The Love of the Nightingale, 2005-06 Season

Jesse

Young recently directed Valparaiso by Don DeLillo, kicking off

Vertigo’s 2006/07 season. He also be directed a short script by local

playwrights William S. Gregory and Matthew B. Zrebski entitled Let

There Be Word for JAW/West 2006. Jesse was last seen in Like

I Say, a collaboration between Vertigo and defunkt, in which he played

several characters including a German fruit baron and a plotting bi-sexual

contessa. Other Portland credits for Jesse include The Love of the

Nightingale with Vertigo, Chorpus Christi (staged reading)

with Profile Theatre, The Foreigner with West End Theatre, The

Bald Soprano with WillieWorks, and JAW/West 2005 with Portland Center

Stage. Jesse holds a B.A. in Theatre from Willamette University.