3/6/20: Selected for Theater Masters TAKE TEN 2020 Festival
"A Temporary Funeral for Darren McDuffy"
I'll be in New York in May!!
2/6/20: 2021 SMALL BITES
LineStorm at Lunch
Fertile Ground Festival
See my newest short play: "A Temporary Funeral for Darren McDuffy"
1/29/20: Finalist
Kennedy Center/NNPN MFA Playwrights’ Workshop
I just learned I've been advanced to the finals! Cross your fingers for me.
12/3/19: 2021 United States Artists Fellowship Nomination
I just learned I was nominated for this amazing fellowship! I'm so honored! And working hard on my application.
12/3/19: Naked Angels
My first reading at Naked Angels! The first time I've taken my new short "A Temporary Funeral for Darren McDuffy" in public!
11/23-24/19: Hooligan Theater One-Act Festival
My first lil' production at UCLA
11/8/19: LitCrawl - A Live Storytelling Event
@Kickstand Comedy
https://www.facebook.com/events/389083425096571/
10/2/19: Received a RACC grant to adapt Florence Fane in San Francisco into a radio drama with Jude Brewer!
Early stages of drafting a multi-episode version of this story begin ow!
9/25/19: Started the MFA Playwriting program at UCLA!
The start of a whole new chapter in life!
8/9/19-8/11/19: Slipper Tongue
Performed at Femslash Fest
Otherworld Theatre
7/21/19: Sunrise Daisy Wellness Retreat
Writing group facilitator
6/1/19: Integrative Oncology Conference
Oregon Health & Science University
Presenter - writing group demonstration
5/24/19: Northwest FolkLife Festival
Tantalizing Tales at the Underground Folklife Cafe
Seattle, WA
5/3/19: After This Episode
Camas High School - production
My 10-minute short is expanded into a full-length play!
https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/may/02/portland-womans-play-flips-script-on-cancer/
4/25/19: Florence Fane in San Francisco
Seattle Playwrights Salon - reading
http://seattleplaywrightssalon.com/past-shows#/florencefane
1/26/19: Svetlana Svetlana / You Ruined My Play - A LineStorm Fundraiser
One lucky raffle winner walked away with a stellar prize! A 2-minute monologue about anything, written by yours truly!
1/25/19: Fertile Ground Festival Kickoff!
I organized this whole dang event!
12/4/18: Lifestyles of the Unrich and Nonfamous
Storytellers Telling Stories Podcast
https://www.sttspod.com/new-blog/2018/12/4/season-2-episode-4
11/9/18: Storytellers Telling Stories Live Podcast Recording
Lit Crawl - Portland Literary Arts
https://litcrawlportland2018.sched.com/event/HJf4/storytellers-telling-stories-live
10/25/18: Wine-ing For Literacy 2018
Keynote speaker
Annual flagship fundraiser for First Book Portland
https://www.facebook.com/events/842536095907723/
9/16/18: Florence Fane in San Francisco
The first public reading of my new play!
Artists Repertory Theatre - LineStorm Playwrights
https://www.facebook.com/events/647924935579388/
8/28/18: Sunrise Daisy Wellness Retreat
I'll deliver the opening address!
https://www.sunrisedaisy.org/wellness-retreat.html
8/20/18: Fertile Ground Mixer
I organize and MC this fabulous networking event as registration opens for the Fertile Ground Festival
https://www.facebook.com/events/1312982658838961/
7/29/18: Storyteller
The Hour That Stretches
https://www.facebook.com/events/287754968461649/
7/28/18: Luminaria Speaker
Relay for Life - North Clackamas
6/16/18: Luminaria Speaker
Relay for Life - Hillsboro/Forest Grove
6/4/18: "After This Episode" performance at OHSU School of Nursing
Workshop and reflection for new grad nurses - led by Travis Scott
6/1/18: "Nothing Like 'Laramie' Could Happen Here"
Sarah Hauser Festival of Stories
https://cstpdx-com.seatengine.com/shows/78969
5/21/18: I'm accepted into the Sterling Room for Writers!
Multnomah County Library
5/14/18-5/20/18: Research trip to UC Berkeley for my new play
4/13/18: "After This Episode" at Seattle Playwrights Salon
Staged Reading at The Conservatory
3/26/18: "After This Episode" performance at OHSU School of Nursing
Workshop and reflection for new grad nurses - led by Travis Scott
3/8/18: Workshop: Exploring Gender, Exploring Insecurity through Freewriting
Lewis & Clark Gender Studies Symposium
I devised and facilitated this workshop with Lewis & Clark professor Daena Goldsmith and former student Julia Burns.
3/3/18: LineStorm February Challenge Readings
The February Challenge is to write a play in a month. LineStorm held a reading of all the finished scripts on the first weekend of March. I wrote a first draft of my new play - a historical drama about Frances Fuller Victor. More on that later!
2/1/18 and 2/3/18:“True Love and Other Noncommunicable Diseases”
Bag & Baggage Theatre
-Selected as an Oregonian Art Pick
-Oregon ArtsWatch Article: http://www.orartswatch.org/solofest-preview-e-pluribus-unum/
1/18/18: Featured playwright at UnWote: Part Reading / Part Improvised New Work
Deep End Theatre
https://www.facebook.com/events/893133344178804/
1/25/18: Featured storyteller at ROAR Fierce Female Storytelling
Kiggins Theater
https://ticketing.us.veezi.com/purchase/1891?siteToken=WxtzsI6OCkSMiLYqPrAyPA%3D%3D
1/18/18: “True Love and Other Noncommunicable Diseases”
Artists Repertory Theatre
-Selected as one of Willamette Week's Favorite Moments From Fertile Ground: "Barrett's brazen and self-deprecating narration... leaves you in awe of her boundless wit, strength, candor and lust for life."
1/11/18: Keynote speaker for Students of the Year Kickoff
Oregon Health & Science University
12/2/17: Featured storyteller at 7 Minutes in Heaven
Funhouse Lounge
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/7-minutes-in-heaven-with-chantel-williams-tickets-39736321407
11/14/17: Featured storyteller at Story People of Clallam County
Port Angeles library
11/2/17: Wine-ing for Literacy Keynote Address
First Book Portland
10/20/17: “After This Episode” – Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative
Northwest Narrative Medicine Conference
Performance of 10-minute play
Facilitator of "Getting Your Feet Wet" Writing Workshop
https://nwnmcollaborative.org/2017/10/11/guest-blogger-brianna-barrett/
10/11&12/17: “True Love and Other Noncommunicable Diseases" excerpt before the production of "Sillyheart"
Camas High School
10/9&10/17: “Portland in Play: Decades" – Linestorm Playwrights
Artists Repertory Theater
https://www.facebook.com/events/138445300101058/
9/20/17: “Martha's Beeswing Listening Bee” – Martha Grover
Beeswing Cafe
https://www.facebook.com/events/281298539017106/
9/19/17: LLS Mission Moment
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
9/2/17: “From One Stage To Another” – Portland Storytellers’ Guild
Clinton Street Theater
http://www.portlandstorytellers.org/calendar/?mc_id=125
9/1/17: Interview with KGW8 Portland Today
8/6/17: “Imagine Live” – Pickathon Music Festival
Writer / Performer: “Can My Imaginary Friends Come Too?”
Woods Stage, Pendarvis Farms
https://pickathon.com/artist/imagine-storytelling/
7/27/17: Voted “Portland’s Best Storyteller” in Willamette Week
Best of Portland Issue, 2017
http://www.wweek.com/promotions/2017/02/16/best-of-portland-readers-poll-2017/
“Brianna Barrett's storytelling career began with the darkest story: a Hodgkin's lymphoma diagnosis in 2013. From video series documenting her fight with cancer to 36 Perfectly Appropriate Dinner Conversations, Barrett has made Portlanders cry, laugh and rejoice.”
7/7/17-7/23/17: “36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations” – HART: Page to Stage; directed by Carl Dahlquist
Writer, Full-length comedy
HART Theater
http://portlandtribune.com/ht/119-hillsboro-tribune-features/365824-247270-hart-theatres-2017-page-to-stage-show-intriguing-summer-fare
- "Barrett's script is incredibly witty"
- "it's a very, very funny play"
- "I definitely plan to attend at least one more performance"
6/7/17: LineStorm is Officially an Artists Repertory Theatre ArtsHub Company-in-Residence
https://www.artistsrep.org/artshub/
6/2/17-6/18/17: “36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations” Workshop – Theatre 33; directed by Stephanie Mulligan
Writer, Full-length comedy
Willamette University, M. Lee Pelton Playhouse
Four public performances 6/17-6/18.
http://salemweeklynews.com/2017/06/theater33-explores-gender-radical-way/
"It’s a brand new comedy by a young, successful Portland playwright, Brianna Barrett...The play was purposefully written that way so any gender could be cast in any role”...”The group is trying to discover if, and when, this was last done anywhere in a full play, and can’t find any documentation. So, this could be the first time a theatre has done this.”
6/11/17: Writing Workshop at Project Koru This is Life
I taught a writing workshop at this weekend retreat with another one of my favorite cancer survivorship non-profits.
6/3/17: Sarah Hauser Festival of Stories – Portland Storytellers’ Guild
Writer / Performer
4/8/17: “Festival Finale - Showcase Concert” – Art of the Story: 13th Annual Storytelling Festival
Writer / Performer: “Fixated”
Arts & Communication Magnet Academy auditorium
4/9/17: Bridge Prose Weekend Retreat – in collaboration with First Descents
Alyssa and I are honored to be asked to host another event with First Descents.
4/5/17: “True Love and Other Noncommunicable Diseases” – Art of the Story: 13th Annual Storytelling Festival
Writer / Performer: 1-woman show (60 minutes)
Walters Cultural Center
4/4/17: “Can My Imaginary Friends Come Too?” – Art of the Story: 13th Annual Storytelling Festival
Writer / Performer: 1-woman show (60 minutes)
Forest Grove Library
4/1/17: “Who’s Fooling Who?” – Portland Storytellers’ Guild
Writer / Performer
Hipbone Studio
3/26/17: “36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations” is named a Semi-Finalist for the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center’s 2017 National Playwrights Conference
3/9/17: “36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations” – Lewis and Clark Gender Studies Symposium
Writer, excerpt performed
Lewis and Clark College
https://college.lclark.edu/departments/gender_studies/symposium/archive/2017/schedule.php
1/21/17 & 1/27/17: “LineStorm’s Short & Sweet” – Fertile Ground Festival
Writer of 10-minute short: “After This Episode”
Hipbone Studio
11/20/16: Wine-ing for Literacy – First Book Portland
Speaker
11/11/16: “Notes of Hope 9” – HHH Foundation
Curator, Head Storytelling Coach
Alberta Rose Theater
https://notesofhopepdx.org/
11/4/16: “Affable Gentlemen: DIY” – Affable Gentlemen Storytelling
NW Documentary
11/3/16: Bridge Prose Article for Teen Cancer America
https://www.teencanceramerica.org/bridge-prose/
10/17/16-10/18/16: “Portland in Play” – LineStorm Playwrights
Writer of 10-minute short: “M-I-S-S”
Artists Repertory Theatre, Alder Stage
9/17/16: “Story Beat LIVE” – Northwest Narrative Medicine Collaborative
I read an excerpt from “True Love and Other Noncommunicable Diseases”
OMSI
9/11/16: The first Bridge Prose Weekend Retreat – in collaboration with First Descents’ Karma Over Cancer
Me and Alyssa Englund’s first step to building our own non-profit benefitting the young adult cancer community.
9/3/16: “Storython” – Portland Storytellers’ Guild
Writer / Performer: “Learning to Surf”
Hipbone Studio
9/3/16: “Affable Gentlemen: Labor Pains” – Affable Gentlemen Storytelling
Writer / Performer: “The Worst Job I’ve Ever Had”
Clinton Street Theater
https://cstpdx.com/show/affable-gentlemen-storytelling-presents-labor-pains
8/5/16: “Imagine Live” – Pickathon Music Festival
Lucky Barn, Pendarvis Farms
http://affablegentlemenstories.com/past-shows/pickathon-2016/
7/18/16: Voted “Portland’s Best Storyteller” in Willamette Week
Best of Portland Issue, 2016
http://www.wweek.com/promotions/2016/07/18/bop2016/
5/21/16: Think Like a Filmmaker
Workshop Instructor
Portland Storytellers Guild
https://www.brownpapertickets.com/event/2463442
5/14/16: Garbanzo Meets the Circus – directed by Thomas Schroyer
Co-Writer / Performer
Sherwood Center for the Arts
https://www.facebook.com/events/1245501218810667/
5/11/16: I am invited to become a member of LineStorm Playwrights
http://linestormplaywrights.com/
5/6/16: A student from Lewis & Clark College wrote a paper about me!
Totally blew my mind. I love it. Later I met her in real life and she's super nice. You can read her essay here: https://ds.lclark.edu/rachel/
"These videos serve as a unique look into the life of an individual with Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. But they aren’t limited to this. They also shed light on what it means to be a 20-something, what it means to move back in with your parents, what it means to mix the medicine with your daily life, and what it means to do all of this while dealing with serious medical issues. They allow the viewer to learn and empathize with Barrett and her friends and family and largely, see how humor is the best medicine."
3/9/16: The Beginning of my AYA Writing Group for Cancer Survivors at OSHU
Recurring weekly on Wednesday nights at 6:30 from this date to the present.
1/30/16-2/1/2016: “The New Vaudeville” – Fertile Ground Festival
Clinton Street Theater
Writer / Director / Producer
1/11/16: “YARN 4: Unexpected” – The Yarn
Clinton Street Theater
https://cstpdx.com/show/yarn-4-unexpected
1/9/16: “Destiny, Discovery, Direction” – Portland Storytellers’ Guild
Writer / Performer: “Can My Imaginary Friends Come Too?”
Hipbone Studio
https://www.pdxpipeline.com/2016/01/08/portland-storytellers-guild-presents-destiny-discovery-direction-hipbone-studio/
11/13/15: “Notes of Hope: Cancer Knocked, I Answered” – The HHH Foundation
Curator, Head Storytelling Coach
Alberta Rose Theater
11/11/15: Interview on MetroEast Community Media
9/12/15: “The Affable Gentlemen: It’s Loose!” – Affable Gentlemen Storytelling
Writer / Performer
https://cstpdx-com.seatengine.com/shows/22948
8/8/15: "Rosalie Was a Puddle" – Gambling the Aisle, Issue 8
Writer: Poetry
https://issuu.com/gamblingtheaisle/docs/summer_2015_final
6/30/15: KGW Interview for OHSU Knight Cancer Challenge
6/24/15: Wrote a Feature for OHSU Knight Cancer Institute
http://www.ohsu.edu/xd/health/services/cancer/getting-treatment/services/aya-program/brianna-barrett-patient-story.cfm
6/6/15: Featured Poet in The Morty
5/9/15: “Ceremony of the Weird” – Portland Storytellers’ Guild
Writer / Performer
Hipbone Studio
http://www.portlandstorytellers.org/misc/ceremony-weird-coming-9/
3/28/15-4/20/15: “Cancer Rebellion” – Teen Cancer America
Joined Hernan Barangan for a month of traveling America shooting interviews with young adult cancer survivors in all 50 states.
https://www.teencanceramerica.org/road-rebellion/
1/29/15-1/31/2015: “36 Perfectly Appropriate Mealtime Conversations” – Fertile Ground Festival
Writer/Director/Producer
Clinton Street Theater http://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/index.ssf/2015/01/post_57.html
“Siblings Brianna Barrett and Hamilton Barrett don't have a problem sharing the spotlight. They were born a year apart, and they're putting on back-to-back productions at this year's Fertile Ground festival of new works.”
