PORTLAND PLAYHOUSE

Portland Playhouse is a non-profit theatre dedicated to artistic excellence and community engagement. Our mission is to create a space where people of all backgrounds can come together to celebrate the complexity of our shared human experience. Our education programs further our mission. Each year we bring the magic of theatre into schools, providing young people with experiences that empower them. We established our theatre in a historic repurposed church in NE Portland in 2008 and quickly garnered a reputation for an innovative approach to both our artistic and education programming. In ten years, Portland Playhouse has grown from an annual audience of 850 our first year to 15,000 in Season 10 and our education programs have served over 6,500 youth. We’ve mounted 47 successful productions presenting important works from well-known, culturally diverse playwrights like August Wilson to new work by emerging voices like Idris Goodwin and Mia Chung. Named City’s Best Theatre by Portland Monthly readers, we have also been recognized with 41 awards for a variety of productions. As a 2015 and 2016 American Theatre Wing (creator of the Tony Awards) “National Theatre Company Award” recipient, we have been recognized as “integral to the fabric of the community and furthering the national cultural conversation in exciting ways.”