Jen Livengood

Artistic Director

As a founder and director of A-WOL, Jen manages many of the business aspects of the organization. On any given day you'll find her buried in budgets, meeting with arts partners from around the town, booking performances for any of our performing groups or overseeing office projects with the rest of the staff. Although the creative side of A-WOL is her favorite, she loves a good spreadsheet and conference call! 

Alicia Anthony

artistic director

Alicia plays a role in both the artistic side of A-WOL and entertainment bookings through Circus Rose. Alicia is a native Oregonian and has been dancing since the day she was born on this soil. She has trained many dance disciplines, including jazz, modern, hip-hop, ballet and contemporary movement. Since becoming an aerialist in adulthood, she has become a very passionate instructor. Alicia’s favorite aspect of A-WOL is the fusion of dance, acrobatics, and aerial included in productions.

Bethany Foran

Executive Director

Bethany found her love for the arts back in 2003 as a spotlight operator for the musical 42nd Street in Helena, MT. Since that point she has been involved in over 100 live productions as a stage manager, stage-hand, lightboard operator, light designer, set designer, house manager or performer. She has a background in Theater Management and holds a Masters in International Management with an emphasis on non-profits from Portland State University. She joined A-WOL in 2017 as a student, was a member of Flyco from 2019-2021 and hasn’t wanted to leave since.

Kari Hunter

Education Director

Drawing from a background in dance, gymnastics, theater, and music, Kari has been training, performing and coaching circus arts since 2001. Her coaching credits include the Circus Guild, Versatile Arts, Emerald City Trapeze, Le Cirque Centre, the Circus Center (San Francisco), Cirque Alaska, New England Center for Circus Arts (NECCA), the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts (SANCA) where she served as lead aerial coach for the Professional Preparatory Program, The Circus Project, where she served as Education Manager, youth training company manager, and rigging coordinator in addition to coaching, and most recently, Echo Theater and A-WOL Dance Collective. Deemed an “aerialist par excellence” by the Seattle Times, Kari has graced the stage in over 30 major U.S. cities and internationally with the Seattle Opera, Pallazo Variete, Freidrichsbau Variete (Germany), Festival Burlesco (Portugal), and Teatro Zinzanni (Seattle and San Francisco), among many others regionally.

Angela Bryant

FlyCo Director & Operations Coordinator

Angela is a multidisciplinary artist with more than 16 years of training in circus arts. She is especially passionate about partner-based disciplines and thrives in the collaborative, creative process of ensemble show building. Angela has been performing with Tempos Contemporary Circus since 2013 and with AWOL Dance Collective since 2016.

Raised in dance studios and on gymnastics floors, Angela first discovered her love of performance through jump rope, traveling, and performing with a jump rope team throughout middle and high school. That early experience sparked a lifelong connection to the stage.

Years later, she expanded her training into partner acrobatics and aerial dance, finding in these art forms a deep sense of purpose and fulfillment. Today, Angela continues to pursue her work not only as a performer, but also as a dedicated coach, sharing her passion for movement, collaboration, and creative expression with others.

Beth Fuegy

aeros director

Beth began taking modern dance at Buckman Elementary here in Portland. Later, after teaching preschool and dance for children, she found Pilates and began to focus on bodywork, becoming an LMT in 2008, then certifying as a Structural Integration Practitioner in 2013.

In 2014, she began testing the waters with aerial dance and joined AWOL’s training company Flyco in 2016. Eventually, this led her back to teaching, this time through aerial. Her favorite thing about doing aerial is conditioning, finding the small movement pathways to make difficult moves more achievable and building strength while focusing on form.

Brandy Guthery

Marketing Coordinator

Tora Holmes

OPERATIONS & Circus Rose administratoR