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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