentoring
young people in our community. He is
grateful to work with a brilliant staff,
an amazing board, and the incredible
theater artists in Portland, Oregon.
STEPHAN PASTIS
(Author)
Stephan is the creator of Pearls Before
Swine, an acclaimed comic strip that
appears in more than six hundred
newspapers and boasts a devoted
following. Stephan spent many
childhood hours by himself, drawing
in his room. When he wasn’t drawing,
Stephan spent time collecting baseball
cards, his other childhood love. The third
book in the series, Timmy Failure: We
Meet Again, was released in October
2014 and a fourth book is in the works!
www.timmyfailure.com
FINEGAN KRUCKEMEYER
(Playwright)
Finegan has had 73 commissioned plays
performed on five continents, and was an
inaugural recipient of the Sidney Myer
Creative Fellowship. In 2014, 18 works
were presented in seven countries. His
plays have been in: over 70 international
festivals; six US national tours; six UK
national tours; and at the Sydney Opera
House (six works), New York’s New
Victory Theater (three), Dublin’s Abbey
Theatre and Shanghai’s Malan Flower
Theatre. Finegan’s works have received
at least one award each year since 2004.
He was Keynote Speaker at the 2013
One Theatre World North American
Conference, with previous presentations
in nine countries, essays published, and
plays studied at various US չ