OtB is delighted to announce the artists and companies seleted for the 31st NW New Works Festival. Since its inception, OtB’s NW New Works Festival has featured established artists from a variety of performance disciplines and has upheld its mantra for featuring tomorrow’s artists today within the region’s creative community. This year, 16 companies/individual artists were selected from Washington, Oregon, and Montana. These artists will showcase their new and in-progress performance works (all under 20 minutes) over the course of 2 weekends, on 2 stages.

$14 – one showcase
$20 – two showcases
$24 – three showcase
$30 – four showcases

Individual showcases may be purchased online. Call the box office for multiple showcase discounts. (206.217.9888)

THE 2014 FESTIVAL PARTICIPANTS

WEEKEND 1 | June 6 – 8, 2014
Studio Theater Showcase | June 6 at 8pm & June 7 – 8 at 5pm
Linda Austin – Dance (Portland)
Sarah Rudinoff – Theater
Anna Conner + CO. – Dance/Video ilvs strauss – Dance/Theater
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Mainstage Theater Showcase | June 7 – 8 at 8pm
Kyle Loven – Theater/Puppetry
Crying (Pennington + Bischoff + Reker) – Music/Dance (Portland)
Rainbow Fletcher – Dance
The Pendleton House – Dance/Multidisciplinary
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WEEKEND 2 | June 13 – 15, 2014
Studio Theater Showcase | June 13 at 8pm & June 14 – 15 at 5pm
Wayne Bund – Performance Art (Portland)
Erin Pike – Theater
Amy O’Neal – Dance*
Helena Theatre Company – Theater (Helena)
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Mainstage Theater Showcase | June 14 – 15 at 8pm
Hand2Mouth Theater – Theater (Portland)
Molly Sides – Dance/Video
Coleman Pester // Tectonic Marrow Society – Dance
David Schmader – Theater
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*Please note this performance contains a strobe effect on-stage.

The festival lineup was curated by a panel of peer artists and arts administrators including:
Erin Boberg Doughton | Performing Arts Program Director, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
Monique Courcy | OntheBoards.tv Digital Media Manager
Lane Czaplinski | Artistic Director, OtB
Jim Kent | Performer, OtB Ambassador Team Two
Marian Ibrahim Lenhardt | M.I.A Gallery Curator, OtB Ambassador Team Two
Mark Meuter | Production Manager, OtB
Kia Pierce | Performer, OtB Ambassador Team Two
Sean Ryan | Regional Programs Manager, OtB
Jerry Tischleder | Risk/Reward Festival; company member, Hand2Mouth
Shasti Walsh | Operations Manager, OtB