About Us

Calpurnia's Dream, Ltd
Dedicated to bringing excellent affordable theatre to the South Sound

About Us

Peter Kappler
Artistic Director

Peter has been a director and actor in the south sound for 20 years. His directing credits include: Murder in the Cathedral (Harlequin Productions), I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change! and Six Women with Braindeath (Capital Playhouse), Fuddy Meers (Centralia College), Buried Child (The Evergreen State College), Come and Go, Endgame, and Julius Caesar (Calpurnia’s Dream, Ltd.). His performance credits include: Knight in Parsifal (Seattle Opera), Dracula in Dracula, Tom in The Glass Menagerie, Edmund in Long Day’s Journey into Night, Yvan in Art, Kerner in Hapgood, Dvornincheck in Rough Crossing, Valentine in Arcadia, Lucky in Waiting for Godot, Bobby in American Buffalo, Raganeu in Cyrano de Bergerac, Oswald in Assassins, Peter in The Zoo Story , Rider in Lost Loves and Might Have Beens, 4^th Knight/Tempter in Murder in the Cathedral, John in The Constant Wife, File in The Rainmaker, Ferdinand in The Tempest, Guildenstern in Hamlet, Camillo in The Winter’s Tale, Roper in A Man for All Seasons (Harlequin Productions), Georges in La Cage Aux Folles (Capital Playhouse), Lewis in Lewis and Clark and the End of the World, Lance in Northwest Passage, Seurrat in Crows Over Wheatfield (Northwest Playwrights Alliance), Berenger in Rhinoceros (Funny Hat Productions), Virgil in Bus Stop (Olympia Little Theatre), Tranio in The Taming of the Shrew (Bellevue Community Theatre), and Davenport in Inherit the Wind (Puget Sound Theatre Ensemble). His video work includes several productions of Washington State Department of Information Services and regional commercial spots for Stupid Prices. He is a frequent live reading performer for Northwest Playwrights Alliance.

Megan Kappler
Managing Director

Megan has been involved in almost all aspects of theatre across the South Sound for the past 10 years. She holds a BFA from Pacific Lutheran University in Theatre Arts and completed the Summer School program at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in 2002. Favorite onstage roles include: 2^nd Witch/Old Man/Gentlewoman in Macbeth, Helen in And a Nightingale Sang, Ophelia/Pirate in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Martha in The Constant Wife, Lizzie in The Rainmaker, Mina in Dracula, the Psychiatrist in Sixteen Words for Water, Paulina in The Winters Tale, Chorus in Murder in the Cathedral (Harlequin Productions); Ruth in Book of Days, Constanze Mozart in Chamber Music (Theatre Artists Olympia); Katherine in Northwest Passage (Northwest Playwrights Alliance); the Governess in The Turn of the Screw (Longview Stageworks); Pegeen in The Playboy of the Western World, and Frankie/Francis in The Voice of the Prairie (Evergreen Playhouse). She has been involved with projects for the Museum of Glass, including a staged reading of Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, and a role in the short film UFO at the MOG. Offstage, Megan has painted sets for Intiman, Tacoma Opera, Tacoma Actors Guild, Harlequin Productions, Centralia College, Pacific Lutheran University, Northwest Playwrights Alliance, The Evergreen Playhouse, and Calpurnia’s Dream, Ltd. Megan loves designing and painting murals and has completed mural projects for Frida (Olympia, WA), From the Bayou (Tacoma, WA), Oxford House Gallery, and J.R. Corkrum Photography (Ephrata, WA). She also served as dialect coach for Hayfever and Educating Rita (TAG) and And a Nightingale Sang (Harlequin Productions). She served as House Manager at TAG for two years and directed Bus Stop at Olympia Little Theatre in 2004.

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