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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. P16 | PORTLAND CENTER STAGE CYRANO 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 O