Bag&Baggage Announces Artistic Leadership Committee
Longtime artists, staff, and board members will provide artistic guidance, as producing artistic director Nik Whitcomb departs from Bag&Baggage.
Longtime artists, staff, and board members will provide artistic guidance, as producing artistic director Nik Whitcomb departs from Bag&Baggage.
Having served since 2022, he will leave to begin a new chapter of public service, including studies in urban planning.
In conjunction with the National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives, Indigenous playwrights received cash awards.
A leader with a track record of nurturing and producing work by Native artists, Harrison will begin the project in residency at Oregon’s Bag&Baggage Productions.
The program director of the Black Theatre Coalition succeeds Cassie Greer as leader of the Oregon company.
The lineup is the first selected by new artistic director Cassie Greer.
The literature-inspired season is the first under new artistic director Cassie Greer.
Greer, who has served as associate artistic director since 2017, succeeds Scott Palmer in the role.
The season will feature the first commission for the company’s Problem Play Project, an adaptation of ‘The WInter’s Tale’ by Carlos-Zenen Trujillo.
The company will move into its new permanent home at the Vault Theatre during the season.