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Meet the Company
Caity Showalter
Caity Showalter has been a Newport resident for ten years, and has been happily involved with the theater here for six. She has been in productions of Avenue Q, Little Shop of Horrors, and A Midsummer Night’s Dream. She is thrilled to be back onstage with such a wonderful team of creators, and has missed the stage dearly!
Cody Larsen
Cody is a native of the Oregon Coast. Several of his most recent roles include Sancho Panza in Man of La Mancha (2019), Puck in Midsummer Night’s Dream (2018) and Uncle Fester in The Addams Family Musical (2017). Cody is regularly harassed by his chihuahua, Henry.
Alex Herd
Alexander Herd is a sixteen-year-old actor from here -- the Oregon coast. He has performed in theatrical and dramatic arts for five years at the Newport Performing Arts Center. He strives to become a famous Hollywood actor and well-known on the big screen. He recently studied at the LA School of Creative and Performing Arts summer camp. Over the years of theatre, he has done many shows including The Addams Family the Musical, Beauty and the Beast, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Cinderella, and On Golden Pond. Alexander also enjoys sketching, tap dancing, playing the trumpet, and creating music. He is a well-rounded individual.
Scott Ganyo
Scott Ganyo has performed on stage and screen throughout his life and across the country. Some of his best-known appearances include improv at Comedy Sportz, "1000 Ways To Die", and "The Dark Knight"; but he loves musicals ("The Scarlet Pimpernel”, "You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown”, "Damn Yankees") and producing indie films. Scott was most recently seen at Theatre West in Marjorie Prime and is now thrilled to perform in Fuddy Meers for Red Octopus and the Newport Performing Arts Center. New to the Oregon coast by way of Los Angeles, Scott thanks the local theatre community and its fans for such a warm welcome - and very special thanks to his wife and family for so patiently supporting his theatrical playdates all these years!
Annie Pusey
Annie says thanks to Red Octopus for casting her in this wonderfully quirky show! She has always loved theatre and has performed in many shows in the Eugene area and recently the coast. Some of her favorites are Quilters the Musical and Good People which was written by the playwright who wrote Fuddy Meers. Thanks also to her great cast and crew! You guys are the best!
Gary Herd
Gary Herd is a "Newbie" actor in the Newport area, as he got back to the stage 4 years ago, after his last performance in 1993. Herd has been involved with the beautiful 4 part Barbershop harmony for over 25 years; so performing on stage has never left his heart. Gary is a mural painter and a YouTube woodworker (a.k.a. The BeardedWoodworker). He has used these talents on every show he's been involved with building sets, here at the PAC. It also gave him enough recognition to get him on the NBC network show, "Making It", which he calls one of his biggest accomplishments.
Miranda Richman Carter
Miranda has graced the Newport Performing Arts stages for nearly a decade and is so glad we can gather again to share our love of the arts. Previous productions include 24 Hour Theater, "Avenue Q", and Milo Graamans' original show, "She Loves Me, She Loves Me Not." She thanks her biggest fans, her son Orion and husband Chris.
Photos
Hinky Binky, Millet, Gertie (Photo credit: Chris Graamans)
Claire and Limping Man (Photo credit: Chris Graamans)
Claire and Richard (Photo credit: Chris Graamans)
Kenny, Heidi, and Richard (Photo credit: Chris Graamans)
Coming Soon
Don't miss our annual holiday event:
The Christmas Show
Two nights only - December 16 & 17
Always merry, bright, joyful, and family-friendly, "The Christmas Show" is back to delight young and old alike with holiday-themed theatre, music, comedy, and everyone's favorite...hot cocoa and homemade Christmas cookies! This year's event features the full-length holiday comedy...
It's a Wonderful Carol, Actually
Directed by Darcy Lawrence
The fictitious "Westside Community Players" have decided to stage a live production of Frank Capra’s classic film It’s a Wonderful Life. When a winter storm takes out a bridge, leaving most of the cast stranded in another town, it’s up to the show’s stage manager and a rag-tag group of crew members, ushers, and audience to save the day. After all, the show must go on! But between the jilted actor who is still bitter about not having been cast, the spotlight-stealing vocalist determined to turn the show into a musical, and the wealthy philanthropist who can't quite remember which Christmas film they're reenacting...will they be able to?
Red Octopus Theatre Company, a Non-Profit 501(c)(3) Charitable Organization, has been bringing the very best in comedy, drama, classics, musicals, and original theatre to the beautiful Oregon Coast for more than forty years. In 1978, four actors from San Francisco headed North. They landed in Newport, Oregon, joined forces with local actors, and the rest is history ... with the group constantly expanding over the years to include hundreds of talented artists. Past performances were held in a variety of locations in Lincoln County: from local barns, to the Visitor Center of Oregon State University’s Hatfield Marine Science Center and even the former Naterlin Center (now Newport’s City Hall). Our current home is in the Newport Performing Arts Center (pictured here), built in Nye Beach in 1988.