Welcome to Shaking The Tree Theatre & Studio

Shaking the Tree seeks to meld the boundaries of theatre and visual art by presenting audiences with thrilling and immersive theatrical experiences. Founded in 2003, Shaking the Tree uses innovative ways to inhabit space, creating a heightened surrounding that allows audiences to experience a deeper, more active connection to the work.
Shaking the Tree Studio is a laboratory for tomorrow's theatre makers. By using the same principles we hold dear for play-making, we seek to provide students with rich and varied literature, allow them to explore it through immersion, and witness them experience a deeper connection of thought, feeling, and action, as a result.

Shaking the Tree is "Best of the Stage" for 2014!

If there’s one show I wish I’d seen twice this year, it’s this one. Naomi Wallace’s play, about a plague-ravaged London, is both textually dense and sexually visceral, and this production was plenty unsettling—but also far more rollicking than you’d ever imagine a stint in quarantine could be.- Rebecca Jacobson, Willamette Week
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This organization is supported by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundationʼs SEED grant program. SEED is based on the idea that small, emerging and start-up arts organizations are the seedbeds for new ideas in the arts and important resources for young and emerging talent. They are also places where the public can see and learn about new work and experimental approaches to art making. The RRF is interested in supporting small organizations to nurture the new and the risky, support experimentation and propel artists at the early stages of their careers. These grants are three-year operating support, which is the most difficult funding to obtain, and may help provide stability and growth to the organization.

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