Fever Theater

Fever has been making original ensemble-generated performance in Portland since 2002. We create through collaboration, allowing our shows to evolve in the space between the individuals of our group. We believe that the act of creation is most powerful when, rather than relying on top-down hierarchy, we allow our art to blossom from the interactions between us. Like a flock of birds, we have no leader, and to watch us move together is to see so much more than the sum of our parts. Because our model for making art is based on collaboration, listening and bottom-up emergence, we consider our work a political act. Our process and our product reflect a respect for the unknown, for the spaces between, for the humor and tragedy in each passing moment. Our past productions include Sneaky Little Armageddons, Like A Five-Wheeled Bicycle, I Am A Superhero, Mitlaufer, Billum Bay, Arose, Believers, and New Believers. Fever Theater is Amber Whitehall, Jacob Coleman and Kate Sanderson.

Mission

Fever Theater is a performance ensemble, working to strengthen the art of theater through three on-going components:

• experimentation in process, form, and technique;
• training to ensure a growing level of skill among contemporary theater artists;
• performance of original work that is made through collaboration.

Fever is based in Portland, OR and is committed to establishing Portland and the Pacific Northwest as a strong presence in the global performance community.

 

Fever Theater Company Bios

Amber Whitehall is a co-artistic director of Fever Theater. She has been creating, directing and performing in original work with Fever since 2006. Amber danced with KAGAMI Butoh Dance Theater under the direction of Doranne Crable. She has studied Viewpoints, Suzuki Method, and Compostion with Anne Bogart and SITI Company. Amber is currently facilitating workshops in Viewpoints, Suzuki, and ensemble generated work. She has studied and taught developmental movement and is a Registered Yoga Teacher.


Jacob Coleman is a founding member of Fever Theater. He has written, directed and performed with Fever since 2002, working in ensemble, for each of Fever's ten original productions. Jacob has trained with members of Tectonic Theatre, The Meredith Monk Company, Liminal Performance Group, Hand2Mouth Theatre, Sojourn Theatre, and the SITI Company.  His background includes Roy Hart extended vocal technique (as taught by Ethie Friend), Grotowski-based psychophysical acting (as taught by Steve Wangh), Viewpoints (the nine as taught by Anne Bogart and the six as taught by Wendell Beavers), Suzuki (as taught by SITI Company), Developmental Movement and Body-Mind Centering (as taught by Wendell Beavers and Erika Berland), Moment Work (as taught by Leigh Fondakowski) and Contemplative Dance (as taught by Barbara Dilley). Jacob has been teaching Suzuki, Viewpoints and original performance workshops regularly since 2005. Jacob is currently enrolled in the MFA Contemporary Performance program at Naropa University in Boulder, CO.

Kate Sanderson Holly is a founding member of Fever Theater. Serving primarily as a director, she also performs, designs, and delights in dramaturgy and the assembling of original work. She is currently getting an MFA in Contemporary Performance from Naropa University, where she studies Viewpoints and Developmental Movement with Wendell Beavers (one of the originators of Viewpoints), movement and composition with Barbara Dilley, self-scripting with Leigh Fondokowski of Tectonic Theatre, psycho-physical acting with Stephen Wangh, Roy Hart vocal work with Ethie Friend and Viewpoints and Composition with members of SITI Company. She received her BA from The Evergreen State College, where she majored in theatre and filmmaking. In the last five years, Kate has trained with SITI Company, Bread and Puppet Theatre, Sojourn Theatre, North American Cultural Lab, Ruth Zaporah, Liminal Performance Group and many others. She is an Experienced Registered Yoga Teacher and has taught professionally since 2004.

Contact Us

kate@fevertheater.com
(503) 708-4135



Amber Whitehall performing 3/31/2010 in Boulder, Colorado.  Photo by Marcin Mroz.