Debbie Jamieson - Current President

Debbie Jamieson has been performing in local theatre in Bozeman and Livingston for the past twenty-five years.  In her real life, she is a Realtor with Bozeman Brokers Real Estate.  When she’s not selling homes, she can be found in her fantasy life on the stages of The Ellen, The Verge, Open Door Theatre, the Black Box at MSU, The Blue Slipper and the Firehouse – now the Shane Lalani Center for The Arts.  She has also done commercials for several local businesses.

Debbie is the current President of Open Door Theatre and was one of the founding members. She has performed comedy, drama, and musical theatre.

​Her favorite is musical theatre, as she loves to sing and dance. Debbie has experience as an assistant director for full length plays, stage manager, and director of one act plays.  She has not been formally trained but has enjoyed learning her theatre craft over many years.  Her hope is to impart some of the things she has learned along the way, and to encourage everyone who ever thought they might like to be on stage to give it a try!

Valerie Watson

Valerie has been involved in Community Theaters for the last 45 years.  She started by taking a community theater class, which got her involved with Juneau-Douglas Little Theatre, a non-profit community theater. From there, she danced in Cinderella, did theatrical properties for many shows for both J-D Little Theatre and the Juneau Lyric Opera including Brigadoon, Guys and Dolls, Lion in Winter, Carmen, Pirates of Penzance and many others. 

Since Valerie moved back to Bozeman in 2010, she has designed and run properties for 7 shows with Open Door Theater since it opened its doors in 2014, the Verge Theatre (Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Woolf), and most recently designed and run the properties for the Angels in America production. Valerie has also been involved in stage managing shows, improv, sound and lighting tech, and some acting. 

 Neil Jamieson - biography coming soon

John Olson - biography coming soon

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Previous board members and active members

Faye Christensen

Theatre Properties
Faye Christensen has been a devout theatre techie since 1965 when she won the Thespian trophy for Best Backstage Crew. From academic theatre where budgets were nil to professional theatre where budgets were in the multiple thousands, she has worked with some of the best of the best in several states. For the past 8 years, she has been Props Master for Intermountain Opera Bozeman.
 
 
Theatre Costuming
Faye Christensen worked her way through graduate school (MA in Theatre) working and learning in the costume shop of The Burgess Meredith Theatre in Vermont. For 18 summers, she returned to VT to work in an Equity theatre. She has costumed for academic, community, and professional theatres across the country. Favorite Bozeman credits include Brighton Beach Memoirs, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Unexpected Guest, and Angels in America.

Peggy Jensen

​Peggy graduated with a BA in Theatre Arts and has been Acting and directing for 45+ years. Here in Montana, she has acted in numerous productions in Bozeman at The Ellen, The Verge, Open Door Theatre, and The Blue Slipper and The Dulcie Theater in Livingston. 

She has directed “12 Angry Men”,”The Unexpected Guest” by Agatha Christie, “Don’t Talk To The Actors” all for Open Door Theatre, and “Death of a Streetcar Named Virginia Wolff” in 2020 at The Verge.