Jason Zimbler, Artistic Director

Founding member Jason Zimbler, a wearer of many hats, will don his most important and influential to date, that of Artistic Director. Like most sensible people, he left New York City in order to build a career in theatre.

A quick IMDB search will reveal an entertainment career spanning 3 decades, including stops on the soap opera The Edge of Night, the Broadway musical Shenandoah, and the Nickelodeon sitcom Clarissa Explains It All. Between Jason's undergraduate degree in Business Administration and his graduate degree in Theatre Directing, he is certain to know a great deal about very little, or potentially very little about everything else, and therefore perfectly qualified for this role.

Jason has both directed and assisted professionally in NYC, having frequently worked with Impetuous Theater Group. His work has been enthusiastically reviewed in nytheatre.com. He was chosen to take part in the Lincoln Center Director's Lab in 2007, and was a recipient of the SSDC Observership in 2006 for the Off-Broadway show Burleigh Grime$ under the direction of David Warren. Jason is in his 8th year as director, educator, and theatre program head at Buck's Rock Performing and Creative Arts Camp.

Having now found his enlightened path, Jason has an intense hunger to see this project achieve great heights.

Sam Kusnetz, Production Director

After receiving his undergraduate degree in Theatre from Brown University, Sam toured a one-act live radio play thriller farce entitled On The Air, which he co-authored, co-starred in, and co-designed, four thousand miles across Canada in his VW Jetta. After playing to sold out houses in Winnipeg in the largest single-pour concrete building in the world, and playing to an audience of one, Pam, in Ottawa, he returned home to his native New York City, only to pack a moving truck and drive west again to settle in Portland.

Since his arrival, Sam has served as composer, sound designer, technical director, and stage and production manager for such companies as Tears of Joy, Profile Theatre, Imago Theatre, Do Jump!, Sojourn Theatre, Oregon Repertory and Portland Center Stage.

Sam is also the co-creator of Anonymous Theatre, a designer-in-residence with Insight Out Theatre Collective, and the lead sound designer and production manager at Buck's Rock Camp.

Jamie Rea, Managing Director

A renaissance woman of the theatre, Jamie has had the pleasure of exploring this powerful tool for connection and change for over 15 years. She is a founding ensemble member of the Drunken Monkeys of Brooklyn Bay (Scott Kelman) and an associate artist with Sojourn Theatre. Some favorite local roles include 7 Great Loves (Sojourn), Tao Soup (Kelman), Hannah in Arcadia (Lakewood Theatre Co.), Ymma in Silence (jackers productions), Gabriella in References to Salvador Dali Make Me Hot and Guard in Lorca in a Green Dress (The Miracle Theatre). She has production stage managed and designed in Australia, directed in Canada, danced at The Body, a festival of dance and physical theatre in Christchurch, New Zealand and sound designed in Ohio. Jamie is a connoisseur of hats and could never be satisfied with just one.

Danielle Vermette

Danielle (BFA, University of Central Missouri) has been an Imago Theatre company member since 1999, touring with trademark shows Frogz and Biglittlethings in venues as varied as the New Victory Theatre in New York City and Maplewood Elementary School in Portland, Oregon. She has appeared in Imago's Hit Me In the Stomach, The Father Thing, and The Dinner. Additionally, she spends many hours (along with musical genius and compulsive IKEA shopper, Katie Griesar) creating tiny pieces of theatre for Performance Works Northwest.

Jeff Gorham

I have had the fine pleasure of being able to act in the greater Pacific Northwest for the past 20 years. With that said, I have also had the wonderful opportunity to work with some very fine actors, directors, and production folks. It always seems like my favorite roles are whatever I just finished doing, but here are a few of them.
- Clarence Darrow, Clarence Darrow a one man play, Initman Theatre in Seattle
- Sir Charles Marlow, She Stoops to Conquer, Intiman Theatre in Seattle
- Williamson, Glengarry Glenn Ross, Cygnet Productions
- Doc, Crimes of the Heart, LOCT
- GW, Sordid Lives, triangle productions!
- Vagabond, The Tavern, PCT & LOCT
- Orlando, As You Like It, Taproot Theatre Co.

TV/Film:
- Zack Taylor, All My Children, ABC
- Hank Molle, Terror in the Towers, NBC movie of the week
- Flamingo Kid, Harry and the Hendersons

I would very much like to recognize and honor my lovely wife Sarah, and my three not-so-little kids, Jake, Maddy, and Parker. A man could not ask for a better more supportive family. You guys are the best things in my life.

Luke Norby

Luke is a native Oregonian finding a home in Portland in January of 2007. Luke grew up doing musical and classical theater as it was a family trade. After studying acting at The Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts, luke branched out into writing and directing short films. The hobby quickly became a job and Luke started writing and producing commercials for Dutch Bros. Coffee. With a day job Luke found little time for theater but continued to feed the need to perform through music and performance poetry. After five years (and hundreds of commercials and videos) helping the dutch empire expand from 20 to over 100 stores; Luke stepped down as the companies creative director and spokesperson and began to pursue his new love of film making. With an impressive resume of music videos, commercials, short films, webisodes, television pilots, video installations and the like Luke has dabbled in a broad range of pre post and production experimentation. Since he left his cozy corporate job he can be seen sweating it out on stage or behind the scenes of a myriad of film, television, theater and music projects. To find out more, google him... He likes it.