Danielle Vermette

Danielle Vermette is a writer and actor. She arrived in Portland in 1998 with a BFA in theatre from the University of Central Missouri and has been an Imago Theatre company member since 1999, appearing in a dozen shows and touring nationally and internationally for many years in Imago’s show Frogz. She was a student in PSU’s MFA fiction program and writes fiction, poetry and non-fiction. She works in the Abdominal Organ Transplant Department at OHSU as the Hepatobiliary Coordinator.

Speaking their truths, from the pandemic and beyond

In a new anthology from Portland's MediaRites, young authors come to grips with living in a challenging and rapidly changing world.

Remembering forgotten women, onstage

A conversation with writer Cindy Williams Gutiérrez, whose choreopoem "In the Name of Forgotten Women" is debuting at CoHo.

A killer of a party on the radio

Imago takes Carol Triffle's newest play offstage and onto radio. A cast member explores how and why they dunnit.

Kim Stafford’s great energy swap

"We're back to where poetry has escaped the book. It’s not in the zoo of the library where it's looking out through the bars of its cage."

Enter laughing: A world of clowns

In a world of trouble, Clowns Without Borders lightens the load. At the benefit Pandemic Pandemonium, you can pitch in.

ZooZoo, straight from the polar bear’s mouth

What makes Imago's critter spectacular such a cool treat? An inside-the-costume source tells all.

The Right Brain for learning

The revolutionary mission of an innovative program in the schools: to transform learning through the arts.

Playing chicken at the book bash

I don’t eat chickens, much less cook them. That didn’t stop me from enjoying the delectable chicken-themed keynote speech by Colson Whitehead that officially kicked off the 2019 Association of…