"Visions & Voices" Spring Play Readings
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View Upcoming EventsJoin us for an evening of plays written by students from our Visions & Voices program and showcased by professional actors. The Visions & Voices 2020 Spring Showcase features students from Lincoln High School, Sunset High School, Liberty High School, and our 2019 Summer Teen Academy.
These are challenging times for everyone, including our younger generation. They express to us how they often feel in a system that expects so much. Beyond offering tools with which to write plays, the larger goal is to provide an outlet; to give permission to express their ideas, passions and desires; to allow the difficult questions; and to exercise empathy and embrace the chaos that is “growing up.”
CAST
Orion Bradshaw*
Charles Grant*
Clara-Liis Hillier
Crystal Ann Muñoz
Directed by Chip Miller
Program Coordinator Matthew B. Zrebski
Playwriting Instructors and Student Mentors, Matthew B. Zrebski & Clara Hillier
*Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the Union of Professional Actors and Stage Managers in the United States.
RUN OF SHOW
Reckoning by Maeve Z. O'Connor
Oh Dear by Claire Richards
Board of Surfing by Ryan Samson
Self Love by Madison Pearce
Altar of the Glass Walled Gods by Kimberly Huynh
Want to Come Over by Cole Friend
A Start by Gabrielle Donaldson
The Worker's Requiem by Noah Clark
Townsville: A Town of Heros by Annika Zommerman
The Fog by Aidan Kent
Do I Really Matter by Chase McCartney
Everything, Something, and Nothing by Natalia Bermudez
Visions & Voices is made possible by:
Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund
PGE Foundation
Reser Family Foundation
M Financial Group
James & Shirley Rippey Family Foundation
Holzman Foundation
Dedre J. Marriott
Marilyn Slotfeldt
Herbert A. Templeton Foundation
Autzen Foundation
H.W. Irwin & D.C.H. Irwin Foundation
With additional support from the Oregon Arts Commission, the Regional Arts & Culture Council, and other generous donors.
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