The production crew of Dance for a Dollar

With just a couple of days until the word premier of Dance for a Dollar, meet the production crew that has being working on make this show unforgettable


Hal Logan (Sound Designer) is a composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist who operates a music production facility in Portland, Oregon.  His compositions, performances, musical direction and sound designs have graced the stages of Portland Center Stage, ART, CoHo, Vertigo, Milagro, Stumptown and others.  Hal also teaches Music Technology at the University of Portland.  

Marychris Mass (Costumer Designer) says she has been a slave to costumes (and promises to one day learn about hair and   make-up) for longer than most of this cast’s existence. In 2011, she won a Portland Area Musical Theatre award for STAGED!’s production of Big River. Orthodox Judaism is figuring heavily in her theatre experience this year.  Oy!

Katelan Braymer  (Lighting Designer) has been designing at Milagro since 2008.  Recent designs: Frida, Raíz, B’aktun 13, Duende de Lorca (Miracle Theatre Group), Choro Chorpora (Liz Erber dance) and Fiction (Portland Playhouse). Assistant work: The Nether, The Second City’s Christmas Carol (Center Theatre Group), Something’s Got Ahold Of My Heart, My Mind Is Like An Open Meadow (Hand2Mouth), and ABACUS (Early Morning Opera). Katelan is in her second season as an ALD at the LA Opera and has assisted on eleven productions there.

Kaye Blankenship (Set Designer) Kaye is pleased to be back at Milagro for her second show. Her last appearance was as lighting designer for La Celestina. She also has credits around town with:  Post5 (Arabian Nights), Portland Playhouse (Mother Teresa is Dead), Profile Theatre (Road to Mecca), Theatre Vertigo (Mother Courage), Action/Adventure (Fall of the Band), Wobbly (Underneath), and Lunacy Stageworks (The Clean House). Kaye is also the current design mentee at Third Rail Rep, and will be designing all aspects of the mentorship show in June.   

Caitlin Nolan (Stage Manager/Props) is thrilled to be returning to Miracle Theatre for Dance for a Dollar. A freelance theatre artist, Caitlin has stage managed for Miracle Theatre and Factory Theatre and has held assorted jobs at Jane, Lakewood Center for the Arts, Northwest Classical, Circle Theatre Project, and Portland Actors Ensemble. Previous Miracle productions include Boleros for the Disenchanted and the Drammy-winning Oedipus El Rey. She wishes to thank the cast for their inspiring work and her family and friends for their ongoing support of her creative endeavors.

Sinuhé Padilla-Isunza (Composer: ¡Echapalante! and Mi Cariño por ti) founded the New York based world music recording label, Jarana Records. Producer of a number of different projects and artists, he is a composer, guitarist, percussionist, singer, and musical director of Jarana Beat, Bilingual Birdies and SonJarocho.MX, among others.
 He has also been commissioned to compose/arrange the music for documentaries such as “La Tierra de Los Adioses” and “Firmes”, dance (Calpulli) and theatre (Amphibian Stage, INTAR, Teatro SEA, The Lark).
 Most recently Sinuhé founded a musical instrument construction workshop where he builds instruments out of recycled materials.  He was born in Mexico City in May 1978. Studied Nahuatl cosmogony and learned sacred Aztec music and dance. In 1995, he began to merge these disciplines with other influences such as jazz, Afro-Latin music and trova. Later, he traveled to South America, this time investigating the various manifestations of Afro-Amerindianmusic. www.sinuheart.com.

Marios Aristopoulos (Composer: Original Music, Esoteric9) is a composer and sound designer from Athens, Greece. He holds a Master’s degree in Ethnomusicology from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, and is currently studying towards a PhD in Composition from City University. He has created soundtracks for different media such as theater, contemporary dance, video games (Apotheon), documentaries, TV series, animation, and feature films. His work has been performed in the Athens Concert Hall, the 2012 Venice Biennale, the 10th Berlinale Talent Campus, BIOS theatre, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and has been nominated for an award in best sound design from the Aubagne Film Festival in France. He recently moved to New York and has worked on Dance for a Dollar (INTAR), The One Minute Play Festival (INTAR), and the Summer Shorts Festival (59E59 theaters). www.marios-aristopoulos.com .

Julie Rosequist (Sound Board Operator) is working toward an entertainment law degree whilst working a full time job caring for those whom cannot care for themselves. Her many talents include stage managing, light and sound design, prop and wardrobe assemblage, and singing. She would like to thank her friends who have become family and got her involved in this wonderful field and helped her reach for her dreams.