About Oddfellow

{Jeffrey} contemplating the stove in one of the pubs at McMenamin's St. Francis School; Bend, Oregon.

Vital Stats:

Jeffrey is a theatre director, playwright, and blogger moving in slow motion through Portland Oregon’s eastside.  He has a soft spot for wood-burning stoves, tobacco, well-written books, wit, live theatre, breakfasts, and blogging.

The Cast List:

Those of honorable and frequent mention around Oddfellow include Victoria, {Jeffrey’s Beloved One}, and Nikolai, Kyle, and Caitlyn {Victoria’s children.}

Love Life:

Jeffrey has been happily surfing the clouds of couplehood with his Beloved One, Victoria, since 31 December, 2006 {the official date, by mutually determined reckoning.}

The Oddfellow’s Theatre:

As Artistic Director of StageWonder Children’s Theatre between 1996 and 2001, Jeffrey directed Rapunzel, No-No’s: A Drug Awareness Play, The Nightingale, Beauty, and The Illusion.

As Artistic Director of Discovery Theatre Lab from 2002 to 2007, Jeffrey directed Oedipus, The Readiness Is All, Dracula, Antigone, The Tower-Maiden’s Daughter, Romeo and Juliet and Phaedra.

As a freelance/guest director for various companies between 2003 and 2008:

And Jack Fell Down and The Foreigner for  Gresham Little Theater.  The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe and Snow White and the Seven Dwarves for Hillsboro Actor’s Repertory Theatre {aka HART}.  For Mt. Hood Repertory Theatre, The Shadow Box, {reader’s theatre}.  For Sam Barlow High School’s drama program, Noonday Demons. For Nutz-N-Boltz Theater Company, Angel Street {formerly known as The Gaslight}.

Jeffrey has worked as an independent acting coach since 2002, and worked with the Sam Barlow High School speech and debate team as an “interpretation coach” from 2004 – 2007.

Updated May, 2008.