Our Company


  • JeanneAnn Faris Comiskey (she/her) is the Artistic Director of Gather Repertory. She completed her bachelor's degree in theatre at George Fox University, has worked with theatre companies throughout the region and has taught theatre as an adjunct professor at George Fox, as a high school theatre teacher, and through local youth classes. Her most recent work has been in arts administration at The Chehalem Cultural Center and Pacific University.


  • Charlotte Zenzano (she/her) is grateful to be a Gather Repertory company member. Her experience with Gather began in 2023 when she performed in their production of Men on Boats and A Feminine Ending. In this new role, she is excited to help bring stories that inspire change to the stage. She currently works as an Accounts Payable Specialist at a restaurant group and enjoys dancing, writing, and drawing in her spare time.

  • Kendelyn (she/they) is an intimacy director and a Gather company member. Their previous experience includes A Feminine Ending and One Act Play Festival with Gather Repertory Theatre, and Fly By Night with Tapestry Theater Collective. A passionate advocate for storytelling with care, Kendelyn specializes in creating respectful, trusting, and collaborative environments for performers. Having been on stage in some capacity her whole life, Kendelyn is grateful for the opportunity to bring meaningful stories to life.

  • Samantha "Sam" Kemp is a Portland-based creator, artist, and lighting designer for live performance. Born and raised in the tiny town of Lindenhurst, New York before moving to Las Vegas in her adolescence, Sam has always managed to weasel her way into artful spaces despite cultural pressures to stick to the status quo. Design credits include The Glass Menagerie here at Shaking The Tree, 8-Track: Sounds of the 70s and Les Misérables at The Broadway Rose, Waking the Witch and The Raven with Renegade Opera, Racecar Racecar Racecar at Artists Repertory Theatre, Tiger Style! with Profile Theatre, and Recent Tragic Events with Third Rail Repertory Theatre. She is proud to serve as a company member of Gather Repertory Theatre.

  • Shanon Keehn (she/they) advertises themselves as an all around general theatre artist who mainly focuses on Stage Managing and Acting. She acquired her BA in Theatre with a double concentration in Acting/Directing and Design/Tech from George Fox University in the Winter of 2021, and since then has Stage Managed shows all around the Portland Metro. Their SM credits include A Tomb With A View with Lakewood Theatre Co., Bee with LES Shakespeare Co., and A Feminine Ending here with Gather Repertory! She is excited to be a part of this company, working with an amazing team of artists to bring theatre to the Newberg community!

  • Kelsea Vierra Ashenbrenner (she/her) is so excited to be working with Gather Repertory Theatre! She is a performer, director, and producer based in Portland, OR. She has a degree in Theatre from Oregon State University. She is an alumni of Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble (PETE)'s Institute for Contemporary Performance and Shakespeare & Company’s Center for Actor Training. Recent credits include Much Ado About Nothing and A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder (Penguin Productions), California (The Theatre Company), Fork Tender (Stage Fright Festival), Downward Facing (Fuse Theatre Ensemble’s Atelier Festival), and Fezziwig’s Fortune (Anonymous Theatre Company).