COMPANY ARTISTS

Erin Ison
Producing Director

Morgan Ludlow
Artistic Director

Maureen Hawkins
Jenifer Ross
Jen Moon
Guest Directors

Heather Bernadette
Sandra Bobman
Maren Comendant
Stage Managers

Brandon Estrella
Set Designer

Briana Schwartz
Costume Designer

Carolina Johnson
Zanna Paulson
Lighting Designers

Scotto Moore
Head Writer 
Collage Shows

Kelleen Conway Blanchard
Stuart Bousel
Keiko Green
Justin Ison
Juliet Pruzan
Jennifer Lynne Roberts
Guest Playwrights

ACTORS for 2015 SEASON

Michael Ryan Blackwood
LaChrista Borgers
​Andy Buffelen
Madeleine Deplane
​Marquicia Dominguez
Geoff Finney
Tom Fraser
Tim Gagne
Katya Landau
Lori Lee Haener
Drew Hobson
Erin Ison
Ian McIntire
Ruth McRee
​Eleanor Moseley
David S. Klein
Andrew Opatkiewicz
Josh Padilla
Campbell Scarborough
Stephanie Spohrer
Buddy Todd
Sydney Tucker
Sam Turner

About Pacific Play Company

Pacific Play Company is a new Seattle-based theatre company devoted to staging world and regional premiere plays by American playwrights with an emphasis on local writers.  We value not only quality production elements, but strive for a creative and fun production environment.

Pacific Play Company will be a locally run, locally cast, locally produced forum for emerging regional theatre artists in the Seattle Area.  We seek to celebrate the collective imagination and encourage the exchange of ideas by presenting innovative and thought-provoking plays and events in the city of Seattle. We nurture local professional theatre artists and we contribute to the American theatre by commissioning, developing and presenting world premiere plays.

ABOUT OUR ARTSTS

Erin Ison
Producing Director

Erin brings an extensive performing background from multiple cities to Pacific Play Company   Born in Iowa, raised in Arizona, Erin studied theater at St. Olaf College and finished her B.A. at Arizona State University.  She relocated to Seattle in 2008 and couldn’t be happier.   Primarily an actor and company member with Annex Theatre since 2013, she most recently appeared as Marilyn Monroe in Kulcsar Theatricals SLEEP, MARILYN, AND DREAM.  Her latest endeavors include her involvement as a producing director of Pacific Play Company.  She can be seen April 2015 in H.P. LOVECRAFT: STAND-UP COMEDIAN! at Annex Theatre.

Morgan Ludlow
Artistic Director

Morgan is the recipient of the 2013 San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Original Script for his play GORGEOUS HUSSY: An Interview with Joan Crawford.  Morgan has produced more than 30 productions in the past 15 years. In 2008 he founded Wily West Productions in San Francisco.  Wily West has received numerous award nominations from the Theatre Bay Area Awards to the Bay Area Critics Circle Awards picking up 3 major awards in 2014.  Wily West Productions has hit the Top 10 Best Production lists by Bay Area critics since 2009.  In 2010 his play, RUTH AND THE SEA was listed as one of the of "Best Productions of 2010" by the SF Bay Times. He has served as the Producing Director for the Playwrights Center of San Francisco. In Salt Lake City, Morgan produced the Belle of Amherst, procuring the McCune Mansion for a 6-week engagement and raised more than $7,000 in revenue to benefit the Susan G. Komen Foundation. Morgan was a full-time staff member for the Salt Lake Acting Company (a fully professional Equity theatre devoted to producing new American plays), and he also served as the Producing Director for Plan-B Theatre Company, a cutting-edge theatre troupe that was recently voted Best Theatre Company by Salt Lake City audiences.

Maureen Hawkins
Guest Director

Maureen Hawkins is very much looking forward to directing Morgan Ludlow’s lovely play, Ruth and the Sea, this fall as her directing debut with Pacific Play Company. Working again with two of her favorite Seattle actors, Ruth McCree and Erin Ison, puts the “icing” on what is already a very rich and intriguing project.  Her past Seattle directing projects include Doubt, Language Art (an evening of one-acts by David Ives and Shel Silerstein), The Young Man from Atlanta and Durang7 --- all for Stone Soup Theatre. Other favorite directing ventures include A Bright Room Called Day, God’s Country, The Cripple of Inishmaan, An Experiment with an Air Pump, and Our Country’s Good.

As an actor, she has enjoyed both leading and supporting roles at Village Theatre, Seattle Rep, Intiman, ACT, Woman Seeking, The Play Factory, Montana Repertory Theatre, The Empty Space and others. In addition, she has accumulated several interesting film and television credits throughout a long and varied career. She has also been an NEA Artist-in-the-schools throughout Washington and Alaska and has been a returning guest director at Seattle area schools.

Maureen holds an M.A. in Theatre from Northwestern University and is a proud member of Actor’s Equity and SAG/AFTRA. 

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Jen Moon
Guest Director

​Jen Moon is delighted to be working with Pacific Play Company.  Jen brings to this production an extensive acting and directing background.  She has acted and directed with several theatre troupes in the Seattle area.  Jen Moon has long been associated with Annex Theatre as a production and event manager and also as an actor and director.  She directed the critically acclaimed Natural, The Luxuria Cycle, and will be directing the world premiere of Unexpected Wilderness.  She has directed several one-acts in productions with 14/48, Seattle Theatre Works and Seattle Playwrights Collective.  Jen Moon holds a B.S. in Theatre and Public Health.  As always she sends much love to Scotto.

Jenifer Ross
Guest Director

Jenifer brings to Pacific Play Company an impressive background - having acted and directed in several productions of Ghost Light Theatricals in Ballard and also working behind the scenes on several different shows.  Jenifer holds a BA from Puget Sound University and is a full company member of Ghost Light Theatricals.  She currently has a show playing, Unicorn Call Center and Other Plays - now playing at Ballard Underground Theatre.