Stacey Murdock has been a steady
fixture in the Portland music scene and has performed
throughout Oregon and the Northwest. He recently made
his debut with Portland Opera in the role of Junius in
The Rape of Lucretia, and was a member of the
Portland Opera Works outreach program for the past three
seasons. Stacey was a featured artist in Martina
Arroyo's Prelude to Performance program in the summer of
2005 where he performed the role of the Count in
Le
Nozze di Figaro and the Sacristan in
Tosca at the Da
Capo Opera Theater in New York City. He has also been a
frequent performer in the Astoria Music Festival and
Portland Summerfest. Murdock resides in Beaverton,
Oregon with his wife and three children.
Matt Dolphin is a singer, musician and co-founder of the
Oregon Music Academy where he teaches guitar, piano,
music theory and voice. Dolphin has garnered recognition
and awards for his vocal work, including the Bishop
Luers best male vocalist award and was nominated to the
Showstoppers National soloist competition in Chicago.
Dolphin has performed solos with the Oregon Lyric Opera,
Chehalem Symphony, Portland Symphonic Choir, Lafayette
Symphony, Redlands Symphony (CA), Indianapolis Arts
Chorale, and has premiered new works by living
composers.
Jasmine Presson is a singer, actress and
director of off-off Broadway theatre. Presson recently
performed as an apprentice artist with the Astoria Music
Festival. Previous credits include performances of
Rorem's one-act operas Brooklyn College and the world
premiere of
Rain, by Korean composer Kyoung Park, at the
Kaye Playhouse. Before her artistic conversion to
operatic performance, Jasmine spent half a decade acting
and directing in New York City venues including WOW
Cafe Theatre, Dixon Place and The Looking Glass Theatre.
Presson holds a BA degree in Theatre Arts from Kalamazoo
College.
Shannon Wheeler is the recipient of
numerous national awards for his artwork including the
Hatch Broadcasting Award and Eisner Award. He began
drawing cartoons while studying architecture at UC
Berkeley and has been chronicling the adventures of
Too Much Coffee Man since 1993.
Too Much
Coffee Man appears in a dozen alternative
newspapers and has been compiled in four graphic novels
published by Dark Horse Comics. Wheeler resides in
Portland, Oregon with his family.
Damian Willcox is an award-nominated
independent comic creator, freelance illustrator, writer
and poet and the creator of the popular
dorkboy comic.
His work with the
dorkboy comic character garnered
interest from publishers, animation studios and movie
production companies and has been published in print,
television and radio. Willcox has self-published more
than 20 books and created hundreds of online comics.
Willcox lives in Calgary, Alberta with his wife.
Daniel Steven Crafts has written seven
operas and 13 large orchestral works, as well as a
variety of shorter pieces. His piece
The Song and the
Slogan, written with opera star Jerry Hadley, won an
Emmy for Best Music in 2003. Crafts has won awards from
the National Endowment for the Arts and ASCAP, and his
music has been praised for its strong melodies and sense
of humor. Crafts lives in New Mexico.
Devon Allen is a professional actor and
director. She is the artistic director of Our Shoes Are
Red/The Performance Lab, which works internationally on
new work, interpreting the classics, and producing great
writers rarely seen. Currently head of acting at the
Department of Theater Arts at Portland State University,
she teaches acting, directing and creative process
privately and at major universities in the United
States. Ms. Allen holds a certificate from the Royal
Academy of Dramatic Art and an MFA in Acting from the
University of California at San Diego. She is a member
of Actors' Equity and the Directors Lab at the Lincoln
Center.
Randy Rollison is an artistic director, producer,
presenter and manager of nonprofit arts organizations.
During his two-decade career he has helped over 1,000
works of theatre and dance reach the stage. His work as
a producer/director garnered OBIE Awards for excellence
in performance, design and production. Rollison served
as executive artistic director for the Cleveland Public
Theatre, and he co-founded and served as producing
artistic director of HOME for Contemporary Theatre and
Art and the HERE Arts Center, both in New York City.
Joseph Prather is a music director and pianist. Prather
has worked with Portland Opera, Portland State
University, Mannes School of Music in New York, and
Central City Opera in Colorado. Prather toured Spain and
Brazil as pianist for the American Spiritual Ensemble,
and was an assistant conductor at Studio Lirico in
Cortona, Italy. Prather is owner and music director of
Blue Scout Music, producing and licensing music for
advertising, film, television and album projects. He
holds a BA in Piano Performance from the University of
Kentucky.
Carolyn Holzman is a choreographer and
was a founding member and principal performer with Do
Jump Movement Theater for over a decade. She has
choreographed numerous productions at Portland State
University where she teaches movement for actors.
Holzman has written and directed several original shows
through her company, Dreamsburg Productions. She is a
member of Our Shoes Are Red/Performance Lab.
