THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF PORTLAND CREATIVE TEAM
ROSE RIORDAN
Director
Rose is in her 17th season at Portland
Center Stage, where she serves as
associate artistic director. At PCS she has
directed Vanya and Sonia and Masha and
Spike, The Typographer’s Dream, LIZZIE,
A Small Fire, The Mountaintop, The
People’s Republic of Portland (2013), The
Whipping Man, The North Plan, Red,
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest, A
Christmas Story, The 25th Annual Putnam
County Spelling Bee, The Receptionist,
A Christmas Carol, Frost/Nixon, How
to Disappear Completely and Never Be
Found, Doubt, The Underpants, The
Pillowman and The Thugs, which won
four Drammy Awards, including Best
Ensemble and Best Director. She has
also recently directed, for various other
theaters, Adam Bock’s Phaedra, The
Passion Play, Telethon and The
Receptionist. In 1999 she founded
Portland Center Stage’s annual JAW:
A Playwrights Festival. JAW has been
instrumental in developing new work
for the PCS repertory: Threesome,
Bo-Nita, The People’s Republic of
Portland, The Body of an American, The
North Plan, Anna Karenina, Outrage,
Flesh and Blood, Another Fine Mess, O
Lovely Glowworm, Celebrity Row, Act a
Lady, The Thugs and A Feminine Ending.
Rose has also directed some of the
staged readings for JAW festivals—The
Thugs (2005), Telethon (2006), A Story
About a Girl (2007), 99 Ways to F*** a
Swan (2009), The North Plan (2010),
San Diego (2012), The People’s Republic
of Portland (2012), Mai Dang Lao (2013)
and A Life (2014). She enjoys being part
of a company committed to new work
and having a beautiful building in which
to work.
DANIEL MEEKER
Scenic Designer
Previously at PCS, Dan designed the
set for The People’s Republic of Portland
(2013) and Red (Drammy Award), the
lighting for Twist Your Dickens and I Love
to Eat, and the set and lighting for Vanya
and Sonia and Masha and Spike, The
Typographer’s Dream, LIZZIE, The Last
Five Years, Bo-Nita, The Mountaintop,
The Real Americans and Mike’s Incredible
Indian Adventure. Other recent credits
include lighting design for the Pickathon
Festival; set and lighting design for The
Light in the Piazza, Detroit, Mother Teresa
is Dead, The Huntsmen and Bloody Bloody
Andrew Jackson at Portland Playhouse;
set design for Fancy Nancy and The
Stinky Cheese Man for Oregon Children’s
Theatre; and set design for The 25th
Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee at
the Pioneer Theatre Company. Upcoming
projects include The Other Place at
Portland Playhouse and Ramona Quimby
for Oregon Children’s Theatre. Daniel is
a member of the faculty of Portland State
University. He is a graduate of Ithaca
College and the Yale School of Drama and
a member of United Scenic Artists.
JEFF CONE
Costume Designer
Jeff Cone is the costume shop manager
at the Alliance Theatre in Atlanta,
Georgia. Before moving to Atlanta,
Jeff spent 16 seasons as PCS’s resident
costume designer and costume shop
manager. In that time he designed
costumes for over 75 productions. Of
those shows, over 50 were in PCS’s first
eight seasons at the Armory. Favorite
PCS productions include West Side Story,
Cabaret, The 39 Steps, One Flew Over the
Cuckoo’s Nest, Sometimes a Great Notion,
Snow Falling on Cedars, The Imaginary
Invalid, Black Pearl Sings!, Venus in
Fur and Clybourne Park. Jeff received
Drammy Awards for his costume
designs for Dirty Blonde, Act A Lady and
Shakespeare’s Amazing Cymbeline.
DON CROSSLEY
Lighting Designer
Don is excited to re-create his design
for The People’s Republic of Portland.
Don has served as a lighting designer for
JAW: A Playwrights Festival, and was
PCS’s master electrician from 19962007. Previous PCS lighting designs
include: The Santaland Diaries (20092014), The People’s Republic of Portland
(2013), The Receptionist, Act a Lady, The
Thugs, Fully Committed, Another Fine
Mess, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf ?
and The Santaland Diaries/A Christmas
Memory that earned Don one of his
seven Drammy Awards for Lighting
Design. Don has also designed lighting
for Portland Opera Association, Oregon
Children’s Theatre, Artists Repertory
Theatre, CoHo Productions, Broadway
Rose Theatre Company and Third Rail
Repertory Theatre.
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