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Commission! Commission!

July 18, 6:30 pm Auction and Dinner (private)
9:00 pm performance (FREE to the public) on the Main Stage

For our anniversary, we’re kicking off the public weekend with a special iteration of this popular commissioning event by putting up ten playwrights for auction, representing each of JAW’s ten glorious years. Learn more…

Community Artists Labs

JAW, A Playwrights Festival, proudly announces three free Community Artists Lab led by participants in our 10th anniversary festivities. 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. To put your name in the hat, email literary@pcs.org by July 13; results will be announced on the 14th.
Please note: the dates and times listed below supersede any previous announcements.
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Disconnecting the Left Brain with Constance Congdon Thursday, July 17, 6:00 pm–9:00 pm
In this mini-boot camp for playwrights, the legendary dramatist and teacher (JAW 2008 and Profile Theatre Project’s 1999-2000 season) leads this inter/active session on jump-starting new work and immediately reshaping it, utilizing tricks that bypass the internal critic. No laptops allowed! All writing will happen on site by applying pen to paper.

Characters Have Bodies with Carlos Murillo July 19, 10:00 am–1:00 pm
The author of Mimesophobia (JAW 2004) and Dark Play (Humana 2007) leads a playwriting workshop in which participants will create new characters or develop existing ones through a series of writing and solo improvisation exercises. These exercises are geared to finding characters’ distinct voices through imagining their physical/sensory experience of the world.

Prepare for Impact with Jason Neulander July 20, 10:00 am–noon
In this Lab designed for both directors and actors, Jason Neulander (founder and original artistic director of Salvage Vanguard Theater) will work with us on activating “negative” space and bringing an entire stage, house, and theater to life with the energy that generates.

Theater Fair

July 19, 11:30am-2:30pm

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. And while you’re at it, be sure to visit…

You Are There

July 19, simultaneously with the Theater Fair

This year’s round of site-specific pieces spills out of the Armory and into its environs, with new pieces created especially for JAW by the Flash Choir, 2GQ, and Lane Hunter Dance Company and more.

Playwrights Slam

July 20, 12:30 – 1:30 pm in the Rehearsal Hall

Come and get it. The popular event starts this year with PlayGroup’s latest escapade, entitled Ten Tiny Playlets, and continues with a sneak peek of what you’ll see next season on Portland’s stages from some of our most talented playwrights and their cohorts.