Austin Michael Young is truly grateful to be making his Portland Center Stage debut. He deeply loves the artistic process from prep to closing. His theatrical credits include Fucking A at Shaking the Tree Theatre and Blues for an Alabama Sky with Passinart. He can be seen in Tyler Perry's House of Payne and in an episode of Black Mirror on Netflix. Austin is forever thankful for the constant love, support and encouragement from his friends and family, especially Kelly, Mom, Tyler, Will and Marina.

Charles is ready and revvin’ to drive into the world of The Brothers Size with this inspiring team of creatives. To embody the words of playwright Tarell Alvin McCraney is a full circle gift. As an actor, director, writer, and producer, he’s also worked with Third Rail Repertory Theatre, Rejoice Diaspora Dance Theater, Fuse Theatre Ensemble, Confrontation Theatre, Broadway Rose, Oregon Children’s Theatre, and Portland Playhouse (where he is currently in the role of Producing Director). This is for all of my brothers & friends who have spoken love and truth into me. Thank you to Chip, the cast, creative team, crew and staff at PCS for making it possible. Thank you to the audience and community for being here. Say hi on IG: @thecharlesgrant.

Gerrin Delane Mitchell favorite Portland roles include Miles/Shawn/Rashad in Gloria with Profile Theatre, Bakkhai in The Bakkhai, Hunter 3/Freedom Fund Lady in Fucking A with Shaking The Tree, Actor 5 in Bootycandy with Fuse Theatre, Ensemble Anthony/Tobias US in Sweeney Todd, Junior Davis in Choir Boy, M.C. in Dreamgirls, JAW 2018 2022 and 2024 with PCS, The Americans with PETE, Cheshire Cat in Alice in Wonderland with NWCT, Ladahlord in James and the Giant Peach, Fly Guy in Fly Guy: The Musical, Mr. Pinkerton in Pinkalicious with OCT, Mowgli in The Jungle Book with Broadway Rose, Butcher in Beef: A Butcher Shop Circus, Ruby Rider in The Cowboy Show with Prismagic Circus, Montague in Romeo and Juliet with Anonymous Theater, Sexicide a solo piece written and performed at New Expressive Works. He has also been seen in countless stage readings, performance art events and leading workshops on devising physical theatre with OBT and Reed College. This role is dedicated to the men in my life that forged, shaped and articulated my masculinity. Find out more about future projects through his instagram @delanegerrin

Tarell Alvin McCraney is best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In the Red And Brown Water, and Marcus; Or the Secret of Sweet. Other plays include The Breach, Wig Out! (GLAAD Award for Outstanding Play), and American Trade. McCraney was the Royal Shakespeare Company’s International Playwright in Residence in 2008-2010, where he co-edited and directed the Young People's Shakespeare production of Hamlet. He is the recipient of the prestigious Whiting Award and Steinberg Playwright Award, as well as London's Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, the inaugural New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award, and the inaugural Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. He is a graduate from the New World School of the Arts High School, the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, and the Yale School of Drama. He is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of Teo Castellanos/D-Projects in Miami.

Chip Miller is a director and producer, currently in the role of Associate Artistic Director at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. They were previously the Artistic Associate / Resident Director at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Directing: The Light, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Clyde's (co-production with Syracuse Stage) Liberace & Liza: Holiday at the Mansion (A Tribute), Choir Boy, It’s a Wonderful Life, RENT, August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, the world premiere of Redwood (PCS), Larry Owens’ Sondhemia (Carnegie Hall), Journeys to Justice (Portland Opera), the world premiere of American Fast (Artists Repertory Theater), School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play, Welcome to Fear City, Sex with Strangers, A Raisin in the Sun, (KCRep); the world premiere of Becoming Martin by Kevin Willmott (The Coterie); dwb: driving while black (Lawrence Arts Center, Des Moines Metro Opera, Greensboro Opera); 4:48 Psychosis (The Buffalo Room). Chip has developed work with playwrights including Kevin Wilmott, Kara Lee Corthron, Brittany K. Allen, Catherine Trieschmann, Darren Canady, Andrew Rosendorf, Susan Kander & Roberta Gumbel, Michelle T. Johnson, and Michael Finke. They have developed work at The William Inge Theatre Festival, NYU’s New Plays for Young Audiences, La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA Series, Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, The Midwest Dramatists Center, KCRep’s OriginKC New Works Festival, The Colorado New Play Summit, The Living Room Theatre, and Musical Theatre Heritage.

Brittany Vasta is a Brooklyn based scenic designer for live performance. Previous PCS productions include Redwood, the ripple the wave that carried me home, and Choir Boy. Recent work includes the premier of Kate Hamill’s The Light and the Dark (Primary Stages), as well as Julia May Jonas’s A Woman Among Women (Bushwick Starr). Her work has also been seen at Signature Theatre, 59e59, The Bushwick Starr, Theatre Row, WP Theatre, The Duke, Juilliard, Berkeley Rep, Syracuse Stage, Kansas City Rep, New York City Center, among others. Drama Desk Nomination for Dave Malloy’s Octet. MFA, NYU. USA 829 member. brittanyvasta.com

Dominique Fawn Hill (Costume Designer) [She/Her] Dominique’s designs include Broadway: Fat Ham (Tony Award-nomination), Off-Broadway: Tambo & Bones (Playwrights Horizon-Lucille Lortel nomination), Fat Ham (Public Theatre-Obie Award), Where the Mountain Meets the Sea (Manhattan Theatre Club), Hang Time (The Flea),The Dark Girl Chronicles (The Shed), and 125th & FREEdom (National Black Theatre). Her regional theatre credits range from Derecho (The La Jolla Playhouse) Primary Trust (Alley Theatre), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Choir Boy, and RENT (Portland Center Stage). Dominique is currently designing across the nation while being an adjunct lecturer at The University of California, Berkeley.

Joel is excited to design for Portland Center Stage again, and to work on the US Bank mainstage for the first time. He has worked in the Portland area as a lighting designer and technician for several years, and is in his third season as the Master Electrician and Lighting Programmer for the Ellyn Bye Studio. Some of Joel's recent favorite designs in the Portland area include Liberace & Liza: Holiday at the Mansion (A Tribute) (Portland Center Stage), Into the Woods (Lewis and Clark), JAW New Play Festival 2024 (Portland Center Stage), and Up Up & Away (Broadway Rose).

Phil is a theatrical producer and artist based in the Pacific Northwest. He currently serves as the Program Director for Coho Theatre in Portland, OR. Some of his favorite recent productions include Fat Ham (Seattle Rep) Clyde’s (PCS/ Syracuse Stage); Mrs. Harrison and Redwood (Portland Center Stage); Pipeline (Confrontation Theater); Hands Up (Red Door Project); American Fast, An Octoroon, and The Humans (Artists Repertory Theatre). Phil has a B.F.A. and M.A. from Ohio University. philjohnsondesignstheworld.com, @philjohnsonlive

Carlos-Zenen Trujillo (they/them) is a Cuban-born theatre artist and cultural consultant, bringing their lived experience as an ordained babalocha in the Regla de Ocha  tradition to The Brothers Size. Raised in the religion, they completed their kari ocha in 2022 and their iyaworaje in 2023. They are a fierce advocate for their faith, and previously served as cultural consultant for productions of Dear Dead Drug Lord at Washington Ensemble Theatre and Crave Theatre Company. Carlos-Zenen’s written work has been seen at Bag&Baggage, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Artist Repertory Theatre and more. They hold a BFA in Theatre Arts from Southern Oregon University and are also a Certified Executive Chef and Home Care Worker. They extend deep gratitude to director Chip Miller for their open-mindedness and passion, Portland Center Stage for their commitment to cross-cultural and interfaith dialogue and their Eggun and Orishas who watch over and bless them every day.

Teniece Divya Johnson is an Intimacy Director, Fight Director, Stunt Performer, and Movement Storyteller working across television, film and stage. The first Black and first non-binary intimacy director on Broadway with Slave Play, Teniece serves as a resolute advocate for a decolonized collaborative approach to art, Black intimacy, Kink and Queer representation. They are also the founder of BlackIntimacyConsentCollective.org, a community based educational organization around Black intimacy, consent and wellness. Some additional credits include Paradise on Hulu, POSE, Lovecraft Country, Wu-Tang: An American Saga on Hulu, Barry Jenkins’ The Underground Railroad, RAMY, Diarra From Detroit, and West Side Story with Steven Spielberg. Off-stage sharing boundaries and empathy masterclasses with colleges, universities and corporations.

Kamilah is a playwright, dramaturg, and educator originally from North Carolina. She holds a B.F.A. in theater education from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and was a NC Teaching Fellow. She currently holds the position of Literary Manager at PCS. Kamilah has spent several seasons at celebrated regional theaters across the country, including Triad Stage in Greensboro, NC, Asolo Repertory Theater in Sarasota, FL, and Two River Theater in Red Bank, NJ. She was a Playwright in Residence at Williamstown Theater Festival in 2024 and was featured as part of their Fridays @ 3 Reading Series in 2023.

DeReau K. Farrar is Artistic Director of Portland's queer and allied youth choir, Bridging Voices and Artistic Director of A Notion, A Scream, a Portland community choir. Additionally, he sings with Resonance Ensemble and served on its Artistic Advisory Team for the 2022 premiere of Damien Geter's An African American Requiem with the Oregon Symphony. DeReau was Musical Director for the 2024 Portland Opera production of The Juliet Letters, the 2024 Portland Center Stage production of Sweeney Todd and their 2023 production of Choir Boy, and the 2022 Portland Revels Spring production of Un Pajarito Canto. Prior to moving to Portland in 2016, he was a music director in Los Angeles where he worked with A Noise Within (The Threepenny Opera, A Christmas Carol), DC6 Singers (SxSW, Jessye Norman’s Stand Up Straight and Sing! Tour, Sundance, Norman Lear, Jerry Kohl), Monkeypaw Productions (Get Out), HBO (All the Way), Selah Gospel Choir (Coachella, RuPaul’s DragCon), University of California Los Angeles (The First Lady), California State University Los Angeles (A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum), The Verdi Chorus, The RED Stamp (The Wiz, Ragtime, Songs for a New World), MUSE/IQUE Symphony Orchestra, and others.

Having previously served as Assistant Director for Dracula: A Feminist Revenge Fantasy, Really, Tyler is thrilled to join the team of The Brothers Size! A multidisciplinary theatre artist, writer, and teacher, Tyler’s previous PCS credits include Twelfth Night,  tick, tick…BOOM!, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, HAIR, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. As a resident teaching artist, Tyler established the Acting for Adults Sequence, a five level training program right here at PCS. Additionally, his play Even Faster than a Blink was part of the 2022 Jaw New Play Festival. Closing out the 25-26 season, Tyler will star as Jack Worthing in the world premiere production of The Importance of Being Earnest, adapted by the formidable Kamilah Bush this June. He attended Marymount Manhattan College and is a proud member of AEA, and The Dramatist Guild of America. IG: @t.andrew.jones

Vanessa Elsner is from Portland, Oregon and has previously dressed, stage managed, or performed with Portland Center Stage, Broadway Rose Theatre, Pixie Dust Productions, Post5, Live on Stage!, Tapestry Theatre Company, and Trip the Dark Dance Company.

Kristina is a stage manager from Corvallis, OR. Previous Portland Center Stage credits: HAIR, August Wilson's Gem Of The Ocean (Assistant Stage Manager), Wild and Reckless, Lauren Weedman Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (Production Assistant), and two summers of JAW. She has also worked locally with Portland Playhouse, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, CoHo Productions, and Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble. She is a company member and resident stage manager for Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble.

aclyn is excited to return to Portland Center Stage for her first full production, after briefly assisting with Mrs. Harrison earlier this year. Regional & New York credits include work at Asolo Repertory Theatre, The Santa Fe Opera, The Muny, The Public Theater, New York Theater Workshop, The Connelly Theater, & The York Theater Company. Lots of love to the family & friends who support her every step of the way.