Portland’s 7th Fertile Ground Festival
January 22 – February 1, 2015
75+ acts of creation in theatre, dance, clown, music, multidisciplinary arts
40+ producers across Portland for 11 days
PORTLAND, OREGON – January 1, 2015 | Now in its seventh year, the Portland-grown Fertile Ground City-Wide Festival of New Works continues to flourish planted in a town of prolific playwrights, abundant actors, innovative dancers, talented designers and adventuresome producers. With wide variety of new producers, along with several returning companies, FG15 brings dozens upon dozens of new artistic works from Portland’s teeming jungle of artists to light to thrive on stages, nooks and crannies all over Portland for 11 days from Thursday, January 22 to Sunday, February 1, 2015.
Shining out through the winter darkness, Fertile Ground offers an astonishing breadth of creative work for the stage, compressed into the darkest and wettest days of the Portland calendar. From seasoned theatre and dance companies, to spunky young art-creators of a variety of ilk, Portland is fertile ground for presenting new work with world premieres or pieces at every step in development.
This Festival’s myriad of new works span theatre, dance, comedy, clown and social action through the arts with theatre and dance world premieres, workshops, staged readings, readings and multidisciplinary events, for 11 days, at all times of the day. In addition to seasoned producers, dozens of emerging young producers, playwrights and choreographers are also choosing to offer their work for this collaborative Portland showcase festival.
“Our city is a special place, a place where creativity thrives and creators are (almost literally) on every corner,” said Nicole Lane, Fertile Ground Festival Director. “Likewise, Fertile Ground is an incubator for new works of art creation citywide in theatres, pubs, studios, community centers and galleries all over town in January. This festival is about that phenomenon, that impetus, that undercurrent in our city’s culture to create everywhere, anywhere, with abounding diversity.”
TICKET & PASS INFORMATION
All festival ticket information can be accessed through www.fertilegroundpdx.org
à All access Festival Passes are $50 and are available here: http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/festival-passes—tickets.html
à Single tickets for all festival events are purchased directly through the producing companies.
FG15 PROGRAMMING INFORMATION
Full event listings including production descriptions, locations, times and ticket information here: http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/2015-works.html. A printed Festival Guide is available in many theatre lobbies around town including Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage and PCPA, among others.
Key producers this year include Post5 Theatre, Lakewood Theatre, CoHo Theatre, Action/Adventure Theatre and more including emerging theatre companies, individual playwrights and chorographers. For FG15, Polaris Dance Theatre will again present the “Groovin Greenhouse” with a variety of choreographers and dance groups. PDXPlaywrights will present more than 10 new work readings and Artists Rep will present six.
Fertile Ground Festival of New Work 2015
Presented by the Portland Area Theatre Alliance
Dates: January 22- February 1, 2015
Venue: City-wide, check website or Festival Guide for locations
Tickets: All ticket information at www.fertilegroundpdx.org
Individual Event tickets sold through each producer
All are accessed through www.fertilegroundpdx.org
Festival Passes: $50 – reservations all events – www.fertilegroundpdx.org
Description: More than 75 new works by Portland artists in an 11-day Festival. Patrons can purchase individual tickets to each show or buy a $50 all-access Festival Pass. 2015 Festival Festival full event listings and descriptions can be found in the Festival Guide and at www.fertilegroundpdx.org
FULL “FG15 WORKS” PROJECT LISTINGS on the Fertile Ground website here:
http://www.fertilegroundpdx.org/2015-works.html
FG15 LISTING by PROJECT, ARTIST/PRODUCER (subject to change) below.
What Makes Fertile Ground Unique. Several theatre companies across the nation host “new works festivals” and nearly all of these festivals present “staged readings,” works-in-progress curated by the artistic aesthetic of one company’s artistic staff. They are also typically exclusive to genre. In contrast, the Fertile Ground Festival presents a non-curated collection of fully staged world premiere productions in theatre and dance, as well as workshop and staged reading productions, and more. Fertile Ground is about process as well as product in creative development. This festival is the collaborative work of our local artistic community expressing the mother lode of creative capacities, in a quintessentially Portland manner.
Fertile Ground was launched by the Portland Area Theatre Alliance (the service organization for Portland theatre artists and organizations) in 2009 to provide a platform for Portland theatre companies to showcase their commitment to new work, but the Festival has grown to embrace many forms of new works in art allowing Portland’s arts lovers to discover Portland’s truly fertile ground for creativity, innovation and daring acts of performance.
The Fertile Ground Festival of New Work is presented by the Portland Area Theatre Alliance. Festival sponsors include Oregon Media Group, Artslandia and KINK-FM. Festival organizers are comprised of individuals who strongly believe in showcasing Portland’s vibrant creativity.
Fertile Ground Festival 2015 “Works”
#Bad Decisions, a musical by Hamilton Barrett & John Maggi| Elaborate Alibi Theater Company
36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations by Brianna Barrett | Elaborate Alibi Theater Company
A Cavalcade of Awesome: Ghost Town by Aubrey Jessen | Action/Adventure Theatre
A Cavalcade of Awesome: How To Stop Dying by Noah Dunham |Action/Adventure Theatre
A Cavalcade of Awesome: Summer Jams Forever by Eva Suter| Action/Adventure Theatre
A Cavalcade of Awesome: The Harriad by Devon Wade Granmo | Action/Adventure Theatre
Time, A Fair Hustler, a new project, inspired by Gus Van Sant’s ‘My Own Private Idaho’ by H2M ensemble with Andrea Stolowitz | Hand2Mouth Theatre/Artists Rep
A Teaser for Weekend 1 by PDX Playwrights| PDX Playwrights
A Teaser for Weekend 2 by PDX Playwrights | PDX Playwrights
Alan’s Confectionary by Alan Alexander III | PDX Playwrights
Alice’s 1-Woman Wonderland: The Original Adventure by Lewis Carroll, adapted by Anne Rutherford | Multnomah Arts Center & Rutherford’s Brain
Always Without Warning by Tobin Gollihar & Ian Paul Sieren | Spring 4th Productions
Bereavement by AJ Franks | Sun Bear Theatres
BOX: A Live Science Fiction Trilogy by Tina Connolly & Matt Haynes | The Pulp Stage
Bruté by Edward Lyons, Jr. | Gorilla Bomb Productions
Cottonwood in the Flood by Rich Rubin| Damaris Webb & Rich Rubin in association with Passin’ Art
Daisy Dukes Shorts Night by PDX Playwrights |PDX Playwrights
David Saffert’s 40th Birthday – The Liberace Edition! by David Saffert, Jillian Snow Harris & TriptheDark Dance Company | Curious ComedyTheater
Deception by Nancy Moss | The Portland Civic Theatre Guild
down Devised by Alan Cline, Marisa Kanai, Erika Kurth, Jenn Lindell | overunder arts…9
Dreams & Ghosts: A Family Album Retrospective in Story and Song by Avery Hill | Avery Hill
Echoes, A Cabaret Response to the ‘Disappeared’ by Jewish Theatre Collaborative artists with Los Porteños | Jewish Theatre Collaborative
Fireflies by Chris Harder | Chris Harder/Artists Rep
Gender Tree by Cassandra Boice |Post5 Theatre
Genuis by Sean Bowie | Yocto Theatre
Greg and Lauren by Sun Bear Theatres | Sun Bear Theatres
Groovin’ Greenhouse | Polaris Dance Theatre featuring Automal, Polaris Junior Company & Polaris Dance Theatre
Groovin’ Greenhouse | Polaris Dance Theatre featuring NW Fusion, Art in Progress Choreographers’ Collective & Polaris Dance Theatre
Groovin’ Greenhouse | Polaris Dance Theatre featuring PDX Dance Collective, Muddy Feet Contemporary Dance & Polaris Dance Theatre
Groovin’ Greenhouse | Polaris Dance Theatre featuring PDX Dance Collective, Muddy Feet Contemporary Dance, Portland Bellydance Guild & Polaris Dance Theatre
Groovin’ Greenhouse | Polaris Dance Theatre featuring Polaris Junior Dance Company & Polaris Dance Theatre
Groovin’ Greenhouse | Polaris Dance Theatre presenting Automal & Polaris Dance Theatre
I’d Rather Goya Robbed Me of My Sleep than Some Other Son of a B*tch by Rodrigo García | Boom Arts
ID[ea] by the Third Rail Mentorship Company | Third Rail Mentorship Company
If the Fates Allow by Steve Patterson | Steve Patterson & Playwrights West/Artists Rep
In Search of the Red Skull by Katie Bennett | PDX Playwrights
Kaleidoscope by Naga Nataka | Animal Magic Productions
Fertile Ground 2015 Kick Off Party |Portland Area Theatre Alliance
La Fenệtre (The Window) & Perpetual Wednesday created by The Defenestrators Clown Troupe | The Defenestrators…12
MacDeath by Cindy Brown| Cindy Brown & Portland Actors Ensemble
Maybe it’s Because…(I’m So Versatile) stories by p:ear youth in transition| Well Arts Institute
Me Here Now by Megan Bradley | Megan Bradley
Miserere by Wayne Harrel | The Cantilever Project
“Mom?” A Comedy of Mourners by Laura Loy, Anna Sell & Jeff Desautels | Box of Clowns
New Work Preview Panel moderated by Jerry Tischleder | Risk/Reward
No Room of Her Own by Desiree Hellgers | Circle Theatre Project
Nobody’s Business by Viven Lyon | The Cantilever Project
One Off! by Infinite Improv – Completely Improvised One Act Plays | Lakewood Theatre Company
One Weekend in October by Rich Rubin | Beirut Wedding World Theatre Project/BaseRoots
PLAY by D.C. Copeland | D.C. Copeland & John San Nicolas/Artists Rep
Please Validate Your Identity by devising ensemble | Multnomah Arts Center & Rough&ReadyPDX
Prime by Ellen Margolis | Playwrights West
Renaissance by George Taylor | The Cantilever Project
Roots, Reality & Rhyme by Turiya Autry | Good Sista Ink
Short & Sweet: Short Plays by P-Town Playwrights
That’s How We Roll by CoLevity | Cami Curtis Performing Arts Center
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Book & lyrics by Mark LaPeirre, Music by Dan David |Lakewood Theatre Company
The Conditions of Unconditional Love by Sharon Sassone | PDX Playwrights
The Essex by Lawrence Howard| Portland Story Theatre
The Jungle Book adapted by Anita Menon, Sarah Jane Hardy, John Ellingson| Northwest Children’s Theatre
The Last Starship From Earth by Steve Coker | Steve Coker & John San Nicholas/Artists Rep
The Noisemaker by Ciji Guerin | The Cantilever Project
The Snow Queen: A Folk Opera by Laura Dunn |The Broken Planetarium
The Snowmaker by Aleks Merilo | Aleks Merilo & Playwrights West/Artists Rep
The Snowstorm by Eric Nordin | CoHo Productions & Many Hats Collaboration
The Wedding by Cassie Keet | Act Now Studio
Threshold | PDX Playwrights
Tramps by Annie Rimmer & Jayne Stevens | Annie Rimmer & Jayne Stevens
Unmediated by Brad Bulchunos | PDX Playwrights
Upon a Winter Road Music by Kurt Miser, Lyrics by Kurt Miser, Brad Beaver, Russ Cowan, Book by Kurt Miser & Russ Cowan | Lakewood Theatre Company
Want Fries With That? by C.S. Whitcomb| Lakewood Theatre Company
What is Erotic? a collection of sex-positive performance art | Dance Naked Productions
Woman on the Scarlet Beast by Caroline Miller | Post 5 Theatre
Word. Voice. by the young writers at PlayWrite| PlayWrite, Inc
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Nicole A. Lane
Festival Director
360.601.4298
FERTILE GROUND Festival of New Work
ALL YOU CAN SEE “ACTS OF CREATION” only $50 with a Festival Pass…go on a Creative Adventure!
