2.5 Minute Ride Cast & Creative

Allison Mickelson

Lisa

Allison Mickelson is honored to debut at Profile Theatre with the brilliant writing of Lisa Kron. Favorite roles include Alison in Fun Home (Portland Center Stage, OR), Mother in Ragtime (Surflight Theater, NJ), Lola in Damn Yankees (Allenberry Playhouse, PA), Emily in Elf The Musical (National Tour), and Mame in Mame (Allenberry Playhouse and Riverside Center for the Performing Arts, VA). Allison has written and performed numerous solo cabarets in NYC, MA, PA, SD and OR. She teaches music and yoga, conducts choirs, and works with art and worship at Middle Collegiate Church, a progressive worshiping community in the East Village. Special thanks to Jane Unger, Josh Hecht, the creative team and the crew. Profile Theatre’s Diversity and Inclusion Initiative warrants high praise and Mickelson thanks patrons for supporting live theater and the highlighting of these voices.

Jane Unger

Director

As the founding Artistic Director of Profile Theatre Project, Jane is delighted to return to Profile and usher in this extraordinary season featuring Anna Deveare Smith and Lisa Kron with Kron’s 2.5 Minute Ride. During her fifteen years at the Profile helm she had the pleasure of producing and directing seasons by playwrights Arthur Kopit (inaugural season), Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Constance Congdon, Romulus Linney, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, John Guare, Neil Simon, Horton Foote, Lee Blessing and Athol Fugard, working directly with many of these writers on new play development. Recently in Portland at Artists Repertory Theatre, Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally and the world premiere of The Talented Ones by Yussef El Guindi. Other directorial work: Triad Stage, The Inge Festival, Creede Repertory Theatre, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Great Plains Theatre Conference and in Portland Storefront Theatre, Miracle Theatre, CoHo Productions, JAW at Portland Center Stage and New Rose Theatre. She adapted and directed Carver Country for Literary Arts, based on Raymond Carver short stories and worked as a consultant with Book-It Repertory Theatre in Seattle on The Financial Lives of the Poets and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. As an actress, Jane worked in the New York area at theatres including Manhattan Theatre Club, Manhattan Punch Line and Hartford Stage. Among the awards Jane has received, she is especially proud of her Drammy Award for Best Director for Wings and the Drammy Lifetime Achievement Award.

 

Peter Ksander, Scenic Design

Sarah Gahagan, Costume Designer

Miranda k Hardy, Lighting Designer

Casi Pacilio, Sound Design

Jana Crenshaw, Composer

Kyra Bishop, Props Master

Carol Ann Wohlmut, Stage Manager

Rory Breshears, Production Manager

Charlie Capps, Production Assistant

In Dialogue: 2.5 Minute Ride

In Dialogue events are a series of lectures, pre-show talks, post-show discussions and concerts that offer our audiences the opportunity to engage with the work, themes and aesthetic of our featured writer through a broad, vibrant and ever-changing series of events and presentations.

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

 

Saturday, January 27th   | Post-Show  | Alder Lobby
Opening Night Celebration
Join us immediately following the performance for nibbles, drinks and music.
Wine Sponsor: Wildwood/Mahonia

 

Sunday, January 28th  | Post-Show  | Alder Stage
Mat Chat with Jane Unger, Director

 

Thursday, February 1st |  6:55pm | Alder Lobby
Marta Eichelberger-Jankowska: Intergenerational Trauma
A conversation that explores the nature and issues related to the intergenerational transmission of the Holocaust trauma. Marta is an educator at the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education. She is a graduate of George Washington University’s M.A. program in Experiential Education and Jewish Cultural Arts and a former intern at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. A native of Warsaw, Poland, she worked there as a Jewish and Holocaust guide and educator for the Taube Center for the Renewal of Jewish Life in Poland Foundation, and POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews.

 

Friday, February 2nd  |  6:55pm | Alder Lobby
Lisa Kron’s 101 Humiliating Stories
Hear excerpts from Lisa Kron’s work that captures the universal experience of humiliation.  Evocative, moving, and, overall hilarious.
ASL Interpreted

 

Saturday, February 3rd  |  6:55pm | Alder Lobby
Stand Up Comedian: Katie Nguyen
Katie Nguyen writes and performs stand-up, improv, sketch, and more. She has performed across the country at festivals including SF Sketchfest, Asheville Comedy Festival, 10K Laughs Festival, Stumptown Improv Festival, and Bridgetown Comedy Festival. Katie performed on the ensemble of the Brody Theater for years and is an instructor at Deep End Theater. She hosts the weekly show Earthquake Hurricane, and was named one of the Portland Mercury’s original Geniuses of Comedy.

 

Sunday, February 4th  | Post-Show  | Alder Stage
Mat Chat with Allison Mickelson, Actor

 

Thursday, February 8th  |  6:55pm | Alder Lobby
Lisa Kron’s 101 Humiliating Stories
Hear excerpts from Lisa Kron’s work that captures the universal experience of humiliation.  Evocative, moving, and, overall hilarious.

 

Friday, February 9th  |  6:55pm | Alder Lobby
Nathaniel Austin – Violinist
Nathaniel Austin is a Jewish-American violinist and violist of over 20 years. A Portland native, he is a former student of Cynthia Scott and Bill Hunt, as well as an alumnus of Portland’s Metropolitan Youth Symphony, having participated in tours of Disneyland, Poland, Austria, and the Czech Republic. He is also a former member and concertmaster of the Marylhurst Community Orchestra under the direction of maestro Lajos Balogh. He is also a Berklee College of Music alumnus, having studied with oud virtuoso Simon Shaheen and renowned fiddler Darol Anger among others.

 

Saturday, February 10th |  6:55pm | Alder Lobby
Stand Up Comedian: Jen Lanier
Jennifer Lanier is an actor, comedian and solo artists with an extensive and varied resume.  Since her classical acting training at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts she has gone on to found companies and projects including Lesbian Thesbians and the A+ Schools Program; original works BRER RABBIT MEETS COYOTE and NONE OF THE ABOVE, which explored the challenges with growing up as an ethnically mixed person. She currently has a production company, Many Horses Productions, which produces variety shows, drag events, and theatre. Lanier lives in Vancouver WA with her wife, two sons, a costume-loving dachshund, a cantankerous cat, an anorexic tortoise, and a singing guinea pig.

 

Sunday, February 11th |  Post-Show | Alder Lobby
Panel Discussion: Second and Third Generation Holocaust Survivors: Inheriting the Trauma / Reframing the Discourse
Presented by the Oregon Jewish Museum and Center for Holocaust Education
Featuring the voices of second and third generation Holocaust survivors with a focus on the impact of the Holocaust on their lives and their thoughts related to teaching about the Holocaust.
Panelists include David Fuks, Deb Montrose, and Amanda Smith Byron; moderated by Marta Eichelberger-Jankowska.

In Dialogue Staged Readings

Actors Chris Murray and Jenny Newbry in Buena Vista by Edith Freni, directed by Desdamona Chiang

In Dialogue Staged Readings present new plays by contemporary writers and seek to place the work of our main stage productions within the context of the current landscape of the American theatre.

Tickets to In Dialogue Readings are low cost or free as part of Profile’s ongoing efforts to make quality theatre available to all members of our community.

 


 

 

PAST EVENTS

THE BOOK OF JOSEPH by Karen Hartman, directed by Josh Hecht

March 19th & 2oth 2018  7:30 pm, Alder Stage at Artists Rep

READ MORE HERE

BOJ

 


TWILIGHT: LOS ANGELES, 1992 by Anna Deavere Smith, directed by Josh Hecht, starring Chantal DeGroat

April 15th, 16th, and 17th – 2018  7:30 pm, Alder Stage at Artists Rep

READ MORE HERE

Twilight 1080 title

 


2nd ANNUAL 24 HOUR PLAY FEST!

Monday, July 2nd 2018 Alder Stage at Artists Rep

READ MORE HERE

2018 24 Hour play Fest

 

PRESS Reviews, mentions and more

Profile doubles the impact

Richly rewarding productions of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ “Water by the Spoonful” and “The Happiest Song Plays Last” open in rep

Read it here: OREGON ARTSWATCH


Stage and Studio Interview

With Dmae Roberts on KBOO

November 7th, 2017

Director Josh Hecht and actor Anthony Lam were guests on the show.  They shared insights into working on Water by the Spoonful and The Happiest Song Plays Last.  Anthony plays the leading character of Elliot in both productions and opened the season in the title role in Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue.

Listen to the full interview HERE


Pulitzer winner Quiara Alegria Hudes expands the idea of family in ‘Elliot Trilogy’

October 21, 2017 //BY LEE WILLIAMS // FOR THE OREGONIAN // OREGONLIVE

 Read it here: THE OREGONIAN

The Oregonian Features Quiara

 

Quiara in the OregonianIn October Quiara Alegría Hudes was interviewed by Lee Williams for The Oregonian/Oregon Live!  We are thrilled that The Oregonian recognized the significance of presenting the work of a Pulitzer Prize winning writer – and her upcoming visit to Portland.

She spoke of her gratitude for people’s response to the devastation of hurricane Irma, saying “It’s really profoundly moving how much the nation has just come out with deep love for Puerto Rico.”

She also praised Profile saying that we’ve impressed her with our “Level of thoughtfulness and creativity and care toward the work they do.” Thanks Quiara!

The full article was published in print on Friday, Oct 27th and is available online!

Water/Happiest Cast

In order of appearance

 

 

 

 

 

Anthony Lam

Elliot Water/Happiest  

Anthony is returning to Profile Theatre to continue his work as Elliot Ortiz, seen in the season opener Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue. His past theatre credits include: Michael in the stage reading of Washer/Dryer with Theatre Diaspora and Atómiko in Miracle Theatre’s production of Into The Beautiful North. He spent the summer filming Translated, a feature film in Eugene, OR as well as working on commercials throughout the Northwest.

Crystal Ann Muñoz

 

 

 

 

 

Crystal Ann Muñoz

Yaz Water/Happiest

Crystal is honored to be working with this earnest, fearless group of artists. Profile audiences may have seen her previously in Eyes for Consuela (Sam Shepard season) or the Drammy Award winning Orlando (Sarah Ruhl season). Other Portland credits include The Importance of Being Ernest; Civil War Christmas (Artists Repertory Theatre), Olivia in Twelfth Night (Portland Shakespeare Project), The Hunstmen (Portland Playhouse), Kiss of the Spiderwoman (Triangle Productions) and In The Heights (Stumptown Stages), another work by our playwright, Quiara Alegría Hudes. Thank you for joining us. “Somos Americanos. Punto.”

Wasim No'Mani

 

 

 

 

 

Wasim No’Mani

Ghost/Ali Water/Happiest

Wasim is an actor. Meaning, he tries to tell the truth whilst lying. Indeed, he is as confused as that sounds. Wasim THANKS every one of his stupendously talented cast-mates. Watching their work is both a jubilant joy and frantically frightful. Wasim deeply THANKS director, Josh Hecht, for including him in this creative process. An emphatic extension of GRATITUDE to Quiara Alegria Hudes whose words we are all trying our damndest to live up to. Wasim eternally THANKS his family for their insistent support, despite the questionable nature of the undertaking  Finally, Wasim THANKS YOU, audience member. Without you, there’s no point in this.

Julana Torres

 

 

 

 

 

Julana Torres

Odessa Water

Julana is a Portland local with an extensive career in dance, music, and theatre. She has recently returned to the stage after a long hiatus to teach with Portland Public Schools and establish the full time dance program for Franklin High School. She is beyond ecstatic to return to Profile after performing last spring as Beatriz in 26 Miles. Other credits include Óye Oyá (Milagro Theatre), Cuba Libre (ART), West Side Story (Musical Theatre Company), Peter Pan (Civic Theatre). Upcoming works include feature film Losing Addison, and Between Riverside and Crazy this spring with Artists Rep. She also performs as the lead singer for popular latin jazz orchestra The Bobby Torres Ensemble.

Member Actors Equity Association

 

 

 

 

 

 

Akari Anderson

Orangutan Water

Akari is thrilled to be making her Portland debut at Profile. Theatrical credits include Anna in The Baltimore Waltz (Powerhouse Theatre), Ophelia in Hamlet (Martel Theatre), Sabina in The Skin of Our Teeth (Vassar College), Susan in The Secretaries (Idlewild Ensemble), and Ensemble Member in On The Table (Sojourn Theatre Company). Film: Frances Ha (dir. Noah Baumbach). Holds a BA in Drama from Vassar College. Special thanks to Tomiko, Reed and Hiroko.

Bobby Bermea

 

 

 

 

 

Bobby Bermea

Chutes & Ladders Water

Bobby is thrilled to be returning to Profile where he last appeared on stage during the Athol Fugard season in “Master Harold” …and the Boys and My Children! My Africa! He also directed last season’s Blue Door. Bermea is co-artistic director of The Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project and a member of both Sojourn Theatre and Badass Theatre Company. He is a playwright, director, contributor to Oregon ArtsWatch and three-time Drammy award winning actor. Bermea has worked in theaters literally from New York, NY to Honolulu, HI. Coming up, look for Bermea in Between Riverside and Crazy at Artists Rep, Fences at Portland Playhouse and The Librarians on TNT.

Member Actors Equity Association

 

Duffy Epstein

 

 

 

 

 

Duffy Epstein

Fountainhead/Lefty Water/Happiest

Duffy is really happy to be working at Profile Theater again, having appeared as Saul in True West.  Recent appearances include Slank in Peter and the Starcatcher; Ian in The Other Place (Portland Playhouse), Duane/db in db (Coho), Harold in I Want To Destroy You (Theater Vertigo), Cash in The Pain and the Itch (Third Rail). For Judy!

Dre Slaman

 

 

 

 

 

Dre Slaman

Shar Happiest

Dré earned her MFA in Acting at Northern Illinois University where she studied the Meisner Technique under master teacher Kathryn Gately. She has also studied at the Moscow Art Theatre, the William Esper Acting Studio (NYC) and received her BA in Theatre Arts at University of Pacific. Theatre Credits include: Jaffa’s Gate, The Stinky Cheese Man, Nine Parts of Desire, The Arab-Israeli Cookbook, Albee’s Everything in The Garden, Edgar’s Pentecost, and Hair. Dré’s on-camera credits include GRIMM, MEDIUM, and others. She owns and operates local company Farm to Fit and is on the Board of the Portland Area Theatre Alliance.

 

 

 

 

 

Jimmy Garcia

Agustín Happiest

After studying at Southern Oregon University and performing at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Jimmy is happy to be back in Portland where he began his acting career years ago on the stages of Milagro Theater, Stark Raving Theater and Portland Center Stage.  In Southern Oregon, he performed a variety of roles working with such esteemed directors as Bill Rauch, Libby Appel and Pat Patton to name a few. He has most recently performed in Milagro’s world premiere Óye Oyá, ART’s A Civil War Christmas, Profile Theater’s Elliot: A Soldier’s Fugue, and ART’s An Octoroon.

Member Actors Equity Association

Water/Happiest Rep: Design & Production Team

Josh Hecht

Director

Josh Hecht (Artistic Director) is a Drama Desk Award-winning director whose productions have been seen in New York at MCC Theater, The Cherry Lane, The Duke on 42nd Street, New World Stages, Culture Project, regionally at The Guthrie Theater, the Berkshire Theatre Group, the Humana Festival at Actors Theatre of Louisville, Signature Theatre (DC) and internationally at the Dublin Arts Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and elsewhere. His collaboration with Ping Chong and Company was commissioned by and premiered at The Kennedy Center before touring the northeast. His writing has received the support of the Jerome Foundation. He is formerly the Director of Playwright Development at MCC Theater and the Director of New Play Development at WET. He’s served on the faculty of the New School for Drama MFA Directing program, the Fordham University MFA Playwriting program, Purchase College SUNY’s BFA Dramatic Writing program and has been a guest artist at The Juilliard School, NYU’s Dramatic Writing MFA, Carnegie Mellon’s MFA Playwriting, University of Minnesota’s BFA Acting program and others.

 

Peter Ksander

Scenic  Design

Peter is a scenographer and media artist whose stage design work has been presented both nationally and internationally. In 2006 he joined the curatorial board of the Ontological-Hysteric Incubator. In 2008 he won an Obie award for the scenic design of Untitled Mars (this title may change), and In 2014 he won a Bessie award for the visual design of This Was the End. He holds a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, is an Associate Professor at Reed College and is an associate company member with the Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble. This is his second design with Profile having designed Bright Half Life last season.

 

Brynne Oster-Bainnson

Costume Design

Brynne received her BA from Drew University in 2013. She works as the wardrobe supervisor for Broadway Rose Theatre Company and is also the costumer for David Douglas High School and St. Mary’s Academy where she enjoys spreading the love of costumes to the next generations. Brynne has worked as a costume designer for Broadway Rose, Third Rail, and CoHo. Highlights of her recent shows Fly By Night (BRTC), The Nether (TR), Angry Brigade (TR),  and db (CoHo). She is very excited to work with Profile for the first time on these two incredible shows with this outstanding creative team.

 

Carl Faber

Lighting Design 

In three seasons with Profile Carl has designed: Orlando, Dead Man’s Cell Phone, Eyes for Consuela.  Recent designs with Artists Rep (Grand Concourse, Broomstick), Third Rail (The Angry Brigade), Broadway Rose (Trails, Beehive – Drammy Best Lighting), Theatre Vertigo (Carnivora), NWCT (Mary Poppins).  Regional: Arena Stage, Boston ICA, Williamstown Theatre Festival.  Touring Production/IT: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band.  Touring Associate Lighting/Video: Bon Iver, The National.  Lighting Artist: Eaux Claires Music Festival.  Founding Member: Woodshed Collective NYC.  Staff Assistant Lighting Designer: Portland Opera.  Broadway Assistant Designer: The Book of Mormon.  Education: Catlin Gabel, Vassar College.  Member: United Scenic Artists Local USA-829.  www.carlfaber.com

Represented by United Scenic Artists

 

Matt Wiens

Sound Design

Matt is excited to be a part of Profile’s Quiara Alegria Hudes season. Recent work includes Pen/Man/Ship, How I learned What I Learned, and You For Me For You, at Portland Playhouse. Matt would like to thank his family for their support and encouragement!

 

Kyra Bishop Sanford

Props Master

Kyra is excited to be part of this production! Local credits include scenic and props designer and TD for You’re a Good Man Charlie Brown (Enlightened Theatrics) and Troilus and Cressida (Portland Actors Ensemble), scenic and props designer for The Pillowman (Life in Arts), production designer and TD for Men Run Amok (part of Fertile Ground 2017), props master for The Events (Third Rail Rep), Plaid Tidings (Enlightened Theatrics) and Reborning (Beirut Wedding), as well as carpentry and paint work at various theatres in the area. She received her BFA in Scenic Design from the Conservatory of Theatre Arts at Webster University. www.sanfordscenic.com

 

Jamie Rea

Production Manager

From Berlin’s aerialist street ensemble, Grotest Maru to Wellington’s all female dance ensemble JAVA, Jamie has been exploring this powerful tool of connection and change for over 2 decades. Serving as an award winning director, designer, and performer, she has worked up and down both coasts and as far away as Australia. She does however also love to plant roots, building a human-resource-focused way of working, as a foundation for extraordinary art. To that end, it has been her pleasure to serve as Production Manager for Jewish Theatre Collaborative for 9 years, for Enlightened Theatrics for the past 3 years, and by project for many others including Sojourn Theatre and The Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project.

 

Baleigh Isaacs

Stage Manager

Baleigh is delighted to be working with Profile Theatre for the first time, marking her Portland debut after spending a dozen years in Chicago. Her Chicago credits include productions at Steppenwolf, Lookingglass, Chicago Shakespeare, American Blues, Remy Bumppo, and Drury Lane as well as Million Dollar Quartet, Love, Loss, and What I Wore, Old Jews Telling Jokes, and Motherhood the Musical.  Baleigh has also worked with the Alliance Theatre and Georgia Shakespeare in her hometown of Atlanta.  Her NYC credits include Les Miserables, The Rhythm Club, and Summer of ’42.

Member of Actor’s Equity Association

 

Breydon Little

Assistant Stage Manager

Breydon is ecstatic to be working with in rep with Profile this fall! He is a stage manager with credits at Portland Playhouse, and independent projects with Michael Streeter, Beth Thompson, and Elizabeth Huffman. He is a proud member of Theatre Vertigo and a production manager at Clackamas High School.

 

Ashlin Hatch

Assistant Director

Ashlin is thrilled to be collaborating on her first project with Profile. Other recent directorial credits include Nice Town, Normal People (Rhizome Theater Co.) and This Must Be the Place (Reed College)—both devised, interview-based performances aiming to sow seeds of social cohesion, compassion, and kindness.

In Conversation

 

On Saturday, November 18th we proudly hosted our 2017 featured playwright

Quiara Alegría Hudes IN CONVERSATION

with Josh Hecht, Artistic Director at Profile Theatre

    

This Pulitzer Prize winning dramatist is traveled to Portland for a special one time event.  She joined Artistic Director Josh Hecht on stage for an hour-long conversation about her writings and the role of art in activism.  Quiara also read an excerpt from her forthcoming memoir and selections from her newest project Emancipated Stories: Pages From Those Behind Bars.  Quiara selected a few lucky audience members to read a selection of the Emancipated Stories live onstage!  Many patrons also took the opportunity to purchase copies of Water by the Spoonful and The Happiest Song Plays Last to have them signed by Quiara!

It was an illuminating conversation and enriching visit from this playwright.  Throughout her visit – and our season – she generously shared her whole self with the creative team, patrons and Community Profile writers.  We gained insight into her ways as a writer, person and passionate community member!

 

We look forward to our  next opportunity to host a vibrant contemporary playwright!  

Look for announcements about Lisa Kron & Anna Deavere Smith in the 2018-19 season.

 

 

 

 

 

 

2.5 Minute Ride

Lisa invites you on the Kron family “vacation” to Cedar Point Amusement Park in Sandusky, Ohio. You see, in spite of near-blindness, diabetes and a heart condition, Lisa’s 75-year-old father Walter insists on yearly trips to the world capital of roller coasters. But this isn’t the only journey they take together. Lisa also accompanies him to Auschwitz, where his parents were killed, and where she comes to understand more clearly the joys and sorrows of her father’s heart. A complex and searingly funny meditation on how human beings make sense of tragedy, grief, and everyday life.

Wonderfully evocative and often seriously funny, [Kron] sets off emotional vibrations that just won’t stop. -Ben Brantley, New York Times

One of the most tender and discerning family tragicomedies in recent memory.” -Linda Winer, New York Newsday

 

2.5MR

 

 

January 25 – February 11, 2018

Performance Calendar

(P) = Preview; (O) = Opening Night; (M) = Matinee; (*) = ASL Performance

 

SUBSCRIBE to the 2018-19 Double Season featuring Lisa Kron and Anna Deavere Smith.  Full Info Here.


 

CAST & CREATIVE

Allison Mickelson

Starring Allison Mickelson as the solo performer. (Last seen as “Alison Bechdel” in Fun Home at Portland Center Stage!)

 

Directed by Jane Unger, Profile Theatre’s Founding Artistic Director

 

Jane Unger, Director

Allison Mickelson, “Lisa”

Peter Ksander, Scenic Design

Sarah Gahagan, Costume Designer

Miranda k Hardy, Lighting Designer

Casi Pacilio, Sound Design

Jana Crenshaw, Composer

Kyra Bishop, Props Master

Carol Ann Wohlmut, Stage Manager

Rory Breshears, Production Manager

Charlie Capps, Production Assistant

 


2.5 Playbill

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20th Anniversary Benefit Celebration!

On Monday, September 18, 2017 we gathered in celebration of Profile’s 20th Anniversary!

The evening began with a concert of songs from the musicals of Quiara Alegría Hudes.  A full band led by musical director Freddy Vilches backed three talented vocalists, Alex Ramirez de Cruz (26 Miles), Julana Torres (26 Miles and Water by the Spoonful) and Feliciano Tencos-Garcia.  They performed songs from Miss You Like Hell, Barrio ABC’s and In The Heights.

Photo Credit David Kinder

A catered reception followed.  20 years of Profile patrons and artists mingled while enjoying eats from Pambiche and wine from Wildwood/Mahonia.

Photo Credit: David Kinder

We celebrated 20 years of putting the playwright at the center of the season.  Hosted by Chris Murray, a seated program looking at our past and future shined a light on the core of what makes Profile an essential part of Portland’s creative community.  Guest artists from Profile’s history gave tribute to the theater and their experiences working within our unique mission.  We thank Tim Stapleton, Tobias Anderson, Jane Fellows, Kristeen Crosser, Bobby Bermea and Jimmy Garcia for their moving tributes.

Photo credit David Kinder

The evening was completed by a special presentation to Jane Unger, the Founding Artistic Directory.  Jane shared words about the founding years and reflected on the many successes and varied challenges of fostering a theater from inception to the landmark event of its 20th anniversary.  Jane will be returning for the 2018-19 season as the director of our opening show 2.5 Minute Ride by Lisa Kron.

Photo credit David Kinder

Cheers to Profile Theatre’s future and another 20 years!

Photo credit David Kinder

 

THANK YOU to the evening’s sponsors:

RAFFLE SPONSORS: Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Peerlis Hotel Ashland Oregon, Ashland Creek Inn, MJ Daspit, Laurel Bustamante, Gracie’s, Gilda’s Italian Restaurant, Por Qué No?, Luce, Navarre, Davenport, Cheese Bar, Lan Su Chinese Garden, Daniel Skach-Mills, Canoe, Oblation.