Who We Are

Mission

Corrib Theatre’s mission is to bring Irish playwrights’ unique perspective on oppression and empowerment, and conflict and resolution, to Portland in order to change our world for the better.

Vision

Corrib Theatre engages, inspires, entertains, and challenges audiences with theatrical productions dealing with universal issues filtered through the Irish experience.

We celebrate Ireland’s dramatic transformation in the recent decades of the 21st century and its emergence as a world leader in social and progressive arenas.

We foster a diverse theatre community in our artists and patrons, including the LGBTQ, Deaf, disability, immigrant, incarcerated, and formerly incarcerated communities, and celebrate the essential power of the theatre to illuminate our common humanity.

We draw on Ireland’s history of colonialism, genocide, famine, and immigration and its post-independence systems of oppression, inequality, and misogyny, and through dramatic presentations spark recognition, raise awareness, and create discussion which can lead to action and change.

Indigenous Land & Impact Acknowledgement

Corrib Theatre makes work on the traditional village sites and unceded lands of the Multnomah, Wasco, Cowlitz, Kathlamet, Clackamas, Bands of Chinook, Tualatin Kalapuya, Molalla, and many other Tribes who made their homes along the Columbia (Wimahl) and Willamette (Whilamut) rivers. Today, Portland’s diverse and vibrant Native communities are over 60,000 strong, descended from more than 380 tribes, both local and distant. We offer respectful recognition to the Native communities in our region today, and to those who have stewarded this land throughout the generations.

Corrib Theatre extends special gratitude to the Choctaw People of Oklahoma and their ancestors, who in 1847 sent financial assistance to starving Irish families during the Great Famine.

Corrib Theatre acknowledges indigenous people of Ireland, including Irish Travellers, a rich community of traditionally nomadic people whose contemporary descendents lead diverse lives, and continue to experience marginalization and prejudice.