CHRISTINE FREIJE Director
 Christine is a director and deviser based in Portland, OR, with artistic homes in Central Massachusetts, Philadelphia, and Chicago. Focuesd on deep collaboration and co-creation with playwrights, designers, and performers, her processes are rooted in consent-forward practices, trust, and play. Her work is feminist, imaginative, and historically informed.

Recent credits include Deep Water (a world premiere with New Wave Opera), As You Like It, Tartuffe, The Wolves (Portland State University), Galatea, or Whatever You Be (Pacific University), Athena (21ten Theatre), Much Ado About Nothing, Richard III, Twelfth Night, and The Tempest (Portland Playhouse's Fall Festival of Shakespeare), the EP release performance of Candy in the House of a Thousand Hearts (Cafe Mustache, Chicago), Antigone (Redtwist Theatre), Vinegar Tom and Everybody (The Theatre School at DePaul University). Original devised work includes I'd Like to Think I'm Pretty Unique: a doppelgänger play, Shrew, and dream-rushes: a wonderland trip. 

OLIVIA MATTHEWS Director
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KEN SELDEN Music Director
Ken Selden is Director of Orchestral Studies at Portland State University, a position he has held since 2006. He is also currently the conductor of the Portland Youth Philharmonic Conservatory Orchestra and the Vancouver Symphony Youth Virtuosi, and orchestra director for Portland Choir & Orchestra. As artistic director of Martingale Ensemble, he has recorded two Mahler albums for MSR Classics, and most recently, a Piazzolla album for the Naxos label, featuring violinist Tomás Cotik.

In the Portland area, he has appeared as guest conductor for Eugene, Newport, Oregon, Portland Festival, and Vancouver Symphonies, as well as Portland Chamber Orchestra, Salem Chamber Orchestra, Third Angle, Fear No Music, and Oregon Origins Project.

Prior to his appointment at PSU, he lived in New York, where he was Assistant Conductor of the Brooklyn Philharmonic and the Eos Orchestra, and music director for the New Jersey Youth Symphony Concert Orchestra, the Brooklyn College Conservatory Orchestra, and the Columbia University Bach Society. He has conducted orchestras throughout the United States and in Europe.

SARAH MAINES Vocal Director 
Hailed as a “natural, most charming” performer, mezzo-soprano Sarah Maines’ favorite roles include Margaret in The Light in the Piazza, Claudia in Nine, and Maurya in Riders to the Sea. Dr. Maines is a member of the Portland Opera Chorus and voice faculty at the University of Portland. She frequently performs with Portland companies such as Fear No Music, Resonance Ensemble, Cascadia Composers, Broadway Rose Theatre, Bridgetown Conservatory, Lakewood Theatre, and Mock’s Crest Opera. As a practicing singing voice specialist, Dr. Maines administers voice habilitation to singers referred by laryngologists and speech-language pathologists. A Lessac-Madsen and Casper-Stone Confidential Flow Therapy Clinical Provider, she is certified in Contemporary Commercial Music; the LoVetri Method and trained in non-binary and transgender voice pedagogy with Liz Jackson Hearns and William Sauerland. She is a published researcher who has presented at the Voice Foundation Annual Symposium and the Pan-European Voice Conference. She resides in Portland with her two favorite hiking companions: Matty and Satchel.