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PORTLAND ACTORS CONSERVATORY AND THE MONTGOMERY STREET PLAYERS PRESENT STAY FOR THE CAKE

In 25th Year, Professional Actor Training School
Creates Performance Lab for Alumni

Portland Actors Conservatory, the premiere school for professional actor training in the Pacific Northwest, will present a new performance group comprised of Conservatory alumni called The Montgomery Street Players in Stay for the Cake, an evening of one-act plays running October 30 through November 15 at the Conservatory's Firehouse Theatre. Tickets are available at the Conservatory's ticketing site (https://www.ticketturtle.com/index.php?theatre=pac).

Stay for the Cake represents all-original work written, directed, designed and performed by The Montgomery Street Players.

“Creating work opportunities, rather than just waiting for them, is essential for a theatre artist to remain vital,” said Philip Cuomo, Associate Director of Portland Actors Conservatory. “As a school, we wanted to provide the resources that would allow alumni to create new works while exploring the producing, directing and design aspects of theater.”

Each of the three plays in Stay for the Cake explores multiple aspects of the creative life. In Phyllis Hartnoll's Final Lesson, the heroine spins her last lecture as professor at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, but gets most of it wrong. The Grimm Brothers take a break from folk tales in Donnerstrasse to write a pop song that will become popular one hundred years later — and a lawyer in a red hood tries to sort out the resulting legal mess. Wrapping up the evening, philanthropist and technologist Paul Graham instructs the audience on constructive disagreement in How to Have an Argument. The existential crisis that interrupts him brings about an exploration of the creative process, including gratuitous accents and cake for all.

Founded in 2009, The Montgomery Street Players is a performance group comprised of graduates from Portland Actors Conservatory's Two Year Professional Actor training program. Montgomery Street Players will promote Stay for the Cake on the Oregon Cultural Trust's Day of Culture, October 8 at Pioneer Courthouse Square.

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