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Neil Simon: Profile's 2008-2009 Featured Playwright (05/01/08)

From the Artistic Director of Profile Theatre, Jane Unger:

"It gives me great pleasure to announce that next year Profile's season- long relationship will be with none other than the great American playwright Neil Simon. Author of over 30 plays, Neil Simon is considered by many to be the world's most successful playwright. He has received more Academy and Tony award nominations than any other writer and is the only playwright to have had four Broadway productions running simultaneously (1966: Sweet Charity, Star Spangled Girl, The Odd Couple, Barefoot the Park) and has had more plays adapted to film than any other American playwright, in addition to writing a number of original screenplays, himself."

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The Oregonian Raves: Landscape of the Body (03/11/08)

"Early in John Guare's Landscape of the Body a man in Groucho Marx glasses tries to impress a woman on the deck of a Nantucket ferry by using a postcard of the passing Kennedy compound to point out which house is whose. He finds, however, that the postcard has the buildings wrong. It doesn't, as he says, "match up to reality."

- Michael McGregor, The Oregonian

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About Profile

Profile Theatre was founded in 1997 with the mission of celebrating the playwright's contribution to live theater. Each year, Profile showcases a single playwright, giving you the opportunity to enter a writer's world for a full season. This experience allows the audience to view each play as part of a flowing dialogue, and to see the important connections that help us to grow and learn and understand. We are one of only two theatre companies in the nation with this particular focus.

In short, we offer a relationship instead of a one-night stand.

We believe that live theater begins with the playwright's words. In honoring the playwright, Profile encourages its audience to recognize the creative dynamic between the playwright and live theater--the playwright as the springboard or primal seed from which everything else grows.

The dramatists we profile always have something significant to say about humankind, in all its variety, complexity, humor, tragedy, anger, and goodwill. They cast a light on the desires and demons that drive us, helping us seek a better understanding of who we are, where we are going, and why. We work to make that search deeply enjoyable, at the same time it provokes your thoughts and exercises your brains.

Join us for one evening, and you will find enough food for thought to inspire a dozen conversations. Join us for the full season, and you will share in a banquet of ideas and emotions rich enough to nourish you all year long.