Theatre Northwest is founded as a Resident Arts Organization in partnership with the Broadway Center for the Performing Arts in Tacoma, Washington. Under this unique agreement, the Theatre Northwest Group and the Broadway Center utilize the best of both their prospective capabilities. Using each organization’s strengths and abilities, this concept allows for each to perform with independent fiscal responsibility and accountability. The Broadway Center’s beautiful Theatre on the Square is home to Theatre Northwest.

This is who we are at Theatre Northwest:

Christopher Nardine Resident Director

Chris Nardine has been directing, choreographing, and performing in the Seattle/Tacoma area since 1977. He has a BFA in Music and a BS in Music Education from the University of Connecticut. Some of Chris’ recent directing and choreography credits include The Gypsy Princess and The Merry Widow (Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan), Orpheus in the Underworld (Tacoma Opera), Once Upon a Mattress (Auburn Dinner Theatre), Cabaret (Seattle Musical Theatre), South Pacific (Civic Light Opera), Footloose (Woodinville H.S.), and Annie Get Your Gun (Tacoma Little Theatre).

Rod Pilloud Resident Director /Resident Actor

Rod Pilloud has made theatre his profession for 38 years. He has directed over 100 productions in professional, semi-professional, and community theatres since 1971. Rod served as Artistic Director of Poncho Children’s Theatre in Seattle for three years, and as Associate Artistic Director for Empty Space Theatre in Seattle from 1999 to 2001, where he directed the world premieres of Hanging Lord Haw-Haw and Barrymore’s Ghost, and the U.S. premiere of Morning Glories. Other productions Rod has directed in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, Portland OR, and the greater Seattle area include Twelfth Night, Rainmaker, The Nerd, Bus Stop, Picnic, Deathtrap, Twelve Angry Men, Peter Pan, Hemingway Before the Storm, and House of Blue Leaves.

Rod has worked as a professional actor in feature film, television, and stage since 1970. He has served as Production Manager for Empty Space and Bathhouse Theatres in Seattle, and Production Stage Manager for Milwaukee Repertory Theatre, Pacific Northwest Ballet, Empty Space Theatre, and Los Angeles Shakespeare Festival. Currently Rod is a stage manager for Seattle Shakespeare Company.

Mary Cannon Resident Stage Manager

Allan Loucks Resident Composer

Allan has composed dozens of musical scores for many diverse projects including theatre, film, websites, choir, symphonies, TV commercials, computer games, interactive multimedia content, exhibit and museum interactives, and multimedia software control systems. He also has many years of full-time on-the-road performing experience across the US and Canada.

Alex Lewington Resident Costumer

Born and bred in England, Alex Lewington has been costuming in the Tacoma area since 1979. She specializes in period shows and has designed for Puget Sound Revels every season since 1986. She has designed many shows for Tacoma Little Theatre, including 1776, Camelot, and Much Ado About Nothing. Alex’s other credits include several Shakespeare productions at Lakewood Playhouse, I Do! I Do! (Tacoma Actors Guild), Something’s Afoot (Tacoma Musical Playhouse), and Le Comte Ory for Tacoma Opera.

Chris Gildner Resident Production Manager

For the past 20 years, Chris Gildner has managed and directed productions, for Pierce County Playwrights Festival, Auburn Dinner Theater, Puget Sound Musical Theatre, and Auburn Performing Arts Center. Chris primarily works as a Stage Manager now for the Gilbert and Sullivan Society, Tacoma Little Theatre, Knudsen Family Theater and other community theatre houses and companies throughout the Puget Sound area.

Some of Chris’ recent stage management activities include Andrew T. Miller’s original productions of The Prodigal, The Legend of Pandora (commissioned by Puget Sound Musical Theater), The Gypsy Princess and The Merry Widow (Seattle Gilbert & Sullivan Society), Les Miserables (Puget Sound Musical Theatre Youth Program), and Annie Get Your Gun (Tacoma Little Theatre). She is a Project Manager, Event Coordinator and Fiscal Program Manager at Highline Community College’s Center for Learning Connections.

Tracy Berryman Resident Prop Master

Tracy Berryman has worked in the fields of Props, Costume Construction, Scenic Art and Scenic Design since 1988. Tracy’s technical theatre credits include productions for Tacoma Actors Guild, 5th Avenue Musical Theatre, Puget Sound Revels, Tacoma Musical Playhouse, Tacoma Little Theatre, and Lakewood Players.

Kim Izenman Resident Charge Artist / Blog Manager

Kim Izenman began painting for theatre in 1995. She has worked as a Charge Artist and Scenic Painter for Tacoma Little Theatre, Puget Sound Revels, Lakewood Players, Tacoma Musical Playhouse, Book-It Repertory Theatre, Tacoma Actors Guild, Pierce County Playwright’s Festival, Studio 21, and Tacoma Opera. She works part time as an educator for University Place School District, and as a faux painter for Puget Sound Builders, NW.

Brett Carr Producing Artistic Director

After graduating from the University of Wyoming with a Bachelor of Arts in Theatre, Brett toured for two years as Technical Director for Continental Theatre Company. He served as Artistic Director for Wyoming Theatre Company (1978-1982) and as Technical Director for Colorado Renaissance Festival and World Theatre Festival in Denver, where he also directed Hamlet, A Man for All Seasons, and A Lion in Winter.

Brett returned to theatre in 2002, working at Tacoma Little Theatre as a Director (Camelot, Complete Works of Wm. Shakespeare, Abridged), Lighting Designer for ten productions including The Nerd, Cinderella, and Wait Until Dark, Stage Manager (The Foreigner, The Nerd, Of Mice and Men), and Set Designer (Seven Year Itch, Wait Until Dark) He is Vice President of Puget Sound Builders, NW in Kent.

Debbie Gallinatti Resident Actor

Debbi Gallinatti is a local actor who has stage as well as commercial and corporate video experience. Her stage credits include work for Bellevue Civic, Centerstage, Pierce County Playwrights Festival, Museum of Glass, and Tacoma Little Theatre, where she most recently played Suzy Hendrix in Wait Until Dark.

Debbie has studied acting at Diablo Valley College and under Jodi Rothfield (acting for camera). Her commercial credits include work for Microsoft, King 5 Productions, T-Mobile, KOMO, Nordstrom, and the Discovery Health Channel.

Steve Manning Resident Actor

Steve Manning has appeared on stage for Harlequin Productions, Tacoma Actors Guild, Taproot Theatre Company, Empty Space, Centerstage, and Tacoma Little Theatre. His stage credits include Alexander Dumas in Ladies of the Camellias, Carl in Bus Stop, King Henry in Lion in Winter, and Froggy in The Foreigner.

Steve has studied under Valerie Mamches (acting), Veronica Weilke (voice over), and Jodi Rothfield (acting for camera). His on-camera credits include appearances in E! True Stories and FBI Files, and his voice credits include X-Box NFL and Jim French’s Imagination Theater.

Mike Storslee Resident Actor

Mike has appeared at Tacoma Little Theatre, Tacoma Actor’s Guild, Lakewood Playhouse, Performance Circle, Chinook Theater, the Bob Denver Dinner theater (remember that one?), and the Cirque Dinner Theater. For two years he was a member of the improvisational group Martyrs for Art. He graduated from the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and spent four years calling himself a professional actor while driving a cab. Mike was also in the cast of the first TAG production, One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, over 25 years ago.

Casi Nicole Wilkerson Resident Actor

Casi Wilkerson is a local actor, vocalist, director and choreographer who has studied theatre under Mark Medoff at the American Southwest Theatre Company at New Mexico State University and Susan Pierson-Davis at the University of New Mexico Southwest Theatre. A few of her favorite acting roles include: Chick in Crimes of the Heart (Tacoma Actors Guild), Lady Visitor in Under a Mantle of Stars (Harlequin Productions), and Ellie in Physcopathia Sexualis (Harlequin Productions). Her film credits include Bad Seed, starring Luke Wilson, The Fire Below Us, a Discovery Channel, National Geographic Explorer and PBS Documentary by Michael Lienau, and the independent film Group by Wovie Productions. Casi is the Educational Director for the Young Performers Institute (YPI) at Tacoma Little Theatre.