1/22-2/2 Fertile Ground Festival

Fertile Ground is a collaborative city-wide festival of new work taking place throughout Portland, showcasing workshops, readings, and world premiere productions of theater, music, dance and comedy created and produced by local performers and artists. The festival was launched in 2009 by the Portland Area Theatre Alliance (the service organization for Portland theater artists and organizations) to provide a platform for Portland theater companies to showcase their commitment to new work; and to invite visiting artists and theater lovers to discover for themselves that Portland truly is fertile ground for creativity, innovation, and daring acts of performance.

Fertile Ground Festival will present a collection of fully staged world premiere productions, curated through multiple aesthetic perspectives ranging from Portland’s oldest and largest to its newest and smallest theatrical institutions, and ranging from adaptive re-use of one of the English language’s classic children’s tales to the very newest ideas stretching the boundaries of the performance form.