PORTLAND COMMUNITY COLLEGE THEATRE ARTS PROGRAM ...

successful collaborations with other programs such as art, dance and
music, which have led to excellent learning opportunities for our students.
Also, since 2006 we have created collaboration with the Video Internship
Program at PCC, and the Course Video production 2, resulting in the new
course, Acting for the Camera (TA 145) where students are cast in student
video projects (and often college-produced projects used for educational
purposes).
A small but growing of our students have pursued their theatrical education
and careers by studying at university theatre training programs, working at
local and regional theatres, and producing their own works. Former PCC
students have gone on to study at 4-year theatrical training programs at
Southern Oregon University, Western Oregon University, Portland State
University and George Fox University. Also, our students can often be
found working on and offstage at local theatres, and in the nationally
syndicated television productions of Leverage, Portlandia and Grimm.
The program continually works to balance class work with productions. It is
our view that the classes and the productions are the training ground for a
multitude of professions. The classes provide necessary techniques, and
those techniques are utilized in the culminating experience of productions.
By studying acting, voice, movement, and improvisation, the students are
then able to transfer the information garnered in the classroom to handson
experience acting in a play. Likewise, when a student studies lighting,
sound, props, set, and costume design, they are able to implement such
design techniques when working on main stage productions or student
one-acts. The classes and the productions are integrally linked to one
another, and both are necessary for a theatre program to flourish.
Portland Community College Mission Statement and PCC Theatre
Arts
We believe that the classes and productions all contribute to the PCC
Mission in the following ways: