Wendy Ishii is founding artistic director of Bas Bleu Theatre Company and a retired Teacher of Acting at Colorado State University. She moved to Fort Collins from NYC, where she performed principal roles in theatre, film, commercials, and daytime television. Her resume encompasses over 250 roles from the classical and contemporary repertories. Ishii has been the recipient of numerous acting awards including top honors from The Denver Post Ovation Awards, True West, Westword, Fort Collins Coloradoan, Colorado Community Theatre Coalition, American Association of Community Theatre, International Telly Awards, BIZ WEST, Notable Non-Profit Women, and the Colorado Theatre Guild’s 2018 Henry Award for Lifetime Achievement. By invitation, performances at international festivals and conferences have taken Ishii to Australia, Great Britain, Canada, Israel, South Africa, and Northern Ireland, and nationally to theatres in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Arizona. Her work in Samuel Beckett’s plays has been noted in several books, articles, journals, academic papers, and international media, and is included in the Beckett Archives in Reading, UK. Under Ishii’s leadership, in 2012 Bas Bleu, became the pioneer of what is now the burgeoning Fort Collins River District, and completed a $1.5M phase one capital campaign to purchase and renovate the historic Giddings Building as its permanent home.

Steve spent twenty-two seasons as a program coordinator for student choral and instrumental concerts at Carnegie Hall, working with young musicians, educators, and conductors from all fifty states. He is also the founder of the Perkasie Theatre Company who helped revitalize the Kraine Theater in Manhattan’s East Village and was a resident company at the Sanford Meisner Theatre in pre-Highline Chelsea.

Colton originally hails from Illinois, where he was an actor, singer, director, board member, and an overall avid theatre goer. Having moved to Colorado a year ago, he hopes to find himself either behind the scenes or on stage again soon. He is beyond proud to now be serving the Fort Collins Theatre Community as the Box Office Manager at Bas Bleu Theatre! In his free time, he enjoys music, watching scary movies, and trying his hand at being a playwright and lyricist. He hopes to see you at Bas Bleu soon.

Robyn began her long history with Bas Bleu in the winter of 2003, when she appeared onstage in Lives of the Saints. She has had her hand in many Fort Collins theatrical productions over the years, as both a technician and a performer. She is a CSU Magna Cum Laude graduate with a degree in Theatre Performance. While at CSU, she spent a summer studying abroad in London where her passion for theatre grew in leaps and bounds. Robyn spent the last eleven years teaching children “how to act,” and continues to share her expertise with youngsters. She has worn many hats in the theatre community, and is ecstatic to add Development Director to her repertoire.

Brian is delighted to join the staff at Bas Bleu’s Theatre Company as Technical Director. With more than 350 productions done in the last 22 years in Colorado, and more than twenty at Bas Bleu, he considers this company to be one of his homes. Brian is a Henry Award-winning set and lighting designer, including for the set for Bas Bleu’s production of The Waverly Gallery in 2018. Recent work elsewhere includes 2xTenn and Danny and the Deep Blue Sea for Visionbox in Denver, lighting for Ann for Cherry Creek Theatre, and lighting for Sense & Sensibility for OpenStage. He is a certified AACT Theater Adjudicator, is a graduate of Cornell University and New York University, and proudly serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors of the Colorado Theatre Guild

Tricia Navarre began her theater career in North Carolina in the 1970’s, did Summer Stock with the Green Mountain Guild in Vermont and toured with the Frank Holder Dance Company. In 1980, Tricia continued her career in Ohio as a Stage Manager for the Toledo Repertoire Theatre. In 1992, Tricia and her husband Paul, moved to Colorado where they owned and operated a B&B lodge just outside the Rocky Mountain National Park — as Tricia says, “A whole different type of production!” A move to Fort Collins in 2002, led to her employment at Bas Bleu Theatre where she served as its Production Manager until her retirement in 2017. Although technically retired, Tricia continues to be involved in the local performing arts community as a Production Manager and Stage Manager as well as occasionally being on the staff for Lincoln Center productions.

Elizabeth Morisette is a graduate of NCSU College of Design and received a master’s from Maryland Institute College of Art. She has been exhibiting her weavings and sculptures for 25 years. In Fall 2020, she was featured in Hyperallergic for her work at the University of Denver’s Mask Exhibition. She has also been featured in American Craft Magazine, The Denver Post, and the New York Times. Currently, she has a piece in the “Art of the State” at the Arvada Center. Bringing art to the community is an important part of Morisette’s career. She has worked as an artist-in-residence for the Maryland State Arts Council, The JCC of Greater Baltimore, Elderhaus Adult Care, Colorado State University, Fort Lewis College, and The Denver Art Museum.

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