Vin Shambry

Is an executive producer, artistic director, published writer, acclaimed storyteller, international actor, director, painter, and community builder. He grew up in Portland and has traveled the world as an artist and creator. He performed on Broadway as Tom Collins in "Rent" and recently wrapped filming on “Outdoor School,” a feature film based on his life growing up in Portland and his experiences with housing insecurity. Vin toured and performed with the US State Department Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs Arts Envoy trip to Egypt. His outdoor school story is featured in Occasional Magic, a New York Times Best Seller. I am passionate about creating a safe space for artists in the Black community in Portland to expand their artistic limits, to gather, to create, and to belong. When you create spaces like this, where artists don’t have to conform or change to fit a certain template, their ideas are free to flow and their creativity just expands in a really beautiful way.