Fertile Ground is Underway!

Those of us on the Drammy Committee love this time of year: Fertile Ground–A City-Wide Festival of New Works is underway! Nicole Lane and her team have put together another fantastic festival. There are some fully-staged Fertile Ground works that are eligible for Drammy Awards (to find out more about eligibility click here), but we also love to […]

Drammy Awards LOVES PCTG and Fertile Ground: Submit your NEW PLAYS NOW!

As always, we Busy Bees working away in our (theatrical) honey-filled hive at Drammy Towers can ALWAYS spare a minute to support our Queen Bee Mother Figure, Portland Civic Theatre Guild, as well as to foster the Blossoming Buds of new works that spring up and flower for our dramatic delight each year from Fertile […]

Drammy Awards: Get out to Fertile Ground!

It is that wonderful time of year here in Portland–we are in the midst of Fertile Ground–A City-Wide Festival of New Works! We at the Drammys would like to congratulate Nicole Lane and her team on another fabulous festival. Although Fertile Ground works are rarely eligible for Drammy Awards (to find out more about eligibility […]

A Drammy reminder to Playwrights!

Playwrights! We are heading into the holiday weekend, so you have time on your hands, right? Right! So, you know, WRITE, already, you wrights, while others play! Make fireworks of your OWN! You know you want to! What is more, our mother-organization, Portland Civic Theatre Guild, wants to HELP you! Here’s what she says: “Do you […]

Drammy awards mitigates nagging with pictures of kittens

We are a bit anxious that today’s post will be perceived as nagging, which is NOT the intent. So we are posting pictures of rescued kittens to mitigate any apparent harshness. The two above were found abandoned. Here they are sleeping off the anesthetic, after being neutered. Hmmm. Perhaps neutering doesn’t mitigate hurtful perceptions. Here […]

Drammy Rogue Awards: The Corn is, er, Yellow, in Fertile Ground!

We bet you thought you would never hear from us about the Rogue Drammy Awards again, it’s been so long! But once we got over our disappointment at the lack of ice cream sandwiches, the good $1 kind, at Lakewood, last time we were there (and we have now been promised that CRATE-loads have been […]

Drammy Awards loves Fertile Ground!

Something’s coming, something good! Yes, ladies and gentlemen! For yet another reason, we are lucky to live in Portland! While other cities experience January and February as months where the ground seems dead and the breath feels heavy, here the air is full of the promise of spring, of new life, of richness, of artful […]