empty spaces: a Workshop Staged Reading

615 S Palatine Hill Rd

Portland, OR 97219, USA

Advance Gender Equity in the Arts in partnership with Lewis & Clark College and Bag&Baggage Productions invite you to a Workshop Reading of

empty spaces


By Renee' Flemings

Directed by Nik Whitcomb

Assistant Director - Taya Dixon

Movement Coordinator - Isabel McTighe

Dramaturg - Carlos Zenen-Trujillo


Two Presentations at 7:00 PM


Thursday, May 15, 2025 and Friday, May 16, 2025


Runtime: 2 hours with a 15 minute intermission


Address: Lews & Clark College

Fir Acres Theatre

615 SW Palatine Hill Rd

Portland, OR 97219


Directions to the Theatre: After going through the roundabout, take the first left onto campus at Gate 2. Follow the driveway all the way until it dead-ends into a parking lot. The Theatre is large beige building at the top of the stairs. 


This May, AGE will launch our new program, AGEducation. AGEdcuation, a bold and vital initiative, marks the beginning of a project that expands our programming to empower and invigorate the wellspring of our industry: theatre artists and scholars in higher education. AGEducation will bring award-winning Black female playwright Renee' Flemings to Lewis & Clark College for a workshop of her play empty spaces. AGE and Bag&Baggage Productions hosted Flemings for a reading of empty spaces in April 2024. After that reading, Flemings determined the next step for the play would be an on-its-feet workshop, incorporating choreographed movement and design elements. Flemings will work with a hybrid company of students and professional theatremakers culminating in an enhanced staged reading. empty spaces addresses Missing White Woman Syndrome, a phrase widely used to describe the disparity in law enforcement recovery efforts and media attention that missing young white women receive over missing Black and Brown people. The play tells the heartbreaking story of a family and community torn apart when a Black teenage girl goes missing. Flemings was an inaugural recipient of the AGE Legacy Playwright Grant in 2022. AGE is driven to continue to bring stories like Flemings to higher education, the Portland community, and beyond. 


 This work would not be possible without support from the Oregon Cultural Trust, deNovo, Miller Foundation, and the Braemer Charitable Trust

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$15
Directions to the Theatre: After going through the roundabout, take the first left onto campus at Gate 2. Follow the driveway all the way until it dead-ends into a parking lot. The Theatre is the large beige building at the top of the stairs.

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