Oregon Shakespeare Festival: A Conversation with Nataki Garrett

Francesca Piantadosi

Mar 17, 2020

Nataki Garrett
Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2018 world premiere of The Way the Mountain Moved by Idris Goodwin
Oregon Shakespeare Festival's 2016 world premiere of Roe by Lisa Loomer

The Pacific Northwest is fortunate to have the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in our backyard. The Festival has been a leader in color blind casting, producing bold new work and championing playwrights. Nataki Garrett is only the sixth artistic director to be named in their storied history. She was gracious enough to grant me an interview.

Francesca Piantadosi: This article will be for the Pacific Northwest issue of The Dramatist.

Nataki Garrett: How exciting!

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Francesca Piantadosi

is an award-winning playwright who hails from Portland, OR. She’s been a participant at Seven Devils Playwriting Conference; a Finalist for the Rosenthal New Play Prize, Seattle Rep’s New Work Festival, Ojai Playwrights Conference, Orlando Shakespeare Festival, JAW, New Harmony Project, Play Labs (Playwright’s Center Minneapolis) and has had productions from Bangalore, India to New York. For the past seven years, she’s been teaching playwriting (a program she devised) at MacLaren Correctional Facility, which serves men aged fourteen to 26.

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