Creative Team

TERRY TENNESEN (SET DESIGNER) has worked for KCPT as a set designer and scenic artist for numerous productions including 2023’s WHAT THE DICKENS?!. Credits include ALWAYS PATSY CLINE, COLE PORTER REVUE, ANNAPURNA, THE BOOK CLUB PLAY, 4,000 MILES, KING LEAR, MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, JACQUES BREL, TWELFTH NIGHT, DRACULA, BARK! THE MUSICAL. He is an animator/illustrator/filmmaker with over 30 years of experience. He studied scenic design at Pacific Lutheran University and has designed sets for college productions and television commercials.

CORINNE ELYSSE ADAMS (COSTUMES) is a poet, story collector, editor, traditional musician, translator, and costumer. She holds a BA from Sophia University in Tokyo and a master’s in poetry from the University of Edinburgh. With the help of a generous grant from the Elizabeth George Foundation, she is working on the research, collection, and translation of pre-war and wartime Japanese women poets. She currently works for KCPT as a costume designer and spends much of her free time mending and restoring antique and vintage garments.

ALBERT MENDEZ (LIGHTING DESIGNER) has worked as a professional sound and light and video technician for more than 30 years. KCPT credits include GUNMETAL BLUES, THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, REDD, SPIRIT OF THE YULE, and THE BOOK CLUB PLAY, among many others. He is also responsible for designing and engineering the recent remodel of KCPT’s technical booth. Now a Port Townsend resident, Mendez toured nationally and internationally with numerous opera, dance, and theater companies as well as on cruise ships, and spent 4 years as a staff audio engineer at Benaroya Music Hall in Seattle.

TAYLOR THOMAS MARSH (SOUND DESIGNER)is a Port Townsend-based sound engineer and theatre-maker. She began her career in 2016 at the College of the Atlantic in Maine with a B.A. in Human Ecology. Most recently, she’s worked predominantly in the world of live sound, engineering shows at Key City Public Theatre, Finnriver Cidery, Wooden Boat Festival, Concerts on the Dock, Marrowstone Winery, and Olympic Pride Festival. Memorable credits include SOUVENIRS FROM EDEN, THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW and writing, directing, and sound designing her original piece FURTHER ADO.

MICHELLE CESMAT (SCENIC ARTIST) is the Resident Scenic Artist for KCPT. Her work includes GUNMETAL BLUES, ALWAYS… PATSY CLINE, REDD, THE CANTERVILLE GHOST, WHAT THE DICKENS?!, and LIVING INCOGNEGRO. Michelle holds a BA from Western Washington University, Art Studio (major), Art History and Anthropology (double minor) and holds an Illustration Certificate. She is passionate about producing art, writing, culture, art history, and exploring the outdoors. Michellecesmat.com

RAVEN MCMILLEN (STAGE MANAGER) is thrilled to be returning to his home stage at Key City Public Theatre where he first started with Shakespeare’s COMEDY OF ERRORS (Dromio E.), Raven is a graduate of the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and has been working the stages of LA for over a decade. Raven’s work includes four years at The Dolby Theatre and two seasons as stage manager for the Gay Men’s Chorus of Los Angeles.