Blanca Forzan | Lighting Designer
Blanca Forzán is a lighting designer, set designer, and writer with a background in Architecture from the Universidad del Valle de México. She has collaborated on international productions such as Faust at the Brooklyn Academy of Music and Hamlet in Cádiz, Spain, as well as at renowned theaters in the United States such as the Aurora Theatre, Artist Repertory Theatre, and Portland State University.

In 2023, Blanca was awarded the Best Lighting prize at the Carbonell Awards for her outstanding work on El Huracán in Miami, Florida. Recently she has worked with Coho Theatre as a set designer and master props in Sanctuary City, as well as in the production of Yohen at the Brunish Theatre with Passinart. In 2024, she participated in 9 theater productions. She designed set and lights for Story Teller at Artist Repertory theater 2025. She is super happy to work with Profile Theatre again.

Peter Ksander | Scenic Designer
Peter Ksander is a scenographer and media artist. He was a founding curator of the Incubator Arts Project in NYC, won an Obie award for the scenic design of Untitled Mars (this title may change), and a Bessie award for the visual design of This Was the End. He holds a MFA from CALARTS, and is a Professor at Reed College.
He has worked repeatedly with Richard Foreman, Karin Coonrod, Object Collection, and the Portland Experimental Theater Ensemble (PETE), where he is a company member. Recent Portland credits include set designs for Aw Hell, Who’s Afraid of Virgina Woolfe, Another Dialogue, Twelfth Night, Infinite Life, Te Moana Meridian, A Seagull,Il Re Pastore, Cardiac Organ,Apoptosis, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Adin Walker | Dance Choreographer
Adin Walker choreographed Profile Theater + Artists Repertory Theater’s co-production of Paula Vogel’s Indecent. Based in SF, recent choreography: Ngozi Anyanwu’s The Last of the Love Letters and Preston Choi’s Limp Wrist on the Lever (Crowded Fire), Cabaret (Theatre Rhinoceros), Indecent (Center REP), and Indecent (Chautauqua Theater). As director + choreographer: Yilong Liu’s PrEP Play, or Blue Parachute (New Conservatory Theater), Adam Ashraf Elsayigh’s Data Queen (Golden Thread), Roger Q. Mason’s The White Dress (Off-Broadway), L M Feldman’s Grace, or the Art of Climbing (Jersey City), and developmental labs of Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel’s Lupe Finds Me in the Garden of Dreams (New York Theater Workshop) and L M Feldman’s Limber, A Love Story (Emerson Stage). Adin collaborates as movement director + associate director with internationally-touring dance, puppetry, and climate-justice focused Phantom Limb Company, whose production Falling Out about the 2011 tsunami and radiation disaster in Fukushima premiered in BAM’s Next Wave Festival. Adin is currently completing a PhD in performance studies at Stanford.

Joshua J. Weinstein as Scratch
Born and raised in Tallahassee, FL, Josh moved to Portland in 2011 to be a member of the Portland Playhouse Acting Apprentice Company. At Profile: Indecent (co-production with Artists Rep), The Baltimore Waltz (Drammy Award). As a Resident Artist at Artists Rep: Magellanica, We Are Proud to Present…, The Miracle Worker, 4000 Miles, Tribes, and Foxfinder. Other Portland Credits: Twelfth Night, Miss Bennet, Major Barbara (PCS), Beirut, Tender Napalm (The Shoebox, Drammy Award), A Christmas Carol (Portland Playhouse), The Nether (Third Rail), and Body Awareness (CoHo, Drammy Award). Many thanks to the cast, creative, and production teams for keeping us safe and sharp. And Brandy. Always.

Jessica Tidd as Winnifred
Jessica is grateful to be performing in her first production with Profile Theatre.  She was most recently seen with Fuse Theatre as Squeaky Fromme in Assassins and as a guest artist for JK2 in their sketch comedy show Till Death Deux We Art. She has performed in Portland for over ten years, and is thankful to have worked with many companies including Staged!, Defunkt, Post5, Shaking the Tree, Badass Theatre, Anonymous, Portland Center Stage and others. Favored roles include Iago, Hedda Gabler, Lisa (A New Brain), and Berger (Hair). Favored ensemble work includes Caucasian Chalk Circle and Bakkhai with Shaking The Tree and numerous productions with Sam Dinkowitz’s sketch comedy group Spectravagasm. 

George Mount as Sir Arthur Banks
Profile Theatre and Portland area debut. George recently relocated to Portland after 30+ years in Seattle, with 20 of those years working in various capacities at Seattle Shakespeare Company. At SSC he was a teaching artist, Education Associate and, for 12 years, Artistic Director. He is also the founding Artistic Director of Wooden O, a free Shakespeare in the parks program started in 1994 (now a program of SSC). Acting credits include: Ford (Merry Wives), Jacques (As You Like It), Richard II, Dogberry (Much Ado), Malvolio (Twelfth Night), Hooks (Snow Falling on Cedars), George (Of Mice and Men) and Hamlet. Directing credits include A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Comedy of Errors, The Rivals, Waiting for Godot, Shakespeare in Love, King Lear and The Tempest.

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.