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CREATIVE TEAM MARY MCDONALD-LEWIS Dialect Coach Mary McDonald-Lewis has been a working artist since 1979 as a SAGAFTRA voice actor and on-camera performer, and in theater for much longer as an actor and director. MaryMac has been a dialect coach since 1999, and is house coach for Hallmark Hall of Fame, the series Leverage, Grimm and others. Film, television and stage clients range from overnight sensations to Drammy, Obie, Emmy and Oscar winners, and include a Knight of the British Empire. She is blessed to be Resident Artist, Speech and Text Director at Artists Repertory Theatre and house coach at Portland Center Stage. MaryMac thanks Finnegan, Sullivan and Flynn for always wagging their tails when she comes home from telling her tales. www.marymac.com SPONSOR STATEMENT WORK FOR ART The Regional Arts & Culture Council and its workplace giving program, Work for Art, are pleased to help bring you this performance of Cyrano. Arts and culture organizations are key contributors to a vibrant and creative community, and we applaud the work of Portland Center Stage in bringing exceptional theater experiences to people of all ages. This performance is made possible, in part, because more than 2,000 donors contributed $776,000 to Work for Art last year, most of them through employee giving campaigns. All campaign proceeds are passed on to groups like Portland Center Stage. To those 2,000 Work for Art donors: thank you for playing an important role in supporting the local arts community! And if you aren’t a donor yet, but you would like to start a Work for Art campaign at your company, visit workforart.org for more information. Because funding the arts is everyone’s business. Enjoy the show! CHRIS COLEMAN Artistic Director Chris joined Portland Center Stage as artistic director in May 2000. Before coming to Portland, he was artistic director at Actor’s Express in Atlanta, a company he co-founded in the basement of an old church in 1988. Chris recently returned to Atlanta to direct Phylicia Rashad and Kenny Leon in Same Time Next Year. Favorite PCS directing assignments include Dreamgirls, Othello, Fiddler on the Roof, Clybourne Park, Sweeney Todd, Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline (which he also adapted), Anna Karenina, Oklahoma!, Snow Falling on Cedars, Ragtime, Crazy Enough, Beard of Avon, Cabaret, King Lear, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Man and Superman, Outrage, Flesh and Blood and The Devils. Chris has directed at theaters across the country, including Actor’s Theater of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, ACT-Seattle, The Alliance, Dallas Theatre Center, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop and Center Stage in Baltimore. A native Atlantan, Chris holds a B.F.A. from Baylor University and an M.F.A. from Carnegie Mellon. He is currently the board president for the Cultural Advocacy Coalition. Chris and his husband, Rodney, are the proud parents of an 18 lb Jack Russell/Lab mix, and a 110 lb English Blockhead Yellow lab. LEAD CORPORATE CHAMPION Umpqua Bank The fantastic thing about the theater is that it fulfills one of our most basic needs as human beings: the need for growth. Theater entertains us, challenges our perceptions and brings us closer to our companions and strangers in the audience. It’s a shared experience, and nobody leaves the same. We’re delighted to support Portland Center Stage, and to support your own personal growth journey, wherever it takes you. PORTLAND CENTER STAGE CYRANO | P1 7