2024-2025 Season: Lauren Yee
Profile Theatre’s 2024-2025 Season immerses audiences in the creative mind of Featured Playwright Lauren Yee with two main stage productions and a play reading series exploring her influences. The season closes with Playwright Festival 2025: two readings, and a catered Artist Salon with the 2025-2027 Featured Playwrights.
“After sold-out readings of three of her plays in February 2024, it was clear that this community is eager for Lauren Yee’s unique voice. Lauren was one of three Featured Playwrights in our 2022-2024 double season, which included a full-scale production of her play King of the Yees back in 2022. Centering Lauren in this new season continues the journey and allows us to share her work on a larger scale.
“The plays we’ve chosen are urgent, fresh, and topical, but with the sly humor, joyous delight, and bold theatricality that have made Lauren Yee a sensation. She will make you laugh till your sides hurt while helping us understand our current world in new ways.”
– Artistic Director Josh Hecht
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2024-2025 Season Schedule
Reading Series: Plays That Inspired Lauren Yee | November 23rd & 24th 2024
Step into the creative mind of Featured Playwright Lauren Yee by experiencing the plays that inspired her! Join us for readings of Five Flights by Adam Bock, and God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz, as well as quality Profile camaraderie as we gear up to leap into our mainstage shows!
Saturday, November 23rd @ 7:30pm | Five Flights by Adam Bock
Sunday, November 24th @ 2pm | God’s Ear by Jenny Schwartz
Samsara | main stage production | January 23rd – February 9th 2025
Katie and Craig are having a baby… with a surrogate… who lives in India. A month before the baby’s due date, Craig reluctantly travels to the subcontinent, where he meets Suraiya, their young, less-than-thrilled surrogate. As all three “parents” anxiously wait for the baby to be born, flights of fancy attack them from all sides, in the form of an unctuous Frenchman and a smart-mouthed fetus. A whimsical take on modern day colonialism.
Thursday, January 23rd @ 7:30pm | First Preview, Pride Affinity Night
Friday, January 24th @ 7:30pm | Second Preview
Saturday, January 25th @ 7:30pm | Opening Night!
Sunday, January 26th @ 2pm | Mat Chat
Thursday, January 30th @7:30pm | BIPOC Affinity Night
Friday, January 31st @ 7:30pm
Saturday, February 1st @ 7:30pm
Sunday, February 2nd @ 2pm | Mat Chat
Thursday, February 6th @ 7:30pm
Friday, February 7th @ 7:30pm
Saturday, February 8th @ 7:30pm
Sunday, February 9th @ 2pm
Mother Russia | main stage production | May/June 2025
Welcome to St. Petersburg in the 1990s – the Berlin Wall has fallen, the Soviet Union has dissolved and opportunity abounds. But barely-competent government surveillance workers Euvgeny and Dmitri find themselves lost in their strange new world of glasnost, perestroika and McDonald’s. When they’re assigned to track Katya, a fallen pop-star with international allure, a love triangle, mistaken identities and some really shoddy espionage tactics are set in motion. It’s possible they might just make it out of this mess and find happiness – if only they could make a decision. Mother Russia, a riotous new comedy about the curse of freedom and having to choose between the Filet-o-fish and the Big Mac, will make its Portland debut at Profile Theatre just one month after its world premiere.
May/June 2025 | Specific Dates To Be Announced!
Location To Be Announced!
Playwright Convening | June 27th, 28th & 29th 2025
What was it like being the first to hear early drafts of Angels in America? Or Fences? Or The Glass Menagerie? Or Twelfth Night? At Playwright Festival, you’ll know.
Last year’s Playwright Festival gave audiences the opportunity to meet with, and see early drafts of new work from Tony Award-nominated playwright Kristoffer Diaz and two-time Sundance Fellow christopher oscar peña. This year, you’ll be the first to welcome the visionary 2025-2027 Featured Playwrights and see early drafts of the plays commissioned for our 2025-2027 cycle.
Audiences are the cornerstone of our work, and your seat at the festival makes you an active participant in the creation of new plays from some of the most unique, powerful, prolific, and in-demand voices of the modern stage.
You’ll enjoy two workshopped readings, and close the weekend off with a catered Artist Salon with the playwrights. You’ll have the opportunity to meet and mingle with the Featured Playwrights, and to discuss their work, their process, the state of their art, and the state of the world. At Playwright Festival, our audiences and artists build the future of live theatre together.
Friday, June 27th | First Workshopped Reading
Saturday, June 28th | Second Workshopped Reading
Sunday, June 29th | Artist Soiree
Location To Be Announced!
Schedule is subject to change.
