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Special Series: The -Ism Storytellers, The Dalles

Stage&Studio ·

2026/10/04

In the fifth episode of this special series of The -Ism Storytellers Project, we hear personal stories from residents of The Dalles, Oregon and Hood River (about 20 minutes away).

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58:01

Special Series: -Ism Storytellers: Black Femme

Stage&Studio ·

2026/09/09

In Dmae Lo Roberts' latest Stage & Studio podcast, five Black Oregon women leaders tell their stories about personal courage, race-based health discrimination, community activism, and the power of art to heal.

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58:00

Special Series: The -Ism Storytellers, Astoria

Stage&Studio ·

2026/07/14

Stage & Studio: Stories about life and land in the Oregon coastal city from a pair of farmers, a visual artist, a forester, the publisher of Hipfish, and host Susan Banyas.

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28:30

Bonnie Ratner & her “Hobo Rules”

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2026/06/23

Bonnie Ratner is a playwright, an educator and a mainstay for Portland nonprofit theater groups. Ratner has consulted with and worked with many of the latter either creating a play or helping with advice on management, fundraising and board development. … Read the rest

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Special Series: The -Ism Storytellers, Queer Elders

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2026/06/02

((L-R) Storytellers: Tim Seelig, choir director, Reid Vanderburgh, singer, Kathleen Saadat, poet/activist, Horatio Hung-Yan Law, visual artist and Host/Curator Sandra de Helen, writer.)Stories bring people together in shared humanity. Personal stories can uplift, move and connect. In 2025, Dmae … Read the rest

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42:48

Kristina Wong, #foodbankinfluencer

Stage&Studio ·

2026/05/22

Kristina Wong, actor, playwright and performance artist is a Doris Duke Artist Award winner, Guggenheim Fellow and the first Asian American woman to be named a Pulitzer Prize Finalist in Drama. She’s brought three of her solo shows to Portland. … Read the rest

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45:40

Special Series: Ism Storytellers, Mixed Race

Stage&Studio ·

2026/04/12

Stories bring people together in shared humanity. Personal stories can uplift, move and connect. In 2025, Dmae Lo Roberts embarked on a statewide storytelling experience focusing on personal stories from both artists and community members. These stories are a form of living oral histories.

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33:28

Four Playwrights at Fertile Ground

Stage&Studio ·

2026/04/01

Dmae Lo Roberts decided to focus on four female playwrights in the festival: Sandra de Helen, Josie Seid, Alisha Christiansen and Erin Rachel.

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35:16

Daniel H. Wilson, author

Stage&Studio ·

2025/12/20

Dmae Lo Roberts talks with Wilson is a Cherokee citizen and Portland author of about several novels including the New York Times bestseller Robopocalypse, as well as many nonfiction books, and countless short stories and graphic novels.

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34:40

A Timely Christmas Carol

Stage&Studio ·

2025/11/28

Portland Playhouse has been bringing this classic play back a non-traditional thoroughly multiracial and often cross gender adaptation for the last three years which feels timely and relevant to today. Dmae Lo Roberts met with director Charles Grant and actor La'Tevin Alexander who portrays Scrooge.

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34:17

Madonna of the Cat

Stage&Studio ·

2025/10/25

It is the second production in its 4th season, 21Ten Theatre presents the world premiere of “Madonna of the Cat” by veteran playwright Sue Mach. The storylines of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale” are a jumping off point that explores the missing … Read the rest

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29:00

The Mystery of Opal Whiteley

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2025/07/26

Dmae Roberts opens up the audio vault with Talking With The Wind: The Mystery of Opal Whiteley. This half-hour documentary was first produced in 1986 with playwright Dorothy Velasco and tells the story of a young woman from Cottage Grove, Oregon who became the center of an international controversy when critics declared her diary a hoax.

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26:04

Olga Kravtsova’s Harvest of Woman

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2025/06/26

Olga Kravtsova is a Russian-born movement director, performer, and interdisciplinary artist artist who lives in Portland. She is opening a new solo show called “Harvest of Woman” which she describes as a “raw excavation of women’s unseen labor, endurance, and survival.”

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35:05

That’s No Lady-Remembering Walter Cole

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2025/06/03

Donald Horn, the founder and managing artistic director of Triangle Productions brings back an encore production of "That's No Lady." The show is a loving tribute to the life and accomplishments of Walter Cole, otherwise known as his alter ego, the legendary Darcelle. The show also honors Cole's life partner for decades Roc Neuhart (Roxy).

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29:31

Chris Grace As Scarlett Johansson

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2025/05/26

When Scarlett Johansson took on an anime character role in a live action version of The Ghost In The Shell in 2016, Actor, writer and comedian got the spark to perform as Scarlett Johansson. Asian American groups instantly protested a white actress taking on the beloved character from a Japanese cyberpunk story based on a manga series saying it was a "whitewashed" role. Johansson defended it saying that an actor had a right to play any role. And that’s the premise of actor Chris Grace’s new

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28:58

Vanport Mosaic Turns 10!

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2025/05/11

Laura Lo Forti and Damaris Webb have run the Vanport Mosaic Festival as co-directors for ten years which in itself is an admirable achievement built on trust, hard work and mutual friendship, each respecting the others desire for art, activism and community engagement.

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27:42

Sara Jean Accuardi

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2025/04/25

Playwright Sara Jean Accuardi is about to set sail on her World Premiere production of The Storyteller. Accuardi has had her plays produced in Portland at Shaking the Tree Theatre, Theatre Vertigo, and more recently Artist Repertory Theatre. She’s had productions in other parts of the country such as the Playmakers Repertory Company, The Seven Devils Playwrights Conference, and Victory Gardens to name a few.

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31:56

Exploring Personal Diasporas

Stage&Studio ·

2025/03/28

Dmae talks with Jane Vogel Mantiri (Indo writer/actor and founder of Advance Gender Equity) and Samson Syharath (theater artist and co-founder of Theatre Diaspora) about their journeys with cultural diaspora. Both are performing personal solo plays dramatizing their explorations into family secrets and the effects of war and myth on their own identities. They premiere their separate shows at the 2025 Fertile Ground Festival, a city-wide festival starting April 4-19th featuring all local theater

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36:37

Portland Playhouse’s “Notes From The Field”

Stage&Studio ·

2025/02/18

In 2015 famed playwright of verbatim” or “documentary” theater, Anna Deavere Smith created a solo show called “Notes From the Field.” Drawn from more than 200 interviews with students, parents, teachers administrators, Smith played multiple characters who talk about the school to prison pipeline. “Notes From the Field” is even more pertinent today

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31:18

Simon Tam & The Slants – Worth The Fight

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2025/01/30

Simon Tam is one of the few, if any, rock musicians to have received a major award from the American Bar Association. Co-founded in 2006 as an all-Asian American dance band paying homage to 80's music, the Portland-originated The Slants were denied the right to trademark their name. Tam had to fight a case all the way to the US Supreme Court in order to get the band name trademarked.

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