2025-2026 Season
2025-2026 Season
Jen Silverman & Mike Lew
Profile Theatre’s 2025-2026 Season immerses audiences in the work of two of the brightest stars of contemporary theatre, Featured Playwrights Mike Lew, and Jen Silverman! With three productions including best-hits and newest works, the 2025-2026 season promises to be an experience unlike anything else offered in the Portland area!
Join us for the entire season!
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“I’m thrilled to introduce the 2025-2027 Featured Playwrights, and the plays for our 2025-2026 Season!
Mike Lew and Jen Silverman are some of the brightest stars of contemporary theatre. I’ve known Mike for over a decade as friend, colleague and collaborator and have been continually in awe of his intimidating intelligence and laugh-out-loud humor.
Jen Silverman’s work has been rocking the theatre industry for years; their play Witch reinvigorated and inspired me with its invitation to imagine hope in hopeless times.
I’m thrilled to bring these two ground-breaking artists to Portland with world premieres and commissions, and to share some of their most profound and game-changing work with our community over the next two years.”
– Artistic Director Josh Hecht
2025-2026 Season Schedule
October 16th – November 2nd, 2025
A charming devil arrives in the quiet village of Edmonton to bargain for the souls of its residents in exchange for their darkest wishes. Unexpected passions flare, alliances are formed, and the village is forever changed. An inventive modern retelling of a Jacobean drama, this sharp, subversive fable debates how much our souls are worth, and how hope manifests in times that are seemingly hopeless.
Thursday, October 16th @ 7:30pm | First Preview
Friday, October 17th @ 7:30pm | Second Preview
Saturday, October 18th @ 7:30pm | Opening Night
Sunday, October 19th @ 2:00pm |
Thursday, October 23rd @ 7:30pm |
Friday, October 24th @ 7:30pm |
Saturday, October 25th @ 7:30pm |
Sunday, October 26th @ 7:30pm |
Thursday, October 30th @ 7:30pm |
Friday, October 31st @ 7:30pm |
Saturday, November 1st @ 7:30pm |
Sunday, November 2nd @ 7:30pm | Closing Matinee
Note: Schedule is subject to change.
January 22nd – February 8th, 2026
Albert and Jennifer Chen were at the pinnacle of academic achievement. But now they suck at adult life. So they do what any reasonable egghead brother and sister would do: go on an Asian Freedom Tour! From California to Shenzen, TIGER STYLE! examines the successes and failures of tiger parenting from the point of view of a playwright who’s actually been through it.
Thursday, January 22nd @ 7:30pm | First Preview
Friday, January 23rd @ 7:30pm | Second Preview
Saturday, January 24th @ 7:30pm | Opening Night!
Sunday, January 25th @ 2pm |
Thursday, January 29th @7:30pm |
Friday, January 30sth @ 7:30pm |
Saturday, January 31st @ 7:30pm |
Sunday, February 1st @ 2pm |
Thursday, February 5th @ 7:30pm |
Friday, February 6th @ 7:30pm |
Saturday, February 7th @ 7:30pm |
Sunday, February 8th @ 2pm | Closing Matinee
Note: Schedule is subject to change.
June 4th – June 21st, 2026
Sharon, in her middle-age, is recently divorced and needs a roommate to share her Iowa home. Robyn, also in her middle-age, needs a place to hide and a chance to start over. But as Sharon begins to uncover Robyn’s secrets, they encourage her own deep-seated desire to transform her life completely. A dark comedy about what it takes to re-route your life – and what happens when the wheels come off.
Thursday, June 4th @ 7:30pm | First Preview
Friday, June 5th @ 7:30pm | Second Preview
Saturday, June 6th @ 7:30pm | Opening Night!
Sunday, June 7th @ 2pm |
Thursday, June 11th @7:30pm |
Friday, June 12th @ 7:30pm |
Saturday, June 13th @ 7:30pm |
Sunday, June 14th @ 2pm |
Thursday, June 18th @ 7:30pm |
Friday, June 19th @ 7:30pm |
Saturday, June 20th @ 7:30pm |
Sunday, June 21st @ 2pm | Closing Matinee
Note: Schedule is subject to change.
Purchase your membership by June 23rd, 2025 and get a complimentary ticket to:
June 26th – June 28th, 2025
What was it like being the first to hear early drafts of Angels in America? Or Fences? Or Twelfth Night? At Playwright Festival, you’ll know.
Last cycle’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.
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.
Thursday, June 26th @ 7:30pm | Reading of Houdini (Untitled) by Jen Silverman
Friday, June 27th @ 7:30pm | Reading of Alpha Asians by Mike Lew
Sunday, June 28th @ 12:00pm | Artist Talk, reception to follow
Note: Schedule is subject to change.
Join or Renew Your Membership Now
Members make it happen. Be part of a special community of theatre lovers with access to all of Profile Theatre’s programming – plus special perks to deepen your experience – when you purchase a season membership.
MEMBERSHIPS INCLUDE:
- One ticket to all three of our Main Stage productions!
- Tickets to all other public events, including play readings, and artist talks!
- Invitations to exclusive special events such as open rehearsals and happy hours with artists!
- Unlimited 25% off additional tickets to all events!
That’s an over $290 value for only $175!
Let’s count you in to support another year of groundbreaking theatre!
Meet our Featured Playwrights!
Jen Silverman is a multi-hyphenate playwright, poet, and novelist whose work has been produced nationally and internationally, on and off Broadway. Their plays balance lyricism with grounded sincerity, and highlight the power of hope in seemingly hopeless times. Silverman is a Guggenheim Fellow, a three-time MacDowell Fellow, and recipient of the Yale Drama Series Award. Their play The Roommate recently closed its Broadway run, with Mia Farrow and Pattie LuPone in the leading roles.
Mike Lew leverages his razor-sharp wit and bombastic energy to create plays that are as hilarious as they are thought-provoking. A Chinese-American playwright, Lew’s work is a rioutous melding of personal, familial and cultural identities into one explosive comedic mix. He is a Tony voter, Dramatists Guild Council member, New Dramatists Resident, and recipient of the Richard Rogers Award. He is former co-director of Ma-Yi Writers Lab, the largest collective of Asian-American playwrights in the country.
