Profile Theatre Project

Community engagement: through our community profile program, we select an underserved community with a particular affinity for the work on the main stage for a full year of creative engagement and community building through monthly writing workshops. We connect further through our playwright's residency, which embeds the featured writer in the lifeblood of the theatre, providing multiple opportunities for engagement with various communities as well as patrons and artists.in the summer of 2021, we partnered with portland opera, psu and dance wire to put two new temporary performing arts venues in and around the historic barge building at zidell yards. In addition to producing our first in-person production in 18 months (paula vogels the oldest profession), profile theatre project was the lead producer of the festival, pursuing all necessary funding, designing the venues, overseeing all operations, providing marketing and print materials for all collaborators, developing the covid protocols, etc. We invited nearly a dozen different theater, dance, and opera companies to present their work free of venue charges, and nearly 3,000 patrons enjoyed their programming.