Original Practice Shakespeare Festival

OPS FEST: Break the Rules

aka OPS Fest   |   Portland, OR   |  www.opsfest.org

Mission

Original Practice Shakespeare Festival (OPS) is a professional theater company committed to bringing unpredictable and accessible Shakespeare for free to the widest possible audience. We implement the unrehearsed, improvisational performance techniques actually used in Shakespeare’s time. Creatively using gender-, color-, differently abled-, size- and age-conscious casting, OPS provides a completely unique perspective to the classic canon.

Ruling year info

2010

Principal Officer

Brian Saville Allard

Artistic Director

JENNIFER LANIER

Main address

3943 SE Madison St.

Portland, OR 97214 USA

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EIN

26-4412622

NTEE code info

Theater (A65)

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WILFest

At the heart of the summer, the WILFest will stage the company’s entire repertoire—19 plays with the additions of “Loves Labours Lost” and “Henry V”—in 4 consecutive weekends. This aligns with our mission in these ways:(1) audiences access their favorite plays and those lesser known, often in contemporary contexts; (2) local actors train in First Folio technique, a method of effectively performing Renaissance texts for contemporary audiences; (3) actors experiment in a wide range of roles playing across gender identities, that traditional single-play runs do not allow in a career; (4) promote research in the field of Original Practices, being the only company in the US employing 16th-century scheduling.

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Original Practice Shakespeare Festival

Board of directors
as of 02/22/2022
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Board co-chair

Mikki Lipsey


Board co-chair

Jessie Meyers

OHSU

Term: 2018 - 2021

Clark Swinford

David Olson

Michelle Maida

Brian Saville Allard

Jennifer Lanier

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Multi-Racial/Multi-Ethnic (2+ races/ethnicities)
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Female, Not transgender (cisgender)
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