Theatre Guest Artists

Matthew B. Zrebski is a multi-award winning director, playwright, composer, script consultant, teaching artist, and producer whose career has been defined by new play development and innovative productions.  Recent directing credits include Hide, Orlando, I Want to Destroy You, Up the Fall, and Bob: A Life in Five Acts. His recently produced writing includes Arm, One Move, Shiver: a musical ghost story, Red in the Cloud, In a Single Breath, Offended!, Carnivora, Chrysalis, and Ablaze: an a cappella musical thriller, which recently received its New York City premiere. The cast albums of both Ablaze and Shiver along with his electronic albums We Persist and Chamber have all been distributed by Woodsway Entertainment. And the recently released short film, Swipe Left, features his original score. A passionate advocate for arts education, he’s the former Resident Teaching Artist at Portland Center Stage and is on staff with the Acting Academy at Oregon Children’s Theatre. He is the current Director of Education for Playwrights West, overseeing both the Teen West Ink Playwriting Residency Program as well as the Teen West Project New Work Development Production Program. He is a proud member of the Dramatists Guild of America and is an alumnus of The Recording Academy. He holds a BFA in Theatre Studies from the Meadows School of the Arts at Southern Methodist University where he graduated summa cum laude.

Summer is a performer, creator, director, and designer. From touring devised work through Europe, to serving as artistic director of an international theatre festival, to playing library shows with a trash puppet rock band, her career has embraced theater arts from all angles. In Portland she works regularly with Corrib Theater, Salt and Sage Productions, Echo Theatre Co, and Red Yarn, among others. She is half of the clowns in Duo Doppio. Summer believes that theatre develops imagination and body, inspires and heals people, and helps them tell their stories. Summer is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and the Dell’ Arte International School of Physical Theatre.

Debbie Lamedman has directed many productions for Pacific, including Dance Slow Decades by Kailea Saplan, Veils by Tom Coash, and Fat Pig by Neil LaBute. She has also taught several acting classes.

Austin Tichenor adapted and directed Pacific University's recent production of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.