About

Who We Are
Threepenny Theater Co. is a brand new theater company on the Southern Oregon Coast! Founded in 2023 by Jason and Kat Liddell, Threepenny aims to provide a space for locally-based and locally-born artists to hone their skills and take risks in a supportive environment.
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Our mission is to spark creativity, ignite new ideas, and forge an inclusive, thriving performing arts community on the Wild Rivers Coast. Threepenny Theater Co. is dedicated to accomplishing this mission by advancing the education and accomplishments of local performing artists and through the production of groundbreaking and thought-provoking live theater.

Actor
Director
Crew Member
Founder
Jason Liddell
Jason has been acting and directing since 2011. He fell in love with acting during his first production, Treasure Island. Not long after, he was given the opportunity to direct his very first show, Arsenic & Old Lace, which was immediately followed by a play of his own, titled Clankers; a steampunk pirate play geared toward kids and performed as a youth production.
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Jason's most notable and memorable theatrical experience is the production of Rent, which he directed with the Chetco Pelican Players in December of 2022. For Jason, Threepenny is a way for him to realize his goal of building a theater from the ground up.

Artistic & Executive Director
Actor
Director
Crew Member
Founder
Kat Liddell
Kat has been acting since 2004 and directing theatrical productions since 2017. They recently left audiences speechless as Vanda Jordan in Threepenny's 2023 production of Venus in Fur, and had the honor of directing the Chetco Pelican Players' smash hit Misery in the Winter of 2023. A trained dramaturg, Kat has adapted two of Shakespeare's most famous plays, Romeo & Juliet and Macbeth, for performance in local venues.
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Kat earned their Bachelor of Arts in English from Bushnell University in 2012, and their Master's Degree in Library Science from Emporia State University in 2018. In addition to their artistic background, Kat brings more than a decade of nonprofit management experience to Threepenny, and is excited to build a group that celebrates growth and creativity in their local community.

Actor
Chloé Rosenthal
Rosenthal recently starred as Annie Wilkes in Misery in Brookings, played Bonnie Fern in Jim Beaver’s Verdigris, and Jackie in Without Annette. She also assistant directed Our Man in Santiago off Broadway in New York City, a play written by Mark Wilding.
Rosenthal’s film credits include a recent lead role in a thriller called Monsters are Real, and played the comedic relief in a feature film called The Last Kiss. Rosenthal also worked with Shirley Knight and Tom Skerritt in Redwood Highway. In addition to being an actor, Rosenthal is a stand up comedian. Follow her comedy on Instagram.
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Actor
Effie Aloysius
Having worked behind the scenes in theater and radio for many years, Effie Aloysius will act on stage for the first time in Vagina Monologues. She is a fervent supporter of the arts, TEDx speaker, writer, and English Professor at College of Redwoods and in the Pelican Bay Scholars Program at Pelican Bay State Prison. A recent transplant by way of Portland, she was born and raised on the ocean in small-town New England, and is glad to have found a similar charm and love for the sea here in Brookings.
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Actor
Mike Vest
Mike Vest began his trek into theater in the early 70s with Little Mary Sunshine at the Albany Civic Theater in Albany, OR. After high school he continued acting at Pasadena City College and Azusa Pacific College in California.
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In the 80s, Vest worked alongside Don Bluth as a Special FX camera and Rotoscope performer in The Secret of N.I.M.H. and An American Tail.
Since Returning to Oregon, Vest has participated in plays with the Rogue Music Theatre and the Barnstormers in Grants Pass, OR. On the Wild Rivers Coast, he has played many character and lead roles. Andrew Makepeace Ladd III is Vest’s first lead role with Threepenny Theater Co.

Actor
Tiffany Hasek
Tiffany acted in many plays in her youth--the pinnacle performance being in The Music Man at the Hult Center in Eugene, Oregon, at the age of 17. After a 34-year hiatus, Tiffany returned to the stage for Blind Dates and Other Disasters in Gold Beach, and recently appeared in Sylvia as Phyllis in November 2024.

Actor
Light & Sound Technician
Mason McKinney
Returning after a decade-long hiatus from the stage, Mason McKinney has deep roots in the local theater scene, entertaining audiences in the mid-aughts as Matt in The Fantasticks and as Benedick in a teen adaptation of William Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
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A musician and sound technician, Mason helped run lights and sound for Threepenny's recent productions of Venus in Fur, Love Letters, and The Vagina Monologues. As an actor, he recently appeared as Greg in the 2024 production of Sylvia.
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Actor
Director
Stage Manager
Lori Pepsis
A secondary teacher for 30+ years, Lori has directed numerous productions and coached teams for Speech/Drama and one-act play competitions. Lori’s latest acting appearances were roles in The Laramie Project and Frau Bergmann in Spring Awakening (original script).
From Dallas, Texas, Lori has lived in Harbor for just over two years. She also worked under Kat Liddell’s direction as Chloé Rosenthal’s dresser in the Chetco Pelican Players 2023 production of Misery.

Actor
Gigi Hodges
Gigi Hodges has been involved with the performing arts for as long as she can remember--even spending a few years as a young magician's assistant, performing many times at the Magic Castle in Hollywood.
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Gigi worked on her first film in 1993 and still works in the film industry in casting and production. She has been acting and producing live theater in Southern Oregon for a decade; film or stage, her favorite thing is finding promising actors and helping them develop their talents.

Actor
Lisa Calvet
Lisa tip-toed onto the stage in 2020 in a production of Just the Ticket. Fast forward to 2024 after her eighth play as Kate Eldar in a local production of Tombstone, she is now trying to tighten her leash, grab civility by the collar, and tame her household in the November 2024 production of Sylvia.

Actor
Donald Huggins
A resident of Brookings since 1972, Donald is in the process of reinventing himself as an actor and a writer. He is currently writing a semi-fictional memoir of life in the Deep South in the early 60's, along with a book of true stories from Brookings in the early 70's.
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In addition to portraying Tom in Sylvia (November 2024), Donald recently played a small role in Tim Oakley's upcoming short film "Elsewhere."

Actor
Denise Chanterelle Dubois
Denise DuBois’s transformation into a woman wasn’t easy. Born as a boy into a working-class Polish American Milwaukee family, she faced daunting hurdles: a domineering father, a gritty 1960s neighborhood with no understanding of gender nonconformity, trouble in school, and a childhood so haunted by deprivation that neckbone soup was a staple. Terrified of revealing her inner self, DuBois lurched through alcoholism, drug dealing and addiction, car crashes, dangerous sex, and prison time. Dennis barreled from Wisconsin to California, Oregon, Canada, Costa Rica, New York, Bangkok, and Hawaii on a joyless ride.
Defying all expectations, DuBois didn’t crash and burn. Embracing her identity as a woman, she remade herself, telling her story in the memoir: Self-Made Woman. Now residing in Brookings, OR and pursuing her lifelong passions in the theater Denise and her unbelievable tales inspired filmmaker James Westby to make the movie of her life, OH, DENISE! Coming in 2024!
Board of Directors
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Karyn-Lynn Fisette (President)
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Mason McKinney (Treasurer)
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Victoria Weller (Secretary)
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Chloé Rosenthal (At-Large)
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Darcie Gutierrez (At-Large)
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Sue Wright (At-Large)
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Lori Pepsis (At-Large)
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Adam Wagman (At-Large)