Marcella has been working in the theatre professionally for nearly 25 years because her teachers took her to see plays when she was a kid. It really is that simple. It started with playing a clown in a backyard circus with the neighborhood kids, and lead her, decades later, to such companies as the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare Santa Cruz, Portland Center Stage, and many others. She is a producer, director and designer; she has been a stage manager, production manager, puppet-maker, and actress (among other things). Marcella counts it a great privilege to create theatre for young people that is imaginative, thought provoking, and relevant — theatre that’s just for them. She has been with the Educational Theatre Program since the beginning of the collaboration between Kaiser Permanente and Oregon Children’s Theatre in 2006. For Oregon Children’s Theatre Marcella has directed The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, and the upcoming On the Eve of Friday Morning and A Wrinkle in Time.
