Jane Unger
Director
Director Jane Unger is the founding artistic director of Profile Theatre Project in Portland, Oregon, where she inaugurated the theatre with a season of plays by Arthur Kopit and where for the next fifteen years she featured playwrights Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Constance Congdon, Romulus Linney, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, John Guare, Neil Simon, Horton Foote, Lee Blessing and Athol Fugard, working directly with many of these writers on new play development. As a free-lance director Jane has worked around the country at theatres including Triad Theatre, the Inge Festival, Actors Theatre of Indiana, Book-It Rep, Artists Repertory Theatre (Portland) Portland Center Stage, Bag & Baggage Theatre. Among the awards Jane has received, she is especially proud of Portland’s Drammy Award for Best Director for Wings and the Drammy Lifetime Achievement Award for Profile Theatre.