Artists Repertory Theatre

Artistic and production: Artists Repertory Theatre (art) produced a season of three mainstage plays: the chinese lady by lloyd suh, the great leap by lauren yee, and the children by lucy kirkwood. Art also produced the mercury festival, which offered staged readings of 6 plays, along with 4 short films, all of which had been created during previous mercury sessions. Additionally, in collaboration with howlround and the mellon foundation, art worked on the development of the new play, the great divide by e.m. lewis, at emerson college in boston.

Audience development and services: in addition to three mainstage plays, art produced campfire stories in partnership with backfence storytelling and broke gravy improve (and artshub company), bringing in predominantly new people to art shows. Art collaborated with dan kitrosser and cassie greer in collaborations with linestrom and fuse Theatre ensemble to present svetlana! Svetlana! We introduced "highlight night" as a type of affinity space to highlight an aspect or theme of the play. During the chinese lady we partnered with lan su chinese garden and local artist horatio law, who also had an exhibit of his artwork in the lobby. Continued on schedule o.for the children "highlight night" we partnered with students and faculty from reed university's research reactor, pacific university, and portland state university, as well as emily jung miller who displayed ghost net landscapes in the lobby. Total attendance for all events hosted by art was 3,724. We are trending toward a younger audience with a slight increase in patrons under the age of 45. Art collaborated with multnomah county library to curate reading and film lists that are similarly themed as our shows.