CYRANO CAST & CREATIVE TEAM
DARIUS PIERCE
Ragueneau and others
Darius’s past productions
at Portland Center Stage
include Beard of Avon
(Drammy Award for
Outstanding Lead Actor),
Twelfth Night, 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee, The 39 Steps, Frost/
Nixon, How to Disappear Completely
and Never Be Found, Misalliance, The
Santaland Diaries, A Christmas Story and
A Christmas Carol. Elsewhere, favorite
productions include Stupid F**king Bird
(Woolly Mammoth Theatre); Comedy of
Errors (Folger Theatre); Lips Together,
Teeth Apart (Profile Theatre); Les
Misérables (Broadway Rose); Bloody
Bloody Andrew Jackson (Portland
Playhouse); The Long Christmas Ride
Home (Theatre Vertigo). Darius is a
co-creator of Anonymous Theatre and
his on screen credits include Leverage,
Portlandia, Grimm, Mock Trials and Train
Master II. He is excited to be telling this
story with these people and appreciates
your spending some time with us!
JEN TAYLOR
Roxane
Previously at Portland
Center Stage: Doubt (Sister
James), Twelfth Night
(Viola), Pride and Prejudice
(Elizabeth Bennet)
and The Beard of Avon (Ensemble). In
Seattle, Jen has worked at ACT Theatre,
Intiman Theatre, Book-It Repertory
Theatre, Seattle Shakespeare Company,
The Village Theatre, The Empty Space,
Seattle Children’s Theatre and New
Century Theatre Company (founding
member). Jen works as a voice actor
in radio, television, audiobooks, and
numerous video games including the
Halo series as Cortana and Dr. Halsey.
If you have a Windows Phone, she is the
voice of your personal assistant.
EDMOND ROSTAND
Playwright
Edmond Eugène Alexis Rostand
(1868–1918) was a French poetic
dramatist who attended Collège
Stanislas in Paris and was elected into
the French Academy. His first play,
written at the age of 20, was a oneact comedy, Le Gant Rouge (Th