HOST NORA ROBERTSON WITH ADRIENNE FLAGG, LINDA AUSTIN, AND BETH HARPER
WED, SEPTEMBER 30TH, 7-8:30 PM, DOORS OPEN 6:00 PM, $5 ADMISSION
The New Oregon Interview Series brings three prominent Portland performance figures together for an evening of intimate conversation. IFCC creative director and actor/director Adrienne Flagg, Performance Works Northwest founder/director and dancer Linda Austin, and Portland Actors Conservatory founder/artistic director and actor Beth Harper sit down to discuss their work and how our performance culture is evolving.
A Drammy winner who trained in NY’s New Actors Workshop, Adrienne Flagg has directed for TCP, Stark Raving Theatre and Integrity Productions and can be seen in the sketch comedy group, Soap St. A presenter at PS 122, the Kitchen, and Danspace Project during two decades in NY before returning to her native Oregon, Linda Austin has performed at Northwest New Works at both On the Boards and as part of PICA’s TBA Festival as well as at Velocity (Seattle), Conduit and the Echo Theatre. Austin’s collaboration with Seth Nehil, Bandage a Knife, premieres November 13-22 at her home studio, Performance Works NorthWest. A Leslie O. Fulton Fellow for Artistic Excellence, Beth Harper directed William Hurt in Drawer Boy at the Artists Repertory Theater and has toured with Arts America.
Host Nora Robertson conceived the New Oregon Interview Series to find out how Portland’s blossoming creative culture has developed and where it’s headed. “A lot has changed in the past decade,” Robertson says. “The best perspective comes from the artists themselves—and the designers, writers, chefs, and venues who make things happen here.” “A lot has changed in the past decade,” Robertson says. “The best perspective comes from the artists themselves—and the designers, writers, chefs, and venues who make things happen here.” The Oregonian's Barry Johnson remarked "at this point, we don't know whether we're headed back where we left off 18 months ago or whether we're going somewhere completely new. That question is at the center of the New Oregon Interview Series."
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