JAW 2009 Schedule || JAW 2009 Playwrights || Community Artist Labs
JAW script submission guidelines || casting || behind the scenes videos || JAW History || Community Artist Labs
JAW: A Playwrights Festival is Portland Center Stage’s developmental festival of new work for the stage. For two crazy weeks, from July 13-26, JAW: A Playwrights Festival takes over the Armory, inside and out. And as always, we’ll present spanking new works in progress that will explode your expectations of what live performance can do. Events & Activities include . . .
Made in Oregon: Workshop readings from Portland’s finest playwrights. July 13th - 16th
Workshop Readings: One week of down and dirty, hardscrabble rehearsals later, we’re ready to show you the razor-sharp edge of new American playwriting. A curtain raiser precedes most readings, compliments of our Promising Playwrights (local high school playwrights who come out of our Visions & Voices program). July 24th, 25th & 26th at 4:00pm and at 8:00pm
Community Artist Labs: Artists from across the nation conduct Labs for our local community. Topics range from playwriting, directing, and the biz. Admission is FREE, but in order to maintain a high level of quality, attendance for each Lab is very limited and is determined by random lottery.
Theater Fair: All Portland-area theater companies and audiences are invited to this popular event. Pick up season brochures, chat with theater folk new and familiar, and drop your name in the raffle jar for the numerous ticket giveaways. July 25th from 1pm - 4pm and 6pm - 8pm. And while you’re at it, be sure to visit…
Devise & Conquer: Site-specific performance pieces spill out of the Armory and into its environs, with new pieces created especially for JAW.
JAW Happy Hour Lounge Stick around between the mainstage readings for entertainment by local musicians, performers and theater companies. A laid back, low key, lounge experience designed to fuel you up and chill you out between the afternoon and evening readings. A full menu from the Armory Café available, including deli sandwiches, soup, salad, baked goods, espresso drinks, tea and soda. Our lobby bar will offer special prices on beer, wine and cocktails. 6:00pm to 8:00pm July 24th, 25th and 26th
Special for you: admission is FREE FREE FREE. But you can’t reserve your spot; all seats are first come, first served. Just be there and be open to some of the most boundary-crossing, genre-busting work in America today. Your presence makes it all happen.
Check out the first installment of our JAWVideo Journal
This video was taken last year when we celebrated of our 10th Anniversary!
Make sure you join us for all of the fun this year from July 13-26!
You can read Marty Hughley’s JAW 2007 wrap-up here.
JAW is sponsored by
JAW is sponsored by SmartForest Ventures, MentorGraphics , the Oregon Cultural Trust, the Regional Arts and Culture Council and Work for Art, David Emmite Photography, The Great Society, The Kinsman Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, The Maybelle Clark Macdonald Fund, The Oregon Community Foundation, The Oregon Arts Commission, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.
Promising Playwrights is made possible in part by the Pacific Power Foundation, the Oregon Arts Commission, The Boeing Company, the H.W. Irwin and D.C.H. Irwin Foundation, RBC Foundation-USA, the Holzman Foundation, and the Swigert Foundation, with additional support from the Davis Graveyard.
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