Our History
For more than 25 years, Profile Theatre has enriched Portland’s cultural community. We are proud to be one of the longest running theatre institutions in Oregon!
2021-2022 Generations: Part 2 – Paula Vogel and Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins
2019-2021 Double Season – Generations – Paula Vogel / Lynn Nottage / Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Ruined & Mother Courage
Sweat
Indecent
By The Way, Meet Vera Stark (CANCELLED)
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins: In Conversation (CANCELLED)
Claudia, A Viral Love Story
Mlima’s Tale
2018 Double Season – Lisa Kron / Anna Deavere Smith
2.5 Minute Ride
The Secretaries
Fires in the Mirror
In the Wake
Well / Let Me Down Easy (Rotating Repertory)
In Dialogue Staged Reading: Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
In Dialogue Production: (Un)Conditional by Sara Zatz in collaboration with the performers
Elliot, A Soldier’s Fugue
26 Miles
Water by the Spoonful
The Happiest Song Plays Last
In Dialogue Staged Readings: awe/struck by christopher oscar peña, Orange Julius by Basil Kreimendahl
The Call
Blue Door
Fall Festival: Antigone Project: A Play in 5 Parts
Bright Half LifeIn Dialogue Staged Readings: Of Equal Measure, SuperTrue, Electra and June and Jean in Concert (Concert of their Lives), The Book of Grace, Hazardous Beauty.
Dead Man’s Cell Phone
In the Next Room, or the vibrator play
Fall Festival: Passion Play
Orlando
In Dialogue Staged Readings: Three Sisters; The Revolutionists; The Lady Onstage; Stage Kiss
Eyes for Consuela
Buried Child
The Festival of One Acts
True West
In Dialogue Staged Readings: Hungry; Buena Vista; The Curse of the Starving Class; A Lie of the Mind
“Master Harold”… and the Boys
The Road to Mecca
Blood Knot
My Children! My Africa!
Staged Readings: A Lesson from Aloes; Valley Song; Nothing But the Truth*
One Night Stands: Coming Home; Sizwe Bansi is Dead; Knowing Cairo*; Playland
*part of our In Dialogue Series
2011-2012 – 15th Anniversary Season
- Lips Together, Teeth Apart by Terrence McNally
- At Home at the Zoo by Edward Albee
- A Lesson Before Dying by Romulus Linney (an adaptation of the Ernest Gaines novel)
- Fifth of July by Lanford Wilson
- Staged Readings: Lake Hollywood by John Guare; BecauseHeCan by Arthur Kopit; Old Times by Harold Pinter; The Prisoner of Second Avenue by Neil Simon
- One Night Stands: Nice People Dancing to Good Country Music by Lee Blessing; Take Me to the River by Constance Congdon; The Actor by Horton Foote; The American Clock by Arthur Miller; The Goddess Speaks, Readings from Shiksa Goddess by Wendy Wasserstein; Eccentricities of a Nightingale by Tennessee Williams
2010-2011 – Lee Blessing
Great Falls
Chesapeake
Thief River
Fortinbras
Staged Readings: When We Go Upon the Sea; Independence; A Walk in the Woods
One Night Stands: Patient A; Going to St. Ives; A View of the Mountains; Two Rooms; Cobb
2009-2010 – Horton Foote
The Trip to Bountiful
The Carpetbaggers Children
The Young Man from Atlanta
Staged Readings: Valentine’s Day; To Kill a Mockingbird; Dividing the Estate
One Night Stands: Courtship; 1918; Tender Mercies; An Evening of One-Acts; The Last of the Thorntons
2008-2009 – Neil Simon
Fools
Biloxi Blues
Jake’s Women
The Sunshine Boys
Staged Readings: Lost in Yonkers; The Odd Couple; I Ought to Be In Pictures
One Night Stands: Plaza Suite; Brighton Beach Memoirs; Broadway Bound; God’s Favorite; The Good Doctor
2007-2008 – John Guare
Six Degrees of Separation
A Few Stout Individuals
Landscape of the Body
The House of Blue Leaves
Staged Readings: Bulfinch’s Mythology; Bosoms and Neglect
2006-2007 – Wendy Wasserstein
An American Daughter
The Heidi Chronicles
The Sisters Rosensweig
Uncommon Women and Others
Staged Readings: Isn’t It Romantic; Old Money; Third
2005-2006 – Lanford Wilson
Talley’s Folley
Talley & Son
Burn This
Redwood Curtain
Staged Readings: Fifth of July; Sympathetic Magic
2004-2005 – Terrence McNally
The Stendhal Syndrome
The Lisbon Traviata
It’s Only a Play
Staged Readings: Three from Column A; Corpus Christi
2003-2004 – Romulus Linney
2
Klonsky and Schwartz
Silver River
Staged Reading: Gint
2002-2003 – Edward Albee
The Zoo Story/The American Dream
Seascape
Three Tall Women
Staged Reading: Fragments
2001-2002 – Harold Pinter
The Homecoming
A Kind of Alaska/Ashes to Ashes
The Birthday Party
Staged Readings: The Dumb Waiter; One for the Road
2000-2001 – Arthur Miller
The Price
All My Sons
The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
Staged Reading: Broken Glass
1999-2000 – Constance Congdon
Tales of the Lost Formicans
Lips
No Mercy/One Day Earlier
1998-99 – Tennessee Williams
The Garden District: Something Unspoken & Suddenly Last Summer
The Glass Menagerie
Blue Roses
1997-98 – Arthur Kopit
Wings
The Road to Nirvana
Indians
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