Andrés Alcalá  over the past year has performed in Metamorphoses at Artists Repertory Theatre, his one-man show Men On The Verge and Clean with Miracle Theatre Company.  Andy recently earned a Drammy Award for Best Actor for his craft in Men On The Verge. Andy will direct Insight Out's January production The Yellow Boat in collaboration with CITE/Sight Educational Theatre and Do Jump! He has also performed with Profile Theatre in the Lisbon Traviata, and in Anonymous Theatre for Theatre Vertigo. He directed Ramona Quimby for the Oregon Children's Theatre in 2005. He has performed in Love! Valour! Compassion!, The Laramie Project, A Question of Mercy, and Touch for Artists Repertory Theatre. He is the artistic and executive director for C.I.T.E. a Multicultural school-touring troupe that performs shows about Bully Prevention, Diversity, Recycling, Energy and Water conservation. Some favorite roles include Richard III and Iago for Southwest Shakespeare in Phoenix and Sedona, Arizona. For the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, he worked for two seasons as an actor playing The Moon in Blood Wedding, Florizal in A Winters, Curio in Twelfth Night, and Friar John in Romeo and Juliet. Last year, and recently again, he had the honor of performing with DO JUMP! as Paolo Lugari in Entusiasmo! He has directed Edward II, Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Mid-Summer Nights Dream, Twelfth Night, and Much Ado About Nothing among others. He has received Arizoni awards for his work as an actor and director in Phoenix, as well as Drammy awards for his work as a director and an actor in Portland. Last Fall, he was seen in ONE - The Musical as John, Sid's father, and in the ensemble. 

Bonnie Henderson-Winnie has been building & styling wigs and hairpieces for opera, theatre, and film regionally and nationally since 1994. Recent projects include specialty makeups for Portland Center Stage productions, Bat Boy: The Musical and King Lear. She has created custom wigs and period styling for Kentucky Opera’s 2004 Cosi fanTutte, and was principal makeup for Wozzeck and Eugene Onegin at the Opera Festival of New Jersey. Recently, Bonnie was the wig and make-up designer for ONE - The Musical.  Upcoming projects include Princeton Opera Festival's 2005 production of Sweeney Todd and a series of paintings & ritual performance works based on alchemical emblemata. Bonnie lives in Portland and is wardrobe mistress with Portland Center Stage, a carver and painter, and an avid student and practitioner of western hermetic ceremonial forms. Bonnie is also a Company Member with Insight Out.

Julianna Jaffe | Co-Founder
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Sam Kusnetz is a designer, composer, stage manager, and theatrical problem solver with over 160 productions to his name. He is proud to be the Production Manager/Technical Director for Do Jump!, and has toured nationally and internationally with Imago Theatre’s Frogz and
Biglittlethings as Production Stage Manager and Lighting Director. His Off-Broadway credits include sound design for Dames at Sea, Doña
Rosita, Arms and the Man, and Small Craft Warnings at the Jean Cocteau Repertory. Regional credits include the world premieres of A
Girl Called Dusty at the Provincetown Repertory, ONE: The Musical and The Yellow Boat with the Insight Out Theatre Collective here in Portland, as well as Experiment With An Air Pump and The Sweetest Swing in Baseball for Portland Actors' Conservatory. He has composed scores for numerous shows at his alma mater, Brown University, including King Lear, Marisol and Macbeth, and designed sound for many others including the world premiere of Kid Simple. He spends his summers as head sound designer and production manager at Buck’s Rock Camp, a visual and performing arts camp in Connecticut. He is a founding member of the Anonymous Theatre Company, a teacher at Portland Actors' Conservatory, and a designer-in-residence with Insight Out Theatre Collective. Sam lives in Portland with his lovely wife Kerry. Additionally, Sam is totally excited about cake.

Tony Fuemmeler is a mask-maker, performer, educator, designer, stage and production manager. Since relocating to Portland, he has been working with Oregon Children's Theatre, Tears of Joy, Many Hats Collaboration, Nomadic Theatre Company, Insight Out, and CITE Educational Theatre. Tony worked as the set and projection designer with Insight Out's production of The Yellow Boat and is already working on Insight Out's 2008 production of For:Give. He is a former company member of Brooklyn's Under The Table Ensemble Theatre and has worked on productions by various companies in New York City and Minneapolis. He is a graduate of the Dell'Arte International School of Theatre Professional Actor Training Program and has a BFA in Theatre Design from the University of Kansas. He is thankful to be surrounded by amazing people.

Andy Lindberg is a native of Portland, Oregon. As a young man he studied at the Portland Civic Theatre. More recently he has been performing with The 3rd Floor, Portland’s longest running sketch comedy troupe. More prominently Andy plays the part of Buckle in the pirate rock band Captain Bogg and Salty, whose second album Peg Leg Tango has been released to rave reviews from seven year-olds everywhere. For more information about this pirate adventure, please visit www.eatalime.com.  Some of his favorite roles include Claudio in Death and the Fool, Pish in The Birds, and Costard the Swain from Love’s Labours Lost. He originated the role of Merlyn in the world premier of the musical Arthur and Merlyn: The Marvelous Sword in the Stone at the Northwest Children’s Theater. With Insight Out, Andy has performed as Grover/Nikky Paradise et al in On the Verge and as Dave/ensemble in ONE - The Musical. Mostly he enjoys singing and comfortable chairs. Mostly.

Lindsay J. Lucas | Co -Founder
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Wade McCollum | Co - Founder
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Luke Norby is a self-proclaimed “modern gypsy.” Luke grew up between Southern Oregon’s Rogue Valley and the windward side of Oahu, in Hawaii. Live theater has always been a part of his life: he grew up in rehearsals for his dad’s musical theater company. Luke made his on stage debut at the ripe age of eight. A veteran musical theater actor by the time he graduated high school, he went on to the Pacific Conservatory of the Performing Arts to study acting. Luke met the Insight Out co-founders at PCPA and they developed a friendship through a mutual respect for music and storytelling. While attending PCPA, he also developed the idea to start his own production company, for which he is now the founder and CEO. Luke’s company, Relative Creations works with Dutch Bros. Coffee, Innovator Studios, Harry Tracy and the Face Bandits and is a proud partner with Insight Out Theatre Collective. Luke has been shooting a documentary on the making of ONE since early 2003. He also plays back-up with Wade, recently touring to Los Angeles, New York and Portland. Luke is currently using his love for skydiving and aviation to produce his first feature length movie, due in late 2006.

Kristin Steele has been working as a writer in Portland for the last 14 years. She works on the Insight Out Literary Committee, exploring submitted scripts for future productions. She is currently working on her first novel in pursuit of her MFA at Goddard College, in Vermont. She also facilitates writing workshops for Write Around Portland, a local non-profit committed to creating community through writing, and coaches young writers at PlayWrite, Inc. Her play To Wed, Divorce, and Bury was produced at The Zoo Theatre in Hollywood and her short story "Recycled" appears in Love Shook My Heart II, a Lambda Literary Award nominated anthology.

Samantha Swaim currently owns her own event planning and consulting business. She has a 14-year history of theatre production and management, with an emphasis in producing, directing and stage managing. She was also a production coordinator for the Grammy Awards in Southern California. Samantha has seven years experience in non-profit fundraising and Board of Directors development. Samantha thanks Insight Out for infusing her life with creative energy.

Amaya Villazan has been working on the Portland stage since 2003. She moved here from Montreal, QC, where she graduated from Dawson College's Professional Theatre program with honors before deciding to continue her work as an artist here in the Northwest. Some favorite roles include Marguerite Ida/Helena Anabel in Dr. Faustus Lights the Lights (defunkt theatre), Laurencia in Fuente Ovejuna (Miracle Theatre), and Rosalind in As You Like It (PAE). She has also had the pleasure of working with other companies such as CoHo productions, Sojourn, and Insight Out Theatre Collective. Her daytime hours are wonderfully filled with performing theatre for K-12 students about environmental issues and bully prevention with CITE Educational Theatre.

JR Wickman bio to come