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KATE HAWKES
(Director)
is Founder and Artistic Director of The Well Arts Institute, a nonprofit
arts-in-health organization dedicated to creativity as a means of
wellness. In this capacity she leads groups of people through a process
to create original work that is produced in a series called Performing
Wellness. She also conducts writing “playshops” for support groups,
those in the medical profession and others. Her directing credits
include Quilters for Lakewood Theater Company; The Weir,
Quilters and Sweet Phoebe for Artists Repertory Theater;
and Cloud Tectonics for Miracle Theater Company. She has
also directed and produced all five Performing Wellness productions for
WAI. Kate is adjunct faculty member at Linfield College in
McMinnville, teaching acting and introduction to theater, and directed
shows including Reckless, The Heidi Chronicles, The
Rimers of Eldritch, Keely and Du and The Voice of the
Prairie.
As a playwright, Kate’s original play, Singing Our Way Home, was
produced by the Tears of Joy Theater Company. She researched,
wrote and directed Composer in Skirts, a two-woman show on the
lives and music of six women composers. Kate is a regular guest
instructor at the Portland Actors Conservatory and is an artist with the
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AMY
JO ARRINGTON,
(Kathleen, CD rcording) recently featured in Portland Center
Stage's wildly popular production of Bat Boy, is a talented,
versatile artist. Her long list of professional credits includes the
role of Christine Daae in the national tour of Phantom of the Opera,
Guinevere in Oregon Symphony's Camelot , and Josephine in
H.M.S. Pinafore with the Arizona theatre Company, where she recevied
the "AriZoni" award for Best Actress in a Musical. |
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ELIZABETH BACON
(Laura, CD recording)
lives in Portland and studies music, opera and theatre at Portland State
University. She is part of an internationally awarded chamber ensemble
at PSU. Her recording debut was fall of 2003 where she was a featured
vocalist in the premiere recording of acclaimed composer Margaret
Garwood's Rainsongs. Elizabeth will perform this spring in PSU's
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TY A. CHENG
(Randy)
is an
accomplished dancer in styles ranging from ballet to hip hop. He has
studied with Steve Gonzales, Mary Hunt and John Gardner and performed
with the Jefferson Dancers in his senior year of high school. Ty has
performed with Lakeridge Theater and in The Nutcracker with
Pacific Festival Ballet. Ty would like to thank Wendy Doss for all of
her encouragement and support!
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SUE ELLEN
CHRISTENSEN
(Janine)
has been
performing actively in Portland-area theater for 25 years, appearing
in well over 100 productions. Treasured roles include Lady Bracknell in
Ernest in Love, Kate/Lilli in Kiss Me Kate, the Countess
in A Little Night Music, and Jenny and Sarah in
Quilters. She finds it very exciting to be part of this project,
having had an enticing "taste" of working on several other new shows in
the last few years. Sue Ellen is quite the globetrotter, most recently
traveling across Asia on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
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