What makes PCS’s JAW: A Playwrights Festival possible – and free! – each July?  Contributed support from community partners, which this year included festival sponsors The Kinsman Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Oregon Cultural Trust.
We’re delighted that the Oregon Cultural Trust will again be a partner in producing JAW 2010.  The [...]

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Hello all! This is Alec Chase, one of the Promising Playwrights from this year’s JAW festival, and let me just tell you what a wonderful festival it turned out to be! The amount of talent that I was exposed to every day left me stunned and open-mouthed.
I cannot begin to tell you how [...]

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Our JAW Playwright’s Festival had its 11th birthday this year. There were 103 artists, 30 theater companies, and 16 new plays participating in this year’s festival and we had the largest audience attendance ever with almost 3,000 people throughout the week!
Were you at PCS a week ago to see some of the amazing work put [...]

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{The assembled JAW Company of 2009}
From Festival Director Rose Riordan:
Some cool stuff that happened during JAW – not the least of which is that total attendance was just shy of 3000 um… and that was for just the readings… not including the other events. That was a 73% increase from last year.
A couple more statistics:
16 [...]

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