Lauren Modica-Soloway as Elizabeth Sawyer
Lauren Modica-Soloway is thrilled to be back working with Profile for the third time. Previous Profile credits include The Antigone Project (Various) and Las Meninas (Louise). Regional credits include four seasons at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Repertory Theatre, BEDLAM, ‘I Don’t Think So Honey! (Live)’, and others. Local companies and credits include Portland Center Stage, the Oregon Symphony, Backfence PDX, Artists Repertory Theatre, Profile, and others. As a writer/performer, she’s been the recipient of IFCC and RACC grants and residences, and worked with Kaiser-Permanente, The Oregon Bar, and others as a communications coach and consultant. Gratitude to Josh, cast, crew. For Pete, and her family.
Charles Grant as Cuddy Banks
Charles is delighted to be making his Profile Theatre debut (!) with this wondrously wild ride of a play. Most recently, you may have seen him on stage in The Brothers Size (Portland Center Stage at the Armory) and/or A Case for the Existence of God (Third Rail Repertory Theatre). As an actor, director, writer, and producer, he’s also worked with Fuse Theatre Ensemble, Confrontation Theatre, Broadway Rose, Staged!, Oregon Children’s Theatre, and Portland Playhouse (where he is currently in the role of Producing Director). Thank you to our director Josh and the team at Profile for this invitation to dance and dream through Cuddy. Thank you to this cast, creative team, stage management, crew and all involved for creating and sharing a space of excellence and inspiration. Thank you for being here and breathing with us. Love to Chip and Giselle. Say hi on IG: @thecharlesgrant or thecharlesgrant.com .
Logan Bailey as Frank Thorney
Logan is ecstatic to be making his Profile debut as Frank. You may have recently seen Logan in Broadway Roses’ production of Waitress. He wouldn’t be here without the support of his family and his partner Alannah for never letting him settle with a character. He would like to lastly thank his mentor Ann Farrelly for her everlasting love and guidance. Enjoy the show!
Madeleine Tran | Fight Choreographer
Madeleine Tran is a Vietnamese-American soprano, actor, fight choreographer, and occasional street and festival performer. She was born in Tacoma, WA but studied voice at the University of Portland under Dr. Nicole Hanig. Madeleine also studies and teaches stage combat under the mentorship of Kristen Mun. She has performed locally with many companies, including ART, Profile Theater, Third Rail Repertory, Portland Center Stage, Shaking The Tree, Portland Opera, and Renegade Opera.
Olivia Vavroch | Set Dressing & Properties Coordinator
Olivia Vavroch is a designer whose work incorporates texture, artifacts, and layers of playful details to tell stories of compassion and emotional interconnectivity across time and space. In addition to Profile Theatre, her work has been seen at 21Ten, Third Rail Rep, Imago Theatre, Speculative Drama, Portland Revels, PassinArt, Crave Theatre Company, Fuse, Sh/ft, Enlightened Theatrics, and TAC/PSP. Through her Vavroch Glass & Art Studio, Olivia currently teaches stained glass and prop food sculpture classes at PCC. Olivia is currently developing a new body of multimedia sculptures and garments that visualize the impacts of generational and complex trauma in the body.
Josh FS Moser | Dialect Coach
Josh “J” Feliciano-Sanchez Moser (they/them) is an NYC based voice/dialect coach represented by United Talent Agency. They are thrilled to be coaching again with Profile Theatre. Previous productions include Awe/Struck, The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, and Welcome to Arroyo’s. Additional Coaching includes: Utah Shakespeare Festival; Phoenix Theatre Ensemble; Yale; Princeton; Brown U/Trinity Repertory; CNN’s Harry Enten; Savannah Stage Company; Savannah Shakes; and others. Josh is a Certified Teacher of both Fitzmaurice Voicework® and Knight Thompson Speechwork, with an MFA from Savannah College of Art and Design. Currently, Josh is an Assistant Professor at Kean University, as well as a Senior Consultant for Strictly Speaking Group. Additional teaching experience details available at www.JoshFSMoser.com. Proud member: Actor’s Equity Association, the Hispanic Organization of Latin Actors, the Voice and Speech Trainers Association.
Joe Bowden | Director of Photography, Desert Island Studios
Joe Bowden is a mixed Asian American writer, director, cinematographer, and founder of Desert Island Studios, which is a sound stage and full service production company based in Portland OR. His film credits include shorts, features, and music videos such as Private Chat (Dir. DP) Two Detectives, (Dir. written by) The feature film Song of Summer, (DP) Planet #5 (Dir. DP written by) Color Theories (DP) At Skyview Enterprises (DP) Casualties (DP), and Empano Gleasium, (Dir. DP, written by), which is premiering at Portland Panorama in 2025.
Alan Cline | Video Designer
Alan is a video designer and technician living and working in Portland, Oregon. His work has previously been featured with Profile Theatre in their production of The Baltimore Waltz, as well as with Portland Playhouse, Oregon Children’s Theatre, Artist’s Rep, Third Rail Rep, and others.
Cullen Elliott & Saibi Khalsa | Sound Designers
Cullen and Saibi (Weirdbird Sound Design) Are a design team based out of Portland Oregon. Saibi grew up in Santa Fe and studied sound design at both Sarah Lawrence College and Santa Fe University of Art and Design, Cullen studied sound at Southern Oregon University, they met while working at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and have been making art together ever since! Recent credits include Laughs in Spanish (Santa Fe Playhouse) Notes From The Field (Portland Playhouse), and As You Like It (Cal Shakes). This is their debut design with Profile Theatre and it’s been an absolute joy so far!
Kristeen Willis | Lighting Designer
Kristeen is excited to be designing lights for Profile Theatre again. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Centre College in Danville, Kentucky and her Master of Fine Arts in lighting design from Wayne State University, Hilberry Gateway in Detroit, Michigan. Kristeen is a proud member of United Scenic Artists and has been an educator, a designer (lighting, scenery, sound, props), technician, technical director, production manager, and most recently a project manager for commercial lighting controls. She is a resident artist with Artists Repertory Theatre, and has designed locally and regionally and has won several Drammy Awards in both lighting and scenic design.