A vibrant, ambitious and creative community like Washington County deserves vibrant, ambitious and creative theatre. Bag&Baggage Productions’ mission is to be a leader in the provision of live theatre and theatre education of the highest quality for residents of, and visitors to, Washington County, Oregon.

Created in 2005 to engage in creative theatre work in small communities without a resident professional theatre company, Bag&Baggage has developed a reputation for accessible, high quality, classical theatre work.

We focus on the classics of English literature (including Shakespeare and American dramatic works) and performs those shows in both traditional theatres and in found spaces, such as barns and outdoors.

Over the past 3 years, Bag&Baggage has developed strong links to Hillsboro and Beaverton, including partnerships with the McMenamins Cornelius Pass Roadhouse, the Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Arts Center, The Kingstad Events Center and an exciting new partnership with The Venetian Theatre in downtown Hillsboro.

Coming up in the next year, Bag&Baggage will produce its most ambitious season yet, including a new production of Infinite Variety: Shakespeare’s Women Real and Imagined at the Glenn & Viola Walters Cultural Center and the Kingstad Center in Beaverton, a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream with Oregon State University, our inaugural production of Steel Magnolias for The Venetian Theatre and a world premiere of a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s beloved The Comedy of Errors at The Venetian Theatre in January of 2009 as part of Portland’s city-wide New Works Festival.

The future looks bright for Bag&Baggage.

Our bags are packed and we are going where the drama is…wanna come along?
If you are interested in getting involved with Bag&Baggage, please send us an email at info@bagnbaggage.org.

We are looking for:

• New Members of our Board of Directors
• Professional Actors, stage managers and designers
• Marketing and Distribution volunteers
• Front of House and Ushering volunteers
• Corporate sponsors and individual donors
• Grant writers
• Passionate theatre audience members

Founding Members of Bag&Baggage Productions

Scott Palmer: a native of Hillsboro and former Artistic Director of Glasgow Repertory Company, Scotland’s only dedicated Shakespeare producing theatre and current director of Oregon State University’s annual Bard in the Quad outdoor summer Shakespeare festival.

Maggie Chapin: a native Oregonian, former character coach for Cirque Du Soleil’s KA in Las Vegas, co-creator of Western Oregon University’s Bachelors of Fine Arts in Theatre curriculum and currently working as a theatre educator for Young Players.

Rick Noble: stage manager for the Denver Center for the Performing Arts and production manager of Oregon State University’s Bard in the Quad summer Shakespeare festival.