 Mark Booher – Artistic Director / Associate Dean / Director
PCPA (since 1999): Director of 18 productions including The Wizard of Oz, A Christmas Carol, The 39 Steps, Invierno, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Ragtime, Godspell, The Importance of Being Earnest, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Picasso at the Lapin Agile, Guys and Dolls, Hamlet, A Flea in Her Ear, A Servant of Two Masters, Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, numerous InterPlay readings and Fight Direction for over 25 productions
Other Theatres: Director: A Christmas Carol (3 times), Richard III, The Winter’s Tale, The Fan, and others. Actor: San Jose Stage Company, Sacramento Theatre Company, American Conservatory Theater, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and others
Training: BA, CSU Sacramento; MFA, UC Irvine
Michael Black – Managing Director
PCPA: (since 2007)
Other: Director Auxiliary Accounting (since 2010), Treasurer, PCPA Foundation (since 2009),. Previous positions: General Manager at Arizona Stone and Architectural Products; CFO at SeaQuine Barns Inc.; SAP Project Manager. V.P. Sales and Marketing, V.P. Logistics and Planning at Steelscape, Inc.; leadership positions in Sales, Customer Service and Finance at BHP Steel Building Products; Controller, South Sierra Division at American Forest Products.
Training: BS, Finance and MS, Accountancy, California State University, Sacramento.
Jeff Allen – Production Manager
PCPA (since 2008): Oversees the production budget & related departments at PCPA.
Other: Video Engineer for RDT Dance Company, Graphic Video Designer for various corporate events. Road/Production Manger, Hello Jerry! starring Jerry Herman. Production Manager, Sundance Theatre Program. Production Stage Manager, Celebrity Cruises. Producer for Jeffrey Berke Productions. Owner Blue Puzzle Productions, an event management and theatrical consulting company.
Training: BFA, University of Utah, with an emphasis in Stage Management.
Kitty Balay* – Actor
PCPA (since 1989): More than 60 productions including Fiddler on the Roof, The Wizard of Oz, The Rivals, Three Sisters, All My Sons, A Christmas Carol, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Caroline, or Change, Pride and Prejudice, Curtains, The Music Man, White Christmas, Hello Dolly, Always Patsy Cline, Gypsy, The Unsinkable Molly Brown, The Matchmaker, Enter the Guardsman, The Miracle Worker, Quilters, You Can’t Take It With You, Twelfth Night, Dancing at Lughnasa, Lend Me a Tenor, The Grapes of Wrath, Woody Guthrie’s American Song
Other Theatres: Acting: South Coast Rep, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Sacramento Theatre Company. Directing: The Great American Melodrama
Teaches: 1st Year Voice
Training: BA, Brown University; MFA, UC Irvine
Maria Centrella - Marketing Director
PCPA (since 1998)
Other: Marketing Director for the California Mid-State Fair in Paso Robles for three years. Previously active in the film and television industry as well as handling touring promotions for several national clients. She and her husband also worked in Sacramento where they owned a television sports production company. Maria also handled the publicity and advertising for the California State Fair for several years.
Training: Maria received a Master's degree in Environmental Planning from CSU, Chico in 1979.
Christine Collins* – Production Stage Manager
PCPA (since 2003): Fiddler on the Roof, The Wizard of Oz, Little Women, the Broadway Musical, Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol, The 39 Steps, My Fairytale, Peter Pan, West Side Story, Invierno, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, Les Misérables, The Music Man, Distracted, White Christmas, The Sound of Music, Othello, Life x 3, Ragtime, Urinetown, Kiss Me, Kate, Seussical, A Little Night Music, Beauty and the Beast, Our Town, My Way, Brigadoon, Guys and Dolls, Fiddler on the Roof, Hamlet, and others.
Other Theatres: Phoenix Theater Company, Dream a Little Dream; Yale Repertory Theater, Fighting Words; Goodspeed Musicals, Babes in Arms, They All Laughed!
Teaches: Stage Management
Training: BA, University of the Pacific; MFA, Yale School of Drama
Leo Cortez - Director of Education & Outreach / Actor
PCPA (since 1989): Director: Lifeboat, Rounding Third, and over 30 Outreach productions. Actor: The Wizard of Oz, Invierno, The Heart's Desire, Anna in the Tropics, Inventing Van Gogh, A Flea in Her Ear, Anything Goes.
Other Theatres: Director: Utah Festival Opera, Santa Maria Civic Theatre, The Western Stage, Monterey Peninsula College. Actor: Lawerence Garfifeld, Other People's Money; Sagot, Picasso at the Lapin Agile; Guiteau/Zangara, Assassins; Mendel, Falsettoland; Seymour, Little Shop of Horrors; Toby, Sweeney Todd; Sparkish, The Country Wife; Bottom, A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Training: BFA, Webster University St. Louis Mo.
Frederick P. Deeben – Costume Crafts Supervisor / Costume Designer
PCPA (since 2000): Cyrano de Bergerac, Spamalot, The Wizard of Oz, The Tempest, Fiddler on the Roof, The Rivals, Three Sisters, A Christmas Carol, Hairspray, Pride and Prejudice, Curtains, Songs for a New World, Macbeth, The Music Man, Distracted, Les Misérables, White Christmas, Hot Mikado, The Heart’s Desire, The Sound of Music, Urinetown, Company, Seussical, Much Ado About Nothing, Anna in the Tropics, Beauty and the Beast, Our Town, As You Like It, The Wildest!, Quilters, Christmas Is, Hello Dolly!, 42nd Street, Rope, Deathtrap, Anything Goes, Ten Little Indians, Agnes of God
Other Theatres: The Western Stage, Solano College Theatre,Pacific Repertory Opera, Sierra Repertory Theatre, Surflight Theatre.
Awards: 2009 Indie Award Costume Design, Les Misérables; 2007 Indie Award Costume Design, The Chalk Circle; 2003 Robby Award - Best Costume Design, Wonderful Town.
Teaches: Costume Design, Costume Crafts, Theatre Graphics.
Training: BA, Gettysburg College; MFA, Syracuse University.
Roger DeLaurier – Conservatory Director, Actor Training /Associate Artistic Director / Director
PCPA (since 1988): Over 50 productions including Fiddler on the Roof, Three Sisters, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Pride and Prejudice, Curtains, Les Misérables, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Sound of Music, Urinetown, The Imaginary Invalid, The Man Who Came To Dinner, Humble Boy, Our Town, As You Like It, Annie, Light Up The Sky, Enter the Guardsman, The Winter’s Tale, On Golden Pond, Arcadia, Twelfth Night, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Turn of the Screw, Dancing At Lughnasa, Pygmalion, and The Elephant Man
Other Theatres: Utah Shakespearean Festival, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, California
Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Festival of Dallas, Hope Summer Repertory Theatre, Insight Out Theatre Collective, Oregon Cabaret Theatre, Penobscot Theatre Company, The Great American Melodrama
Teaches: Acting Styles
Training: BFA, College of Santa Fe; MFA, Meadows School of the Arts, Southern Methodist University
Michael J. Dempsey – Conservatory Director, Technical Training
PCPA (since 2002): Scenery: Othello, The Sound of Music, The Man Who Came to Dinner, Seussical, A Little Night Music, Brigadoon, Annie, The Wildest, The Last Five Years, Christmas Is, Private Lives, Measure for Measure; Costumes: Oliver!, Copenhagen; Lighting: Boy Gets Girl.
Other Theatres: Designed for The Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Sacramento Theatre Company, The Contemporary American Theater Festival, Syracuse Stage, The Williamstown Theater Festival, Off-Broadway.
Teaches: Basic Competencies in Technical Theatre, Internship in Theatrical Production.
Training: AA, University of Wisconsin, Marinette County; BA, University of Wisconsin, Green Bay; MFA, University of Connecticut.
Tamar Geist – Master Electrician / Lighting Designer
PCPA (since 2009): The Tempest, Cyrano de Bergerac, Clybourne Park, The Rivals, Three Sisters, Romeo and Juliet, Caroline, or Change, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The 39 Steps, Songs for a New World, Curtains
Other Theatres: City Lit Theater, Resident Designer Stray Cat Theatre, Moraine Valley Community College, Vintage Theatre Collective, Filament Theatre Ensemble
Other: University of Alaska Fairbanks, Master Electrician/Lighting Designer; Eugene O’Neill Theater Center, Master Electrician
Training: MFA, Arizona State University, BA, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Peter S. Hadres* - Resident Actor / Artistic Associate / Actor
PCPA (since 2000): Over 50 productions including Cyrano de Bergerac, Fiddler on the Foor, Clybourne Park, The Wizard of Oz, Three Sisters, The Rivals, Romeo and Juliet, All My Sons, A Christmas Carol, The 39 Steps, Sylvia, Pride and Prejudice, Les Misérables, The Weir, Ragtime, Art, Beauty and the Beast, Company, Much Ado About Nothing, Guys and Dolls, and Private Lives
Other Theatres: California Shakespeare Festival: Taming of the Shrew, Richard III; San Jose Rep: Rumors; Idaho Shakespeare Festival: Love’s Labours Lost; San Jose Stage: Macbeth; American Citizens Theater: The Firebugs
Teaches: Acting Styles, Stage Combat, Circus
Training: BA, San Jose State University; MFA, University of Delaware PTTP
Karin Hendricks – Actor
PCPA (since 2010): Tzeitel, Fiddler on the Roof; Lady of the Lake, Spamalot; Betsey/Lindsey, Clybourne Park; Glinda Good Witch of the North, The Wizard of Oz, Jo March, Little Women, the Broadway Musical; Vivienne Kensington, Legally Blonde; Natalia Ivanovna, Three Sisters; Lady Capulet, Romeo and Juliet; Mrs. Fezziwig, A Christmas Carol; Johanne Heiberg, My Fairytale; Jane Bennet, Pride and Prejudice; Niki Harris, Curtains; Woman 1, Songs for a New World; White Witch, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe; Lady Macduff, Macbeth; Cathy, The Last Five Years; Jody, Quilters; Rosemary Fenton, Bullshot Crummond; Fruma-Sarah, Fiddler on the Roof
Other Theatres: Downtown Cabaret Theater, Beckman Theatre, New Perspectives Theatre, SoHo Playhouse, Arizona Theatre Company, Fugitive Theatre Company, The Gaslight Theatre, Arizona Repertory Theatre
Teaches: 2nd Year Movement; Community Speaks! (The community-based theater course)
Training: BFA, University of Arizona; MFA, University of California, Irvine
Abby Hogan -- Charge Scenic Artist / Scenic Designer
PCPA (since 1990): Paint charge and mentor to Intern charge painters for many shows.
Other Theatres: Co-Charge Scenic Artist, Glimmerglass Opera; Charge Artist, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Utah Festival Opera & Brandeis University.
Teaches: Scene Painting 1 & 2.
Training: BFA, Webster University; Cobalt Studios Professional training seminars.
Tim Hogan -- Properties Director
PCPA (since 1988): properties for hundreds of productions and scenic design for Barrymore, Our Town, Quilters, Skylight, Greater Tuna, The Daly News, Love Letters, Yours, Anne, Steel Magnolias.
Member: of the Society of Prop Artisan Managers (S*P*A*M)
Teaches: Properties.
Training: BFA, Webster University.
Michael Jenkinson* – Actor / Choreographer
PCPA (since 1997): Director/Choreographer: Fiddler on the Roof, Legally Blonde, Hairspray, West Side Story, The Music Man; Choreographer for over 40 productions including: A Christmas Carol, My Fairytale, Peter Pan, Pride and Prejudice, Les Misérables, Anything Goes, My Fair Lady, Annie, Guys and Dolls, Beauty and the Beast, Oliver!, Kiss Me, Kate; Urinetown, Godspell, Ragtime; Actor: Motel, Fiddler on teh Roof; Sir Robin, Spamalot; Jim/Tom/Kenneth, Clybourne Park; Fred, A Christmas Carol, Mr. Collins, Pride and Prejudice; Aaron Fox, Curtains; Malcolm, Macbeth; Marius, Les Misérables; Joe, The Spitfire Grill; Phil Davis, White Christmas; Demetrius, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Nanki-Poo, Hot Mikado; Younger Brother, Ragtime; Judas/John, Godspell
Other Theatres: Director, Oregon Cabaret; Choreographer, Dance Supervisor: The Old Globe Theatre, A Room With A View (world premiere); The Alliance Theatre, Geva Theatre, Oregon Cabaret, Norris Center for the Performing Arts, The Great American Melodrama, Korean Tour, Fame; Actor: Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Delaware Theatre Co., North Shore Music Theatre, Gateway Playhouse, TheatreWorks, Oregon Cabaret, Idaho Shakespeare Festival, Sierra Repertory Theatre, Sacramento Theatre Co., National touring companies Fame, Grease; Macau, China International Arts Festival, Grease
Teaches: Movement I, Musical Theatre Dance Styles, Musical Theater Ensemble
Training: PCPA (Class of 1999)
DeAnne Kennedy – Scenic Designer,
PCPA (since 2009): Spamalot, Always... Patsy Cline, The Wizard of Oz, The Tempest, Fiddler on the Roof, Little Women, the Broadway Musical, Legally Blonde, A Christmas Carol, Romeo and Juliet, Luis and the Great Field Trip Adventure (Outreach), Hairspray, Caroline, or Change, Peter Pan, Pride and Prejudice, Curtains, West Side Story
Other Theatres: The Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, University of Iowa Summer Repertory Theater, Utah Shakespearean Festival, The Clarence Brown Theater, The Word Players, The Miracle Theater, Black Bear Jamboree, Stagedoor Manor, The Little Theater of the Rockies, University of Northern Colorado, The Curious Theater
Teaches: Scenic Design, Computer Aided Drafting
Training: BA, University of Northern Colorado; MFA, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Quinn Mattfeld* – Actor
PCPA (since 2010): Hunk/Scarecrow, The Wizard of Oz, Captain Jack Absolute, The Rivals; Solyony, Three Sisters; Mercutio, Romeo and Juliet; Chris, All My Sons; Topper, A Christmas Carol, Jeff Skilling, ENRON; Mr. Darcy, Pride and Prejudice
Other Theatres: Utah Shakespearean Festival: Noises Off, Romeo and Juliet, The Winter’s Tale, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Henry V, Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare - Abridged. Also, Wilamette Repertory Theatre, Illinois Shakespeare Festival, The Theater at Manmouth, Pennsylvania Center Stage.
Broadway: Pal Joey (Roundabout Theatre Company)
Teaches: Shakespeare
Training: BA, University of Oregon; MFA, Penn State University.
Callum Morris – Musical Director
PCPA (since 2004): Spamalot, The Wizard of Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, Little Women, Legally Blonde, A Christmas Carol, Hairspray, My Fairytale, Peter Pan, Curtains, West Side Story, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Les Misérables, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, The Spitfire Grill, White Christmas, Ragtime, The Sound of Music, Urinetown, Kiss Me, Kate, Seussical, Dames at Sea, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Guys and Dolls
Other Theatres: M. Rubinoff Productions: Evita, Side by Side by Sondheim, A Chorus Line; Galveston Island Musicals: Bye Bye Birdie; Lyric Opera Theatre: Carousel
Teaches: Singing Techniques, Musical Theatre Ensemble
Training: BMus, McGill University; MM, Arizona State University
Andrew Philpot* – Actor,
PCPA (since 2004): Director: The Circuit, Oliver Button is a Sissy, Henry VI; Actor: Karl/Steve, Clybourne Park, Hickory/Tin Woodman, The Wizard of Oz, Professor Bhaer, Little Women, the Broadway Musical; UPS Man/Pforzheimer, Legally Blonde; Vershinin, Three Sisters, Friar Lawrence, Romeo and Juliet; Marley/Fezziwig, A Christmas Carol; Richard Hannay, The 39 Steps; Jonas Collin, My Fairytale; Sir William Lucas/Mr. Gardiner, Pride and Prejudice; Lt. Frank Cioffi, Curtains; Caspian, Invierno; Beaver, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Thenardier, Les Misérables; Harold Hill, The Music Man; Dad, Distracted; Tateh, Ragtime; Iago, Othello; Henry, The Real Thing; Lumiere, Disney’s Beauty and the Beast; Daddy Warbucks, Annie; Stage Manager, Our Town; Sky Masterson, Guys and Dolls
Other Theatres: Denver Center Theater: Racing Demon, Misalliance, Man of the Moment; Pasadena Playhouse: A Life in the Theater; Mark Taper Forum: The Cider House Rule
Television: The Practice, Frasier, Columbo, Empty Nest
Teaches: Voice and Speech
Training: BA, UC Irvine; MFA, Academy for Classical Acting in Washington, D.C.
Elisabeth Rebel – Sound Director / Sound Designer
PCPA (since 2009): Sound Designer: Spamalot, Always...Patsy Cline, The Wizard of Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, Little Women, Three Sisters, Legally Blonde, Romeo and Juliet, A Christmas Carol, The 39 Steps, Hairspray, Caroline, or Change, Pride and Prejudice, Macbeth, Breaking Through (Outreach); Composer: The Tempest, Invierno, 12th Night (Conservatory Repertory)
Other Theatres: Our Town, Guys and Dolls, Oliver, The Sound of Music, Annie, Proof, The Wizard of Oz, Beauty and the Beast, Run for Your Wife, Once Upon A Mattress, Playing Doctor
Training: BA, Florida State University
Erik Stein* – Casting Director / Actor
PCPA (since 2002): Actor: Actor: Tevye, Fiddler on the Roof; Sir Lancelot, Spamalot; Ragueneau, Cyrano de Bergerac; Zeke/Cowardly Lion, The Wizard of Oz, Sir Anthony, The Rivals; Kulygin, Three Sisters; Capulet, Romeo and Juliet; Christmas Present, A Christmas Carol; Shadow, My Fairytale; Hook, Peter Pan; Belling, Curtains; Lockstock, Urinetown; Javert, Les Misérables; Marcellus, The Music Man; Playwright, Enter the Guardsmen; Rounding Third, Wonderful Town, Crazy for You, Little Shop of Horrors; Director: Songs for a New World, Art
Broadway: Charity Man, A Christmas Carol (directed by Susan Stroman)
Off-Broadway: Stephens, Captains Courageous (Manhattan Theatre Club); Chief, Johnny Johnson (York Theatre Company)
Regional Theatres: Goodspeed, Utah Shakespearean Festival, Pioneer Theatre Company, North Shore Music Theatre, Geva Theatre, Theatre Under the Stars, Black Hills Playhouse, Sierra Repertory, Beef&Boards, The Great American Melodrama
Film: Jerry, A Fish Tale; Ten Years Later
Other Credits: Founding member of the Alaska Shakespeare Festival and The California Cabaret Theatre
Teaches: Audition Techniques & the Business of Being an Actor
Training: PCPA (class of 1990)
Elizabeth Stuart* – Actor
PCPA (returned 2007): Over 30 productions including Bev/Kathy, Clybourne Park; Amelie/Lise/Sister Marguerite, Cyrano de Bergerac; Yente/Fruama-Sarah, Fiddler on the Roof; Miss Gultch/Wicked Witch of the West, The Wizard of Oz, Marmee March, Little Women; Paulette Bonafonte, Legally Blonde; Olga, Three Sisters; Nurse in Romeo and Juliet, Mrs. Cratchit, A Christmas Carol; Prudy Pingleton/Gym Teacher/Matron, Hairspray; Rose Stopnick Gellman, Caroline, or Change; Mrs. Darling, Peter Pan; Lady Catherine de Bourgh, Pride and Prejudice; Mrs. Macready/Mrs. Beaver, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe; Lady Macbeth, Macbeth; Mama, Distracted; Eulalie Shinn, The Music Man; Madame Thenardier, Les Misérables; Titania, A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Betty Haynes, White Christmas; Mother, Ragtime; Valerie, The Weir; Emilia, Othello; Mother Abbess, The Sound of Music; Ginger, 1940’s Radio Hour
Other Theatres: Phoenix Theatre, Sacramento Theatre Center, The Great American Melodrama, Anteaus, Geva Theatre
Teaches: Acting
Training: BA, Santa Clara University
Patricia M. Troxel – Literary Manager / Artistic Associate / Director
PCPA (since 1991): Directed numerous plays across the last 21 seasons including The Tempest, The Rivals, Romeo and Juliet, Caroline, or Change; ENRON, Peter Pan, Sylvia, Macbeth, Distracted, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Iron Kisses, The Heart’s Desire, The Weir, The Real Thing, The Chalk Circle, Much Ado About Nothing, Quilters, Private Lives, Romeo and Juliet, plus 11 seasons of InterPlay and dramaturgy for over 55 plays.
Other Theatres: Insight Out, Oregon Shakespeare Festival; California Shakespeare Festival, Centerpoint Theatre
Teaches: Shakespeare Workshop, 2nd Year Shakespeare, Actors Lab II
Training: BA, Whitman College; MA, UC Davis; MA/PhD, Princeton University
Other: Retired Faculty, English Department at Cal Poly
Alberto Yong - Sound Engineer / Sound Designer
PCPA (since 2012): Sound Designer: Cyrano de Bergerac, Clybourne Park, The Tempest, Lifeboat (Outreach), The Reluctant Dragon (Outreach) Composer: The Reluctant Dragon (Outreach)
Other Theatres: Gutenberg/The Musical, Annie, La Ronde, The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Abridged
Training: BFA, University of North Carolina School of the Arts, with an emphasis in Sound Design
Jen ‘Z’ Zornow – Lighting Director / Lighting Designer
PCPA (since 2001): Over 30 shows including: Spamalot, Always...Patsy Cline, The Wizard of Oz, Fiddler on the Roof, Little Women, Legally Blonde, A Christmas Carol, Hairspray, My Fairytale, Peter Pan, Pride and Prejudice, West Side Story, Invierno, Macbeth, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, The Spitfire Grill, The Music Man, Les Misérables, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Ragtime
Other Theatres: Salt Lake Acting Company, The Grand Theater, The Egyptian Theater, Salt Lake Shakespeare Company, Ririe Woodbury Dance Company, Plan B Theater Company
Other: Cornell University, Master Electrician/Lighting Designer
Training: MFA, University of Oklahoma; BA, Muskingum College
* = Member, Actors' Equity Association |
