Profile’s mission is to produce a season of first-class productions and community engagement activities centered around a single writer whose vision broadens our perspective on our world and deepens our collective compassion.

Each year we use a master artist’s unique vision as a lens to examine our shared world. Our four signature programs are our main stage season of large-scale professional productions; our innovative In Dialogue programs of lectures and concert stagings; our Community Profile program, which uses the practice of writing to create networks of support and resilience in a dedicated affinity space for a community important to the featured writer; and our Playwright’s Residency, which embeds the featured writer in our theatre, providing multiple opportunities for engagement with our wider Portland community, patrons, and artists.

Profile Theatre

Trish Garner

Ping Chong

George Thorn

Anna Deavere Smith

Adriana Baer

Nathan Lerud

Linda Jensen

Steven Young

Priscilla Bernard Wieden

Paul Duden

Patrick Stupek

Lue Douthit

Kush Pathak

Jane Unger

Artistic Direction Team

Teams at Profile Theatre

Artistic Direction Team