HILLSBORO, ORE.: Bag&Baggage Productions (B&B) has named Nik Whitcomb their new inventive director. Whitcomb, this system director of the Black Theatre Coalition, succeeds Cassie Greer, who was appointed inventive director in 2019.
“I have been a longtime fan of Bag&Baggage’s work from afar,” Whitcomb stated in a press release. “When the opportunity to join the team arose, what excited me was the type of work we would have the ability to create. B&B is rooted in a long legacy of classic storytelling, and I am excited to put my spin on this tradition.”
A local of Omaha, Neb., Whitcomb is a core ensemble member with the Performing Arts Collective on the Union for Contemporary Art in his hometown and can also be a member of the advisory committee for the Union’s Shirley Tyree Theater. Whitcomb has held varied roles on the Guthrie Theater, Actors Theatre of Louisville, and the Goodman Theatre, amongst others. He has directed works for the Theatre School at DePaul University and Collaboraction Theatre Company, amongst others, and is a resident director on the Twenty-Sided Tavern. This journal additionally profiled Whitcomb as a Theatre Worker You Should Know in 2020.
“I have had the chance to get to know Nik, and he really is the perfect fit for B&B,” Scott Palmer, B&B’s founder, stated in a press release. “He and I share a belief that folks who live in the ‘burbs and in rural areas deserve access to life-changing theatre just as much as people who live in the big city. He is an artist who wants to call Hillsboro home.”
B&B will host a meet and greet occasion with Whitcomb on Dec. 16 following their efficiency of Danny and the Deep Blue Sea.
Bag&Baggage Production’s mission is to unpack the tales we feature with us and to make use of them because the groundwork to create transformative theatrical experiences that discover our shared humanity. They try to weave inventive expression into the material of civic life in Hillsboro via acutely aware relationship-building. As of 2021, Bag&Baggage’s price range was roughly $368,700.
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