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* Actor Ray Porter filmed scenes for the final episodes of "Lost" on ABC-TV that will appear on the DVD extras when the final season is released on DVD. Ray has also appeared in episodes of "The Closer", "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation", "Southland", and multiple episodes of "Justified". Ray also has recorded dozens of audiobooks, a list of which can be found at Audible.com by searching "Ray Porter".

* Actor Jeff Cummings (at OSF 2001-07) played Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days at Indiana Repertory Theatre, running through May 16, 2010.

* Actor Ryan Anderson (at OSF 2008-09) recently shot an episode of the soon-to-be-aired live action comedy "Eagle Heart" on the Cartoon Network/Adult Swim. He has recorded the voice for one of the main characters in the next installment of "World of Warcraft". He will be playing the role of Ogun in the West Coast premiere of Tarell Alvin McCraney's In the Red and Brown Water at Marin Theatre Company, running from Sept 9-Oct 3.

* Julie Wilson, former OSF costume crafts artisan (1985-1998), has worked with the Shakespeare Theatre Company and Arena Stage in Washington D.C. Her biggest and most enjoyable recent project was working as a lead stitcher for HBO's  seven-part series, "John Adams". She is currently the costume crafts technician for Cirque du Soleil's "O" in Las Vegas. 

* Actor Jack Cantwell (at OSF 1977-84) passed away recently. Among his memorable roles were Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten (Black Swan, 1977), Old Ekdal in The Wild Duck (Bowmer Theatre, 1979) and Archie Rice in The Entertainer (Black Swan, 1983), and many more.

* Actor Tasso Feldman (at OSF 2007-08) appeared in a recent episode of "CSI:New York" called "Flag on the Play".

* Actor Louis Lotorto (at OSF 1988-89) recently appeared in productions at the Shakespeare Theatre in Washington, D.C., the Norris Theatre for the Performing Arts in Palos Verdes, CA, and Ensemble Theatre Company of Santa Barbara. 

* Actor Anil Margsahayam (at OSF 2008-09) appeared in the Kern-Hammerstein musical Very Warm for May with 42nd Street Moon in San Francisco.

* Actor John Pribyl (20 seasons at OSF) is at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, WI this summer, playing Lafew in All's Well That Ends Well and Lucky in Waiting for Godot.

* Actor-director Kenneth Albers (nine seasons at OSF) is also at American Players Theatre in Spring Green, WI this summer, directing Waiting for Godot and acting in Athol Fugard's Exits and Entrances.

* Actor Dante DiLoreto (at OSF 1985-87) is an executive producer of the hit TV series Glee on the FOX network.

* Marco Barricelli is in his third season as artistic director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz in 2010, and also performed with Olympia Dukakis in Vigil by Morris Panych at American Conservatory Theatre from March 25-April 18, 2010.

* Actor Kelly Aucoin (at OSF 1992-93) appeared in Lucinda Coxon's Happy Now? at Primary Stages in New York this spring. Here is a link to the NY Times review. The play has been nominated for a 2010 Drama Desk Award. The production was directed by Liz Diamond, who has directed The Trojan Women, Gibraltar and Distracted at OSF.

* Actor William Hurt (at OSF 1975) will appear in Long Day's Journey Into Night at Artists Repertory Theatre in Portland, OR August 13-29, 2010.

* Actor Gretchen Corbett (at OSF 1965-66, OSF-Portland 1993) appeared in The Gray Sisters at Third Rail Rep in Portland, OR through May 23.

* Actor Megan Cole (at OSF 1970s, 80s & 90s, most recently in 1993) continues her work as "Actor In Healthcare" at venues such as the Mayo Clinic and M.D. Anderson Cancer Center.  She received the 2010 McGovern Award from the American Medical Writers Association and has a new website: www.megancole.net.

* Kelly Koehn (OSF costume props artisan from 1986-2006) is now the costume crafts/dyer at ACT in San Francisco, having most recently worked on a production of Vigil with Marco Barricelli. Kelly's husband Russell Huddleston was the assistant Master Electrician at OSF from 1989-98 and is now working in Oakland as a biologist for CH2mHill.

* Actor Lesley Schisgall Currier (at OSF 1987) is the founding Managing Director of Marin Shakespeare Company, since 1989. She will direct Antony and Cleopatra this summer.

* Stephanie Shine (actor at OSF 1984-85 and OSF Portland 1989) is entering her 12th season as artistic director of Seattle Shakespeare Company.

* Actor Charlie Robinson (Troy Maxson in OSF's Fences in 2008) performed in the West Coast premiere of Matthew Lopez's The Whipping Man at the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego May 8-June 13.

* Director Warner Shook (most recently at OSF, The Man Who Came to Dinner in 2000) directed Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart, which runs May 7 to June 6, 2010, at South Coast Repertory in Costa Mesa, CA.

* Actor Jonathan Adams (at OSF late 1990s) guest stars regularly on series television, including NCIS: Los Angeles, Bones, The Philanthropist, and 24.

* Paige Newmark (assistant director to Andy Traister on his productions of The Threepenny Opera and Strange Snow in 1986) is now artistic director of two Shakespeare companies in Australia:  Shakespeare WA (Western Australia) and also the new national Australian Shakespeare Festival in Tasmania.

* OSF Resident Costume Design Assistant/Designer Denise Damico (1998--2007) is now the costume shop manager of Seattle Repertory Theatre.

* Actor Ted Deasy (at OSF late 1990s) appeared in the national tour of The 39 Steps, inspired by the thriller film by Alfred Hitchcock.

* Artistic director emeritus Libby Appel directed this season's production of Pride and Prejudice.

* Former associate artistic director Timothy Bond is artistic director of Syracuse Stage in upstate New York. He directed August Wilson's Fences at Seattle Repertory Theatre, with scenic designer Bill Bloodgood designing. The show ran March 26 - April 18, 2010.

* Former associate artistic director Penny Metropulos directed Henry IV, Part One at OSF in 2010. Penny directed Romeo and Juliet for a Guthrie Theatre/Acting Company co-production that played in Minneapolis from Jan. 9-31, 2010, and also went on tour.

* Former OSF director (1982, Black Swan) and Education director Paul Barnes is the artistic director of the Great River Shakespeare Festival in Winona, MN, currently in its sixth season. 

* Actor and director Randall Stuart (at OSF 1981-82, Daedalus 1986-91) is the artistic director of Upon These Boards and director of Cerimon House in Portland, OR. His recent directing assignments include Artists Rep, Southern Oregon University and Shakespeare Santa Cruz. 

* Daniel Mayes and Helen Machin-Smith (actors at OSF 1980s) founded Island Stage Left in Friday Harbor, WA in 1999 and are still going strong.  

* Actor Mark Booher (OSF 1991-92) is the artistic director of PCPA (Pacific Conservatory for the Performing Arts) in Santa Maria and Solvang, CA.