Summer Olsson

Summer is a performer, creator, director, and designer. From touring devised work through Europe, to serving as artistic director of an international theatre festival, to playing library shows with a trash puppet rock band, her career has embraced theater arts from all angles. In Portland she works regularly with Corrib Theater, Salt and Sage Productions, Echo Theatre Co, and Red Yarn, among others. She is half of the clowns in Duo Doppio. Summer believes that theatre develops imagination and body, inspires and heals people, and helps them tell their stories. Summer is a graduate of the University of New Mexico and the Dell’ Arte International School of Physical Theatre.