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Seven Guitars Profile: Jill Giedt

Jill Geidt

Assistant director and choreographer Jill Giedt contributes a unique set of focused skills to PassinArt’s coming production of Seven Guitars by August Wilson. Along with a directing degree from Roosevelt University in Chicago, she brings 13 years of experience teaching musical theater – and yoga! – to teens at Park Academy in Lake Oswego. Giedt’s […]

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PassinArt: A Theatre Company presents the 2022/2023 Theatre Season

A Song for Coretta by Pearl Cleage directed by William (Bill) Earl Ray Preview: September 21, & 22Runs: September 23 – October 9th, 2022 Black Nativity by Langston Hughes directed by Jerry Foster December 1 – December 4, 2022 PassinArt: A Theatre Company presents Black Nativity by playwright and poet Langston Hughes. Based on the […]

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Summer Intensive Acting Workshop

3 Day Intensive Acting Workshop taught by William (Bill) Earl Ray Dates: July 15, 16, 17, 2022  Locations:  Friday, July 15th 6612 SE Ogden St.  Saturday, July 16th and Sunday, July 17th   412 NW Couch St. Suite 301 Each day will consist of an 8-hour day with a 1 hour lunch break  Day one Concentration  Memory […]

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Gloria Hendry

1949 – present Actor In her 1973 role as Bond Girl Rosie Carver in “Live and Let Die,” Hendry became the first Black American woman romantically involved with Agent 007. When “Live and Let Die” was released in South Africa, her love scenes with Roger Moore were censored out  by the apartheid government.  Hendry went on to […]

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Black History Did You Know? Moment: Glynn Turman

Did You Know? Glynn Turman co-starred at age 12 as Travis Younger in the original 1959 Broadway stage production of Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. The classic stars Sidney Poitier, Ruby Dee, Claudia McNeil, Diana Sands, Ivan Dixon, Louis Gossett Jr., Lonnie Elder III, and John Fiedler. Today, Glynn Turman is an actor, writer, […]

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Audition Notice: Black Nativity 2019

PassinArt: A Theatre Company is seeking a maximum of (12) singers for its 2019 production of “Black Nativity” by Langston Hughes, directed by Jerry Foster and Elder Onnie Allen. Schedule a date and time! Auditions will be held on Saturday, July 20, 2019 and Saturday, July 27, 2019 from 12:00 p.m. – 4:00 p.m. at […]

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