Tyler is a multidisciplinary theater artist, writer, and teacher. PCS credits: Hedwig/Yitzhak u/s in Hedwig and the Angry Inch. As a performer, Tyler has also worked on stage at Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Playhouse, Third Rail Repertory Theatre, in New York at Feinstein's/54 Below, The Cell Theater, New World Stages, and in Egypt at the Cairo Opera House and the Alexandria Opera House as part of the CIFCET Festival. As a playwright, his most notable works include The Marks You Leave, which was produced in part by Ronnie Lacroute and the WillaKenzie Estate at the 20th Annual International New York Fringe Festival and has since received an Off-Broadway reading at The Cell Theatre, as well as his newest piece, Even Faster Than a Blink, which recently received its first public reading as a part of the 2022 JAW New Play Festival here at PCS. A huge thank you to the tick, tick … BOOM! team; Marissa, Ash, DJ, and this beautiful company! Tyler is a proud member of AEA and The Dramatist Guild of America. IG: @t.andrew.jones

Lauren is a multidisciplinary artist from Portland, Oregon. She graduated with a degree in theater from Southern Methodist University in 2019, with awards for excellence in performance and playwriting. Since then, you may have seen her in Bella: An American Tall Tale at Portland Playhouse, or in the first two installments of the Queen’s Girl in Africa trilogy at Clackamas Repertory Theatre, for which she won a Drammy for Best Solo Performance. Lauren recently released two new singles, titled “Nighttime Friends” and “Give Yourself Grace,” and began working on a full-length album with the local label People Music. You may have recently seen her performing under her musical stage name, Lo Steele, at the Waterfront Blues Festival and the Cathedral Park Jazz Festival. Lauren is thrilled to be closing out the summer with her first production with PCS. Check her out on social media to keep up with her music and upcoming performances. @losteele

Jesse is thankful to be making his Portland Center Stage debut in this extraordinary play. Recent credits include the 1st National Tour of Fiddler on the Roof (Motel Kamzoil), The Other Side of Paradise at Ars Nova (F. Scott Fitzgerald), Hair at Pentangle Arts (Claude), and The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel on Amazon (Josiah). Outside of his performance experience, Jesse is a passionate writer and teacher. He’s forever grateful for his exceptional family, his friends, and his two geriatric cats, as well as the many inspiring artists that this piece connects him to — especially his new tick, tick … BOOM! family and Jonathan Larson, who imbues this story with so much wisdom and humanity. Say hi! @jesseaweil jesseweil.com 

Alec is a mixed-race Latine performer and multi-hyphenate artist making his PCS acting debut in tick, tick … BOOM! — 10 years after seeing his first production here! A 2016 graduate of Pacific University, local credits include productions with Oregon Children’s Theatre, Northwest Children’s Theatre, Broadway Rose Theatre Company, Anonymous Theatre, and Fuse Theatre Ensemble, among others. Radio and television credits include work with OPB, All Classical Portland, and IFC’s Emmy-nominated Documentary Now! episode “Original Cast Recording: Co-op.” Alec also operates as the photo and video designer for Portland Center Stage, having assumed that position at the start of the 2021-2022 season. His design and video work has been featured locally and nationally. As always, thank you to Victor and Mary. IG: @gameboy_of_color

Netty is elated to be making her Portland Center Stage debut with this show! She is a singer/actor born and raised right here in Portland, Oregon. Netty was last seen in Last Stop on Market Street (Oregon Children’s Theatre), Crowns (Portland Playhouse), and Black Nativity (PassinArt Theatre Company). She is a graduate of Portland State University, where she received a B.S. in theater arts. When she is not performing, she has her hands full raising her joyful one-year-old son, Kahari! Netty would like to thank her friends and family for their support in her endeavors and the PCS creative team for choosing her to go on this journey. 
IG: @nettymckenzie13

Dave is a local pianist. Outside of theater, he also helps run an organization providing support to individuals dealing with alcohol and opioid addiction.

Pierre is a self-taught multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Raised on bolero, merengue, bachata, Latin pop, and reggaetón, he delved into genres including rock, ambient, R&B, and jazz. Since 2015, Pierre creates his sonic world as juracán, whose full-length Niño and Jarineo tell guitar-driven stories full of dreamy ambiance. juracán released three singles in the past year and, later this year, will release an EP featuring a pop-centric, vocal-focused blend of multiple genres. Pierre's most recent collaboration, Caribe Norwé, will release three singles in 2022. tick, tick … BOOM! marks Pierre’s second experience in musical theater, and he is thrilled to work and perform with the amazing PCS team. Feel free to connect with him on Instagram! @juracan.studio

Yuya is an internationally touring drummer and percussionist. He has appeared on stages all across North America and in Asia, playing for local bands, touring bands, and musical theater productions, and he has worked with major recording labels. He is best known for his time with the Asian American band The Slants and has appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, Good Morning America, The Today Show, among various other news outlets, and even in the U.S. Supreme Court. tick, tick … BOOM! is Yuya's debut at PCS. When he's not drumming, you can find Yuya with his beloved wife Emily and their six kids.

Matt is a musician, actor, sound designer, and healthcare worker who is proud to be making their Portland Center Stage debut! Matt works in a local ER by day and plays rockstar at night. Thank you to Melory, without whom this door would never have been opened. Selected credits: guitarist for Heathers: The Musical (Linfield University), Un Pajarito Canta (Portland Revels), Jesus Christ Superstar (Post5 Theater Company), and Footloose (New Century Players); sound design for The God Cluster (Fuse Theater Ensemble) and Abundancia (Matchbox Theater Company). IG: @chaereb

Jonathan received the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for Rent. He also won the 1996 Tony Award for Best Musical and the 1994 Richard Rodgers Award for Rent and twice received The Gilman & Gonzales-Falla Theatre Foundation's Commendation Award. In 1989, he was granted the Stephen Sondheim Award from the American Music Theatre Festival, where he contributed to the musical Sitting on the Edge of the Future. In 1988, he won the Richard Rodgers Development Grant for his rock musical Superbia, which was staged at Playwrights Horizon. He composed the score for the musical J.P. Morgan Saves the Nation, which was presented by En Garde Arts in 1995. Mr. Larson performed his rock monologue tick, tick ... BOOM! at Second Stage Theatre, The Village Gate, and New York Theatre Workshop. In addition to scoring and songwriting for Sesame Street, he created music for a number of children's book cassettes, including Steven Spielberg's An American Tail and Land Before Time. Other film scores include work for Rolling Stone’s magazine publisher Jann Wenner. He conceived, directed, and wrote four original songs for "Away We Go!," a musical video for children. Rent, his rock opera based on La Bohème, had its world premiere on February 13, 1996, at New York Theatre Workshop. Jonathan died unexpectedly of an aortic aneurysm on January 25, 1996, 10 days before his 36th birthday. His music (including songs cut from his shows) is archived in the Library of Congress.

Marissa is in her fifth year as artistic director of Portland Center Stage. Select directing credits include Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens (Portland Center Stage); Fire in Dreamland by Rinne Groff (The Public Theater; world premiere at KCRep); Man in Love by Christina Anderson (KCRep); 77% by Rinne Groff (San Francisco Playhouse); Precious Little by Madeleine George (Shotgun Players); The Lily’s Revenge (Act II) by Taylor Mac (Magic Theatre); and The Late Wedding by Christopher Chen (Crowded Fire Theater). Marissa was nominated for Best Director by BroadwayWorld San Francisco and the Bay Area Critics Circle, and she held the Bret C. Harte Directing Fellowship at Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Muffie is a dance artist, performer, and movement researcher. Her performance work is part of her activist practice, and in both arenas, she is informed by her identity as a Chicago-born xicana mother. Her work has been presented across the United States at Links Hall (Chicago), Packer Schopf Gallery (Chicago), The Art Institute of Chicago, Movement Research Festival (New York), The Gibney Dance Center (New York), and in Portland at White Bird, Performance Works Northwest, and the Newmark Theater. She has previously choreographed for Portland Center Stage in Earth Without Borders/Tierra Sin Fronteras. She is the recipient of awards from the Ford Foundation (New York), Illinois Arts Council’s Community Arts Assistance Program, and the Regional Arts and Culture Council (Portland). She is a yearly guest teacher at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Muffie is one of five artistic leaders of the dance center FLOCK. IG: @muffiedelgadoconnelly

Ash is an active composer, arranger, songwriter, and music director for choir and theater. Their theatrical credits include productions with Portland Actors Ensemble (for which they won the Outdoor Shakespeare Festival Award in 2012 for Best Sound Design of Twelfth Night), Milagro (for which they won a Drammy Award in 2015 for Outstanding Achievement in Original Music for ¡O Romeo!), Corrib Theatre, Oregon Children’s Theatre, and most recently, Portland Center Stage (Macbeth and Hedwig and the Angry Inch). Ash serves as artistic director to Transpose PDX, which is a non-profit choral arts organization serving the transgender, non-binary, and gender non-conforming community. musicbyash.com 

dots is a design collective based in New York City, specializing in designing environments for narratives, experiences, and performances. Hailing from Colombia, South Africa, and Japan, we are Santiago Orjuela-Laverde, Andrew Moerdyk, and Kimie Nishikawa. We approach every project with a diversity of thought and burning curiosity, and above all, we believe in the value of the whole being greater than the sum of its individual parts. Recent credits: La Traviata (VA, Wolf Trap Opera); While You Were Partying (NYC, Soho Rep); The Green Veil, a TV mini-series starring John Leguizamo; Nations Lending, a national commercial starring Dennis Rodman. designbydots.com, eseoele.com, andrewmoerdyk.com, kimienishikawa-design.com.

Lucy is a costume designer and the costume shop supervisor at Portland Center Stage. She is originally from Mississippi and holds a B.F.A. from the University of Southern Mississippi. Lucy spent the early years of her career working freelance as a costume designer, costume stitcher, and wardrobe supervisor at such theaters as Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Berkshire Theatre Group in Massachusetts, TheatreWorks Silicon Valley, The Rev Theatre in upstate New York, and Shakespeare & Company in Massachusetts. This is Lucy's second season as a shop manager at PCS and her first costume design for PCS. She is always thankful and excited for the collaborative process of bringing a show to life. Lucy is a member of IATSE local 154.

Masha is an NYC-based designer for live performance. Recently: Der Freischütz (Wolf Trap Opera); Straight White Men (Westport); Private (Mosaic); Cunning Little Vixen and Salome (Bard); Puppet Lab (St. Ann’s Warehouse); To the Yellow House (La Jolla Playhouse). Internationally, her work has taken her to Russia, Chile, China, Germany, Ecuador, the Netherlands, Bolivia, and one very big boat. Homes for New York projects include Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, The Kitchen, Atlantic Theatre Co., Clubbed Thumb, PlayCo, Invisible Dog, Page73, and Bushwick Starr. In addition to design, Masha’s interests include progress towards pay equity and a more ethical model of making in the American theater. Masha received her M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. She is a proud member of USA829. mashald.com

Sammi is making her sound designing debut in Portland for tick, tick … BOOM! Sammi is going on her second full season at PCS as the associate sound and video supervisor. She was last seen at PCS as the A1 for Rent. Sammi has a B.A. in theater with music business and business administration focuses at the State University of New York at Potsdam. Her design credits include: How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying, Urinetown, The Secret Garden, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Wiley and the Hairy Man, Venus by Suzan Lori-Parks, Much Ado About Nothing, Blood Wedding, and many more. Sammi would like to thank her family for their endless support of her love of theater!

David has played piano locally for the Oregon Symphony, Portland Opera, Oregon Ballet Theatre, Resonance Ensemble, Anonymous Theatre, and has been featured on All Classical Portland’s radio show “Thursdays at Three.” Past piano credits also involve work in Minnesota with the Guthrie Theater and in Michigan at the Interlochen Arts Camp. As an actor, David has been nominated for a PAMTA and Broadway World’s “Performer of the Decade” for his performance in Murder for Two at Broadway Rose Theatre.

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 an NC teaching fellow. 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. Her play Nick & The Prizefighter was a semifinalist in the 2021 Bay Area Playwright’s Festival and won the 2021 Urbanite Theater Modern Works Festival.

Janine is thrilled to return for her seventh season at Portland Center Stage. She has been a stage manager and production manager in theater for more than 20 years on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, and on tour. She's had many favorite productions in that time, but some of her favorites include Rent, Frida … A Self Portrait, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Macbeth, A Christmas Memory/Winter Song, Wild & Reckless (all at Portland Center Stage); Sweeney Todd (Portland Opera); The Lion King (Broadway); The Graduate (starring Morgan Fairchild), Cats, The Vagina Monologues, Jekyll & Hyde, Show Boat (all on tour); The Daily Show with Jon Stewart “Democalypse 2012 Republican National Convention.” Proud NYU graduate and AEA member.

Dana is so excited to be back at Portland Center Stage. Her previous credits at PCS are Rent, In the Heights, Redwood, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (production assistant), Hedwig and the Angry Inch (assistant stage manager), and The Bells That Still Can Ring (stage manager). Dana graduated from The Ohio State University with a B.A. in theater. While at OSU, Dana was the stage manager on 7 Ways to Say I Love You, Beyond All Recognition, Execution of Justice, Michael Von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards, and The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time. Dana sends all of her love to her family, both blood and found. 

Much love to [Redacted Redacted] for bringing this show to life! Off-Broadway/NYC: A Delicate Balance (Transport Group, Fall 2022); Golden Shield (MTC); Where The Wild Things Are (New Victory); Neurosis (DR2); Syncing Ink (The Flea); Elf The Musical (MSG); New York Stage and Film; Dramatists Guild Foundation; ACLU/NYCLU. National Tours: Yemandja; The Sound of Music; Bullets Over Broadway; Elf The Musical; Finding Neverland. Regional: Portland Center Stage, 5th Avenue Theatre, Florida Studio Theatre, Arrow Rock Lyceum, Alley Theater, TUTS. Associate credits include numerous Broadway, Off-Broadway, film, television, and commercial projects. Zee-casting.com