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For over a decade, Chris Coleman has anger one can hold as a result of growing up
played many roles as artistic director of gay. “W hat happens to the shame you expe
Portland Center Stage. This month, he’s tak rience growing up, if you don’t find some
ing on a new one— actor.
way to heal it, inevitably, it pathologizes,” he
Although Coleman has performed exten observes. “You drink too much, or you screw
sively throughout his career, this is his first too much, or you work too much.”
time on stage in Portland. He portrays Elliot
In his own life, he got on the work-too-
in the current PCS production o f Opus, which much track. “My M .O. was to achieve," the
examines the inner workings of a world-class director and performer says. W hen he was
string quartet. He calls the play a “delicious younger, he thought, “I will be a super achiev
insider look at how you make great music and er and that will hide my secret and make me
the intensity o f the relationships.”
invulnerable to being called names,” Cole
In Opus, violist-turned-
man explains.
playwright Michael Hol- “ Inevitably, when
He shared some of
linger focuses on the fic
someone’s that prickly [as those insecurities in a
tional Lazara Quartet. A
video inspired by Dan
few days before the group Elliot] it’s because they’re
Savage’s “It Gets Better”
is to give a televised per
project. In the YouTube
hurt . . . so it’s fascinating
formance for the president,
clip, Coleman talks about
to
try
to
get
in
this
guy’s
their violist suffers a men
the depression and isola
tal breakdown, leaving the
tion he felt watching his
mind, his experience.”
remaining three scram
heterosexual friends’ ro
-C H R IS COLEM AN,
bling for a replacement. In
ON HIS CHARACTER IN OPUS mantic relationships and
the process, the audience
believing their experi
gets an insider’s glimpse of the interpersonal ences were something he would never have.
relationships, emotions and tensions that ex As he states in the video, he threw himself
ist behind the group’s onstage perfection.
into “achieving” to compensate.
Elliot is first violinist, and partner o f the
Coleman grew up in Atlanta, where he
ousted violist. Coleman says he was drawn attended a Southern Baptist church. It was
to the character because “he’s a brilliant guy, also in Atlanta that he would develop strong
acerbic and quite funny ... and he’s scary, his ties with the gay community. He cofounded
anger is scary.” In addition, he saw some the highly respected Actor’s Express Theatre
thing behind the anger: “Inevitably, when Company in 1988 and served as artistic di
someone’s that prickly [as Elliot] it’s because rector there for 12 years, receiving many ac
they’re hurt . . . so it’s fascinating to try to colades, before coming to PCS in 2000.
get in this guy’s mind, his experience,” Cole
According to Coleman, the production
man says.
that put Actor’s Express on the map was the
Although personally not as volatile as El 1991 original musical The Harvey M ilk
liot, Coleman says he identifies with the Show. Coleman starred as the gay rights
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