CYRANO CREATIVE TEAM
Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre and
Seattle Opera. Other collaborations
include numerous shows at the Oregon
Shakespeare Festival, The Denver
Center Theatre Company, Minneapolis
Children’s Theater, Manhattan School
of Music, Atlanta’s Alliance Theatre,
Actors Theatre of Louisville, Juneau’s
Perseverance Theatre, Arizona Theatre
Company, Shakespeare Santa Cruz,
the off-off-Broadway scene and Yale
Repertory Theatre, among others.
Deborah co-founded the New Yorkbased millinery company Mackey and
Trout, is a graduate of the Yale School of
Drama, is a member of USA 829, and is
on the design faculty at the University of
Washington.
NANCY SCHERTLER
Lighting Designer
Nancy Schertler is happy to be back
at Portland Center Stage where she
has designed A Christmas Story (2010
and 2011), The Beard of Avon, Twelfth
Night and The Importance of Being
Earnest. Broadway productions include
Bill Irwin’s Fool Moon and Largely
New York, for which she earned a
Tony nomination. Off-Broadway
productions include Hilda (dir. Carey
Perloff ), Texts for Nothing, A Flea in
Her Ear, The Regard Evening (dir. Bill
Irwin) and Falsettoland (dir. James
Lapine). Regional theater credits
include Scapin, Boleros for the
Disenchanted, After the War, The
Gamester, Levee James, and Artistic
Director Carey Perloff’s The Colossus
of Rhodes (American Conservatory
Theater); The Three Musketeers and The
Sisters Matsumoto (Seattle Repertory
Theatre); and A Christmas Carol and
others (Milwaukee Repertory Theater).
Nancy enjoys a decades-long association
with the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C.,
where she has collaborated with directors
Zelda Fichandler, Douglas C. Wager,
Kyle Donnelly, Liviu Ciulei and Molly
Smith. Opera credits include the world
premieres of The Difficulty of Crossing
a Field, Shadowboxer, Clara and Later
the Same Evening, an opera inspired by
paintings of Edward Hopper and a joint
project commissioned by the University
of Maryland and the National Gallery
of Art.
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CASI PACILIO
Sound Designer
Casi keeps busy with a variety of
work and play in Portland and around
the country. PCS credits include The
People’s Republic of Portland (2013
and 2015), Threesome, Dreamgirls, The
Last Five Years, Othello, A Small Fire,
Twist Your Dickens (2013 and 2014),
The Mountaintop, Fiddler on the Roof,
Oklahoma!, The North Plan, Shakespeare’s
Amazing Cymbeline, Black Pearl Sings!,
Opus, Ragtime (PAMTA Award 2010),
The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling
Bee, Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps,
Snow Falling on Cedars, Crazy Enough,
The Little Dog Laughed, Sometimes a
Great Notion, Cabaret, The Pillowman,
I Am My Own Wife, West Side Story
and Celebrity Row; Other Desert Cities,
Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,
Chinglish and futura with composer Jana
Losey; and eight seasons of JAW. National
shows: Holcombe Waller Surfacing
and Wayfinders; Hand2Mouth Theatre
credits: Left Hand of Darkness, My Mind
is Like an Open Meadow (Drammy Award
2011), Something’s Got Ahold Of My Heart
and PEP TALK. Other theatrical credits
include Squonk Opera’s BigsmorgasbordWunderWerk (Broadway, PS122, national
and international touring); I Am My
Own Wife, I Think I Like Girls (La Jolla
Playhouse); Playland, 10 Fingers and Lips
Together, Teeth Apart (City Theatre, PA).
Film credits include Creation of Destiny,
Out of Our Time and A Powerful Thang.
Recordings: Glitterfruit’s fruit snacks.
JOHN ARMOUR
Fight Director
John is an actor and fight director who
has been choreographing violence
for more than 25 years. He is based in
Portland, Oregon, where he choreographs
for many local theater companies and
teaches throughout the region at colleges,
high schools and middle schools. John’s
work has been seen regularly on stage
at the Portland Opera, Portland Center
Stage, Artists Repertory Theatre, Oregon
Children’s Theater, Miracle Theater and
many others. John’s work has twice been
recognized within the Portland theater
community for best fight design.
EMILY N. WELLS
Stage Manager
Emily is in her fourth season at PCS
and is returning from a short stint
with the national tour of Jersey Boys.
Proud Equity member for 18 years,
spent in NYC, on tour and regionally.
Highlights on Broadway include
Electra, Swan Lake and Jersey Boys.
Off-Broadway credits include Adrift
in Macao; The Right Kind of People;
Dedication, or the Stuff of Dreams (with
Nathan Lane and Marian Seldes); and
String of Pearls at Primary Stages.
Other Off-Broadway credits are Floyd
and Clea Under the Western Sky at
Playwrights Horizons and Summer of
the Swans and Sarah, Plain & Tall at
the Lucille Lortel. She has also stage
managed readings and workshops for
Playwrights Horizons, NAMT and
North Shore Music Theatre. She was
the PSM and production supervisor
for Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story.
Regional theater work includes
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