Caitlin Nolan

Caitlin Nolan (she/her) is an actor, playwright, and associate producer of Stage Fright, Portland’s one and only queer horror theater festival. Onstage she has appeared with companies including Salt & Sage, Portland Actors Ensemble, Northwest Classical Theater Collaborative, and Shaking the Tree. Her written work includes the original plays FORK TENDER and DEAD TO ME; the adapted solo show JANE CLEAVER'S BITCH IN KITCHEN, co-created with Bobby Bermea and Jamie Rea; and the augmented reality game RE: LILITH LOPEZ, co-created with Mishelle Apalategui for the 2021 Fertile Ground Festival. She is a recent prose cohort graduate of the Independent Publishing Resource Center's portfolio program.

Mike Lew takes a ‘Tiger Style!’ by the tail

January 22, 2026Caitlin Nolan

The playwright talks about his "absurd, irreverent satire" of Asian American identity, tiger parents, and the model-minority myth, opening at Portland's Profile Theatre.

Third Rail Rep: Back to the beginning

November 5, 2025Caitlin Nolan

As it enters its 20th season, the company brings back its very first show, Craig Wright's "Recent Tragic Events," for another go-around with original director Scott Yarbrough.

Lauren Modica-Soloway: Beyond ‘Witch’

October 29, 2025Caitlin Nolan

As the Portland actress approaches the final week in the title role of Profile Theatre's hit show, she looks back on the highs and lows of her creative career and her return to the stage from a five-year hiatus.

Vajra Chandrasekera’s ‘Rakesfall’ wins 2025 Ursula K. Le Guin Prize for Fiction

October 26, 2025Caitlin Nolan

In awarding the $25,000 prize to the Sri Lankan writer, the selectors called the novel “an extraordinary achievement in science fiction, and a titanic work of art.”

Review: Katherine Dunn’s ‘Near Flesh’ is a grim and gritty display of sinewy prose and morbid humor

October 12, 2025Caitlin Nolan

The 18 short stories in the posthumous collection by the Portland author explore motherhood, the body, the natural world, violence, and death.

Jen Silverman and the season of the ‘Witch’

October 11, 2025Caitlin Nolan

The playwright and novelist's tale, riffing off a Jacobean tragicomedy about community and outcasts, takes "risks with humor, and what can be funny” at Profile Theatre.

Remembering Mandy Andersen

August 16, 2025Caitlin Nolan

The comic and dramatic actor, part of an acting family and a welcome figure on stages from Portland to Ashland, gathered a host of friends in her 35 years of life.

‘Aw, Hell’: PETE puts a free-flowing comic contemporary spin on Dante’s ‘Inferno’

June 27, 2025Caitlin Nolan

A visit to the horrors of tech week in the Underworld, which despite the hellishness of the play's plot seems to be settling in quite comfortably, thank you very much.

A Grimm ‘Iron Jo’: Send in the puppets

April 25, 2025Caitlin Nolan

... and the bucket, and a hero and a villain, and a few good songs and an ode to fairy tales and the Brothers Grimm in Elliot Lorenc's new stage spectacle at Bag&Baggage.

Dylan Hankins’ ‘Faena’ at PETE: A bull, a matador, and button-pushing comedy

January 30, 2025Caitlin Nolan

The short-run play, performed in Spanish with English interpretation, challenges convention, its author says: “I like pushing buttons. I like being kind of wrong and perverted.”

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