Jane Unger

Jane Unger, PNW based free-lance director and the founding Artistic Director Emerita of Profile Theatre, Portland, Oregon. Profile is the only theatre on the West Coast with the unique mission to celebrate the writer by presenting a full season of plays by a single playwright. Jane has produced and directed work by Arthur Kopit, Tennessee Williams, Constance Congdon, Arthur Miller, Harold Pinter, Edward Albee, Romulus Linney, Terrence McNally, Lanford Wilson, Wendy Wasserstein, Neil Simon, John Guare, Horton Foote, Lee Blessing and Athol Fugard, working directly with many of these great writers on new play development. 

Has also directed at Artists Repertory Theatre, Portland Center Stage, Triad Stage, Actor’s Theatre of Indiana, The Inge Festival, Creede Repertory Theatre, Idaho Theatre for Youth, Great Plains Theatre Conference, Storefront Theatre, Miracle Theatre, CoHo Theatre, New Rose Theatre, Portland Literary Arts and is pleased to now add Bag&Baggage to that list. 

Upcoming: The Best Medicine with Caroline Aaron at The Odyssey Theatre in LA.

She is currently working with Book-It Rep co-founder Myra Platt on the stage adaptation of Brian Doyle’s Mink River which she will co-direct in Seattle this November at Book-It Rep. Among the awards Jane has received, she is especially proud of Portland’s Award for Best Director Arthur Kopit’s Wings and Portland’s Lifetime Achievement Award. www.janeeunger.com