Danny is an LA-based actor, writer, and director that is thrilled to make his PCS debut! As a filmmaker, his work has screened at Cannes (Court Metrage), Reeling, and Outfest Fusion. Theatrically, he was a founding member of the Chicago Inclusion Project and a company member of Porchlight Music Theatre and Stir-Friday Night. He’s worked with Steppenwolf, Goodman, About Face, Notre Dame Shakespeare Festival, Silk Road Rising, and East West Players, among others. Favorite roles: Harry Bright (Mamma Mia), Kayama (Pacific Overtures), Jed (Fifth of July), Bill (Kiss Me Kate), Bobby (Company), Don Pedro (Much Ado About Nothing), and papa to Padfoot, Tejada, and Stascio. Love and thanks to all involved, the Happen Agency, and the Castro family. This one’s for Dad and Joe Foronda. @thatdannyb

Marielle is an NYC-based Filipina-American actor. TV: Blue Bloods (CBS), Major Crimes (TNT), The Blacklist (NBC), and Bonding (Netflix). Theater includes A Doll's House, Part 2 at Pittsburgh Public Theater; Twelfth Night, The Book of Will, and Kate Hamill's Pride & Prejudice at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival; Love's Labour's Lost with The Acting Company; Edith Can Shoot Things and Hit Them at Kitchen Theatre; Mary's Wedding and The Night Alive at Chester Theatre; and Miss Bennet... at Capital Rep, and more. She has participated in workshops at Clubbed Thumb, EST, Ars Nova, and more. SUNY Purchase and Fiorello H. LaGuardia Performing Arts High School. Love to the fam always. marielleyoung.org @101marielle

Sammy is an interdisciplinary performing artist currently residing in Portland, Oregon. Rios received a B.F.A. in theater studies with a focus in playwriting and directing from Southern Methodist University and received additional training from British American Drama Academy's undergraduate conservatory Acting Program in London, UK. Rios acts, writes, directs, and designs for theater and film, and is zealously excited to be making their debut at PCS. They are also a songwriter and producer for their electronic solo project “Rat Rios” and compose original music for podcasts and film. When they aren't creating art, you will find them either outside in the PNW's lush landscape, or holed up in their treehouse with their partner, animals, and plants, destroying everybody at Tetris and indulging in vegan cuisine. To see more of Rios' work, go to ratrios.com.

Lauren’s Cambodian Rock Band, with music by Dengue Fever, premiered at South Coast Rep, subsequent productions at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, La Jolla Playhouse, Victory Gardens, City Theatre, Merrimack Repertory Theatre, Signature Theatre, and Jungle Theatre/Theater Mu, with an upcoming national tour. Her play The Great Leap has been produced at Denver Center, Steppenwolf, Seattle Repertory, Atlantic Theatre, the Guthrie Theatre, American Conservatory Theatre, Arts Club, Pasadena Playhouse/East West Players, InterAct Theatre, and Asolo Rep. Honors include the Doris Duke Artists Award, Whiting Award, Steinberg/ATCA Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters Literature Award, Horton Foote Prize, Kesselring Prize, Primus Prize, a Hodder Fellowship at Princeton, and the #1 and #2 plays on the 2017 Kilroys List. She's a Residency 5 playwright at Signature Theatre, a New Dramatists member, a Ma-Yi Writers’ Lab member, and a Playwrights Realm playwright. TV credits: Pachinko (Apple), Soundtrack (Netflix). Upcoming TV credits: Interior Chinatown (Hulu), Billions (Showtime), The Sterling Affairs (FX). She is developing pilots for Apple and Netflix. Current commissions include Geffen Playhouse, La Jolla Playhouse, Portland Center Stage, Second Stage, South Coast Rep. B.A: Yale. M.F.A: UCSD. laurenyee.com

Desdemona is a Taiwan-born American director and writer based in Seattle, WA, and Ashland, OR. She works in a variety of genres, including new plays, Shakespeare, and musicals. Chiang is known for her visceral, no-nonsense approach to theater, with her distinct point of view as an immigrant and Asian American woman, and an interest in using storytelling to spark social discourse. Her recent directing credits include The 5th Avenue Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Alley Theatre, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, South Coast Repertory, Pittsburgh Public Theatre, Baltimore Center Stage, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Studio Theatre, Long Wharf Theatre, Seattle Children’s Theatre, and ACT Theatre. Her stage adaptation of Amy Tan’s novel The Bonesetter’s Daughter received its world premiere in the summer of 2022. Awards/Affiliations: Sundance Asian American Fellowship, Princess Grace Award, Vilcek Prize for Creative Promise, SDC Sir John Gielgud Directing Fellowship, Drama League TV/Film Fellowship. M.F.A. Directing: University of Washington.

Junghyun is a Korean-born NYC-based designer. She has designed for Audible Theatre, New York Theatre Workshop, Ma-Yi, Public, Soho Rep, The Play Co., Alley Theatre, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Guthrie Theater, Huntington Theatre Company, Indiana Repertory Theater, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Alliance, and Syracuse Stage. She was nominated for Outstanding Set Design for Kristina Wong, Sweatshop Overlord. M.F.A., Yale School of Drama. junghyungeorgialeedesign.com @jgldesigncompany

Susan has worked from coast to coast at more than 44 theaters, returning frequently to such companies as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Quantum Theatre, and City Theatre. Memorable international productions include the award-winning hit musical Godspell, The Joy Luck Club, a benchmark collaboration between Chinese and American companies, and The Balcony for the Bolshoi Theatre, Moscow, as well as curation of international costume exhibitions worldwide. Awards include the NY Drama Desk, NY Drama Critics, LA Distinguished Designer, Irene Sharaff Lifetime Achievement Award, and Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award — Established Artist. Susan heads the costume design program at Carnegie Mellon University, is the Bessie F. Anathan Professor in Fine Arts, is a university professor, and celebrates her students past and present.

Originally from Portland, Solomon has created original works in drama, opera, dance, installation, and music across the U.S., Canada, Dominican Republic, Germany, Greece, Italy, Russia, and Slovenia. Previously at PCS: 9 Parts of Desire and The Breath of Life. Other highlights include Otello (Festspielhaus Baden Baden, Germany); Il Trovatore (Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Teatro Regio di Parma, Italy); and Oedipus (Ancient Theatre of Epidaurus, Greece; Ancient Theatre of Pompeii, Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza, and Teatro Mercadante di Napoli, Italy) all with Robert Wilson; Macbeth (directed by John Doyle at Classic Stage Company, NYC); The Shape of Things (created by Carrie Mae Weems at the Park Avenue Armory, NYC); Duat (Soho Rep, NYC); and Men on Boats (world premiere: Playwrights Horizons/Clubbed Thumb, NYC). Solomon is the assistant professor of scenic/lighting design at Portland State University and earned his M.F.A. from the Yale School of Drama. solweisbard.com

Portland Center Stage debut. Previous collaborations with Desdemona Chiang include The Winter’s Tale (Oregon Shakespeare Festival), Pride and Prejudice (Pittsburgh Public Theatre), and M. Butterfly (South Coast Rep). Broadway: Goodnight Oscar (upcoming, Belasco Theatre), The Minutes (Cort/Studio 54), 33 Variations (Eugene O’Neill Theatre), I Am My Own Wife (Lyceum Theatre), Metamorphoses (Circle in the Square). Off-Broadway: The Clean House (Lincoln Center), Milk Like Sugar, and BFE (Playwrights Horizons). Regional credits include multiple productions with the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Center Theatre Group, Yale Repertory, Arena Stage, Goodman, Steppenwolf, Chicago Shakespeare, Court Theatre, Berkeley Repertory, Williamstown Theatre Festival and La Jolla Playhouse. Based in Chicago, Andre is an ensemble member of Lookingglass Theatre Company.

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 for the 2022 L. Arnold Weissberger Award, the 2021 Bay Area Playwright’s Festival, and it 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 for more than 20 years on Broadway, Off-Broadway, regionally, and on tour. Some of her favorites include tick, tick ... BOOM!, Rent, Frida ... A Self Portrait, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Macbeth, A Christmas Memory/Winter Song, Wild & Reckless (Portland Center Stage); Sweeney Todd (Portland Opera); The Lion King (Broadway); The Graduate (starring Morgan Fairchild), Cats, The Vagina Monologues, Jekyll & Hyde, Show Boat (National Tours); 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 PCS for her third season. Previous work at PCS includes: It's a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, tick, tick … BOOM!, Hedwig and the Angry Inch (assistant stage manager), Rent, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Redwood, In the Heights (production assistant), and The Bells That Still Can Ring (stage manager). Other credits include Much Ado About Nothing (stage management intern) at The Old Globe. Dana graduated from The Ohio State University in 2019, where she was on the stage management team for six main stage productions. Dana sends all of her love to her friends and family.