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 on 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.

Jamie M. 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.

Jeff Gorham

Jeff has had the good fortune of being able to act in the Pacific Northwest over the past twenty years and has worked with many fine actors and directors. He had the fine pleasure of playing Faust in the season premiere of the Re-Theatre Instrument's first show. Some of other favorite roles are: Williamson in Glengarry Glenn Ross at Magdeline theater, The Vagabond in The Tavern at LOCT, Sir Charles Marlow in She Stoops to Conquer at INTIMAN theater, Clarence Darrow in Clarence Darrow at ACT in Seattle, Daniel Corbin in Catch Me If You Can at LOCT.

TV/Film: Zack Taylor in ABC's All My Children, Flamingo Kid in Harry and the Hendersons, HBO's The Last Innocent Man, and NBC's movie of the week, Terror in the Tower.

Jeff received his BA in theatre from SPU and his MFA from the University of Washington.

Jeff thanks his wife Sarah and his three kids Jake, Maddy, and Parker for much joy they bring to his life.

Kyle Lange

Kyle Lange is a composer and band leader in the local Portland sextet Barons in Trees. The band writes whimsical pop music twinged with a chamber orchestra mentality. He also worked as the Assistant Director and Sound Designer for RTI's adaptation of King Lear this fall. Kyle came to PDX by way of NYC and he is SO happy to live here. He aspires to teach high school English, and is now a graduate student at Lewis and Clark College. He keeps a daily blog about music, poetry, geekdom, and politics called Bowerbirds.

Luke Norby

Luke is a multidisciplinary artist and technician of the theater, film and music industry. As an actor Luke grew up doing Shakespeare and musical theater in southern Oregon and went on to graduate from the pacific conservatory for the performing arts. Luke found great success as a voice over artist and ad writer earning a position as the corporate spokesperson and creative director of Dutch Bros. Coffee. His quirky jingles and explosive videos earned him the title "The Don Juan of Dutch Love". As a film-maker Luke has written, directed, edited and produced a wide variety of projects from corporate and music videos to video installations and projection design for music and experimental theater. As a video designer luke has toured internationally with Holcombe Waller, Reggie Watts and worked locally with the re-theater instrument and a number of theater and dance collectives on a wide variety of shows. As a musician Luke is a member of the intbetweens with Wade Mccollum and plays jimmy spree in the band harry tracy and the false face bandits. Luke is happy to be returning to the stage with his friends at the Re-Theatre Instrument...

Tom Mounsey

An early antarctic expedition found Tom, perfectly preserved, frozen deep within the ice. It wasn't until March, 1997, that Dr. Ernst Florentine, at CERN, was able to safely extract him from his gelid prison. Nine years later, Tom spoke his first word of English: "moist." Shortly afterwards, he enrolled at the Portland Actors Conservatory, and after graduating in 2008, hooked up with RTI. Not bad for a former human popsicle.