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21ten's Summer Residency Program

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21ten is very excited to be entering our second year of the Summer Residency Program in 2025!

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The mission of the 21ten Summer Residency is to invite theatrical artists to create & produce, whether that be a new play, a devised piece, or already existing domain, that you hope to bring to life.

 

Residents are selected out of our application process and offered rehearsal, tech & performance time in the 21ten BlackBox Theatre, a production stipend, marketing support, and 21ten resources in order to bring their dream project to fruition.​

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The 21ten Summer Residency is funded in part by the Regional Arts & Culture Council and the Arts Access Fund.

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2025 Summer Residents

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Andrea Parson

"The One"

July 3rd - 6th, 2025

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Writer and Performer: Andrea Parson (she/her) Born and raised in Hillsboro, Oregon, Andrea Parson began dancing in the late 1980’s to the country records played in her family living room and in her mother’s aerobics classes. She began choreographing at a young age, making dances for friends and family, and often improvised down grocery store aisles. With dreams of becoming a professional dancer she furthered her studies at the Joffrey Ballet, San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and Loyola Marymount University, where she received a BA in dance in 2009. After graduating she joined Northwest Dance Project in Portland, Oregon, where she received a Princess Grace Dance Fellowship award in 2010. For 11 years she performed nationally and internationally, finding much delight in dancing dramatic character roles such as Hedda Gabler and Carmen. 

 

Andrea currently resides in Portland, Oregon where she creates solo shows, and devised ensemble dance theater productions. Her performance work blends contemporary dance, physical theater, storytelling and often comedy. Her latest award winning solo show, You Can’t Be Serious was presented at BodyVox Dance Center in 2023, as well as the Oregon Fringe Festival (2024), Hollywood Fringe Festival (2024), and United Solo Festival in NYC. As a choreographer Andrea has collaborated and created original dance works for both dance and theater organizations around the Pacific Northwest. 

 

She is passionate about the intersection between narrative, movement, and voice. Interwoven with her artistic practice is her work as dance and movement educator. For over 15 years Andrea has taught contemporary dance technique, ballet, dance fitness, and creative movement to humans of all ages and levels. She recently received a Functional Movement Awareness Educator certification and is on faculty at Pacific University. andreaparson.com

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Isabel McTighe

"YouthMake!"

July 10th - 13th, 2025

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Isabel McTighe (they/them) is a director and educator specializing in collaborative and devised theatre. They hold a BA in Theatre with a distinction in Performance from Lewis and Clark College and are a graduate of PETE’s Institute for Contemporary Performance and the SITI Company’s Skidmore Summer Intensive. Isabel’s work is rooted in emergent strategy and a daily practice of community care. 

 

Recent directing credits include Big League Chew (PETE’s a/void/fest), Certain Death and Other Considerations (Edinburgh Fringe, Echo Theatre Company L.A.), I’m In Control Which Means Nothing Bad Will Ever Happen To Me (PETE Presents) and La Mariposa (Many Hats Collaboration, The Hatchery). Performance credits include The Lovers (PETE’s a/void/fest), I Think of You: Illuminating Mass Incarceration from the Inside Out (Lewis and Clark College and PCS) and spur(s) (Shaking the Tree, Open Space Residency)

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erin rachel

"un/seen"

July 18th - 21st, 2025

erin is thrilled to collaborate with the staff at 21ten Theatre this summer. She is a 2025 Regional Arts & Culture Council Portland Arts Project Grant recipient and a former Tin House Scholar. A concert reading of her original musical unbound: a bookish musical recently premiered at Fertile Ground. She is developing a full-length workshop production of the musical and completing her first novel. Follow online at rockcitysea.com or IG @byerinrachel.

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Ajai Tripathi

"The Rainbow Passage"

July 24th - 27th, 2025

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Ajai Tripathi is an actor, director, playwright, screenwriter and teacher. He earned his MFA in Screenwriting from the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts. Gay, and born of Desi, Indigenous, and Mexican stock in Oregon, he writes from a minoritized perspective and works to increase the opportunities of Desi actors. He wrote three bilingual plays for Young Audiences, Sueños de Fútbol, Mijita Fridita, and Corré, Corré which have been performed throughout the Northwest with Teatro Milagro. With PDX Playwrights he produced Osho Returns, and shadow plays The Madness of Dionysus and Cosmogonos for the Fertile Ground Festival of New Works. He most recently completed his Great White Trilogy as a member of Fuse Theatre Ensemble, and a reading of Dreams of a Celestial Night for the OUTwright Theatre Festival. His screenplays have won plaudits from NYC International, PageTurner International Screenplay Association, Portland Screenplay Awards, and Geneva International Science in Fiction Screenplay Awards. His stories are dedicated to investigating unseen human connections experienced through a collective consciousness. 

2024 Residency Productions

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Thank You, Sorry

By Annie Trevisan & Shana Torok

July 5th - 7th, 2024

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A one-hour, structured, improvised play about a budding romance between two women from different generations. We explore themes of shame, feeling, age, gender, and ultimately what it means to love.

 

Do you know how to love? Do you know how to be loved?

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With the collaboration of Chris Harder and Ben Lawrence

Camp Fire Stories

By Murri Lazaroff-Babin

July 11th - 14th, 2024

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Camp Fire Stories is about home and memory; and the attempt to conjure both. 

It's about how the idea of home changes over time, and the interesting ways in which we fill in the gaps of blurred memories from childhood.

 

With the collaboration of

Cristi Miles, Akitora Ishii, Leiana Petlewski, Ken Yoshikawa & Rose Proctor

Laundry Show

By Rachel Wells

July 19th - 28th, 2024

Double Feature with HATERS​

A liminal laundromat, a sock thief, and a never-ending stream of patrons. Quiet glances reveal magic in seemingly monotonous moments - asking what happens when solitary routines become disrupted? At one point everyone you’ve ever loved was a stranger. Laundry Show explores the moments of risk that may surprise us with our next love.

 

With the collaboration of 

Wy DeShong, Dylan Hankins, Rachel Routh & Akitora Ishii

HATERS

By Daye Thomas & Kasia Caravello 

July 19th - 28th, 2024

Double Feature with Laundry Show

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Can we attempt to really see one another? 

 

HATERS is an exploration of identity and prejudice, following a Polish woman and a nonbinary Filipino individual as they navigate cultural stereotypes, political tensions, and personal biases through stand-up, traditional martial arts, and folk dance - ultimately finding a common ground in their shared humanity. We challenge our audience to confront their own preconceptions and explore the transformative power of empathy and connection. 

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With the collaboration of

Johnathan Billington, Naomi Bowers, Sizheng Song & directed by Amelia Sommer​

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