CREW CREDITS
william thomas berk — Writer/producer/Open Captions op
William is a self-taught playwright/producer/director, a native Portlander, and a proud associate member of the Dramatists Guild. He previously wrote/produced From The Ruby Lounge — a devised work based on his own original script — Professor Jekyll and Miss Hyde: A Modern Adaptation, and his own directorial debut with his adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream. More recently, William directed Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story for Magenta Theater. William also wrote and assistant-directed for Spider Drive and The Jolly Riot, both produced by Torchsong Entertainment. William is a founding member of the contributing writers' team at The Pulp Stage, and a recurring collaborator with the Chapel Theatre Play Fest.
William also enjoys writing film reviews on his Movie Curiosities blog, pounding a bass drum with the Last Regiment of Syncopated Drummers, yelling at insurance companies, and sucking at pinball. He dedicates this work to absent friends.
Mishelle Apalategui — Director/Dramaturg/projections design/Makeup Design
Mishelle Apalategui (Director/Projections/Makeup) wants to direct your play—the weird one, the messy one, the impossible one. Exactly that one. Email her now. She is a director, playwright, actor, and producer who has spent decades chasing bold, impossible-feeling theater. A BFA graduate of Cornish College of the Arts and alum of Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Mishelle has spent decades self-producing and co-producing immersive, interactive theater across the U.S.
In Chicago, she founded Digest, a monthly performance art series inside a grilled cheese restaurant; developed two new works with Red Tape Theatre, The Avifauna of Perpetuity and Mechanical Angels. In Portland, she and Caitlin Nolan co-created the much-loved augmented reality experience RE: Lilith Lopez (Reformers/Fertile Ground Festival) and premiered Downward Facing at Fuse Theatre Ensemble’s first Artelier Festival. Her surrealist solo clown piece HR: THE FINAL DIRECTIVE marked a triumphant return to solo performance art at the Stage Fright Festival. Mishelle is also a cast regular at the Tesla City Stories.
Currently, she’s developing PINK COLLAR, a family story about second-generation Mexican immigrants, while continuing to champion experimental work under her production banner, ETERNAL.CLASSIC. She’s set to direct Attack of the Revenge of the Killer Sirens by Dominque Knight. Mishelle can be seen onstage at the Chapel Theatre in the upcoming Mr. Burns: A Post Electric Play.
Chelsea Read — Stage manager/board op
Chelsea (she/her) is honored to be collaborating with this talented group of creatives on such an innovative piece of original theater.
Chelsea has been working as an actor and stage manager around the Portland area for the last ten years. She most recently stage managed The Curious Savage at Twilight Theater Company, where she loved her entire cast and crew.
While Chelsea always knew she enjoyed performing, Stage Managing has become an unexpected joy. It took her deep knowledge and love for theater and combined it with her penchant for organization, ability to problem-solve, troubleshoot, and come up with creative solutions at a moment’s notice. She often jokes that she's weaponized her ADHD to full effect, always finding ways to make things safer, smoother, and more efficient.
Chelsea would like to thank her Grandma for directing for so many years, because as soon as she could read she was on book for high schoolers calling line (so really this path was pretty inevitable). She'd like to thank the rest of her family for being endlessly supportive and hilarious, when the rest of the world isn’t always that way.
She hopes you enjoy the performance, and now yields the floor.
EZ Jones — Lighting Designer
EZ Jones has over a decade of experience in Portland and New York theater as a lighting designer, technical director, sound designer, and rigging designer. Her work spans plays, musicals, burlesque, and variety shows, with a focus on collaborative projects where technical design shapes the atmosphere and emotion of live performance. She is excited to join the amazing cast and crew of Anno Machina and bring its world to life through light.
Kris o’Toole — Sound designer
Kris O'Toole is a sound designer and computer whisperer who think modern LLMs ("AI") are toasters at best, and scam theft boxes at worst. She's worked for a whole buncha theatres across town over a whole buncha years including last year's HR: The Final Directive and The Sluagh right here at the Chapel Theatre. Thanks to Mishelle for letting me work with you again, and thanks to William for trusting me with your script!
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Caitlin Nolan— Costume Design
Caitlin Nolan (she/her) is an actor, playwright, and associate producer of Stage Fright, Portland’s one and only queer horror theater festival. Onstage, she has appeared with companies including Salt & Sage, Portland Actors Ensemble, Northwest Classical Theater Collaborative, and Shaking the Tree. Her written work includes the original plays The Sluagh, Fork Tender, and Dead to Me; the adapted solo show Jane Cleaver’s Bitch in Kitchen, co-created with Bobby Bermea and Jamie Rea; and the augmented reality game Re: Lilith Lopez, co-created with Mishelle Apalategui for the 2021 Fertile Ground Festival. Recent onstage credits include Shitty in Ubu Roar, Mistress Quickly and other roles in Salt & Sage's Henriad, and Jenna in Downward Facing. Caitlin is a prose cohort graduate of the Independent Publishing Resource Center's portfolio program and a staff writer at Oregon ArtsWatch.
Megan Kevane — Assistant Stage Manager
Claire Lewis — House Manager
CLOUD CITY PHOTOGRAPHY — Photographer
“Globe” Poster design by Joseph Sheldahl
“Emissary” poster design and photography by owen morgan
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