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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.

History

Corrib Theatre began in 2012 with a reading of A Night in November by Marie Jones, and now produces a full three-play season. Founding artistic director Gemma Whelan is Irish born and raised, and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area as a freelance director and educator for over 25 years before moving to Portland.

In 2016, Corrib added the annual Irish Theatre Tour, which brings a group of theatre-goers to experience contemporary and cutting-edge theatre in Ireland. This yearly trip to Ireland has also helped Corrib to foster relationships with numerous Irish playwrights and theatre practitioners and to bring their work to the Portland stage.

Corrib Theatre is the only professional Irish theatre company in the western United States.

What Does Corrib Mean?

Corrib is a river and a lake on the west coast of Ireland. According to place name lore, Corrib was a god of the sea.

Our Commitments to Racial Equity

At Corrib, we commit to being an anti-racist organization and working to dismantle white supremacist systems.

We commit to listening to BIPOC voices and continue to educate ourselves on the history and legacy of racism.

We commit to speaking up and speaking out when we see racism and injustice inside and outside our theatre.

We commit to a 40% BIPOC Board by the end of the 20/21 season.

We will create a safe space with clear guidelines for communication and expression towards BIPOC in our rehearsal rooms, on our stages, in talkbacks and panels, and in our audience.

We will amplify BIPOC and other marginalized voices by casting at least 40% BIPOC artists (actors, directors, designers, stage managers) and POC Irish immigrants.

In the context of repairing the damage caused by systemic racism, we will remove financial barriers to communities of color so that our audiences reflect the full spectrum of our community.

At the close of each show, we will send a report to the board that details how we did or did not meet these commitments and how we can activate ourselves to do better.

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledges that the Portland metropolitan area rests on the traditional village sites 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.

Cé muid?

Misean

Is é atá mar chuspóir ag Corrib Theatre (amharclann na Coirbe) ná dearcadh sainiúil drámadóirí éireannacha ar chos-ar-bolg agus cumhachtú pobail, agus ar choimhlint agus réiteach faidhbe, a thabhairt go Portland chun feabhas a chur ar ár saol.

Fís

Téann amharclann na Coirbe i ngleic le lucht féachana, spreagann iad, agus cuireann siamsaíocht ar fáil dóibh, agus tugann dúshlán dóibh le léiriúcháin amharclainne ag baint le saincheisteanna uilíocha bunaithe ar taithí mhuintir na hÉireann.

Ceiliúraimid claochlú drámatúil na hÉireann ó thús na 21ú aoise, agus mar a tháinig sí chun cinn mar cheannaire domhanda i réimsí sóisialta agus forásacha.

Cothaímid pobal amharclainne ilghnéitheach in ár n-ealaíontóirí agus pátrúin, ag cur san áireamh lucht LGBTQ, daoine atá bodhar nó ar mhíchumas, inimircigh, daoine atá nó a bhí i bpríosún, agus ceiliúraimid cumhacht eisintiúil na hamharclainne chun ár ndaonnacht choitianta a shoilsiú.

Bainimid úsáid as stair na hÉireann ó thaobh cóilíneachas, cinedhíothú, gorta, agus inimirce, agus taréis neamhspleáchas a bhaint amach, an córas cos-ar-bolg, éagothroime agus fuath ban, agus ag baint úsáid as léirithe drámatúla splancann aitheantas, árdaíonn feasacht agus cothaíonn díospóireacht a bhféadfadh gníomh agus athrú a bheith mar thoradh air.

Stair

Cuireadh tús le Corrib Theatre – Amharclann na Coirbe – i 2012 le léamh ar A Night in November (Oíche i mí na Samhna) le Marie Jones, agus anois táirgeann sé séasúr iomlán trí-imirt. Rugadh agus tógadh in Éirinn an stiúrthóir bunaitheach, Gemma Whelan, agus bhí sí ag obair i gceantar San Francisco Bay mar oide agus mar stiúrthóir neamhspleách ar feadh breis agus 25 bliana sular aistrigh sí go Portland.

I 2016 chuir Corrib tús leis an Turas Amharclainne Éireannach bliantúil a thugann deis do ghrúpa lucht amharclainne dul i dtaithí ar amharclann chomhaimseartha cheannródaíoch in Éirinn. Cabhraíonn an turas bliantúil seo go hÉirinn le Corrib caidreamh a chothú le drámadóirí agus le cleachtóirí amharclainne iomadúla, agus a gcuid saothar a chur ar an staitse i Portland.

Is é Corrib Theatre (Amharclann na Coirbe) an t-aon foireann garimiúil amharclainne in iarthar na Stáit Aontaithe.

What Does Corrib Mean?

Corrib is a river and a lake on the west coast of Ireland. According to place name lore, Corrib was a god of the sea.

Our Commitments to Racial Equity

At Corrib, we commit to being an anti-racist organization and working to dismantle white supremacist systems.

We commit to listening to BIPOC voices and continue to educate ourselves on the history and legacy of racism.

We commit to speaking up and speaking out when we see racism and injustice inside and outside our theatre.

We commit to a 40% BIPOC Board by the end of the 20/21 season.

We will create a safe space with clear guidelines for communication and expression towards BIPOC in our rehearsal rooms, on our stages, in talkbacks and panels, and in our audience.

We will amplify BIPOC and other marginalized voices by casting at least 40% BIPOC artists (actors, directors, designers, stage managers) and POC Irish immigrants.

In the context of repairing the damage caused by systemic racism, we will remove financial barriers to communities of color so that our audiences reflect the full spectrum of our community.

At the close of each show, we will send a report to the board that details how we did or did not meet these commitments and how we can activate ourselves to do better.

Land Acknowledgement

We acknowledges that the Portland metropolitan area rests on the traditional village sites 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.