Biographies
Gabrielle Brewer-Wallin
With an undergraduate degree and M.A.T. in English from Lewis & Clark College, and after receiving her M.F.A. from California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), Gabrielle began a professional theater career in Los Angeles. Her theater experience includes Associate Artistic Director (Santa Clarita Repertory Theatre), Dramaturg, and Playwright. Gabrielle’s credits include directing at The MET Theatre (Los Angeles), The Attic Theatre (Los Angeles), Bakersfield College, and Santa Clarita Repertory Theatre where her production of La Bete won critical acclaim. Oregon credits include directing at Willamette University, Lewis & Clark College, and Portland-area high schools. Gabrielle is thrilled to be building the theater program at Chemeketa where she directs and teaches a variety of performance and design classes.
gabrielle.brewer.wallin@chemeketa.edu
Interview with Gabrielle Brewer-Wallin
Ben Crop
Ben Crop is a light, sound, and technical designer/director from Oregon. This is Ben’s first year at Chemeketa Community College, after being the technical director for Salem Repertory Theatre. This year Ben’s work can be seen at Bag and Baggage Theatre in Hillsboro and locally at Salem Repertory Theatre. Light design credits include Death of a Salesman, To Kill a Mockingbird, the world premier of Driving Under the Influence, An Orphan’s Prayer, Noises Off, and Dance: Making the Way. Stage management credits include Moonlight and Magnolias*, The Underpants*, W(h)acked, and Passages – Dance Concert. In addition to theatre, Ben has worked in the concert industry having been a light director and light crew chief for such artists as Alice Cooper, Poison, Leanne Rimes, Wynona Judd, and Air Supply. Ben recently returned from New York City where he spent three months with Theatre Communications Group (TCC) working on their 2008 Free Night of Theater program, helping coordinate it nationally. Moreover, while in New York, Ben worked with the late Merce Cunningham Dance Company as a designer and technician. Ben earned an undergraduate degree in Theatre and Performance from Willamette University in 2008 and his M.B.A in non-profit management from Willamette University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management in 2009.
* denotes equity
Terry Rohse
Terry Rohse has over 20 years of theater experience starting in a small theater in Bastrop Texas. Terry’s primary interest has always been lighting design and he has designed lights for Judy Collins and Gregory Peck, An Evening with Gregory Peck, to name two. Terry also has 14 years as a technical director at McNary high School and McKay High School, where he was the National Youth Theater Award recipient for set design along with one of his students, Kory Klopp The Tempest set design garnered the accolades from the National Youth Theater. Terry has taught Technical theater classes at Chemeketa Community College since 2001 and is currently the Auditorium Coordinator. Terry’s professional credentials include working with Bernadette Peters, Hal Holbrook, Judy Collins, Wynton Marselles and The Coats, to name a few, as technical director and stage manager. His passion lays in teaching technical theater classes here at Chemeketa. Terry believes that feeling of accomplishment he receives when he sees how students grow and the professionalism they show in our classes and performances is unmatched in anything he has done….
