Offscript: Nataki Garrett, Shaking Up and Stabilizing Oregon Shakes
This week we talk to the leader of the West Coast powerhouse about the tough years just page and what lies ahead.
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Oregon Shakespeare Festival Announces New Leadership Structure
Two new associate artistic directors, Scarlett Kim and Mei Ann Teo, join Evren Odcikin in three-person team that will help reimagine the theatre’s repertory, media, and new-works offerings.
‘Why Is Every Single Thing I Say a Problem?’
Artists of color have been placed in leadership positions across the U.S., but are they actually getting the respect and support they deserve?
Lineup Announced for Inaugural Black Motherhood & Parenting New Play Festival
The festival will partner with Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Detroit Public Theatre, and more to produce the four new works.
Oregon Shakes Adds Anyania Muse to Leadership Team in New Role
Muse joins the company in the newly created position of director of inclusion, diversity, equity, and access (IDEA).
If a Theatre Company Does It, Is It Theatre?
Beyond Zoom readings, companies are finding new forms and collaborators, and reaching audiences far beyond any they could serve in person.
Nataki Garrett, Maria Manuela Goyanes Receive BOLD Leadership Grants
Leaders at OSF and Woolly Mammoth will each receive $500,000 and will join a distinguished cohort of female leaders.
Oregon Shakes to Combine Live, Digital Programming for 2021 Season
The season will feature virtual offerings on O! as well as onstage productions, including OSF’s first winter season production.
Online This Week: Naughty and Nice
New plays by Amir Nizar Zuabi and J. Nicole Brooks and a capture of Jefferson Mays’s ‘Christmas Carol’ are among the highlights of a busy week.
Taking the Heat, and Leading Through Crises, at Oregon Shakes
In her and her team’s first season at OSF, Nataki Garrett has faced COVID and wildfires, challenges that have only intensified their ties to the community.
