PORTLAND EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE ENSEMBLE
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Mission Statement
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble is an artist cooperative dedicated to creating new theatrical events that reify the relationship between audience and artist. We develop original, ensemble-generated pieces and produce innovative interpretations of classical text. Inspired by a contemporary design aesthetic, inventive storytelling modes, and heightened emotional honesty, we create work that is visceral, raw and revealing.
About This Cause
Portland Experimental Theatre Ensemble is a company of theatre artists who make new plays in a collaborative way. We train together and teach our work. We are committed to creative rigor, to the cultivation and enrichment of our local arts ecology, and to connecting with diverse audiences. We challenge established notions of theatrical form and content with innovative forms of practice, presentation and organization. We do all this to achieve a radical kind of presence shared in the performance event. Portland Experimental Theater Ensemble was founded in 2011 by a group of mid-career theater artists dedicated to creating contemporary works of performance. WHO WE ARE As a collaborative ensemble, each member of PETE has an equal stake in both the administrative and artistic leadership of the company. We believe in the power of consensus, collaboration, and ensemble in the act of making theater. Company members have worked locally with Portland Playhouse, Imago Theatre, Third Rail Repertory, Shaking The Tree, Allie Hankins, and Zoe/Juniper and have national credits in New York, Seattle and Boston. As professional artists we see PETE as an artistic home where we are most fully able to explore and challenge our core artistic beliefs and share them with our community. WHO WE ENGAGE PETE strives to reach a wide and diverse audience. We engage traditional audiences in unconventional performance, as well as employing music, media and audience engagement to bring a whole new generation to contemporary theater. Through our performances and training center we seek to create a vibrant community dialogue with Portland audiences and artists about the transformative power of the live theatrical event. In addition, we engage with audiences on a national and international level, by engaging in partnerships with other theaters and hosting guest artists. WHAT WE DO Since its inception in 2011, PETE’s work has been produced by Risk/Reward, On the Boards, Caldera, and PCS’s JAW Festival. Major works include: Enter THE NIGHT, with NYC director Alice Reagan (2015); the premiere of a new English translation of Chekhov’s The Three Sisters, with translator/director Stepan Simek (2014), R3: After Shakespeare (2013), and an original work, Song of the Dodo (2013). PETE has received 2 Drammy Awards, and 2 Drammy nominations including Best Production for The Three Sisters. PETE’s most recent project was an 18-month exploration of the themes, landscapes and characters inside of and surrounding Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. The project, entitled The Journey Play is the Whole Thing; a constellation of objects, events and experiences began in June 2015 with Drowned Horse Tavern at CoHo’s Summerfest, continued with All Well; a sightless play (Oct 2015, with Third Rail @ Imago), [or, the whale] (Jan 2016, Reed College), and Procedures for Saying No (June 2016, Shaking The Tree). PETE has received support from RACC, The Celebration Foundation, PACLab, Caldera, the Headwaters Artist-in-Residence Program, the Princess Grace Foundation, The Mellon Foundation, The Kinsman Foundation, The Jackson Foundation, Portland Civic Theatre Guild and the Oregon Cultural Trust. CONTACT Want to know more? You can email us at info@petensemble.org.