Portland Readings and Productions of ShaSha's Work
Kama Sutra Wednesdays: directed by Andy Barrett. Cast: James Luster, Michelle Matchulat, Kim Alderman. In The Seven Deadly Sins: Comedy in All Its Wondrous Forms, presented by Lone Fir Theatre Group and Portland Improv Group at the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Apr 2010.
Fort Vancouver: a staged reading directed by Katy Liljeholm. Cast: Adrienne Flagg, Cassie Skauge, Jeremiah Benjamin, Matthew Pavik, Michael Chambers, Mikki Lipsey, Robert Power-Drutis, Robert Projansky, W. Leaf Zuk, and Angela BolaƱos-Osorio. Presented as part of Fertile Ground, a city-wide festival of new works, at the Gerding Theatre at the Armory and Haven Coffee, Jan 2010.
Kama Sutra Wednesdays: directed by ShaSha. Assistant director: Liam Leaf Zuk. Cast: Angie M. Hughes, Jeremiah Benjamin, Lindsey Matteson. In Foreplay at the Someday: World Premier Dirty One-Act Plays by Portland Playwrights presented by Breaking and Entering, as part of the Fertile Ground Festival, at The Someday Lounge, Jan 2009.
Staged readings directed by ShaSha in Blue Electric Storm: A Three Year Retrospective:
The Conditions of Unconditional Love - cast: Elizabeth Garrett, ShaSha Sassone.
Kama Sutra Wednesdays - cast: Eleanor Cohn-Eichner, Jeremiah Benjamin, Lindsay Matteson.
Poor Mickey Spencer's Daughter Ordeal - cast: Todd Bayles, Kevin Newland Scott, Lindsay Matteson, Robert Cohn, Robert Power-Drutis, Will Lund III, Liam Leaf Zuk, Danahy Sharonrose, Heather Rose Walters, Justina Price, Jeremiah Benjamin, Angie Hughes.
Hebrew Lessons - cast: Robert Cohn, ShaSha Sassone, Liam Leaf Zuk, Justina Price, Heather Rose Walters, Barbara J. Genovese, Jarrett Brown.
Presented by Bluestockings' Portland Dramatists Workshop at CoHo Theater, Aug 2008.
Details at Eleven: directed by ShaSha. Cast: Jarrett Brown, ShaSha, Angie Hughes, Jeremy Benjamin, Justina Price, Nathan Will. In the 3rd annual Happy F#*king Holidays, presented by Jennifer Woodward and Kelly Davis, Toy Boat Productions, at CoHo Theatre, Dec 2007.
Silly in the Summer Time! A Children's Interactive Puppet Show. Music by Robert Power-Drutis. Cast: Jeremy Benjamin, Elizabeth Garrett, Will Lund III, Lindsay Matteson, Robert Power-Drutis, ShaSha. Presented by the Bluestockings' Portland Dramatists Workshop at CoHo Theatre.
Meow: directed by Ray Kelley. Cast: Summer Dawn Arnett, Rachel Voorhies, Larry Curl. In the 2nd annual Happy F#*king Holidays, presented by Jennifer Woodward and Emily Weston, Toy Boat Productions, Dec 2006.
Poor Micky Spencer's Daughter Ordeal: a staged reading directed by Diane Inglert. Cast: David Burnett, Don Stewart Burns, Gary Powell, Danny Bruno, Curt Frye, John Morrison, Brian Manly, Virginia Belt, Kate Donovan, Sarah Rea, Tabitha Dienhart, and Shea Mackinnon. Lakewood Theatre Company, May 2006.
The Conditions of Unconditional Love: directed by Buffie Rogers. Cast: Jane Fellows, Samantha Howe. In Thicker Than Water: A Mother's Day Play Festival presented by Portland Playwrights Group and Bluestockings at Performance Works Northwest, May 2006.
![]() | Portland Acting Minnie in Bingo, a musical by Michael Heitzman, Ilene Reid, and David Holcenberg, directed by Abe Reybold and presented by Broadway Rose Theatre Company, 2009. Witch 2 in Macbeth by William Shakespeare, an Anonymous Theatre production directed by Elizabeth Young and presented by Theatre Vertigo at the Armory, 2009. Grandmother in Conditions of Unconditional Love, and Mrs. Horrowitz in Hebrew Lessons, both written and directed by ShaSha; Althea in Her Sewing Basket, written and directed by Barbara J. Genovese; and Wife in The Bathhouse by Annette Lee, directed by ShaSha; all in Blue Electric Storm: A Three Year Retrospective presented by Bluestockings' Portland Dramatists Workshop at CoHo Theater, 2008. Reporter in Details at Eleven, written and directed by ShaSha, in the 3rd annual Happy F#*king Holidays presented by Toy Boat Productions at CoHo Theatre, 2007. Woman with Big Cardboard Check in Muscle Max (The Elixir of Love), Katie Taylor's adaptation of Gaetano Donizetti's L'Elisir D'Amore, directed by Katie Taylor and presented by Opera Theater Oregon at The Someday Lounge, 2007.
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Celia in "Bus Stop" and Bertha in "No Skronking" in An Adult Evening of Shel Silverstein, directed by Buffie Rogers and Tamara Carroll, and presented by Bluestockings at Theater! Theatre!, 2006.
Performer and co-writer, The War Project, directed by Michael Rohd and presented by Sojourn Theatre at Sojourn Studio, 2006.
My Name is Rachel Corrie, a play based on the diaries and emails of Rachel Corrie and edited by Katherine Viner and Alan Rickman, in a staged reading directed by Trish Egan at St. Francis of Assisi Church, 2006.
Barkeep in Giving Thanks by Mike Geyer, directed by Tamara Carroll; and Inn Keeper in Always Home by Anthony Alvarado, directed by Ciji Guerin, in Happy F#@king Holidays, a one-act festival presented by Estela Robinson and Jennifer Osowski of Toy Boat Productions at The Know and CoHo Theater, 2005.
Abuela in Cafe con Leche by Gloria Gonzalez, directed by Antonio Sonera and presented by Miracle Theatre, 1998.
Judge and Legal Assistant in Tobray: A Musical at Main Street Theater, 1998.
Vera Katz, Singing Mayor, at the opening of the refurbished Portland City Hall, directed by Michael Menger and choreographed by Kris Vercouteren Menger, 1998.
Portland Directing
I Have Herpes? by William Lund III, Glori by Vivien Lim, Days of Pines and Roses by John Donnelly, The Bathhouse by Annette Lee, A Fountain Filled With Blood by Mark Alan, and The Conditions of Unconditional Love, Kama Sutra Wednesdays, Poor Mickey Spencer's Daughter Ordeal, and Hebrew Lessons by ShaSha in Blue Electric Storm: A Three Year Retrospective presented by Bluestockings' Portland Dramatists Workshop at CoHo Theater, 2008.
The Bathhouse by Annette Lee and Queen Bee Syndrome by Tom Sime in End of the Pavement: A Micro New Works Festival presented by Pavement Productions at Back Door Theatre, 2008.
Kama Sutra Wednesdays by ShaSha in Foreplay at the Someday: World Premier Dirty One-Act Plays by Portland Playwrights presented by Breaking and Entering, as part of the Fertile Ground Festival, at The Someday Lounge, 2009.
Details at Eleven by ShaSha in Happy F#@king Holidays, A Toy Boat Productions one-act festival at CoHo Theater, 2007.
The Tucumcari Morality Play by Todd Pozycki in The 24 Hour Plays presented by Theatre Vertigo at Theater! Theatre!, 2006.
