{photo: Rose Riordan, JAW Festival Director turns 10 too!}
The festival is turning ten. Chris wrote a great blog last week called What Is JAW? While he had it mostly right… reading his post took me back to that fateful day when Elizabeth Huddle, then the artistic director of Portland Center Stage, told me [...]

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JAW, our playwrights festival is turning ten years old this July. To commemorate this we really wanted a special, one of a kind poster. The Great Society, a very innovative design firm here in Portland, and in particular, Randall Schoonover the designer, offered to design and produce it. The idea was loosely [...]

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Final dress tonight. It’s late and I should be in bed sleeping but Owen Carey our photographer took photos at our final dress and sent me this.  It looks like I am sitting all alone, peacefully waiting for the actors to come on - but in fact there are about ten people sitting behind me with [...]

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One of the best (and worst for the waistline) things about working or rehearsing at Portland Center Stage are the amazing cookies in the armory cafe. The smell of melting chocolate wafts upstairs and makes it impossible to concentrate on anything until you go get one.  This afternoon the cast of Doubt refused to [...]

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The bonnet worn by the Sisters of Charity in our production of Doubt is atypical of what we think of nuns wearing. Elizabeth Ann Seton (1774-1821) started the first religious community of apostolic women founded in the United States. She was canonized in 1975 and is the first native born American to become a saint. [...]

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