Employee Profile: Patty Hunter

12 Apr, 2008

{Patty Hunter}
Department: Facilities
Position: House Managing

Hometown: (Birthplace – Ft. Hood, Texas, but moved at two to Puerto Rico, then on to Georgia, Alabama, Colorado, New Mexico and Oregon) and 20 great years on the upper West Side of good old NYC!

What do you love and/or miss about your hometown? Coconut Harvest Time in Puerto Rico and exploring El Moro Castle when the only non-natives on the island were Army/Navy families – no Hotels, no tourist beaches – just us and the real Puerto Ricans – and Navy Destroyers…(Cuban Missile Crisis…)

When you were young what did you want to be when you grew up? A Princess (as in Princess Grace), a ballerina (as in Maria Tallcheif) or an Actress (as in Maggie Smith or Kate Hepburn…)

Favorite part of your job: Being in the right “tribe” of creative dreamers, flaming unabashed “liberals” and forward thinking make-believe artisans, technicians, high-minded business folk – highly intelligent, compassionate, funny and adventuresome. Oh, and those plays too!

Hobbies? Used to be funky flower arranging, dog Frisbee with Katie-The-Wonder-Dog and junking in flea markets for treasures.

Pet? Currently “Kane” the german-shephard & Heinz 57 mix puppy and “Nosy” the Siamese Cat –and 3 children under the age of 15…

What was your first job? Baby sitting at 12 for 50 cents an hour…
What was the last book you read? THE TIGER IN THE ATTIC by Edith Milton – Memories of the Kindertransport and growing up in England

Movie? V for Vendetta – My 15 year old son made me watch it again.

Play? Beard of Avon

What is something most people don’t know about you? I was the Gimbels Department Store Easter Bunny in 19?? And was involved in a small riot in Central Park that involved the Easter Bunny running out of plastic toy filled eggs to hand out…We made the New York Times…

What sets PCS apart from other places you have worked? The Mission Statement (Is it on the Web?)

Who is one of your biggest inspirations and why? My grandmother in Alabama – the original Steel Magnolia who lived to be 102. A strong farm-country woman who taught me how to milk a cow, how to keep a sense of humor and how to carve pretend teeth from watermelon rind.

What is something you are absolutely passionate about? Nurturing – wherever, whenever, whomever, whatever I can – if it is for the “good”. There is no shame in being a modern-day “Pollyanna”…

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Queen of chaos said in 4-17-2008 @ 11:13:23

Here is the PCS Mission Statement - the best…

Portland Center Stage inspires our community by bringing stories to life in unexpected ways.

Theater brings us together, to sit near one another, to hear stories, to lift our voices in song. Theater creates worlds like no others; its immediacy cannot be duplicated; its intensity cannot be matched. A playwright’s miraculous words, directed with insight and acted with passion, elicit laughter, sorrow, astonishment, enlightenment, inspiration. Suddenly, we are not alone.

At a time in our history when we all wonder how we can live together on this planet, our need for community feels more important than ever. When we gather in the theater, feelings are magnified, commonalities are illuminated, prejudices are challenged, our hearts are opened.

Theater is communal. An actor speaks a playwright’s words. Another answers. Dialogue begins; melody rises. The audience adds its own energy, rhythm, breath; harmony emerges—all of it entwining together in a shared experience of power and exhilaration.

Portland Center Stage has joined with you in theatrical celebration for 20 years. Just four years ago, we promised a new vision, new energy, a new attitude and new work. Today, there is fire onstage, excitement in the building and high anticipation as we bring you magnificent writers of timeless stories. And each is offered with the vigor, verve and vitality you’ve come to expect at Portland Center Stage.