9/22/2023 0 Comments Rays ragtime portlandThank you! What a gift this performance was!" I was so moved by the angelic rendition of Motherless Child that I found myself trying to stifle my crying so I wouldn't disturb those sitting around me. And seriously, the music was absolutely beautiful. "I saw it last night and was blown away! What an amazing heart-wrenching story-the perfect balance of poignancy and humor. "Absolutely fantastic! The singing, acting, lighting, costumes, set design. Loved the energy of the performers and the storyline." DeReau was the musical director for the 2022 Portland Revels spring production of Un Pajarito Canto and, prior to moving to Portland in 2016, was a music director in Los Angeles, where he worked with A Noise Within ( The Threepenny Opera, A Christmas Carol), DC6 Singers (SxSW, Jessye Norman’s Stand Up Straight and Sing! Tour, Sundance, Norman Lear, Jerry Kohl), Monkeypaw Productions ( Get Out), HBO ( All the Way), Selah Gospel Choir (Coachella, RuPaul’s DragCon), University of California Los Angeles ( The First Lady), California State University Los Angeles ( A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum), The Verdi Chorus, The RED Stamp ( The Wiz, Ragtime, Songs for a New World), MUSE/IQUE Symphony Orchestra, and others. Additionally, he sings with Resonance Ensemble and served on its Artistic Advisory Team for the 2022 premiere of Damien Geter's An African American Requiem with the Oregon Symphony. They have developed work at The William Inge Theatre Festival, NYU’s New Plays for Young Audiences, La Jolla Playhouse’s DNA Series, Portland Center Stage’s JAW New Play Festival, The Midwest Dramatists Center, KCRep’s OriginKC New Works Festival, Orlando Shakespeare Theater, The Living Room Theatre, and Musical Theatre Heritage.ĭeReau is the director of music at First Unitarian Church of Portland, artistic director for Portland's queer and allied youth choir, Bridging Voices, and president of the Association for Unitarian Universalist Music Ministries. Allen, Catherine Trieschmann, Darren Canady, Andrew Rosendorf, Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel, Michelle T. Chip has developed work with playwrights including Kevin Wilmott, Kara Lee Corthron, Brittany K. Allen (Portland Center Stage), Larry Owens’ Sondheimia (Carnegie Hall, Pasadena Playhouse), Journeys to Justice (Portland Opera), the world premiere of American Fast by Kareem Fahmy (Artists Repertory Theater), School Girls Or, The African Mean Girls Play, Welcome to Fear City, Sex with Strangers, A Raisin in the Sun (KCRep) the world premiere of Becoming Martin by Kevin Willmott (The Coterie) dwb: driving while black (Lawrence Arts Center, Baruch Performing Arts Center) 4:48 Psychosis (The Buffalo Room). Directing: It’s a Wonderful Life: A Live Radio Play, Rent, August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, the world premiere of Redwood by Brittany K. They were previously the artistic associate/resident director at KCRep. He is a resident playwright at New Dramatists and a member of Teo Castellanos/D-Projects in Miami.Ĭhip is a director and producer, currently in the role of associate artistic director at Portland Center Stage. He is a graduate of the New World School of the Arts High School, the Theatre School at DePaul University in Chicago, and the Yale School of Drama. He is the recipient of the prestigious Whiting Award and Steinberg Playwright Award, as well as London's Evening Standard Award for Most Promising Playwright, the inaugural New York Times Outstanding Playwright Award, and the inaugural Paula Vogel Playwriting Award. Tarell was the Royal Shakespeare Company’s International Playwright in Residence in 2008-2010, where he co-edited and directed the Young People's Shakespeare production of Hamlet which toured throughout the UK and was presented at the Park Avenue Armory in New York. Steppenwolf Theatre Company, where he is an ensemble member, produced the world premiere of his commissioned play, Head Of Passes. Other plays include The Breach (Southern Rep), Wig Out! (Sundance Theatre Institute, Royal Court, and Vineyard Theatre - GLAAD Award for Outstanding Play), and American Trade (Royal Shakespeare Company and Hampstead Theatre). They have been performed at McCarter Theater in Princeton, The Public Theater in New York, Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago, at a trio of theaters in the Bay Area: Marin Theatre Company, ACT, and Magic Theatre, as well as the Young Vic in London (Olivier Award nomination) and around the world. Tarell is best known for his acclaimed trilogy, The Brother/Sister Plays: The Brothers Size, In The Red and Brown Water, and Marcus or The Secret Of Sweet.
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