Staff

CRAIG WILLIS (Producing Artistic Director) has been at the helm of Oregon Contemporary Theatre since 2003. Craig has an MFA in Directing and a PhD in Dramatic Literature/Theory from the University of Oregon. In 2008, he received an Oregon Arts Commission fellowship to train with Anne Bogart and SITI Company. Craig’s OCT directing credits include: Jonathan Tolins's Buyer & Cellar, Jen Silverman's The Roommate, Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo, Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori's Fun Home, David Ives's Venus in Fur, Steve Yockey's Blackberry Winter, Jason Robert Brown's The Last Five Years, Aaron Posner's Stupid Fucking Bird, Nathan Alan Davis's Dontrell, Who Kissed the Sea, Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park, Nina Raine’s Tribes, Adam Gwon's Ordinary Days, Brian Yorkey and Tom Kitt’s Next To Normal, Robert Lopez, Jeff Marx, and Jeff Whitty’s Avenue Q, Geoffrey Nauffts’s Next Fall, Itamar Moses’s The Four of Us, Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler, Joe Calarco’s Shakespeare’s R & J, Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman, Bertolt Brecht’s Mother Courage, Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s Assassins, Edward Albee’s The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?, David Auburn’s Proof and Thornton Wilder’s The Skin of Our Teeth. His scenic designs for OCT include: The Flick, Becky’s New Car, The Seagull, Ordinary Days and I Am My Own Wife.
Email: craig@octheatre.org

AMY DUNN (Production Manager/Master Carpenter) graduated from the University of Oregon with a BA in Theatre Arts and joined the staff of Oregon Contemporary Theatre shortly thereafter in August 2007 as the Master Carpenter. In 2019, Amy took on the additional role of Production Manager. Select design credits include: Stop Kiss, Mud (University Theatre); The Explorers Club (VLT); King Lear (SPA); and Hello, Dolly! (Lane Summer Musical Theatre). Amy's OCT design favorites include: Miss Bennet: Christmas at Pemberley, Buried Child, Venus in Fur, A Bright New Boise, I and You, August: Osage County, boom, The Pillowman, Shipwrecked! and The Clean House. In her spare time, Amy can be found cross stitching, gaming, or gushing over her adorable cats, Oskar and Jill.
Email: amy@octheatre.org

MARY WETHERBEE (Box Office Manager/Volunteer Coordinator) began her involvement with theatre in high school where she acted in several plays. She holds a BA from Penn State in Social Work. Mary’s acting credits at Oregon Contemporary Theatre include Life in the Theater and the Northwest Ten plays Paper is Dope and Savage & Strawberry. She has also performed monologues with Actors Table and is active in the Eugene Shakespeare Club and Reader’s Theater. 
Email: mary@octheatre.org

CAMERON JACKSON (Marketing Manager) is a poet and maker joining Oregon Contemporary Theatre in 2022. He has experience both on- and off-stage in the theatrical and filmed spaces, with credits including Scapin (Les Fourberies de Scapin, CSU Stanislaus), Grantaire (Les Misérables, San Benito Stage Co.), and Indiana Jones (Flashback, Disneyland). In collaboration with Northwest Ten, Cameron’s play Moving On and Dominant Species were selected and performed at OCT as part of the Northwest 10 Festival. When not backstage, Cameron can be found at home with his wife Laura, and their excessive pets. Camjaxn.com
Email: cameron@octheatre.org

RILEY ALLEN (Production Assistant) graduated from Central Washington University with a Bachelors in Theatre Design and Production, specializing in Lighting and Scenic Design. Design credits include Round the Mountain (CWU Ghostlight Lab Series), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (CWU Theatre Arts) and The Year of the Solar Eclipse (The Wild Project). After a 20-month pandemic sabbatical, Riley is excited to not only be working in theatre arts again, but to have the opportunity to work with Oregon Contemporary Theatre in such an intimate venue on a fun and variety-packed season. When not working in the theatre, Riley can be found tucked away in his room writing video essays on obscure topics. Born in the Puget Sound area, Riley is excited to be experiencing Eugene for the first time.