ARE YOU READY TO SAVE!? Tickets for The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity go on sale Monday, September 12, and you early birds are going to save BIG! During the first week of sales September 12th through the 19th, you have TWO ways to score MEGA savings!

Be the first to see the show at Preview performances on October 5th, 6th, or 7th and get 50% off! Enter code RINGSIDE1 in the Discount Code field during check out to save. That’s only $17.50!! Good for Previews only, and only September 12-19, so buy ’em early!

Can’t make Preview week? That’s okay, you can still save. Enter the code RINGSIDE2 to save 35% off to any other performance during the run of the show! Sweet deal, but you gotta get ’em early! Remember, these savings are only valid September 12-19.

Click the button below to get your tickets starting September 12th! If you have any questions reach out to our Box Office Manager, Marissa Sanchez. See you ringside at The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity!

Job Description

Profile Theatre Project, an Oregon not-for-profit corporation, doing business as Profile Theatre, invites applications for the position of Development Associate. 

ORGANIZATION 

Founded in 1997, Profile Theatre is one of the oldest continuously operating theaters in the state. Profile Theatre centers an entire season of first class productions and community engagement activities through the lens of the season-long Featured Playwright, whose unique vision broadens our perspective on the world and deepens our collective compassion. We do this through large-scale professional productions, our expansive In Dialogue program, the Playwrights Residency, and our signature Community Profile program. Profile has grown to be one of the most well-regarded theaters in Portland, with a reputation for bringing intelligence, excellence and passion to the stage. The Development Associate reports to Artistic Director Josh Hecht and works closely with Profile’s Director of Communications, Finance Manager and contracted grant writer. 

POSITION AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Profile Theatre seeks an ambitious arts manager to serve as Development Associate. The Development Associate will work closely with the Artistic Director, the Board and staff to plan and execute a strategic fundraising program that encompasses membership integrated into annual giving, major gifts, foundation and government grants, corporate sponsorships, special events and blended campaigns. The Development Associate supports the Artistic Director in the cultivation and stewardship of major gifts; collaborates closely with the Director of Communications on an integrated communication strategy to the Profile family of supporters, particularly around the annual Calendar Year End and Fiscal Year End campaigns and Member cultivation events; and will collaborate with the Line Producer and Artistic Director on donor events that surround mainstage productions. The Development Associate will also serve as the project manager for Profile Theatre’s annual gala. 

QUALIFICATIONS

The ideal candidate will have experience working in fundraising or communications. They have a passion for storytelling, an eye for creating engaging special events for donors and patrons, and will be knowledgeable and passionate about the arts and those who support it. They believe in the ability of art to strengthen communities and have excellent written, verbal and interpersonal skills and an organized and detail-oriented personality. The position is envisioned as evolving with the organization. 

Comfort with computers and other forms of office equipment. Experience with Salesforce or other comparable CRM, database management, and gift processing systems preferred, or a pro-active ability to research and learn if they don’t. 

Profile Theatre is an equal opportunity employer and strongly encourages women and people of color to apply, in keeping with its core values of inclusion and representation. Starting salary is $22 / hour for a flexible 20-hours a week, plus competitive benefits. 

This position will be expected to report to the Profile Theatre office at 216 NW 13th in the Pearl in Portland, OR, and at other off-site locations such as theatre venues, rehearsal halls, or other meeting places for events and donor engagement. Out of town applicants will be expected to reside within the Portland, OR area by the start of employment.

This position may include physical requirements of moving in our accessible office, transporting oneself to multiple locations within a single day, and utilizing a computer or other communication equipment. Reasonable accommodations provided.  

Apply To: info@profiletheatre.org. Please include a cover letter, resume and 3 references (phone numbers and/or emails provided). No calls or drop-ins, please. If you require accommodation to submit, please notify us by email above. 

Desired start date is 10/15/22, applications accepted until position is filled. 

Summer is sizzling (seriously, it’s been HOT) and so is this deal! For these final days of August, Profile Theatre is inviting you to save big on Memberships! Our first show of the season, Kristoffer Diaz’s The Elaborate Entrance of Chad Deity, is going to kick off our 25th anniversary season in October with a bang…and bumps, and bodyslams, and pile-drivers…(the show is centered in the crazy world of pro-wrestling!)

Then we take a strange and spectacular journey through San Francisco’s Chinatown in one writer’s search for her father, family, and so much more with Lauren Yee’s, King of the Yees, in November!

So, make sure you don’t miss out on the amazing shows, lectures, parties, special events and ALL the 2022-23 season has to offer! Click the button below to join us now, and don’t forget to add code SUMMER22 at checkout to get your discount!

Hurry! The sale ends Labor Day, September 5th! We hope you enjoy the rest of your summer and we’ll see you in the fall!

Kate Duffly is a scholar-director and community-based theatre artist with a Ph.D. in Performance Studies from the University of California, Berkeley. Her teaching and research interests include socially engaged and community-based theatre, 20th and 21st century American theatre, race theory and performance, acting, and directing. Kate has published articles in TDR, Theatre Topics, Theatre Survey, and Theatre Annual. In addition to her own directorial and devised performance work, Kate has worked with Cornerstone Theater, Lunatique Fantastique, Touchable Stories, and Wise Fool Community Arts. In 2016, Kate received a grant from Oregon’s Regional Arts and Culture Council to create a community-based theatre project with community organization Western States Center and collaborator Roberta Hunte (Portland State University) about reproductive justice, titled We Are BRAVE. Kate is the president of the board for Theatre Diaspora, Oregon’s only professional Asian American/Pacific Islander (AAPI) theatre company. She is also on the board of MediaRites, a “production organization based in Portland, Oregon, dedicated to telling the stories of diverse cultures and giving voice to the unheard through the arts, education and media projects.” Prior to her position as Assistant Professor of Theatre at Reed, Kate taught as lecturer at UC Berkeley and California College of Arts.

Dr. Roberta Hunte is an Assistant Professor at Portland State University’s School of Social Work. She received her M.S. in Conflict Resolution from PSU, and her doctorate from the University of Manitoba in Peace and Conflict Studies. She is affiliate faculty in Women,  Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Black Studies. Hunte is a community engaged Black feminist scholar, whose academic interests include sexual and reproductive justice, cultural work for social change, and how Black, Indigenous, and People of Color navigate institutions: particularly construction, maternal healthcare, and higher education. Her creative critical scholarship includes the theatre piece “My Walk Has Never Been Average,” and short film “Sista in the Brotherhood,” both informed by her research with Black tradeswomen and devised theater piece entitled “We are BRAVE,” based on reproductive stories from people of color and transgender people.

Jerry Ruíz

Jerry Ruiz’ s directing credits include: world premieres at Denver Center for the Performing Arts Theatre Company, Second Stage Theatre and Rattlestick Playwrights Theatre, as well as Off-Broadway and regional productions at the Old Globe, Primary Stages, Hartford TheaterWorks, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Mint Theater Company, Stages Repertory Theater, Clubbed Thumb, NYC Summerstage, Chalk Rep and Repertorio Español. He has developed work at Playwrights Horizons, Soho Rep, The Public Theater, Atlantic Theater Company, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and the Playwrights Realm.

From 2011 to 2015, he served as curator for the Crossing Borders festival of new plays at Two River Theater in New Jersey. He was a recipient of the 2009–2011 NEA/TCG Career Development for Theatre Directors Grant.  He received his M.F.A. from UC San Diego and his B.A. from Harvard University. SDC Member. Currently, he serves as the head of the MFA Directing program at Texas State University.           

Lava Alapai

Lava is originally from Okinawa, Japan and grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii where she learned the art of Bunraku puppetry. She graduated with an MFA in acting from California Institute of the Arts and has been creating theatre in Portland for more than a decade. Credits include design and acting work for Portland Playhouse, defunkt theatre, Tears of Joy Theatre and Many Hats Collaboration, among others. Directing credits include Columbinus, Charlotte’s Web and Locomotion for Oregon Children’s Theatre, and staged readings for Profile Theatre and Playwrights West.  She is an associate member of the Stage Directors & Choreographers Society (SDC). She would like to thank her amazing team and beautiful cast for giving her the opportunity to create this show with them, and her wife, Alex, for agreeing to go on this crazy ride with her. Visit www.lavaalapai.com to see Lava’s work as a photographer.

Damaso Rodriguez

Born in Miami, Florida, Dámaso Rodríguez has worked as a producer, director, educator, and arts administrator at theaters and universities across the country. Along with more than 100 production credits, he brings over 20 years of experience as an arts leader, from start-up organization to venerable institution. He is a vice president of Arts Consulting Group, where he works with arts and culture organizations around the country. Clients include: Berkeley Rep, the Central Oregon Center for the Arts, the Guthrie Theatre, KEXP, Long Wharf Theatre, Lynn University, Missoula Children’s Theatre, Pegasus Theatre, and TheatreWorks Silicon Valley.

Rodríguez spent nine seasons as Artistic Director of Artists Rep, Portland, Oregon’s longest-running professional theatre, where he established new artistic programs and guided the 40-year old organization through many periods of transition, including the property sale and facilities planning process for a $32mil redevelopment of the theatre’s downtown home. During his tenure, Artists Rep joined the League of Resident Theaters (LORT) and produced more than 60 productions. Artistic programming highlights include: the establishment of a new works development program; the organizational residency and resource-sharing program known as ArtsHub; the creation of a resident artists program involving nearly 40 artists across theatrical disciplines; the pandemic pivot to digital productions such as audio dramas and short films; and the establishment of the DNA: Oxygen program, which works to transform the company into a theatre rooted in anti-racist, anti-bias practices. Rodríguez is a Co-Founder of Los Angeles’ Furious Theatre (called “one of the fastest-rising ensembles in L.A. stage history” by LA Stage Magazine), where he spent 11 years as Co-Artistic Director. He has also served as Associate Artistic Director of the Pasadena Playhouse. Rodríguez has produced and directed a broad range of new and classic plays at some the country’s most prominent regional theaters.

Along with 22 Artists Rep productions, directing credits include work at South Coast Repertory, Actors Theatre of Louisville, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, American Conservatory Theater, Seattle Rep, Intiman Theatre, A Noise Within, The Playwrights’ Center, New Dramatists, The New Harmony Project, and The Theatre @ Boston Court. He is a recipient of the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award, Back Stage Garland Award, NAACP Theatre Award, and Pasadena Arts Council Gold Crown Award. Rodríguez is a member of the Stage Directors and Choreographers Society and has served on panels for the National Endowment for the Arts, as a Theatre Communications Group Delegate to the Havana International Theatre Festival, and as a guest of Spain’s Ministry of Culture for the Ibero-American Theatre Forum

Miriam Schwartz

Miriam Schwartz (she/her):  Originally from Seattle, WA, Miriam Schwartz has spent the majority of her career in Minneapolis where past credits include roles at the Guthrie Theater, Mixed Blood Theatre, Six Points Theatre, Artistry MN, 7th House Theatre Company, Arrow Theatre Company, and The Playwrights’ Center.

She is the recipient of a 2018 MN Theatre Award for Exceptional Individual Performance for her work in the Guthrie’s production of INDECENT– a role she was thrilled to play again at Profile Theatre in collaboration with Artists Rep in 2020. In her most recent work with Profile, she sported *many* wigs as both Myra and Myrna in THE MINEOLA TWINS. Miriam is a graduate of the Guthrie Theater’s BFA Actor Training Program.

Julana Torres

Julana Torres is a multifaceted artist with an extensive career in music, theatre, and dance. In 2016 she returned to the stage after a career of teaching with Portland Public Schools where she created the full-time dance program for Franklin High School.

Since returning to the stage, she has appeared in numerous productions including Crowns (PPH), Cop Out (Red Door Project), Between Riverside and Crazy (Artist Repertory) Water by the Spoonful (Profile Theatre), and starred in the first-ever revival of one-woman show Mala (Coho) by Melinda Lopez.

Additionally, she has co-starred in Netflix’s Trinkets and feature film Losing Addison, as well as been nominated twice for Best Actress by the Portland Drammy Awards. Julana can also be seen performing around town with her own 10-piece Salsa band, La Colorá. 

Jamie Rea

JAMIE M. REA

A renaissance woman of the theatre and a proud member of Actor’s Equity, Jamie has had the pleasure of exploring this powerful tool for connection and change for over 20 years. She has studied the work of Sanford Meisner & Robert Bray with Barry Hunt & Sowelu Theatre Ensemble; Suzuki Technique & Anne Bogart’s Viewpoints with the SITI Company (NYC); Rhythm Tap with Savion Glover’s teacher Lady Diane Walker & Lane Alexander, founder of the National Tap Dance Festival in Chicago; and Devising Theatre with the late Scott Kelman of Joseph Chaikin’s Open Theatre (NYC).

Seen previously as Halina in Indecent (Profile and ART), Amy in In the Wake, and as Dawn in The Secretaries (Profile Theatre). Additional local favorites include Olympe DeGouges in The Revolutionists  and Jack Worthing in The Importance of Being Earnest (Artist Repertory Theatre), Macbeth in Macbeth & Kristine (Drammy award, Best Supporting Actress) in A Doll’s House (Shaking the Tree Theatre), Anna (Drammy Finalist, Best Actress) in The Snowstorm (CoHo & Many Hats Productions), Mary Shelley in Bloody Poetry (NW Classical Theatre Co), and Gabriella in References to Salvador Dali make me hot (Milagro). 

Jolly Wrapper

Jolly Wrapper, That’s “Wrapper” With A “W”! is a Portland-based musical performer, spoken word poet, and visual artist. His work often draws inspiration from personal experiences, interests, people, systems, and social injustices, which he has encountered and observed throughout his life. Although not confined to any one particular genre of music, his most popular songs usually consist of Hip-Hop Rap and Bedroom-Pop.

He’s very established in the local area both as a Portland Poet, and also as an up-and-coming artist in the Portland rap scene as well. He’s not only performed all over Portland, some of his most notable out of town performances were, Houston Texas, Las Vegas Nevada, and one of his biggest feats yet was being flown out by the Smithsonian Institution, located in Washington DC to give a musical performance for the launch of Open Access, the releasing of the Smithsonian’s digital archives to the public.

He enjoys metal detecting, collecting coins, polishing rocks, and his favorite snack is cilantro! His biggest strengths are being creative and problem-solving. Through art and self-expression, he will change the world. When we asked him how he felt he hit us with his famous catchphrase, “I’m Feelin’ Jolly!”
Support him and he’ll support you!

Follow him on Instagram @JollyWrapper