Many Hats Collaboration

Artistic Director Jessica Wallenfels (she/her) is a director/choreographer and educator who creates new work that is music and movement-driven, and also works as a freelance director/choreographer and educator. She teaches movement, devising and acting and is currently an adjunct professor at Portland State University. Original works with Many Hats Collaboration include Great Wide Open , The Snowstorm , Find Me Beside You , Truth and Beauty , Rest Room , Mutt , Stages , and Break, Then Open . ' Snowstorm ' was included in Coho Productions’ 2014-2015 season and won the Drammy Award for Outstanding Production. In early 2019, she started the 5 in 5 project with Many Hats, and since then has embarked on seven new works spanning mainstage, video, workshop, and classroom projects, centering BIPOC voices in the majority of projects.