About Chip Miller 

Chip Miller is a director and producer, currently in the role of Associate Artistic Director at Portland Center Stage at the Armory. They were previously the Artistic Associate / Resident Director at Kansas City Repertory Theatre. Directing: Sweeney Todd, Clyde's (co-production with Syracuse Stage) Liberace & Liza - Holiday at the Mansion: A Tribute, Choir Boy, It’s a Wonderful Life, Rent, August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Hedwig & The Angry Inch, the world premiere of Redwood (PCS), Larry Owens’ Sondhemia (Carnegie Hall), Journeys to Justice (Portland Opera), the world premiere of American Fast (Artists Repertory Theater), School Girls; or, The African Mean Girls Play, Welcome to Fear City, Sex with Strangers, A Raisin in the Sun, (KCRep); the world premiere of Becoming Martin by Kevin Willmott (The Coterie); dwb: driving while black (Lawrence Arts Center, Des Moines Metro Opera, Greensboro Opera); 4:48 Psychosis (The Buffalo Room). Chip has developed work with playwrights including Kevin Wilmott, Kara Lee Corthron, Brittany K. Allen, Catherine Trieschmann, Darren Canady, Andrew Rosendorf, Susan Kander & Roberta Gumbel, Michelle T. Johnson, and Michael Finke. They have developed work at The William Inge Theatre Festival, NYU’s New Plays for Young Audiences, La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA Series, Portland Center Stage’s JAW Festival, The Midwest Dramatists Center, KCRep’s OriginKC New Works Festival, The Colorado New Play Summit, The Living Room Theatre, and Musical Theatre Heritage.

About Andrea Vernea

Andrea is thrilled to return to Portland Center Stage and feels incredibly grateful to work with this talented group of artists, whom she not only considers collaborators but also friends. A special thanks to Chip for assembling this remarkable team. Originally from Miami, FL, Andrea graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre Performance from Florida A&M University, a Historically Black College and University. Some of her recent favorites include Clyde’s (PCS/Syracuse Stage), Passing Strange directed by Rodney Hicks (Portland Playhouse), Gem of The Ocean (PCS), and The Wolves (Portland Playhouse). On the film side, she wrote and directed her first short film, You Don’t Know Naan, with the BLVCK Film Collective, portrayed Ori in the Montavilla Jazz Call + Response project, Last Signs of June, written by Deejuliano Scott, and played the role of Brenna, the ex who returns, in Kitty by Mischa Webley. Up next, she’ll be performing as Cecily Cardew in The Importance of Being Earnest, adapted by Kamilah Bush, at Portland Center Stage.