Live, from Portland Oregon’s Jade Lounge, it’s My Real Portland! MRP features the best of Portland entertainers, storytellers, musicians, authors, comics, and more.
Charmian Creagle is a theater director and producer with The Reformers along with her husband, actor Sean Doran. Originally from Los Angeles, she studied theater in Ashland then spent a decade in New York before returning to Portland. She is CoChair of the Buckman School PTA. Charmian has been a dear friend of mine for over 25 years.
Charmian will appear on the October 9th My Real Portland.
Stacey Rice
Sep 04, 2018
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Stacey Rice has made an important and lasting impact on Portland in 6 years in the city. Stacey is a speaker and trainer on trans policies for businesses, government organizations. In 5 years with the Q Center, the largest LGBTQ2SIA+ community center in the Pacific Northwest, Stacey made the organization more inclusive and equitable, while shoring up the financial aspects to ensure a solid foundation for the center. She was recognized by the Gay and Lesbian Archives of the Pacific Northwest as a Queer Hero in 2016 for her work at Q Center and in the greater Portland community. She now works for the City Club of Portland and organization dedicated to community service, public affairs and leadership development.
And this quote of hers could have been said by myself: "In her spare time, you will find Stacey out wandering the backroads of the Pacific NW, hiking to her favorite spots in the Gorge and on the Coast, maybe sitting under a big Ponderosa Pine tree somewhere in the high desert, or heading out to Willamette Valley wine country."
Nikole Potulsky has a voice that can lilt through the air like a tiny bird or burst through the gut with the soul of a wild beast. The stories she weaves through lyric and music resonate in our bones because they are reminiscent of our shared human past of storytelling around an intimate campfire of family and friends.
From Nikole's Bio: Nikole Potulsky grew up in small towns, at the kitchen tables of working women who taught her to read cards, listen for deeper meaning, make her own money, and never back down. Her stories often chronicle the lives of these women- mothers, grandmothers, counterfeiters, fortune tellers, bar owners, gamblers, arsonists, divorcees, and mistresses. She connects their stories of rebellion and resistance to her own, and raises up parallel stories of resilience. Nikole writes to reminds us that there is beauty and power in everything, particularly the darkness, the unspoken, the lost, and the forgotten.
Nikole Potulsky stirs the the raw emotion of the blues, the call to action of folk, the storytelling of country music with the longing for salvation of gospel.
Nikole has performed across the United States on stages with Israel Nash, Daphne Willis, Edna Vasquez, Ashleigh Flynn, Taína Asili y la Banda Rebelde, Evan Greer, and at events like Queer Tacoma, Unchaste, Get Nervous, Grief Rites, Coming Out Monologues, Siren Nation, OutLoud Music Festival, Rhea Music Festival, Batts Comedy Tour, and once in a honky tonk bar behind chicken wire.
Episode 5: Katie Nguyen, Katrina Kahl, and Jana Losey Crenshaw
Aug 15, 2018
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My Real Portland - The Podcast episode 5 features Comedian & Improv/Sketch Actor Katie Nguyen (Bridgetown Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest), Brian Grant Foundation Executive Director and fellow David Douglas High School graduate Katrina Kahl, and Singer Songwriter & Theater Composer Jana Losey Crenshaw.
Recorded live on August 14, 2018 at the Jade Lounge, 23rd and SE Ankeny in Portland.
My Real Portland returns September 11th with Country Blues Singer Nikole Potulski and more! Happy Hour at 6:30, Show at 7!
Jana Losey Crenshaw
Aug 11, 2018
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Jana Losey Crenshaw is a singer songwriter, theater composer, avant garde perfomer. From smalltown Pennsylvania and across the US and Canada, she’s called Portland her home for the past ten years and in that time has composed works for Hand2Mouth’s adaptation of Ursula LeGuin’s Left Hand of Darkness, multiple works at Portland Center Stage. Jana also scored “Note to Self”, which was written and directed friend and former guest of My Real Portland, Adrienne Flagg. I’m excited to present Jana Losey Crenshaw!
Katrina Kahl is a fellow graduate of Portland’s David Douglas High School (Go Scots!) Katrina then graduated from PSU and then on to earn a Masters in Public Health from UC Berkeley. Katrina worked for the Michael J Fox Foundation and National Psoriasis Foundation, and after serving 5 years on it’s Board of Directors, Katrina began her position as Executive Director of the Brian Grant Foundation in Spring 2016. It’s Katrina Kahl!
Katie Nguyen is a comedian, sketch writer, improver and actress – Katie’s performed with Bridgetown Comedy Festival, SF Sketchfest, opened for matt Braunger and Ron Funches, performed with the Brody Theater ensemble and teaches at Deep End Theater, and cohost of Earthquake Hurricane with Alex Falcone, Anthony Lopez, and Mohaned Elshieky. One of Portland Mercury’s Undisputable Genius of Comedy, it’s Katie Nguyen!
My Real Portland - The Podcast! Fourth Episode
Jul 12, 2018
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Guests Joe Hieronymus, Jason Lamb, Joe McKenzie, and Host Joseph Lyons
The July My Real Portland show features Comedian Joe Hieronymus, Musician Joe McKenzie, and Minority Retort CoHost and Podcaster Jason Lamb! Plus a game show, prizes, and silly fun!! Recorded Live at Jade Lounge, July 10th, 2018. Hosted and Produced by myself Realtor Joseph Lyons, josephlyons.com
The next episode records live at Jade Lounge, Tuesday August 14th, 2018 at 7 PM. Happy Hour at 6:30.
Jason Lamb
Jul 10, 2018
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Jason Lamb
Jason Lamb hosted Funemployment Radio’s Karl Show, and hosts a podcast that airs as part of XRAY.fm’s morning program and co-hosts and co-produces a stand up show both called Minority Retort. He’s also founder of the Portland Podcast Festival.
Joe Hieronymus has been part of Portland’s comedy scene for years. He’s an actor, improviser, writer, and standup comic. He’s been seen At Curious Comedy, Helium Comedy Club, and Facebook show Live N’Portland.
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