PLAYWRIGHT PROFILE ANNA DEAVERE SMITH Welcome to the third production of our 2018–2019 season!

Anna Deavere Smith has had a wide and varied Her follow-up piece, Twilight: Los career. Most may know her as hospital adminis- Angeles, 1992 turned her incisive trator Gloria Akalaitis on seven seasons of “Nurse lens on the Rodney King beating. That Jackie,” National Security Advisor Nancy McNally show transferred to Broadway, where on “The West Wing,” or her current role on the Smith was nominated in both the Best new Shonda Rhimes drama “For The People.” Play and Best Actress categories. But Smith’s work as a dramatist goes back nearly Subsequent pieces have included thirty years and transformed the field. House Arrest, about the tense relation- Smith worked as an actor on stages across the ship between the American presiden- country throughout the 1980s. While teaching at cy and the media, Let Me Down Easy, Stanford and at Princeton, she started a project her exploration of the vulnerability she called On The Road: The Search for Ameri- and resiliency of the body through can Character. It was here that she honed what the lens of the national debate about would become her signature style: in-depth, healthcare (which we’ll produce this on-camera interviews with diverse subjects, spring at Portland Playhouse), and which she would then excerpt into monologues that she performed verbatim, Notes From The Field, an exploration including every verbal tic and self-interruption, and every accompanying of the school-to-prison pipeline. physical gesture. Smith calls these pieces her ‘portrait galleries.” “What I try Her body of work is remarkable to do is create a kind of document of what the person said, and the physical part follows,” she has said. not only for its breadth of subject The interviews themselves can take an hour or more — however long it matter, but for the complexity takes for them to, in her words, “come into character. I’m watching for them she is able to render simply by to discover their own personal literature, their own poem. I think everyone letting her subjects speak for has a poem.” themselves. More than any other In 1991, she began using this technique to document the Crown Heights riots dramatist, Smith holds a mirror and the communities that lived through them. Fires In The Mirror premiered up to our lives as Americans in at The Public Theatre in 1992 to rave reviews, notably from Frank Rich in The New York Times, an early champion of Smith’s. Smith subsequently performed all of our complicated, painful, the piece in cities throughout the US and at the Royal Court in London. joyous dignity.

2 PROFILETHEATRE.ORG FROM THE FROM THE DIRECTOR ARTISTIC DIRECTOR BOBBY BERMEA

JOSH HECHT When Anna Deavere Smith first createdFires in the Mirror she was trying to reveal some facet of the American I first saw Anna Deavere character. That was achieved in as much as any single Smith perform Fires In piece of art can achieve such a thing. And there is some- The Mirror at The Public thing special, something unique to theatre, about the Theatre when my eighth piece being performed by a single person. All of us contain grade class went to a multitudes. There is no emotion, no pain, no passion, no student matinee. The idea, no thought, that you will see in the next hour and a half that you riots in Crown Heights, have not experienced yourself one way or another. There will be people Brooklyn had rocked the city just a year you know specifically and people who remind you of someone you know. before and we were still feeling its after- There will be moments that happen that remind you of things you’ve effects. How could New York, with its done and there will be moments that remind you of things that have rich Jewish and African-American pop- happened to you. ulations — some of the oldest and most My hope is that because of all that, audiences will walk away from Fires prominent in the country — be the site in the Mirror feeling empathy, not just for the people in pain but for the of race riots? The deep fissures and people who cause pain; not just for the victims but for the victimizers. intense anger between two communities Because all of us are sometimes one or the other. Sometimes, that’s that had once presented as allies was really shocking. And heartbreaking. At those times, when we fail, when shocking to many. we fall short, when we’re at our ugliest — maybe that’s when we need I live in Portland, now, with a Jewish empathy the most. population of 35,000 and an African- The United States of America is the greatest socio-political experiment American population of 37,000 (though ever attempted. As such, there is absolutely no guarantee that we will that number nearly doubles if one in- succeed. Or even that we should. Further, there’s no clear notion of what cludes Vancouver and Hillsboro). A far cry “success” looks like. Can 300 million people divided by culture, religion, from New York, which is so closely identi- class, sex, education and skin survive as a single nation? When I put it like fied with its Jewish community and its that, to my own ear it sounds impossible. But when you realize that our communities of color, which have formed current political climate barely even ranks among social crises of American the very character of the city. What will history that have included genocide, slavery and civil war, I think maybe it mean to show this play in a city that there’s a glimmer of hope. This play with all of its pain, anger, frustration, wisdom claims has “no” people of color, and grief gives me hope. Because it has empathy. It recognizes a simple “no” Jewish people (an obvious untruth truth. It’s hard to be human. that performs its own erasure from the city’s cultural identity)? As I watched a recent rehearsal I found ABOUT PROFILE THEATRE myself thinking about the complex webs of privilege and the ways ethnic groups Founded in 1997 by Jane Unger, Profile Theatre centers a season are pitted against one another, fighting for around a single writer. Jane’s tenure established the theatre as a a scarcity of acceptance in what can feel leading voice in Portland’s cultural scene, exploring the work of th like a too-small cultural mosaic. I found some of the 20 Centuries most important masters. myself thinking about the changing nature Profile’s second Artistic Director, Adriana Baer, was interested of neighborhoods and the way communi- in exploring the writers we would come to think of as our “21st ties can inhabit the same small spaces Century Masters,” contemporary writers investigating the most without ever really knowing one another. pressing concerns of our time. Josh Hecht became Artistic Direc- I found myself thinking of centuries- and tor in 2017. His commitment to new work and robust community millennia-long histories of oppression engagement has led to two new commissions in 2018-19 and our that are the shadow of every encounter Community Profile Program that uses art-making as a means of and sometimes explode into violence. community-building. And I found myself thinking of the great In 2010, Profile Theatre was awarded an inaugural “New National power of Smith’s technique, which never Theatre Company” Award from the American Theatre Wing designed presumes to speak for others, which to bring national attention to “the most inspiring and innovative insists on the dignity and autonomy of theatre companies on our national landscape.” More recently, Profile the individual, and which exemplifies has twice been recognized by Age and Gender Equity in the Arts art’s ability to metabolize pain into love. for its leadership in equity, diversity and inclusion.

ARTSLANDIA.COM 3 Presents FIRES IN THE MIRROR CROWN HEIGHTS, BROOKLYN AND OTHER IDENTITIES By Anna Deavere Smith Directed By Bobby Bermea

PERFORMED BY Seth Rue* DESIGNERS & PRODUCTION Peter Ksander...... Set and Video Designer Wanda Walden...... Costume Designer Carl Faber+, ...... Lighting Designer Casi Pacilio...... Sound Designer Jana Crenshaw...... Composer Mary McDonald-Lewis...... Dialect Coach Robi Arce...... Character Coach Bonnie Ratner...... Dramaturg Karen M. Hill*...... Stage Manager & Props Master Jamie M. Rea...... Line Producer Breydon Little...... Production Assistant

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Performed with no intermission. Conceived, written and originally performed by Anna Deavere Smith. Original New York Production by New York Shakespeare Festival. Fires In The Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn And Other Identities is presented by special arrangement with Dramatists Play Service, Inc., New York. PHOTOS, VIDEO OR AUDIO RECORDING OF THIS PERFORMANCE IS STRICTLY PROHIBITED.

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Profile Theatre is a member of Theatre Communications Group (TCG), the national organization for the American theatre. *Member of Actors’ Equity Association, the professional union of actors and stage managers. +Represented by United Scenic Artists - Local USA 829 of the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees.

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SETH RUE healthcare in the United States. Television Man’s Cell Phone, and Eyes for Consuela. Actor work includes The West Wing, Nurse Jackie, Recent designs with Artists Rep (Magel- Anna Deavere Smith and Black – ish. Films include The Ameri- lanica, Between Riverside & Crazy), Third has said that the "thing can President, Rachel Getting Married and Rail (The Angry Brigade), Broadway Rose that is unquenchable Philadelphia. Books include Letters to a (Ordinary Days, Trails, Beehive), NWCT in [her,] is her desire to Young Artist and Talk to Me. She received (Peter Pan, Chitra). Outside of Portland: listen to people and hear the National Humanities Medal, presented Arena Stage, Boston ICA, Ars Nova, Wil- their stories." You're here to her by President Obama in 2013. She was liamstown, Uferstudios Berlin. Touring because you share her desire. I hope that the the 2015 Jefferson Lecturer for the National Production for Bruce Springsteen and the E work we've put such care into together over Endowment for the Humanities. She is a Street Band, Touring Lighting/Video for Bon these past many weeks is, at the very least, a MacArthur Fellow, recipient of a George Polk Iver and The National, Resident Light Artist humble and unadorned invitation to absorb Award in Journalism, a Ridenhour Courage at Eaux Claires Festival. Drammy Award these stories, with deliberateness and open- Prize, and The Dorothy and Lillian Gish 2017 & 2018. Education: Catlin Gabel, ness, 27 years after the eruptions that were Prize. She is University Professor at New Vassar College. Member: United Scenic their impetus. Listen to these. Listen to your York University, where she also directs the Artists Local USA-829. www.carlfaber.com beloved, of course. And, listen to strangers, Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue. to the pained, the slighted, the unpopular, CASI PACILIO the angry, the trapped, the weeping, the PETER KSANDER Sound Designer wanting. Listen. Seth, a Drammy-nominated Set and Video Designer Casi’s home base is Portland and is excited actor, studied at the American Conservatory Peter is a scenographer and media artist to work with Profile Theatre again this Theatre and is based somewhere between whose stage design work has been present- season, having last designed sound for Portland and NYC. www.sethrue.com ed both nationally and internationally. In 2.5 Minute Ride. She also works at The 2006 he joined the curatorial board of the Armory, where recent credits include BOBBY BERMEA Ontological-Hysteric Incubator. In 2008 he Every Brilliant Thing, Twist Your Dickens, Director won an Obie award for the scenic design of Wild and Reckless, and His Eye is on the Bobby is the co-artistic director of The Beirut Untitled Mars (this title may change), and Sparrow. Other shows she has designed Wedding World Theatre Project, a found- In 2014 he won a Bessie award for the visual with composer Jana Crenshaw include The ing member of Badass Theatre Company, design of This Was the End. He holds a MFA Oregon Trail, Constellations, A Small Fire a proud member of Sojourn Theatre and from the California Institute of the Arts, is and Chinglish. National shows: Holcombe a long-standing member of Actors Equity an Associate Professor at Reed College and Waller's Surfacing and Wayfinders; For Association. Bermea has recently helmed is an associate company member with the Hand2Mouth theatre Left Hand of Dark- productions of My Soul Grown Deep and Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble. ness, My Mind is Like an Open Meadow The Green Book with BaseRoots Theatre, Previously with Profile he has created (Drammy Award, 2011). Other credits Hollow Roots with BoomArts, critically- designs for: Bright Half Life, Water by the include Squonk Opera’s Bigsmorgasbord- acclaimed productions of Dr. Jekyll and Spoonful, The Happiest Song Plays Last, WunderWerk (Broadway, PS122, national Mr. Hyde and The Sexual Neuroses of Our and 2.5 Minute Ride. and international tours); La Jolla Play- Parents with Theatre Vertigo, Reborning house; Imagineer/maker of the Eat Me for Beirut Wedding and was a Drammy WANDA WALDEN Machine, a dessert vending machine. Finalist for Best Director for Wait Until Costume Designer Dark at Northwest Classical Theatre. He Wanda is a Costume Designer, Actor, Visual JANA CRENSHAW is excited to make his return to the Profile Artist and Writer. She has costumed plays for Composer stage as a director for the first time since over thirty years with an impressive amount Jana (aka Jana Losey) is a singer-song- he helmed Blue Door here two years ago. of credits. Most recent Productions include writer and composer originally from Law- Next up, Bermea will be co-directing (with In This Corner Cassius Clay at Oregon renceville, PA. After touring extensively Jamie M. Rea) Top Dog/Underdog for Street Children's Theatre; All my sons at Portland as a performer, Jana moved to Portland Scenes at the Chapel Theatre. Actors Conservatory: Left Hook at Vanport in 2008, reinventing herself as a composer Mosaic; Sibling Rivalry at Confrontation and teacher. Credits include: The Armory ANNA DEAVERE SMITH Theatre; How I learned What I Learned (Futura, A Small Fire, Chinglish, Other Writer at Portland Playhouse and An Octoroon at Desert Cities, Vanya and Sonia and Masha Actress, playwright, and teacher, Anna Artists Rep. For Profile Theatre she last and Spike, Constellations), Portland Play- Deavere Smith is said to have created a designed The Secretaries. Wanda is a Board house (Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula new form of theater. Her latest play, Notes member and Resident Costumer for Passin K LeGuin/Hand2Mouth), Liminal (Our From the Field, explores issues of justice and Art Theatre. Wanda is a prolific writer of Town), CoHo Productions (Note to Self ), opportunity in America through the lens Historical Scripts and is Artistic Director and performing in a devised piece called of education. She is recipient of two Tony of Retro-Spect Productions, A Theatrical Please Validate Your Identity as part of nominations and three Obie awards. She Modeling Company. Portland’s Fertile Ground Festival. Jana was runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize for her is currently writing a third-grade musical, play Fires in the Mirror. She has created over CARL FABER working on a new solo album, writing a solo 15 one-person shows based on hundreds of Lighting Designer theater piece, and hopes to be composing interviews, including Twilight: Los Angeles, In four seasons with Profile Theatre Carl and performing more and more! Forever about the Los Angeles race riots of 1992 has designed Water By The Spoonful, The thank yous to Casi Pacilio, Mic Crenshaw, and Let Me Down Easy, which focused on Happiest Song Plays Last, Orlando, Dead and Audrey Love. janacrenshaw.com

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KAREN M. HILL Door Project; Hazardous Beauty, PassinArt: Stage Manager, Props Master A Theatre Company; and That Diversity Karen is overjoyed to be doing her first show Bitch, “The -Ism Project,” Theatre Diaspora. with Profile, especially with such an incred- Bonnie loves the literary detective work of ible team. Karen also works as a Production dramaturgy and is thrilled to be working on Manager and Stage Manager with Portland Fires in the Mirror, a seminal work about Shakespeare Project, Artists Repertory community at Profile. Theater, Portland Opera, and The Oregon Children's Theater. She is grateful everyday BREYDON LITTLE that she gets to create beautiful art, and she Production Assistant thanks her husband, Mike, for supporting Breydon is thrilled to return to the stage this crazy lifestyle. management team for his fourth show at Profile having previously worked on JAMIE M. REA Twilight: Los Angeles 1992, Water by the Line Producer Spoonful, and The Happiest Song Plays Last. From Berlin's aerialist street ensemble, Some of his other credits in town include A Grotest Maru to Wellington's all female Christmas Carol, Pen/Man/Ship (Portland dance ensemble JAVA, Jamie has been Playhouse); The Pride (Defunkt Theatre); exploring this powerful tool of connection Tender Napalm (Dancingbrain Productions); and change for over two decades. Serving Jesus Christ Superstar (Street Scenes); Frost/ as an award winning director, designer and Nixon (Bay Street Theatre). He is the current performer, she has worked up and down production manager at Clackamas High both coasts and as far away as Australia. School and Defunkt Theatre. You can catch She does however also love to plant roots, him next working on A Naked Mole Rat Gets building a human-resource-focused way of Dressed: A Rock Experience at Oregon Chil- working, as a foundation for extraordinary dren's Theatre. artistic expression. To that end, it has been her pleasure to join the Profile team as JOSH HECHT Line Producer after serving as Production Artistic Director Manager for Jewish Theatre Collaborative Josh is the Artistic Director of Profile Theatre for 9 years, for Enlightened Theatrics for 3 where he recently directed the concert years, and by project for many others includ- staging of Anna Deavere Smith’s Twilight: ing Sojourn Theatre & The Beirut Wedding Los Angeles, 1992 as well as the rotating rep- World Theatre Project. ertory productions of Quiara Alegría Hudes’ Water by the Spoonful and The Happiest MARY MCDNOALD-LEWIS Song Plays Last. He is a Drama Desk Award- Dialect Coach winning director whose productions have Mary has been a professional artist since been seen in New York at MCC Theater, The 1979. She resides in Portland, and is a Cherry Lane, The Duke on 42nd Street, New dialect coach for film, television and stage. World Stages, Culture Project, regionally at She also works as a voice actor, on-camera The Guthrie Theater, the Berkshire Theatre actor, stage actor and director. MaryMac Group, the Humana Festival at Actors is delighted to coach Fires in the Mirror Theatre of Louisville, Signature Theatre ® PUBLISHER + FOUNDER for Profile Theatre, her second with the (DC) and internationally at the Dublin Arts Misty Tompoles company. You can also hear her work at Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Portland Center Stage and Artists Reper- and elsewhere. His collaboration with Ping ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER DESIGNERS tory Theatre, where she is resident artist. Chong and Company was commissioned + MEMBERSHIP Lisa Johnston-Smith Mary holds her MFA in Directing from the by and premiered at The Kennedy Center MANAGER Dan Le Katrina Ketchum Jackie Tran University of Portland. She thanks Sullivan before touring the northeast. 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6 PROFILETHEATRE.ORG 2018–2019 Lisa Kron / Anna Deavere Smith 2017 Quiara AlegrÍa Hudes 2016 Tanya Barfield 2015 Sarah Ruhl 2014 Sam Shepard 2012–2013 Athol Fugard 2011–2012 15th Anniversary Season 2010–2011 Lee Blessing Mission: To produce a season of first-class productions and community 2009–2010 Horton Foote engagement activities centered around a single writer whose vision broadens 2008–2009 Neil Simon our perspective on our world and deepens our collective compassion. 2007–2008 John Guare 2006–2007 Wendy Wasserstein 2005–2006 Lanford Wilson DIVERSITY AND STAFF 2004–2005 Terrence McNally Josh Hecht, Artistic Director 2003–2004 Romulus Linney INCLUSION INITIATIVE Matthew Jones, Managing Director 2002–2003 Edward Albee Aiyana Cunningham, 2001–2002 Harold Pinter In 2016, Profile Theatre launched Director of Patron and Donor Relations 2000–2001 Arthur Miller its Diversity and Inclusion initiative, Karl Hanover, Box Office and Administrative Coordinator 1999–2000 Constance Congdon committing to three consecutive seasons Jamie M. Rea, Line Producer 1998–1999 Tennessee Williams producing the work of women and Dana Lynn Barbar, Marketing Assistant writers of color. The Initiative was born 1997–1998 Arthur Kopit BOARD OF DIRECTORS out of a desire to correct a persistent Pancho Savery, Linda Jensen imbalance in the diversity and complexity President Melissa Stewart, Secretary WEB PROFILETHEATRE.ORG Melissa Bockwinkel, Stephen Schuitevoerder PHONE 503.242.0080 of lives we see reflected on our stages. Treasurer Stephen Young, EMAIL [email protected] It is our belief that by actively working Arlena Barnes Director Emeritus to correct this imbalance in our own RESOURCE COUNCIL programming, we more accurately Adriana Baer Mary Simione FOR THIS PRODUCTION reflect the world around us, produce Lue Douthit Patrick Stupek Erika George George Thorn work of increasing relevance to our ASL INTERPRETERS Leslie Johnson Jane Unger Rick Hall, Dot Hearn city and community, and help dream Len Magazine Julie Vigeland into being the dynamic and inclusive Susan Magazine Priscila Bernard Weiden GRAPHIC DESIGN Kira Batcheller world we want. We also believe that Mike Lindberg PUBLIC RELATIONS by continuing to program the most Actors’ Equity Association (AEA), founded in 1913, represents more Jen Mitas accomplished mid-career writers of than 50,000 actors and stage managers in the United States. Equity PRODUCTION SERVICES seeks to advance, promote and foster the art of live theatre as an our time, all members of our audience, essential component of our society. Equity negotiates wages and working Artists Repertory Theatre conditions, providing a wide range of benefits, including health and pension SPECIAL THANKS whatever their background, will plans. AEA is a member of the AFL-CIO, and is affiliated with FIA, an international organization of performing arts unions. The Equity emblem is Deon Strommer recognize themselves in these stories. our mark of excellence. www.actorsequity.org First Call Mortuary Services

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